Menu bar manager for macOS · Version 1.0
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 and later Apple silicon
Sort your bar once. Snug keeps it that way.
Snug's Menu Bar Layout pane is a live replica of your real menu bar in three labeled lanes. Drag an icon between lanes and the real one moves with it, within a couple of seconds, and it stays there across restarts.
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Lane 1
Shown
The few you glance at all day. These never move.
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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
Gone unless you ask for it by name. Option-click, or its own hotkey.
Put each icon in a lane
Drag between Shown, Hidden and Always Hidden. Apps that are not running keep their place and slot back in when they return.
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 re-hides on its own after a delay you set, and on click-away.
Nothing ends up stranded
Snug writes a backup of your positions before every change it makes. If something goes wrong, including a crash mid-move, it recovers the last good layout.
Reach anything without going looking for it.
Hiding an icon is only useful if getting it back is faster than never having hidden it. That is most of what Snug is.
Search
A hotkey opens a Spotlight-style panel. Type two letters of an app name or your own alias, press Return, and the real menu opens. Command-1 through 9 pick from the list.
A second bar
Hidden items in a tidy strip under the menu bar, on whichever screen your mouse is on. Click one and the real item opens, right-click included.
Triggers
Rules that react to the Mac: battery below a level, on battery or charging, a particular Wi‑Fi network, an app running or frontmost, a Focus turned on. They reveal or hide your hidden items, open or move an item, or switch profile, and undo themselves when the condition ends.
Profiles
A work bar, a screen-sharing bar, a bar for writing. Each one remembers its own layout, and its own look if you want it to, and switches from Snug's menu, its Settings, a keyboard shortcut, or a trigger.
Notch and multi-display aware
Icons the notch would swallow get surfaced instead of lost, and reveal follows the screen you are working on. Plugging a display in does not scatter your layout.
Per-item hotkeys
Give any menu bar item its own keystroke. It opens right where it is, and the rest of the bar stays tucked.
Also in the app
What Snug asks your Mac for, and what it never does.
Every app in this category wants deep access to your machine. That is worth being specific about rather than reassuring about.
- Accessibility
- Needed to arrange
- Lets Snug move your items between lanes. Hiding and revealing work before you grant anything at all, so you can see what Snug does before you decide.
- Screen Recording
- Optional
- Only used by pixel-perfect icons, which show each item's real menu bar pixels in Snug's own windows. Leave it off and Snug draws each item's app icon instead. Snug does not call a screen capture API unless you switch that on.
- Location
- Optional
- Only if you build a trigger that watches for a particular Wi‑Fi network. macOS puts network names behind Location; Snug stores no location of yours.
- iCloud sync
- Off by default
- Only if you turn it on in Settings. Your layout and settings travel between your Macs through Apple's own iCloud, and nothing of ours is in the path.
- An account
- Never
- There is nothing to sign up for. Your license is a signed key that Snug checks on your own Mac.
No telemetry, and no analytics SDK in the build
Snug collects nothing and sends nothing about you or your Mac. It fetches its own update feed from snug.menu with no system profile attached. Read the privacy policy.
Your license is checked offline
The key is verified against a public key built into the app. No activation server, so running Snug tells nobody that you ran it.
Your layout is plain text on your disk
Settings, lanes, aliases and profiles live in readable JSON under ~/Library/Application Support/Snug/.
This website behaves the same way
No cookies, no analytics, no third-party fonts. The checkout page loads Paddle's payment script, and only that page.
Nineteen 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, everything comes back into view and reveal keeps working.
A key you paste, not a login
Buying sends a license key to your email. Paste it into Snug's License pane and that Mac is licensed, on the spot.
One license, every Mac you use
A license covers every Mac signed in to your Apple ID. Not a seat count, and nothing to deactivate when you replace a machine.
14 days to change your mind
Ask for a refund inside 14 days and you get your money back in full, no reason needed. Read the refund policy.
Once, not per year
- 14-day trial, no card to start
- 2 years of free updates
- Every Mac on your Apple ID
- 14-day money-back guarantee
Sold by High5 Labs LLC through Paddle.
The things people ask before buying.
Anything else goes to support@snug.menu, and a person answers.
Do I have to give it Screen Recording?
No. Hiding, revealing, arranging, search, triggers and profiles all work without it. Screen Recording is used by one optional feature: pixel-perfect icons, which show each item in Snug's own windows exactly as macOS drew it. Leave that switch alone and Snug never calls a screen capture API.
What happens when the 14-day trial ends?
Snug puts your menu bar back the way it found it, everything visible, and nags gently. It does not leave items hidden behind a paywall, and it does not strand anything off-screen.
How many Macs does one license cover?
Every Mac signed in to your Apple ID. There is no seat count to run out of and nothing to deactivate when you replace a machine: paste the same key on the new Mac. The license is yours, not a household's or a team's, so it is not for sharing with other people.
Which Macs does it run on?
macOS 15 and later, on Apple silicon. That covers macOS 15 and macOS 26.
What happens when Apple changes the menu bar?
It is the real risk in this category and it is worth being straight about. Every mechanic that touches the menu bar sits behind one boundary inside Snug, so adapting to a new macOS is a replacement of that piece rather than a rewrite of the app. Snug also fails soft by design: if a move is refused, it says so and shows you everything rather than guessing.
Is my layout locked into Snug?
No. It lives in readable JSON under ~/Library/Application Support/Snug/, and Snug writes a backup before every change it makes to your bar. Quit it and your menu bar is your own again.
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 Snug emails the key again. If that does not land, write support@snug.menu.
Give your menu bar some room.
Fourteen days free with everything unlocked, then $23 once.