34 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
A mixing board for your Mac
SoundPipe creates virtual audio devices on your Mac so you can route sound from any app, microphone, or input to any other app. Every route is drawn as a wire from source to destination on one screen, with live meters and a volume slider on each channel. It installs its audio driver with one click, works at any sample rate, and runs under 15 ms of latency.
macOS
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The clipboard manager for people who copy-paste for a living
Ortu is a local-first clipboard manager built with Tauri and Rust that captures text, images, and files as you copy them. It auto-groups clips, offers full-text search and a paste stack for pasting several items in sequence, and masks detected secrets with encryption at rest. Everything stays in a local SQLite database with no account, telemetry, or cloud sync.
macOS · Windows · Linux
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6 apps
Open source and free uptime monitoring and alerting
Uppi is an uptime and monitoring platform that combines minute-by-minute uptime checks, synthetic browser tests, and exception tracking on one dashboard. It routes alerts through app, email, SMS, and Slack, and publishes customizable public status pages. It ships a perpetually free hosted tier and a free open-source version you can self-host for unlimited monitors.
Web
A startup tycoon game
San Fran Sim is an isometric startup-tycoon game you play free in your browser. You ship features, squash bugs, hire a team, and survive the burn rate while learning real SaaS metrics like MRR, churn, LTV, and CAC. A dry announcer narrates your decisions as you grow a garage startup toward an IPO.
Web
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6 apps
Everything you need in one native macOS command bar
Snap Deck HQ is a command palette for macOS, opened with a keyboard shortcut to launch apps, find files, and run automations without the mouse. It bundles clipboard history search, AI text tools, batch file and image utilities, and built-in OCR. Processing runs on-device.
macOS
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An arcade in your menu bar, playable over anything
DeskArcade is a free macOS menu bar app that drops a transparent arcade of small games over your desktop. Press a hotkey to play for a bit, then press it again and the games disappear without touching your real apps. It is notarized by Apple.
macOS
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6 apps
Fast, native FTP, FTPS, and SFTP client for macOS.
Upstream is a native macOS FTP, FTPS, and SFTP client built in Swift on SwiftNIO. It has a dual-pane layout, a concurrent transfer queue, folder synchronization, Quick Look, and SSH keys, with credentials kept in the system Keychain.
macOS
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AI Dynamic Island for your Mac
BooBar is a Mac menu bar app that acts as a Dynamic Island for your desktop. It collects file organization, download progress, one-time email codes, browser context, GitHub panels, and Codex and Claude tasks into one local-first workspace. Everything runs on your machine.
macOS
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6 apps
Your coding agents, in the Mac notch.
AgentPeek puts your running coding agents into the Mac notch and menu bar. It shows live sessions from tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode, lets you answer permission prompts, and tracks token usage without switching windows. It runs locally on Apple silicon Macs and is a one-time $15 purchase after a free trial.
macOS
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A notes app that lives in your MacBook's notch.
Notchkin is a macOS notes app that lives in the MacBook notch. Hover over the notch and a panel drops down so you can jot something and get back to work. It handles rich text and hashtag tags, runs on macOS 14 and later, and is a one-time purchase on the Mac App Store.
macOS
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4 apps
Show, don't tell. Straight from the notch.
QuackScreen is a native macOS notch app for recording your screen and taking screenshots. Clips and captures collect in a panel that hangs from the notch, and you drag them straight into Slack, Mail, Finder, or any other app with no upload and no share link. It needs macOS 26 or later on Apple silicon.
macOS
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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.
Platforms
macOS · iOS
Category
Developer Tools
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