The original 295 USD Blackmagic switcher I ran from 2020 to October 2026, what it did, what it never got, and why software on my Mac replaced it.

A native Mac recorder with OBS-style scenes: 1 Stream Deck key sets up the screen, the camera and the mic, and records. It replaces OBS, which I used for more than 10 years, and my agents can drive every part of it. Built with Claude Code.

Theo Browne's free, MIT-licensed GUI for the coding agents already on your machine: threads, branches, diffs and PRs in 1 place, on desktop, web and phone.

A native text editor that replaces TextMate as my clipboard scratchpad. Against TextMate, CotEditor, Sublime Text and TextEdit, it wins 12 of 16 speed and memory measures.

Paper Instruments' model for finance, legal and consulting work: GLM-5.3 Flash plus reinforcement learning on rubric-graded tasks, at $0.13 a task. Works in Claude Code.

A native Mac app that keys my green wall in real time, follows the daylight all day, keeps me solid even with green on my glasses, and shows up in any call app as a camera called Webcamee. It replaces the ATEM Mini on my desk. Built with Claude Code.

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

Free, open-source macOS automation scripted in Lua. The glue behind my keyboard-first Mac: dictation, copy and paste keys, audio, screens and window rules.

A tiling window manager I built in 1 day with Claude Code, in Lua inside Hammerspoon. It replaces Amethyst and tiles a new window in 0.1 s instead of 9 s.

A tiling window manager for macOS. I used it for 2 years and retired it on 13th October 2026 for Tilee, my own tiler in Hammerspoon.

Open-source Chromium browsers from a YC startup: BrowserOS neo, a second browser your Claude Code or Codex agents drive with your real logins, and BrowserOS, an AI browser for humans.

Mole's free GPL CLI (mo) cleans caches, uninstalls apps with their leftovers, analyses the disk and shows live system status. It replaced CleanMyMac for me on day 1.

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 great deal for Mac power users

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.

Free, open-source, on-device voice-to-text for macOS, and now Windows in beta, with a choice of local models (Parakeet, Whisper, Apple Speech). A Wispr Flow alternative.

Cocoatech's power-user file manager for macOS since 2001. The Finder replacement I used for years, until I built my own, Filee, in October 2026.

Danielle Morrill's setup for giving Claude Code agents real credentials: 1Password as the source, a read-only service account per Mac, and the macOS keychain as the cache.

7 free, open-source Rust apps that copy the look and workflow of Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom and the rest of Adobe's suite. Early alpha, written with Claude.

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

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.

NVIDIA's open 7B full-duplex speech-to-speech model: it listens while it talks, takes a voice and a role prompt, and answers in about 200 ms. English only, no tool calling.

Open-source, clean-room clone of Microsoft Word in pure Rust: ribbon, styles, track changes, mail merge, real .docx, and an MCP server so agents can write documents. Alpha.

Corridor Digital's free neural green screen keyer: it unmixes the green from hair, motion blur and glass, and outputs a straight-colour foreground plus a linear alpha.