Appearance

Customize how the floating bar and menu bar icons look. All changes apply instantly.

Open ExtraBar → Settings (⚙) → Appearance to access these settings.

Background style

Choose how the bar background is rendered. Five styles are available:

• Default — Standard frosted glass effect using macOS materials.

• Tinted Glass — Glass effect with a color tint overlay. Pick a tint from the presets (Blue, Purple, Pink, Red, Orange, Green, Teal) or use a custom color.

• Solid Color — Opaque background with a solid color. Presets include Charcoal, Obsidian, Graphite, Slate, Navy, Forest, and Wine — or pick a custom color.

• Transparent — No background at all. Only your app icons are visible.

• Liquid Glass — Enhanced glass effect. Native Liquid Glass support is coming with macOS 26.

Background and tint colors

When using Solid Color or Tinted Glass, you can pick a color from the built-in presets or use the custom color picker for any color you want.

Border

Add a border around the bar. Presets include:

• Subtle, Light, Medium — White borders at varying opacity

• Accent — Blue tinted border

• Gold — Yellow tinted border

• Rose — Pink tinted border

• None — No border

A custom color picker is also available.

Corner radius

Adjust how rounded the bar corners are using the slider (0–14pt) or the quick presets:

• Square — 0pt, sharp corners

• 5pt — Default

• 8pt — More rounded

• Pill — 14pt, fully rounded

App icon

Choose the dock and app icon style. Five variants are available:

• Standard

• Black & White

• White & Black

• Dark Purple

• Light Purple

Menu bar icon

Choose the icon that appears in the macOS menu bar. Six variants are available:

• Default

• Outline Black

• Outline White

• Outline Purple

• Fill Black

• Fill White

Reset

Use the Reset button to restore all appearance settings to their defaults.