Spaced For Mac

Lots of apps have menu bar icons that bring additional functionality, but things can get confusing and disorganized once a certain number of items are up there.

Spaced is one of the apps you can use to bring some order to the menu bar. It allows you to add as many separators as you like, in various styles, which will effectively split your menu bar icons into groups of similar items.

The app is very simple to use. When launched for the first time, it will appear as a dash in the menu bar, and you can click it to bring up a menu with all the available controls. Separators can be shown as dashes, vertical bars, dots, or spaces.

As with all menu bar items, you can move separators by just holding down Cmd and dragging them to the right place. For an even cleaner look, you can reduce their opacity from the app’s preferences; this makes it easier to tell them apart from other items.

Apps like Hidden Bar allow you to keep certain icons invisible until you need them, and they’re quite popular among Mac users. Since the separators added by Spaced behave like any other menu bar item, it can very easily work together with apps that hide icons entirely.

If anything, Spaced users will benefit from a menu bar hider even more, as the separators take up more room and will make icons stretch out even further than usual.

If you feel like your status bar is getting a bit cluttered, and you can’t easily find the items you need at a glance, Spaced can help keep things in order by letting you group icons based on any criteria you deem helpful. It’s straightforward, lightweight, and completely free.