Menu Bar Tint

Release Notes

What's new in Menu Bar Tint?

Menu Bar Tint 4.0

September 11, 2026

New Features

• Menu Bar Tint now tints behind the menu bar if the menu bar is transparent, which means you can use it to hide the notch on MacBook displays, for example. If you'd rather use Menu Bar Tint the old way, enable the menu bar's background in System Settings, and Menu Bar Tint will draw on top of the menu bar once more.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Worked around what seems like a bug in macOS 27's Siri app, which resulted in Menu Bar Tint's settings being shown a lot more often than intended. As a side effect of this workaround, Menu Bar Tint's settings will now literally take a second to appear on macOS 27 when you request them by reopening Menu Bar Tint while it's already running. (Hat tip to liAAAAAAm on Discord.)

Menu Bar Tint 3.2

December 12, 2025

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Improved compatibility with macOS 26 and modernized the settings window a bit in the process.

Menu Bar Tint 3.1

June 16, 2022

New Features

• You can now make the Mouse Inside and Mouse Outside opacity values match by dragging one or the other while holding down the Shift key. (Hat tip to Allan N. for the suggestion.)

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed a bug where some items in the menu bar could end up unaffected by Menu Bar Tint. (Hat tip to Sean H. for reporting this one.)

Menu Bar Tint 3.0

January 28, 2022

New Features

• Each tint color is now saved individually for the current desktop picture, which means you can specify individual gradients for Spaces with different desktop pictures.

Menu Bar Tint 2.1

April 8, 2021

New Features

• The tint bar now hides when the menu bar hides. Note that there may be a slight response delay for technical reasons.

Menu Bar Tint 2.0.1

January 14, 2021

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• The menu bar is now tinted on all Spaces. (Hat tip to Johnny S. for reporting this one.)

Menu Bar Tint 2.0

January 1, 2021

New Features

• Added an app update mechanism.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed a bug where Menu Bar Tint crashed on launch.

Earlier Versions

… weren't that interesting. We mostly just adapted to changes in macOS as they came up.