Your menu bar fills up fast. Hemmed keeps it tidy.
$14.99 one-time. Try it free for 14 days. 30-day refunds.
Requires macOS 13 Ventura or later · Signed download
What it does
Click the Hemmed icon to bring them back, and click again to tuck them away.
Hide the menu bar icons you rarely use.
Show or hide them with a keyboard shortcut.
On a Mac with a notch, icons that would slip behind the camera or into macOS's overflow chevron wait in a tray under the notch. Hover one to see its app, click it to open its menu right there, and tuck the tray away with its chevron or a two-finger swipe up.
Icons from newly installed apps start out tucked away, so they never crowd your bar. A coral dot on the Hemmed icon tells you one arrived, even while your bar is collapsed. Click it, then choose Make Visible or Keep Hidden.
On battery, a hidden app using a lot of energy gets a leaf: a quiet count beside the Hemmed icon and a leaf on its icon in the tray. Quit the Hungry Ones closes them in one click, and showing an icon again clears its leaf.
Pin an item from another app's menu bar menu and run it in one click from Hemmed's menu. With Record a Pin, click any menu bar or notch tray icon, then the item you want. Pinned works with apps that use standard Mac menus; apps whose menu bar icon opens a custom popup window aren't supported.
Your layout syncs across your Macs with iCloud, on by default: which icons are hidden or shown, icon order, your Pinned Actions, and your new arrival, hungry icon and keyboard shortcut settings. Each Mac just needs the same iCloud account.
Lightweight and native to macOS.
The notch tray: icons the notch would swallow, one click away.
Good to know
Hemmed needs Accessibility access to move other apps' menu bar icons and, for Pinned, to read another app's menu bar menu while you pick an item and to choose that item when you run the pin. macOS asks for it the first time you open the app, and Hemmed doesn't use that access for anything else.
On macOS 27, hiding icons also hides Focus, Now Playing and Screen Mirroring. They come back when you show your icons, in the bar or in the notch tray.
$14.99 one-time
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Requires macOS 13 Ventura or later
FAQ
Hemmed needs Accessibility access to move other apps' menu bar icons and, for Pinned, to read another app's menu bar menu while you pick an item and to choose that item when you run the pin. macOS asks for it the first time you open the app, and Hemmed doesn't use that access for anything else.
Click the Hemmed icon to bring them back, and click again to tuck them away. You can also use a keyboard shortcut.
On a Mac with a notch, macOS can hide icons behind the camera housing or fold them into its overflow chevron. While your icons are showing, Hemmed gathers those in a tray under the notch. Hover one to see its app, and click it to open its menu right there. Click the tray's chevron or swipe up with two fingers to tuck it into the notch; swipe down or move the pointer into the notch to bring it back.
Its icon starts out tucked away, and a coral dot appears on the Hemmed icon, even while your bar is collapsed. Click the Hemmed icon to see the new arrival, then choose Make Visible or Keep Hidden. The dot stays until you choose. You can turn this off in Settings.
While your Mac runs on battery, Hemmed watches the apps behind your hidden icons. When one keeps using a lot of energy, a leaf and a count appear beside the Hemmed icon, and its icon gets a leaf in the notch tray. Click the Hemmed icon to see which apps, then quit them one by one or all at once with Quit the Hungry Ones, or ignore an app on battery. Showing an icon again clears its leaf right away. In Settings you can switch the count to a dot, a dot with a notice, or a tinted icon.
Pinned lets you run an item from another app's menu bar menu in one click, from Hemmed's menu. Right-click the Hemmed icon, choose Pin a Menu Item, pick a menu bar item and pin the item you want. Or choose Record a Pin, click any menu bar or notch tray icon, and pick the menu item to pin it. Submenus work too, and you can rename, reorder and remove pins. The first time you run a pin, Hemmed asks you to confirm, and warns you if the item looks like it may quit, sign out, delete or stop something. If a pin can't run, Hemmed shows a notice saying why and marks the pin until it runs again.
Pinned works with apps that use standard Mac menus; apps whose menu bar icon opens a custom popup window aren't supported. Switches, checkboxes, sliders and checked menu items can't be pinned, so a pin can't quietly flip a setting. Clock and Notification Center are excluded because they show private notifications, and Control Center modules and Spotlight open panels rather than menus. Pinned never reads what's inside a window.
Yes. Hemmed 1.5.2 and later syncs your layout with iCloud automatically: which icons are hidden or shown, icon order, your Pinned Actions, and your new arrival, hungry icon and keyboard shortcut settings. Sign in to the same iCloud account on each Mac and keep Same bar on every Mac (iCloud Sync) on in Settings. It's on by default. Changes can take a few moments to reach your other Macs.
On macOS 27, hiding icons also hides Focus, Now Playing and Screen Mirroring. They come back when you show your icons, in the bar or in the notch tray.
Download Hemmed from hemmed.app as a signed app for Mac. Orders are processed by our online reseller Paddle.com, which is the merchant of record for all orders and handles payment and sales tax.
One license works on up to 3 of your Macs.
Click "Deactivate this Mac" in Settings on the old one. If you can't get to the old Mac, the new one can remove the oldest activation for you.
No. You pay once.