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All features, in detail

What the app does today, section by section, grouped the way its Settings are. Free 7-day trial, then one purchase.

Appearance

  • Live

    • Mirrors the screen just under the menu bar as vertical color bands — tabs, split panes and gradients line up with the bar.
    • Sampling rate from 10 to 120 fps — 15 by default; 10 is easiest on battery.

  • Fade

    • A vertical fade: each end follows the sample or holds a color of yours.
    • Separate opacity for the top and the bottom.

  • Solid

    • One color of your choice, or auto-sampled from the screen.
    • Multicolor: up to 10 color stops, with an optional gradient transition.
    • Hue drift: the bar cycles through the colors — Uniform or Scroll, rainbow or your palette, with a transition time; Scroll adds a direction.
    • Auto-sample, Multicolor and Hue drift are one color source at a time.

  • Background blur

    • A frosted blur behind the bar, with its own amount.
    • In Full Bar, blur the overlay corners too, and set how strongly the style paints over the frost.

  • Overlay corners

    • Round the overlay’s bottom edge on the left, the right, or both.
    • Link the pair, follow the bar’s opacity, set the radius and color per corner.

Corner rounding

  • Screen corners

    • Round your display’s own corners — top and bottom.
    • Radius, color and opacity per corner; link a row so both share one setting.

  • Placement

    • Bottom corners above app windows, above the wallpaper, or below the active window.
    • Top corners over the menu bar overlay, or behind your windows on the wallpaper.

  • Corner stroke

    • A hairline along the rounded corners (beta).

Menu bar shape

  • Full Bar

    • The classic full-width bar.
    • Depth, a seam cover for the window’s top edge, and auto-hide under popovers.

  • Pill

    • Floating pills: one follows the app’s menus, one the status items.
    • Corner radius, inset, padding, border, glass fill, offsets — single or separate pills.
    • The left pill needs Accessibility permission; the right pill works without it.

Animation

  • Rise

    • The bar fills upward as it appears, and disappears instantly.

  • Spread

    • Spreads out from the notch as it appears, and collapses to the center as it goes.

Light reflections

  • Light beam

    • A thin beam at the top edge follows your pointer and glows in the sampled color.
    • Glow, beam bloom, and a spread-in animation when the pointer arrives.

  • Fine-tuning

    • Length, brightness, height, top streak and hotspot.
    • Core brightness and color — or let the core follow the sampled color.

Music visualizer

  • Bars & waves

    • Audio-reactive bars, or soft waves flowing along the top edge.
    • Bar thickness and gap; wave count, edge softness, opacity, peaks and spectrum.
    • Runs at up to 120 Hz on displays that can.

  • Color, trail & glow

    • Mono, Solid, Rainbow, a Palette for the waves, or Artwork — the playing cover’s color.
    • A falling trail behind the bars and a glow that breathes with the music.

  • Progress bar

    • A thin line along the top edge fills with the current track.
    • Mono, solid or rainbow. Hold ⌥ (or the modifier you choose) and click or drag to seek.
    • ⌥ ← / → skips 10 seconds; ⌥ ↑ / ↓ goes to the next or previous track.
    • Can hide itself after a pause of 5–30 seconds, and comes back when playback resumes.

Behavior

  • Always on

    • Keep the overlay visible even when no window fills the screen.
    • Empty desktop as black, transparent or blur; overlay height and corner radius of your choice.

  • Sampling

    • Pause sampling while the pointer is in the menu bar, so open menus never tint the bar.
    • Render the overlay behind app windows instead of on top.

  • Excluded apps

    • Apps the overlay leaves alone: while an excluded app covers the screen the overlay hides, and its windows are never sampled for color.

Profiles & shortcuts

  • Per-app profiles

    • A different look for each app — style, colors, hue drift and more — switched as you switch apps.

  • Global shortcuts

    • Toggle the master switch, the overlay, the visualizer, the progress bar and the corners from anywhere.
    • Shortcuts always change your global settings; per-app profiles are never touched.

Advanced

  • Strokes

    • Overlay stroke (beta): a hairline matching the system window stroke — curve radius, fade, and a fade around the notch.
    • Notch stroke, and an overlay that dissolves behind the notch.

  • Power-user toggles

    • Smooth colors: blend sampled changes over time to reduce flicker.
    • Fill Window: the green traffic light fills the window instead of entering Full Screen.
    • Separate corner windows: the legacy renderer, if you want it.

General & license

  • General

    • Start at login, show or hide the Dock icon, replay the welcome tour.
    • Check for updates in the app, and export a diagnostics report when you write to us.

  • License

    • A 7-day free trial with every feature, started from the welcome tour.
    • Activate with the key from your email; deactivate to move it to another Mac.

Missing a feature?

Tell us what would make the top of your screen better on the feedback board, or write to [email protected].