| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 1 |
| Spec score · Menu Bar Customization Software | 7.9 (#5) | 7.1 (#22) |
| Permissions | Accessibility permission is required to find and fold menu bar items; Screen Recording permission is optional for displaying real menu bar glyphs. | Accessibility access is required; Screen Recording is optional and used for animation stills that Pelmet says are not recorded or kept. |
| Purpose | Foldaway hides menu bar icons and keeps them in a panel one click below the bar. | Pelmet hides menu bar icons and brings them back on hover, click or keyboard shortcut. |
| Support | The maker lists [email protected] as its support contact. | The maker describes Pelmet as a one-person project with no vulnerability-reporting SLA and says acknowledgements generally arrive within a few days. |
