Here's a different approach. Consider just removing unnecessary icons from your menu bar. Icons are functional - if they don't serve a purpose (interactive or informative), they probably shouldn't take up menu bar pixels.

Surtees Studios recently it has released a public beta of Bartender 3 for testing on macOS High Sierra and macOS Sierra. It's a free update available within, which after a free four-week trial. How to use your mac as a monitor. The popular tool for rearranging or hiding Mac menu bar items has been completely rewritten in Swift, according to the release notes. Bartender 3 also no longer requires the Bartender Helper to be installed in menu bar apps in order to control them. As a result, Bartender is no longer able to display the Bartender Bar beneath the menu bar—only within it. The change was necessary since, in macOS High Sierra, Apple has apparently tightened its security feature, preventing system items like Spotlight search from being controlled by Bartender 2.

Was also with improved support for macOS High Sierra and MacBook Pro, MacBook, and iMac models released in 2017. The popular Mac system monitor also gained improved per-process network monitoring, improved per-process memory monitoring in OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra, improved Bluetooth battery monitoring, and improved disk monitoring performance, plus a fix for an issue with the sun position in light map. IStat Menus is built into the macOS menu bar, providing power users with convenient access to system information, such as CPU and GPU usage, memory stats, fan speeds, temperatures, disk usage, and battery life. IStat Menus 5 is $18 on developer, with a free 14-day trial available.

The latest update is version 5.32. (Thanks, Neil T.!). This is great news, and we’re really happy to see Bartender working well on High Sierra. IStat Menus 6 is coming.

Yep, we’re in the middle of the beta, and things are going really well! Still a few more things to fix before we can release the update.

It’s worth noting that anyone who buys iStat Menus 5 now will get iStat Menus 6 for free. $18 for a single install still seems like way too much for iStat Menus, especially when I'd be fine with a free lite version. The upgrade is heavily discounted for current iStat Menus customers (USD$9.99). We’ve been working on iStat Menus for over 10 years, and will continue to invest time and effort into making sure it’s the best system monitoring tool for macOS. Quite often, that means buying hardware for testing, especially for sensor support.

This is our full time job, and we’re very grateful we can do it with the support of our customers. IStat Mini might be a good option, if you don’t need all of iStat Menus’ features.