Alternatives to OnlySwitch
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. OnlySwitch itself: install OnlySwitch.
Hidden Bar
An ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons
zsh-vi-mode
💻 A better and friendly vi(vim) mode plugin for ZSH
Vorssaint
Free and open-source macOS menu bar toolkit
BitBar
Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar (the BitBar reboot)
cataclysm
Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world
FineTune
FineTune, a macOS menu bar app for per-app volume control, multi-device output, audio routing, and 10-band EQ. Free and open-source alternative to Sou
WhatCable
macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do
Gitify
Git notifications on your menu bar. Available on macOS, Windows & Linux
MeetingBar
🇺🇦 Your meetings at your fingertips in the macOS menu bar
fzf-tab
Replace zsh's default completion selection menu with fzf!
Reminders MenuBar
Simple macOS menu bar application to view and interact with reminders. Developed with SwiftUI and using Apple Reminders as a source
Hot
Hot is macOS menu bar application that displays the CPU speed limit due to thermal issues
Fluor
A handy tool for macOS allowing you to switch Fn keys' mode based on active application
beads_viewer
Graph-aware TUI for the Beads issue tracker: PageRank, critical path, kanban, dependency DAG visualization, and robot-mode JSON API
Stillcolor
Disable temporal dithering on your Mac with this lightweight menu bar app. Designed for Apple silicon Macs
dump1090-fa
Dump1090 is a simple Mode S decoder for RTLSDR devices
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
go
The Go programming language
node
Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨
rust
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software
typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output
openai-whisper
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
deno
A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript
neovim
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than OnlySwitch — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
OnlySwitch is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.