Afterglow The original 68k module code, running on your Mac as a screen saver
Reviews
Message Album One conversation, exported as a website that will still open in 2046
BitCam Ten years old, handed to a new studio, and now a 1-bit editor as well as a 1-bit camera
Waku A rewind that takes the code back with the conversation, in a Mac app that admits it is version 0.0.3
bIRC A native Mac IRC client for the post-Textual era
ScreenFloat Screenshots that float above every window as a reusable shelf
FlashFilter A GPU screen filter that catches strobing before it reaches your eyes
ScrollPods Scroll Mac windows by tilting your head, using the motion sensors in your AirPods
Glaze Thirty-plus live shader looks for your whole screen, one keystroke away
Lunacy A native player that runs the original Lunatic Fringe module, unchanged, on a modern Mac
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
Marked QL Real Markdown previews — Mermaid, math, syntax highlighting — from the Finder spacebar
Paste Switch Paste like an Emacs kill ring
Tintd 2 Folders that color themselves by name
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
WhimFiles A native Mac file manager that puts filtering and fuzzy-find ahead of the folder tree
Fidelia A bit-perfect Mac music player, rebuilt from scratch on a new engine for people who want to control the whole signal path
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
Bartender 6 The original menu-bar manager grows a notch peninsula
Gnome Menu-bar GIF search by hotkey
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
Blip AirDrop for everyone, even the Windows users
MonitorControl Native brightness and volume keys for any external display
Sindre Sorhus' Older-macOS App Versions Every paid Sindre app, free, for anyone still on macOS 15 or earlier
Superkey Click any visible text by saying its name — no mouse
AltTab The window switcher Apple should have built
Cotypist Autocomplete that lives everywhere on your Mac
Homerow Click anywhere on the screen with your keyboard
Ice The free, open-source successor to Bartender
Mac Mouse Fix Trackpad gestures, mapped onto a third-party mouse
Tot A scratchpad with exactly seven slots, on purpose
Shottr The screenshot tool that takes its job seriously
LinearMouse Making external mice feel like they belong on a Mac
Hyperkey Turning Caps Lock into a fifth modifier
DockDoor Hover the Dock, see your windows
Alcove The Dynamic Island, but for your Mac
Monocle A focus tool that points instead of nags
AntiNote Notes that fight against organizing themselves
TypeWhisper Dictation that doesn't sound like a robot took it
Flux Markdown A markdown editor that flows
Folder Peek The Dock folder behavior macOS forgot to ship
MiddleDrag A single gesture you'll use a hundred times a day
Finds
- Weedout Pulls YouTube's AI-labeled videos out of your feed before you scroll past
- fileregister Permanent file IDs and self-documenting binders, in plain text
- Klipto A native Mac clipboard manager built around a paste-in-order Stack
- Lucky Dangle A lucky charm that hangs from the top of your Mac's screen
- Tether A ball on a string that bounces off your actual app windows
- Traverse A macOS outliner with a Writer view, column browsing, and screenplay export
- Acorn 8.6.2 Screenshot every open window, each on its own layer
- Afterglow Flying Toasters, running the original 68k code
- Chonkcraft Warcraft II off the original disc, on a Mac from this year
- OpenTIE and OpenXWA TIE Fighter at 240 Hz, with iMUSE intact
- Cirrus Stop guessing whether iCloud Drive is stuck
- Message Album One conversation, exported as a website you can open in 20 years
- TypeClip Pastes your clipboard as though a human were typing it
- BitCam A camera that throws away every colour but two
- OpenLogi Your Logitech mouse settings, in a text file you own
- Tansei A shelf that catches every URL you copy, unasked
- 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
- Gramola Cover Flow, exiled to the edge of the screen
- SetShot Proof that the update changed your settings
- Saggar A Mac terminal that tells you which session is waiting on you
- DeltaFree Answers the actual question: how many weeks of backup space are left
- Tidy Your Mac tidies itself, from the menu bar, without asking
- Identify files in APFS using inode numbers Disk Utility tells you a file is broken without telling you which file
- 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
- AIUsageBar What you've actually spent across every AI tool, in the menu bar
- Basalt Eighteen PDF tools in one Mac window, including redaction that proves itself
- Clamshell Close the lid, keep the build running — no external display required
- A Planet Position Widget Astropy piped into a Mac widget that shows where the planets are
- TuckBar Hides the menu bar, one display at a time
- VirtualMacOnIPad macOS running on an iPad Pro, caveats very much applying
- MacPacker Browse an archive like a folder and drag out only the file you wanted
- p0rt Every dev server you forgot about, counted in the menu bar
- Write.md A Markdown editor where you design the room, not the syntax colours
- AI Pulse Eight pretend LEDs living next to your Dock
- Soulver 4 A notepad that does the arithmetic in the margin
- Starboard A real terminal pinned beside the Dock, always there
- VirtualBuddy A real GUI for virtualizing macOS on Apple Silicon
- Vox Dictum Transcription and summaries that never leave your Mac
- StopTheScript A Safari extension that kills inline JavaScript, not just external scripts
- SuperDuper 4 A Mac backup app whose interface explains itself in plain English
- FileRouter Open With, except you write the rules
- Vinyl A turntable that spins whatever you're actually playing
- MailMaven A Mac mail client that answers to AppleScript again
- Coast An iPhone that clicks back at your Mac
- Pastebot 3 Tapbots rebuilds its clipboard manager from zero
- Yap Dictation with nothing to download
- bIRC A native Mac IRC client for the post-Textual era
- Capsomnia Caps Lock as a physical keep-awake switch
- SpinWin Rotate any Mac window to any angle, upside down included
- Chimlo Puts your Claude Code and Codex agents in the MacBook notch
- Hotspot Meter A menu-bar data meter that never leaves your Mac
- ScreenFloat Screenshots that float above every window as a reusable shelf
- Megaphone Mac dictation that never leaves the device
- Ombrelle Dims every window on your Mac except the one you're using
- Vivace A single-process Qt media player that plays real DVDs, menus included
- Chalk Paste a screenshot, draw arrows on it, copy the result — no file, no project, no share link
- 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
- Orate Select any text, press ⌥⌘L, and it joins a listening queue that never leaves the Mac
- Envy One box that searches, creates, opens and filters every note you have
- FlashFilter A GPU screen filter that catches strobing before it reaches your eyes
- SpotTest 1.3 Finds out why Spotlight quietly refuses to index a file
- 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
- Quick Look Doctor Settles the fight when two Quick Look extensions claim the same file
- 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
- SpotTest A drag-and-drop diagnostic for why Spotlight can't find a file
- 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
- Lettera A native Mac Markdown editor from the Bear team, now in beta
- 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
- ParkShelf Park open Mac windows on an off-screen shelf instead of hunting the Dock
- ScrollPods Scroll Mac windows by tilting your head, using the motion sensors in your AirPods
- 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
- Breva Feel your breathing, don't watch it
- 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
- Lunacy A native player that resurrects Lunatic Fringe on modern Macs
- 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
- Juicy Custom battery alerts at any percentage, not just Apple's low-battery warning
- lidwatch Sleeps a docked MacBook when you close the lid
- MinuteFile Transcribes local meeting recordings without a bot or an upload
- SoundPipe Route any app's audio into any other app, one-click install
- TimeGauge 52% of 2026 is gone, right there in the menu bar
- Winstrix A true window-level Alt+Tab for Mac switchers
- Zen Mode One global hotkey that zens any Mac app, not just editors
- Marked QL Real Markdown previews — Mermaid, math, syntax highlighting — from the Finder spacebar
- Token Time Screen Time, but for your AI agent's token burn
- 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
- Mispher Speech recognition and an agent, both running fully on-device
- Stacks Classic HyperCard stacks running natively on a modern Mac
- Debloat Slack Live-strip Slackbot, huddles, and AI upsells out of the Mac Slack app
- 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
- Iris A Mac photo library that can pin a person's face in your Dock
- macOS Golden Gate 27 default wallpapers The four new system wallpapers, downloadable without the beta
- Orbit for Mac Every Google account in one native window, not a tab jungle
- 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
- WhimFiles A native Mac file manager built around fuzzy-find
- 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
- Fidelia A bit-perfect Mac music player, rebuilt from scratch
- 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
- Paste Switch Paste like an Emacs kill ring
- Purge A cache cleaner you can actually audit
- Revisionist See every hidden version macOS quietly saved
- Tintd 2 Folders that color themselves by name
- 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
- Dockside Turns the empty space around the macOS Dock into a widget workspace
- GroupCtrl A workflow-based, git-configurable alternative to Cmd+Tab
- Osaurus Fully offline, open-source local AI for your Mac
- Tamamon A desktop pet that grows as you code with Claude Code
- 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
- Breaks Free, open-source Pomodoro timer for the macOS menu bar
- DetailsPro Visual SwiftUI builder that exports production-ready code
- Folo Open-source AI-first RSS reader that ingests 24+ source types
- grubber-twin CLI tool that syncs config folders between two Macs via Markdown
- Lettera File-system Markdown editor built on the Bear 2 engine
- Mints Free Mac utility that surfaces QuickLook generators and diagnostics
- Notchkin Keyboard-driven notes app that lives in the MacBook notch
- oioi Free open-source clipboard manager with Liquid Glass aesthetic
- SafeCam Pro Blurs your video feed when an unexpected face appears
- SilentKnight 3 Free Mac security checker now exports results as text and JSON
- Sortio AI file organizer that reads document contents, not just names
- Fixing Generic QuickLook Thumbnails on macOS Systematic guide to fixing blank icons after a macOS upgrade
- TimeCapsuleSMB Open-source modern Samba server for Apple Time Capsules
- Tuna Modern Swift launcher pitched as the Quicksilver successor
- UTIutility Free Mac app for exploring Uniform Type Identifier hierarchies
- BBEdit 16 Bare Bones ships its biggest version in years
- Protect files with the Immutable flag on macOS When Finder's Lock isn't enough
- Rescue Your nvALT Notes & Settings Database A Brett Terpstra recovery tool for users locked out of nvALT
- RemCTL A power-user Reminders CLI for macOS and AI agents
- AirSpace Track and rename your macOS Spaces in the menu bar
- AndroidFileSync Free macOS app to move files between Mac and Android
- Dropover A Mac shelf utility that drops into any drag via cursor shake
- Editorio Native macOS markdown + code editor, free forever
- Griffin PowerMate Driver Modern Mac driver for the vintage knob input device
- Indigo Bluesky and Mastodon in one merged timeline
- Klack A Mac app that gives your keyboard mechanical-switch sounds
- macUSB All-in-one USB installer creator for Mac — now with Linux and Windows support
- Marked 3 Brett Terpstra's Markdown previewer ships a major version
- 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
- Bartender 6 Menu bar manager turns the notch into a dynamic peninsula
- ChessUnlock Solve a chess puzzle to unlock your Mac
- Clipboard Sync via WebDAV Cross-platform clipboard sharing using your own WebDAV server
- Gnome Menu-bar GIF search by hotkey
- Monologue Dictation app with a command-line interface
- Steno AI meeting notes that never leave your Mac
- Switch ⌘-Tab that cycles windows, not apps
- TerminalWidget Terminal feedback as a desktop widget
- Versatility Preserve macOS file versions across iCloud and create versioned PDFs
- Zenteek A native Mac music player for collectors and DAC owners
- Roll back to a macOS snapshot without Time Machine tmutil snapshot before risky changes; Recovery + Time Machine to roll back
- 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
- Check what Spotlight actually indexed with mdimport and mdls When Spotlight ignores a file, ask the importer directly
- Strflow A 'text yourself' notes app, native across Mac, iPad, iPhone
- SuperIsland Dynamic Island for the MacBook notch, with a JS extension SDK
- Wallpaper Reactor Lite Browse and set live, animated desktop wallpapers on the Mac
- 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
- Compacto A nine-tool PDF kit for Mac — local-only, no accounts
- Current Reader An RSS reader built around rivers, not inboxes
- 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
- Hovercraft Stay on camera; let your slides float beside you
- Ikoi A task manager that asks how you feel before showing you the list
- Mac Juice Monitor Bluetooth device battery levels, in your menu bar
- Mister Plimsoll A free disk-space watchdog from Glenn Fleishman
- RevPDF A free, fully offline Mac PDF editor
- ScreenKite A native, free Mac screen recorder that exports 4× faster than Screen Studio
- SmartPic Local AI photo editing for Mac — no cloud upload, no subscription
- 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
- AppCleaner Drag an app onto it and every preference, cache, and login item goes too
- Blip AirDrop for everyone, even the Windows users
- CleanMyKeyboard One tap to disable the keyboard so you can wipe it down
- Clocker Multiple time zones in the menu bar, with a meeting-time slider
- DaisyDisk A sunburst map of your disk, dragged-and-dropped into the trash
- iA Writer The benchmark for plain-text Markdown writing
- LaunchOS A pixel-faithful Launchpad replacement for macOS Tahoe
- Light Crime Audio Player A native macOS music player from a developer who wanted iTunes back
- Macfolio A taste-driven catalog of Mac software, hardware, and desk objects
- MonitorControl Native brightness and volume keys for any external display
- Mos Mouse-wheel scrolling that finally feels like a trackpad
- Parrot A skeuomorphic audio recorder with a tape-deck soul
- Vivid Unlocks the HDR-only headroom on MacBook Pro displays for everyday use
- Wallspace Live video wallpapers for macOS that don't melt the battery
- Sindre Sorhus' Older-macOS App Versions Every paid Sindre app, free, for anyone still on macOS 15 or earlier
- Synerlogic macOS Keyboard Shortcut Vinyl Sticker A $6 cheat-sheet sticker for the palm rest
- TerminalWidget Pipe any terminal command into a desktop widget
- Apple Frames 4 Wraps screenshots in real device bezels, now with frame colors and a CLI
- BetterAudio Free menu bar audio manager with per-app volume and EQ
- Calendar Inbox for Detected Events iOS and macOS now collect Siri-suggested events in one inbox
- Companion Apps for Apple Music Faithful re-creations of the classic iTunes interfaces, riding on top of modern Music
- Curflow System-wide mouse gestures so your hand never leaves the mouse
- DockPops iPhone-style app folders for the macOS Dock
- Finalist Daily planner app modeled on a paper notebook
- Finder Tags as Categories Use Finder's seven colors as exactly seven categories — no more
- FlutterTime Menu-bar timezone converter with a draggable timeline
- HideMyData Free, open-source, on-device redaction of personal data
- Keyboard Maestro File Launchers Bypass Spotlight by mapping a hotkey directly to a file
- 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
- LeaderKey Static, predictable single-key sequences to launch any app
- Linky Cross-post to Twitter and Mastodon from a single pane
- Melo Spatial canvas with notes, todos, websites, and AI on one board
- Memory Pressure as a RAM Indicator Activity Monitor's quiet truth-teller about whether you need more RAM
- Notepad++ for Mac Native macOS port of the Windows-only text editor people refuse to give up
- One Thing Display a single task in your menu bar, and nothing else
- Paletro VS Code-style command palette in any Mac app
- 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
- Scrolla Keyboard scrolling for long pages without arrow-key fatigue
- Sentient OS Private on-device LLM that indexes your entire digital life
- Superkey Click any visible text by saying its name — no mouse
- TranscribeX Live, on-device transcription for any audio source on your Mac
- WallD Lock Screen live wallpapers on macOS Tahoe
- WhatCable Menu bar utility that diagnoses USB-C cable specs
- Wooshy Keyboard control for every UI element in any Mac app