Release notes

New

• Hide menu bar icons app by app: turn off “Show in menu bar” in the setup or in Settings › Menu Bar Items, and the app’s icons move to the panel.
• The panel opens under the chevron when you click it or press ⌃⌥⌘D. Click an icon to open that app’s own menu; ⌥‑click opens its secondary menu.
• Hidden icons open in one click. Most apps open while their icon stays hidden; for the few that only answer a real click, Drop Down shows the icon, clicks it and puts the pointer back. Settings › General can switch the click off, and then the icon is shown for you to click.
• A cell’s right-click menu opens the app’s menus, shows the icon in the menu bar again, opens the app, shows it in Finder or quits it (hold ⌥ to force quit).
• Drag an icon out of the panel onto the menu bar to show it there again.
• With Screen Recording allowed, the panel shows each icon as it looks in your menu bar; without it, it shows app icons. Refresh Icons in Settings takes fresh pictures.
• Panel layouts: an automatic grid or a fixed one from 3 × 3 to 6 × 6 (any size up to 8 × 8), scrolling down or sideways, or pages with dots; small, medium or large icons; and a list view with names.
• Order the panel alphabetically, in menu bar order, or your own way: drag icons in the panel, use ⌥ with the arrow keys, or sort the list in Settings › Panel.
• Type to filter the open panel; Return opens the best match.
• The + button at the end of the grid adds an app from the panel, with a picker that shows each app’s icon.
• Record your own panel shortcut in Settings › Shortcuts. Shortcuts macOS already uses are refused, and ⌃⌥⌘D takes over if yours stops working.
• Apps that run from outside the Applications folder can go into the panel too.
• When an app shows a menu bar icon for the first time, it stays in the menu bar, or goes straight into Drop Down if you choose that in Settings › General.
• Pick the menu bar icon in Settings › General: an arrow or stacked arrows, in the menu bar’s own colour or in colour, two-tone stacked arrows, or the system chevron. It turns upside down while the panel is open.
• Safety: ⌃⌥⌘H shows every icon and pauses hiding until you resume it; quitting brings every icon back; hold ⌥ at launch for safe mode; hiding pauses while another menu bar manager runs, and optionally while the microphone or a camera is in use.
• Settings › About saves a diagnostics report where you choose, and Send Feedback opens the feedback board.
• Updates arrive through Sparkle with a daily check, and are never installed without asking.
• A short setup moves Drop Down to Applications, asks for Accessibility and, optionally, Screen Recording, and lets you choose the first apps. Drop Down can start at login.
• English and Turkish.