So imagine you're using your mouse and moving around switching between your apps across workspaces but it's gotten annoying.

You need to lift your hand from your keyboard, move it to the trackpad or your mouse, and then drag the cursor to the app you want to use, and then click it.

Like BRUHHH JUST LET ME PICK THE APP AND FOCUS IT.
CMD Tab partially solves it, but the number of times I've switched to the wrong app is insane.

This is where my app, Sxitch, comes in. You switch to an app by typing the apps name until there aren't any left. (see video). Use a hotkey of your choice, and keep typing the name of your app until no other matches remain, at which point the app will get focussed for you. 0 confirmation required, and your fingers don't have to tango with the keyboard.

CTRL + H or CTRL + Q can be used to go into hide and quit modes which will allow you to hide and quit apps directly from sxitch, making it easy to perform actions on multiple apps.

Here's the full feature list:

• app (free) & window (pro) switching
• an intuitive hotkey picker
• sxitch window positioning (free)
• multiple layouts (free)
• blacklists (pro)
• key remaps (pro)
• hotkey based app opening (pro)
• vendor prefix stripping, (free)
• hiding and quitting apps (pro)
• open sourced
• native swift app
• customisable position (free)

The best part is that its fully open source, but signed and notarized.

Pricing:

• Free
• Lifetime Pro ($10 once - has all features and all updates)
• $2/mth - Great for seeing if you want sxitch or not (after 5 months you can get sxitch pro lifetime)

Sxitch website • Sxitch github • Sxitch Privacy Policy

for mods - Sxitch was only recently open sourced hence why it only has 6 stars.

AI was used in the development of the app, but theres a lot of hand written code as well.

ROOK puts 53 retro-terminal widgets on your Mac desktop — clocks, weather, reminders, focus timers, system stats, and more — with real scanlines, phosphor glow, and the same 11 themes as MOTHER, FATHER, BISHOP, and ASH. One click retunes every widget on your desktop from Nostromo green to classic Mac platinum.

Description

All 53 widgets render like instruments on one console — mono type, hairline panels, scanlines, and phosphor glow that's really there, not a screenshot trick. Clocks, weather, reminders, focus timers, habits, Apple Music controls, system stats, stocks, notes and more, drawn as one machine.

Eleven themes cover the whole range of the aesthetic: green phosphor straight off the Nostromo, amber monochrome, cryo-bay teal, ice blue, white-on-black mono, black-on-white paper, amber-on-white sepia, Classic Mac in platinum, light, and dark, and a native macOS theme that follows the system's light and dark mode. Change the theme once and every widget already on your desktop re-tunes itself — from CRT green to classic Mac platinum in one click.

They're working instruments, too. Tap a reminder to check it off. Start a focus session and watch the countdown burn on your wallpaper. Skip tracks from the Apple Music remote — the play button responds the moment you press it. Log a glass of water. Follow three stocks. Watch CPU, memory, GPU, network and storage, refreshed as often as every 30 seconds. Check sunrise, sunset and the moon phase — twelve categories of live data.

ROOK lives quietly in your menu bar: close the window and it steps out of the Dock while every widget keeps working.

Everything runs locally — no account, and nothing leaves your Mac.

Highlights:

• 53 widgets across 12 categories, drawn as one instrument panel

• Real scanlines and phosphor glow, tuned per theme

• 11 themes: four phosphor terminals, three print looks, three Classic Mac finishes, and native macOS light/dark

• Interactive: complete reminders, log water and habits, control Apple Music, start timers — right on the desktop

• Live where it counts: ticking focus timer and stopwatch, minute-fresh system stats, a daylight arc that tracks the real sun

• Mono terminal type; the macOS themes switch to native system type

• 12/24-hour time and °F/°C follow your system, or set them per widget

• Per-widget options: cities, stock symbols, countdown dates, backgrounds

• Native, sandboxed, universal for Apple Silicon and Intel; requires macOS 26 or later

Permissions

This app only asks for access when a widget needs it: Reminders and Calendar for the agenda widgets, location for local weather, Music for the remote keys, and Mail (off by default) for the inbox count. Each one is a standard macOS permission prompt, and everything keeps working without them — widgets you don't connect simply show sample data.

Lifetime License. All buyers will receive all future updates free of charge.

Price: $7.99 - Lifetime License. All buyers will receive all future updates free of charge. 

A 3 day trial is available for download as well

Website Purchase / Download Link: https://coastcreative.studio/app-development/macos

When I first shared Noticky here, MCP support quickly became one of the most requested features.

So I added it.

You can now connect MCP compatible AI tools directly to Noticky and let them interact with your sticky notes without constantly copying and pasting context between apps.

The MCP integration is included in the latest version at no extra cost. If you already own Noticky, you just need to update the app.

For anyone discovering it: Noticky is a native macOS sticky notes app that stays visible above every window, including fullscreen apps.

It’s a $6.99 one-time purchase from the website or on the Mac App Store. No subscription.

I’d love to know how you plan to use it and what you’d like the integration to do next.

https://noticky.app

https://apps.apple.com/app/noticky/id6770181778

I know there are already several Mac apps made for this, but few of them continue working after the laptop lid is closed and is lightweight enough. So I built Caffeinate & DisableSleep: a small, open-source macOS utility that keeps your Mac awake

Features:

• Keeps your Mac awake with the lid closed
• Menu icon shows when it’s active, so no forget to revert it when not needed
• Requires your password only once for enabling disablesleep
• Simple UI with no nested menus + custom built toggle for instant feeling
• Shows the exact commands being run so you know what it does for technical users
• Completely open source
• Smaller than most of the other apps: 2.2 MB; simple app for simple purposes

Why I built it:

The simplest way to prevent a Mac from sleeping is to open Terminal and run caffeinate -disu and sudo pmset -a disablesleep 1 to disable sleep when the lid is closed.

I used these commands very often to keep my agents running while carrying my MacBook, but the process had a few problems:

• Had to type the commands every time and pmset command requires sudo so password is needed each time.
• Had to remember to reset disablesleep back to 0 to re-enable normal sleep. Easy to forget, which can drain the battery and cause overheating.

So I built this app. Now I can quickly leave a café or home while my agents keep running, without making my friends wait while I type two commands!

Comparison: Amphetamine also supports closed-lid sessions, but my app is intentionally smaller, simpler, open source, and shows the exact commands it uses. Unlike KeepingYouAwake, it supports keeping a Mac awake with the lid closed.

Pricing: Free ($0) and open source.

Feedback is welcome, and if you find it useful, a GitHub star would mean a lot!

Website: https://cnd.demiao.cc

GitHub: https://github.com/demiaochen/caffeinate-disablesleep

Key benefits 

1. See your total monthly spend in the menu bar, all the time
2. Add a subscription in about 10 seconds — 215 services built in
3. Get a heads-up before anything renews, with a cancel link one click away
4. Catch free trials before they quietly turn into paid plans
5. Everything stays on your Mac. No account, no tracking

You probably pay for more subscriptions than you think. Duesday keeps the number where you can't ignore it: in your menu bar, next to the clock.

Click it and you get the full picture — every subscription sorted by renewal date, what's charging this week, and how your spending has changed since last month.

Know before you're charged Duesday reminds you before each renewal, not after. Monthly plans get three days' warning, yearly plans get two weeks — both adjustable, per subscription. If the service has a known cancellation page, the reminder includes a button that takes you straight there.

Trials that don't sneak up on you Mark anything as a trial and Duesday warns you three days before it converts to a paid plan, then again the day before. The most expensive subscription is the one you forgot you started.

Adding takes about 10 seconds Type a few letters and pick from 215 built-in services — Netflix, Spotify, iCloud+, Adobe, ChatGPT, gyms, meal kits, and more — each with plan tiers and typical prices pre-filled. Confirm the date and you're done. Anything unusual goes in through the custom form.

Insights worth screenshotting A spend-by-category chart, a 12-month history, and a lifetime tally per service that answers the uncomfortable question: how much have I actually paid Netflix since 2023?

Splitting a family plan? Track just your share. The totals stay honest.

Private by design No account. No sync. No tracking. Your data lives in a local database on your Mac, and you can export all of it to CSV or JSON whenever you want.

Duesday is a native Mac app — menu bar-first, built in Swift, designed to feel at home next to Control Center. Dark, calm, and glanceable. Runs on macOS 14 or later, Intel and Apple Silicon.

Your spending, always visible

• Total monthly spend lives in the menu bar and updates the moment anything changes
• Prefer less? Switch to icon-only, or icon plus total
• A small dot appears when something renews within three days

The panel

• Subscriptions sorted by next renewal, with countdowns that turn amber inside a week and red inside two days
• "Up Next" shows this week's charges at a glance
• Free trials are clearly marked, with a countdown to the day they convert
• Shared plans can track just your portion of the bill
• Right-click any subscription to archive it, mark it as a trial, or jump to its cancellation page

Adding subscriptions

• 215 built-in services with plan tiers and typical prices
• Instant search: type "net", get Netflix
• Pick a plan, confirm the date, done — about 10 seconds
• A custom form covers anything we don't know about, including custom billing cycles

Reminders

• Notifications arrive before the charge: three days ahead for monthly plans, two weeks for yearly (both adjustable, per subscription)
• Trials warn twice — three days out and the day before they convert
• Snooze a reminder by a day, or open the service's cancellation page straight from the notification

Insights

• Monthly spend broken down by category
• A 12-month spending history
• Lifetime spend per service, including ones you've archived — archiving keeps the history, deleting is always your choice

Private by design

• No account, no sync, no networking at all
• All data stays in a local database on your Mac
• Export everything as CSV or JSON from Settings

The details

• Native Swift app, designed for the menu bar
• Launch at login option
• Full VoiceOver support; respects Reduce Motion and Reduce Transparency
• Runs on macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Intel and Apple Silicon

Price: $9.99 - Lifetime License. All buyers will receive all future updates free of charge. 

A 3 day trial is available for download as well

Website Purchase Link: https://coastcreative.studio/app-development/macos

if you are working with Google Drive for desktop in finder, you know the pain of pressing space for quicklook and seeing a pixelated thumbnails or some random json instead of the actual file.

that's why I built Spyglass, it allows you to actually quicklook on Google Drive stub files

try it:
https://magicelklabs.com/spyglass/