Bartender 6 is out, and if you have a MacBook with a notch, the headline feature is Top Shelf.
The idea: that camera notch at the top of your MacBook display is real estate that Apple has never done much with. Bartender Pro turns it into a useful surface for widgets, media controls, files, and clipboard history. Hover over the notch area and a panel expands. Move away and it disappears. It’s a clean solution to a space problem Apple created and then mostly ignored.
Top Shelf is part of the new Bartender Pro tier. Whether that’s worth it depends on how often you find yourself wishing something useful was up there.
The rest of Bartender 6 does what Bartender has always done, now with full macOS Tahoe support and Liquid Glass compatibility. If you owned a previous version, the upgrade is free.
It’s good to see version 6 in the wild.