Hairpin v0.2.3

What's Changed

• fix: prevent duplicate hidden items across displays by @HiAriesZhou in #12

Full Changelog: v0.2.2...v0.2.3

Hairpin v0.2.2

What's Changed

• fix: match items across displays by the windows they own by @HiAriesZhou in #11

Full Changelog: v0.2.1...v0.2.2

Hairpin v0.2.1

What's Changed

• Tighter README; sign and notarize releases in CI by @HiAriesZhou in #4
• Add the Hairpin website (site/, deployed on Vercel) by @HiAriesZhou in #5
• Link the website and the latest Hairpin.dmg from the README by @HiAriesZhou in #6
• Note that releases must keep the Hairpin.dmg download link working by @HiAriesZhou in #7
• Website footer: author credit, star invite, MIT notice by @HiAriesZhou in #8
• ci: update actions/checkout and actions/upload-artifact to v7 by @HiAriesZhou in #9
• Fix the second hairpin with an external display; show app icons for uncaptured items by @HiAriesZhou in #10

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.2.1

Hairpin 0.2.0

Hairpin now stays out of the way until the menu bar overflows. Then a little hairpin appears at the left end of your menu bar icons, holding the ones hidden by the notch.

What's new

• The hairpin. It shows only while icons are hidden, right where the next one would have gone. Hover over it (half a second; can be turned off with Open on Hover) or click it, and the hidden icons drop down in a row. Click one to open its menu.
• Sees what macOS hides. On macOS 26, overflow is read from the window server itself. With the optional Screen Recording permission (macOS 14+), each icon is matched to its app by name and shown as it looks in the menu bar.
• Keeps up with the menu bar. The hairpin moves when you switch apps (long menus included), when icons come and go, and when the menu bar auto-hides or goes full screen. It follows light and dark mode.
• Liquid Glass drop-down on macOS 26, a blur before it.
• New app icon and menu bar mark: a pink bow on a bobby pin.
• Disk image: download Hairpin.dmg and drag the app to Applications, or use Hairpin.zip as before.

Install

1. Download Hairpin.dmg (or Hairpin.zip) below and put Hairpin.app in Applications.
2. Open it. Hairpin is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.
3. Turn on Accessibility for Hairpin when it asks (required). Screen Recording is optional and only used to show icons as they look.

Upgrading from 0.1.x: 0.1.x was ad hoc signed, so macOS treats this signed build as a different app. If Hairpin can't see your menu bar, remove it from System Settings › Privacy & Security › Accessibility and add it again. Later updates keep the same signature, so the grant carries over.

Requires macOS 13 or later on Apple silicon (real icons need macOS 14, Liquid Glass needs macOS 26).

中文

菜单栏图标溢出时，Hairpin 会在可见图标的最左端放一个小发卡，被刘海挡住的图标都收在里面。悬停或点击发卡就能展开，点一下图标即可打开它的菜单。本版新增：在 macOS 26 上准确识别被隐藏的图标、可选的屏幕录制权限显示图标真实样子、随应用切换、图标增减、菜单栏自动隐藏实时调整位置、Liquid Glass 下拉框、新的应用图标，以及 DMG 安装包。本版安装包使用 Developer ID 签名并经过 Apple 公证，下载后可直接打开。从 0.1.x 升级时需要在「辅助功能」里重新授权一次，之后的更新会沿用授权。安装说明与权限见上文或 README。

Changes

• Hold overflowed menu bar items under a hairpin by the notch (#1)
• Add contributing guide, security policy and code owners (#2)
• Release v0.2.0: disk image and README (#3)

Full changelog: v0.1.1...v0.2.0

Hairpin v0.1.1

Rename release: NotchBar → Hairpin.

• Bundle ID is now com.hiarieszhou.hairpin (was com.hiarieszhou.notchbar). Re-grant Accessibility (and Login Items if used).
• Ad-hoc signed, arm64; right-click → Open on first launch.
• Asset: Hairpin.zip

Full Changelog: https://github.com/HiAriesZhou/Hairpin/commits/v0.1.1