Everything it does.
Every Dimble feature on one page, with where to find it and its shortcut when it has one.
Hide what you don't need.
Three sections decide what stays. Dimble asks macOS to do the hiding, so your icons keep their place.
Visible is always there. Hidden comes back on a hover or a click. Always Hidden only appears when you ask.
Settings › Menu Bar
Move toward the bar and the hidden icons slide back out. The delay runs from 0.1 to 0.5 seconds.
Settings › Behavior
Click empty menu bar space, or click the chevron itself.
Settings › Behavior
Icons tuck back after a delay you set, from instant to 5 seconds, or the moment you click somewhere else.
Settings › Behavior
Pick Instant, Smooth or Fade for how icons come and go.1
Settings › Behavior
Shows the hidden icons and puts them back on the next press, from any app.
Change it in Settings › General
Hidden icons, in a panel.
Turn on Panel and your hidden icons open as tiles under the menu bar. Click one for its real menu, or type to find it.
Hidden icons open as tiles under the menu bar, the bar stays put. Always Hidden sits behind a fold you click.
Settings › Panel
Click a tile and that icon's real menu opens. Drag it to another section, or up onto the bar.
Type a few letters, arrow to a tile and press Return. The panel closes on esc.
The icons macOS had no room for in the bar get a section of their own.
The same tiles, in one strip under the menu bar.
Settings › Panel
Find it by name.
Press ⌥⌘K from any app, type a few letters, and Dimble opens the icon right where it lives.
One panel, one field. Type part of a name and the top match is already selected.
Works from any app
Names rank by alias first, then the start of a name, then letters in order.
Press esc and the icon tucks back where it was.
Place every icon.
The editor is a drawing until you press Apply. One pass then lays the bar out to match.
Drag icons between Visible, Hidden and Always Hidden, and reorder them inside a section.
Settings › Menu Bar
Nothing moves in the bar until you press Apply. Discard puts the drawing back to what the bar shows.
Settings › Menu Bar
Hold ⌘ and drag an icon across the chevron. Dimble adopts it into the section where you drop it.
Right in the menu bar
A tile shows where icons Dimble hasn't seen yet will land.
Settings › Menu Bar
When a bar is full, Apply opens macOS's « for an icon drawn behind it, moves it, and closes the « again.
Dividers that behave like icons, with adjustable opacity. ⌘-drag them anywhere in the bar.
Edited on their tiles in Settings › Menu Bar
macOS hides items per app, so an app with several icons shares one setting. The editor marks them with a badge.
Launch any app.
Pick any app and Dimble gives it a menu bar icon. One click opens it, and it hides like everything else.
Add an app and place its icon in whichever section you like.
Settings › Menu Bar › App launchers
Keep the icon in the bar all the time, or only while the app is open.
Settings › Menu Bar › App launchers
Right-click a launcher to quit its app.
A few apps draw their icon from a helper macOS can't hide. Turn their own icon off, then add a launcher in its place.
Extras that stay put.
When an icon is hidden, macOS pulls a few of its own extras out of the bar. Dimble ships its own versions, so Focus and the timer stay where you put them.
Turn on the ones you want and place them like any other icon.
Settings › Menu Bar
Media controls, Time Machine and Focus can sit in the bar only while active, or all the time.
The choice is beside each toggle
⌘-drag any Dimble item off the bar to turn it off.
Make it yours.
Pick the icon Dimble wears, set the spacing, or turn the icon off and reach Settings by shortcut or right-click.
Set the gap between menu bar icons, from 1 to 28 pt, then press Apply to write it.
Settings › Behavior › Icon spacing
Opens Dimble Settings, so it's the way in when the Dimble icon is off.
Change it in Settings › General
Dimble follows your system language, or you can pick one.
Settings › General › Language
Pick its face.
Eight choices for the icon Dimble wears. Pick one and the bar changes.
Room to breathe.
Slide the gap between menu bar icons from 1 to 28 pt.
One bar, every display.
macOS mirrors the same items on every display, so layouts are global. What changes from display to display is behavior.
Set each display to show everything or to collapse. The display your pointer is on wins.
Your sections apply everywhere, because macOS shows the same items on each display.
Updates in place.
Dimble updates itself and ships notarized. The only connection it ever makes is checking for its own updates.
Dimble checks a signed appcast and offers updates in place. You can check by hand any time.
Settings › About
Updates are signed with Sparkle and EdDSA keys, and Apple notarizes Dimble.
Install with brew install --cask fif7y/tap/dimble and update with brew upgrade --cask dimble.
Turn on Get beta releases for fixes sooner. Betas are smaller updates, more often, and a stable release rolls them up every week or two.
Settings › About
What it needs.
Dimble is built on the menu bar macOS 27 introduced, so it doesn't run on earlier versions.
It's how Dimble sees the menu bar's items and positions, and how a click on a hidden item works without revealing everything.
Only for the reveal animations. Without it, icons show and hide the way macOS does it.
Three shortcuts.
To change the last two, open Settings › General, click the shortcut and press the new keys.
Fit yours today.
Free and open source. macOS 27 or later.
- 1Screen Recording is optional and only used for reveal animations.