Popular app Bartender was quietly bought, and a shady certificate replacement, insertion of invasive telemetry, and a lack of transparent responses by the new owners has shaken confidence in the Mac ...

As shared in an extensive Reddit thread, many users only became aware that Bartender had been sold to another developer after MacUpdater sent out an alert about the update to version 5.0.52.

Earlier this week, users of the popular Menu Bar utility, Bartender, were surprised to learn that the app had been sold months ago with no formal announcement. Users on Reddit expressed concerns about ...

Ben Surtees, developer of the popular Mac menu bar utility Bartender, writes: Three months ago, I sold Bartender to Applause, a company with the resources and expertise to take the app to new heights.

Bartender, a popular menu bar customization app for macOS with a long history, was quietly acquired by new developers sometime in the past few months. With no word from the app’s original creator or ...

Bartender 4.0 was in beta for a long time, and the time and attention to the details paid off. If you were waiting to update until the app was officially released, now’s the time to act because it’s ...

It wouldn’t be WWDC if Apple didn’t do a little stealing. Apple has such a long-standing habit of introducing new software features that overlap and eventually overtake third-party apps, there’s even ...