Free apps

Good apps don’t always come with a price tag. These menu bar gems are free — and worth your space.

Good apps don’t always come with a price tag. These menu bar gems are free — and worth your space.

Quay

Quay

Quay helps developers manage local services from one place, making it easy to start, stop, and monitor project servers, Docker containers, Homebrew services, and terminal agents with live resource metrics and one-click browser access.

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cctop

cctop

This menu bar app helps developers monitor multiple AI coding sessions from tools like Claude Code, Codex, opencode, and pi, making it easy to spot when attention is needed and jump straight to the right terminal, editor, or conversation.

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FaceGate

FaceGate

FaceGate adds per-app locking to macOS, letting you secure individual applications with Face Unlock, Touch ID, or a password while keeping the rest of your system accessible. It runs locally with no accounts or cloud, offering fast on-device authentication.

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SiliconScope

SiliconScope

SiliconScope offers a detailed look inside Apple Silicon, tracking CPU, GPU, Neural Engine, Media Engine, memory bandwidth, and thermal behavior in real time, making demanding AI and media workloads far easier to understand.

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Mimir

Mimir

Mimir helps you keep track of AI coding quotas across Claude, Codex, Gemini, and Antigravity from a single place. Real-time usage data, reset countdowns, and clear status indicators make it easy to plan work, while all monitoring stays local for maximum privacy.

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