Alternatives to SketchyBar
A scriptable status bar for macOS that replaces or supplements the standard menu bar. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
SketchyBar
A scriptable status bar for macOS that replaces or supplements the standard menu bar.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as SketchyBar.
Zebar
A tool for building custom taskbars, desktop widgets and popups on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Zebar builds custom bars, widgets and popups on macOS, Windows and Linux, with custom widgets needing some coding or borrowed configs rather than shell scripts.
Übersicht
Put script-driven widgets on the macOS desktop.
Übersicht places script-driven widgets built with web technologies on the macOS desktop rather than replacing the menu bar.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
yabai
A tiling window manager for macOS that arranges windows by binary space partitioning and is driven entirely from the command line.
AeroSpace
An i3-like tiling window manager for macOS, written in Swift.
JankyBorders
A lightweight macOS tool that draws colored borders around windows to highlight the focused one.
Hidden Bar
Hide less-used macOS menu-bar items behind a toggle.
skhd
Simple hotkey daemon for macOS commonly paired with the yabai tiling manager.
Polybar
Build a configurable status bar for an X11 desktop.
