Mac Tools

Chopstick notices what you repeat on your Mac and builds notch widgets for it, using the coding agent you already have. Your activity log stays local.

Norah Studio is a creative studio for exploring, transforming and reimagining your music on Mac, iPad and iPhone. Isolate tracks, loop by bars, adjust tempo and key, follow chords, add effects, build harmonies, turn melodies into instruments and export audio or MIDI. Everything runs on your device. Choose a subscription or a one-time purchase; either unlocks Pro on iPhone, iPad and Mac with the same Apple Account.

iSurge is one app for people who live on their Mac: live stats at the notch, each app's volume and mic, disk clean-up, an uninstaller, dev tools for ports, projects and Homebrew, a focus timer and Keep Awake. $14.99 once, $10.99 with PHPROMO20. No account.

Keep builds, downloads and local AI tasks running on your Mac, then check its status from your iPhone or Android. Free includes Mac power controls and live phone status. Pro adds remote mode switching. Battery, thermal and session limits stay in place.

Put Claude Code, Codex, Gemini and Grok on one canvas and let them work as a team. Wire two agents and they talk, delegate and hand back results while you lead. Native on macOS, Linux and Windows, built in Rust. 7-day free trial, no card. Then $20, once.

AutoShelf is a Mac app that automatically files, renames, tags, converts, and sorts new files in folders like Downloads and Desktop, based on rules you set once. New: sort into subfolders built from tokens like %kind% and %date%, unarchive, Finder color labels, and rules that cover all or selected subfolders. Free with 1 rule, or $19.99 one-time for unlimited rules ($29.99 from Nov 25). Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

Hold ⌥ Space in any project and a Liquid Glass ring opens at your cursor. Flick at a slice and let go: Claude Code, Codex or your terminal takes the task, in its own git worktree if you want. When it's served, view the diff, merge it or yeet it. Runs locally.

Boltbar is a native macOS AI chat bar. Press ⌥ Space in any app to ask GPT or Claude, then get back to work. Agent mode hands Claude Code or Codex a project with Look/Ask/Edit/Full permissions. MIT, signed and notarized; brew or DMG. Optional €19 supporter license.

Yardlet is a free, open-source Mac app for the coding agents you already use. It starts Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode and others with their own CLI and sign-in, and gives them one sidebar, composer and set of approval cards. Sessions stay in each agent's own store, so a task started in Yardlet also opens in the Codex app. It writes nothing into the agents' configuration, so you can stop using it any time. Diffs, a pull request tab, connectors and a browser the agents drive come with it.

bytemail is a native Mac email app built in Swift. Gmail, iCloud, Outlook, Yahoo, Fastmail and any IMAP account in one fast window. New mail and sign-in codes grow out of your MacBook's notch, Undo Send flies a paper plane through it, and desktop widgets show what's unread. Tracking pixels are blocked, look-alike senders flagged, and your mail never touches our servers. Snooze, rules, one-click unsubscribe, and an MCP server for Claude and other AI apps. iPhone beta included. 7-day free trial.

Stop describing UI bugs to your AI. Click any element on your localhost site, say what's wrong, and Claude Code, Codex, Gemini or OpenCode edits the right file. Watch it work live, then approve the diff on the page. Nothing is written until you do.

fswitcher is for power users who want more out of cmd+tab. fswitcher looks, feels, and behaves exactly like you expect, but handles apps, windows, desktops, and multiple displays naturally.

Loqui turns your voice into clean, ready-to-send text in any app on your Mac. Hold a shortcut, speak, and the text lands at your cursor in the tone you pick. It also transcribes meetings and writes the minutes. 90+ languages. Free plan, no card needed.

AI Bridge runs Claude Code, Codex, Grok and OpenCode side by side on your Mac: each the real CLI in a real terminal, on your own subscription. Group your agents like a team, by department or by what each one owns. Open a Kubernetes cluster or talk to your database in plain words, right beside them. Prefer terminals? The Grid puts them all on one wall, with cluster and database chats where you need them. Open as many windows as you like, and put agents in Slack that reply when you approve.

A free macOS menu bar app for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners. It asks launchd whether each runner is alive and GitHub whether it still counts on it, and never mixes up the two answers.

All Mac Apps is a curated directory for discovering macOS software, from productivity and developer tools to creative apps.

Drop in a finished song and your own footage or photos. Clips finds the tempo and every part (verses, pre-chorus, chorus, bridge) and makes a vertical lyric video for each one, cut on the beat, with the words synced. Pick a layout and one of 54 effects, then export every part on every backdrop at once, named and ready for Ads Manager. Run them all for a week and put your budget behind the part that wins. Works offline. Free to try, then $99 once.

start a focus timer by pulling a cat paw, it lives in your mac menu bar or you can pin it like a mini timer! it has adjustable focus and break sessions, eight cat paws, themes, and a quiet heads-up before your timer ends. made for macos 14+. $9.99 once, with no subscription.

The honest Mac cleaner. Shedi finds what Xcode, Docker, node_modules and 20+ package managers left on your Mac, says what each item is and whether it comes back, and cleans only what you pick. Everything goes to the Trash first. Pay once.

Nothing to save, no layouts to name, nothing to click. Many Displays quietly remembers where every window lives (display, position, size) and puts everything back on its own when your Mac wakes, unlocks or reconnects its monitors. Grant Accessibility once and forget it's there. Built for identical monitors that macOS keeps swapping: it tells them apart, even by the port they're plugged into. No cloud, no account. $19 one-time, 14-day free trial.

sideOS lives in your Mac’s notch. Hold Control + Option, say what you want, let go! It reads your screen, opens apps, clicks, types and tells you when it’s done. Run it fully offline local models or use your own Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or Grok key.