Changelog

v1.9.3

2025/11/01

Improved

• Single Instance Protection
  • Only one instance of Badgeify runs at a time
  • Automatically brings the existing window to front when launched again
• Improved autostart reliability

v1.9.2

2025/10/21

New Features

• Added CLI integration support
  • Badgeify now bundles a badgeify command-line tool so you can query badge status without launching the UI
  • New list and status subcommands return JSON for effortless scripting and monitoring

v1.9.1

2025/09/30

Improved

• Enhanced License Management
  • User email now visible in license information
  • Added license plan display showing your license tier
  • New “Manage License” button for quick access to license portal

v1.9.0

2025/09/05

New Features

• Smarter Update Settings
  • Disabling automatic update checks will also turn off automatic downloads
  • Enabling automatic downloads will automatically install updates

Improved

• Better Menu Bar Experience
  • More reliable menu bar icon display
  • Improved stability when showing and hiding icons
  • Better detection of menu bar visibility changes

v1.8.9

2025/08/31

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Discord icon permanent pinning issue when dot indicator is disabled

v1.8.8

2025/08/26

Improved

• Improved notification badge display logic for better accuracy
  • Icons now correctly show or hide based on actual notification status
  • Enhanced visual consistency across different badge styles (Text, Dot, Circle)
• Updated interface terminology from “Show Notifications” to “Show Notification Count” for clearer user understanding

v1.8.7

2025/08/22

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the issue where menubar icons would not display

Improved

• Improved tray menu responsiveness when refresh rate is disabled
  • Menu now updates correctly on hover even when refresh rate is disabled
  • Better handling of icon behavior settings when refresh rate is disabled

v1.8.6

2025/08/20

Bug fixes

• Fixed the issue where the Upgrade pop-up window would pop up repeatedly

v1.8.4

2025/08/19

Improved

• Improved menu bar icon refresh performance and reduced CPU usage

v1.8.2

2025/08/08

Improved

• Optimize the license activation process and improve stability

v1.8.1

2025/08/07

New Features

• Added pin support for app groups
  • Pin your favorite app groups to keep them always visible in the menu bar
  • Pinned groups behave consistently with pinned individual apps

Improved

• Faster icon updates and smoother performance
  • Optimized icon change detection for significantly faster response times
  • Reduced system resource usage during menu bar updates
• Enhanced app group display behavior
  • Groups now behave consistently with individual apps for transparency and visual effects
  • Improved visual consistency across all menu bar items

v1.8.0

2025/08/04

New Features

• Added customizable notification badge styles
  • Choose from three distinct badge styles for each app or group:
    • Text: Traditional numeric count display (default)
    • Dot: Minimalist dot indicator for unread notifications
    • Circle: iOS-style red badge with notification count
  • Each app and group can have its own badge style preference
• Custom highlight colors will take effect on all notification badge styles

Improved

• Enhanced Discord and Slack dot indicator handling
  • Fixed dot indicator display issues across all notification behaviors
  • Better visual integration with the new badge style system

v1.7.3

2025/07/27

Bug Fixes

• Improve menubar icon visual effects processing
• Fixed app group highlight colors not being applied

v1.7.2

2025/07/21

New Features

• App groups now support transparency behavior
  • When all apps within a group have no notifications, the entire group icon becomes transparent, keeping your menu bar clean and organized
  • Group display behavior is now consistent with individual apps, providing a unified visual experience

Improved

• Complete color picker experience optimization
  • Faster and smoother response when selecting colors, eliminating lag and stuttering
  • Color panel stays open for convenient adjustment of multiple colors
  • Automatically closes when losing focus to prevent the panel from lingering on desktop
• Transparency effect adjustment
  • Reduced icon transparency level to make semi-transparent icons clearer and more visible, avoiding over-transparency that makes icons hard to identify

v1.7.1

2025/07/13

Improved

• Improve menubar appearance detection for better user experience
• Compatible with macOS Tahoe 26

v1.7.0

2025/06/09

New Features

• Added “Badge refresh interval” setting option for adjusting menu bar icon refresh frequency
  • Set to Low to significantly reduce CPU usage to approximately 0.5% on average

Improved

• Optimized memory consumption and CPU utilization
• Enhanced overall system resource management
• Reorganize advanced settings

v1.6.6

2025/05/16

Improved

• Reduced Docker monitoring rate from 500ms to 1000ms
• Optimized menu bar icon update logic

v1.6.5

2025/05/10

Improved

• Optimized application performance, reduced package size

v1.6.3

2025/05/07

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the application would crash under certain conditions

v1.6.2

2025/05/06

Improved

• Improved application stability, leading to fewer crashes and a smoother user experience

v1.6.1

2025/05/03

New Features

• Added Discord dot indicator toggle option in app settings

Improved

• Significantly reduced background memory usage by approximately 50%
• Improved overall application performance and responsiveness
• Enhanced system tray icon management

v1.5.7

2025/03/05

Improved

• Updated license verification endpoint to resolve SSL certificate issues

v1.5.6

2025/03/04

Improved

• Significantly reduced app size from 46MB to 30MB for better performance and faster downloads
• Enhanced license verification for improved reliability

v1.5.5

2025/02/18

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the badge might not display when the app had a large number of unread messages

v1.5.4

2025/02/14

Improved

• Enhance app drag and drop experience
  • Add draggable icons to make the operation more intuitive

v1.5.3

2025/03/12

Improved

• Added Slack dot indicator toggle option in app settings
  • Allowing users to control the visibility of the dot indicator

v1.5.2

2025/01/03

Improved

• Enhanced menu bar visualization by displaying app icons within group menu items
• Added tooltips to settings options to improve user understanding

v1.5.1

New Features

• Added experimental features section in Advanced settings
  • Try out upcoming features before they’re officially released
  • Enable or disable application-specific integrations as needed

Improved

• Redesigned Advanced settings page with a cleaner layout

v1.5.0

New Features

• Application-specific menu items integration
  • Browser tabs integration
    • Quick access to open browser tabs directly from menu bar icons for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari
    • Right-click on browser icons to see and switch between active tabs

v1.4.5

Improved

• Optimized settings window performance, especially when switching between tabs
• Enhanced overall responsiveness of the settings interface

Bug Fixes

• Fixed possible errors during deactivate license to improve usability

v1.4.4

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the menu bar icon would not display when some app couldn’t be found

Improved

• Enhanced error handling for a more stable user experience
• Optimized group and app data retrieval for improved performance and reliability

v1.4.2

Improved

• Enhanced app detection and identification for non-English systems

v1.4.1

New Features

• Added global keyboard shortcuts
  • Users can now customize and manage shortcuts for quick access to Badgeify settings

Improved

• Enhanced user support with improved system information sharing
  • The feedback button now includes relevant system details for faster, more accurate assistance
• Refined dark mode detection for better compatibility with various macOS themes

v1.3.7

Improved

• Fixed broken website pricing page links

Bug Fixes

• Fixed menu bar background color detection when using colored icons
• Fixed an issue where the Dock icon remained visible after closing the settings window on macOS Sequoia

v1.3.4

Improved

• Update the color of semi-transparent icons to be consistent with native icons
• Added an option for show transparent icon when the app has no notifications
• Improved tray management to prevent the app from becoming unresponsive

Bug Fixes

• Fixed app crash on macOS versions below 14

v1.3.0

This update introduces new customization options and improves the user interface for a more native macOS experience.

New Features

• Added “Pin to menu bar” option for icons
  • Users can now pin app icons to always be visible in the menu bar, regardless of global icon visibility settings

Improved

• Badgeify’s icon no longer displays in the menu bar when no app icons are shown
  • Opening the app repeatedly now correctly responds and opens the settings window
• Integrated macOS native color panel for selecting highlight colors
  • Provides a more intuitive and familiar color selection experience for macOS users

For more details, see Enhanced Customization and Native macOS Experience

v1.2.2

Improved

• Improved Finder window focus detection
• Optimize badge status label to avoid displaying Handoff text

v1.2.1

This update improves existing features for a better user experience.

Improved

• Added support for ctrl-click to display the menu when clicking an icon
• Optimized Finder behavior when “When clicking an active app’s icon” is set to Focus/Hide
  • Due to Finder’s unique nature, its behavior is now Focus/Minimize

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where highlight color was not applied when Slack displayed a dot notification

v1.2.0

This update introduces a new customization feature to enhance your notification experience.

New Features

• Added customizable notification highlight colors for apps and groups
  • Users can now set unique colors for each app or group’s notification badge
  • Improves visual distinction between different notifications in the menu bar

Improved

• Optimize the error messages when license key activate fails

For more details, see Introducing Customizable Notification Colors

v1.1.0

This update brings support for Slack’s dot badge and fixes an issue with WhatsApp notifications.

New Features

• Added support for Slack dot badge
  • Menu bar now displays a dot indicator for Slack notifications

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where notification counts were not displaying for the latest version of WhatsApp

v1.0.0

🎉 Celebrating our first major release! After months of development and valuable user feedback, we’re thrilled to introduce Badgeify 1.0.0. This version is more stable and introduces a new feature: App Groups for Better Organization.

New Features

• Introduced Application Groups
  • Organize multiple apps under a single Menu bar icon
  • Custom icon support for Application Groups
  • Display total notification count for all apps within the group

For more details, see Introducing App Groups for Powerful Menu Bar Management

Improved

• Updated onboarding carousel for add new app groups feature

v0.4.x

• Improved user interface and experience
  • Clearer settings layout
  • Remembers settings window position
  • Increased menu bar icon size to 64x64 pixels

• Enhanced menu bar functionality
  • New “Show/Hide Notifications” menu item
  • “When clicking an active app’s icon” option

• Added new Advanced settings page with enhanced icon visibility options
  • Includes “Hide icon when no notifications” feature

• Improved app stability, compatibility, and performance
• Enhanced macOS accessibility and Finder app handling
• Redesigned license activation flow and upgrade dialog

• Various bug fixes and minor improvements

v0.3.x

• Added “Show transparent icon when app isn’t running” setting

• Introduced “Quit” option in the system tray menu for each application

v0.2.x

• Introduced Free version of Badgeify with basic features:
  • Support for up to 3 apps in the menu bar
  • Notification tracking and quick-launch functionality
• Improved license key management
• Redesigned pricing model

Earlier Versions

• Added drag-and-drop functionality for app management
• Implemented automatic updates and custom SVG icon support
• Introduced configurable notification display
• Added onboarding carousel for new users
• Various performance and stability enhancements

For more details on custom icon usage, see Use Your Own Icons to Customize Your macOS Menu Bar