Bundle Nothing leaves the machine Utilities whose whole design decision is that your data stays on your own hardware.
Cachety Watermark your ID before it goes to the landlord
Bundle Local AI, on your own Mac AI tools that run their models on your own hardware, with no cloud round-trip.
Better Window Switcher Search your windows by what's on screen, not just what they're called
Swarm A family-tree app that knows the Russian word for your husband's brother
CommentPulse Every comment in a Google Sheet, listed with the tab and cell it hangs off
What Just Pinged Me? A free menu-bar app that names the sound your Mac just made, then replays it
Message Album One conversation, exported as a website that will still open in 2046
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
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
Finds
- Snitch A live map of every server your Mac is talking to
- Tiny Little Office An office suite where the link is the document
- Clova.Email An email address per company, locked to the first sender
- Cachety Watermark your ID before it goes to the landlord
- ShortFuse Give a Mac app microphone access for fifteen minutes, then take it back
- Normal Tools 193 single-purpose utilities, no account and no clutter
- The Apple Intelligence Report Export the prompts Siri AI actually sent on your behalf
- TypeSeer Grey text finishes your sentence, and the model never leaves the laptop
- HonestSky No ads, no tracking, no paywall, and no premium tier to hold anything back
- CommentPulse Every comment in a Google Sheet, listed with the tab and cell it hangs off
- What Just Pinged Me? A free menu-bar app that names the sound your Mac just made, then replays it
- Session Context What one web page can work out about you, in plain English, with the raw values underneath
- Raven Encrypted messages hidden inside an ordinary-looking sentence
- CSV Preview A CSV viewer, sorter, and filterer that never leaves your browser tab
- Litterbox A Safari extension that pops open X posts without a trip to x.com
- Trackables Apple Health's activity, heart, and sleep data on one glanceable dashboard
- NGPDFs Fifty PDF tools that never see the PDF
- BentoPDF A PDF toolkit that never uploads the PDF
- Invader A 10 MB podcast player that counts the hours it hands back
- Message Album One conversation, exported as a website you can open in 20 years
- GlassBox Every signal your browser hands over, sorted by what survives what
- All Roads Lead Home An atlas of every street you have ever walked — and the ones you never have
- Selvum An offline password vault whose backup opens in any browser, in any year
- Kadō A habit tracker that gives you a score instead of a streak to break
- XCancel Read a linked X post without the account, the JavaScript or the 784KB
- I Didn't Set A Cookie No cookies, no permissions — and it still knows your device and location
- Vox Dictum Transcription and summaries that never leave your Mac
- StopTheScript A Safari extension that kills inline JavaScript, not just external scripts
- Hotspot Meter A menu-bar data meter that never leaves your Mac
- Open Minis A private AI agent that runs your calendar and HomeKit without a cloud round-trip
- In Meeting Turns the light outside your door red the moment anything opens your microphone
- Quiche Browser A solo-built iPhone browser that now hides AI overviews by default
- PanicVault A password manager that keeps your vault as a single KeePass file you own
- Murmur Offline, on-device text-to-speech for long multi-speaker scripts
- Searxly A native Mac browser with a private search engine built in
- Bananarr Fingerprints a site's tech stack without phoning home
- bHive Filer Semantic search across the files you already have
- MinuteFile Transcribes local meeting recordings without a bot or an upload
- Token Time Screen Time, but for your AI agent's token burn
- ChessFlex Serverless chess with AI opponents at real FIDE ratings
- Clarity An encrypted-vault file manager with a metadata-stripping share extension
- Mispher Speech recognition and an agent, both running fully on-device
- Did I Copy It? A menu-bar cure for compulsive re-copying
- Say hey (Message Memory) A quiet daily nudge toward the people you've drifted from
- EnviousWispr Offline dictation that cleans up after itself
- Local MCP An MCP server that keeps Mac Mail and Calendar access on-device
- MacPulse A Mac system monitor you can just ask questions
- Osaurus Fully offline, open-source local AI for your Mac
- Trovelo A private trip planner with no accounts, subscription, or servers
- Journiv Self-hosted journaling with mood tracking and full data ownership
- SafeCam Pro Blurs your video feed when an unexpected face appears
- Steno AI meeting notes that never leave your Mac
- Compacto A nine-tool PDF kit for Mac — local-only, no accounts
- GooseNeck A posture coach that uses your MacBook's hidden motion sensors instead of the camera
- SmartPic Local AI photo editing for Mac — no cloud upload, no subscription
- HideMyData Free, open-source, on-device redaction of personal data
- Refine Local-first writing assistant that runs entirely on-device
- Sentient OS Private on-device LLM that indexes your entire digital life
- TranscribeX Live, on-device transcription for any audio source on your Mac