tuckie

Hides menu bar icons and stays at 16 MB.

Year: 2026
Made for: macOS
State: shipped

I replaced Hidden Bar because it was sitting on 2.3 GB of resident memory to draw one arrow in my menu bar.

tuckie is a 95 KB binary that holds steady at 16 MB. Click the divider, the icons tuck away; click again, they come back. That is everything it does. I will not add anything that grows the binary.

How to use it

Nothing public to install — the repo is private.

A 95 KB binary that holds steady at 16 MB. Click the divider, the icons tuck away; click again, they come back. If it opens up it ships as a .dmg.

While building it

24 August 2026 Funny how one can think of a technical problem as easy to solve with these things, but it might not be as easy. But it's always a good learning. I had this Hidden Bar app on my menu bar for a while.