Ratings and reviews

Sadly, this app is absolutely useless since the latest updates. It never saves my layout, extensions come and go in the menubar as they like, it's pretty wild. Frankly, I don't understand why this app is still on offer. (I mean, outside of Setapp they still sell it, which borders on theft, imho) Used to be great - not anymore. Sad.

It was the best thing for your mac, been using it since… god… more than 10 years… But since the Sequoia or Tahoe update it became a cpu hogg :( slows down my M1 considerably. Just gave it another try and even in the “manual mode” it still does it :( It was great while it lasted, I’m afraid apple is making it harder and harder for them to manage the menu… shame :(

seemed a little buggy and didn’t give me a dropdown for icons

The app is very much useless at this point. Leaves an ugly arrow in the middle of the screen, the indexing never finishes, etc. This used to work great but no more.

Cannot get it to function as it used to.

Mega-App kann ich mehr ohne einfach mal alles aufgeräumt.

有时候菜单栏全部都没有了，不稳定。

Oooff - tough experience. Love the idea of it and the thought and understanding of what people are looking for, but my two-week long experience was me trying to fight the thing and I just couldn’t do it any more. People obviously swear by it, but I probably spent 2 hours a day tweaking the thing, which is honestly fun, but when half of the moves you’re making are reverted to their original place or somewhere altogher different it’s no bueno. Mised clicks nonstop, frozen bars, Mouse pointer jumping to another monitor. Would definitely come back if people say the water is nice again, but not for me right now!

Buggy as hell these days. The app used to be very effective but this makes my mac slow and constant not working

It’s terrible to use, and it’s not even as stable as free software. The icons keep flickering, and some hidden icons don't even respond when clicked.

The app used to work great but it seems that it always fails to save my layout now

I’ve unninstalled Bartender as it no longer works. It never saves my layout and sets everything to always hidden even in dropdown. Anything you can get to show in the drop down does nothing when clicked or right clicked.

Great!

Seems to constantly get confused on its layout. Icons jump all over the place when selected.

Bartender Pro slows down the entire macOS UI and makes it unresponsive. Scrolling becomes choppy in every window across the system, and the only way to restore normal performance is to force-quit the app.

Still gave it a chance after the new Pro update, still disapointed, the integrations asre a nice idea with the notch and eveything, but the core features it’s just gone wild, it is literally broken can’t make it to function properly, and you can even forget it if there’s a new app using the menu bar.

Good

keeps hiding istat the two aren not workign togheter

I am really starting to lose my patience with this app. It used to work great, but it’s been a long while now that it’s unreliable. First, there was that problem where Bartender would control your mouse. Now, it simply never respects your layout. You make changes to it but they never stick. With that in mind, you’re better off not using it at all.

This app used to be great and I used it a lot but with recent Mac OS releases it feels clunky and slow. Editing the hidden menu doesn’t reflect changes in the top hotbar. It also doesn’t have compatibility with the notch on new Macs. I’ve used and relied on Bartender for years as it’s incredibly useful and it’s frustrating that it’s not keeping pace with new Mac developments.