Lockpaw
Lockpaw lets you cover your screen instantly while keeping AI agents, builds, downloads, and SSH sessions running uninterrupted. It even alerts you when your agent needs attention.
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.
Lockpaw lets you cover your screen instantly while keeping AI agents, builds, downloads, and SSH sessions running uninterrupted. It even alerts you when your agent needs attention.
Headroom keeps your Claude Code usage visible at a glance, showing live 5-hour and 7-day limits directly in the menu bar before they catch you in the middle of a task. It reads the usage data Claude Code already stores locally, requires no setup, API key, or login, and never makes a network connection.
GhostCursor replaces your Mac’s pointer with a subtle highlight ring that remains visible to you while staying completely absent from screen recordings and screen sharing, making demos, tutorials, and presentations look cleaner.
Fan Control Center gives Mac users direct control over cooling performance with manual fan adjustments, real-time temperature monitoring, and customizable automation rules.
KeyMinder instantly reveals keyboard shortcuts for your active macOS app, grouped by menu. Triggered by a hotkey, it keeps workflows smooth. Free, open source, and always up to date.
Offsend helps prepare projects, files, and clipboard text before sending them into AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude. It runs locally on your Mac, masking sensitive data such as keys, client info, and internal paths without relying on cloud processing or external servers.
MenuBarShelf keeps overcrowded Mac menu bars manageable by gathering every icon, even the ones sacrificed to the notch, into a clean native popover.
QuickCal brings calendars, world clocks, and natural-language time calculations together in a fast, offline workspace. It helps professionals coordinate across time zones, track holidays, and answer date-related questions without subscriptions or internet access.
Fader brings precise audio control to your Mac with per-app volume sliders, instant output switching, Bluetooth device management, and microphone activity monitoring.