# Thaw documentation (/docs/thaw)

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.

## Get started [#get-started]

<Cards>
  <Card title="Getting started" href="/docs/thaw/getting-started">
    Install Thaw, grant its permissions and hide your first item.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Versions and update channels" href="/docs/thaw/versions">
    Which Thaw runs on your macOS, and which updates you get.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Permissions" href="/docs/thaw/permissions">
    What each one is for, and which you can refuse.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Changelog" href="/changelog">
    What changed in each release.
  </Card>
</Cards>

## Use Thaw [#use-thaw]

<Cards>
  <Card title="Shortcuts and automation" href="/docs/thaw/shortcuts">
    Keyboard shortcuts, Shortcuts actions and Control Center controls.
  </Card>
  <Card title="URL schemes" href="/docs/thaw/uri-schemes">
    Drive Thaw from Raycast, Alfred, Shortcuts or a shell script with `thaw://` URLs.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Hidden flags" href="/docs/thaw/hidden-flags">
    Diagnostic switches that are not in Settings.
  </Card>
</Cards>

## Troubleshoot [#troubleshoot]

<Cards>
  <Card title="Frequent issues" href="/docs/thaw/frequent-issues">
    Fixes for the problems people hit most often.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Reset or uninstall" href="/docs/thaw/reset-and-uninstall">
    Put the layout or settings back, or remove Thaw.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Where Thaw keeps its files" href="/docs/thaw/file-locations">
    What Thaw 3 writes in your home folder, and what you can copy to another Mac.
  </Card>
</Cards>

## Privacy and security [#privacy-and-security]

<Cards>
  <Card title="What Thaw sends over the network" href="/docs/thaw/network">
    Every network call, and how to switch it off.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Verifying releases" href="/docs/thaw/verifying-releases">
    Check that a download came from the Thaw team.
  </Card>
</Cards>

These pages are written in the [Thaw repository](https://github.com/thaw-app/Thaw/tree/development/docs), next to the code they describe. To change one, open a pull request there.