MenuCalc
MenuCalc app icon

A calculator in your menu bar

Click the icon or press ⌃ ⌥ C, and MenuCalc opens over whatever app you're using. Keep a tape of every result, convert units and currencies, and work out tips, dates and tax without leaving your work.

Download on the Mac App Store

For macOS 26 Tahoe or later · Apple silicon and Intel

The MenuCalc calculator open below its icon in the Mac menu bar, showing (1,250 + 380) × 12 with the answer 19,560

More than a calculator

Open a tab for each job and switch between them. Everything stays one click away.

Tabs

All your tools, in tabs

Keep a sum, a conversion and a bill open at once, each in its own tab. They're still there next time you open MenuCalc.

  • Six kinds of tab: calculator, units, currency, tip & discount, percentage and dates
  • Open several of the same kind, each with its own work
  • ⌘T opens a tab, ⌘W closes it, and ⌘1–9 switches between them
The calculator's tab bar enlarged, showing two calculators, units and currency open in tabs, beside the six kinds of tab

Tape

Every result on a tape

Results are kept on a tape beside the calculator, so you can check what you did earlier.

  • Give results a title, like “Rent” or “Groceries”
  • Save the tape as a spreadsheet (CSV) or text file
  • Print it, or copy any result
The tape showing titled results for rent, groceries and headphones next to the calculator

Converters

Units and currencies

Twelve kinds of units: length, weight, temperature, volume, area, speed, time, data, energy, pressure, angle and fuel economy.

  • 150+ currencies, with European Central Bank reference rates where available
  • The latest rates are saved, so conversions keep working offline
  • One click swaps the two sides
The unit converter showing 22 °C as 71.6 °F, and the currency converter showing US dollars in euros

Eating out

Split the bill

Add a tip, share the total and see what each person pays.

  • Split between any number of people
  • Tips in one click: 10, 15, 18, 20 or 25%, or type your own
  • Click a result to copy it
The tip calculator with its results enlarged: a bill of 86.40 with a 15% tip, split between three people, comes to 33.12 each

Everyday maths

Discounts and percentages

The sums that come up every day, laid out so you only type the numbers.

  • Find a sale price after a discount, with sales tax if you need it
  • Work out X% of a number
  • See how much something changed
Three panels: a 25% discount with sales tax, 15% of 240, and a change from 80 to 100 shown as a 25% increase

Dates

Count the days

See how long it is between two dates, in months and days, weeks and weekdays.

  • Add or subtract days, weeks, months or years
  • Pick dates from a calendar or type them
The date calculator counting the days between two dates, and adding 30 days to today

For shop and office

Memory, tax and grand total

The keys you know from a desk calculator, with their values shown on screen.

  • MC, MR, M− and M+, with the stored value always visible
  • TAX+ and TAX− at your own rate, for GST, VAT or sales tax
  • GT adds up all your results
The calculator with memory and tax keys, showing 8% tax added to an amount and the grand total

Your style

Make it yours

Choose light or dark, one of nine accent colors, and glass or solid keys.

  • Write numbers your way: 1,234.56, 1.234,56, 1 234,56 or 12,34,567.89
  • Use it from the menu bar or in its own floating window
  • Turn launch at login on if you like; it's off until you do
Three MenuCalc panels in orange, blue and pink, in dark and light appearance

Made for the keyboard

Type whole calculations without touching the mouse.

Answer as you type

The result appears while you type, with brackets and percentages. Press Return for the answer, Esc to clear.

Big numbers, fast

Type 2.5k for 2,500, 3M for 3,000,000 or 1B for a billion.

Keep it on screen

Pin the panel open, or use a floating window beside your work.

Your own shortcut

Control-Option-C opens MenuCalc from any app. Change it, or turn it off, in Settings.

Read aloud

Have results, or each key you press, spoken out loud.

Exact decimals

Money adds up the way it should: 0.1 + 0.2 is 0.3, not 0.30000000000000004.

Private by design

MenuCalc has no accounts, ads, analytics or tracking. Your calculations and settings stay on your Mac. It goes online only to download public exchange rates, and to send feedback when you choose to. Read the privacy policy.