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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AI-powered voice dictation for Mac that lets you dictate directly at the cursor with push-to-talk control, custom vocabulary, and voice-based text editing. Uses your OpenAI API key and supports Apple silicon.
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Know when you’ll hit your Claude limit, not just how much you’ve used. CapMeter tracks burn rate, countdowns, alerts, usage history, and multiple accounts, helping you plan ahead.
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PromptBar keeps your everyday AI prompts organized and close at hand, with quick search, tags, one-click copying, and simple local file storage for easy backup and editing.
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Back monitors Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, and other AI services, notifying you when outages occur and confirming when they’re back online.
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Rewrite helps you polish, rewrite, or draft text wherever you write. Improve emails, messages, essays, and more while keeping your own voice, with sensitive data masked locally on your Mac. Bring your own ChatGPT or Claude.
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Make the wait for coding agents more useful. Unwait monitors Claude Code and Codex sessions, showing bite-sized language lessons, domain knowledge, or AI news while your agents work.
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Minutehand records meetings using your Mac’s microphone and system audio, then creates clean Markdown transcripts with your own Deepgram key. Calendar integration makes recording easy, while everything stays on your Mac.
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MailTwin brings AI-powered writing to Apple Mail, learning your writing style separately for work and personal accounts while supporting eight AI providers, local processing, summaries, action points, and customizable replies.
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Ironsmith lets you describe the macOS app you want, then generates, builds, and packages it into a runnable application. It supports local and cloud AI models, requires only Xcode Command Line Tools, and creates sandboxed apps by default.
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Phantom Voice delivers fast, local push-to-talk dictation by transcribing speech directly into any app with on-device whisper.cpp. Audio never leaves your Mac, while customizable animated HUD indicators add a distinctive visual touch without subscriptions or cloud services.
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