Hi everyone,

I’m making Snip Halo free to claim for the next 48 hours.

Snip Halo is a native macOS alternative to CleanShot X for capturing, annotating, blurring and sharing screenshots.

Claim it during the giveaway and keep your lifetime license permanently. No subscription.

Claim it free:

https://sniphalo.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy/4083d4e3-ab26-4fb2-ac57-c2b44ea8a64e?enabled=2002202

For Spanish speakers: I also share my app-building journey on YouTube, in case you’d like to follow along: https://www.youtube.com/@andres.sarrazola

Requires macOS 14 or later. Feedback is welcome!

Everything on a Mac has quietly got heavier, including the apps whose whole job is to tell you how heavy everything is. A menu bar monitor runs every second the machine is on, and reading a few kernel counters twice a second is not hard work. It should not cost much.

AirStats is 11 MB, and idles at about 0.05% of one core.

It reads CPU, memory, GPU, network, disk, battery, temperature and top processes directly through Mach, IOKit, sysctl and CoreWLAN, and draws them in three places:

• the menu bar itself
• a panel that drops down when you click the status item
• an optional floating overlay you can leave on the desktop

Written in Native Swift, no Electron, no web view. One process, with no helper, no launch agent and no Dock icon.

Other menu bar monitors, like iStat Menus are more thorough than this and have years of polish behind them. Stats is the open-source one most people already know. However, AirStats is narrower on purpose. It covers fewer sensors and spends the effort on staying small and on the overlay, which is the part I use most.

There are no analytics and no telemetry, and readings never leave the machine. It makes two outbound requests, both visible in the source: an update check, and a public IP lookup that is off unless you turn it on. Policy at https://airstats.app/privacy

It is free, with no account and no subscription. macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon. Signed and notarized, so it opens with no warning.

• Site: https://airstats.app
• Source: https://github.com/byrencheema/airstats

If there is a feature you want or an issue you hit, feel free to reach out.

A year ago my Mac workflow was a pile of little tools: a clipboard manager, a drag-and-drop shelf, a window snapper, a screenshot tool, a pomodoro timer, a converter that uploaded my files to someone else's cloud, and a menu bar app to manage the other menu bar apps. Each one fine on its own, together a mess of subscriptions and settings.

So I built Droppy. Without experience and never having touched Xcode before, I started my journey. It was a crazy experience, started out as a hobby but turned into a much bigger project very quickly. Countless nights without sleep and watching YouTube videos on how to build apps brought me here. Droppy lives at the top of your screen, around the notch if you have one, as a Dynamic Island style pill if you don't, and puts everything one hover away:

- File shelf: drag anything up and it holds your files until you drop them where they belong. Jiggle a drag and a basket flies in to catch it.
- Clipboard manager: every copy kept and searchable, ready to paste again.
- A fully free cloud sharing service; Droppy Cloud. With a full online environment to view/download and share files.
- Notifications with inline reply for iMessage, WhatsApp and Telegram, right in the notch.
- Full media controls with the Playing Next queue, AirPlay picker and live lyrics.
- A revamped lock screen: album art, widgets, and brightness and volume sliders before you even log in.
- 27 free add-ons (Droplets) you toggle per workflow: window snapping, screenshots with OCR, pomodoro, a calendar with natural language input, LocalSend to move files to any phone or PC on your network, on-device file conversion, meeting controls for Zoom, Teams and Meet, Obsidian, Spotify, a terminal, and more. Off means off, they only run when you enable them.

The video shows it better than I can write it.

Also SUPER cool: an iOS app is coming, it's been built and published to TestFlight at this very moment. It syncs everything Droppy does with your iPhone (files, clipboard history, Droppy Cloud etc.)

Honest notes:
- Native Swift, signed and notarized, no Electron. Local-first: your clipboard and files never leave your Mac unless you explicitly share them.
- macOS 14+, Apple Silicon and Intel, works on every display. The notch is genuinely optional.
- Pricing: 3-day free trial, then $9.99 one time for 2 Macs. No subscription, ever.
- There's a lot to uncover, but you can keep it as minimalistic as you want.

I ship updates almost every week and the last few features came straight from user feedback, so if you try it and something annoys you, tell me here.

Site: https://getdroppy.app
Privacy policy: https://getdroppy.app/privacy-policy

Really proud to share this finally. Hope you love it as much as I do! I truly believe it has the potential to save a lot of time jumping between various tasks.

Hey everyone!

Problem

A lot of everyday actions on a Mac live in completely different places.

Opening an app or folder, searching something on a website, taking a screenshot, cleaning up copied text, accessing clipboard history, running a Shortcut, or changing a system setting.

None of these are difficult individually, but constantly switching between apps, windows, menu bar utilities, and different shortcuts can break your flow.

That’s the problem Arc started with.

Comparison

There are already some really good radial menu apps for Mac, but most are built around a specific use case, such as launching apps, switching between them, or triggering app-specific shortcuts.

Arc takes a broader approach.

You can create multiple global radial menus for different workflows and decide what each slice does. A slice can perform a single action or chain multiple actions together.

The idea is less about replacing the Dock and more about putting the small things you do throughout the day behind one quick interaction.

Getting a radial menu on screen was the easy part. Figuring out what actually belongs inside it, how multiple menus should behave, and keeping the interaction fast enough to use throughout the day took most of the iteration.

It’s now reached the point where Arc has become part of my own daily workflow, which is probably what I’m happiest about.

Pricing

$9.99 one time on the Mac App Store with a free 7 day trial built in.

Solo project from India, launched yesterday. Happy to answer anything! :)

Mac App Store: Link

Hey everybody!

DockFlow lets you switch setups in an instant. All the apps you need launch, the rest close and disappear. Perfect if you switch between contexts / projects / different types of work a lot

Core Features:

- Switch setups in an instant using hotkeys, or with the menu bar app

- Launch specific projects in your IDE or browser profiles for that preset

- Lock your Dock to a specific screen

- Add apps, folders, URLs, dock spacers to your Dock

- Integration with Apple Shortcuts & Focus Modes

Comparison:

DockFlow was the first app of it's kind. It is mature and stable, developed and improved according to user requests and feedback. 3 Months after DockFlow launched, several competitor apps surfaced, most of them are no longer maintained. As a small group of indie devs working specifically in the macOS space, we are here to stay (DockFlow is our first app, currently one of four).

Pricing:

Currently we are running a Summer Sale for 40% off, the code is already built-in in the pricing section.

- 1 One year access - €10

- 1 Device Lifetime - €21

- 2 Device Lifetime - €30

- 3 Device Lifetime - €40

- 5 Device Lifetime - €60

30-day money-back guarantee.

The problem

You're listening to something. A call starts on FaceTime, Zoom, Meet or Teams. macOS immediately drops everything else to a whisper. It's called audio ducking, it's on by default, and there is no setting anywhere in System Settings to turn it off.

The threads about this on Apple's own forums are years old. The most-repeated "fix" is unchecking boxes in VoiceOver Utility, which doesn't really work. The apps that do solve it properly cost real money - SoundSource is $49.

What it does

Unduck Pro is a small menu bar app that keeps your media at full volume during a call. The person on the other end still hears only you — your audio is never pushed into your mic.

While it's there, it also gives you a per-app volume mixer and an output device switcher:

- Media stays loud on calls — FaceTime, Zoom, Meet, Teams and others▎

- Independent call volume — turn the call down without touching your music

- Per-app volume mixer, remembered per app

- Output switcher — speakers, AirPods, whatever, without opening System Settings

- Launch at login, update notifications, favourites.

How it works

Built entirely on Apple's public Core Audio process-tap API (macOS 14.2+). No kernel extensions, no virtual audio drivers, no third-party code. It continuously resets the OS ducking rather than boosting anything, so there's no added gain and no distortion.

Free, and actually free

MIT licensed, no paywall, no trial, no account, no telemetry. The whole source is on GitHub — read it, build it yourself, fork it.

🔗 Repo: https://github.com/MrRockySL/Unduck-Pro

Download: https://github.com/MrRockySL/Unduck-Pro/releases/latest

Two things to know before you install

1. It's self-signed, not notarized. Apple's notarization costs $99/year and this is a free app, so macOS will block the first launch with "Apple could not verify it is free of malware". You'll need System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. If that's a dealbreaker, completely fair — build it from source instead, it's two commands.

2. It asks for microphone permission. I know how that sounds for a volume app. The Core Audio tap API Apple provides is gated behind the audio-input permission — there's no way around it. It does not record, store or transmit anything, and since the source is public you can verify that rather than take my word for it.

Requires macOS 14.2 or later. Universal — runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon.

If you find it useful, a ⭐ on the repo genuinely helps — it's how anyone else searching for this problem ends up finding it. And if something's broken or missing, open an issue: https://github.com/MrRockySL/Unduck-Pro/issues — every issue so far has turned into a fix.

I'm the developer. Happy to answer anything in the comments.

Muro: 100% Free Live Wallpapers for macOS

Muro is a native macOS app that plays smooth, looping video wallpapers on your desktop. It supports multiple displays and includes up to 100 live wallpapers, with new wallpapers added every week.

The wallpaper catalog updates automatically inside the app, so you do not need to install a new version to receive new wallpapers. Videos download only when you select them, and you can remove them anytime to save storage.

Muro also includes full-screen previews, playlists, automatic wallpaper rotation, shuffle mode, menu bar controls and the ability to import your own videos. On macOS 26 or newer, wallpapers can also play on the lock screen.

The app is built natively with Swift, SwiftUI and Apple’s hardware video decoder. It does not use Electron or web views. It normally uses around 2% CPU while playing and automatically pauses when the wallpaper is not visible, during full-screen apps, display sleep, Low Power Mode or low battery.

Everything is unlocked. There is no trial, no payment required, no subscription, no account, no license key and no paywall. Muro is completely free and open source under the MIT license.

Requires macOS 14 or newer and an Apple Silicon Mac.

Download and source code:
https://github.com/MrRockySL/Muro

Report a problem or suggest a feature:
https://github.com/MrRockySL/Muro/issues

Optional support for future development:
https://github.com/sponsors/MrRockySL

Muro will remain free whether you sponsor it or not.

I’m building a Mac automation app called Tapquence, and I’m looking for ideas for the next Smart Automation.

The idea behind Smart Automations is pretty simple: instead of manually building a sequence of clicks and keystrokes, you pick a useful preset, configure a few options, and it’s ready to go.

We already have a few built in (see screenshot), but I’d love to add ones based on actual use cases rather than just inventing features for the sake of having more.

So I’m curious: what repetitive thing do you regularly do on your Mac that you wish you could automate with one click or shortcut?

Can be something very simple or oddly specific. If it’s useful and technically possible, I might build it into Tapquence.

For context, this is the app: https://tapquence.com

So basically ik you can press cmd+opt+tab to bring up minis windows but that is just not good ergonomic and there are literally paid tools for this, which is crazy.

So, I made a free tool called minrl, it sits in your menu bar and allows you to bring up minimised windows using cmd+tab.

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/aaravmaloo/minrl

Posso pedir feedback por aqui? Tenho 5 licenças para distribuir, caso alguém goste do teste e queira usar.

https://macbat.vercel.app/

Funções:

1. Traz de volta o tempo restante da bateria

O MacBat utiliza um algoritmo próprio para devolver essa querida funcionalidade à sua barra de tarefas com precisão.

2. Veja os dados avançados de energia do Mac e dos seus iDevices

Acesse e armazene o status da sua bateria para acompanhar a evolução ao longo do tempo. Com função exportação.

3. Apresentando um novo modo de economia: Controle

Não mexemos em time que está ganhando! O seu Mac já sabe gerenciar a bateria melhor do que qualquer app. Mas não os processos que estão rodando em segundo plano e consumindo energia desnecesária. Usando a função Sentinela, o MacBat rastreia processos menos importantes e que estão consumindo recursos demais por conta própria e reduz o uso da CPU sem afetar o desempenho da CPU e GPU. Adeus Mac quente e bateria que se esvai!

4. Função Sentinela

A mesma tecnologia do modo Controle pode ser usada em modo standalone, caso você prefira manter o ícone de bateria original do Mac. E mais: você pode configurar manualmente quais processos quer que o Sentinela controle e atribuir processos somente aos núcleos de alta eficiência, reduzindo ainda mais o consumo.

5. Escolha seu ícone

Escolha entre o novo ícone do Mac OS 27 ou o antigo.

6. Design Liquid Glass

O MacBat não é um simplesmente um novo menu na sua barra de tarefas. É uma interface viva e funcional, baseada nas diretrizes da Apple, que coloca os controles que importam na ponta do seu mouse. (E quando precisar, as avançadas também! Basta clicar com o botão direito).

7. Informações à luz do dia (e da noite!)

O MacBat mostra os principais insights sobre o consumo, saúde da bateria e processos controlados de maneira inteligente na parte principal da interface. Sem interromper o seu trabalho, mas sempre a um click.

8. Menos de 1% de CPU

É o que o MacBat consome. 100% desenvolvido em Swift, o MacBat também não precisa de acesso root para rodar e não coleta ou transmite dados de uso.

My eyes love dark mode brighter and white docs dimmer. Yours will too! Free forever if you license in the next two weeks. rubarb.bar

I built a native MacOS YouTube app for Ventura and later which has offline features, download features, smart playing, themes, offline library and much more completely free.

Check it out here: https://github.com/fizzygx/Youtube-X

Any feedback is welcome let me know in the comments

What it does: Click the Dock icon and a panel pops up holding named "stacks" of your favourite apps, folders, files, and website bookmarks — instant access without cluttering your actual Dock or Desktop.

Some of what's in it:

• Drag and drop to add anything, including URLs straight from your browser
• Password-protect individual stacks (Keychain-backed, auto-lock)
• Global keyboard shortcut to show/hide from anywhere
• Menu bar mode if you'd rather not use the Dock at all
• Multi-select, custom grid sizes, tab colour tinting
• Fully local — no accounts, no tracking, no network access

This is my first shipped Mac app, built from wanting faster access to the stuff I actually use every day. One-time payment 4.99USD or equivalent, no subscription.

App Store: https://apple.co/3Rz9FB6
Website: https://dockstacks.app

Would love any feedback — recent launch, still learning a ton.

Hey everyone,

Apple removed the Launchpad hot corner shortcut in recent macOS updates, and a lot of third party alternatives lock hot corner support behind a paywall or subscription.

I made LaunchCorner to fix this. It’s a simple, free, and open source utility that lets you launch any app (like LaunchOS, Launchpad alternatives, or standard apps) just by moving your cursor to a screen corner.

What it does:

• Instant 0 ms hot corner response (with customizable dwell time)
• Built natively for Apple Silicon (SwiftUI, super lightweight)
• Full multi-monitor support
• Runs quietly in the Menu Bar and closes cleanly

GitHub & DMG Download:
https://github.com/wenujacodes/LaunchCorner

Would love to hear your feedback or any feature suggestions!

Problem:

macOS has great wallpapers, but you're pretty limited once you want to go beyond Apple's collection.

Wallper brings live wallpapers to your Desktop, Lock Screen and Screen Saver, with 4K wallpapers from our library or your own videos.

Features:

• Lock Screen + Screen Saver live wallpapers
• 2,000+ wallpapers built in + your own MP4 videos
• Multi-monitor support
• Playlists + Day/Night switching
• Music-reactive wallpapers
• Low resource usage

Comparison:

The closest alternatives are probably iWallpaper and Backdrop. Both are good apps, but with Wallper we obsess a bit more over making the whole thing feel like something Apple could've built into macOS.

Lock Screen and Screen Saver wallpapers take one click to set up, without having to touch System Settings. We also spent a lot of time on performance: in our own 4K test Wallper averaged around 1.46% of one CPU core, and it pauses completely when the wallpaper is covered.

We documented the full test here:
https://www.wallper.app/blog/2026/07/live-wallpaper-battery-test-mac

We also manually review wallpapers before they go into the library, and it keeps growing with submissions from the community.

Pricing:

$14.99 lifetime (up to 3 Macs)
7-day free trial

Download: https://wallper.app/

Wallper also recently passed 100,000 users. A lot of people here have helped us with feedback, ideas and bug reports along the way, so thank you. A lot of that feedback has made its way into the app.

We're doing a small lifetime license giveaway in our Discord to celebrate :)

Would love to hear what you think.

Hi! My Downloads folder had been left unkept for a very long time. I started cleaning it up with Finder but it was quite cumbersome so I started creating a simple app to help me filter out and delete or move the files in the folder.

It genuinely helped me clean out my Downloads folder and as I thought of more features I wanted in a file manager I started to add them.

Features such as: Fuzzy go to folder/file where you only need to type a few letters of the path to get suggestions and jump to the correct path instantly. Hover over an image or PDF file to preview it instantly. Command palette to find actions fast. Dual-pane view and tabs that remember their own filters.

As I used the app I added even more features that I wanted: Batch rename with regex support and presets for common operations. Converting HEIC/WebP/AVIF image files to JPG/PNG. Sidebar, single-click open, keyboard controls and many other small quality of life features I discovered while using it. Since it's a file manager I put real work into safe file operations, and the only network request it makes is an anonymous version check.

WhimFiles has a launch price of $19.99 and a fully-featured 30-day trial.

The trial can be downloaded here: https://whimfiles.com

Muse is a AI Visual Bookmark Manager for saving everything you find online, links, images, screenshots, videos etc, into one library that lives only on your Mac. We wanted one place we could store and search from quickly, without a subscription.

Here's what it does:
- Works from anywhere - drag, paste or screenshot to save instantly, or press a customisable shortcut to search and file something without switching apps
- Bookmarks/links - import your existing links from Raindrop, Eagle, browser bookmarks or a Pinterest export, and every new one gets a title, favicon and preview pulled automatically.
- Every format together  - links, images, screenshots, GIFs, video and notes, all in one searchable library
- Collections and boards - nest collections as deep as you like, and file one item into more than one without duplicating it.
- Search everything - by the text inside an image, a colour name, or plain meaning, like typing "dark moody UI" and it finds it
- Find similar images - one click finds visually similar items already in your library, on-device, or searches the web for more, without leaving the app
- Live X bookmarks - use the browser extension and pull in your x bookmarks automatically, without paying for API access
- Real files, no server  - stored as an actual folder on your Mac. Open it in Finder, export or back it up whenever
- AI art prompts - reverse-engineer any image into a detailed art prompt, using your own Claude key (optional)

Native Swift, on-device AI, no account, no cloud database. $29 once, no subscription, free for 30 days to try it properly first.

Take a look here: https://www.theodorehq.com/muse/

We built this ourselves so if you hit a bug or want a feature, tell us here, we read everything!

This is Lucky Dangle.

Pick a lucky charm, hit a shortcut, and it drops from the top of your Mac and swings around on a tiny virtual rope.

I made 9 to start with, inspired by lucky charms from around the world. You can also use any emoji, which got ridiculous pretty quickly.

Built entirely because I thought it would be fun.

https://luckydangle.app/

I often press ⌘C, switch apps, and only then discover that nothing was actually copied. This happens with remote desktops, webpages, and apps where copying silently fails.

So I made CopyDing, a tiny native macOS menu-bar utility. When you press ⌘C and the clipboard doesn’t update, it plays the standard macOS “not allowed” ding.

Features:

• Uses the native macOS alert sound
• Adjustable detection timing for slower apps
• Optional Launch at Login
• Supports Apple Silicon and Intel Macs
• Free and open source
• No analytics, network access, or clipboard history
• Never reads or stores your clipboard contents
• Doesn’t monitor or alter mouse behaviour

CopyDing requires Accessibility permission so it can observe ⌘C globally. The complete source is available for inspection.

GitHub and download:
https://github.com/rochakagrawal/CopyDing

It isn’t Apple-notarized yet, so macOS may require you to Control-click the app and choose Open on the first launch.

I’d love feedback—especially reports about apps where the timing needs adjustment.

You kick off a long Claude Code or Codex run, close the lid to go grab food, and come back to a dead session. macOS sleeps the instant the lid closes unless an external display is plugged in, and it takes your agents, builds, downloads, and local servers with it.

I got tired of babysitting an open laptop, so I built **LidAwake**: a tiny native macOS menu bar app that keeps the Mac running with the lid shut.

* Coffee cup icon in the menu bar: click to toggle, filled cup = Mac stays awake lid-closed

* Saves your screen brightness when the lid closes and restores it exactly on reopen

* Start at Login, light/dark mode, native AppKit

* About 200 lines of Swift total. No Electron, no daemons, a few MB of RAM

* MIT licensed, builds from source in seconds with an included script

The fun engineering bit: macOS fires no display-sleep event when the lid closes; it silently disconnects the built-in display instead. Lid detection ended up being a 2-second poll of IOPMrootDomain's AppleClamshellState.

And yes, fittingly, I built it with Claude Code in an afternoon, so it can keep its own kind alive overnight.

GitHub: https://github.com/deezeddd/LidAwake-Mac
Github Page: https://deezeddd.github.io/LidAwake-Mac/

It's my first open-source release. Feedback on the README, the approach, or anything else is very welcome.

EDIT: Here is a one-liner CLI Command:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deezeddd/LidAwake-Mac/main/install.sh | bash