Touch Bar Simulator for Mac
Use the Touch Bar on any Mac.
By sindresorhus. Free and open source, MIT licence.
This app is no longer maintained by its developer. It still installs, but it will not get updates.
Touch Bar Simulator at a glance
- Version
- 4.2.0
- Released
- 26 May 2020
- Download size
- 7.5 MB
- Works on
- Apple silicon and Intel
- Licence
- MIT
- Category
- Utilities
- Developer
- sindresorhus
- GitHub stars
- 1.9K
Screenshots

How to install Touch Bar Simulator on a Mac
- Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
- Search for Touch Bar Simulator and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 4.2.0 from sindresorhus's own GitHub release.
- Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.
Updates to Touch Bar Simulator show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.
Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Touch.Bar.Simulator.4.2.0.dmg (7.5 MB).
What is new in Touch Bar Simulator 4.2.0
- Built-in support for customizable global keyboard shortcut to toggle the Touch Bar window (#71) - Don't highlight menu bar item when left-clicking (#72) https://github.com/sindresorhus/touch-bar-simulator/compare/v4.1.0...v4.2.0
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