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Indie Mac Utilities tools

46 mac utilities products built by independent developers and small teams.

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AeroSpace

i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

A free, open-source tiling window manager for macOS inspired by i3, configured with a text file.

Free · Mac · Website ↗

Airmail

Customizable email client for Mac and iOS

A configurable email client for Apple devices with integrations, actions, snooze and support for many account types.

Free plan · Mac, iOS · Website ↗

Alfred

Application launcher and productivity tool for macOS

Alfred launches apps, searches files and the web, and runs custom workflows, snippets and clipboard history from a keyboard shortcut.

Free plan · Mac · Website ↗

AltTab

Windows-style alt-tab window switcher for macOS

AltTab brings window-level switching with previews to the Mac, as a free and open-source replacement for the default app switcher.

Free · Mac · Website ↗

Anybox

Bookmark manager for Mac and iOS

A native bookmark and link manager for Apple devices with collections, tags, smart filters and quick search.

Free plan · Mac, iOS · Website ↗

AppCleaner

Uninstall Mac apps and their leftover files

A free Mac utility for thoroughly uninstalling apps by finding and removing their related files.

Free · Mac · Website ↗

Bartender

Organize and hide Mac menu bar icons

A Mac utility for hiding, rearranging and showing menu bar items as needed.

Paid · Mac · Website ↗

BetterDisplay

Unlock your displays on your Mac

A Mac utility for display scaling, HiDPI resolutions, brightness control for external displays and virtual screens.

Free plan · Mac · Website ↗

BetterTouchTool

Customize gestures, shortcuts and input devices on Mac

BetterTouchTool lets you assign actions to trackpad gestures, mouse buttons, keyboard shortcuts and the Touch Bar, plus window snapping.

Paid · Mac · Website ↗

Bob

Translation and OCR app for macOS

A macOS menu bar app for translating selected text and screenshots using various translation services and OCR.

Free plan · Mac · Website ↗

BoltAI

Native Mac AI chat app for multiple models

A native macOS app for chatting with OpenAI, Anthropic, local and other AI models, with inline AI commands in any app.

Paid · Mac · Website ↗

Carbon Copy Cloner

Bootable-style backups and disk cloning for Mac

Carbon Copy Cloner by Bombich Software makes scheduled, incremental backups and clones of Mac drives with snapshots.

Paid · Mac · Website ↗

Dropover

Drag-and-drop shelf for macOS

A Mac utility that gives you a floating shelf for collecting files while dragging and dropping between apps and spaces.

Free plan · Mac · Website ↗

Elephas

AI writing assistant and knowledge assistant for Mac

A Mac AI assistant that works across apps to rewrite text, answer questions and chat with your own documents.

Paid · Mac, iOS · Website ↗

Flow

Pomodoro timer for Mac

A Pomodoro focus timer for Mac, iPhone and iPad with session tracking and optional app and website blocking during focus.

Free plan · Mac, iOS · Website ↗

Hammerspoon

Automate macOS with Lua scripts

An open-source tool that bridges macOS APIs to Lua scripts for automating windows, hotkeys, apps and system events.

Free · Mac · Website ↗

Hazel

Automated file organization for Mac

Hazel watches folders on your Mac and automatically moves, renames, tags and cleans up files based on rules you define.

Paid · Mac · Website ↗

Homerow

Keyboard shortcuts for every button on your Mac

A Mac app that lets you click buttons, links and UI elements anywhere using keyboard hints instead of the mouse.

Paid · Mac · Website ↗

Hookmark

Link files, emails, notes and web pages together on Mac

Hookmark creates links between items in different Mac apps so you can jump from a task or note to the related file, email or page.

Paid · Mac · Website ↗

Ice

Open-source menu bar manager for macOS

Ice hides, shows and organizes Mac menu bar icons, offering a free and open-source alternative to paid menu bar managers.

Free · Mac · Website ↗

iStat Menus

System monitor in your Mac menu bar

A Mac menu bar system monitor showing CPU, GPU, memory, network, disk, sensors and battery stats.

Paid · Mac · Website ↗

Itsycal

Tiny menu bar calendar for the Mac

Itsycal puts a small monthly calendar in the Mac menu bar, showing your upcoming events from the macOS calendar.

Free · Mac · Website ↗

Karabiner-Elements

Powerful keyboard customizer for macOS

A free, open-source macOS tool for remapping keys and creating complex keyboard modifications, like caps lock as a hyper key.

Free · Mac · Website ↗

Keka

File archiver for macOS

A macOS file archiver for creating and extracting ZIP, 7z, RAR and other archive formats.

Free plan · Mac · Website ↗

Keyboard Maestro

Powerful macro and automation tool for Mac

Keyboard Maestro automates repetitive tasks on the Mac with macros triggered by hotkeys, typed strings, schedules and other events.

Paid · Mac · Website ↗

LaunchBar

Keyboard launcher for macOS

A long-standing macOS launcher for opening apps, files and contacts and running actions from the keyboard.

Paid · Mac · Website ↗

Little Snitch

Network monitor and application firewall for Mac

A macOS firewall that shows which apps connect to the internet and lets you allow or deny each connection.

Paid · Mac · Website ↗

Loop

Radial-menu window manager for macOS

A free, open-source macOS window manager that uses a radial menu and keyboard shortcuts to resize windows.

Free · Mac · Website ↗

LuLu

Free, open-source firewall for macOS

A free, open-source macOS firewall from Objective-See that blocks unknown outgoing network connections.

Free · Mac · Website ↗

Maccy

Lightweight open-source clipboard manager for Mac

Maccy keeps a searchable history of what you copy on macOS, opened with a keyboard shortcut and designed to stay fast and minimal.

Free plan · Mac · Website ↗

Magnet

Window snapping and arrangement for Mac

Magnet lets you snap Mac windows to halves, thirds and quarters by dragging or with keyboard shortcuts.

Paid · Mac · Website ↗

MindNode

Mind mapping and outlining for Mac, iPad and iPhone

A native Apple app for creating mind maps and outlines to brainstorm and organize thoughts, with themes and export options.

Free plan · Mac, iOS · Website ↗

Moom

Move and zoom Mac windows into saved layouts

Moom by Many Tricks moves and resizes Mac windows with a hover palette, keyboard shortcuts and saved window layouts.

Paid · Mac · Website ↗

Mos

Smooth scrolling and reverse scroll for mice on Mac

A free, open-source macOS utility that adds smooth scrolling and lets you reverse the mouse scroll direction independently of the trackpad.

Free · Mac · Website ↗

Paste

Clipboard manager for Mac, iPhone and iPad

Paste stores everything you copy with a visual history, pinboards and iCloud sync across Apple devices.

Paid · Mac, iOS · Website ↗

Pastebot

Clipboard manager for Mac

A Mac clipboard manager with history, filters, pasteboard groups and sequential paste.

Paid · Mac · Website ↗

PDF Expert

PDF editor and reader for Mac, iPhone and iPad

A PDF app from Readdle for reading, annotating, editing text and images, filling forms and signing PDFs.

Free plan · Mac, Windows, iOS · Website ↗

Raycast

Extendable launcher with clipboard history, snippets and AI

A Mac and Windows launcher for opening apps, running commands, managing windows and clipboard history, with an extension store and AI features.

Free plan · Mac, Windows · Website ↗

Stats

Free, open-source macOS system monitor in the menu bar

An open-source menu bar app for macOS that shows CPU, GPU, memory, disk, network, battery and sensor stats.

Free · Mac · Website ↗

Strongbox

KeePass-compatible password manager for Apple devices

A native password manager for Mac, iPhone and iPad that works with KeePass and Password Safe databases.

Free plan · Mac, iOS · Website ↗

SuperDuper!

Bootable backups and clones for Mac

A Mac app for making full clones and scheduled backups of drives.

Free plan · Mac · Website ↗

superwhisper

AI voice-to-text dictation for Mac

A dictation app that converts speech to text with AI models, including offline local models, and can reformat it with AI.

Free plan · Mac, iOS · Website ↗

Swish

Control Mac windows with trackpad gestures

A macOS app for snapping, resizing and managing windows using trackpad swipes and pinches.

Paid · Mac · Website ↗

The Unarchiver

Open almost any archive on Mac

A free Mac app for extracting RAR, 7z, ZIP and many other archive formats.

Free · Mac · Website ↗

Tot

Tiny scratchpad with seven colored dots for quick notes

Tot by The Iconfactory is a small text collection app that lives in the Mac menu bar and on iOS, with seven notes for scraps of text.

Free plan · Mac, iOS · Website ↗

Typinator

Text expansion for macOS

A macOS text expander for snippets, autocorrect and formatted text with regex support.

Paid · Mac · Website ↗

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