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.
Aware quietly tracks how long you’ve been actively using your Mac by monitoring mouse movement and keystrokes, pausing during breaks and resuming when you return. No preachy reminders or forced wellness rituals, just a clear, unobtrusive record of your screen time whenever you feel brave enough to look.
Stay remembers exactly where you placed every window and restores them instantly, even when you connect or disconnect external displays, so your setup always feels intentional rather than accidental.
Your hard drive rarely sends polite warnings before it collapses. SMARTReporter keeps an eye on its S.M.A.R.T. status and I/O errors, flagging early signs of trouble through clear alerts and a color-changing icon. It can also watch RAID health and available boot disk space. It is not a backup solution, but it does give you a fighting chance before hardware failure turns into data loss.
Kap makes it refreshingly simple to capture your screen and export clean recordings as GIF, MP4, WebM, or APNG. With optional audio, click highlights, and easy trimming, it keeps things polished without unnecessary fuss.
With stts, you can keep an eye on your favorite cloud services and lets you check their status with a single click. It stays out of the way, sending timely notifications only when something goes down or comes back online.
Meteorologist is a free macOS weather app that puts you in control of how forecasts are displayed. View interlaced reports from multiple locations at once and keep changing conditions clearly organized at a glance.
Airpass helps you bypass Wi-Fi time limits by renewing your Mac’s MAC address, allowing networks to recognize your device as new. With a simple password confirmation, you’re quickly back online and free to continue browsing.
Background Music is a lightweight macOS audio utility that automatically pauses your music when other sounds play, lets you fine-tune volume per app, and even records system audio, all without requiring a restart. Still in alpha, but already impressively capable.
Thyme keeps things simple: start tracking, focus on your task, and let it quietly remember where your time went so you do not have to.
FlagTimes keeps track of multiple time zones through country flags, so you always know what time it is for colleagues abroad. It’s customizable, lightweight and based on Apple’s own clock.
