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7 Menu Bar Apps Every Mac Developer Should Install in 2026 (Mostly Free)

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The menu bar is the most underrated screen space on a Mac. It's always visible, it never covers your editor, and one click gets you whatever lives there. That makes it the right home for the things a developer checks constantly but doesn't want a whole window for. Here are the seven menu bar apps I…

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