VibeGauge: A Local macOS Dashboard for AI Coding Quotas and Tokens
VibeGauge is a native macOS menu-bar dashboard that reads local CLI logs and caches to show AI quotas, reset times, token usage, prompt-cache analytics and guarded MCP cleanup.
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Swarm: An Open-Source Family Tree That Stays on Your Mac
Swarm brings people, relationships, photos and sources into a native macOS workspace, with GEDCOM 5.5.1 exchange and PDF export—without a cloud account.
Jev Voice: Control Your Mac by Voice Without Letting the Model Run the Show
Jev Voice turns spoken commands into bounded macOS actions: on-device speech recognition, typed Jev decisions, deterministic slot extraction, and a verification loop for Accessibility work.
DuoUpdater: A Native macOS App Updater That Respects Every Channel
DuoUpdater scans the apps on your Mac, follows each app's own Sparkle, App Store, Homebrew, GitHub or vendor channel, verifies replacements, and keeps a rollback path.
Holder: A Private, Offline Card Vault for iPhone and Mac
Holder keeps payment cards, ID cards, membership cards and other sensitive card details in a private vault with on-device scanning, Keychain storage and optional iCloud Keychain sync.
FitMe: A Privacy-First Fitness Command Center for iPhone
FitMe brings training, nutrition, recovery and body composition into one iPhone command center, with local rules, privacy-preserving cohort AI and an explicit source-build workflow.
VibeBuddy: Keep AI Coding Agents Moving from Mac, iPhone and Apple Watch
VibeBuddy is a native Mac, iPhone and Apple Watch companion for following AI coding agents, reviewing supported requests, checking quotas and keeping the Mac at the center of the workflow.
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.
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: 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: 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.
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.