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Boring Old Menu Bar for Mac

Catalina menu bar on Big Sur.

$9.95
In English
Version 1.27
4.8
Based on 9 user rates

Boring Old Menu Bar overview

Boring Old Menu Bar was developed to bring the "perfectly fine" macOS Catalina menu bar to macOS 11 Big Sur.

macOS 11 Big Sur does many things right and after a bit of getting used to, the visual style really grows on you. The transparent menu bar, however, is a bit of a legibility nightmare and something I could not live with.

Features:
  • Different styles of menu bar
  • Rounded corners for both the menu bar and the screen!
  • Customizable colors
  • Detects resolution and wallpaper changes
  • Supports multiple monitors
  • Perfectly safe because it runs as a normal application without extra privileges and with no "funny business", e.g. no KEXT, haxies, run-time patching, etc.

What’s new in version 1.27

  • The new version fix a minor annoyance.

Boring Old Menu Bar for Mac

$9.95
In English
Version 1.27
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4.8

(7 Reviews of Boring Old Menu Bar)

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  • User Ratings

PeacheyMcKeitch
PeacheyMcKeitch
Jul 27 2021
1.17
5.0
Jul 27 2021
5.0
Version: 1.17
Brilliant. Gives you a nice clearly defined menu bar again. Doesn't effect the resolution of your wallpapers like other solutions. Nice customisation options. Insta buy!
frans-3
frans-3
Jun 29 2021
1.16
0.0
Jun 29 2021
0.0
Version: 1.16
Simply does nothing most of the time, certainly not at start up…
petert89
petert89
Feb 20 2021
1.14
5.0
Feb 20 2021
5.0
Version: 1.14
It took me all of 20 seconds 'testing' this app to make the decision to go and pay for it. Without this I would have dumped BigSur, a light coloured Menu Bar in a Dark Theme where all my gauges are - duh!
datbates
datbates
Jan 21 2021
1.12
3.0
Jan 21 2021
3.0
Version: 1.12
It works, but how it works is majorly hacktastic. There has got to be a better way to directly fix this abomination in Big Sur.
Biox
Biox
Dec 18 2020
1.12
5.0
Dec 18 2020
5.0
Version: 1.12
Why the h*ll this app should be necessary, but thank god it's available. So many unnecessary changes in the Big Sur UI that are inefficient.
abdalla.rabie
abdalla.rabie
Feb 10 2024
1.27
5.0
Feb 10 2024
5.0
Version: 1.27
Ervins Strauhmanis
Ervins Strauhmanis
Apr 12 2023
1.27
5.0
Apr 12 2023
5.0
Version: 1.27
BobMGuthrie
BobMGuthrie
Nov 6 2021
1.23
5.0
Nov 6 2021
5.0
Version: 1.23
PeacheyMcKeitch
PeacheyMcKeitch
Jul 27 2021
1.17
5.0
Jul 27 2021
5.0
Version: 1.17
petert89
petert89
Feb 20 2021
5.0
Feb 20 2021
5.0
Version: null
datbates
datbates
Jan 21 2021
3.0
Jan 21 2021
3.0
Version: null
Biox
Biox
Dec 18 2020
5.0
Dec 18 2020
5.0
Version: null
Holmemoss
Holmemoss
Nov 17 2020
5.0
Nov 17 2020
5.0
Version: null
emailmaxw
emailmaxw
Sep 25 2020
5.0
Sep 25 2020
5.0
Version: null