r/macapps
Reviews
- Glaze Thirty-plus live shader looks for your whole screen, one keystroke away
- App Monitor One free, open-source dashboard for Mac app usage, storage, and updates
- Picview A fast, minimal image viewer to replace Preview — with built-in OCR
- Recall Threads your scattered tabs, docs, and apps into resumable work sessions
- Reclips A Mac clipboard history that appears as a bubble right at your text cursor
- Say hey: Message Memory A Mac app that mines your iMessage history — entirely on your Mac — for the people and promises you've let slip
- Analog TV Simulator A Mac app that rebuilds the entire analogue TV chain — camera tube to CRT phosphor — from physics
- MacPulse A Mac system monitor you can ask questions — answered on-device, nothing leaving the machine
- Osaurus Open-source local AI for your Mac — native Swift, with an on-device privacy filter for cloud calls
- Editorio Native macOS markdown + code editor, free on the App Store
- Muxy A native SwiftUI workspace built around the terminal
- Zenteek A native Mac music player for collectors and DAC owners
- Loop Window snapping by gesture, not by hotkey
- TablePro A free, native, open-source database client for macOS
- Sindre Sorhus' Older-macOS App Versions Every paid Sindre app, free, for anyone still on macOS 15 or earlier
Finds
- Copybook Generator Printable Chinese and English handwriting worksheets from any text
- CurrentKey Named, scriptable Spaces with per-app time tracking built in
- KeyClu Double-tap and hold Cmd to see every shortcut for the app in front
- RetroMac A live Mac desktop that boots as Snow Leopard, System 6, Win98, or BeOS
- Screen Test 34 monitor-diagnostic tests in one native Mac app
- Viaduct Chrome extensions that never got a Safari port, converted and installed
- Aerial Apple TV's aerial screensaver, free and open source on the Mac
- Caption Comet Burns social-style captions into video entirely on your Mac, with no account or cloud
- DockLift Click an app's Dock icon and its window jumps to the display you're using
- PanicVault A password manager that keeps your vault as a single KeePass file you own
- AudioBo Merges MP3s into one chaptered M4B audiobook without forcing a 24-hour split
- MDV A Markdown viewer with a Quick Look extension and a CLI tool built in
- Panelet One shortcut hides and restores a whole multi-app workspace, not just a window
- Speed Reader One-word-at-a-time reading that can live right in your MacBook's notch
- Text Catalyst A clipboard manager that OCRs every image you copy so its text is searchable
- VoiceInk Open-source dictation that runs local Whisper and Parakeet models, fully offline
- Diskloom A disk cleaner that only touches regenerable developer junk
- Finbar A menu bar you can search like a file tree
- McKinley A real vector editor built for drawing SF Symbols
- Mushroom A menu-bar pixel pet that droops when you ignore it
- Prostir Zvuku An ambient mixer where you drag sounds into place around your head
- Tellie A teleprompter that follows your actual words, not a fixed scroll
- FilePop A file browser that drops down from your menu bar
- Glaze Thirty-plus live shader looks for your entire screen
- Iconed Turns any image, GIFs included, into a custom app icon
- Kanban Pro A free kanban board with a live terminal inside every ticket
- Murmur Offline, on-device text-to-speech for long multi-speaker scripts
- Searxly A native Mac browser with a private search engine built in
- Shotomatic Turns one click-through of a task into a step-by-step guide
- Chirpy A distinct notification sound per Slack channel, person, or keyword
- DayBar A menu bar calendar with lunar dates and inline TODOs
- Edist A native macOS Typst editor with instant live preview
- bHive Filer Semantic search across the files you already have
- Displace Fixes macOS's long-standing multi-monitor bugs
- DockFlow Save multiple Dock layouts and switch between them by context
- MinuteFile Transcribes local meeting recordings without a bot or an upload
- Misgellar Gives digitized film scans the EXIF they never had
- TimeGauge 52% of 2026 is gone, right there in the menu bar
- Winstrix A true window-level Alt+Tab for Mac switchers
- AutoShelf File auto-sorting that's now scriptable, not just GUI-driven
- Bunny Screenshot Finds that one screenshot by describing what's in it
- Clarity An encrypted-vault file manager with a metadata-stripping share extension
- Mojave Paint A lightweight Mac paint app with real Photoshop-style layer styles
- NanoClip Clipboard history that can OCR, upscale, and transform what you copied
- WidgetScreen Glass widgets — and Now Playing controls — on the Mac lock screen
- App Monitor One free menu-bar dashboard for app usage, storage, and updates
- Picview A fast, minimal image viewer to replace Preview — with built-in OCR
- Recall Threads your scattered tabs, docs, and apps into resumable work sessions
- SmartClipboard Paste your last nine clips back in order with Option+1–9
- Stash Hidden tactile controls at your screen's edges, with real haptics
- Tasks.txt A native task manager that's really just one plain-text file
- Kaset A native, open-source Mac client for YouTube and YouTube Music
- LockLines A real editor for your Mac's lock-screen message
- Noticky Sticky notes and reference images that stay put over fullscreen apps
- Reclips A clipboard history that pops up right at your cursor
- StepGrab Turns whatever you do on screen into a step-by-step guide
- Thoth Meeting notes that never leave your Mac
- Coast: FIRE An offline menu-bar net-worth tracker that never phones home
- Command Keeper A menu-bar library for the commands you keep re-Googling
- Did I Copy It? A menu-bar cure for compulsive re-copying
- Revok A full audit of everything installed on your Mac
- Say hey (Message Memory) A quiet daily nudge toward the people you've drifted from
- WindowBunny Window switching built for the trackpad, not the keyboard
- Analog TV Simulator Broadcast physics, not a scanline filter
- Droppy The notch shelf that refused to die
- EnviousWispr Offline dictation that cleans up after itself
- Purge A cache cleaner you can actually audit
- BetterStage Snap your whole multi-monitor desk into place
- Click2Minimize Grab and resize a window from anywhere inside it
- GD Studio Generative line art, designed to end up on paper
- MacPulse A Mac system monitor you can just ask questions
- SubSmith Turn any video moment into an Anki flashcard
- GroupCtrl A workflow-based, git-configurable alternative to Cmd+Tab
- Osaurus Fully offline, open-source local AI for your Mac
- TimeBarX A Mac timer where the whole menu bar is the countdown
- Trovelo A private trip planner with no accounts, subscription, or servers
- Unfold Quick Look for folders, archives, source code, and LaTeX
- AirSpace Track and rename your macOS Spaces in the menu bar
- AndroidFileSync Free macOS app to move files between Mac and Android
- Editorio Native macOS markdown + code editor, free forever
- macUSB All-in-one USB installer creator for Mac — now with Linux and Windows support
- Muxy A lightweight Mac terminal with a sidebar for projects — and a mobile remote
- Numsy A simple menu-bar calculator with no Dock icon
- RapidPhoto A Mac App Store Lightroom alternative born from a batch-resize project
- ScreenAlert Menu-bar app that watches a region of your screen and pings you when it changes
- ShotGlass A screen recorder that makes demos look like an Apple commercial
- Zipora A native macOS archive tool in Swift / SwiftUI
- Aira Free Mac teleprompter that stays hidden on calls
- ChessUnlock Solve a chess puzzle to unlock your Mac
- Steno AI meeting notes that never leave your Mac
- Switch ⌘-Tab that cycles windows, not apps
- Zenteek A native Mac music player for collectors and DAC owners
- Contact Sheet Open a folder of photos, see them like a darkroom proof print
- FileFluss Two-pane Mac file manager that treats every cloud as a local folder
- Liqoria One liquid-glass mini-player for every music app on the Mac
- Loop Free, open-source radial window manager that actually feels native
- Paperman Make a glossy display feel like matte paper
- Strflow A 'text yourself' notes app, native across Mac, iPad, iPhone
- SuperIsland Dynamic Island for the MacBook notch, with a JS extension SDK
- Avocado An invisible-in-the-notch teleprompter for Mac, with a Director Mode that turns any device into a remote prompter
- Cling A keyboard-first file finder that sees what Spotlight ignores
- ExtraBar A different approach to menu-bar management on macOS Tahoe
- GooseNeck A posture coach that uses your MacBook's hidden motion sensors instead of the camera
- Ikoi A task manager that asks how you feel before showing you the list
- RevPDF A free, fully offline Mac PDF editor
- SmartPic Local AI photo editing for Mac — no cloud upload, no subscription
- TablePro A free, native, open-source database client for macOS
- Sindre Sorhus' Older-macOS App Versions Every paid Sindre app, free, for anyone still on macOS 15 or earlier
- BetterAudio Free menu bar audio manager with per-app volume and EQ
- Curflow System-wide mouse gestures so your hand never leaves the mouse
- DockPops iPhone-style app folders for the macOS Dock
- FlutterTime Menu-bar timezone converter with a draggable timeline
- HideMyData Free, open-source, on-device redaction of personal data
- Klack 2 Mechanical-keyboard sound effects for Mac typing
- Lapser Studio Timelapse screen recordings without a 30 GB raw file or a video editor
- Lattix Save and launch entire workspaces — apps, files, spaces, monitors — in one click
- Melo Spatial canvas with notes, todos, websites, and AI on one board
- Notepad++ for Mac Native macOS port of the Windows-only text editor people refuse to give up
- Parall Run multiple separate instances of any Mac app side by side
- PingPlace Move macOS notifications anywhere on the screen
- R.A.D. Weather Multi-source forecasts that show you when models disagree
- Refine Local-first writing assistant that runs entirely on-device
- Resurf Local-first personal library for the things you keep meaning to come back to
- Sentient OS Private on-device LLM that indexes your entire digital life
- TranscribeX Live, on-device transcription for any audio source on your Mac
- WallD Lock Screen live wallpapers on macOS Tahoe