macOS 27 renders the whole menu bar as a single window instead of one window per icon, which broke every menu bar manager at once on beta 1. Three are working again: Bartender 6, Brow and Thaw. Ice is not, and the project has not shipped a commit in eleven months. Before you install anything, the native overflow button plus a pass through Control Center settles it for a lot of people.
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There is no single replacement for CleanMyMac, because CleanMyMac isn't a single app. Here's the best tool for each job it does.
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People leave Raycast for five specific reasons. Each one has a different right answer, and for one of them the answer is Spotlight.
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Three clicks, a verified write, and a bootable drive. Etcher is still the friendliest way to flash an image, with two asterisks worth knowing.
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AppDelete was a well-liked Mac uninstaller for years. We went to check on it in 2026 and found its website selling the domain.
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Brow puts a launcher, clipboard manager, window manager and system monitor into the notch. I ran it as my only utility for two weeks.
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Alfred has 15 years of muscle memory behind it. Raycast has momentum and an extension store. We put them head to head.
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CleanMyMac is the most polished Mac cleaner there is. The real question is whether a modern Mac needs a cleaner at all.
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Clipboard history is the highest-leverage utility you can install. We ranked the ones worth your time.
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We tested the Mac notch apps worth installing and ranked them, from the full hub to the one that just hides it.
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Beyond autocomplete: the AI writing tools that fix grammar, rewrite docs and clean up commit messages.
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Your menu bar is a mess. Here's a 20-minute system to fix it for good.
