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.

Itsycal

Itsycall

Itsycal is a (free) tiny calendar for your Mac’s menu bar, synchronizing with your Mac calendar app. You can also create and delete events.

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Amphetamine

Amphetamine

With Amphetamine, you can effortlessly override your energy saving settings and keep your Mac awake. You just have to tap on a single icon on your macOS Menu Ba. Once activated, your system will stop going to sleep. You can also set it up so that Amphetamine only kicks on when it notices that a particular app is running.

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Rocket

Rocket is a free Mac app that makes typing emoji faster and easier using Slack-style shortcuts. A simple and effective app that gets the job done. It lets you quickly enter emoji by typing rather than scrolling through a list.

You can also access any emoji through Rocket’s built-in shortcut window.

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SpotMenu

spotmenu

SpotMenu is a Spotify style menu bar app that displays the artist/album in the menu bar. The app comes in handy when you hear a song and wonder “Who is the artist/album?” Then you can click the Menu Bar icon to interact with what’s playing.

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Clocker

Clocker

Clocker helps you keeping track of your friends and colleagues in different time zones. You can also add notes and create reminders.

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F.lux

Flux

Is your Mac keeping you up late? F.lux is a free download that warms up your computer display at night, to match your indoor lighting. The app saves your eyes by making your display’s brightness adapt to the time of day.

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iBetterCharge

ibettercharge-app

iBetterCharge tracks the power of your iOS devices. When they hit a specific battery capacity (or are fully charged up when plugged in), the app will let you know.

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