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RsyncUI task management and synchronization interface on a dark macOS window.

7 min readFile Management

RsyncOSX: Native macOS Tools for Syncing Files and Managing Backups

RsyncOSX is a collection of native macOS applications by Thomas Evensen. Its main tool, RsyncUI, puts task organisation, dry-runs, SSH sync, snapshots and scheduling around the rsync command-line engine.

Two local audio channels becoming speaker-aware meeting notes on a dark macOS workspace.

8 min readMenu Bar

Meeting Transcriber: Local Meeting Notes for macOS

Meeting Transcriber records meetings, separates speakers and turns the conversation into Markdown notes on your Mac. The audio pipeline stays local, with Claude, Ollama, LM Studio or another OpenAI-compatible provider as an explicit output choice.

Vocello's gold and violet voice waves on a dark studio background.

7 min readMusic

Vocello: A Local, Private Voice Studio for Apple Silicon

Vocello is a native Swift and MLX voice studio for Apple Silicon. Generate speech locally, design or clone voices with permission, and keep scripts, history and audio on your Mac.

Ice's macOS menu bar grouped into Always Hidden, Hidden and Visible sections above its settings window.

7 min readMenu Bar

Ice: A Free, Open-Source Menu Bar Manager for macOS

Ice hides and organizes crowded Mac menu bars with Visible, Hidden and Always-Hidden sections, a second Ice Bar for notched MacBooks, themes and hotkeys. It is a free GPL-3.0 project distributed through GitHub Releases.

Conjuguer's Arc de Triomphe splash artwork on a dark technical grid.

8 min readiOS

Conjuguer: A Deep French Verb Practice App for iOS

Conjuguer turns French verb conjugation into a searchable reference, a structured quiz and a small daily practice loop, with SwiftUI source code, widgets and an on-device AI tutor for supported Apple Intelligence devices.

ShiftBar's menu bar capsule with hidden icons and the adjustable range in a macOS 27 demo.

7 min readMenu Bar

ShiftBar: Take Control of macOS 27's Native Menu Bar Folding

ShiftBar supplements macOS 27's native menu bar folding with an adjustable hidden range, manual expand and collapse, saved layouts and multi-display consistency. Here is how the Alpha utility works, how to install it, and what its binary-only repository means.

ScriptWidget Studio on the Mac: the script file tree, the JSX editor and the live widget preview side by side.

9 min readWidgets

ScriptWidget: Build Native iOS and macOS Widgets in JavaScript and JSX

ScriptWidget renders a JavaScript and JSX tree as native WidgetKit views, so you can build widgets for iPhone, iPad and Mac without writing Swift. Here is what it does, how to build it, where it falls short, and what the MIT licence lets you do.

Pelmet running on macOS: the Menu Bar editor with Visible, Hidden and Always Hidden sections and real app-icon previews.

10 min readMenu Bar

Pelmet: A Native Menu Bar Manager Built for the macOS 27 Bar

Pelmet hides the menu bar icons you don't need until you do, using the mechanism macOS 27 already has. Here is what it does, how to install it, where it falls short, and what GPL-3.0 lets you do with the code.

Bòcan Music on macOS: the three-pane browser showing the Songs list, with the player bar underneath.

9 min readMusic

Bòcan Music: A Native macOS Player That Treats Your Library as Yours

Bòcan is a Swift 6 music player and podcast client for macOS 15+. Here is what it does, how to install it, where it still falls short, and what the Apache-2.0 licence lets you do with the code.