Ratings and reviews

Latest release seems to be very buggy. Fails to update my menubar after arranging it on multiple occasions.

stopped working

6.5.2 - This causes my Mac to freeze when I try to change what is showing in my menu bar. I am considering uninstalling and using an alternative.

Works well and easy to use

It's become overnight useless. It's like loading and arranging the menu bar items continuously and moving the cursor towards the bar and I cannot use my computer. I am forced to uninstall it because of that

After the latest update, Bartender is finally useable again! 🎉

woudln’t open after restart

Just love it.

Latest update seems to have messed something up. Weird behaviour on my Mac when Bartender is running, plus something is happening for it to automatically disable itself - not sure if it's macOS disabling the Bartender app, or Bartender app disabling itself somehow. Giving it a 👎🏼 until it's fixed.

Where has the stable and reliable Bartender gone? With so many bugs and a terrible user experience, it's no longer a decent product. It constantly messes up my carefully configured menu bar. This abysmal product experience is incredibly frustrating. I've been hoping for improvements so I could continue using it, but after several updates, the experience remains consistently poor and difficult to use. I'm completely disillusioned. I'm going to look for an alternative menu bar icon management tool. The developers of Bartender are just...unacceptable.

I understand all the constraints from macOS, but the amount of mouse jumps, glitches, and instability is honestly insane. I've been buying and using Bartender on several Macs for the last 6 years, and this is the first time I'm uninstalling it. Shame.

Since the new version 6 update, Bartender passively uses huge amount of energy. I literally have to switch it off when travelling. In the last 12 hours it used more than Cursor and Microsoft Teams combined.. almost as much as my browser Dia running on Chromium (which makes no sense)

Six months later this app has gone from great to terrible. I mean really terrible. OK, it’s one thing Apple changing its OS and making this harder. But not being able to remember settings - that’s just basic. The app has no place on SetApp anymore. They’ve had their time.

Bartender is so indispensable it should be a os feature. must have. Sadly development lately is not really up to standard. the app has become bug ridden, nearing useless and even dangerous. Bartender should test twice before releasing more features. the endless chase of new stuff is making lovers of the app quit, and it won’t make the new ones stay.

it’s so good

Good!

Still laggy after million updates: huge delays in bar items updates, crashes after fullscreen apps and a lot of same buggy stuff

Eccellente applicazione. Ormai una compagna fissa nei miei mac.

Game changer. My cluttered bar is now more like the windows expandable one

Used to be a really useful app, but lately I tend to have to quit it because layout shifts; inability to click on icons that are in the hidden section without the menu changing; numerous glitches; dark/light mode weirdness…. hard to explain all the bugs but Bartender rarely is useful now.