Menu bar manager for macOS
Keep the icons you use. Tuck the rest.
Snug hides the menu bar items you don't need and hands any of them back the moment you ask: a click, a hotkey, or two letters in a search box.
14-day trial $23 once, no account macOS 15 through 26 Apple silicon
Sort your bar once. Snug keeps it that way.
Snug's Menu Bar Layout pane shows your real menu bar in three lanes. Drag an icon to another lane and the real one moves, and it stays there after a restart.
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Lane 1
Shown
The few you glance at all day. These stay put.
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Lane 2
Hidden
Out of sight until you click, hover, scroll, or press a hotkey.
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Lane 3
Always Hidden
Out of sight until you hold ⌥ as you reveal, press the reveal shortcut, or search for it.
Closed apps keep their place
An app that isn't running keeps its lane, and its icon slots back in when the app opens again.
Get any of them back fast
Right-click Snug's icon (or set a plain click to do it), press your hotkey, or turn on hover and scroll reveal. Everything tucks away again after a delay you set.
Nothing ends up stranded
Snug backs up your positions before every change it makes and recovers the last good layout after a crash. Quit Snug and every item is back in view.
Reach anything without going looking for it.
Search
Press ⌥⌘F for a Spotlight-style panel. Type two letters of an app name or your own alias, press Return, and that item's menu opens. ⌘1 through ⌘9 pick from the list.
A floating bar
Turn it on and hidden items open in a strip just under Snug's icon instead of in the menu bar. Click one and its menu opens.
Triggers
Rules that react to your Mac: battery level, power source, a Wi‑Fi network, or an app running or in front. They reveal or hide items, move one, switch profile, or send a notification, and undo themselves when the condition ends.
Profiles
A work bar, a screen-sharing bar, a bar for writing. Each keeps its own layout, and its own look if you want. Switch from Snug's menu, a keyboard shortcut, or a trigger.
The notch and extra displays
An icon stuck behind the notch is marked in Snug's layout and still turns up in search. Connecting or removing a display doesn't scramble your bar.
Per-item hotkeys
Give any menu bar item its own keystroke. It opens that item's menu, even while the item is tucked away.
Also in the app
What Snug asks your Mac for, and what it doesn't do.
- Accessibility
- Needed to arrange
- Lets Snug see your menu bar items and move them between lanes. Snug uses it for nothing else.
- Screen Recording
- Optional
- Only for pixel-perfect icons, which show each item's real menu bar pixels in Snug's own windows. Leave that off and Snug shows each app's icon instead, without asking to see your screen.
- Location
- Optional
- Only for a trigger that watches for a Wi‑Fi network, because macOS puts network names behind Location. Snug stores no location of yours.
- iCloud sync
- Off by default
- Turn it on and your layout, settings, profiles, and triggers travel between your Macs through Apple's iCloud. Nothing of ours is in the path.
- An account
- Not needed
- There is nothing to sign up for. Your license is a key you paste into Snug.
No telemetry, no analytics
Snug collects nothing about you or your Mac. By default, two things go online: claiming your license, and the daily update check, which you can switch off. Everything else, like iCloud sync and Report a Problem, is off until you turn it on. Read the privacy policy.
Your license is checked offline
Snug verifies your key on your Mac, so it works offline. The only other check is a note in Apple's iCloud tying the key to your Apple ID, written when you activate and read again when Snug opens.
Your layout is plain text on your disk
Your layout and settings are files you can read. It all lives in ~/Library/
This website behaves the same way
No cookies, no analytics, no third‑party fonts. The one exception is the checkout page, which loads Paddle's payment script.
Twenty-three dollars, and then you own it.
Try it for 14 days first
The trial is the whole app, with no card and no account. When it ends, Snug stops hiding and your whole menu bar is visible again.
A key you paste, not a login
Buying emails you a license key. Paste it into Snug's License pane and that Mac is licensed on the spot.
Once, not per year
- 14-day trial, no card to start
- Every Mac on your Apple ID
- 14-day money-back guarantee
Sold by High5 Labs LLC through Paddle.
Questions before buying.
Anything else goes to support@snug.menu, and a person answers.
What happens when the trial ends?
Snug stops hiding, so your whole menu bar is visible and nothing is stranded off-screen. A small window reminds you to buy every few hours until you enter a key.
How many Macs can I use it on?
Every Mac signed in to your Apple ID. There is no seat count and nothing to deactivate when you replace a machine: paste the same key on the new Mac. The license is for you, not for sharing with a household or a team.
Which Macs does it run on?
macOS 15 through 26, on Apple silicon.
What if Apple changes the menu bar?
Everything that touches the menu bar sits in one piece of Snug, so a new macOS means updating that piece, not rewriting the app. Your purchase includes 2 years of those updates. And if macOS refuses a move, Snug says so and leaves everything visible rather than guessing.
Is there a subscription, or a pro tier?
No. There is one app at one price, and the trial is the same app. A purchase includes 2 years of free updates, and Snug keeps working after that.
I bought it and lost my key.
Put the email you used at checkout into Find My License and we email the key again. If that does not arrive, write support@snug.menu.
Give your menu bar some room.
Fourteen days free, everything unlocked. Then $23 once.
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