Everything within reach.
Click Sill and every icon that didn’t make it into the bar lines up underneath. Click one and its menu opens, as if nothing had happened.
A small Mac app for a rather crowded menu bar
SORRY,
YOUR MENU BAR
IS FULL.
macOS 27 quietly tucks away the icons that don’t fit, and some of them never come back. Sill puts the lot on a tidy ledge, one click away, and helps you decide who gets the good seats.
Download for MacFree, for the moment. For macOS 27 and later. Particularly fond of MacBooks with a notch.
Two jobs. Done properly.
A LEDGE.
AND A BIT OF A SHUFFLE.
When your icons outnumber your pixels, macOS hides the overflow behind a little «. With enough icons, even that runs out of room. The ones left over can’t be clicked or moved. Awkward.
Decide who sits where.
Sill briefly widens your display so every icon fits. You ⌘-drag them into order, favourites by the clock. Then it puts your screen back exactly as it found it, like a good houseguest.
Keeps its hands to itself.
Sill never moves your icons, never fakes a click, and never records your screen. It asks for one permission, Accessibility, and says thank you.
In the interest of full disclosure
WHAT IT
WON’T DO.
Apple rebuilt the menu bar in macOS 27, and the old tricks stopped working. We could pretend otherwise. We’d rather not.
- It won’t hide icons that fit. If there’s room, macOS shows them. Sill doesn’t argue.
- It won’t rearrange things behind your back. You do the dragging. Sill holds the door.
- It won’t change the gaps between icons. We tried. macOS 27 ignores the setting. We checked twice.
- It won’t replace Bartender. It’s smaller than that, and rather proud of it.
Before you commit to anything
FAIR
QUESTIONS.
Asked politely. Answered honestly.
Why did my screen just go small?
That’s the shuffle. The menu bar is measured in points, so a higher resolution gives it more room and every icon gets drawn. Sill picks the mildest resolution that fits everything, shows you a panel explaining itself, and switches back the moment you press Done. If anything goes wrong it restores your resolution the next time it launches.
Will my icons stay where I put them?
Yes. The order you drag them into survives the switch back. macOS keeps the icons nearest the clock and overflows from the left, so your favourites stay and the ones you can live without queue on the ledge.
Does it need Screen Recording?
No. Only Accessibility, which is how Sill finds the hidden icons and opens them for you. It doesn’t look at your screen, and it doesn’t phone home. There is no home to phone.
Is this a Bartender or Ice replacement?
No, and it would be rude to pretend. Those apps hid and reordered icons in ways macOS 27 no longer permits. Sill does the two things that still work reliably, and leaves it there.
Does it work without a notch?
Yes, on any Mac running macOS 27 or later. If everything already fits, Sill will tell you so and politely do nothing.
What does it cost?
Nothing, for the moment. Download it, unzip it, drag Sill to Applications and open it. It’s signed and notarized by Apple, so macOS won’t make a fuss. If it ever acquires a price, it will be a small one, and we’ll say so here first.
Why isn’t it on the Mac App Store?
We tried. App Store apps must run in a sandbox, and inside the sandbox macOS won’t let Sill talk to your other menu bar icons, which is rather the point of Sill. So it’s a direct download instead.
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