Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.

4recommend
0warn against
Mar 22, 2026first mention
May 1, 2026latest mention
Nov 25 – Oct 26
Used formenu bar managementmacos menu bar managementmanaging menu bar itemsmacos app switcher fork

Why people recommend it

“the fork Thaw[1] is active: https://github.com/stonerl/Thaw”

“Thaw is a fork of Ice which is maintained and woks on Tahoe.”

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“Menu bar widgets etc are fixable with thaw”

“Thanks for that, I hadn't realized Ice's maintainer had stopped working on it”

“Thaw is the fork that has been updated and currently still maintained.”

Caveats and dissent

No one in these comments warned against it.

Often compared with

All comments 7

“the fork Thaw[1] is active: https://github.com/stonerl/Thaw”

“Thaw is a fork of Ice which is maintained and woks on Tahoe.”

“Menu bar widgets etc are fixable with thaw”

“Looks a bit more full featured and under active development!”

switched from Hidden Baron “Tailscale's New macOS Home”

“Thanks, I'll check out Thaw.”

“Thanks for that, I hadn't realized Ice's maintainer had stopped working on it”

“Thaw is the fork that has been updated and currently still maintained.”

Threads where it came up

Data: thaw.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.

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