176 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
Local-first semantic search for your files
Dotient indexes your personal files and finds them by describing what they contain or look like, using on-device machine learning. It runs fully offline with no cloud uploads, so your files stay on your machine. Dotient works on macOS and Windows and is a one-time purchase.
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Turn your Mac into a time machine.
RetroMac is an open source macOS menu bar app that lays live CRT, VHS, and classic computer themes over your screen, with looks from Mac OS 9, Windows XP and 98, BeOS, and Amiga. Shaders run on your whole display or a single window, and an optional virtual webcam pipes the retro look into Zoom, Meet, or Teams. It is free to use, with a one-time Pro upgrade that adds extra presets and the webcam feature.
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A sidekick for your cursor
Robin is a quiet macOS overlay. Flick him up right where you’re working, drop files onto his shelf, carry them across any app, and shrink, convert or unlock them on the way. Then he’s gone.
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Don't Let It Drop! Play the Most Exciting Ball Game Ever!
Keep It Up is a browser game where you juggle a soccer ball with a shoe and stop it from hitting the ground. The page tracks a running score and a persistent high score, and hitting the walls awards bonus points. It loads as a static web page with no download, account, or payment.
Web
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Make 3rd party keyboards work with window-tiling shortcuts
WindowKeys collects every native macOS window-tiling command into a single Tiling Panel and lets you bind each action to a custom keyboard shortcut. It works with third-party keyboards that do not trigger the built-in tiling shortcuts, moves windows between displays, and repeats the last tiling command per app. It requires macOS Sequoia 15.1 or newer and ships as a free direct download from Apptorium.
macOS
Wakes you gently and always wakes you
Alora Wake is an iPhone alarm and sleep tracker that reads Apple Watch or iPhone motion to move the alarm to a lighter sleep phase, always earlier than the set time and never later. Night Mode simulates a sunrise, Apple Music plays as the alarm tone, and a spoken morning briefing reports weather and commute conditions. Eleven wake-up challenges cover math puzzles, memory games, shake detection, barcode scanning, and step counting, and a Notify My Backup option texts a chosen contact if the alarm is slept through. Premium is $79.99 as a one-time lifetime unlock and requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iOS · iPadOS · watchOS
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6 apps
Turn your AirPods into a gentle posture coach
Posture Nudge reads AirPods head-motion data to detect when you have been looking down too long and plays an alert so you lift your head. It ships multiple reminder profiles, custom alert settings, nature soundscapes, and weekly and monthly activity insights. It requires compatible AirPods and does not work with other headphone brands.
iOS · iPadOS
Peptide tracking made simple. One purchase. Lifetime access.
StackLog is an offline peptide dose tracker delivered as a single self-contained HTML file that opens in any browser. It calculates exact syringe draw units for U-100 and U-40 needles and warns on unsafe draw amounts, logs unlimited doses with compound, injection site, side effects, and notes, and exports the full history to CSV. An insights dashboard breaks down symptom rate, 7-day activity, and most-used injection site. All data stays on the device with no account and no cloud sync.
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6 apps
Beautiful kraft paper calendar for macos
ZenCalendar is a menu bar calendar for macOS styled after kraft paper. It offers three display sizes, month navigation by clicking the month circle, swiping, or using arrow keys, and an option to launch at login. It requires macOS 13.0 or later and runs on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
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Give your Mac room to breathe
Freshist is a native SwiftUI utility for macOS 14 and later that clears system, app and browser caches plus developer junk from Xcode, npm, pnpm and Homebrew. It uninstalls apps together with their leftover support files, runs macOS maintenance scripts, frees inactive memory, and draws a hardlink-aware treemap of disk usage. A menu bar HUD shows live CPU, GPU, memory, battery, disk, network and fan readings and offers Cool and Max fan presets plus one-click Eject All. Every file is listed with its exact size before removal and everything moves to the Trash rather than being deleted outright. It runs on Apple Silicon and Intel and ships as a notarized DMG outside the App Store.
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6 apps
A modern, free and beautiful download manager for Windows
Rivlet splits each download across up to 32 parallel connections and reassembles the file bit-for-bit. It captures downloads from Chrome and Edge through an included extension, monitors the clipboard, and sorts files into General, Video, Music, and Documents categories. Queues, schedules, custom proxies, saved logins, and pause and resume are available to every user. The Windows 11 interface has light and dark themes and carries no ads or telemetry.
Windows
Hold, Flick and Release. Ten apps. One orb.
Orbs is a macOS radial launcher that appears while you hold a key and runs an action when you release over it. It ships 14 built-in tools including a timer, focus dimmer, caffeine, mirror, calculator, clipboard, color picker and magnifier, all opening as popovers instead of windows. Wheel entries can also run shell commands, launch apps, paste snippets, open nested submenus or trigger macOS Shortcuts. It needs macOS 14 or later and Accessibility permission, and runs on Apple silicon and Intel.
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6 apps
Be Zen about your Meetings
Battery Sensei is a macOS menu bar app that shows live charge percentage with watts in and out, and caps charging at a set limit with a Travel Mode that lifts the cap for one top-up and resets at 9 AM. Meeting Guard checks upcoming calendar events on device and warns early when the remaining charge will not cover them. Charge history, health tiles and per-app power drain all stay local to the Mac, and the free tier keeps low-battery alerts, the charge limit and 24 hours of history forever.
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File transfer with no cloud storage, no account, no limits
AlterSend moves files straight between two paired devices over an end-to-end encrypted peer-to-peer channel using ChaCha20-Poly1305, so nothing is uploaded to a server. Devices pair once by QR code or join code and are remembered after that, with no account and no file size cap. Native builds ship for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android from a single shared protocol, and the source is Apache-2.0 on GitHub.
macOS · Windows · Linux · iOS · Android
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6 apps
Free, open-source Grammarly alternative powered by Gemini
GemType is a browser extension that checks grammar and rewrites text in any web text field, including Gmail, LinkedIn, X, and Reddit. It calls the Google Gemini API with a key the user supplies, so there is no account and no intermediary server. The source is Apache-2.0 licensed and builds ship for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.
Web
Unlock lifetime YouTube wisdom. Your API keys, your freedom
Horsy is a Chrome extension that summarizes YouTube videos and web pages and answers questions about the current page or all open tabs. It searches across saved bookmarks, runs a fact checking tool called Truth Checker, and includes tab management. Users can bring their own model API keys for unlimited use or buy API credits through Horsy.
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Customizable folder colors and icons
Folder Theme replaces default macOS folder icons with themed sets covering colorful system tints, leather textures, soft pastels, cartoon, graffiti, food, Halloween, and vinyl record styles. Icons are assigned per folder from inside the app. The download is 27.8 MB, requires macOS 14.0 or later, ships in English and Chinese, and is free with a single $1.99 Folder Theme VIP unlock.
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Screen Break Reminder
Mellow is a macOS app that schedules screen breaks on the 20-20-20 rule or the Pomodoro pattern of 25 minutes of work and 5 minutes of rest. Break intervals are user-configurable rather than fixed. The download is 2.7 MB, requires macOS 14.6 or later, and is free on the Mac App Store with no in-app purchases.
macOS
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6 apps
Private, on-device meeting notes for Mac
QuickQuill records, transcribes, and summarizes Mac meetings entirely on device, with no meeting bot joining the call. A free tier covers push to talk dictation, custom vocabulary, history, and text or Markdown export, and one $49 purchase unlocks unlimited meeting capture, file import, summaries, live subtitles, translation, and all export formats. It runs on macOS 26 or later and is sold direct rather than through the Mac App Store, because it needs a system wide hotkey plus accessibility access.
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A player for people who keep their own music collection
Jam-Pod is an iPhone and iPad player for music files you already own, importing FLAC, WAV, AIFF, and other formats and playing them at original quality without routing through the Apple Music library first. The whole interface is one on screen joystick over a black and white display, with haptic confirmation on each move and no ads or recommendation feed. It also reads the device's existing Apple Music library, streams the Apple Music catalog for people who already subscribe, and searches podcasts with offline episode downloads. It requires iOS 26.5 or newer.
iOS · iPadOS
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AI file names for your Mac screenshots and images
ScreenshotMagic is a Mac app that reads your images and gives them descriptive file names, so a desktop full of Screenshot 2024-11-03 at 14.22.png turns into something you can actually search. It renames large batches in one click, and you can define your own naming rules per folder. One purchase of $19.
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The All-in-One Mac System Performance Monitoring Tool
Sensei puts CPU, GPU, battery health and temperature readouts in the Mac menu bar, and adds disk cleanup plus a full app uninstaller that removes leftover files. It reads S.M.A.R.T. drive health, benchmarks read and write speeds, and tracks fan speeds in real time. Cindori sells a $59 license good for 3 Macs next to a yearly plan.
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Football schedules and live scores in the macOS menu bar
Sportsbar is a macOS menu bar app that shows football schedules and live scores in your own time zone. It covers major national and club competitions including the World Cup, Champions League, Premier League, and La Liga, and pins an ongoing match score in the menu bar with a goal animation. One purchase unlocks it, with no subscription.
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Run multiple Tailscale tailnets at once, no switching
TailMux keeps several Tailscale tailnets connected at the same time on macOS, so you reach work and personal networks without switching accounts or running a VM. It gives each tailnet its own isolated profile and routes each hostname only through the profile that owns it. It covers SSH, RDP, and SMB tunnels, per-tailnet browser routing, and command-line tools like curl, git, and npm.
macOS · Linux
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6 apps
Stops your audio when it detects you have fallen asleep
Smart Sleep Timer pauses whatever you are listening to once it detects you have drifted off, using snore and sound detection instead of a fixed countdown. It works alongside your existing music, podcast, and video apps so playback does not run all night. You can also set a manual timer or a specific end time when you prefer fixed control.
iOS
Menu bar to-do list with a drag-and-drop daily timeline and focus timer.
TaskLine is a macOS menu bar app that pairs a to-do list with a daily timeline. You list what to do, then drag tasks onto the timeline to plan when to do them, and a built-in focus timer follows that plan. It stays in the menu bar and works in light and dark mode.
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6 apps
Keep a soccer ball in the air as long as you can
Keepy Uppy is a free browser game where you keep a soccer ball airborne for as long as possible. It tracks your current score and high score as you bounce the ball off your foot and off the walls for bonus points. It runs entirely in the browser with no signup, payment, or ads.
Web
A menu bar app that shows the live dollar cost of your screen time.
Spent is a Mac menu bar app that turns screen time into a live dollar figure. You set an hourly rate, and time in distraction apps like social media or video ticks up a cost while time in work apps earns it back. The running total shows in a floating desktop widget and in the menu bar, with no subscription and no ads.
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6 apps
Amazon, without the knockoffs
Knockoff is a free browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari that filters pseudo-brand junk out of Amazon search results so you buy from real, established brands. It uses name heuristics and curated brand lists to hide, dim, or label suspicious listings, with three filter strengths. Everything runs locally with no accounts and no tracking.
Web
Instant rendered Markdown previews in Finder Quick Look
Marked QL is a macOS Quick Look extension that renders formatted Markdown when you select a file in Finder and press Spacebar. Its Apex engine handles math, Mermaid diagrams, syntax highlighting, tables, footnotes, and callouts, and reads TextBundle, Quarto, and MultiMarkdown files. It works on its own or shares preview settings with the full Marked 3 app.
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Control your Home Assistant favorites from the Mac menu bar.
HomeGlance brings your Home Assistant devices to the Mac menu bar. You pick favorite lights, climate, media, covers, cameras and scenes, then toggle or adjust them from a menu without opening the Home Assistant app. It shows live status and reorderable favorites, and needs an existing Home Assistant server.
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Simple menu bar checklists that sync across your Macs with iCloud.
Todoey is a menu bar checklist app for Mac. It sits one click away in the menu bar, holds multiple lists, and syncs over iCloud so the same items show up on all your Macs. It matches both light and dark macOS themes.
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Take Control of Your Finances
Fyenance is a desktop personal finance app that keeps all your data on your own computer with no cloud sync and no bank connections. You add transactions by hand and track accounts, recurring bills, projects, and reports. It runs offline on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Windows · macOS · Linux
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A resizable menu-bar text editor for your Mac
NotePad is a lightweight Mac menu-bar text editor for jotting and formatting text while you work in other apps. It supports rich text or plain single-font paste, images, always-on-top windows, per-window light or dark styles, live line and word counts, and pulling text out of images. A one-time purchase with no subscription.
macOS
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Monitor your microphone input level from the macOS menu bar
Mic Audio Level is a macOS menu bar app that shows your microphone's input level in real time with a color-coded meter. It supports dBFS and professional metering modes, adjustable meter width, global keyboard shortcuts, and automatic switching to the active input device.
macOS
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PDF, photo, or text to quiz
EaseQuiz turns text documents, photos, and PDFs into AI-generated quizzes on iPhone and iPad. It builds questions automatically, syncs your quiz library across devices, and tracks progress as you study. You can export any quiz to PDF to review offline or share it.
iOS · iPadOS
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Clipboard manager for macOS which does one job - keep your copy history at hand.
Maccy is an open source clipboard manager for macOS under the MIT license. It keeps your copy history and lets you search it from the keyboard in a fraction of a second. Everything stays on your computer, and it drops copied passwords when your password manager does.
macOS
Your all-in-one AI clipboard for text, images and audio
Clipboard AI auto-captures everything you copy and organizes it with on-device AI. Your clipboard history syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and includes search, collections, and quick-paste tools.
iOS · iPadOS · macOS
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6 apps
An open-source screen recorder for macOS
Kap is an open-source screen recorder for macOS. It records a selected area or the whole screen and exports the result as a GIF or a video file. It is free to use and the source is on GitHub.
macOS
Turn meeting recordings into a searchable local archive
Choose folders with completed meeting recordings. MinuteFile transcribes them locally when you ask—or when you explicitly opt a watched folder into automatic transcription—and keeps the editable transcripts searchable on your Mac. It does not upload the recordings or transcripts to a cloud transcription service.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Robin is a quiet macOS overlay. Flick him up right where you’re working, drop files onto his shelf, carry them across any app, and shrink, convert or unlock them on the way. Then he’s gone.
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