A native, keyboard-first week calendar I built with Claude Code to replace Fantastical. It reads the calendars macOS already syncs, so it has no sync code and no database.

From the Claude app to terminal windows, to herdr, to my own macOS command centre for about 50 Claude Code sessions. Every feature, screenshots and a performance review.

A native clipboard history that replaced Alfred's: 1 hotkey, type a few letters, Return copies the entry back. It opens in 20 ms, filters 11,000 entries in under 5 ms and runs actions on any entry.

A native macOS world clock I built with Claude Code: a small card in the screen corner with my time, my next meeting in the client's time, and a click away from 4 time zones. 14 MB of memory.

Caps Lock to talk, a live transcript while I speak, clean text pasted where the cursor is. Everything runs on my Mac Studio. Built with Claude Code in 22 prompts.

A native macOS mail app for my personal mailboxes, built with Claude Code. Keyboard first, 1 global inbox, colours per mailbox. The goal: a mail app that grows with my needs.

A native Mac app for the work before and after a B2B event, and an iPad app for the show floor. Enrichment, scoring and messaging in my voice run by themselves. Built with Claude Code.

A private iPhone app I built with Claude Code for my family, around our shared calendar. It isn't on the App Store and stays private.

A native, keyboard-first, dual-pane file manager I built with Claude Code to replace Path Finder. Now open source on GitHub, under the MIT licence.

A native agent I built with Claude Code to replace Default Folder X: a default folder per app, a strip of folders next to every Open and Save dialog, and a ⌘J palette.

A command-line duplicate finder with a native review window, built with Claude Code to replace Gemini 2. It links backup copies instead of deleting them, and scans 328,000 files in 21 seconds.

A native Mac app I built with Claude Code to replace AnyTrans for iOS: it opens when I plug in an iPhone or iPad, copies photos and app files both ways, and deletes nothing it hasn't verified.

A native macOS music player I had my AI agent build to replace Audirvana: bit-perfect local playback, ReplayGain on every track, my Sonos speakers as 1 group, Apple Music for discovery, and 5x less memory.

A native image viewer with presets built in. It replaced Preview for images and ImageOptim: it opens a photo up to 4x faster than Preview and shrinks 100 images in 1 s instead of 98 s.

A command-line tool I built with Claude Code that files every new file on my Mac: it dedupes it, checks it for private content with a local model, asks Claude where it goes, names it and moves it. About 1,200 files filed in its first 9 days.

A native menu bar app I built with Claude Code to replace Trickster. 1 hotkey copies the path of the file I just saved and opens my recent files.

A native launcher I built with Claude Code to replace Alfred 5 after it froze. ⌘Space, a few letters, ↩: apps, commands, URLs, folders, file search and offline answers.

A native menu bar app and CLI I built with Claude Code for my Elgato Key Lights, my Hue lights and Night Shift. Presets in 1 file, a light change in about 55 ms. It replaces Elgato Control Center and Shifty.

How I built a personal movie-picking app in one evening, from my phone, driving an AI coding agent at home, without writing a line of code.

A native Markdown editor that keeps my VS Code shortcuts, opens a note in 20 ms and runs 4 windows in 119 MB. Built with Claude Code in 21 prompts over a weekend.

A native PDF app I built with Claude Code to replace PDF Squeezer and Nitro PDF Pro: view, compress, fill, sign, redact and rearrange, 1 key per tool.

A native app that records me on green screen in front of my demo, runs a teleprompter that follows my voice, opens the demo for me, and hands the edit to Claude Code: captions, translations and blurred addresses included. Built with Claude Code over a weekend.

A native Mac video player my AI agent built to replace VLC and IINA. It opens a file 2.4x faster, uses 5x less memory than VLC, and adds frame grabs for my notes, bookmarks and 2-key clip export.

The outreach engine I built with Claude Code for my sales work: I type 1 line, it prepares a campaign, Claude writes every sequence in my voice, I review it, and nothing sends before my Go.

A background tool I built with Claude Code that runs 165 checks on my Mac and my AI jobs every minute, sends 1 alert per root cause with the fix in the text, and hands each problem to its own Claude agent. 125 ms of CPU per tick.