Mac

Isly turns the MacBook notch into a living control center: music from any app with cover art and scrubber, live timers and calendar events, clean volume/brightness readouts, and more - all without leaving your workflow. Light on resources (≈0.2% CPU idle, ~49 MB RAM), smooth animations, and a one-time €3.99 license with free updates. For macOS 14+ with a notch.

Weatherling brings rain, snow, wind, and leaves to your Mac desktop windows. It is private, lightweight, and playful, with collectible Lings™ who wander through the weather. Put rare Lings in rare boxes for the highest score and share with friends.

AgentDock keeps Claude Code, Codex and your other coding agents on the edge of your Mac's screen. See who's working, answer every question and permission prompt from one Inbox with a keystroke (typed straight into cmux, tmux, iTerm, WezTerm, kitty or herdr), and message any agent from any app with ⌥⌥. Finished work gets a recap, written on your Mac. No account; nothing leaves your Mac. $19 once, after a 7-day free trial.

Baby Desk turns your Mac into a full-screen baby playground that absorbs keys and clicks, including ⌘Q and ⌘Tab, while your work stays untouched. Stars, letters, and balloons keep little hands busy. Launch offer: $1.99 (regularly $4.99). macOS 13+.

Buffer 3.0 is a free, open-source clipboard manager for macOS. Everything you copy text, links, images is saved to a searchable local history, one ⇧⌘V away. It reads text inside screenshots with on-device Vision OCR, lets you edit any saved snippet inline, and organizes clips with tags, bookmarks, and multi-select paste. v3.0 adds an interactive image canvas, history tiers up to unlimited, and clipboard noise suppression. MIT-licensed. No accounts, no cloud — everything stays on your Mac.

Meet Tappy, a little keycap who lives on your Mac's desktop. Tappy sweats when you type fast, gets dizzy when you slap your MacBook, eats when the charger goes in and naps when you're away. Coding with Claude Code, Codex or Cursor? Tappy chimes when your agent is done and sweats until you knock twice on your MacBook to answer. Plus 20 keyboard sounds, a lift alarm for café tables and Clean Mode for wiping the keys. Pay once, no subscription.

Most note apps want an answer the moment you save something: a title, a folder, a tag. Ideas show up before they have a shape. put·here is a canvas for the Mac where text, links, pictures and files land wherever you drop them — paste, drag, or press ⌃⌥P from any app. Step back and the whole canvas reads at a glance. Every canvas is a real folder of plain files on your Mac, so your notes stay yours. Free to start.

Plumby shows you where your Mac's space, memory and battery are going, and clears out what is only taking up room. Every group says what removing it costs you, before you remove it.

NotchMind turns your MacBook notch into a home for music, files, clipboard history, timers, downloads and 28 everyday tools. Native macOS app, one-time purchase.

Starlie is for the Jira work you do every day: find an issue, see what’s going on, update it, leave a comment, move it across the board, and get back to work. Smooth Kanban drag and drop, quick filters, JQL autocomplete, custom fields, Quick Look, reminders, and ⌘K for recent issues. Works with Jira Cloud and self-hosted Jira too. Private by design, with no analytics or tracking. Open coding tasks in Claude Code or Codex with issue context and your local project attached.

Peekabop shows the lyrics of whatever's playing right under your MacBook's camera, lighting up word by word in time. Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube and other sites in Safari, Chrome, Arc or Firefox. Pick the notch, a floating pill, subtitles or full screen, and one of 16 effects. On macOS 26 it even shifts the lyrics to match a music video's edit. No account, no analytics. €9.99 once, 7 days free.

SpeechShield listens to Zoom, Meet or Teams on your Mac and transcribes each question as it's asked. When the speaker pauses, it shows talking points built only from your resume and the job posting, or from the proposals and price lists you added for a client meeting, with the source. Also: live translated captions in 13 languages, a phone viewer you pair by QR, and an overlay that stays out of screen shares. Free with your own Claude Code, Codex or OpenAI key.

iLand turns your Mac's notch into a home for everyday tools. Control music, keep files in a drag-and-drop tray, convert files, capture screenshots, and record your screen. Switch between widgets for your calendar, weather, timers, and more, with gesture controls and a customizable layout that keeps everything within reach.

Translate, shorten, fix or rewrite any text right where your cursor is — in any app on Mac. Dictate there too. No tabs, no copy-paste. Select text, hit a hotkey, and it's replaced in place. Or press ⌥` and speak in one language, get clean text in another. 13 languages. Privacy: Jarq uses cloud AI models to process your text and voice. Jarq itself doesn't keep your text on its servers, and your history stays on your Mac. Free: 5 actions a day. Pro: $4.99/mo or $39/yr. 14-day Pro trial, no card.

A menu bar app for macOS. Select text in any app, press a shortcut, and it is replaced with the translation. The direction between your two languages is detected automatically, and each pair can have its own writing style. Runs on Claude, ChatGPT or Grok, through the subscription you already have or your own API key. Free and open source.

Pixel Soup makes your Mac's wallpaper for you. Pick a shape, a palette and a dither style, and it draws it live on your GPU, then keeps it gently moving behind your icons or freezes it as a still. Drop in a photo and it dithers that too. Hit one button for a random new wallpaper, or let it serve a fresh one every hour. Free to try for 3 days, no account and no card. Then one payment, no subscription.

One Mac app for your Apple Calendar, Apple Reminders and Apple Notes, with all three a hover away in your MacBook notch and as a standalone Mac app. Try it free for 7 days, then $20 once.

The Mac Dock has no app folders, and since macOS Tahoe there's no Launchpad either. TinyFolder puts a folder of apps right in your Dock: one click opens it above the tile. Its icon is built from the apps inside, and you design the rest – glass, color or texture, layouts, icon size, labels, living effects like snow and lava – in a live preview. Free on the Mac App Store.

Smooth Recorder is a native Mac app for demos and tutorials. It zooms in where you click, smooths your cursor, adds captions on your Mac and puts it all on a nice background. Screenshots get the same features.

See what your AI coding agents are doing behind the scene: every session, build, test run and screenshot, live and per agent. Reads what Claude Code and Xcode leave on disk, all on your Mac — usage and crash data only after you say yes. macOS 26 + Xcode 27.