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Free Mac voice typing: hold a key, talk, and the words appear where your cursor is in any app, with speech processed on device.

Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families

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A small Mac app for taking, marking up and measuring screenshots, with text recognition, built for designers and developers.

Free plan · Design and images · Individuals and families

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A Mac menu bar app with an iPhone companion that mirrors your local dev site, keeping reloads and scrolling in sync.

One-off payment · Developer tools · Developers

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Free desktop app that backs up your encrypted files onto friends' computers while you store theirs in return.

Since 2021

Free · Security and passwords · Individuals and families

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A desktop app for opening, editing, filtering and querying large CSV files in a grid, for anyone who handles CSV data.

Free plan · Data and spreadsheets

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A Mac menubar app that lists your GitHub and GitLab pull requests and gives you a workspace to review them.

Free plan · Developer tools · Developers

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A small Mac menu bar app that keeps your machine awake, lid closed or not, so long AI agent jobs keep running.

One-off payment · Developer tools · Developers

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A native Mac app for developers to set up local mock endpoints, inspect incoming requests and test webhooks and API failures.

Developer tools · Developers

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iPhone app for controlling your Mac's desktop and terminal remotely over an encrypted direct connection, no SSH needed.

Developer tools · Individuals and families

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A self-hosted web logbook where ham radio operators record contacts, track awards and map their QSOs.

Free · Something else · Individuals and families

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Mac menu bar app that tells you what speed and charging power your USB-C cables and chargers really support.

Free plan · Something else · Individuals and families

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A self-hosted web workspace for ClickHouse with a SQL editor, dashboards and cluster monitoring, for data teams.

Free plan · Developer tools · Developers

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Mac panel that appears at your pointer when you hold the right mouse button, with clipboard history, snippets, apps, files and a timer.

One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families

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Personal task manager for Mac, iPhone and iPad to plan the day, organise projects and track goals.

Projects and tasks · Individuals and families

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A single-binary self-service tool for teams to define ops workflows, require approvals and run them on remote machines.

Free · Developer tools · Developers

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Mac utility to remap trackpad gestures, mouse buttons and shortcuts and link them to chains of automated actions.

Free trial · Automation and integrations · Individuals and families

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Desktop app that transcribes voice recordings offline so podcasters and editors can cut clips by highlighting words.

Since 2026

Free · Video and audio · Creators and writers

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Logs what you work on automatically for remote workers and shares private summaries with the team, no timers needed.

Time tracking

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Mac utility to fill the menu bar with your own links into apps, quick actions and shortcuts, all triggered from the keyboard.

Since 2026

One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families

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A snippet library for developers and teams to save, label and share code, with plugins for editors, browsers and Slack.

Developer tools · Developers

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Move files, text and links between your phone and computers through a cloud app that runs on six platforms.

Free plan · Something else · Individuals and families

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A free Mac app that translates text you select or capture on screen, running on the device so it works offline.

Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families

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Hold one key and speak to type into any Mac app, with speech turned into text offline on your own machine.

One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families

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Free open source desktop app for drawing 2D frame by frame animations in raster or vector, for animators.

Free · Design and images · Creators and writers

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A meditation timer with bells and intervals, with no guided audio, for people who sit on their own.

Health and habits · Individuals and families

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Design dashboards for e-ink screens around your home and keep them updated, run on your own server or Home Assistant.

Free · Home and car · Individuals and families

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A keyboard-driven Mac photo viewer for flicking through folders, binning rejects and converting the ones you keep in bulk.

Free · Design and images · Individuals and families

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Checklists that reset on a schedule for packing, groceries and routines, can lock distracting apps, and can be shared with family.

Focus and productivity · Individuals and families

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A Mac utility that strips hidden system files macOS leaves on thumb drives and memory cards, so they behave properly on Windows PCs.

Free trial · Something else · Individuals and families

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A Mac file browser where you can find, sort and move files by typing plain requests to an AI assistant.

Since 2025

Focus and productivity · Individuals and families

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Desktop app for developers to query, browse, edit and chart data across Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB and other databases.

Since 2025

Free plan · Developer tools · Developers

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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

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Runs scheduled workflows written in YAML from one binary, with retries, logs and a web dashboard, for teams replacing cron.

Developer tools · Developers

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Free Mac menu bar tool that slides a Finder style file drawer in from any screen edge when you press a hotkey.

Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families

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Mac app for drawing quick sketch-style flowcharts, architecture sketches and process diagrams, bought once with no subscription.

One-off payment · Design and images

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Desktop app for watching, automating and resuming Grok, Gemini CLI, Codex and Claude Code sessions across many projects.

Free · Developer tools · Developers

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A light open-source code editor with coding agents, terminals and Git built in, for Mac, Windows and Linux.

Free · Developer tools · Developers

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Records your belongings, home details, receipts, repairs and upkeep schedules in one app on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Subscription · Home and car · Individuals and families

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A free Mac app that guards OLED screens against burn-in, tests panels for faults and adds monitor controls.

Free · Something else · Individuals and families

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Controls your Apple TV from iPhone, iPad or the Mac menu bar, with an app launcher and details of what is playing.

One-off payment · Home and car · Individuals and families

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An open-source coding agent that writes and runs code with any AI model, from the terminal, a desktop app or your editor.

Developer tools · Developers

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A free open source two pane file manager for desktop that also browses FTP, SFTP, S3 and archives.

Free · Something else · Individuals and families

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Hosted storage for Borg and Restic backup repositories with encryption, append-only mode and alerts when backups stop.

Free plan · Security and passwords · Developers

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Free open-source point of sale for shops and restaurants that bills offline on your own computer, with optional cloud sync.

Free · Payments and checkout · Restaurants and cafés

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Free open-source Mac app showing live window previews when you hover over Dock icons, plus Windows style Alt Tab switching.

Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families

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A day planner for iPhone, iPad, Mac and web that combines weekly plans, task priorities, calendars, journal and habits.

Since 2025

Projects and tasks · Individuals and families

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A free workspace for running AI coding agents in isolated Git worktrees on your laptop or a remote server.

Free · Developer tools · Developers

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A free Mac terminal that arranges every session into a grid by itself, made for running many AI coding agents side by side.

Since 2026

Free · Developer tools · Developers