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Clamshell mode on your MacBook allows you to keep your Mac awake when you close the lid but it only works when a power adapter is connected.
This menu bar app aims to solve this problem by allowing clamshell mode even on battery.

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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.

Clamshell mode on your MacBook allows you to keep your Mac awake when you close the lid but it only works when a power adapter is connected.
This menu bar app aims to solve this problem by allowing clamshell mode even on battery.

Access Mastodon directly from your menu bar with a lightweight, native interface for social media networking efficiently without extra steps.

Vitals is a tiny process monitor that keeps track of resource usage. The app shows a per-process CPU graph covering the last 60 seconds. This makes it easier to track down apps that misbehave sporadically.

Capture tasks as they come to mind directly in the menu bar without breaking your focus or workflow making your workflow more efficient with ease.

BlockBlock is a menu bar app that warns of persistently installed software. In other words, it looks for software that’s installing itself in such a way that it will always be running and will fire up again after a system reboot.

This menu bar app is probably the only open-source alternative to Apple’s “Continuity“. Want to copy-paste content across your devices or simply share a link? Browse remote files? All of this and more is possible with Soduto. Also supports Android and Linux. Soduto seems to work fine on a M1 MacBook Pro (Big Sur 11.2.2).

With this menu bar app it is possible to keep a chronically plugged in M1 Macbook at 80% battery, since that will prolong the longevity of the battery. This app will not work on non-M1 macs. In that case try the free version of AlDente.