Frost — Menu bar manager for macOS

Features

Hide menu bar items

Hidden and always-hidden sections
Show items on hover, click, or scroll
Automatically rehide items
Search all menu bar items

Arrange your layout

Drag and drop individual items
A separate bar for hidden items, ideal for MacBooks with a notch
Adjustable item spacing
Hide app menus when they overlap items

Style the menu bar

Solid and gradient tints
Shadows and borders
Rounded and split shapes

Hotkeys and more

Toggle sections and the search panel
Toggle application menus
Launch at login
Automatic updates

Install

With Homebrew

brew install --cask sciencialab/tap/frost

Upgrade later with brew upgrade --cask frost, or let Frost update itself.

Direct download

Download Frost.zip, open it, and move Frost.app to your Applications folder.

First launch

Frost isn't notarized by Apple yet, so macOS blocks it the first time. Clear the download flag in Terminal:
```
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Frost.app
```
Open Frost from Applications or Finder, then grant Accessibility and Screen & System Audio Recording when asked. After granting Screen Recording, quit Frost and open it again. If you used Ice before, Frost imports your Ice settings on its first launch.

If Frost says permissions are missing even though they look enabled in System Settings, remove Frost from both permission lists (or run tccutil reset Accessibility com.sciencialab.Frost and tccutil reset ScreenCapture com.sciencialab.Frost), then open Frost and grant them again.

About

Frost continues Ice by Jordan Baird, which is no longer maintained. It builds on Ice's unreleased macOS 26 work and fixes from the Ice community, so it runs on macOS 26 Tahoe.

Frost is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3. Found a problem? Report it on GitHub.