Foldaway vs OverflowBar
Foldaway
foldaway.appOverflowBar
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| Figure | Foldaway | OverflowBar |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 0 |
| Spec score · Menu Bar Customization Software | 7.9 (#5) | 6.7 (#25) |
| Permissions | Accessibility permission is required to find and fold menu bar items; Screen Recording permission is optional for displaying real menu bar glyphs. | Accessibility is used for discovery, activation, and layout management; Screen Recording is used to capture selected menu bar icons. |
| Privacy | The app says it has no analytics, telemetry, crash reporting service, or advertising SDK, and its only outbound network request is a periodic update check. | The app runs locally and says it has no analytics, advertising, telemetry, or network data collection. |
| Purpose | Foldaway hides menu bar icons and keeps them in a panel one click below the bar. | OverflowBar hides selected menu bar status icons behind an arrow and reveals them in a second row. |
| Support | The maker lists [email protected] as its support contact. | The project directs users to GitHub Discussions for setup help and ideas, and GitHub Issues for reproducible bugs and feature requests. |
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OverflowBar
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