tuckie
Hides menu bar icons and stays at 16 MB.
- Year
- 2026
- Made for
- macOS
- State
- shipped
I replaced Hidden Bar because it was sitting on 2.3 GB of resident memory to draw one arrow in my menu bar.
tuckie is a 95 KB binary that holds steady at 16 MB. Click the divider, the icons tuck away; click again, they come back. That is everything it does. I will not add anything that grows the binary.
How to use it
Nothing public to install — the repo is private.
While building it
Funny how one can think of a technical problem as easy to solve with these things, but it might not be as easy. But it's always a good learning. I had this Hidden Bar app on my menu bar for a while.
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