# Thaw

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Thaw and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as the actively maintained fork of the Ice menu bar manager, still working on macOS Tahoe and under active development.

## Why people recommend it

- Actively maintained fork of Ice (4 comments): "Thaw is the fork that has been updated and currently still maintained." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483162)) "Thaw is a fork of Ice which is maintained and woks on Tahoe." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982898)) "There's a maintained fork called Thaw." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618961))
- Active development, more full featured (2 comments): "Looks a bit more full featured and under active development!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619920)) "the fork Thaw[1] is active" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982913))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Bartender for macOS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bartender.md): 7 recommend
- [SketchyBar](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sketchybar.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Thaw", https://hackerapproved.com/p/thaw/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).