126 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
Keep your Mac awake, on your terms. Free and open source
Keepresso is a macOS menu bar app that blocks system and display sleep through timed sessions, saved presets, and condition based triggers. It requires macOS 14 or newer and is published under the GNU GPL v3.0 with full source on GitHub. Distribution is a direct DMG download or the Homebrew cask gyorgysh/keepresso, since the App Sandbox blocks the IOPMAssertion power APIs the app depends on.
macOS
A quiet daily journal, no streaks, no ads, fully offline
Folio is an offline daily journal for iOS and Android that keeps entries on the device and requires no account. It tracks mood by emoji or scale plus custom habits, and gathers each month into a reflection summary. There are no streaks and no social feed, and entries export to plain text with optional Google Drive backup and biometric or PIN app lock.
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6 apps
Quick file access in macOS
HighTop puts a tree view of your favorite local folders and Dropbox accounts in the Mac menu bar, so you can reach a file without hunting for a Finder window. Files drag in and out of the panel, onto the dock icon, or into a drop panel that appears whenever you start dragging, and search runs across every connected account at once. Free for local folders and one Dropbox account, with a $4.99 in-app unlock for the full version.
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Menu bar calendar and world clocks, plus fullscreen meeting notifications
Dato replaces the macOS menu bar clock with one that opens a calendar, the next week of events, and clocks for any time zone you add. It fires fullscreen alerts before a meeting and joins Zoom, Meet, Teams and 50 other services from a keyboard shortcut. $18 on the Mac App Store with a lifetime of updates, and a fully functional trial you can download first.
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Automatic time tracking for freelancers on Mac
Klokki is a Mac time-tracking app that starts the timer automatically when you begin working, so freelancers stop losing billable minutes to forgotten timers. It tracks billable hours by project, generates reports, and keeps all data on your machine. A free menu-bar edition, Klokki Slim, is also available without the automatic tracking.
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A free photo quiz game for guessing places around the world
Quizzes by Humbo is a free geography game that shows you photos of destinations and asks you to name and locate them. You can play quizzes made by Humbo or build and share your own, all with no ads and no in-app purchases. It runs in the browser as part of the Humbo travel-discovery platform.
Web
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6 apps
Free browser tool for App Store and Play Store screenshots
Screenshot Studio is a free web tool that turns raw app screenshots into store-ready preview images. Drop in your images, pick a store size for Apple, Google Play, Huawei, OPPO, vivo, or Xiaomi, then add titles, device frames, and gradient backgrounds and export. It runs entirely in the browser with no account or payment.
Web
Menu bar Mac browser that turns websites into apps and pins video windows on top
Surf is a macOS menu bar browser that saves your favorite websites as named, icon-tagged shortcuts you open in a resizable popover or in separate windows. It can pin any window always on top so you can watch video or check social media while you work, and it can load pages with a Mac, iOS, Android, Windows, or Chrome OS user agent to switch between mobile and desktop versions of a site.
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6 apps
Focus Mode and app hider for Mac
Hides is a macOS menu bar utility that clears desktop clutter so you can concentrate. It can hide every open app at once, or switch on Focus Mode to automatically keep only your active app visible. Global keyboard shortcuts let you toggle it without opening a window.
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Mount server and cloud storage as a disk in the Finder or File Explorer
Mountain Duck mounts remote servers and cloud storage as a disk in the macOS Finder and the Windows File Explorer, so you open and edit remote files with any app just like local ones. It connects over SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, SMB, S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and Backblaze B2, with on-demand sync that downloads files only when you open them. It is built on the open-source Cyberduck engine and adds optional Cryptomator client-side encryption.
macOS · Windows
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6 apps
A local-first desktop AI agent you own for a one-time price
Willow is a desktop AI agent that runs locally on your Mac, driving your browser and desktop to complete multi-step tasks while keeping conversations, memory, and notes in a local database and Markdown files. It connects to AI providers with your own API keys stored in the OS keychain, or runs fully offline with Ollama. You buy it once for a lifetime license with no recurring subscription.
macOS
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Local Mac regex tester and editor
Use Regex to test Swift Regex patterns locally, inspect captures, and preview replacements without changing the text I pasted. This native scratchpad shows whether a pattern is empty, invalid, valid with zero matches, or matching as I type.
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6 apps
A menu bar app that counts your keystrokes and clicks, privately.
Key Click Pro is a Mac menu bar app that counts how many keys you press and clicks you make. It does not record what you type or click, and all data stays on the Mac with no account or internet needed. Charts break your activity down by day, week, month, and app.
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6 apps
Network monitor and application firewall for macOS.
Little Snitch shows every outgoing network connection your Mac makes and lets you allow or deny each one. It works as a personal application firewall with connection alerts, a silent mode, and a live traffic monitor. Made by Objective Development, it uses a one-time license with paid upgrades between major versions.
macOS
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Show your Mac's battery icon when you need it, hide it when you don't
Battery Thing is a Mac menu bar app that lets you show or hide the battery icon whenever you want. One click reveals battery health, charge cycles, temperature, and the charge levels of your connected Bluetooth devices like keyboards and AirPods.
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Relationship reminders so you never miss a catchup
Linnk is an iOS app that schedules catch-up reminders, logs your interactions, and tracks streaks so you stay in touch with the people who matter. It hooks into the Messages app to make reaching out one tap. The app is free to download with an optional one-time lifetime unlock.
iOS
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Instantly view up to 8 timezones live from your menubar
Clockzones is a macOS menubar app that shows up to 8 world clocks at a glance in digital or analog form. It adds day and night indicators plus sunrise and sunset times for each location, and does all calculations locally with no data collection.
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Instantly find any window or tab. The beautiful, compact switcher for Mac.
TabTab is a macOS window and tab switcher that lets you search across every open window and browser tab and jump straight to one. It tracks tabs automatically in apps like Chrome, Safari, VS Code, and Cursor with no browser extension, and can replace the built-in Command+Tab switcher. Built natively with AppKit and SwiftUI, it runs on Intel and Apple Silicon and keeps all data on your Mac.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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