No moat. Still in business.
Software directory for those who don’t want to rebuild, own the updates, the bugs, the support.
- QueryStorm
Excel add-in for querying tables with SQL, scripting workbooks in C# and building custom Excel functions.
Since 2016
Free plan · Data and spreadsheets · Developers
- 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
- Arcadeia
An open-source photo and video library you run on your own server, with animated previews, search and browser playback.
Since 2024
Free · Video and audio · Individuals and families
- AirTrail
Log every flight you take on your own server, see routes on a world map and get travel stats.
Free · Travel · 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
- Runtipi
Tool for running a home server that installs and updates hundreds of self-hosted apps from a dashboard.
Free · Developer tools · 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
- OrbStack
A light Mac app that runs Docker containers, Kubernetes and Linux machines as a Docker Desktop replacement.
Since 2023
Developer tools · Developers
- 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
- Appish
Push a Docker image and get a public HTTPS link, so developers can share demos, bots and side projects quickly.
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Nginx Proxy Manager
A Docker app with a web interface for setting up Nginx reverse proxies and auto-renewing SSL certificates.
Free · Developer tools · 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
- molab
A cloud workspace for creating, running and sharing marimo Python and SQL notebooks for data work
Since 2024
Developer tools · Developers
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Dropper
Drag files onto this Mac menu bar app to store them in a Cloudflare R2 bucket you own and copy a share page link, with no subscription.
Since 2026
Free · Something else · Individuals and families
- Thaw
A Mac utility that tidies your menu bar by hiding icons you rarely use and letting you find any item with a shortcut.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Claude God
Mac menu bar app that shows how much of your Claude and Claude Code quota and spend you have used.
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- TimeTracker
Self-hosted time tracker for teams that turns logged hours into PDF invoices, with roles, reports and audit trails.
Free · Invoicing and billing · Agencies
- ServerBuddy
Mac app for checking and managing Linux servers: stats, services, Docker, files and cron jobs through a visual interface.
Since 2025
Free plan · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- Crisp
Controls external monitors on a Mac from the menu bar: sharper scaling, hardware brightness, presets, virtual displays and arrangement.
Free · Something else · Individuals and families
- CodexBar
A Mac menu bar app that shows usage limits, credits, costs and reset times for the AI coding tools a developer pays for.
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- horita
A Mac menu bar app that counts down to your next meeting and opens its Zoom, Meet or Teams call in one click.
Free · Focus and productivity
- Findly
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