Comparison

Ice or Thaw?

Thaw is the recommended fork of Ice: more active and maintained.

Tool A

Ice

Competitor

Tool B

Thaw

Take back control of your macOS menu bar: hide, organize, customize.

Criterion by criterion

Criterion by criterion
Criterion	Ice	Thaw
In my stack	No, competitor	Yes
My rating	No tool page on my site	4.5 out of 5
What it does better	The original project Thaw comes from	Actively maintained fork of Ice with bug fixes and new features
What it does worse	Less active development than Thaw	Requires macOS 26+: not compatible with earlier versions
Entry price	No tool page on my site	€0
Plan I would pick	No tool page on my site	Thaw · €0
Works with	No tool page on my site	macOS
Where the opinion comes from	Compared from my Thaw review	Based on my Thaw review

Verdict

Thaw is the recommended fork of Ice: more active and maintained.

On Ice, written from my Thaw review