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.

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.

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 great deal for Mac power users

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.

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.

TablePlus's new virtual machine app for Apple Silicon: macOS, Windows and Linux guests with GPU acceleration, snapshots, and a built-in MCP server so AI agents get their own machine. $69 once.

The native database client I've used every day since 2020 for my SQLite databases: fast, clean, safe edits with code review, and it speaks 15 database engines.

A free, open-source Mac app that records CPU, memory, GPU, disk, network and battery history, so you can go back to the moment a slowdown started and see which process caused it.

A native macOS sticky notes app in my NicAI design. Write a note or a list, stick it on the screen, blow it up full screen on all 4 monitors with 1 click.

A free, open-source Markdown editor for Mac, written in native Swift: it opens in 0.1 seconds, idles at 50 MB of memory, and keeps every note a plain .md file.

keyboard controlled window management (retired Sep 2026, replaced by Amethyst)

for clean screenshots of web pages

A Rust rewrite of Logitech Options+ that runs locally. Remap buttons, DPI and SmartShift over HID++, with no account and no telemetry.

A macOS menu bar app that ranks your audio devices and always switches to the highest-priority one connected. Built by Shopify's CEO over two days.

Sysinternals ZoomIt ported to native macOS in Swift, MIT licensed, installed with Homebrew. Built in two days with agentic coding.

A single-purpose macOS app I built with Electron to present my reveal.js decks fullscreen on an external monitor, with its own embedded server. No browser, no tabs, no chrome.

System-wide predictive autocomplete for Apple Silicon Macs that finishes your sentences inline, runs a local Gemma model, and never sends text to the cloud.

macOS virtual audio loopback driver for routing audio between apps with zero latency.