66 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
Clip recipes into clean, organized cards
Recipe Catcher saves recipes by stripping web clutter from a shared link and extracting the title, ingredients, and steps into clean cards. It builds a personal recipe library with a meal planner, a grocery-list builder that syncs with Apple Reminders, and iCloud sync across your devices.
iOS · iPadOS · macOS
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Self-hosted, privacy-first desktop time tracker
Vigil is an open-source desktop productivity tracker for Windows and macOS that automatically logs app and window sessions to a local SQLite file. It gives you focus scores, Pomodoro sessions with soft app-blocking, streaks, and a force-directed graph of your attention, with all data staying on your machine.
macOS · Windows
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6 apps
A native macOS command bar with 185+ actions
Slashbar is a macOS command bar you trigger with a keyboard shortcut to run over 185 native actions on selected text or your workflow, from JSON, JWT, Base64 and hash tools to translation, window tiling, clipboard history, and quick pushes to GitHub, Linear, Slack, and Notion. Its AI actions run through CLIs you already log into like Claude and Gemini, so there are no API keys and no extra AI bill.
macOS
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6 apps
Bedtime notes reminded tomorrow
Dotomo lets you jot down thoughts at bedtime and turns them into next-day reminders and tasks. You type notes in plain language and it schedules them for you. Notifications keep the captured to-dos in front of you the following day.
iOS
The 100% native SSH terminal emulator for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and visionOS.
Prompt 3 is an SSH client and terminal emulator for Apple devices. It handles local shells plus SSH, Mosh, and Eternal Terminal connections, with GPU-accelerated scrolling, jump hosts, and YubiKey two-factor. Panic Sync keeps servers, keys, and passwords in sync across Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro.
macOS · iOS · iPadOS · visionOS
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6 apps
Attach a sound to any tattoo and replay it by scanning
InkStory lets you photograph a tattoo and link a sound to it, a voice memo, a song, or a video, then replays that sound when you point your camera at the tattoo. The image and audio are stored on your device, so scanning works offline. It is a one-time purchase with a free trial and no subscription.
iOS · Android
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Full-screen 3D clock scenes for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Keep turns an iPhone, iPad, or Mac into a full-screen 3D clock display for a desk, nightstand, or charging stand. It comes with animated scenes like Holo, Glass, Jelly, and Wireframe. The app is free, with a one-time Keep Pro unlock for the full set and no subscription.
iOS · iPadOS · macOS
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6 apps
Never miss a clutch moment in live football.
Clutch Alarm watches live football matches and alerts you the moment a game turns, like a late equaliser, a penalty, or a red card. You pick the matches and it only pings you when something decisive happens. The app is free on iPhone.
iOS · iPadOS
Block social media until you've actually slept.
HyperSleep blocks social media apps on Android until you have actually slept, so late-night scrolling does not eat into your rest. You set the rules and the feeds stay locked until your wake time. It offers a one-time $79.99 lifetime purchase alongside monthly and yearly plans.
Android
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6 apps
Free document scanner. No ads, no subscriptions, no cloud.
Clearcan is an iOS document scanner that uses Apple VisionKit for multi-page scanning with automatic edge detection and perspective correction. It converts documents to PDF and lets you share them through Mail, Messages, AirDrop, or Files. Everything runs offline on the device with no accounts, no tracking, and no subscriptions.
iOS
Export and analyze YouTube comments in seconds
A browser-based tool that extracts comments and nested replies from any public YouTube video and exports them to CSV or JSON. Processing happens client-side in the browser with no account or signup, and it includes an analytics view for filtering, keyword analysis, emoji tracking, and conversation threads.
Web
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6 apps
A private, searchable memory for your Mac
MeMex records your Mac screen activity locally and turns it into a searchable timeline you can query in plain English to jump back to the exact moment you saw something. It generates daily and weekly reports of what you worked on and can surface repeated workflows. AI analysis is optional and runs through your own OpenAI-compatible model endpoint, so there are no bundled AI credits and recordings stay in a location you choose.
macOS
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Layered voice notes for melodies and quick ideas.
Tide is a voice-notes app for musicians and anyone who captures ideas out loud. You record layered takes on top of each other, so a hummed melody or a tapped rhythm becomes something you can keep and share. It costs $6.99 once, with no subscription, account, or cloud.
iOS
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6 apps
A GUI for Apple's native container system
Container Desktop is a free, open source macOS app that gives Apple's container CLI a Docker Desktop style interface. You can manage containers, images, volumes, networks, and machines from one window.
macOS
Turn your Mac notch into an active workspace
NotchSpace is a free Mac App Store app that turns the notch area into a workspace layer. It adds a quick app launcher, a menu bar manager, and a temporary shelf for dragging files, text, links, and colors between apps. It runs locally with no tracking or uploads.
macOS
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6 apps
Stop forgetting why you opened X.
Amnesia is a local-first macOS menu bar app that catches the moment you open a distracting app like X, YouTube, Reddit or Slack and asks what you came to do. It keeps that intent on screen with a small timer, checks whether you finished, and turns the day into a private report of opens, forgotten intents, and time lost. It is a one-time $19 purchase.
macOS
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Turns your MacBook's notch into a hub for Now Playing, system stats, calendar, tasks, and translation.
Crest is a macOS app that lives in the MacBook notch and holds modules like Now Playing, a dashboard, system stats, calendar, tasks, a clipboard history, and on-device translation. Four modules are free, and Crest Pro is a one-time purchase that adds thirteen more.
macOS
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6 apps
Clipboard and screenshot history manager for Mac.
Supaste keeps a local searchable history of what you copy on your Mac, including text, links, images, files, code, colors, and screenshots. Everything stays on your device and shows up in a timeline you can search and paste back in seconds.
macOS
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Clipboard history for Mac, right under the notch.
Cliptop is a clipboard history manager for Mac that opens from the notch or the menu bar. It stores text, links, code, images, files, and colors locally, with search, pinboards, and on-device OCR to pull text out of screenshots. Clips can sync across Mac, iPhone, and iPad through your own iCloud.
macOS · iOS · iPadOS
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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.
macOS · Windows
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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.
macOS
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Clip recipes into clean, organized cards
Recipe Catcher saves recipes by stripping web clutter from a shared link and extracting the title, ingredients, and steps into clean cards. It builds a personal recipe library with a meal planner, a grocery-list builder that syncs with Apple Reminders, and iCloud sync across your devices.
Platforms
iOS · iPadOS · macOS
Category
Cooking
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