TuckBar

macos menu bar, per monitor

tuck the menu bar
off your oled. keep it on the others.

bright, static, always on. tuckbar tucks it on the displays you tag and snaps it back the moment you reach the top edge.

get tuckbar see it work

free and open source · macos 14+ · apple silicon or intel

drag the monitor

the problem

the menu bar never moves.
that's the whole problem.

same bright pixels, the same spot, every hour you're at the machine. on an oled that's burn-in. on any screen it's chrome you don't need while you're heads-down. macos can auto-hide it, but only everywhere at once.

per display

tag the screen you
want kept clean.

tuck the bar on your oled and your other monitor keeps its bar right where it is. no api does this. tuckbar covers the tagged display's strip itself, so you get a real per-monitor menu bar.

try it

reach for the top.

it's a fake desktop, but it behaves like the app. push your pointer to the top edge and the real bar slides in. leave, and it tucks back into the wallpaper. switch the cover style below.

seamless

it's not a black bar.
it's your wallpaper.

tuckbar reads the real wallpaper pixels behind the bar, live, and paints them over the strip. the bar doesn't go dark, it just disappears. drag to compare.

your call

seamless, dimmed, or black.

go invisible, dial it down with the slider, or kill the pixels entirely for the most burn-in protection. flip between them.

untuck

need the bar
for a bit?

recording the screen, or in some app that lives in the menus? untuck it for 5 to 60 minutes. it re-tucks itself when the timer's up.

the rest of it

small, quiet, and out of the way.

  • hover to reveal

    reach for the top edge and the real bar is right there. move away, it tucks.

  • tuck on connect

    plug in a tagged display and it tucks. unplug and the bar comes back.

  • dim slider

    not ready to hide it? lower its brightness instead. clicks still pass through.

  • hide the dock too

    optional. the dock hides while a tagged display is connected, and comes back when you unplug.

  • never stranded

    if it ever gets force-quit mid-tuck, it puts your bar back on the next launch.

  • opens at login

    lives in the menu bar, quiet, and puts everything back when you quit.

clean screen. no burn-in.

free and open source. build it from source, or grab a release.

get it on github 
git clone https://github.com/lelanddutcher/TuckBar.git
cd TuckBar
./scripts/build-app.sh

requires macos 14 or later. ad-hoc signed for now, so the first launch is a right-click then open.