Ready for macOS 26 (Tahoe) Edward — a cartoon bartender holding a martini

Tame your Mac menu bar.

Edward hides, shows, and searches your macOS menu bar items — so a crowded menu bar stays exactly as tidy as you want it. Free and open source.

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Notarized · auto-updates via Sparkle · macOS 14+ · GPL-3.0 · a personal fork of Ice

What it does

A more versatile menu bar

Everything you'd want from a menu bar manager, tuned to keep working on the latest macOS.

Hide & show items

Tuck menu bar icons into a hidden section and reveal them on click — reclaim the space up top.

Always-hidden section

A second, deeper section for the icons you rarely need — option-click to peek when you do.

Menu bar search

A quick search panel to jump straight to any menu bar item by name — no more hunting.

Custom hotkeys

Bind keyboard shortcuts to toggle sections and open search, so your hands never leave the keys.

Appearance & rehide

Style the bar to taste and choose when items automatically hide again — on a timer, on focus, or never.

Tahoe-ready

Runs great on macOS 26 (Tahoe), where the last upstream Ice release broke — Edward ships with the fixes built in.

Get it running

Installed in seconds

Signed, notarized, and self-updating — no Xcode required. Edward installs alongside Ice with its own bundle id, so an existing Ice setup is untouched.

  1. Download Edward and unzip it.
  2. Drag Edward.app into your Applications folder and open it.
  3. That's it — Edward lives in your menu bar and keeps itself up to date automatically.
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Standing on the shoulders of Ice

Edward is a personal, rebranded fork of Ice by Jordan Baird and its contributors — all credit for the original work goes to them. Like Ice, Edward is released under the GPL-3.0 license.