Koffret keeps your Mac's menu bar tidy. It hides the icons you rarely use and brings them back whenever you need them.
Launch at login
Starts Koffret automatically when you log in to your Mac.
How the popup opens
Chooses what you operate to open the popup of hidden icons. “Click the crest” opens it from the crest in the menu bar. With “Click the notch” or “Rest the pointer on the notch”, the notch (the camera cut-out at the top of the screen) becomes the handle and the crest disappears from that display. Only one of the two is ever a handle, so you never get two of them side by side. Displays without a notch keep the crest.
Where the crest sits
Puts the crest at the right end of the icons (next to the clock) or at the left end (just right of the notch).
Hide revealed icons again after
After hidden icons are brought back to the bar, they are hidden again once this time passes.
Reveal when scrolling over the menu bar
Moving the mouse wheel (or scrolling with two fingers) over the menu bar reveals the hidden icons.
Reveal when the pointer rests on the menu bar
Leaving the pointer on the menu bar reveals the hidden icons.
Reveal briefly when a hidden icon changes
Watches badges and numbers, and shows a changed icon on the bar for a while. The duration can be set under Shortcuts > “How long a changed icon stays visible”.
Icon arrangement
Choose whether icons in the popup are laid out horizontally or vertically.
Close the popup after
The popup closes automatically after this time.
Position
Drag an empty part of the popup to move it. The position is remembered per display setup. “Reset position” puts it back to the default.
Sorts your menu bar icons into three groups: shown, hidden, and always hidden. Drag icons in the list to change their group, then press “Apply to the menu bar” to write the new order.
The crest
This is the mark Koffret puts in your menu bar. It is shaped like a gem: light blue while icons are hidden, gold while they are showing. Clicking it hides and shows them. In the list it sits among the icons, so you can drag it left and right like any of them.
Presets
Save the current layout under a name and recall it later. You can assign a keyboard shortcut, or a trigger that switches presets automatically when a certain app comes to the front.
Saved per display setup
The layout and crest settings are saved per display setup and switch automatically when you connect or disconnect a display.
Icon spacing
Tightens the spacing between menu bar icons so more of them fit.
Hide desktop icons
Hides the files and folders sitting on your desktop.
Use a custom background
Lays a colored or patterned background over the menu bar. The color is drawn over the text and icons too, so lower the background opacity if it gets hard to read.
Theme
Picking a built-in theme (Graphite, Midnight, Cosmos, and so on) switches the style, colors and opacity together. Changing any individual value afterwards turns the theme into “Custom”.
Style
Choose from solid, gradient, stripes, dots, grid, or starfield.
Colors
The left swatch is the main color (solid fill, left end of the gradient, pattern background). The right swatch is the accent (right end of the gradient; lines, dots and stars).
Background opacity
How strongly the whole background (color and pattern) is laid over the bar. The lower it is, the more the original menu bar shows through.
Gradient direction
The angle of the gradient. 0° runs left to right, 90° bottom to top.
Make the menu text white
Koffret makes a copy of your desktop picture with the top darkened and sets it as the wallpaper. macOS picks the menu text color from the wallpaper's brightness, so the text turns white. Turning this off puts your original picture back.
Keep it bright enough to read
macOS decides the color of the menu text, so it cannot be changed from here. Instead the background is lightened automatically until the text is readable.
Pattern size
Changes the spacing of stripes, dots and grid, and the density of the starfield.
Draw a line along the bottom
Draws a thin line along the bottom edge of the menu bar to separate it from the desktop.
Replace the Apple menu artwork
Replaces the artwork at the very left of the menu bar with the one you pick. Clicking it still opens the same menu as before.
Shape
Choose the old mark, a heart, star, leaf, bolt, moon, snowflake, flame, paw, crown, peace sign, or the Koffret crest. Pick “Your own image” to use the file you choose below.
Your own image
Point this at any image you like. A PNG with a transparent background looks best.
Fill
Six stripes (the old look), one color, a gradient, or as in the image. “As in the image” is only for your own image.
Colors
The left swatch is the single color and the start of the gradient. The right one is the end of the gradient.
Gradient direction
0° runs left to right, 90° bottom to top.
Size
Makes the artwork bigger or smaller than the original mark.
Toggle hide and show
Shows or hides the hidden icons with a single key.
Search icons by name
Opens a search panel where you can find an icon by its app name and act on it right away.
How long a changed icon stays visible
How long an icon revealed by “Reveal briefly when a hidden icon changes” stays on the bar.
Per-icon shortcuts
Assign a key directly to a specific icon to open its menu instantly.
While a condition holds, the chosen icon is shown on the bar temporarily. Conditions include battery level and Wi-Fi status, and you can also use your own scripts. Scripts run every 30 seconds and the icon appears when the exit code is 0.
Display language
Switching changes the settings window and menus immediately. “Follow system” matches the macOS language setting. Any text without a translation falls back to English.
Trial
Everything is available for 14 days after the first launch. When the trial ends, Koffret becomes the free version.
License key
Paste the key you received when you purchased and press “Activate” to unlock Pro.
Remove the key
Use this when moving to another Mac or after a refund.
Buy Koffret Pro
Purchase from “Open the purchase page”.