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How to make a macOS menu bar app

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Emerge Tools Blog: Learn advanced app optimization and monitoring techniques from experts in the field. Based on their experience working at companies like Apple, Airbnb, Snap, and Spotify.

It can present another Window or menu item when tap, e.g., the Siri app presents a popup window to interact with Siri or Battery app that shows battery status when tap.

In this article, we will learn what it takes to create a toy menu bar application. It is an app that shows a number from 1 to 3, and you change it by tapping it and selecting the new number from the menu item.

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Let's start by creating a simple macOS project. I will create this app programmatically without a storyboard. If you aren't familiar with the process, I encourage you to check my previous post, How to create a macOS app without storyboard or xib files, where I explain how to do it in detail. We only need a portion of what we did in that article.