It looks like you are on macOS Big Sur, Bartender 3 can not work on macOS Big Sur and you will need Bartender 4. See Bartender 4 Bartender 3 lets you organize your menu bar icons, by hiding them, rearranging them, show hidden items with a click or keyboard shortcut and have icons show when they update. Can I use Bartender 4 on macOS Catalina or earlier? Bartender 4 is only compatible with macOS Big Sur. Because of the massive changes in macOS Big Sur Bartender 4 could only be designed to work with the new version of macOS. You can use a Bartender 4 license with Bartender 3. Free software to clean mac hard drive. Is Bartender 4 free? No Bartender 4 is not free. Catalina is understandable a bit because it’s the first OS that doesn’t run 32-bit code and quite frankly a few years ago Apple was lost about how they wanted to keep both OS moving forward. They finally came to their senses and started putting more resources into Mac OS.

Can I use Bartender 4 on macOS Catalina or earlier?

Bartender 4 is only compatible with macOS Big Sur. Because of the massive changes in macOS Big Sur Bartender 4 could only be designed to work with the new version of macOS. You can use a Bartender 4 license with Bartender 3.

Is Bartender 4 free?

No Bartender 4 is not free. It has a 4 week trial after this Bartender 4 will be $15, and will have a great discount of 50% for users with a license to any previous version of Bartender.

I recently bought Bartender 3 do I need to pay for an upgrade?

If you bought Bartender 3 after April 2020 you are entitled to a free upgrade to Bartender 4, Bartender 4 will accept and use your Bartender 3 license.

How do I update from a previous version?

You need to be on macOS Big Sur, then you can download Bartender 4 from the website, open the disk image and move Bartender 4 to your applications folder. You can then delete any previous versions of Bartender you have and launch Bartender 4.

How do I buy an upgrade from a previous version?

Click Buy Now, then select Upgrade to Bartender 4. You will be prompted to enter your previous license details, once submitted and instantly verified you will be able to purchase a Bartender 4 license with a 50% discount.

Can I use my license on all my macs?

Yes, a license is for use on all the macs you own and are the main user of.

I am having a problem with Bartender 4

Please contact us with as much information as possible by sending feedback in Bartender or by emailing [email protected] Screen recordings and screen shots always help a lot.

Bartender 3 Mac Os Catalina Island

To start check to make sure you have pressed the 'Open macOS Screen Recording Preferences' button in the Bartender window, as this requests that macOS gives bartender the permission, macOS should then add Bartender to the list.
Also make sure you do not have any dialogs like this open for any apps, this is macOS acting on the request for the permission, but it only deals with 1 at a time and queues them up, so Bartenders may just be waiting for the ones in front of it to be completed.
If you try this and it still doesn't work, this seems to be a bug in macOS a few users are experiencing, I have heard of a few fixes working so far:
1, Make sure you launch Bartender using Finder and not the app PathFinder or any other launcher (Launchbar, Alfred, etc) this has stopped Bartender and other apps showing in the list.
2, Make sure Bartender is in /Applications and not USERNAME/Applications.
3, Restart macOS.
4, Make sure SIP is enabled (you would have had to manually disable this at some point) you can check in  menu > About This Mac, System Report Button, Then select Software in the left column and look for System Integrity Protection: it should be Enabled.
5, Create a new user account then Add Bartender from this, you can the delete the new user account and it should be working.
If none of the above work please contact us, so we can investigate further. If you find another solution, or issue causing this please let us know so we can pass on the advice to other users.