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.

SketchyBar

SketchyBar

SketchyBar is a highly customizable macOS status bar replacement built for power users. With dynamic scripting, animations, interactive widgets, graphs, and popup menus, it transforms the menu bar into a flexible, event-driven workspace.

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Notate

Notate

Notate freezes the exact screen state — open menus, hover and focus states included — or records short sequences for frame-by-frame annotation. It adds numbered pins, arrows, and shapes, then exports clean images or agent-ready Markdown.

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Online

Online

Online quietly monitors your internet connection with layered connectivity checks, detecting real outages beyond simple Wi-Fi status. It identifies likely causes, logs interruptions, and sends timely alerts while staying unobtrusive when everything works.

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UseReserve

UseReserve

UseReserve keeps your remaining Claude and Codex usage visible at a glance, so you always know how much is left without interrupting your workflow.

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Pulse

Pulse

Pulse is a market tracker for stocks, ETFs, crypto, and position P&L, with live quotes, sparklines, watchlists, and optional real-time market data through Longbridge in a native SwiftUI app.

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Mojito

Mojito

Mojito brings emoji shortcodes to every text field on your Mac. Type commands like :joy: to insert emojis instantly, with smart search, personalized suggestions, and a lightweight picker.

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LibreBar

LibreBar

LibreBar keeps your latest FreeStyle Libre glucose reading visible with a live reading, trend arrows, and a 12-hour chart. Native to macOS, it also includes desktop widgets, automatic updates, and support for both mg/dL and mmol/L.

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