No moat. Still in business.
Software directory for those who don’t want to rebuild, own the updates, the bugs, the support.
- Franz
Puts WhatsApp, Slack, Signal, email and other messengers into one desktop app with workspaces.
Since 2017
Free plan · Focus and productivity
- MarkViewer
Free offline Mac app to open, read and edit Markdown files, with a table of contents and AI review notes.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Bot Archive
Copies attachments, photos and voice notes from email, Slack and Telegram into your Google Drive or Dropbox.
Since 2024
Automation and integrations
- Timing
Mac app that logs which apps, sites and documents you use, then helps you turn that into billable time entries.
Free trial · Time tracking · Individuals and families
- changedetection.io
Watches web pages for you and sends an alert when content, prices or stock levels change.
Subscription · Uptime and monitoring
- Macky
iPhone app for controlling your Mac's desktop and terminal remotely over an encrypted direct connection, no SSH needed.
Since 2026
Developer tools · Individuals and families
- Market Data
Real-time US stock, ETF and options data through an API or Google Sheets formulas, for traders and developers.
Free plan · Data and spreadsheets · Individuals and families
- WriteNative
A Mac app that fixes English grammar and tone as you type in any app and explains each fix in your own language.
Since 2026
Free plan · Something else · Individuals and families
- Chime
Mac app that blocks your screen with a reminder before each meeting and lets you join in one click.
Since 2025
Free trial · Scheduling and booking
- ForcePush
A Mac menu bar timer that prompts push-up breaks during the day and compares your sets with your GitHub commits.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Health and habits · Individuals and families
- TeamSort
Create an anonymous ranked poll, send one link, and see how a group orders its options without anyone signing up.
Since 2025
Free · Forms and surveys
- Authoryze
Gives each AI agent purchase its own single-use virtual card, with spending limits and approval rules you set.
Since 2026
Subscription · Payments and checkout · Individuals and families
- Shortwave
An email app with an AI assistant that sorts your inbox, drafts replies in your style and finds answers in old mail.
Since 2022
Free plan · Focus and productivity
- NotesHub
Markdown note app for every device that stores plain files and syncs through Git, GitHub, iCloud or your own server.
Since 2024
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Superwhisper
Dictation app that turns what you say into clean text inside any program, working offline or in the cloud.
Since 2023
Free plan · Focus and productivity
- Atua
Mac app that runs your own AI prompts on selected text, screenshots or voice from any app by keyboard shortcut.
Since 2023
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Paste
Clipboard history for Apple devices that keeps everything you copy searchable, syncs it through iCloud and feeds it to AI coding tools.
Free trial · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Wachete
Watches any web page and alerts you by email, phone or chat when it changes, such as a price drop or a new job post.
Free plan · Uptime and monitoring
- Voicely
Offline voice typing, call recording with speaker labels and audio file transcription on a Mac, ready to paste into AI coding tools.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Glyph
A Mac app for writing and linking plain Markdown notes in your own folders, with boards, tables and optional AI help.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Timelinize
Pulls your photos, messages, locations and social posts into one private timeline stored on your own computer.
Since 2025
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- FreeMilk
An iPhone app with a coding agent that builds websites, scripts and Swift apps using free ad-funded AI models.
Since 2026
Free · Developer tools · Individuals and families
- The Vibe Hosting
Lets your coding agent spin up a sandboxed Linux box with a public HTTPS address and ship your app there, no account needed.
Free plan · Developer tools · Individuals and families
- Opposable
Lets Claude, Codex or other AI agents tap, type and read the screen on your iPhone or Android phone, or on a rented cloud phone.
Free plan · Developer tools · Individuals and families
- Vitals
Mac activity monitor that shows resource use per app rather than per process, keeps twelve months of data and alerts on problem apps.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Developer tools · Individuals and families
- Desktop Commander
Lets ChatGPT, Claude and other AI chat apps read files and run commands on your own machine or server.
Since 2025
Free plan · Developer tools · Individuals and families
- EarlyNotify
Sends you an alert by email, Slack, Discord, Teams, Pushover or webhook soon after Apple releases an iOS or macOS update.
Since 2025
Free · Uptime and monitoring
- Notchly
Turns the MacBook notch into a space for music controls and alerts from Codex, Cursor and Claude Code.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Minutes
Transcribes meetings, calls and voice memos on your own machine into markdown files that your AI assistant can search.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Prismical
Records meeting audio and voice memos without a bot joining, then turns them into transcripts, summaries and action items.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge
- Pinto Notes
A free Mac notes app that Claude and other AI assistants can read and change with your approval.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- VoiceLeap
Mac app that translates speech live in calls, videos and podcasts, both what you hear and what you say.
Since 2026
Subscription · Something else
- Notanic
A note app on an endless canvas with nested pages, Markdown, sketching and live collaboration, for people who think visually.
Since 2025
Subscription · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- LMCP
A Mac and Windows app that lets ChatGPT or Claude read and act on your mail, calendar, chats and files without API keys.
Since 2026
Automation and integrations
- Aqua Voice
Speech to text that types what you say wherever your cursor is, on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android.
Since 2025
Free plan · Focus and productivity
- Arlo
A Mac app that reads your mail, calendar and files each morning and writes a short note on what needs you that day.
Since 2026
Free plan · Focus and productivity
- GIFUP
Browser tools that turn videos into GIFs and compress, resize, crop or caption them without uploading the file.
Since 2026
Free · Design and images · Individuals and families
- Ownkube
Deploys apps, databases and workers from a coding agent or dashboard, billed from prepaid credit with a monthly cap.
Pay as you go · Developer tools · Individuals and families
- deariary
Writes a daily diary entry for you each morning from your calendar, chat, code and social activity.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Zmina
Mac clipboard helper that suggests paste actions based on the copied content and target app, such as removing trackers or masking keys.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Nimbus
A dashboard that organises the services in your homelab and checks they are up, self-hosted or run for you in the cloud.
Uptime and monitoring · Individuals and families
- Tofu
Puts an app you built with an AI coding agent online at its own link, with a database, sign-in, custom domain and user emails.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Individuals and families
- Monny
A Mac menu bar monitor for CPU, memory, disk and network that also sets an 80% charge limit and tracks AI plan usage.
Free · Something else · Individuals and families
- Imark
A Mac app for reading Markdown files as clean documents, making quick line fixes and leaving margin notes for coding agents.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Badgeify
Puts app icons with unread badges from Messages, Mail, Slack and others in the Mac menu bar, handy if you hide the Dock.
Since 2025
Free plan · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Leenar
Takes an app made with an AI builder and sets up hosting, database, secrets and domains in your own Vercel and Supabase.
Since 2026
Developer tools · Individuals and families
- Trace
A Mac menu bar app that records calls, transcribes them locally and gives you markdown notes and a summary.
Since 2026
Free trial · Notes and knowledge
- Notedog
A private Android journal that saves entries as Markdown files, lets you edit from a laptop browser and backs up to Git.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families