Dimble changelog

21 releases since September 2026 · GitHub releases, checked Oct 26, 2026Developer’s release notes

1. 0.3.3Latest

   Oct 25, 2026

   > Your icons stay in the order you gave them. Until now Dimble only kept each icon in its section. Now the layout editor is the order your bar keeps. When macOS or an app shifts an icon, Dimble puts it back on its own, about ten seconds later, the next time you pause. Updating rearranges nothing. > > Each display can show hidden icons its own way. Your monitor can reveal in the menu bar while your MacBook uses the panel or a row. A display set to show all its icons now keeps them out wherever the pointer is (#88, thanks @wyaqoob).

   Nine betas went into this one. There's also a Quick Note item, a Small Dot icon and Type to Siri, plus fixes for the clock and for full menu bars.

   New:

   • Icons stay in your order, not just in their section. macOS sometimes re-places a system icon like Wi-Fi or Battery, an app relaunches somewhere else, or a separator lands in a new spot. Dimble moves it back to where the layout editor shows it. It waits until the icon has sat out of place for about ten seconds and you've left the mouse and keyboard alone. The pointer hides for the moment it takes, and there's at most one pass every two minutes. After two tries on the same icon it stops, and what it couldn't put back still counts on the Apply button. It's part of "Keep sections grouped", on by default. defaults write app.fif7y.Pelmet pelmet.keepSectionsGrouped -bool false turns every automatic move off.
   • Each display gets its own "Show hidden icons in" in Settings › Displays, so it can use the menu bar, a panel or a row. Displays left on "Same as Panel tab" follow Settings › Panel (#88, thanks @wyaqoob). On a display that shows all its icons, it picks where a chevron click opens Always Hidden (#96, thanks @juanfcocontreras).
   • A Quick Note item, in Settings › Menu Bar (#99, thanks @dinopaulus). Apple's Quick Note icon is a Control Center control, and macOS takes those off the menu bar while Dimble hides your icons. Dimble's stays put, and a click starts a new Quick Note.
   • A Small Dot style for Dimble's icon, half the width of the Dot (#98, thanks @TigerCat-hu).

   Changed:

   • Clicking Dimble's Siri opens Type to Siri, like a click on Apple's own Siri icon, and a second click closes it. For voice, right-click it and pick "Talk to Siri" (#83, thanks @swhitlow).
   • In Settings › Menu Bar › Show when it matters, an icon that sits in Visible has a "Move to Hidden" link. It moves the icon and turns its rule on. Before, the switch was just greyed out.
   • A ⌘-drag in the menu bar moves that one icon in the editor and leaves the rest where they are.
   • A new app's icon joins the editor where it showed up in the bar, under "New items" as before, instead of at the front.
   • Discard is gone from Settings › Menu Bar. A change you make in the editor goes in at your next pause, so to undo one, drag the icon back.

   Fixed:

   • A display set to show all its icons keeps showing them wherever the pointer is. Before, the pointer's display decided for every bar, so moving the pointer to your other display could hide them all.
   • With the Clock hidden, clicking Control Center or the spot where the clock used to be no longer flashes your hidden icons on the bar. Those clicks go straight to Control Center now (#93, thanks @punchmac).
   • ⌥-click on the clock turns Do Not Disturb on and off again, with "Clicking the clock opens Notification Center" on or off (#92, thanks @juanfcocontreras).
   • On some Macs with macOS 27.2, clicking the clock opened Notification Center and closed it right away. Dimble now catches that within two clicks and opens it with a real click from then on (#94, thanks @chinming17).
   • After closing the lid with external displays attached and opening it again, the chevron could go missing until Dimble relaunched. Dimble now checks the bar when your Mac wakes or the displays change, and puts the chevron back if it's gone (#26, thanks @cpierce).
   • On a full menu bar, macOS could put Dimble's chevron behind its own « with the rest. Dimble now notices, and its own extras (camera, media, Siri…) step aside to make room, then come back once there's space. A reveal also holds while Apple's « is open on your hidden icons (#81, thanks @2f4vwwb5t6-gif).
   • The panel and the row show up on whichever Space you're on. If the panel's window gets stuck on one Space, Dimble notices when it opens and builds a new one (#100, thanks @wppqqppq).
   • Without Screen Recording, a display that shows all its icons opens its panel or row on the first chevron click. It used to widen the menu bar, and only the third click opened the panel (#96, thanks @juanfcocontreras).
   • An Always Hidden icon that slipped in among the Hidden ones goes back to its side. It used to stay there when it only showed during a reveal (#80, thanks @Erimus-Koo).
   • The Stop button of a screen recording (⇧⌘5) shows while Dimble hides your icons. It's in Visible, right of the chevron.
   • When one of your displays shows all its icons, the chevron on your other displays stays in sight. A new icon to its right, like Camera & Mic or the Stop button, used to hide it.
   • An icon could stay put when macOS refused the drag during Apply. The retry now lands it.
   • Applying a change in Settings › Menu Bar no longer leaves blank space right of the chevron while it moves your icons.

   Also:

   • With a display set to show all its icons, switching apps takes one picture of your other bars instead of two. A picture that's no longer needed is let go within a minute instead of a day.
   • In Settings › Menu Bar, the title row's hint truncates instead of pushing the buttons onto a second line.

2. 0.3.2

   Oct 17, 2026

   > Pelmet is now Dimble. Another macOS menu bar app had the name Pelmet first, so I decided to rename ours. It's the same app, and your settings, permissions and launch at login carry over. On its first launch after the update, the app renames itself to Dimble.app and opens again. > > If anything looks off after the update, please tell me on GitHub.

   The one you asked for most is here, your hidden icons in a panel under the menu bar. There's also a new Settings, icons that show up only when they matter, and every fix from eight betas.

   Hidden icons can open as tiles in a glass panel under the menu bar, and a click on a tile opens that icon's real menu. Turn it on in Settings › Panel › "Show hidden icons in" and pick Panel, or Row for a single strip. Menu bar stays the default.

   • The tiles are pictures of your real icons. App icons stand in when Screen Recording isn't allowed. Apple's own items like Bluetooth or Focus show their own mark until they get a picture.
   • Open it with a click, a hover or the shortcut. Type to search, move with the arrows and Return, Esc to close. It closes when the pointer leaves, like the bar does.
   • It opens on the display you click or hover, right under that display's bar.
   • Drag a tile to reorder it, to another section, or up onto the menu bar to show it there. ⌘-drag an icon from the menu bar onto the panel to hide it.
   • Always Hidden sits behind a fold you click. A "Didn't fit" section lists the icons macOS had no room for in the bar.
   • Right-click a tile for Open Menu, Show in Menu Bar (just that icon, and it goes back after), Move to…, Alias and Shortcut… and Quit.
   • Drag the panel's left edge for more or fewer columns, double-click it for Auto. Names can be shown too.

   Thanks @elijah7x for asking for it, and @cpierce, @OiCkilL and @2f4vwwb5t6-gif for testing it through the betas.

   New:

   • Settings got a full redesign. Menu Bar now holds everything about your icons, and a click on any tile there opens its options. General has every shortcut in one place, and permissions you've already granted fold into one quiet line. Apply only shows up when there's something to apply.
   • Show when it matters, for icons you keep hidden (#86, thanks @pzelnip). Battery shows while you're on battery or below 20%, Wi-Fi when it isn't connected, Focus while a Focus is on and Time Machine while a backup runs. Turn each one on in Settings › Menu Bar.
   • Icons stay in their section. macOS sometimes drops a hidden icon right of the chevron, after a ⌘-drag or when an app relaunches into a crowded bar. Dimble moves it back on its own once you leave the mouse and keyboard alone for a couple of seconds. This needs Dimble's icon in the menu bar (#80, thanks @Erimus-Koo).
   • An icon you drop into Hidden or Always Hidden in Settings crosses the arrow on its own a few seconds later, no Apply needed.
   • Shortcuts can be turned off. Hover one in Settings and click the ×, or press ⌫ while recording, so another app can have the combo. ↺ brings the default back (#79, thanks @gasparschott).
   • Media controls comes and goes while something plays, like Camera & mic, with a While playing or Always choice. Sounds under 5 seconds don't count, so a screenshot shutter doesn't bring it out.
   • Search has its own tab in Settings, with a command bar to try it in and your aliases and shortcuts. Alias and Shortcut… on any icon opens it with that icon ready.
   • The right-click menu on Dimble's icon leads with Search and Settings, and shows the shortcuts for Hide Items and Show Always Hidden Too.
   • Release notes show up in the update window, and About has a "What's new in this version" link.

   Changed:

   • Pelmet is now Dimble. On its first launch after the update, the app renames itself from Pelmet.app (or Pliss.app if you ran 0.3.2-beta.7) to Dimble.app and opens again.
   • The app icon is a D now, same dots.
   • Logs are now in ~/Library/Logs/Dimble/dimble.log, and your old logs move there too.
   • The website is dimble.fif7y.com and the repo is github.com/fif7y/dimble. Old links keep working.
   • If you installed with Homebrew, the cask is dimble now. Once the app has updated itself, quit it, run brew reinstall --cask --force fif7y/tap/dimble once, and open Dimble again.

   Fixed:

   • A double-click on the chevron reveals Always Hidden too, like the settings say. It only worked in empty menu bar space, and on the chevron the second click shut the bar again (#77, thanks @kaypeter87).
   • ⌥-click on the chevron reveals Always Hidden on macOS 27 too. macOS 27 wasn't saying the ⌥ key was down, so it acted like a plain click.
   • Clicking the clock opens Notification Center again on macOS 27.2, where it flashed open and closed right away. It also opens on Macs where the app thought it was already open (#81, thanks @2f4vwwb5t6-gif). A second ⌥⌘N closes it for good.
   • Hover reveal works on the first visit after you hide icons with the shortcut or from a menu. The hover zone also ends at the chevron as it's drawn (#84, thanks @swhitlow).
   • Icons that come from a helper app take the app's name. Fantastical showed up as 85C27NK92C… (#81, thanks @2f4vwwb5t6-gif).
   • An icon you move to Visible crosses the arrow on its own on a bar with none of Dimble's own icons on it. It used to wait for them forever (#81, thanks @2f4vwwb5t6-gif).
   • Reordering inside Hidden or Always Hidden applies. When two moves would do, Apply moves the icon you dropped and not its neighbour.
   • An icon you ⌘-drag stays where you dropped it, past one of Dimble's own icons or on another display's bar.
   • Clicks open menus again after an Apply. The app could leave ⌘ held after its last drag.
   • Hidden icons hide again on their own after the app starts with the screen locked. The media control gets placed again after a track change on a locked screen.

   Also:

   • The Apply button goes grey once the menu bar matches your settings. The "Your menu bar is full" note is now "N behind «" at the top of the Menu Bar pane, and only shows while the bar stays full.
   • A locked Mac no longer reads the menu bar every 2 seconds all night.

3. 0.3.1

   Oct 5, 2026

   Pelmet Search, Apple's camera controls back when you need them, a Shortcuts item, and every fix from five betas.

   There's a brand new website too, pelmet.fif7y.com. It's in the same ten languages as the app, with a page for the features and one for support.

   Press ⌥⌘K, type a few letters, press Return. That icon's menu opens right from its real icon in the menu bar, and the arrow keys work like they normally do. It works for hidden icons too, there's nothing to reveal first (#73, thanks @fgsconsulting).

   • It knows the short names people type, like bt or wifi.
   • It learns. The icons you open most come first, and a few letters you've

   picked twice for the same icon go straight to it. All of it stays on your Mac, with a reset in Settings › General.

   • ⌘K on a result shows what you can do with it, like moving it to another

   section or giving it its own keyboard shortcut.

   • The settings are in there too. Type "hover" and Return opens the settings

   on that row.

   • ⌘↩ shows the icon in the bar without clicking it.

   Change the shortcut in Settings › General, or pick "Search…" from Pelmet's right-click menu.

   New:

   • A click on Pelmet's Camera & mic item opens Apple's own camera and screen

   sharing controls (#68, thanks @rd-david-wahlandt, and #72, thanks @dartiss). macOS takes that pill off the bar as soon as any icon is hidden, and with it video effects, Mic Mode and Stop Sharing. Pelmet brings the pill back for a moment to open its panel, then hides the bar again. A SharePlay session with no call lives in the same pill, so the item wears the SharePlay glyph while one's live. A right-click still opens Privacy settings.

   • A Shortcuts item, your whole Shortcuts library in one Pelmet menu. macOS

   takes the Shortcuts "Menu Bar" controls off the bar as soon as any icon is hidden. The item lists your shortcuts instead, unfiled first, then one submenu per folder, and a pick runs it.

   • ⌃⌥⌘, reveals Always Hidden too, and a second press hides it all (#67,

   thanks @C3PO-1). With the icon off there was no way to reach Always Hidden. It's in Settings with the other shortcuts.

   • A dot style for Pelmet's icon, filled while icons are hidden and an

   outline while they're shown (#62, thanks @samismustard).

   • The app icon is Liquid Glass now, so macOS draws its dark, clear and

   tinted looks itself (#63, thanks @samismustard).

   • The right-click menu has an Animation submenu, so you can switch the

   reveal style without opening the settings.

   Fixed:

   • A click on the clock no longer moves your pointer (#74, thanks @brodly).

   Pelmet presses the clock directly now. Some macOS builds never open Notification Center from that press (27.0.1 is one), so Pelmet notices after the first miss and replays your click under the pointer from then on.

   • A Focus that ends while your Mac sleeps now turns off in Pelmet when it

   wakes (#70, thanks @GianAndris). A click on the Focus item opens the Focus panel on a Mac in any language, and Focus settings when Control Center is hidden. A Focus left on for days shows again after Pelmet relaunches.

   • A ⌘-drag could lose track of the icon you moved (#64, thanks

   @GianAndris). Pelmet now waits for the drop, and Apply stops moving icons that are already where they belong.

   • On a Mac in another language than English, the Notification Center

   shortcut opened the panel and closed it again (#58, thanks @robinhur).

   • Two clicks close together could draw stale copies of your icons next to

   the real ones (#61, thanks @samismustard).

   • Apply's report now says only what it couldn't move, and it goes away with

   the tab (#60, thanks @oantonov).

   • An icon macOS took off the bar by itself was shown as refusing to hide

   (#66, thanks @robinhur). The editor now says what happened.

   • A click on the clock is quicker. The picture of the empty bar is kept

   until one of Pelmet's own icons changes, instead of being retaken after every reveal. It also stops just before the clock, so the time you see is never a minute old.

   • New Pelmet items land right of the chevron, before the clock.
   • With a smooth reveal on a second display, the Sound icon slid with the

   others instead of popping in once they had settled.

   • A quick hover in and out no longer shows the hidden icons twice.
   • A trackpad scroll down a long settings tab, then a click on Displays, no

   longer leaves every tab blank.

   Also:

   • Pelmet uses less CPU while you move the mouse. Only the moves near the

   menu bar reach it now.

   • The translations use macOS's own words, and the menus that stand in for

   Apple's use Apple's wording in every language.

   • The menu bar's ink (light or dark) is broadcast to the apps Pelmet hides,

   so an app drawing its own status band can match it.

4. 0.3.0Big update

   Sep 24, 2026

   Pelmet no longer moves your icons on its own. Up to 0.2.40 it kept every icon at the slot the editor showed, dragging it back after a reveal, a relaunch or a ⌘-drag. 0.3.0 only records where your icons are. The editor is a drawing, and one button lays the bar out to match it.

   Changed:

   • The editor is a drawing. Reorder icons, move them between sections, add

   separators: nothing moves in the bar until you press Apply, which lays the whole bar out in one pass with the pointer hidden for a moment and reports what it did next to the button. Discard puts the drawing back to what the bar shows, drags between sections included. A drawing that ends up matching the bar again clears itself.

   • Upgrading keeps your bar exactly as it is. If the order 0.2.x had stored

   for a section differs from what is on screen, it shows up once as a pending edit: Apply reproduces it, Discard keeps the bar as it stands.

   • An icon dragged to another section hides with that section at once but

   stays where it sits until Apply moves it. Its tile says so.

   • Opening the editor no longer reveals the bar. Apply reveals what it needs

   and puts everything back.

   • A ⌘-drag in the bar is exact: the icon stays where you dropped it, and a

   drag across the chevron changes its section. Dragging while the bar is collapsed reveals the hidden section so you can drop into it.

   • A full bar is handled: Apply opens macOS's own « for an icon drawn behind

   it, moves it, and closes the « again. An edit for an icon it could not reach stays pending.

   • Separators are edited on their tiles, and the strips are the whole

   editor. A new separator is part of the drawing: Apply places it, Discard removes it. The Menu Bar tab now sits above Behavior, and separators live under the row that says where new icons land.

   • Icon spacing. Settings › Behavior has one slider for the gap between

   menu bar icons, from 1 point to 28, macOS default in the middle. It's macOS's own setting: Apply writes it, restarts the system icons and relaunches Pelmet so the clock, Control Center and Pelmet's own items change at once; other apps follow when they next open, or log out and back in. Reset puts the default back.

   • Control Center hides. Its tile sits next to the clock's in the editor:

   drop either in a hidden section and it goes with it. Both say what macOS does with them: they hide, they never move, and they offer no launcher (icons macOS hosts itself share one bundle, so a launcher for one would draw nothing).

   • Hover to settled is much faster. A warm reveal or conceal that took a few

   hundred milliseconds now settles in a few tens, and the bar picture is on screen within the first frames of a hover.

   • Hovering the chevron itself counts as hovering the bar.

   New:

   • A "New items" tile in the editor shows where icons Pelmet has never seen

   will land.

   • Update reminders. A pending update shows as a banner on every Settings

   pane with an Update button, as a line under Settings in the right-click menu, and as a green chip on About in the sidebar, with a daily reminder until you install it.

   Fixed:

   • Launching with music playing on a Mac with a second display could delay

   startup by eight seconds: the media control was on the other display's bar all along and Pelmet waited for it anyway.

   • A media control that showed and hid within the same second is no longer

   dragged to the left edge of the bar.

   • After a capture shifts the bar, the next reveal shifts its picture along

   instead of retaking it, so the hidden icons no longer flash in.

   • A bar picture could stay on screen after the Notification Center

   shortcut, for hours in one case (#52, thanks @robinhur). A picture raised after its blink had already been dismissed had nothing holding it, and the safety timeout could no longer reach it. The timeout now always fires, a dismissed blink refuses late pictures, a shortcut press during a blink is ignored, and every cover carries an id in the log.

   • On a Mac with several displays the Notification Center shortcut opened

   the panel and closed it again, sometimes on another display (#53, thanks @robinhur). The panel's window can take longer to show than the check waited, so a retry pressed the clock a second time. It now waits longer, presses the clock on the display the pointer is on, and never falls back to a click that moves the pointer.

   • The shortcut recorder did nothing when clicked on rows with little

   room, in Korean in particular (#54, thanks @robinhur). Starting to record widened the chip, the row moved the control below the caption, and the recorder there was a fresh one. The chip now reserves its width.

   • A shortcut macOS already uses, such as ⌥A, was accepted and never fired

   (#55, thanks @robinhur). The row now says macOS has it and where to turn it off.

   • A shortcut recorded with a non-Roman input source active was named

   after that layout (⌥ㅁ for ⌥A under Korean input) and kept the name. The key is now named from the Roman layout, the way macOS names its own shortcuts (#56, thanks @robinhur).

5. 0.2.41

   Sep 21, 2026

   New:

   • An opt-in beta channel. Settings › About › "Get beta releases" turns on

   smaller, more frequent updates. Leave it off and you get one stable release every week or two that rolls the betas up, one set of notes at a time (#48, thanks @vorssaint). Turning it off later never downgrades: the next stable simply takes over.

   Fixed:

   • A click Pelmet refused (on a status item's popover edge, right of the

   chevron, on the pinned right zone) no longer counts toward a double-click. Before, a refused click followed by a real empty-bar click inside the double-click interval revealed Always Hidden (#47, thanks @ChoSeongmin1128).

6. 0.2.40

   Sep 20, 2026

   Fixed:

   • A full menu bar is left alone. When your icons don't fit and macOS tucks

   some behind its own «, Pelmet no longer drags them back, clicks that « with your pointer, or keeps asking the system to re-show them. The Menu Bar tab now says how many icons sit behind the « (#42, thanks @OiCkilL).

   • macOS's own menu bar agents are never managed. The stop button of a

   screen recording, and any other icon that comes from a system agent rather than an app, stays where the system put it instead of being routed to Hidden (#42, thanks @OiCkilL).

   • The camera & mic indicator stays where it lands when the mic comes on.

   It no longer drags itself to its exact slot on your next reveal, which read as a laggy reveal and an icon moving on its own (#39, thanks @GianAndris).

   • While a Pelmet item stands in for one of macOS's own extras (camera &

   mic, media, AirDrop, Focus, Timer, users), the system's version stays hidden even with System extras set to "Show while revealed". Before, the two swapped places on every hover (#39, thanks @GianAndris; #41, thanks @archellino).

   • Pelmet's own context menu no longer ends up in the bar pictures. A

   picture taken while the menu was closing could replay the menu's top edge on the next hover (#40, thanks @richyueh).

   • The bar picture is retaken when Pelmet's icon has moved since it was

   taken, so a placement can't leave a second chevron on screen for a beat.

7. 0.2.39

   Sep 19, 2026

   Changed:

   • Apple's own menu bar apps (Weather, Passwords, the Kerberos ticket) are

   remembered by app rather than by the title of their icon, so a language change or a retitle can't lose the section you put them in. Their spot is kept out of everything that measures positions in the bar, the way the system icons already were (#38, thanks @mr-steveryan for the pull request). Downgrading past this version puts those icons back in Visible once; drag them back and they stay.

   Fixed:

   • Three unit tests that only passed by accident under the old "every

   Apple bundle is off limits" rule (#38, thanks @mr-steveryan).

8. 0.2.38

   Sep 19, 2026

   Changed:

   • The hidden icons are summoned from one stretch of the bar now: from the

   middle of the screen to Pelmet's icon, where they land. Hovering or clicking anywhere right of the icon — your visible icons, Control Center, the clock, the recording dot — no longer opens them (#37, thanks @brodly). The icon itself still toggles on click, and the hotkey is unchanged.

   • Every Apple menu bar icon that belongs to an app of its own — Weather,

   Passwords, the Kerberos ticket, and whatever Apple ships next — is managed like any third-party icon: hideable and movable, no per-app patch (#36, thanks @mr-steveryan for the push to generalise it). Only the icons macOS hosts itself (Wi-Fi, Sound, battery, the clock, Control Center…) keep their own rules. Passwords turns out to be movable after all; its lock badge is gone.

   Fixed:

   • Clicking the clock while the Settings window was open flashed every

   icon. The still Pelmet floats over the bar for that click now covers the always-hidden icons too.

   • A click on the recording dot right of the clock opens Notification

   Center like a click on the clock (#37, thanks @brodly). The pointer stays where you clicked.

   Added:

   • Behavior › System extras: "Clicking the clock opens Notification

   Center", on by default. macOS refuses that click while icons are hidden, so Pelmet lets go for an instant and clicks for you; without Screen Recording that instant shows. Off, the clock is left alone and the two-finger swipe from the trackpad's right edge still opens it.

9. 0.2.37

   Sep 18, 2026

   Fixed:

   • Revealing the hidden icons took about half a second on every click when

   the bar had only been open briefly, when a window had moved near the bar, and always on the first reveal after launch (#35, thanks @ldngoc-misa). Pelmet paints a still of the open bar so the icons pop in at once. That still is now taken on the way out when a short reveal never settled, kept when a window moves underneath (the case @oantonov found in #33), and taken once at launch.

   • The Passwords app's menu bar icon can be hidden (#34, thanks @mr-steveryan). It is hosted by

   a small login item inside Passwords.app that Pelmet treated as one of macOS's own. It shows up in Settings as Passwords, hideable, pinned in place by macOS like the Kerberos icon.

   • After opening Notification Center from the clock, a click in another

   app could stick as if the button were still held (#27, thanks @cookie-drummer). Pelmet swallows the release that follows the clock click it replays. That release is now forgotten after a second or at the next press, so a lost one can't eat a later click's release.

   • A chevron click right after the bar reflowed, or landing just as a

   hover reveal opened it, flashed the bar open, shut and open again. Both read as a plain click now.

   • The Smooth reveal's cut-out failed silently with a display arranged to

   the left of the primary one.

   • An app spawning a helper process (an osascript, an open) no longer

   counts as a relaunch of that app. That opened a needless adoption window and flashed the hidden icons under a cover.

10. 0.2.36

    Sep 18, 2026

    Fixed:

    • A window parked right under the menu bar left its dark edge in the bar

    on every hover reveal after you moved the window away (#33, thanks @oantonov). The menu bar is glass, and the picture Pelmet floats while icons come in carried the old backdrop. Pelmet now retakes that picture as soon as a window moves near the bar.

    • Relaunching an app in the Always hidden section flashed every hidden

    icon into the bar for a moment (#31, thanks @oantonov). macOS only lets a fresh icon in while nothing is hidden, so Pelmet has to let go for an instant; that instant is now covered like the clock click already was.

    • An icon macOS itself takes down while Pelmet hides yours, because its

    app runs from outside the Applications folder, vanished from Settings too. It keeps its tile, marked can't hide, so you can still see it is there and launch it.

    • Clicking the purple privacy indicator to the right of the clock revealed

    the hidden icons.

    • Separators: the invisible spacer draws its gap as a dashed slot in the

    editor and in the chooser, and its popover offers a width control in place of opacity.

    • A Pelmet items helper killed at login was never relaunched, leaving its

    separator without a host until Pelmet restarted. Helper deaths are now caught at the kernel and the helper comes back within a fraction of a second.

    • Quitting Pelmet with the Focus item on left a log reader running.

11. 0.2.35

    Sep 17, 2026

    New:

    • A Focus item. macOS takes its own Focus icon out of the menu bar the

    moment any icon is hidden, so Pelmet draws one: it shows which Focus is on, with that Focus's icon, and a click opens the Focus panel in Control Center (click again to close it). Right-click opens Focus Settings. Turn it on in Settings › Menu Bar.

    • Show when active, or always. Media controls, Time Machine and Focus get

    the same choice System Settings offers for Apple's icons: in the bar only while active, or all the time. Focus defaults to always, so at rest it is the button that opens the Focus panel.

    Fixed:

    • Dragging any Pelmet item off the menu bar now turns it off in Settings,

    the way the app launchers already did. Before, the other items could not be dragged off: the attempt left them stranded at the left end of the bar, and could make macOS stop showing every Pelmet icon until Pelmet was allowed again under System Settings › Menu Bar › Allow in the Menu Bar.

    • A Pelmet item placed to the right of an Apple icon you had hidden (Sound,

    for one) could land one slot to the left of it instead.

12. 0.2.34

    Sep 16, 2026

    Fixed:

    • Pelmet's own icons (Siri, Time Machine, camera, media, timer, the app

    launchers and the separators) showed up as a blank gap on the menu bar of any display you weren't working on, sometimes for the whole time the bar was open. macOS draws those bars from a picture of each icon it takes when the icon appears, before Pelmet's fade has painted it, and didn't take another. Pelmet now hands it a fresh picture once the fade is done.

    • Clicking the clock waited up to half a second before Notification

    Center opened when another picture of the bar had just been taken. It opens in about a fifth of a second now.

    • On a Mac with a notch and enough icons to overflow the built-in bar,

    the picture Pelmet floats while icons move could stretch across two displays. It stays on the main one.

13. 0.2.33

    Sep 16, 2026

    Fixed:

    • Clicking the clock opens Notification Center again on Macs with an

    external display beside the built-in one, tops aligned. macOS lists the menu bar once per display, and after a lid close or a replug it lists that display's bar first. Pelmet read the clock's spot from it and looked for the clock somewhere that doesn't exist on any screen, so your click never got its workaround and macOS refused it. The editor and the placement bookkeeping read that same wrong bar, so icons on those Macs also went unmeasured (#27, thanks @cookie-drummer).

    • Moving to another display and clicking the chevron there no longer

    makes the whole bar blink bright. macOS dims the menu bar on the displays you're not using. The pictures Pelmet floats while icons move were taken with another display active, so a dim picture sat over a bar that had just lit up. The pictures now follow the display you last clicked, and the first hovers after switching displays no longer show the dimmed bar either.

    • Without Screen Recording, a click on the clock waited about a quarter

    second before it landed. It lands right away now.

14. 0.2.32

    Sep 16, 2026

    Added:

    • Siri and Time Machine can each go where you want. macOS draws both from

    one process, so Pelmet could only ever hide them as a pair, and the editor showed them as a single tile it couldn't move. Turn on Pelmet's own Siri and Time Machine in Settings → Menu Bar and each becomes an icon like any other: place it, hide it, reveal it. Apple's version switches off in System Settings while Pelmet's is on, so you never see two, and comes back if you turn Pelmet's off. Time Machine shows the latest backup and its disk, backs up now, skips a running backup and opens the backup browser (#19, thanks @0kommanix).

    Fixed:

    • That locked tile was labelled "System" and drew a blank square, which is

    why Time Machine was so hard to find in the editor. It now shows both marks with a lock, sits back from the icons you can drag, and says what to do about it.

    • Pelmet could spend eight seconds at launch waiting for icons that had

    already settled, which delayed the first hide on a fresh login.

15. 0.2.31

    Sep 15, 2026

    Fixed:

    • The strip where your icons hide could flash a slightly different shade

    than the rest of the bar while they tuck away or come back, with a light line along the bar's bottom edge on the first hover after switching apps. The picture Pelmet floats over the bar during the move came from the system's screenshot call, which leaves out the shadow and edge the front window casts up into the bar's bottom rows. It now comes from a single frame of the screen stream and matches the live bar to the pixel (#25, and the white line some of you saw on hover reveals).

    • The Kerberos ticket menu can be hidden. It stays where macOS puts it,

    like Siri and Time Machine (#24, thanks @riarheos).

16. 0.2.30

    Sep 15, 2026

    New:

    • A Timer item. macOS's own timer is one of the Control Center items the

    system pulls out of the bar whenever any icon is hidden, and nothing outside Apple's apps can read it, so Pelmet runs its own: click for a duration (1 minute to an hour, or Custom…), it counts down in the bar, rings and posts a banner at zero, and it stays in the bar while your icons are hidden. Pause, add a minute, cancel from its menu. A relaunch keeps it counting. It can't mirror a timer started in Clock or with Siri.

    • A Fast user switching item, since macOS hides that menu the same way:

    other users, Login Window, Lock Screen, Users & Groups.

    • Both are in Settings › Menu Bar › Pelmet items, and the FAQ names every

    item macOS hides on its own.

    Fixed:

    • After an update (or any quick quit-and-relaunch), Pelmet could come back

    without its hidden separators: the previous instance's helper processes were still winding down and the new Pelmet adopted them instead of starting fresh. Helpers now exit the instant Pelmet does, and a leftover one is replaced.

    • A hidden-section separator's position after a reveal was read as your

    arrangement and could reorder the section; it holds its slot now, like every other Pelmet item.

    • Fewer accessibility walks and window-list reads per hover reveal.

17. 0.2.29

    Sep 15, 2026

    New:

    • Keyboard shortcuts. ⌥⌘, shows or hides the hidden icons, ⇧⌥⌘, opens

    Settings. Both can be changed in Settings › General; ⌫ or the × puts the default back.

    • Media controls can animate: three bars that wave while audio plays and

    settle when it pauses. Off by default, Static or Animated per item in Settings › Pelmet items. Animated costs about 3% CPU while music plays.

    • Hidden and always-hidden separators are hosted by two small helper

    processes inside Pelmet.app, so they hide with everything else instead of fading on their own clock. Nothing to set up; a section move in the editor moves the separator between hosts.

    • Pelmet's own icon and separators can be dragged off the bar like any

    other item.

    • Siri and Time Machine hide as one tile and show a "Pinned by macOS"

    card in the editor, since macOS keeps them where they are.

    • The hover reveal listens on the right half of the bar only, so moving

    across the left half no longer pops the hidden icons.

    Fixed:

    • Settings stayed alive after its window closed and kept animating off

    screen at up to 27% CPU.

    • A menu bar icon that refuses to be moved (some Electron apps swallow

    the drag) is left where its app put it after three tries, with a note in the editor, instead of being dragged at every reveal.

    • Wide status items with a title are identified by their full title, no

    500pt cap (#17, thanks @riarheos).

    • A separator moved between sections in the editor stayed with its old

    host until the next settings change, which could let other hidden separators through.

    • Clicking the clock always opens Notification Center now; the toggle is

    gone.

    • A Pelmet item placed after a pinned Apple icon no longer bounces

    between two slots at every reveal.

18. 0.2.28

    Sep 14, 2026

    Fixed:

    • Clicking the clock to open Notification Center no longer flashes the

    hidden icons. macOS refuses that click while anything is hidden, so Pelmet has to let everything show for the instant the click takes. It now holds a picture of the bar over the strip for that instant, waits until the hidden icons are actually gone again, and lifts it. Nothing paints, the date stays whole, and the panel opens as before.

    • The Settings caption for that option says what it does now.

19. 0.2.27

    Sep 14, 2026

    Fixed:

    • A Pelmet item placed right after the clock (or any of Apple's own icons

    at the right end of the bar) kept getting dragged toward a slot that doesn't exist. Every time the bar collapsed, Pelmet tried again and the cursor blinked. Apple's trailing icons don't move, so the closest slot is the one the item was already in.

    • Now Playing sitting left of the Pelmet icon could pull a visible item

    into the hidden side. Only Apple's icons right of the Pelmet icon count as the trailing group now.

    • Removed Pelmet items left their slot behind in the saved layout.

    Cleaned up on launch, nothing visible changes.

20. 0.2.26

    Sep 14, 2026

    Fixed:

    • Turning on Media controls, Camera & mic, AirDrop or a Shortcut in

    Settings could crash Pelmet a few seconds after every launch, until a reinstall. The item was saved without a slot in the section order, and the first pass that read the bar tripped over it. Existing settings repair themselves on launch, nothing moves. Thanks to whbexc for the logs.