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Rollcage

A menu-bar seatbelt for AI coding agents: snapshots, undo and guardrails

FeaturedPaid

Wimi

Automatic Mac window tiling with point-and-click control

Freemium

Wavo

Local dictation: hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands where you type

Free

Tidzy

A smarter Finder for your Mac: find anything by what's inside it, copy text from any image

Paid

Little Grids

16 small logic puzzle games in one calm app, with a shared daily board.

Freemium

EdgeBar

EdgeBar turns your MacBook trackpad edges into smooth volume and brightness controls.

Paid

Savvyshot

Say goodbye to boring screenshots!

Freemium

Dictiq

Dictation that keeps your words on your machine.

Freemium

LeaseRail

Turn a folder of tenancy contracts into clean data.

Freemium

Ruban

Your Mac, on a strip.

Paid

Birdwatch

See which Swift builds and test runs your agents left stuck, and why

Paid

Phoaly

Local-first photo organizer for Mac—no import, no upload.

Paid

StampName

Rename invoice PDFs from what is printed on them, offline

Paid

Perch

Perch turns the MacBook notch into a command center and floats the same island on external

Free

Captions Bro

Free video editor for iPhone, iPad and Mac: on-device auto subtitles, animated karaoke cap

Paid

Screenshot Bro

Native App Store and Google Play screenshot tool for Mac, iPad, and iPhone.

Paid

Kirocast

The screen recorder and editor built for AI.

Paid

Unboom

Your room is boomy. Fix it on your Mac.

Freemium

VeloUtils

Markdown, JSON, CSV, Mermaid, Timestamp, Encode / Decode and JWT in one native window.

Free

Hatoba

Hatoba is a second dock for your Mac: apps, links and live widgets on any screen edge or i

Paid

Aion

Aion checks what a Mac app is doing before auto-quitting it, so downloads, playback, calls

Paid

Song Peak

One sentence becomes a sung song.

Free

Shedi

Finds the space your Mac is wasting, explains every item, and removes only what you choose

Paid

Moody

Save your design inspiration — screenshots, drag-drops, and links — into one personal, sea

Paid

Glimt

Breathing reminders for your workday

Paid

LocalEditor

Local file editor for notes, sketches, and coding files

Paid

Snipora

Type ;addr and get your address in any Mac app.

Paid

Portlivo

See every local dev server and port on your Mac.

Paid

Cozy

Cozy is a journal and diary app that keeps your entries on your own device, as your own fi

Paid

Picmal

Convert and compress anything on your Mac. Nothing gets uploaded.

Paid

Wormhole

A window from your other Mac, as a window on this one.

Paid

Lucinate

Live visuals & shader studio

Paid

Scrawl

Handwrite on your Mac's trackpad. No tablet, no stylus.

Free

Bloop.email

A fast, native Mac mail app for Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo and any IMAP account.

Paid

Open in Office

Double-click Office files on your Mac to open them in Microsoft 365 Online

Free

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