Launch price $9.99 until 25 Nov, then $14.99. Pay once, 2 Macs
PricingFor Mac · macOS 14+
Hide the menu bar icons you don't need and get them back with one click. transom also rescues the icons that disappear behind a MacBook's notch, and finds any of them when you type its name.
Launch price: $9.99 until 25 Nov, then $14.99. One-time, 2 Macs, no subscription.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Tested on macOS 26 · Apple silicon and Intel
Hidden
Always hidden
Type to find any item
The problem
Every app you install can add an icon to the menu bar. On a MacBook with a notch there's even less room, and macOS doesn't tell you when one goes missing.
Without transom
Icons that don't fit slide behind the notch, where you can't see them or click them.
With transom
Only the icons you choose stay in the bar; the rest wait in a panel, one click away.
How it works
Three things, and you already know how to do all of them.
Step 1
Pick the icons you don't need to see all the time. transom tucks them away, so your menu bar shows only what matters.
Step 2
Click the transom icon, hover over the bar, or press ⌃⌥⌘M. The hidden icons drop down in a small panel. Click one to open its menu.
Step 3
Press ⌃⌥Space and type a few letters of any app's name. Return opens its menu, even if it's hidden or behind the notch.
Features
14 features in version 1, each explained in plain words.
Every icon goes in one of three places. transom's own icon marks where the hidden ones start; Always hidden ones live only in the panel.
Every hidden icon in a small drop-down under the menu bar. Click one and its menu opens, as if you'd clicked it in the bar. Arrow keys and Return work too.
On a MacBook with a notch, transom spots the icons stuck behind it, shows a badge, and offers to move them to the panel, where you can click them again.
Press ⌃⌥Space, type a few letters, press Return. It opens that item's menu wherever it is: shown, hidden or behind the notch.
Click, hover over the bar, scroll on it, or use the shortcut. Hidden icons tuck themselves away again after 5 seconds or when the pointer leaves.
Settings lists every icon under Shown, Hidden and Always hidden. Drag one to move it or change the order, and transom moves the real icon for you.
Keep one layout for your desk and another for the laptop on its own. transom switches by itself when you plug in or unplug a display.
Tighten the gaps to fit more icons in a crowded bar, or widen them. Reset puts the macOS default back.
Every shortcut can be recorded again. Shortcuts actions and transom:// links let a Focus or a script show icons or switch profile.
transom's own icon can be a fan light, a chevron, a dot or a thin line, can show how many icons are hidden, or can hide itself.
Four short steps explain what it does and each permission, check them live, and suggest hiding whatever is behind the notch first.
Nothing moves without you. “Show everything” puts every icon back with one click, and quitting transom does the same.
Permissions, in plain words
macOS keeps apps from touching each other's menu bar icons unless you allow it. Here is exactly what transom asks for, and what it does with it.
Required
Accessibility is how macOS lets an app see the icons other apps put in the menu bar, open their menus and move them. transom can't tidy your menu bar without it.
Optional
Only for pictures. With it, the transom panel shows a small picture of each hidden icon, exactly as it looks in the bar. Without it, the panel shows the app's own icon and name instead, and everything else works the same.
Safety
A menu bar app should never leave you wondering where something went. transom is built so that it can't.
transom hides icons with a marker of its own. It only rearranges other apps' icons when you drag them in Settings, and it tells you before it does.
Choose “Show everything” from transom's menu, or open transom://reset, and every icon is back in view.
When transom quits, every icon it was hiding comes back into the menu bar. Nothing is ever lost.
Privacy
transom works on your Mac, for you. Nothing about your apps or your layout ever leaves it.
Buy, paste your key, done. Nothing to sign up for.
No analytics, no ads, no crash reporter that phones home.
The licence check, when you activate and now and then after. It's the only time transom goes online.
Pricing
No subscription and no account. There's no free trial: if transom doesn't work on your Mac and we can't fix it, you get your money back.
Launch price $9.99 until 25 November 2026, 18:30 UTC, then $14.99.
transom
$9.99Regular price $14.99
Launch price: $9.99 until 25 Nov, then $14.99. One-time, 2 Macs, no subscription.
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Sold only at tealmac.com. macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
Questions
It keeps your Mac's menu bar tidy: you choose which icons stay in view, the rest are tucked away, and you get them back with a click, a hover, a shortcut or by typing their name.
Yes, that's one of the main reasons it exists. When a MacBook's menu bar has more icons than fit, macOS puts some behind the notch, where you can't see or click them. transom spots those, shows a small badge, and offers to move them into its panel, where one click opens each one's menu.
macOS 27 changed how the menu bar works; we're testing transom on it now and will confirm here. Until then we only promise what we've tested: macOS 14 Sonoma or later, tested on macOS 26. If you buy it and it doesn't work on your Mac, you get your money back.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple silicon and Intel Macs, with or without a notch. Tested on macOS 26.
Accessibility is the macOS permission that lets an app see the other icons in the menu bar, open their menus and move them when you ask. That's all transom uses it for. It doesn't read your screen, your typing or your files, and nothing is recorded or sent.
You don't have to. It's only used to show a small picture of each hidden icon in the transom panel. Without it, the panel shows the app's own icon and name instead, and everything else works the same. Nothing is recorded, saved or sent.
No. Nothing moves without you. transom hides icons by placing its own marker in the menu bar, and it only rearranges other apps' icons when you drag them in its Settings.
Every hidden icon comes back into the menu bar, exactly as it was before. And at any time, “Show everything” in transom's menu puts every icon back in view with one click.
Yes. macOS shows the same menu bar icons on each display, and transom's hiding applies to all of them. Profiles let you keep a different layout for each set of displays, such as “Desk” with an external display and “Laptop” on its own, and transom switches when you plug in or unplug.
Yes. Quit the old app first, so two apps aren't trying to arrange the same icons, then set up transom: it takes about a minute and starts by suggesting what to hide. If your old app had icons hidden, quitting it usually brings them back first.
Yes. One licence works on 2 Macs at a time. Deactivate it in transom's Settings on the old Mac, then activate the same key on the new one.
$9.99 once at launch, until 25 November 2026, 18:30 UTC, then $14.99. One licence works on 2 Macs, with no subscription and no account. There's no free trial: if transom doesn't work on your Mac and we can't fix it, you get a refund within 7 days.
Yes. transom adds Shortcuts actions to show hidden icons, hide them and switch profile, and it understands transom:// links (show, hide, search, reset and profile/<name>), so a Focus automation can change your layout.
No. There's no account, no analytics and no tracking. The only time it goes online is to activate and check your licence. Your layouts and settings stay on your Mac.
Only from tealmac.com/transom. Apps from the Mac App Store can't read or move other apps' menu bar icons, so transom is sold and downloaded directly.
A tidy menu bar for your Mac. macOS 14 Sonoma or later.