Ratings and reviews

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.

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.

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.

Buggy - cannot remove screen recording icon

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

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

woudln’t open after restart

Keep up the excellent work! The new Top Shelf in the latest update is undoubtedly the cherry on top! Please ensure that the widget tray can accommodate 3 widgets simultaneously. Wishing you all the best!

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.

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