Mac Tools

CPU, memory, battery, network, disk, GPU, temperature and fans in your menu bar. You pick which ones show, and a click opens the detail behind it. Compact Health folds the whole machine into one item that stays quiet until something's off. MIT, macOS 15+.

Push-to-talk dictation that inserts in place: hold fn, speak, release, and the text appears in the app your cursor is already in. Transcription runs locally with whisper.cpp + Metal, so your audio never leaves the Mac. An optional on-device cleanup pass strips filler words and fixes punctuation. Most dictation apps show you a recording dot or a generic soundwave. This one has hand-animated indicators. $10 once, no subscription. MIT source. macOS 14+, Apple silicon.

Most hint-based Mac tools focus on UI elements. Cursor Crane extends the same interaction model to windows, multi-window workflows, and text editing. Its dedicated modes use predictable rather than arbitrary hints. Enter command sequences to switch modes, perform actions, or run scripts. It also makes awkward keyboard-only tasks practical: selecting text across lines, editing focused fields in an external editor with Text Area Portal, and copying text or capturing UI through Element Menu.

Local-first macOS menu-bar companion for Claude and Cursor usage. Glance at limits without a browser tab. No AgentQuartz cloud account — settings stay on your machine. Free forever for essentials; Pro is a one-time $3 unlock for tray customization. Unofficial.

Hold a key, speak, release: polished text lands in any app on your Mac. Epilude transcribes, punctuates, cleans up, and matches your tone in about a second. Runs fully on-device, so audio never leaves your Mac.

ou want a real Linux VM that: Boots in seconds, not minutes Has a desktop you can actually see Runs headless when you need it (same VM, no restart) Stays running even after you close the app Doesn't require a PhD to set up TinyBridge solves this. One command. Full Linux. On demand. Try - brew install tinybridge

The voice-first agentic dev environment for Mac. Run ten coding agents at once without babysitting them — spawn, redirect, and interrupt Claude, Codex, and Cursor by name, just by talking. On-device speech, your own subscriptions, one-time price.

FindDiskKiller is a native macOS disk activity monitor that reveals which apps and AI coding agents are driving reads and writes. Track per-process disk I/O, CPU and network activity, inspect live file access, trace folders, and view SMART/NVMe drive health. Completely free and open source.

Reach more users worldwide without spending days or hundreds on app localisation. Localise your Xcode projects in minutes, reduce translation costs, and spend less time managing strings so you can focus on building great apps.

KeyOpera adds satisfying keyboard and mouse sounds to your Mac. V2 introduces customkeypak sound packs, one-click Finder installs, a Homebrew CLI for creating and controlling packs, spoken key names, improved VoiceOver support, and a redesigned menu.

Pulse turns your MacBook's notch into a Dynamic Island: Be it music, meetings, clipboard, weather, focus timers, devices and live system stats, one glance up.

Most notch utilities just draw a static shape over the cutout. Islet actually behaves like iPhone's Dynamic Island: native spring-physics expand/collapse, real-time HUDs for volume and brightness, a live music glance with full playback controls, one-tap audio output switching (no System Settings detour), plus calendar, weather, and a file tray you can drop into from anywhere. Built natively in Swift + AppKit, not Electron, fast and fullscreen-aware.

Capsomnia turns Caps Lock into a physical switch that keeps your MacBook awake. Keep Claude Code, Codex, other AI agents, SSH sessions, builds, downloads, and more running after you close the lid. If Caps Lock is already assigned, choose another shortcut. The Caps Lock light still shows whether Capsomnia is active. The app is free and open source, signed and notarized. No accounts or telemetry. We’ve already seen strong interest in Japan: 2.3M+ views and 6,000+ downloads.

You've been at your desk for six hours. Haven't had water since breakfast. Neck locked in one position, eyes dry from the screen. You didn't even notice until now. HealthyNotch lives quietly in your Mac's notch and nudges you before it gets that far: stand up, drink water, blink, stretch. No dock icon, no logging, no dashboards. One-time payment, lifetime access, no subscription.

MinkNote is a native macOS notes and journal app built on plain Markdown files you own. No database, no account, and no vendor lock-in. Organise work with projects, journals, tags, fast search, rich text or Markdown editing, and automatic image organisation in one private, local-first workspace.

Ombrelle quietly dims everything except your active window no clutter, no noise, just what matters right now. Switch between Focus, Flow, or Evening. You'll only really feel what it does the day you turn it off.

Tell Codi what you want to build. It writes the plan, runs AI agents in parallel across all your projects, and picks the cheapest model that can do each task, so you ship more and spend less. When you add a project it writes the charter and task list itself, and only pulls you in when a decision needs you, through one inbox.

A floating macOS window for every Claude Code session. The moment one needs your input, it surfaces — and hides when all is clear. Jump to the exact terminal in one click. Native Swift, notarized, 7-day free trial.

Define a region of your screen to be shared from your ultrawide or high resolution monitor, preventing the inevitable "can you zoom in?" that comes with sharing the entire screen. Define any size region to share, move apps in and out of the region seamlessly, resize the region on the fly, set a default region and invoke with a keyboard shortcut for quick and easy sharing. Blur for privacy. Scaled presenter view displays the content your viewers are seeing. Integrated annotations and whiteboard.

MeetIsland turns the MacBook notch into a Dynamic Island for meetings. Your next call lives quietly around the notch and expands with a live countdown and a one-click Join button (Meet/Zoom) right before it starts. Zero setup — it reads calendars already synced to macOS. $6.99 once, 14-day free trial.

Tidy lives in your menu bar and handles three chores you keep doing by hand. It archives new Desktop screenshots, renaming them from their content with on-device OCR — "Screenshot 14.22.10.png" becomes "invoice-march.png". It ejects thedmg you mounted and trashes the installer. It sorts new Downloads by type, with rules you write in plain English. Apple Intelligence builds them on-device, so nothing leaves your Mac. Only touches new files. Never deletes. $9 once, no subscription.