62 apps · pay once · own forever
A curated directory of software you pay for once — for Mac, iPhone, Windows, and the web. Each widget below is one app: open it to see what it does, its one-time price, and where to get it.
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6 apps
See your remaining life as a grid of months
HowFew is a Stoic-inspired life-countdown app that visualizes your lifetime as a grid of roughly 900 months, turning abstract time into concrete moments. It doubles as a reflective journal and a daily reminder to spend your time well.
iOS · iPadOS · macOS · visionOS
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Browse Android on your Mac like Finder
AndroidFileSync is a native macOS app that lets you browse, transfer, and manage files on an Android phone over USB or Wi-Fi, Finder-style. It supports drag-and-drop transfers, Quick Look previews, app sideloading, and a trash and restore system, with no companion phone app, cloud, or account required.
macOS
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6 apps
AI-Powered Multilingual Emoji Search
Emoji Say is a Chrome extension that finds emoji from natural language across multiple languages. It uses AI to match what you type to the right emoji, adds animated Google emojis, and lets you copy one or select several at once. A free tier covers the core library, and a one-time Premium purchase removes limits on a single device with a lifetime license.
Web
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See how your website looks when shared
Paste a URL and see how the page renders when shared across social and messaging platforms like iMessage, X, Facebook, WhatsApp, and LinkedIn. It surfaces broken or missing Open Graph previews so you can fix them before you post a link. Previews are approximations, so exact appearance can vary per platform.
Web
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6 apps
Point at any UI and copy clean context for your AI coding assistant.
Qursor is a Chrome extension that lets you point at any element on a web page and copy clean, code-aware context for an AI coding assistant. Instead of describing a UI in words, you capture the exact elements and hand them to your model. A one-time $39 lifetime license is available.
Web
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Unlimited AI voice notes with transcription and translation
inFin is an iOS voice-notes app with unlimited recording, real-time transcription, and bilingual Chinese and English translation, plus offline recognition and local storage. The core app is free to use with no limits on recording or translation. An optional inFin+ add-on layers on advanced AI summaries and search.
iOS
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6 apps
Mute your mic in any app
Mic Drop is a macOS menu bar app that mutes and unmutes your microphone. You trigger it with a customisable hotkey, the menu bar icon, or a squeeze of your AirPods. It works across apps like Zoom, Meet, and Slack, and shows a clear on-screen indicator of whether your mic is live.
macOS
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Your complete medical history, private and on-device.
Medicyn is a private vault for your medical history that keeps everything on the iPhone itself. There is no cloud sync, no account, and no tracking, so records never leave the device. It is free to try, then a one-time $9.99 unlock for lifetime access.
iOS
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6 apps
Sync databases and files from your server to your Mac in two clicks
Remtoloc is a macOS menu-bar app that pulls a database and its associated files from a remote server down to your local machine in two clicks. It connects over SSH and syncs assets with Rsync so only new or changed files transfer. You manage projects from a dashboard and trigger a sync from the Mac menu bar.
macOS
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Use keyboard shortcuts in any app without memorizing a single one
Pie Menu puts a customizable radial menu on a single keyboard shortcut on your Mac. Pressing it opens a pie-shaped menu around the cursor with the current app's actions, so you trigger commands by clicking a wedge instead of memorizing key combinations. The menu adapts to whichever app is in focus.
macOS
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6 apps
Your localhost on your iPhone, synced.
Proxee is a native macOS menu bar app that mirrors your local development site onto your iPhone in real time. You pair by QR code, and navigation, scroll, and theme stay in sync between Mac and phone. It handles SSR proxying and OAuth redirects, runs on your local network, and ships with a native iOS companion app.
macOS · iOS
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A voice-controlled teleprompter for solo creators.
CueBuddy is a teleprompter for iPhone and iPad that scrolls your script in time with your voice, so you keep pace without touching the screen. It suits solo creators recording talking-head videos, courses, and speech practice. It offers a one-time $99.99 lifetime purchase in addition to its regular plans.
iOS · iPadOS
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6 apps
Automatically beautiful screen recordings
Rapidemo is a screen recorder for Windows 10 and 11. It records your screen, cursor, camera, and mic, then automatically adds zoom animations on clicks, smooths the cursor, and generates subtitles. Recording and editing are free, and a license unlocks export up to 4K at 60 fps.
Windows
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6 apps
Mini timezone clocks in your menubar
Minizones shows small timezone clocks in your Mac menubar. Scroll through the hours to find a meeting time that works across different zones. Each timezone can get a custom name and emoji.
macOS
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Your Mac, automatically organized.
AutoShelf is a macOS app that watches your folders and moves files where they belong based on rules you set. It can sort by file type, the download URL, or which app downloaded a file, and it ships with templates for cleaning Downloads, auto-deleting old DMGs, and tidying the Desktop. It also has a CLI and MCP support, needs macOS 13 or later, and is free for one rule with a one-time $19.99 unlock for unlimited rules.
macOS
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6 apps
Add a row under your menu bar for hidden icons
ChocolateBar is a Mac app that adds a second row under your menu bar so icons hidden behind the MacBook notch stay visible and clickable. It works as an alternative to Bartender and Ice on any Mac, with or without a notch.
macOS
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A native macOS menu-bar image uploader for your own image hosts.
PicOne is a macOS menu-bar app that uploads images to your own hosts like GitHub, S3, R2, Alibaba OSS, Imgur, and WebDAV. You send files by drag and drop, clipboard, a file picker, or the Finder right-click menu, and it can convert, compress, resize, and watermark before upload. It runs sandboxed with no Dock icon and no third-party dependencies.
macOS
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6 apps
Mac screen recorder that bakes your cursor, keystrokes, and auto-zoom into the video.
Limelight is a macOS screen recorder for demos and tutorials that highlights your cursor, shows the keys you press, and lets you draw on screen. When you record it auto-zooms into each click, smooths the cursor, and writes those overlays into the file, then you trim and export to mp4 or a 9:16 clip. It records locally with no account and works fully offline.
macOS
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A private notch workspace for every Mac
Aurora Notch turns your Mac's notch or top edge into a drop-down dock for notes, clipboard, calendar, focus timers, media controls, and writing tools. It runs on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, and on Macs without a notch it uses the top edge instead. Data stays on the device, and there is a one-time Lifetime license alongside a monthly option.
macOS
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2 apps
Free the gigabytes your dev tools and AI apps hoard
DevCleaner is a macOS menu bar app that finds and clears the caches dev tools leave behind, from Xcode DerivedData and Docker images to npm, Gradle, and AI tool caches like Cursor and Ollama. It rates every category Safe, Warning, or Danger and never pre-selects risky items, so you choose what to delete. The free tier does manual cleanup, and a one-time Pro upgrade adds Auto Clean, Smart Triggers, and Project Hibernation.
macOS
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A clipboard tray and shelf for your Mac menu bar
DropK is a Mac menu bar tray that holds copied items like text, links, files, images, and folders, so they stay available instead of being pushed out by your next copy. You can gather research, stage uploads, and move assets between apps from one place. It is a free macOS download with a one-time Lifetime unlock, plus optional subscriptions.
macOS
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