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.
Lidless keeps your Apple Silicon Mac awake even with the lid closed, making it ideal for long-running tasks, coding agents, and remote workflows. It includes temperature monitoring, battery safeguards, and auto-off timers.
Peeku locks your Mac when you step away, using on-device camera analysis, Apple Watch proximity, and activity signals, all processed locally with no cloud or account.
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.
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.
HotkeyClash scans running apps, system shortcuts, and automation configs on macOS to detect overlapping keyboard shortcuts and reveal conflicts in a clear, unified overview.
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.
QuotaWarmer helps Claude Code and Codex CLI users keep track of rolling quota windows and optionally claim fresh capacity the moment it becomes available.
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.
This menu bar app brings together a range of everyday Mac utilities in one place, from system monitoring and app management to audio controls, window switching, file handling, and productivity tools.
