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Private Mac apps that keep your data on your Mac

Apps that work offline, keep your data on your own Mac or are open source, so you can see exactly what they do.

Wavo

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

Free

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

Unboom

Your room is boomy. Fix it on your Mac.

Freemium

OtterTally

A native macOS revenue dashboard that brings Stripe and RevenueCat sales & subscriptions

Subscription

VeloUtils

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

Free

Song Peak

One sentence becomes a sung song.

Free

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

Headroom

Cut Claude Code & ChatGPT Codex token costs ~50%

Subscription

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

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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