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Infinite Menu Bar — Customize your macOS menu bar with custom elements
Customize your menu bar just like you want! Use Infinite Menu Bar application to add new custom elements to it. Want to see the current CPU usage, time remaining on battery, your server status, ping to specified domain or your custom dynamically generated text from URL or HTTP API? No problem, this application can do this, and many more!
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Tanveer Chandok
Hi - I purchased & checked it out. Here are my thoughts:
This product does have a lot of potential. However, at this point, I would not recommend that a person buy this product at the $3.99 price point. In its current state, this should be a free app; with the right upgrades, this could be a great tool, well worth $3.99.
- The interface is not very usable. It would work for tech-oriented people, but not for the general public. Since this is a paid app, I would expect a much more graphical interface. It looks like it should be a free app
- Cannot edit a menu bar element after creating it. Deleting it and then adding it again is cumbersome
- Cannot rearrange the elements from within the app
- Why are only 5 elements allowed? Seems like the number of elements allowed should be a function of how much space is remaining in the menu bar. I could have 1 really long static text element and then no more space for any of the other 4 allowable elements
- It would be great if you could provide a few custom URL callback examples to show off how powerful this tool could be. I feel this is where the real value is...but it is hard for me to use since I don't know what I could use it for
- I'd use a general currency exchange rate tool to show real-time rates, example: USD/INR, USD/EUR, USD/GBP
- For CPU%: give the element enough space for double digits even if single digits are being displayed. Currently, the size of the menu bar changes based on the CPU % being a single or double digit number
Here is what I have added so far:
- Static Text
- Current day of the year
- Battery time remaining
- CPU usage %
Good luck and keep crushing it! 😃
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Maker
Woa @tanveerchandok, thanks for such great response! 😀
In response to your points:
- The interface will be fully redesign in next few versions. If you compare the version 1.0 and the current 1.4 you’ll notice many improvements. These kind of feedbacks like yours are very valuable for me and realize me what should be added/fixed to make this app better. 🙂
- Yes, you’re absolutely right, as I mentioned upper when the app redesign will be done the edit feature also will be available.
- When redesign will be finished you will not need such functionality any more.
- Yes, you are right, but this limit was imposed by Apple to make the app approved for the App Store. I’m trying to do my best to increase the limit but I don’t know how long it take to do so.
- General currency exchange rates seems like a cool feature. What is the minimal refresh interval for such type of data to make it valuable for you?
- This is bug, thanks! It will be fixed in next release!
@tomaszgemza Refresh rate of the currency exchange depends on the use case you're providing. For a day trader, they will need real-time updates (however there are many tools out there that provide this). For someone who just needs to be aware of the daily exchange rate, then a refresh rate of 1 hour should be enough (this will probably be your target audience anyway).
Excited to see the next few versions.
Another thing to think about is how your app can replace the current system tools given in the menu bar. Example: if I can replace the Apple stock battery % with what your app is providing, then that will save me more space and give me a big benefit. I currently have both turned on. If you compare what you're currently providing, I would say that the Apple battery icon looks better and is more compact than yours, but when on battery power, yours has better info that is useful.
Lastly, if you had a way to collect all app icons into a single drop-down list with 1 icon, that would save a lot of space and clean up the entire menu bar. I also downloaded the free trial of "Bartender", check it out.
Maker
What functions would you like to see in this application that would lead you to purchase it?