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.

Clapet

Clapet

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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Vitals

Vitals

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.

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Oka To Do

Oka To Do

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.

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BlockBlock

BlockBlock

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.

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Soduto

Soduto

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).

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