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Lightning-fast access to your menu bar items is now even better. Get instant access to your hidden menu bar items simply by swiping or scrolling in the menu bar, clicking on the menu bar, or if you prefer, simply hovering.
Bartender is an award-winning app for macOS that for more than 10 years has superpowered your menu bar, giving you total control over your menu bar items, what's displayed, and when, with menu bar items only showing when you need them.
Bartender improves your workflow with quick reveal, search, custom hotkeys and triggers, and lots more.
Lightning-fast access to your menu bar items is now even better. Get instant access to your hidden menu bar items simply by swiping or scrolling in the menu bar, clicking on the menu bar, or if you prefer, simply hovering.
Access the menu bar items otherwise hidden by the notch on MacBook Air and Pro screens. Bartender will automatically hide your currently shown menu bar items when needed to create room to show the items hidden by the MacBook Air and Pro screens notch, giving you access to all your menu bar items.
Make your menu bar your own, with menu bar styling you can:
Combine multiple menu bar items into one customisable menu bar item, and have quick access to all the menu bar items within.
For example group all your cloud drive apps together like Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive.
Have a group for connection related items such as Wi-Fi and VPN.
And another for media related items, like volume, media controls, airplay.
This can be a great way to have access to all your menu bar items on a MacBook Pro or Air with limited menu bar space due to the screen notch.
Create as many presets as you want and always have the right menu bar items available for your current workflow.
Show the macOS default menu bar items when recording your screen or screen sharing
Show work specific menu bar items in work hours, then social media items when at home... the possibilities are endless.
Presets can be automatically applied via triggers and also by macOS Focus modes.
With a completely new Trigger system
you can apply a preset automatically, or show a set of menu bar items whenever your trigger conditions are met. Triggers conditions currently include
Reduce the space between menu bar items using Bartender, allowing you to have more menu items onscreen before reaching the macbook notch. Or just purely for style.
Quick Search will change the way you use your menu bar apps.
Instantly find, show, and activate menu bar items, all from your keyboard.
* the macOS screen capture menu bar item can show when using this. more info
Bartender 5 is designed for all the great changes in macOS Sonoma.
Bartender 5 runs native and lightning-fast on Apple Silicon and Intel macs.
Create your own menu bar items
With Bartender widgets you can create your very own custom menu bar items, that trigger pretty much any action you want, no coding required.
Add hotkeys for any menu bar item; this can show and activate any menu bar item via any hotkey you assign.
With Spacers, your menu bar is uniquely your own, with the ability to customize menu item grouping and display labels or emojis to personalize your menu bar.
Use Apple Script to show and activate menu bar items. Fantastic for some advanced workflows.
Swap shown items for your hidden ones to take up less menu bar space, allowing you to have more menu bar items on a smaller screen.
You can choose where new menu items will appear in your menu bar, shown for instant access, or hidden for less distraction.
By: Sid Logan, Senior Modding & Localization Analyst
In the vast, procedurally generated expanse of Bethesda’s Starfield, players have catalogued thousands of planets, scanned hundreds of alien lifeforms, and dissected the political intrigue of the United Colonies and the Freestar Collective. Yet, for a specific subset of the game’s most dedicated lore hunters and modding connoisseurs, one artifact remains the holy grail of immersion: the Starfield Language Packrune Exclusive.
If you have spent hours scrolling through Creations or digging through community forums like Nexus Mods and Reddit’s r/Starfield, you have likely seen the term whispered with a mix of reverence and confusion. Is it a localization patch? A cryptographic key? Or something deeper buried in the game’s code? starfield language packrune exclusive
Today, we are breaking down exactly what the Language Packrune Exclusive is, how to obtain it, and why it changes the way you experience the narrative of Starfield.
Many players who purchased the physical Constellation Edition missed a small, credit-stick sized USB drive hidden inside the watch case’s foam padding. When plugged in, this drive does not install textures or weapons. Instead, it deploys a .packrune certificate into your My Games/Starfield/Data/Linguistics folder. This certificate is the only way to get the "OG" exclusive runes. By: Sid Logan, Senior Modding & Localization Analyst
The most dangerous faction. These pirates have discovered that physically ingesting ground-up rune-stone (a risky, sanity-draining process) grants temporary, glitch-like powers—seeing through walls, phasing through non-runed doors, or causing enemy weapons to jam. Their exclusive perk, Lithophage, turns health into a resource. Each consumed shard causes a stacking debuff (“Echo Madness”): screen static, phantom sounds, and eventually, hostile duplicates of the player spawning during combat. The ethical horror here is real—these are historical artifacts, not drugs.
If you are playing on PC Game Pass, changing the language isn't as simple as it is on Steam. While Steam users can often right-click the game and select a different language from the properties menu, Game Pass users often find their language locked to their system region. This has forced many players to hunt for workarounds, editing .ini files or downloading third-party language pack injectors just to play the game in a language they understand. Is it a localization patch
The reception to the Starfield Language Packrune Exclusive has been polarized. Traditional RPG fans argue that locking a game mechanic (the Rune Forge) behind a physical USB token or a hidden achievement is predatory. Conversely, lore hunters call it "Bethesda’s greatest secret since the Ebony Warrior."
If you are a completionist, the ability to understand enemy barks and unlock the "Silent Vocoder" ship build makes the Packrune Essential (S-Tier). If you are just here for the main quest, you will never miss it—the game does not prompt you to look for it.
Final Verdict: 9/10. It’s obtuse, annoying to acquire, and requires external community tools to even know it exists. But the sheer joy of tracing your first Packrune on Verne I and entering the glowing vault is the single most rewarding "aha!" moment in Bethesda's history.