How to uninstall Hidden Bar on Mac
Hidden Bar tucks less-used menu bar icons out of sight. It keeps no documents, only a small sandboxed container of its own, so there is nothing to back up first. These steps cover the download from Hidden Bar's GitHub releases, the Homebrew cask hiddenbar and the Mac App Store version, which all use the bundle id com.dwarvesv.minimalbar.
Quit Hidden Bar and remove the app
Hidden Bar has no Dock icon. Open its menu bar icon and choose Quit, then move Hidden Bar from Applications to the Trash, or delete it from Launchpad if you installed it from the Mac App Store. Hidden Bar carries a launch-at-login helper inside the app. If you turned that on, it shows in System Settings › General › Login Items & Extensions, and in the tests it disappeared from Mole's startup list once the app was gone.
Where Hidden Bar keeps its data
In Finder, press Shift + Command + G and open each location that exists.
| Location | What it holds | What to do |
|---|---|---|
~/Library/Containers/com.dwarvesv.minimalbar |
Hidden Bar's sandboxed container | Safe to remove with the app |
~/Library/Application Scripts/com.dwarvesv.minimalbar |
The app's sandbox scripts folder | Safe to remove with the app |
~/Library/Containers/com.dwarvesv.LauncherApplication |
The login helper's sandboxed container | Safe to remove with the app |
~/Library/Application Scripts/com.dwarvesv.LauncherApplication |
The login helper's sandbox scripts folder | Safe to remove with the app |
In the first test, moving the container to the Trash failed with a Trash permission error. If that happens to you, quit Hidden Bar and drag the container folder to the Trash yourself in Finder, or leave it: it was about 30 KB in both tests.
Check the result
Run these read-only commands in Terminal:
pgrep -il "Hidden Bar"
ls -d ~/Library/Containers/com.dwarvesv.minimalbar ~/Library/Containers/com.dwarvesv.LauncherApplication
No output from pgrep means Hidden Bar is not running. For ls, "No such file or directory" means that container is gone; a printed path means it is still on disk.
If you installed it with Homebrew
The hiddenbar cask's zap list is the four paths in the table above, two for the app and two for its login helper. Running brew uninstall --cask --zap hiddenbar yourself removes them whatever you ticked in Mole; without --zap it removes only the app:
brew uninstall --cask hiddenbar
When Mole removes a Homebrew-installed Hidden Bar, the login helper's two folders are rows Mole lists unticked. If either exists and stays unticked, Mole leaves --zap out and removes only the rows you selected; tick them both, or have neither on disk, and Mole runs --zap.
What Mole lists
Hidden Bar's own container and Application Scripts folder are listed and selected by default. The login helper's container and Application Scripts folder are listed but not selected, because the helper's id, com.dwarvesv.LauncherApplication, does not extend the app's own id. The login helper itself shows in Mole's startup list as part of the app, for confirmation only.
What this test covered
On September 19, 2026, Hidden Bar was copied from its official download, with no Homebrew receipt, and uninstalled with Mole 1.15 Preview (build 277). The app and its Application Scripts folder went to the Trash; moving its 29 KB container failed with a Trash permission error. On September 21, 2026, the Mac App Store version 1.8 was uninstalled with Mole 1.15 Preview (build 282), with the default selection: the app, its Application Scripts folder, its 33 KB container and a temporary cache folder went to the Trash, and the helper's row left Mole's startup list. Whether the helper's own container existed was not recorded in either run. The Homebrew cask was not tested.