Apple Tools
Explore the best new Apple tools and products curated by the community.
SoundPipe creates virtual audio devices on your Mac so you can send audio from any app, or your microphone, to any other app.
Juicy replaces Apple's basic battery warnings with beautiful custom alerts at any percentage, complete with screen glow and sounds you can't miss. It also packs charge limiting, per-app energy insights, iPhone and iPad battery health, temperature tracking, and a themeable menu bar icon. One lightweight native Swift app instead of stacking AlDente, coconutBattery, and AirBuddy. Pay once, own forever. Featured twice by Apple as "Apps We Love".
Pennen is a calm, private, handwriting-first daily journal for iPad and Apple Pencil. One dated page per day, in real ink: past pages seal and become read-only, emoji stickers peel and press on, and the streak forgives — a one-line night still counts. Your pages live only on your iPad and in your own iCloud: no accounts, no ads, no analytics, no AI reading a word. Priced like a notebook — yearly with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time lifetime that costs less than a Moleskine.
Aruki coaches the Japanese walking method — three minutes easy, three minutes brisk, repeated — entirely from your iPhone. A soft chime and a quiet voice cue every switch, and a Live Activity shows the phase on your lock screen, so your phone stays in your pocket. No Apple Watch, no account, no backend, no subscription — just a one-time Pro unlock. The full guided walk is free.
A native, Docker Desktop-style macOS app for Apple's container CLI. Containers, images, volumes, networks and machines — free and open source.
Ledgerly is now available on the App Store.
The default clock got boring. Keep transforms your iPhone and Mac into beautiful 3D ambient clock displays. Use it as a StandBy-style charging display on iPhone with Apple's built-in Shortcuts automation, or replace static screensavers on Mac with animated ambient clocks. Featuring holographic, glass, jelly, wireframe, matrix and morphing liquid-inspired themes designed to become part of your setup.
Let your notch eat no more! ChocolateBar is a native Mac app that adds a row under your menu bar for icons hidden by the MacBook notch. As you add menubar applications like claude usage notifiers, trackers, productivity apps, the notch starts to eat up menu bar items... and at some point macOS just gives up and shoves icons behind the notch where you can't even click them. Others tries to addresses this by hiding icons. I decided to create an additional bar to show you your menubar items!
Most workout apps give you a generic plan and call it personalized. Whistle actually knows you. It reads your Apple Health data and builds a real training plan around your fitness level, recovery, and goals. Detailed workouts, smart progression, all on your iPhone and Apple Watch. Whether you're just getting started or pushing toward a new personal best, your AI coach figures out what you need and when you need it. Your data. Your plan. Your pace.
PlugTalk plays a custom sound for every USB plug and unplug, and shows live USB speed, power draw, and storage usage from the menu bar. 18 built-in sound packs plus your own MP3s. Per-device rules, hub-aware grouping, connection log. Native Swift for Apple Silicon, idle CPU 0%. $6.99 one-time with a free 7-day trial.
Audex Trace is a Mac mini player for Apple Music that shows what is actually playing in real time: codec, bit depth, sample rate, and output match status. It also shows Playing Next, estimates upcoming queue quality, and warns about tracks that may skip or fail before they interrupt playback.
App Store Connect only shows a fraction of the data Apple actually collects about your app. ConnectWizard unlocks all 100+ report types — both App Store data and on-device data from your users. Get started with pre-defined stats and pin the ones that matter to you, or dig into the raw data and build your own presets. If your app has a larger user base, you also get detailed framework usage data like how long Live Activities are used or which Shortcuts run or fail.
Trovelo is a private trip planner for iPhone and Mac — no accounts, no servers, no subscription. Built by a solo traveler with 40+ countries of experience frustrated with every existing app. Plan day by day with smart cards, type naturally and the app figures it out, track expenses in dual currency, optimize your route, and sync privately via iCloud. One-time $6.99 Pro. Yours forever.
Presentify is a macOS app for annotating your screen, highlighting your cursor, spotlighting important areas, and zooming in for a closer look. It works with any presentation app, including Keynote, Google Slides, and Microsoft PowerPoint, as well as video calling apps like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet.
Notchy is the free, native macOS notch app that turns your MacBook notch into a fluid Dynamic Island — music, timers, clipboard, file drops, cluely, HUDs.
LaunchOS is a Launchpad alternative for macOS 26+ that brings back the classic native Launchpad experience. It recreates the familiar full-screen app grid, folders, pages, and drag-to-organize workflow many Mac users still miss, while fitting naturally into modern macOS with Liquid Glass support. It also adds more flexible ways to launch your apps, including trackpad pinch, Hot Corners, F4, keyboard shortcuts, and thoughtful customization.
Paste any URL. See it rendered across all six common Mac display sizes — MacBook Air 13 and 15, MacBook Pro 14 and 16, iMac 24, and Studio Display 5K — stacked, scaled, and labeled. The notch and menu bar are where Apple puts them, so what you see matches a real fullscreen browser. Single HTML file. No signup, no tracking, no build step. Works with localhost. Download once and it runs offline forever.
Paste any URL. See it rendered across all six common Mac display sizes — MacBook Air 13 and 15, MacBook Pro 14 and 16, iMac 24, and Studio Display 5K — stacked, scaled, and labeled. The notch and menu bar are where Apple puts them, so what you see matches a real fullscreen browser. Single HTML file. No signup, no tracking, no build step. Works with localhost. Download once and it runs offline forever.
The difference between this project and others is that it is built on its own engine, and not taken from other ready-made repositories. It completely copies the logic, animations, and behavior of a real Dynamic Island on an iPhone, unlike other projects. The main goal is to make the project as native as possible, both in terms of design and interaction.
Why is my MacBook charging slowly? WhatCable shows USB-C cable speed, charging power, and e-marker data in plain English so you don't have to guess.
TongueType is a macOS voice dictation app powered by Whisper AI running locally on Apple Silicon. No cloud, no accounts, no subscriptions. Hold a key, speak, release. Your words appear. Supports 12 languages and audio file transcription. TongueType gives you a configurable press-to-talk hotkey, audio and video file transcription, and configurable post-processing rules. It's customizable and fun (try Rainbow Mode!) and it's built to be the fastest dictation workflow possible.