Koffret

Features

The bar gets tidy, and everything you hid stays one gesture away.

01

Hide items behind the divider

Move the icons you rarely use to the left of the divider and free up the space around the clock. Items you almost never need go into Always hidden.

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They sit left of the divider, so the space around the clock is free

02

Reveal them exactly as they look

Press the crest and the hidden icons appear exactly as they are drawn at that moment. Percentages, badges and graphs come through unchanged. Nothing is replaced with a lookalike.

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Press the crest and the hidden icons line up exactly as they look

03

Show them in the popup

Bring the hidden icons out together in a popup below the menu bar. Drag the grips at either end to move it, and set how long it stays open before closing itself.

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The popup below the menu bar. Drag the grips at either end to move it

04

Menus open in place, still collapsed

Click a hidden icon and its menu opens where the icon belongs, with the bar still collapsed. The intermediate frames are never shown, so nothing flickers.

The bar stays collapsed and the menu opens where the icon belongs

05

Choose how they come back

Rest the pointer on the menu bar, scroll over it, or click the notch. Turn on only the gestures you want, and set how long revealed icons stay out.

Koffret Settings
General Layout Appearance Shortcuts Rules Language

Reveal

Where the crest sitsAt the left end of the icons
Reveal with the notchWhen it is clicked
Hide revealed icons again after5 sec
Reveal when scrolling over the menu bar
Reveal when the pointer rests on the menu bar
Reveal briefly when a hidden icon changes
Example settings

06

Let conditions bring them out

When a hidden icon changes, when the battery drops below a level you set, while on battery power, during a time range, while a given app is in front, or while a script you wrote exits with 0. The icon stays out as long as the condition holds and slips back when it stops.

Koffret Settings
General Layout Appearance Shortcuts Rules Language

While the condition holds, the icon you chose is brought out to the bar.

Conditions

Battery at or below 20% AlDente
Between 22:00 and 02:00 Time Out
While Zoom is in use Microphone
Script exits with 0 Build status
+ Add a condition
Example settings

07

Find any item by name

Type part of a name and the item appears, wherever it sits. Pick it and its menu opens right away. The shortcut is ⌃⌥S.

disp⌃⌥S
DisplayLink Manager
Display Menu
Type part of a name and even hidden items come up

08

A shortcut for any icon

Assign a key to an icon and its menu opens even while it stays hidden. The bar stays collapsed and the menu opens where the icon belongs.

Koffret Settings
General Layout Appearance Shortcuts Rules Language

Common

Toggle hide and reveal⌃⌥B
Search icons by name⌃⌥S
How long a changed icon stays out8 sec

Per icon

Dropbox⌃⌥1
iStat Menus⌃⌥2
AlDente⌃⌥3
Example settings

09

Named presets

Save a combination of assignments under a name. Switch with a shortcut, or automatically while a chosen app is in front.

Koffret Settings
General Layout Appearance Shortcuts Rules Language

Presets

PresetStreamingSave this layout
Switch automatically while this app is in frontZoom
Streaming⌃⌥1 Writing⌃⌥2 MeetingsZoom
Example settings

10

Remembers each display setup

The layout and crest settings are stored per display setup and switch on their own when you connect or disconnect a display.

Koffret Settings
General Layout Appearance Shortcuts Rules Language

Current display

Current display setup: “Studio Display + built-in Retina display”

The layout and crest settings are stored per setup and switch when you connect or disconnect a display.

Studio Display + built-in Built-in only
Example settings

11

Replace the mark at the far left

Bring back the six-colour stripes at the far left of the menu bar. Choose the shape from an apple, heart, star, leaf, bolt, moon, snowflake, flame, paw, crown, peace sign or the Koffret crest, or drop in an image of your own. Fill it with the six stripes, one colour or a gradient, and set the size and the angle.

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Twelve shapes, or an image of your own, in six stripes, one colour or a gradient

12

Menu bar appearance

Choose a solid, gradient, stripes, dots, grid or starfield background. Seven palettes come built in, and you can set your own.

Koffret Settings
General Layout Appearance Shortcuts Rules Language

Appearance

Icon spacingSlightly tighter

Menu bar appearance

Use a custom background
ThemeMidnight
PatternStarfield
Background strength
Example settings

13

Icon spacing

Four steps from the macOS default to the tightest. Tighter spacing fits more icons in the same width.

Standard (macOS default)

Tightest

Tighter spacing fits more into the same width

14

Thirty languages

Follow the system language or pick one in Settings. Arabic and Hebrew lay the interface out right to left.

Koffret Settings
General Layout Appearance Shortcuts Rules Language

Language

Interface languageFollow system
日本語EnglishDeutschFrançaisEspañolItalianoPortuguêsNederlandsSvenskaPolskiTürkçe한국어简体中文繁體中文العربيةעבריתไทยTiếng Việt 12 more
Example settings