macOS 13+ · menu bar native · free to start

Your Mac,
but calmer.

Name: Hyde
Author: Akaki Khotcholava

Hyde is a lightweight menu bar utility that hides the notch, dims distractions, tiles your windows, remembers your clipboard and keeps your Mac awake — all from one quiet icon.

Download for macOS See it in action

Lives in the menu bar — no Dock icon, no clutter.

FinderFileEditView

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Slack — #general

Xcode — ContentView.swift

Safari — Docs

Try it now — double-tap⇧ Shift⇧ Shift· Zen Mode is off

01 Zen Mode

Dim everything.
Except what matters.

Double-tap Shift and everything but your focused window fades into a soft, blurred backdrop. Switch windows and the spotlight follows you — automatically.

Follows your focus — the dim region crossfades as you switch windows
Tune the mood — dim amount, background blur, matte wash and film grain
Six tint presets plus a full custom color picker
Stays out of the way — auto-hides for fullscreen apps and survives Space switches

Toggle with⇧⇧double-tap — or rebind to ⌘, ⌥ or ⌃

Interactive — try it

NotesFileEdit

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Mail — Inbox

Music

Notes — Deep Work

Zen Modeclick any window to move focus

Dim55%

Blur6px

Grain0%

Tint

02 Window Tiling

Snap windows
at the speed of thought.

Halves, thirds, quarters — 19 layouts on Magnet-style shortcuts, drag-to-edge snapping, and an on-screen tile picker. Windows glide into place and remember where they came from.

Keyboard-first— ⌃⌥ + arrows and letters, every binding customizable
Snap on drag — pull a window to any edge or corner
Design your own layouts — draw any zone on a grid and give it its own shortcut
Restore anytime — every window remembers its previous frame

Tile picker:⌃⌥Space

Interactive — ⌃⌥ + arrows work here

Xcode

Safari

Xcode

03 Clipboard History

Everything you’ve copied.
One keystroke away.

Text, images, links and files — searchable, organized into color-coded groups, and pasted back into whatever app you were using with a single press of Return.

⌘⇧Vopens the panel; ↑↓ to navigate, ↵ pastes straight into your app
Ephemeral Copy (⌘⇧C) — copy sensitive things without recording them
Private by design — exclude any app (password managers, banking) from history
Yours to keep — retention rules, up to 2,000 items, one-click JSON export, optional iCloud sync

Panel styles: sidebar or window · cards or list · any screen edge

Interactive — click to copy

Clipboard History

6 items

Meeting notes — ship the beta on FridayNotes · 2m agoCopied

https://developer.apple.com/design/Safari · 9m agoCopied

Screenshot 2026-07-31 at 14.02.11Screenshot · 14m agoCopied

git rebase -i HEAD~3Terminal · 31m agoCopied

Q3-report.pdfFinder · 1h agoCopied

Hyde — your Mac, but calmerNotes · 2h agoCopied

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The real Hyde Clipboard History panel — a dark rounded sidebar listing copied text, links and screenshots with color-coded groups and a search field — **And here’s the real one.** The actual Clipboard History panel, captured from Hyde running on macOS — the demo above is faithful, this is what ships.

04 Hide Notch

Now you see it. Now you don’t.

A seamless menu bar overlay makes the notch melt away — on any wallpaper, static or dynamic, with zero private APIs.

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05 The Real Thing

No mockups here. This is Hyde.

Everything above is a live demo — these are real captures, straight off a Mac. The Control Center, live metrics and Settings, exactly as they ship.

Lives quietly in your menu bar — one icon, everything behind it.

Hyde's Control Center popover with CPU, RAM and storage rings, Hide Notch and Zen Mode toggles, feature tiles, and Settings and Quit buttons — **Control Center.** Rings, toggles and every feature — one click from the menu bar.

The same popover with temperature metrics expanded: CPU, battery and SSD temperatures, network speed and system uptime — **Live metrics.** Temperatures, network speed and uptime — expanded on demand.

Hyde's Settings window on the General tab, with theme selection, launch at login, the app icon gallery and iCloud sync options — **Settings.** Theme, launch at login, the cat icon gallery and iCloud sync — one tidy window.

06 The Toolkit

Small tools. Big quality of life.

The little utilities you’d otherwise install five separate apps for.

Insomnia zzz

Keep your Mac wide awake — no sleep, no display dimming. Perfect for downloads, long builds and presentations.

⌘⇧I

Keyboard Cleaning

Lock every key — including volume, brightness and power — so you can wipe your keyboard without typing chaos into Slack.

HYDEspace⏎

Live System Stats

CPU, memory and storage gauges the moment you open the popover — plus temperatures, network speed and uptime on demand.

--°CPU

--°GPU

--°SSD

--°BATT

iCloud Sync

Settings, shortcuts, custom layouts — even clipboard history — kept in step across your Macs through your private iCloud. Nothing touches our servers.

Pick Your Icon

The Classic ghost — or one of the developer’s actual cats: Kato, Duo and Tagvi. Yes, they’re real. Yes, they supervised the whole build. Your pick shows up everywhere, from menu bar to Finder.

Rebind Everything

Every shortcut in Hyde is yours to change. Click a badge, press a new combo, done. Right-click to reset — or reset all in one go.

⌘⇧Vrec…

07 Shortcuts

The cheat sheet

Sensible defaults out of the box. Every single one rebindable.

Zen Mode⇧⇧double-tap

Clipboard History⌘⇧V

Ephemeral Copy⌘⇧C

Hide Notch⌘⇧N

Insomnia⌘⇧I

Tile Picker⌃⌥Space

Halves & Quarters⌃⌥←↑↓→

Maximize / Restore⌃⌥↩/⌫

Plus thirds, two-thirds, center, next display — and your own custom layouts with their own shortcuts.

Ready for a calmer Mac?

Hyde is in final testing — the toolkit above is exactly what will ship. Leave your email and be the first to know when it’s ready.

Notify Me — Coming SoonView Pricing (soon)

macOS 13 Ventura or later · Free to start, Pro for power users · Sync uses your private iCloud

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Dim everything.Except what matters.

Snap windowsat the speed of thought.

Everything you’ve copied.One keystroke away.