No moat. Still in business.
Software directory for those who don’t want to rebuild, own the updates, the bugs, the support.
- Nihongo Lessons
An iPhone app that takes Japanese learners from beginner to fluent with one new sentence per flashcard and spaced review.
Since 2015
Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- MLJAR Studio
Desktop data analysis app where you ask about your data in plain English and get Python code, charts and notebooks run on your computer.
Since 2017
Data and spreadsheets
- ProcessSpy
A Mac process monitor with CPU and memory history per process, filters and a menu bar dashboard for power users.
One-off payment · Developer tools · Individuals and families
- Shimo
A Mac menu bar app that connects to work and personal VPNs over OpenVPN, WireGuard, AnyConnect, IPsec and other protocols.
Free trial · Security and passwords
- Text Capture
Mac menu bar app that grabs text from any part of the screen, including images and videos, using local OCR.
Since 2024
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Sensei
Watches your Mac's CPU, GPU, battery and storage from the menu bar and helps find large files to delete.
Something else · Individuals and families
- Scriptarious
A Mac menu bar app for writing, storing and running shell scripts with one click or a hotkey.
Since 2022
Free · Automation and integrations · Individuals and families
- Calendar0
Shows Google, Outlook and iCloud calendars in one tray app, with quick add, booking links and call notes.
Since 2025
Free plan · 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
- mcpock
A Mac menu bar app that tests the MCP servers your AI agents rely on and flags ones that are broken, slow or need sign-in.
Free · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- WhyFi
Sits in the Mac menu bar, checks signal, latency and DNS, and explains what is slowing your wireless connection and how to fix it.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Home and car · Individuals and families
- Grape
A note app for desktop and phone that records and transcribes, then answers questions using your own notes.
Since 2026
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- FlashTabs
Make your own flashcard decks and review them on a spaced repetition schedule in the browser.
Since 2015
Free plan · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- Burning Vocabulary
A browser extension that saves and highlights words you look up on web pages, then drills them with flashcards.
Since 2020
Free plan · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- RemNote
Note app for students that builds flashcards, quizzes and summaries from notes and PDFs with spaced repetition.
Since 2021
Free plan · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- DisplayBuddy
Menu bar app for Mac and Windows that sets brightness, volume and input on external monitors, with presets and schedules.
Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Folderly
Helps students sort courses, tasks, class schedules, flashcards and files into colour-coded folders.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Anki
Flashcard app that uses spaced repetition so learners review hard cards more often, with sync between devices.
Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- Feyn
Flashcard app for iPad and iPhone where students draw, type or add images to cards and review them with spaced repetition.
Since 2024
Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- Revu
A study app for students with spaced repetition flashcards, made from notes and PDFs, and scheduled around your calendar.
Free plan · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- R2Drop
Mac menu bar app that uploads files to Cloudflare R2 by drag and drop or right-click and copies the public link.
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- Bartender
A Mac app for hiding, ordering and searching menu bar icons, with rules that show items only when needed.
Free trial · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- SaneBar
A free Mac app that hides and groups menu bar icons, with a Touch ID lock and rules for when items appear.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Quadratic
Spreadsheet that links to databases and files and lets AI write the formulas, Python and charts for you.
Since 2023
Data and spreadsheets
- AlDente
Lets MacBook owners cap the battery charge level so the battery lasts longer and stays healthy.
Free plan · Something else · Individuals and families
- HideNotch
Hides the notch on MacBooks by making the menu bar solid black, with an option to round the screen corners.
Free · Something else · Individuals and families
- PDF To Quiz
Students turn class notes or a PDF into a practice test that marks itself and explains each question they got wrong.
Since 2024
Free plan · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- Sleepr
A Mac menu bar timer that puts the computer to sleep after a show or podcast, on a schedule or by voice.
Something else · Individuals and families
- Memozora
Flashcard maker that schedules reviews by spaced repetition, with dictionaries and text to speech for language learners.
Since 2024
Free plan · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- AbjadPro
Learn to read Arabic with alphabet lessons, graded stories and flashcards that schedule reviews around your memory.
Since 2026
Free plan · Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- BlackFlare
A Mac menu bar app that stops your laptop sleeping while Claude Code or Codex runs and alerts you when a task finishes.
Since 2026
Developer tools · Developers
- Scrolodex
Mac utility in the menu bar for people who juggle many windows: hold Option and scroll the wheel to flip between them.
Since 2026
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Tidy
Mac menu bar utility that reads text in images and scanned PDFs offline and renames each file to match what it contains.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Dynamic Menu Bar
Mac app that changes the menu bar's colour and shape to match your screen or music, or to a look you set for each app.
One-off payment · Something else · Individuals and families
- Compare Lists
Paste or upload two lists and see which items match, differ or repeat, with options for case and whitespace.
Since 2025
Free · Data and spreadsheets
- WordWise
A language app that translates words offline, saves them to your own tagged word list and helps you review them with flashcards.
Since 2025
Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- Agents Never Sleep
A small Mac menu bar app that keeps your machine awake, lid closed or not, so long AI agent jobs keep running.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Developer tools · Developers
- QuietSpeech
Mac menu bar app that turns your speech into clean text in any app, using on-device Apple Intelligence.
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- MarginNote 5
A reading and study app that lets you clip from books and papers, link the clips in mind maps and review them as cards.
Courses and learning · Individuals and families
- What Just Pinged Me?
Mac menu bar utility that identifies which app, browser tab or notification played a sound and lets you replay it.
Since 2026
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Mashups
Merges, filters and reshapes RSS, CSV and JSON data into new feeds or APIs, in the spirit of Yahoo Pipes, for people tracking many sources.
Since 2025
Free plan · Data and spreadsheets · Individuals and families
- Voxxy
A Mac menu bar app where you hold a key, speak, and the transcribed text is pasted into whatever field you are typing in.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Rungeist
Mac menu bar app that lists local dev servers, ports and Docker containers so developers can open, restart or stop them.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Developer tools · Developers
- Promptrack
Menu bar app for Mac that logs your Claude Code prompts, tokens, lines written and active hours, all from files on your machine.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Developer tools · Developers
- 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
- Symbiote
Mac menu bar app that keeps apps and big files on an external drive and links them back so they still show up as normal.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Something else · Individuals and families
- ExtraBar
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
- TuckBar
A free Mac app that hides the menu bar on the monitors you choose, to stop OLED burn-in, and shows it when you hover.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families