Due to changes in the menu bar icon image data supplied by macOS, I had to revisit the image comparison algorithm, I have taken this opportunity improve the algorithms ability to spot useful differences, and ignore non important changes. Basically its better at ignoring light/dark mode, resolution or menu bar size differences, and better at spotting intentional color changes (such as part of an icon turning red), or shape changes.

Now you can once again set Bartender to only use the Bartender Bar on screens with a notch.

With a menu bar style applied it was possible for the CPU usage to start increasing over days, this has been fixed.

It could take a second for the menu bar style to be applied when changing spaces, this has been fixed.

Making small incremental improvements to image comparisons.

This has been fixed.

I still have not tracked down what in AppKit is causing this, but I have disabled resizing in Advanced settings to prevent this, until I can find the issue.

There were a number of small bugs reported for the new image comparison trigger conditions. These have been fixed.

Due to changes in the menu bar icon image data supplied by macOS, I had to revisit the image comparison algorithm, I have taken this opportunity improve the algorithms ability to spot useful differences, and ignore non important changes. Basically its better at ignoring light/dark mode, resolution or menu bar size differences, and better at spotting intentional color changes (such as part of an icon turning red), or shape changes.

Now you can once again set Bartender to only use the Bartender Bar on screens with a notch.

This has been fixed.

I still have not tracked down what in AppKit is causing this, but I have disabled resizing in Advanced settings to prevent this, until I can find the issue.

There were a number of small bugs reported for the new image comparison trigger conditions. These have been fixed.

With macOS 14.1 Apple implemented changes I requested so I could recreate this feature without macOS showing the screen capture purple menu bar item.
Any previous image comparison show for updates from Bartender 4 should automatically be converted into triggers for you.

This feature will keep any items to the right of the Bartender menu bar item always visible, even when Bartender swaps out your shown items for your hidden ones.

This was previously done automatically, only when there wasn't enough room to show your items unless swapped, now you can choose to keep it automatically, or never do this, or always do it.

Apple have made the music recognition (Shazam) menu bar item a special menu bar item, that demands to be visible and cannot be hidden. Bartender now respects this.

There was a bug in Bartender, that would mean icons that just changed colors a certain amount would not fire the image trigger condition. This has been fixed.

There was a bug in Bartender, that would stop it checking icons with transparent centers sometimes (it thought they were blank icons). This has been fixed.

Looking at the opensource code for Proton VPN I saw they already had a specific compatibility fix for Bartender, this did not work with Bartender 5, I have changed Bartender 5 so this compatibility fix can work again. Big thanks to the Proton Devs.

Due to name changes some none english language systems the wallpaper would not get drawn around rounded menu bar styles, this has been fixed.

I have found a workaround to prevent Bitwarden showing its UI when its menu bar item is moved.

Thanks to the users reporting these. They have been fixed.

As stated, fixed small issues I found as I worked through the other bug fixes.

With macOS 14.1 Apple implemented changes I requested so I could recreate this feature without macOS showing the screen capture purple menu bar item.
Any previous image comparison show for updates from Bartender 4 should automatically be converted into triggers for you.

This feature will keep any items to the right of the Bartender menu bar item always visible, even when Bartender swaps out your shown items for your hidden ones.

This was previously done automatically, only when there wasn't enough room to show your items unless swapped, now you can choose to keep it automatically, or never do this, or always do it.

There was a bug in Bartender, that would mean icons that just changed colors a certain amount would not fire the image trigger condition. This has been fixed.

There was a bug in Bartender, that would stop it checking icons with transparent centers sometimes (it thought they were blank icons). This has been fixed.

Looking at the opensource code for Proton VPN I saw they already had a specific compatibility fix for Bartender, this did not work with Bartender 5, I have changed Bartender 5 so this compatibility fix can work again. Big thanks to the Proton Devs.

Due to name changes some none english language systems the wallpaper would not get drawn around rounded menu bar styles, this has been fixed.

I have found a workaround to prevent Bitwarden showing its UI when its menu bar item is moved.

Thanks to the users reporting these. They have been fixed.

As stated, fixed small issues I found as I worked through the other bug fixes.

With macOS 14.1 Apple implemented changes I requested so I could recreate this feature without macOS showing the screen capture purple menu bar item.
Any previous image comparison show for updates from Bartender 4 should automatically be converted into triggers for you.

This feature will keep any items to the right of the Bartender menu bar item always visible, even when Bartender swaps out your shown items for your hidden ones.

This was previously done automatically, only when there wasn't enough room to show your items unless swapped, now you can choose to keep it automatically, or never do this, or always do it.

There was a bug in Bartender, that would stop it checking icons with transparent centers sometimes (it thought they were blank icons). This has been fixed.

Looking at the opensource code for Proton VPN I saw they already had a specific compatibility fix for Bartender, this did not work with Bartender 5, I have changed Bartender 5 so this compatibility fix can work again. Big thanks to the Proton Devs.

Due to name changes some none english language systems the wallpaper would not get drawn around rounded menu bar styles, this has been fixed.

I have found a workaround to prevent Bitwarden showing its UI when its menu bar item is moved.

Thanks to the users reporting these. They have been fixed.

As stated, fixed small issues I found as I worked through the other bug fixes.

With macOS 14.1 Apple implemented changes I requested so I could recreate this feature without macOS showing the screen capture purple menu bar item.
Any previous image comparison show for updates from Bartender 4 should automatically be converted into triggers for you.

This feature will keep any items to the right of the Bartender menu bar item always visible, even when Bartender swaps out your shown items for your hidden ones.

This was previously done automatically, only when there wasn't enough room to show your items unless swapped, now you can choose to keep it automatically, or never do this, or always do it.

Looking at the opensource code for Proton VPN I saw they already had a specific compatibility fix for Bartender, this did not work with Bartender 5, I have changed Bartender 5 so this compatibility fix can work again. Big thanks to the Proton Devs.

Due to name changes some none english language systems the wallpaper would not get drawn around rounded menu bar styles, this has been fixed.

I have found a workaround to prevent Bitwarden showing its UI when its menu bar item is moved.

Thanks to the users reporting these. They have been fixed.

As stated, fixed small issues I found as I worked through the other bug fixes.

With macOS 14.1 Apple implemented changes I requested so I could recreate this feature without macOS showing the screen capture purple menu bar item.
Any previous image comparison show for updates from Bartender 4 should automatically be converted into triggers for you.

This feature will keep any items to the right of the Bartender menu bar item always visible, even when Bartender swaps out your shown items for your hidden ones.

This was previously done automatically, only when there wasn't enough room to show your items unless swapped, now you can choose to keep it automatically, or never do this, or always do it.

Looking at the opensource code for Proton VPN I saw they already had a specific compatibility fix for Bartender, this did not work with Bartender 5, I have changed Bartender 5 so this compatibility fix can work again. Big thanks to the Proton Devs.

I have found a workaround to prevent Bitwarden showing its UI when its menu bar item is moved.

Thanks to the users reporting these. They have been fixed.

As stated, fixed small issues I found as I worked through the other bug fixes.

I have updated this feature to work with changes in macOS Sonoma so have re-added this feature.

This feature will keep any items to the right of the Bartender menu bar item always visible, even when Bartender swaps out your shown items for your hidden ones.

This was previously done automatically, only when there wasn't enough room to show your items unless swapped, now you can choose to keep it automatically, or never do this, or always do it.

I have found a workaround to prevent BitWarden showing its UI when its menu bar item is moved.

I have found a workaround to prevent Sip showing its UI when its menu bar item is moved.

When you have menu bar style setup with separate sides and below menu bar rounding, it gives a black background between the two sides of the menu bar (great for hiding the notch). In previous versions this would leave a 1px strip of the desktop wallpaper visible above an windows positioned just below the menu bar, this has been fixed.

Firefox and VPN can both use none-native UI for their fullscreen modes; this was not detected by Bartender, so the menu bar style was applied above the fullscreen window. This has been fixed.

Thanks to the users reporting these. They have been fixed.

As stated, fixed small issues I found as I worked through the other bug fixes.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

If Bartender 5 is not starting at login for you, please see https://www.macbartender.com/b5blog/Bartender5-start-at-login/ for ways to fix this macOS Sonoma issue

I have worked with the developer of the Focus app to fix a compatibility issue between our two apps, that would prevent Focus from showing with Bartender, and could cause Bartender to misbehave, this is now fixed.

Items would now show/hide or move, if the new macOS Sonoma "show desktop" by clicking on the desktop was active. This has been fixed.

Show on hover in fullscreen had been disabled, to prevent a related issue. This has been fixed. So show on hover has been enabled again for fullscreen.

When changing spaces multiple times, the desktop wallpaper shown between the separate sides, could be from another space, this has been fixed.

When showing then dismissing a group, the behaviour was not consistant, sometimes requiring a second click to show the group again, or hiding all shown hidden items etc. This has been fixed.

If Bartender had hidden your shown items, to make room to display your hidden items, and you ⌘+dragged a menu bar item in the menu bar, your layout would be lost. This has been fixed.

This has been fixed.

Bartender was rendering the menu bar on spaces not currently visible/active. This has been fixed.

Thanks to the users reporting these, they have been fixed.

As stated, fixed small issues I found as I worked through it.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

If Bartender 5 is not starting at login for you, please see https://www.macbartender.com/b5blog/Bartender5-start-at-login/ for ways to fix this macOS Sonoma issue

Items would now show/hide or move, if the new macOS Sonoma "show desktop" by clicking on the desktop was active. This has been fixed.

Show on hover in fullscreen had been disabled, to prevent a related issue. This has been fixed. So show on hover has been enabled again for fullscreen.

When changing spaces multiple times, the desktop wallpaper shown between the separate sides, could be from another space, this has been fixed.

When showing then dismissing a group, the behaviour was not consistant, sometimes requiring a second click to show the group again, or hiding all shown hidden items etc. This has been fixed.

If Bartender had hidden your shown items, to make room to display your hidden items, and you ⌘+dragged a menu bar item in the menu bar, your layout would be lost. This has been fixed.

This has been fixed.

Bartender was rendering the menu bar on spaces not currently visible/active. This has been fixed.

Thanks to the users reporting these, they have been fixed.

As stated, fixed small issues I found as I worked through it.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

If Bartender 5 is not starting at login for you, please see https://www.macbartender.com/b5blog/Bartender5-start-at-login/ for ways to fix this macOS Sonoma issue

Time conditions could fire at incorrect times due to a time zone issue. This has been fixed

If more than 1 menu bar item was set to show in a trigger and these were the first items in the hidden section Bartender would not be able to show them. But would keep trying. This has been fixed.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

If Bartender 5 is not starting at login for you, please see https://www.macbartender.com/b5blog/Bartender5-start-at-login/ for ways to fix this macOS Sonoma issue

You can now set the Wi-Fi trigger condition to activate when NOT connected to a specific network.

It was possible for Bartender to incorrectly work out the length of your visible menu bar items (due to some menu bar apps and macOS Sonoma behavior) which would prevent show on empty space working for some, this has been fixed.

It was possible for swipe to stop working after initial swipe until the mouse left and re-entered the menu bar, this has been fixed.

Due to a setting difference between Setapp and normal version of the app, menu bar styling may not have worked as well at it should, this has been fixed.

For the same reason as above, the left side could get hidden, this has been fixed.

If a trigger was triggered when it was turned off, it would not deactivate straight away, this has been fixed.

Bartender 5 in macOS Sonoma was using rssi value to detect a active wifi network, as SSID in macOS Sonoma now requires location services, this should report 0 for no network connection, but also reports 0 for some users when connected. I have changed Bartender logic to now check more network values to determine if a wifi interface is connected.

Due to a bug in macOS zoom functionality, apps cannot use some Accessibility features after using the macOS keyboard hot key ⌘⌥- to zoom out of zoom.
This can be fixed by turning off macOS System Settings > Accessibility > Zoom > Use keyboard shortcuts to zoom.
You should then restart Bartender to get it working again.
Also due to changes in how zoom works in macOS Sonoma items cannot be shown/hidden while the screen is zoomed.
Warning messages about both situations have been added to Bartender.

Due to a bug in macOS Sonoma 14.0 (fixed in 14.1 betas). Bartender would activate itself when the user clicked on some apps left menu (as macOS returned a incorrect length for the menu) if show on click was enabled, I have worked around this macOS 14.0 bug in Bartender.
Big thanks to the devs at BusyCal for helping with this.

For a small number of users Bartender was falsely thinking zoom was active in macOS when it wasnt (due to old macOS settings), this has been fixed.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

If Bartender 5 is not starting at login for you, please see https://www.macbartender.com/b5blog/Bartender5-start-at-login/ for ways to fix this macOS Sonoma issue

You can now set the Wi-Fi trigger condition to activate when NOT connected to a specific network.

It was possible for Bartender to incorrectly work out the length of your visible menu bar items (due to some menu bar apps and macOS Sonoma behavior) which would prevent show on empty space working for some, this has been fixed.

For the same reason as above, the left side could get hidden, this has been fixed.

If a trigger was triggered when it was turned off, it would not deactivate straight away, this has been fixed.

Bartender 5 in macOS Sonoma was using rssi value to detect a active wifi network, as SSID in macOS Sonoma now requires location services, this should report 0 for no network connection, but also reports 0 for some users when connected. I have changed Bartender logic to now check more network values to determine if a wifi interface is connected.

Due to a bug in macOS zoom functionality, apps cannot use some Accessibility features after using the macOS keyboard hot key ⌘⌥- to zoom out of zoom.
This can be fixed by turning off macOS System Settings > Accessibility > Zoom > Use keyboard shortcuts to zoom.
You should then restart Bartender to get it working again.
Also due to changes in how zoom works in macOS Sonoma items cannot be shown/hidden while the screen is zoomed.
Warning messages about both situations have been added to Bartender.

Due to a bug in macOS Sonoma 14.0 (fixed in 14.1 betas). Bartender would activate itself when the user clicked on some apps left menu (as macOS returned a incorrect length for the menu) if show on click was enabled, I have worked around this macOS 14.0 bug in Bartender.
Big thanks to the devs at BusyCal for helping with this.

For a small number of users Bartender was falsely thinking zoom was active in macOS when it wasnt (due to old macOS settings), this has been fixed.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

If Bartender 5 is not starting at login for you, please see https://www.macbartender.com/b5blog/Bartender5-start-at-login/ for ways to fix this macOS Sonoma issue

Bartender 5 in macOS Sonoma was using rssi value to detect a active wifi network, as SSID in macOS Sonoma now requires location services, this should report 0 for no network connection, but also reports 0 for some users when connected. I have changed Bartender logic to now check more network values to determine if a wifi interface is connected.

Due to a bug in macOS zoom functionality, apps cannot use some Accessibility features after using the macOS keyboard hot key ⌘⌥- to zoom out of zoom.
This can be fixed by turning off macOS System Settings > Accessibility > Zoom > Use keyboard shortcuts to zoom.
You should then restart Bartender to get it working again.
Also due to changes in how zoom works in macOS Sonoma items cannot be shown/hidden while the screen is zoomed.
Warning messages about both situations have been added to Bartender.

Due to a bug in macOS Sonoma 14.0 (fixed in 14.1 betas). Bartender would activate itself when the user clicked on some apps left menu (as macOS returned a incorrect length for the menu) if show on click was enabled, I have worked around this macOS 14.0 bug in Bartender.
Big thanks to the devs at BusyCal for helping with this.

For a small number of users Bartender was falsely thinking zoom was active in macOS when it wasnt (due to old macOS settings), this has been fixed.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

If Bartender 5 is not starting at login for you, please see https://www.macbartender.com/b5blog/Bartender5-start-at-login/ for ways to fix this macOS Sonoma issue

Bartender 5 in macOS Sonoma was using rssi value to detect a active wifi network, as SSID in macOS Sonoma now requires location services, this should report 0 for no network connection, but also reports 0 for some users when connected. I have changed Bartender logic to now check more network values to determine if a wifi interface is connected.

Due to a bug in macOS zoom functionality, apps cannot use some Accessibility features after using the macOS keyboard hot key ⌘⌥- to zoom out of zoom.
This can be fixed by turning off macOS System Settings > Accessibility > Zoom > Use keyboard shortcuts to zoom.
You should then restart Bartender to get it working again.
Also due to changes in how zoom works in macOS Sonoma items cannot be shown/hidden while the screen is zoomed.
Warning messages about both situations have been added to Bartender.

Due to a bug in macOS Sonoma 14.0 (fixed in 14.1 betas). Bartender would activate itself when the user clicked on some apps left menu (as macOS returned a incorrect length for the menu) if show on click was enabled, I have worked around this macOS 14.0 bug in Bartender.
Big thanks to the devs at BusyCal for helping with this.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

If Bartender 5 is not starting at login for you, please see https://www.macbartender.com/b5blog/Bartender5-start-at-login/ for ways to fix this macOS Sonoma issue

You can now apply a menu bar style to all your current spaces. Each space is stil individually editable too.

There was a bug in menu bar styling that could cause Bartender to freeze, this has been fixed

A groups icon and title would not save if changed when the group is first added. This has been fixed.

This has been fixed.

There is a change in macOS Sonomas handling of removed menu bar items Bartender was sometimes not handling correctly, leading to some unexpected behaviours, this has been fixed.

If the menu bar was set to autohide in macOS and the battery trigger was used, the menu bar would show repeatedly as the trigger fired. This has been fixed.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

If Bartender 5 is not starting at login for you, please see https://www.macbartender.com/b5blog/Bartender5-start-at-login/ for ways to fix this macOS Sonoma issue

You can now apply a menu bar style to all your current spaces. Each space is stil individually editable too.

There was a bug in menu bar styling that could cause Bartender to freeze, this has been fixed

A groups icon and title would not save if changed when the group is first added. This has been fixed.

This has been fixed.

There is a change in macOS Sonomas handling of removed menu bar items Bartender was sometimes not handling correctly, leading to some unexpected behaviours, this has been fixed.

If the menu bar was set to autohide in macOS and the battery trigger was used, the menu bar would show repeatedly as the trigger fired. This has been fixed.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

If Bartender 5 is not starting at login for you, please see https://www.macbartender.com/b5blog/Bartender5-start-at-login/ for ways to fix this macOS Sonoma issue

You can now apply a menu bar style to all your current spaces. Each space is stil individually editable too.

There was a bug in menu bar styling that could cause Bartender to freeze, this has been fixed

A groups icon and title would not save if changed when the group is first added. This has been fixed.

This has been fixed.

There is a change in macOS Sonomas handling of removed menu bar items Bartender was sometimes not handling correctly, leading to some unexpected behaviours, this has been fixed.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

If Bartender 5 is not starting at login for you, please see https://www.macbartender.com/b5blog/Bartender5-start-at-login/ for ways to fix this macOS Sonoma issue

You can now apply a menu bar style to all your current spaces. Each space is stil individually editable too.

There was a bug in menu bar styling that could cause Bartender to freeze, this has been fixed

A groups icon and title would not save if changed when the group is first added. This has been fixed.

This has been fixed.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

You can now apply a menu bar style to all your current spaces. Each space is stil individually editable too.

In macOS Sonoma getting images of menu bar items that are offscreen causes the purple "Bartender is Capturing your screen" menu bar item to show, as such this happens when the Bartender Bar shows your menu bar items. So until I could come up with a solution I had disabled the Bartender Bar. But it seems many of you REALLY like the Bartender Bar so I have re-enabled the option to use it, but it is turned off by default.

There was an issue with the logic for deciding if Bartender needs to hide currently shown items before showing others to create enough room for them, the bug was only screens with a notch, that caused Bartender to always think it needed to create more room, this has been fixed.

Items added to a menu bar item group when first created would not be saved, this has been fixed.

Thanks for all the feedback, I am working hard to fix all the small issues.

Trigger script conditions would not run if the "Run script every" time had not been adjusted from its default value, this has been fixed

Fixed 2 possible crashes.

Fixed a bug were bartender would stall, stop controlling items.

The previous triggers script would show when editing another script. This has been fixed.

This has been fixed.

After a mac sleeping or screens changing some user shave seen the styling could draw incorrectly, this should be fixed.

Newly created script would not save for some users first time, this has been fixed.

For some users the Wi-Fi trigger condition would not fire. This has been fixed.

For some users the timemachine trigger would not fire. This has been fixed.

The time trigger would offset from time zone each time it was editied. This has been fixed.

If a space was removed the style could overlap on another space, this has been fixed.

macOS Sonoma appears to be a lot stricter with the name of a start at login item, and will not update from Bartender 4 to Bartender 5 easily, if start at login is not working for you, please try turning it off and on again in this version of Bartender.

it was possible with certain setups to get the menu bar staying visible in fullscreen apps, this has been fixed.

When a trigger fired, and items moved into the menu bar macOS would show the menu bar in fullscreen apps. This has been fixed by stopping Bartender moving items when in a fullscreen app and the menu bar is hidden.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

You can now apply a menu bar style to all your current spaces. Each space is stil individually editable too.

In macOS Sonoma getting images of menu bar items that are offscreen causes the purple "Bartender is Capturing your screen" menu bar item to show, as such this happens when the Bartender Bar shows your menu bar items. So until I could come up with a solution I had disabled the Bartender Bar. But it seems many of you REALLY like the Bartender Bar so I have re-enabled the option to use it, but it is turned off by default.

There was an issue with the logic for deciding if Bartender needs to hide currently shown items before showing others to create enough room for them, the bug was only screens with a notch, that caused Bartender to always think it needed to create more room, this has been fixed.

Items added to a menu bar item group when first created would not be saved, this has been fixed.

Thanks for all the feedback, I am working hard to fix all the small issues.

Trigger script conditions would not run if the "Run script every" time had not been adjusted from its default value, this has been fixed

Fixed 2 possible crashes.

Fixed a bug were bartender would stall, stop controlling items.

The previous triggers script would show when editing another script. This has been fixed.

This has been fixed.

After a mac sleeping or screens changing some user shave seen the styling could draw incorrectly, this should be fixed.

Newly created script would not save for some users first time, this has been fixed.

For some users the Wi-Fi trigger condition would not fire. This has been fixed.

For some users the timemachine trigger would not fire. This has been fixed.

The time trigger would offset from time zone each time it was editied. This has been fixed.

If a space was removed the style could overlap on another space, this has been fixed.

macOS Sonoma appears to be a lot stricter with the name of a start at login item, and will not update from Bartender 4 to Bartender 5 easily, if start at login is not working for you, please try turning it off and on again in this version of Bartender.

it was possible with certain setups to get the menu bar staying visible in fullscreen apps, this has been fixed.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

You can now apply a menu bar style to all your current spaces. Each space is stil individually editable too.

In macOS Sonoma getting images of menu bar items that are offscreen causes the purple "Bartender is Capturing your screen" menu bar item to show, as such this happens when the Bartender Bar shows your menu bar items. So until I could come up with a solution I had disabled the Bartender Bar. But it seems many of you REALLY like the Bartender Bar so I have re-enabled the option to use it, but it is turned off by default.

There was an issue with the logic for deciding if Bartender needs to hide currently shown items before showing others to create enough room for them, the bug was only screens with a notch, that caused Bartender to always think it needed to create more room, this has been fixed.

Items added to a menu bar item group when first created would not be saved, this has been fixed.

Thanks for all the feedback, I am working hard to fix all the small issues.

Trigger script conditions would not run if the "Run script every" time had not been adjusted from its default value, this has been fixed

Fixed 2 possible crashes.

Fixed a bug were bartender would stall, stop controlling items.

The previous triggers script would show when editing another script. This has been fixed.

This has been fixed.

After a mac sleeping or screens changing some user shave seen the styling could draw incorrectly, this should be fixed.

Newly created script would not save for some users first time, this has been fixed.

For some users the Wi-Fi trigger condition would not fire. This has been fixed.

For some users the timemachine trigger would not fire. This has been fixed.

The time trigger would offset from time zone each time it was editied. This has been fixed.

If a space was removed the style could overlap on another space, this has been fixed.

macOS Sonoma appears to be a lot stricter with the name of a start at login item, and will not update from Bartender 4 to Bartender 5 easily, if start at login is not working for you, please try turning it off and on again in this version of Bartender.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

You can now apply a menu bar style to all your current spaces. Each space is stil individually editable too.

In macOS Sonoma getting images of menu bar items that are offscreen causes the purple "Bartender is Capturing your screen" menu bar item to show, as such this happens when the Bartender Bar shows your menu bar items. So until I could come up with a solution I had disabled the Bartender Bar. But it seems many of you REALLY like the Bartender Bar so I have re-enabled the option to use it, but it is turned off by default.

There was an issue with the logic for deciding if Bartender needs to hide currently shown items before showing others to create enough room for them, the bug was only screens with a notch, that caused Bartender to always think it needed to create more room, this has been fixed.

Items added to a menu bar item group when first created would not be saved, this has been fixed.

Thanks for all the feedback, I am working hard to fix all the small issues.

Trigger script conditions would not run if the "Run script every" time had not been adjusted from its default value, this has been fixed

Fixed 2 possible crashes.

Fixed a bug were bartender would stall, stop controlling items.

The previous triggers script would show when editing another script. This has been fixed.

This has been fixed.

After a mac sleeping or screens changing some user shave seen the styling could draw incorrectly, this should be fixed.

Newly created script would not save for some users first time, this has been fixed.

For some users the Wi-Fi trigger condition would not fire. This has been fixed.

For some users the timemachine trigger would not fire. This has been fixed.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

You can now apply a menu bar style to all your current spaces. Each space is stil individually editable too.

In macOS Sonoma getting images of menu bar items that are offscreen causes the purple "Bartender is Capturing your screen" menu bar item to show, as such this happens when the Bartender Bar shows your menu bar items. So until I could come up with a solution I had disabled the Bartender Bar. But it seems many of you REALLY like the Bartender Bar so I have re-enabled the option to use it, but it is turned off by default.

There was an issue with the logic for deciding if Bartender needs to hide currently shown items before showing others to create enough room for them, the bug was only screens with a notch, that caused Bartender to always think it needed to create more room, this has been fixed.

Items added to a menu bar item group when first created would not be saved, this has been fixed.

Thanks for all the feedback, I am working hard to fix all the small issues.

Trigger script conditions would not run if the "Run script every" time had not been adjusted from its default value, this has been fixed

Fixed 2 possible crashes.

Fixed a bug were bartender would stall, stop controlling items.

The previous triggers script would show when editing another script. This has been fixed.

This has been fixed.

After a mac sleeping or screens changing some user shave seen the styling could draw incorrectly, this should be fixed.

Newly created script would not save for some users first time, this has been fixed.

For some users the Wi-Fi trigger condition would not fire. This has been fixed.

For some users the timemachine trigger would not fire. This has been fixed.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

You can now apply a menu bar style to all your current spaces. Each space is stil individually editable too.

In macOS Sonoma getting images of menu bar items that are offscreen causes the purple "Bartender is Capturing your screen" menu bar item to show, as such this happens when the Bartender Bar shows your menu bar items. So until I could come up with a solution I had disabled the Bartender Bar. But it seems many of you REALLY like the Bartender Bar so I have re-enabled the option to use it, but it is turned off by default.

There was an issue with the logic for deciding if Bartender needs to hide currently shown items before showing others to create enough room for them, the bug was only screens with a notch, that caused Bartender to always think it needed to create more room, this has been fixed.

Items added to a menu bar item group when first created would not be saved, this has been fixed.

Thanks for all the feedback, I am working hard to fix all the small issues.

Trigger script conditions would not run if the "Run script every" time had not been adjusted from its default value, this has been fixed

Fixed 2 possible crashes.

Fixed a bug were bartender would stall, stop controlling items.

The previous triggers script would show when editing another script. This has been fixed.

This has been fixed.

After a mac sleeping or screens changing some user shave seen the styling could draw incorrectly, this should be fixed.

Newly created script would not save for some users first time, this has been fixed.

For some users the Wi-Fi trigger condition would not fire. This has been fixed.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

You can now apply a menu bar style to all your current spaces. Each space is stil individually editable too.

In macOS Sonoma getting images of menu bar items that are offscreen causes the purple "Bartender is Capturing your screen" menu bar item to show, as such this happens when the Bartender Bar shows your menu bar items. So until I could come up with a solution I had disabled the Bartender Bar. But it seems many of you REALLY like the Bartender Bar so I have re-enabled the option to use it, but it is turned off by default.

There was an issue with the logic for deciding if Bartender needs to hide currently shown items before showing others to create enough room for them, the bug was only screens with a notch, that caused Bartender to always think it needed to create more room, this has been fixed.

Items added to a menu bar item group when first created would not be saved, this has been fixed.

Thanks for all the feedback, I am working hard to fix all the small issues.

Trigger script conditions would not run if the "Run script every" time had not been adjusted from its default value, this has been fixed

Fixed 2 possible crashes.

Fixed a bug were bartender would stall, stop controlling items.

The previous triggers script would show when editing another script. This has been fixed.

This has been fixed.

After a mac sleeping or screens changing some user shave seen the styling could draw incorrectly, this should be fixed.

Newly created script would not save for some users first time, this has been fixed.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

You can now apply a menu bar style to all your current spaces. Each space is stil individually editable too.

In macOS Sonoma getting images of menu bar items that are offscreen causes the purple "Bartender is Capturing your screen" menu bar item to show, as such this happens when the Bartender Bar shows your menu bar items. So until I could come up with a solution I had disabled the Bartender Bar. But it seems many of you REALLY like the Bartender Bar so I have re-enabled the option to use it, but it is turned off by default.

There was an issue with the logic for deciding if Bartender needs to hide currently shown items before showing others to create enough room for them, the bug was only screens with a notch, that caused Bartender to always think it needed to create more room, this has been fixed.

Items added to a menu bar item group when first created would not be saved, this has been fixed.

Thanks for all the feedback, I am working hard to fix all the small issues.

Trigger script conditions would not run if the "Run script every" time had not been adjusted from its default value, this has been fixed

Fixed 2 possible crashes.

Fixed a bug were bartender would stall, stop controlling items.

The previous triggers script would show when editing another script. This has been fixed.

This has been fixed.

After a mac sleeping or screens changing some user shave seen the styling could draw incorrectly, this should be fixed.

Newly created script would not save for some users first time, this has been fixed.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

You can now apply a menu bar style to all your current spaces. Each space is stil individually editable too.

In macOS Sonoma getting images of menu bar items that are offscreen causes the purple "Bartender is Capturing your screen" menu bar item to show, as such this happens when the Bartender Bar shows your menu bar items. So until I could come up with a solution I had disabled the Bartender Bar. But it seems many of you REALLY like the Bartender Bar so I have re-enabled the option to use it, but it is turned off by default.

There was an issue with the logic for deciding if Bartender needs to hide currently shown items before showing others to create enough room for them, the bug was only screens with a notch, that caused Bartender to always think it needed to create more room, this has been fixed.

Items added to a menu bar item group when first created would not be saved, this has been fixed.

Thanks for all the feedback, I am working hard to fix all the small issues.

Trigger script conditions would not run if the "Run script every" time had not been adjusted from its default value, this has been fixed

Fixed 2 possible crashes.

Fixed a bug were bartender would stall, stop controlling items.

The previous triggers script would show when editing another script. This has been fixed.

This has been fixed.

After a mac sleeping or screens changing some user shave seen the styling could draw incorrectly, this should be fixed.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

In macOS Sonoma getting images of menu bar items that are offscreen causes the purple "Bartender is Capturing your screen" menu bar item to show, as such this happens when the Bartender Bar shows your menu bar items. So until I could come up with a solution I had disabled the Bartender Bar. But it seems many of you REALLY like the Bartender Bar so I have re-enabled the option to use it, but it is turned off by default.

There was an issue with the logic for deciding if Bartender needs to hide currently shown items before showing others to create enough room for them, the bug was only screens with a notch, that caused Bartender to always think it needed to create more room, this has been fixed.

Items added to a menu bar item group when first created would not be saved, this has been fixed.

Thanks for all the feedback, I am working hard to fix all the small issues.

Trigger script conditions would not run if the "Run script every" time had not been adjusted from its default value, this has been fixed

Fixed 2 possible crashes.

Fixed a bug were bartender would stall, stop controlling items.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

In macOS Sonoma getting images of menu bar items that are offscreen causes the purple "Bartender is Capturing your screen" menu bar item to show, as such this happens when the Bartender Bar shows your menu bar items. So until I could come up with a solution I had disabled the Bartender Bar. But it seems many of you REALLY like the Bartender Bar so I have re-enabled the option to use it, but it is turned off by default.

There was an issue with the logic for deciding if Bartender needs to hide currently shown items before showing others to create enough room for them, the bug was only screens with a notch, that caused Bartender to always think it needed to create more room, this has been fixed.

Items added to a menu bar item group when first created would not be saved, this has been fixed.

Thanks for all the feedback, I am working hard to fix all the small issues.

Trigger script conditions would not run if the "Run script every" time had not been adjusted from its default value, this has been fixed

Fixed 2 possible crashes.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

In macOS Sonoma getting images of menu bar items that are offscreen causes the purple "Bartender is Capturing your screen" menu bar item to show, as such this happens when the Bartender Bar shows your menu bar items. So until I could come up with a solution I had disabled the Bartender Bar. But it seems many of you REALLY like the Bartender Bar so I have re-enabled the option to use it, but it is turned off by default.

There was an issue with the logic for deciding if Bartender needs to hide currently shown items before showing others to create enough room for them, the bug was only screens with a notch, that caused Bartender to always think it needed to create more room, this has been fixed.

Items added to a menu bar item group when first created would not be saved, this has been fixed.

Thanks for all the feedback, I am working hard to fix all the small issues.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

In macOS Sonoma getting images of menu bar items that are offscreen causes the purple "Bartender is Capturing your screen" menu bar item to show, as such this happens when the Bartender Bar shows your menu bar items. So until I could come up with a solution I had disabled the Bartender Bar. But it seems many of you REALLY like the Bartender Bar so I have re-enabled the option to use it, but it is turned off by default.

There was an issue with the logic for deciding if Bartender needs to hide currently shown items before showing others to create enough room for them, the bug was only screens with a notch, that caused Bartender to always think it needed to create more room, this has been fixed.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.

In macOS Sonoma getting images of menu bar items that are offscreen causes the purple "Bartender is Capturing your screen" menu bar item to show, as such this happens when the Bartender Bar shows your menu bar items. So until I could come up with a solution I had disabled the Bartender Bar. But it seems many of you REALLY like the Bartender Bar so I have re-enabled the option to use it, but it is turned off by default.

Bartender 5 is a paid upgrade. Bartender 5 has been completely redeveloped for macOS Sonoma.

Find out more about Bartender 5 at https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/

Bartender 4 is not optimised for macOS Sonoma. If you do not want to upgrade to Bartender 5 and wish to continue using Bartender 4 you might want to avoid installing macOS Sonoma.