Bartender Pro Launches $15 Top Shelf, Turning Mac Notch Into Widget and Clipboard Hub
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Updated · 9to5Mac · May 12
Bartender Pro Launches $15 Top Shelf, Turning Mac Notch Into Widget and Clipboard Hub
3 articles · Updated · 9to5Mac · May 12
$15 a year gets Mac users Bartender Pro, whose new Top Shelf turns the notch—or a Dynamic Island on notchless Macs—into an interactive workspace for widgets, files and clipboard history.
Three sections drive the feature: widgets for music, weather and calendar; file storage for up to six files or folders for one week; and a clipboard carousel that keeps up to 100 recent items across reboots.
Top Shelf also adds status banners for volume, brightness, battery and AI agents, with battery alerts configurable up to a 30% threshold and monitoring support for Codex and Claude Code.
Bartender 6 without Top Shelf remains a $20 purchase, while Mega Supporter lifetime users get the Pro tier at no extra cost as the company promises more subscription-only features over time.
As macOS improves, can Bartender's new $15 subscription prove its worth against Apple's own free updates?
Bartender's new Top Shelf monitors AI agents. Is this the future of productivity or just another screen distraction?