Thaw documentation

Thaw is a menu bar manager for macOS. It hides and shows menu bar items, adds search and hotkeys, keeps layout profiles, and restyles the menu bar.

New to Thaw? Start with Getting started: install it, grant its permissions and hide your first item.

Install Thaw, grant its permissions and hide your first item.

Which Thaw runs on your macOS, and which updates you get.

What each one is for, and which you can refuse.

Every network call, and how to switch it off.

Keyboard shortcuts, Shortcuts actions and Control Center controls.

Put the layout or settings back, or remove Thaw.

Fixes for the problems people hit most often.

Drive Thaw from Raycast, Alfred, Shortcuts or a shell script with thaw:// URLs.

Diagnostic switches that are not in Settings.

What changed in each release.

Check that a download came from the Thaw team.

These pages are written in the Thaw repository, next to the code they describe. To change one, open a pull request there.