19 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
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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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