Popular app Bartender was quietly bought, and a shady certificate replacement, insertion of invasive telemetry, and a lack of transparent responses by the new owners has shaken confidence in the Mac ...

Earlier this week, users of the popular Menu Bar utility, Bartender, were surprised to learn that the app had been sold months ago with no formal announcement. Users on Reddit expressed concerns about ...

Ben Surtees, developer of the popular Mac menu bar utility Bartender, writes: Three months ago, I sold Bartender to Applause, a company with the resources and expertise to take the app to new heights.

As shared in an extensive Reddit thread, many users only became aware that Bartender had been sold to another developer after MacUpdater sent out an alert about the update to version 5.0.52.

Bartender, a popular menu bar customization app for macOS with a long history, was quietly acquired by new developers sometime in the past few months. With no word from the app’s original creator or ...

The last time Bartender received a major update was back in 2021. Bartender 4 brought many new powerful features to help declutter the menu bar, particularly on the new MacBook models with a notch, ...

Bartender 4.0 was in beta for a long time, and the time and attention to the details paid off. If you were waiting to update until the app was officially released, now’s the time to act because it’s ...