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Thaw 2.1.0

Menu bar manager

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About Thaw

Menu bar manager
Release info Update on Oct 14, 2026
Release notes macOS 26 only

Hey, we have a website! The docs, the changelog and the roadmap are at getthaw.app.

The feature release for macOS 26 that 2.0.0 promised. Items can move on their own when something happens, related items stay together in groups, Zen Mode closes the whole menu bar with one hotkey, and Simple Mode fits Settings on one page. Screen Recording is now optional. Six betas led here, and most of what changed after the first one came from your reports. The beta entries below have the detail.

After you update:

1. Profiles, saved layouts and hotkeys carry over. There is nothing to redo.
2. Trigger conditions other than battery and power stay off until you switch them on under Trigger Sources.
3. If you'd rather Thaw never restarts apps for a spacing change, set When applying spacing to Wait until next restart in Settings > Displays.
4. With Homebrew, use the thaw cask. thaw@beta is Thaw 3, which needs macOS 27. #1221
5. If something looks wrong, open an issue.

New

Triggers
• Items move when something happens. A trigger can react to battery level, power, an app, the network, a VPN, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, an audio device, a display, a time, a Focus, a place, Energy Mode, heat, the camera or microphone, a script, or another icon changing. Conditions can be combined, and an action can be reversed. By @alvst in #735 and #965.
• Icon-change triggers can be strict or loose. Loose ignores tiny redraws, strict reacts to any change, and the editor shows the icon it compares against. #1006
• A trigger can follow an external drive, so a drive's helper app shows while the drive is plugged in. Requested by @lucifercraig12345-create in #1053.

Layout
• Groups keep related items together. They move and hide as one, even across sections.
• Spacers add a gap of the width you choose, with an optional fill.
• Sort a section A to Z from its heading in Layout. #936
• Layout opens in its own window, and you can open an item straight from it. #985
• Opened items can stay a while. An…
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