Five must-have tools for the macOS menu bar

The menu bar is for many a great unknown in macOS . In addition to offering contextual menus depending on the app we are in, it has different accesses to apps, tools or simply information of interest on the right side. Wi-Fi, time, date, battery ... the options that come by default are fine, but there are many others from third parties that can be useful.

Which apps to install on the Mac menu bar

What third-party apps to install in the menu bar? The truth is that the variety is very wide, but it depends exclusively on your needs . Some are a classic, others are unknown to many but when they discover them they cannot live without them, others are simply a curiosity. In any case, here are five that you should give a try.

• 1Password : Not only a great tool for the menu bar, but also for all your devices. With 1Password you can keep all your passwords and files securely in one place. Thanks to the menu bar you can quickly access them and complete any acce

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• iStats Menus : An app made for the menu bar, iStats Menus offers you access to different statistics and information of interest: time, notifications, CPU, battery, RAM ... No one is going to inform you better than iStats Menus of the status of your Mac.

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• TripMode : We have already spoken on more than one occasion about TripMode, this great little tool that allows us to cut off Internet access to each app according to need. It is ideal to save Internet if we do not have broadband, and you can manage everything from the menu bar

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• Amphetamine / Caffeine / Taurine : There are just three options, but there are a few more on the Mac App Store. If you need an app that prevents your Mac from going to sleep, these are the gaps of them, they all work the same, they are all equally useful.

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• Qbserve : Possibly the best app to know how you spend your time in front of the computer . In addition to automatically categorizing your activities, it allows you to see at a glance in the menu bar the percentage of productivity that you have so far during the work day.



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Finally, this simple trick allows you to make the menu bar in macOS transparent . Take a look if you want to customize your Mac a bit more