Our free menu bar apps, verified on macOS 27
Our free menu bar apps for Mac, verified on macOS 27 Golden Gate: keep awake, clipboard history, AI usage, timers, system stats and more, in one download.
Full disclosure: every app on this list is ours. They are all free, they were all run on macOS 27 Golden Gate (build 26A428) on a real Mac, and almost all of them are widgets inside one download, Webstarted Toolbox, so you get the whole list for one icon in your menu bar instead of eleven.
Why “works on macOS 27” is not a given this year
macOS 27 changed how a click on a menu bar icon reaches the app behind it. For a whole family of menu bar apps (everything built with Tauri and a tray menu) a left click started opening the right-click menu, and the app never opened. It is not your mouse and not a setting: we wrote up why it happens and how it was fixed. So before installing anything that lives in the menu bar this season, it is worth checking that someone actually ran it on 27. Everything below was.
The list
Keep Awake Caffeine and Amphetamine alternative
Stops your Mac from sleeping, dimming or locking for 1, 2 or 4 hours, or until you turn it off,
with the time left visible in the menu bar. It is the same power assertion as the
caffeinate command, without keeping a Terminal window open.
Keep Awake
Clipboard history the one you will use most
Your recent copies, one keystroke away. Copy three things in a row and paste the first one without going back for it. Clipboard history
LLM Quota for Claude and ChatGPT plans
Paces your AI usage against the clock: tell it when your plan resets and how much you have used, and it tells you whether you will run out before the reset. It never connects to your account. LLM Quota
System Info CPU, memory, GPU
CPU, memory and GPU load in your menu bar, for the moment the fans spin up and you want to know what is doing it. System Info
Pomodoro focus timer
25 minutes of focus, 5 of break, counted in the menu bar where you can see it without switching windows. Pomodoro
World Clocks for remote teams
The time in the cities you work with, at a glance, so “is it too late to message them?” stops being mental arithmetic. World Clocks
Weather no API key
Any city, now and the days ahead, without signing up for anything. Weather in your menu bar
Color Picker for designers and front-end
Pick a color with the system color panel (on macOS it includes a magnifier to grab one from the screen) or paste a hex, and copy it as hex, rgb, hsl or hsv. Offline. Color Picker
My IP IPv4 and IPv6
Your public IPv4 and IPv6, ready to copy, with ISP and approximate location. Handy when checking a VPN. What is my IP
Quick Note a scratchpad that saves itself
A scratchpad that autosaves as you type, for the phone number or the snippet you need for the next ten minutes. Quick Note
Screen Capture separate app, Apple Silicon
Screenshots with annotation and an optional local AI that reads the capture on your own machine. It is its own app, not a Toolbox widget, and on the Mac it needs Apple Silicon. Webstarted Screen Capture
Does any of this work on an Intel Mac?
Intel Macs cannot install macOS 27, but everything on this list except Screen Capture runs on them: Toolbox supports macOS 12 and later and ships a universal build that runs natively on Intel. More on that in Intel Mac stuck on macOS 26?
And there is more in the catalog
These are the ones we would install first. Toolbox has dozens more (timers, converters, a password generator, a diff checker, dev tools), and you add only the ones you want. See every widget.
