Ice

Overview checked Oct 6, 2026.

Ice is a menu-bar manager for Mac users whose status items have grown beyond a single visible row. Instead of leaving every icon in the system bar, it can hide selected items and reveal them in a separate Ice Bar below the menu bar. The project also exposes a drag-and-drop layout view, a search tool for locating an item, and appearance or spacing controls for shaping how the bar is presented. That makes it useful when a laptop notch, several background utilities, or a crowded collection of status icons makes common controls hard to find. Ice is distributed from its official GitHub releases and is licensed under GPL-3.0, so there is no vendor checkout price to compare. The current official repository says it supports macOS 14 and later because it relies on system APIs introduced in that release; older Macs are therefore outside its stated support boundary. The latest official release selected by the repository was inspected as a universal x86_64 and arm64 app bundle. Ice remains in active development, and its roadmap explicitly lists some features as unfinished, so users should test its layout and visibility behavior with their own essential menu-bar utilities before relying on it as a permanent organizer.