Mac

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.

WattMate sits in the Mac menu bar and shows which app is draining the battery right now, in watts, and how many minutes you get back if you quit it. 2 minutes after you quit, it measures again and prints what really changed. Apple silicon, macOS 14+.

That notch at the top of your MacBook does nothing. Notchware turns it into a live island: Now Playing with artwork and playback controls, plus battery, volume, brightness, Focus, and Wi-Fi status right where you look. Notchware Pro ($3.99 one-time) adds Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor alerts, so you know the moment an agent needs approval or finishes, without watching the terminal. Native SwiftUI. No account, no analytics, no cloud. macOS 14.6+.

OTPfill is a Mac menu-bar app. When a site emails you a verification code, it appears under the code field. Click Fill.

MacCam is a free, native camera app for macOS. Take photos and videos with your Mac's camera, iPhone or any webcam - straight into Apple Photos. Classic Photo Booth effects plus Portrait, Studio Light and Edge Light built in. Coming to Pro: a teleprompter, eye contact and knock to shoot - free for life for the first 100,000.

FeelMyMac brings haptic textures to cursor movement and scrolling on Mac trackpads. Instead of feeling feedback only when you click, you can actually feel simulated surfaces as you move your cursor, with different materials and textures to choose from. You can enable haptics separately for cursor customize intensity, and add optional sound effects. FeelMyMac also includes keyboard sounds for an extra layer of feedback. How it works? Easy it's Taptic Engine just like an iPhone would!

You open a page to read one article and get a cookie banner, a video that starts on its own, and a prompt to sign in. Nook shows the article. Ads and trackers are blocked from the first page you open, reader mode keeps the text and pictures, and focus mode hides the tabs and toolbar. Cookies and cache are cleared when you quit. No account, no sync, no telemetry. macOS 13+, Apple silicon and Intel. Free.

Free, open source menu bar app that turns Ollama and Splash on and off in one click and unloads idle models from memory. It stops Ollama the way it started (Ollama.app, brew services or ollama serve). No accounts, no telemetry. macOS 14+.