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OCR Apps
TRex
TRex lives in your menu bar and captures any text right into your Clipboard with magic of OCR. A free alternative for TextSniper.
Good apps don’t always come with a price tag. These menu bar gems are free — and worth your space.
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Clipboard Managers
Yippy
Yippy is an open source clipboard manager. The history window shows all text ever copied from when it is first run.
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Note Taking Apps
One Thing
Always focus on one thing at a time. With One Thing you can put a single task or goal in your menu bar.
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System Tools
OnlySwitch
OnlySwitch is an all-in-one status bar button. The Hide Notch Switch only shows on the build-in display of M1 Pro/Max Macbook Pro.
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Cloud Apps
Maestral
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Developer Apps
Neat
All your GitHub notifications in your menu bar, so you can streamline your code review and ship with ease.
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Display Apps
BetterDummy
The new Apple Silicon Macs notoriously don’t allow sub-4K resolution displays to have HiDPI (“Retina”) resolutions. This menu bar app tricks macOS into thinking you’ve plugged in a 5K monitor.
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Network Apps
Pingr
Pingr shows your current internet speed right in the menu bar with a clean, minimal widget — a quick at-a-glance check that tells you whether your connection is holding up without opening a speed test.
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Battery Apps
Cooldown
In macOS Monterey Apple introduced a new Low Power Mode for Mac. Cooldown is a simple menu bar app that allows you to quickly toggle Low Power Mode on and off.
Bunch
Bunch is a menu bar app that uses plain text scripts (‘Bunches’) to automate context switching. Bunches can open apps, specific files, web pages, and more.