NFC Energy-Harvesting Business Card Twenty-one LEDs, no battery, powered by the phone reading it
Mapping India's Clouds A daily pixel map of where it is cloudy
Defragger The moving blocks, on Linux, and not a wrapper around anything
Sierra Softlock Analyzer It works out the moment a thirty-year-old adventure game stopped being winnable, then puts a stop sign one step earlier
IVAN BOHUN A website served from four microcontrollers that vote on which one is in charge
Every Cube All 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 cube states, laid out on one ruler
morningprint A thermal receipt printer that publishes one edition a day, to an audience of one
ssh.place A shared canvas with no app, no account, and one rule that everybody breaks
Cycloidal Gearbox A fifteen-year-old's 3D-printed 1:9 drive, published with the version that failed and the numbers that prove it
Datatype A font that draws the chart for you
Bundle Made from parts the Mac already had Five small Mac apps that ship almost nothing, because the machine already had the parts.
The First Herculaneum Scroll, Read A 2,000-year-old scroll read in full without ever being opened
Zen Mode One global hotkey that zens any Mac app, not just editors
Folo Open-source AI-first RSS reader that ingests 24+ source types
Wyrm Math An open-source algebra engine where illegal moves have no square to drop into
App Monitor One free, open-source dashboard for Mac app usage, storage, and updates
Osaurus Open-source local AI for your Mac — native Swift, with an on-device privacy filter for cloud calls
tldraw Instant browser-based infinite whiteboard, no account needed
Muxy A native SwiftUI workspace built around the terminal
Loop Window snapping by gesture, not by hotkey
gum Polished shell-script UI components — choose, input, spinner, confirm
TablePro A free, native, open-source database client for macOS
MonitorControl Native brightness and volume keys for any external display
Apex Markdown Processor One Markdown tool that renders every dialect — and shows images in your terminal
AltTab The window switcher Apple should have built
Ice The free, open-source successor to Bartender
Mac Mouse Fix Trackpad gestures, mapped onto a third-party mouse
LinearMouse Making external mice feel like they belong on a Mac
DockDoor Hover the Dock, see your windows
Flux Markdown A markdown editor that flows
MiddleDrag A single gesture you'll use a hundred times a day
Finds
- Floe A free, open-source instrument engine for sample libraries
- Kindle Comic Converter (KCC) Manga and comics recompressed for true fullscreen on e-ink
- BentoPDF A PDF toolkit that never uploads the PDF
- Snaketron Competitive multiplayer Snake, revived after fourteen years
- Sam Learns Things — World Map A geography drill that stops asking about the boring islands
- OpenTIE and OpenXWA TIE Fighter at 240 Hz, with iMUSE intact
- Texttile One entry, many authors, one keyboard at a time
- Defragger The moving blocks, on Linux, twenty years late
- TeXbrain pdfTeX compiled in the tab, with the paper never leaving
- TypeClip Pastes your clipboard as though a human were typing it
- OpenLogi Your Logitech mouse settings, in a text file you own
- PawVis Fold two fingers to scroll, dip a pinky to right-click
- Dashboard Touch Thirty dollars of parts, and your old Mac gets a fingerprint button
- Sierra Softlock Analyzer It finds the moment a Sierra game stopped being winnable, and blocks it
- ASCII City A walkable neon cyberpunk city where every texture is a character
- hncli Hacker News in the terminal, with the keys written on every screen
- Visimer Edit a Mermaid diagram by dragging the diagram instead of the syntax
- Kadō A habit tracker that gives you a score instead of a streak to break
- PageSieve Point at a page element, name the field, keep the recipe
- ThoughtDAG A canvas where the wire between two nodes is the context
- Waku Every coding agent in one timeline, with a rewind that moves your code too
- Widen Ask Postgres a question in English, then read the SQL before it runs
- XCancel Read a linked X post without the account, the JavaScript or the 784KB
- LuaCAD Parametric CAD scripted in Lua, running in the browser
- Where's My Muni? Every Muni, BART and Caltrain vehicle in San Francisco on one map
- IVAN BOHUN A personal website served from six microcontrollers on a shelf
- Millennium A plugin loader and CSS theming layer for the Steam client
- YazSes Hold a key, speak, release — and nothing leaves the machine
- Woxi The Wolfram Language, reimplemented in Rust and running in a browser tab
- git-knife Commit messages, authors and dates, edited like a spreadsheet
- MacPacker Browse an archive like a folder and drag out only the file you wanted
- ThinkingType An eval asking whether the font changes the model's mind
- Write.md A Markdown editor where you design the room, not the syntax colours
- AI Pulse Eight pretend LEDs living next to your Dock
- Blueferry iMessage on Linux with no cloud in between
- Ember Colour palettes that survive your screen going orange
- StratoPi A Raspberry Pi, a weather balloon, and 100,000 feet
- textlog Microblogging with the JavaScript turned off
- Shieldfont A web font that shows readers your words and scrapers someone else's
- Starboard A real terminal pinned beside the Dock, always there
- VirtualBuddy A real GUI for virtualizing macOS on Apple Silicon
- pokeemerald-rp2350 Pokémon Emerald recompiled to run natively on a $6 microcontroller
- morningprint A thermal receipt printer that publishes one edition a day
- Kakehashi Wine, pointed the other way
- Cycloidal Gearbox A fifteen-year-old's 1:9 gearbox, published with the version that didn't work
- Datatype A font that draws the chart for you
- Yap Dictation with nothing to download
- Aqua UI Mac OS X Cheetah, rebuilt as web components
- Capsomnia Caps Lock as a physical keep-awake switch
- discrete6502 A MOS 6502 rebuilt from 4,051 transistors you can see
- SpinWin Rotate any Mac window to any angle, upside down included
- Arborist A command center for AI coding-agent sessions across git worktrees
- Binaural Studio Binaural beats generated to match the musical key of what's playing
- Chimlo Puts your Claude Code and Codex agents in the MacBook notch
- Max Studio Tools Ten open-source DSP emulations of studio EQs and compressors
- Remux A native iOS tmux client reshaped for the phone in your hand
- Cubby Clipboard A clipboard history that OCRs your screenshots so you can search them
- Megaphone Mac dictation that never leaves the device
- Vivace A single-process Qt media player that plays real DVDs, menus included
- Imagin RAW A RAW browser that treats a folder as a folder — no import step, no managed library
- In Meeting Turns the light outside your door red the moment anything opens your microphone
- Ex Situ A map that draws a line from where each artifact was taken to where it sits now
- UwUEFI A UEFI bootloader that lets TempleOS start on hardware built after it
- BrickSolvr Upload a 3D model, get a buildable brick version and a parts list
- KeyClu Double-tap and hold Cmd to see every shortcut for the app in front
- Microflow Wire an Arduino by connecting nodes, not writing code
- RetroMac A live Mac desktop that boots as Snow Leopard, System 6, Win98, or BeOS
- ship.md Folders as places, so moving a file can fire a real-world errand
- Aerial Apple TV's aerial screensaver, free and open source on the Mac
- ArtfulType A Markdown editor built to run on classic 68k Macintosh computers, not a modern one
- DockLift Click an app's Dock icon and its window jumps to the display you're using
- Leaves A disk-usage treemap rendered entirely in terminal characters
- VoiceInk Open-source dictation that runs local Whisper and Parakeet models, fully offline
- lidwatch Sleeps a docked MacBook when you close the lid
- Zen Mode One global hotkey that zens any Mac app, not just editors
- Mispher Speech recognition and an agent, both running fully on-device
- PastPage A browser extension that checks every web archive at once
- Wyrm Math An algebra app where illegal moves can't physically be dragged into place
- Debloat Slack Live-strip Slackbot, huddles, and AI upsells out of the Mac Slack app
- App Monitor One free menu-bar dashboard for app usage, storage, and updates
- SmartClipboard Paste your last nine clips back in order with Option+1–9
- Kaset A native, open-source Mac client for YouTube and YouTube Music
- orzma A terminal that renders live web pages inside itself
- EnviousWispr Offline dictation that cleans up after itself
- Purge A cache cleaner you can actually audit
- GroupCtrl A workflow-based, git-configurable alternative to Cmd+Tab
- Osaurus Fully offline, open-source local AI for your Mac
- oioi Free open-source clipboard manager with Liquid Glass aesthetic
- TimeCapsuleSMB Open-source modern Samba server for Apple Time Capsules
- TownSquare One script tag adds real-time presence to any website
- AndroidFileSync Free macOS app to move files between Mac and Android
- Griffin PowerMate Driver Modern Mac driver for the vintage knob input device
- macUSB All-in-one USB installer creator for Mac — now with Linux and Windows support
- Switch ⌘-Tab that cycles windows, not apps
- Loop Free, open-source radial window manager that actually feels native
- SuperIsland Dynamic Island for the MacBook notch, with a JS extension SDK
- Mac Juice Monitor Bluetooth device battery levels, in your menu bar
- TablePro A free, native, open-source database client for macOS
- ticker An LED-style scrolling ticker for the Mac menu bar, fed from the command line
- Clocker Multiple time zones in the menu bar, with a meeting-time slider
- MonitorControl Native brightness and volume keys for any external display
- Mos Mouse-wheel scrolling that finally feels like a trackpad
- Cilicon Throwaway macOS virtual machines via Apple's Virtualization framework
- gum Polished shell-script UI components — choose, input, spinner, confirm
- Heatwave Visual heat map of your git commit activity
- HideMyData Free, open-source, on-device redaction of personal data
- LeaderKey Static, predictable single-key sequences to launch any app
- nom Terminal RSS reader for the command line
- Notepad++ for Mac Native macOS port of the Windows-only text editor people refuse to give up
- PingPlace Move macOS notifications anywhere on the screen