The Mac menu bar is prime real estate for tiny utilities that save you time every single day. Here are the best free ones.

Hidden Bar — Declutter Your Menu Bar

Hidden Bar lets you collapse menu bar icons behind a chevron. Drag the separator to choose which icons are always visible. Free, open-source, zero configuration.

Maccy — Clipboard Manager

Maccy saves everything you copy. Open it with a shortcut, search through history, and paste. Lightweight, privacy-respecting, and open-source.

Itsycal — Menu Bar Calendar

A compact month calendar in your menu bar with upcoming events. Click the date for a month view, no need to open Calendar.app just to check what day the 15th falls on.

Rectangle — Window Manager

Snap windows to halves, thirds, or quarters with keyboard shortcuts. Free, open-source, and zero configuration — the window manager macOS should have shipped with.

Shottr — Screenshot Tool

Scrolling captures, pixel-perfect annotations, OCR text extraction, and color picking. A tiny menu bar app that replaces macOS’s built-in screenshot tool with something far more capable.

The Complete Bar

Install all five and your menu bar becomes a productivity command center. None of them cost a cent, and all run silently in the background.