AI Apps

Bring AI directly into your workflow. From instant chat access and smart writing assistance to local LLMs, voice transcription, usage tracking, and developer monitoring, these menu bar apps keep powerful AI tools always within reach.

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Collection: AI Apps

Freemium apps

Ailight

Ailight lets you transform text and images on your screen instantly, using custom AI actions—without switching apps or breaking your workflow.

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Collection: AI Apps | Writing Apps

Paid apps

TypoTab

TypoTab enhances writing with AI-powered tools, allowing users to refine text, correct grammar, and adjust tone seamlessly across applications.

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Collection: AI Apps

Freemium apps

Promptly for AI

Promptly lets you capture any text on your screen and run it through AI-powered actions in seconds. Select, trigger, and move on without copying or switching apps. With built-in prompts, custom workflows, and smart OCR, it turns scattered screen text into something instantly useful.

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Collection: AI Apps | Meeting Apps

Paid apps

Notes.AI

Notes.ai turns meetings and audio files into clean, structured transcripts using fully local AI models. It exports everything straight to Notion or Obsidian, lets you chat with your transcripts for insights, and keeps all data securely on your Mac.

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Collection: AI Apps

Paid apps | Open Source

PromptBar

PromptBar keeps AI chat a keystroke away, now streaming from any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with custom wrappers, MCP servers, and a keyboard-driven prompt library. No accounts or telemetry, and your keys stay in the macOS Keychain.

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Collection: AI Apps | Writing Apps

Paid apps

RewriteBar

RewriteBar lets you polish, rewrite, or translate any selected text with a single shortcut, right where you’re working. Fix grammar, adjust tone, and chain custom AI actions, with optional local models for extra privacy.

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Collection: AI Apps

Free apps

AudioBuddy

Audiobuddy

If you are dissatisfied with the default Mac text-to-speech voices, this menu bar app replaces them with OpenAI. There’s a max limit of 4096 characters.

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Collection: AI Apps

Freemium apps

Heydi

Heydi streamlines your interactions with web AI chats like ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity by letting you prompt with voice, clipboard, or both. It runs conversations in the background, supports customizable shortcuts, and even handles offline transcription and audio replies.

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Collection: AI Apps | Screen Capturing Apps

Free apps

ShotSolve

ShotSolve lets you capture any part of your screen and instantly run a pre-configured GPT-4o prompt on it. From generating code out of Figma designs to UI feedback and contextual help, it turns screenshots into practical answers within seconds, all inside a fast, native interface that respects your privacy and keeps your API key securely stored in the Apple Keychain.

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Collection: AI Apps | Developer Apps

Free apps

Peek

Peek helps developers keep an eye on their OpenAI API usage and costs without living in a browser tab. It checks usage at regular intervals, stays elegantly out of the way, and stores your API key securely in the macOS keychain, so you can focus on building instead of budgeting.

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