48 Macworld • February 2022REVIEWS
Bartender 4
Price as reviewed: £14.11 from fave.co/31D0VR3T
he macOS menu bar can
be a convenience. It’s great
to take in information at
a glance or click an icon
that drops down to reveal a number
of options you can choose without
launching an app or a preference
pane. But it bulges, and Apple is just
one culprit. The kind of utilities we
recommend in Mac Gems is another!Apple tried to deal with its own
creeping menu bar overload in Big
Sur by reforming many icons into the
Control Centre. This change helped,
but I can still find myself with nearly
three dozen icons and indicators and
a third or more are invisible because of
an app’s menu blocking them.
Bartender 4 provides an intuitive
pathway out of this mess. For over a