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by asrael_io 695 days ago
I think it's called the menu bar, and apps that don't open windows (with an icon in the menu bar) are known as "menu bar apps". Until recently, these were a PITA to implement with Apple's SDK. Thankfully they provided API support sometime I think starting with macOS 13... before that it was pretty kludgy.
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The menus themselves are called "menu bar extras": https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...