Cabinet of Curiosities

Alan

Polished

Highlight the active Mac window with a border, or dim everything around it.

Alan's built-in mock window preview with a synthetic purple focus border

Amberfader

Experimental

A compact desktop remote for YouTube Music playing in Firefox.

Amberfader player with the Amber Classic face playing a track

Asterinked

Usable

Annotate PDFs with a pressure-sensitive stylus on Android.

Asterinked annotating a PDF with handwritten ink and highlights

Baegun

Usable

Convert PDF and CBZ books to EPUB from a desktop app or command line.

Baegun queue of finished PDF and CBZ conversions to EPUB

Blipbird

Usable

Track flights, gates, routes and itinerary changes on Android.

Blipbird flight board, route map and itinerary screens

BootCaptain

Experimental

Audit Mac startup items and investigate failed launches.

BootCaptain inventory and summary tiles with six synthetic startup items

Chess & Cocoa

Usable

Learn chess on Android against opponents that explain their plans after each of your moves.

Chess & Cocoa game in which the opponent warns that the move Qxf6 leaves White's queen undefended, with a Show me why button

Claude Replicant

Usable

Run several Claude Desktop or ChatGPT instances side by side on one Mac, each logged into a different account.

Claude Replicant listing synthetic Claude and ChatGPT profiles with independent running states

Combray

Experimental

A personal Android web browser built on Servo, with bottom controls and one list for open tabs and recent pages.

Combray's Recent sheet with a filter field and open tabs and recently visited pages grouped by day

Copywraith

Usable

Searchable clipboard history, with an optional server to sync between devices.

Copywraith clipboard history with a filter field and text, link and image entries

Coreography

Usable

Watch CPU, memory, GPU, disk, network, thermal and power activity on aligned Mac graphs.

Coreography CPU and memory graphs driven by synthetic telemetry

Danvers

Polished

Save rendered web pages to Karakeep from Firefox, including mobile browsers.

DockVac

Usable

Inspect Docker disk usage as a treemap and remove selected items.

Dwindle

Usable

A daily word puzzle on a honeycomb grid that disappears as you solve it.

Eko

Usable

Forward Android notifications and verification codes to your Mac over local Wi-Fi.

Eko's Android companion with two paired Macs, one connected and one syncing

Finsical

Polished

A retro virtual aquarium for macOS, Linux and Android.

Finsical aquarium displayed inside a classic Macintosh

Foldover

Experimental

Sync folders between Mac disks, NAS shares, SFTP servers and other Macs, previewing every change first.

Foldover previewing synthetic folder changes and conflicts beside its pair list and inspector

Game & Pebble

Usable

Play ten arcade games on Pebble watches, with persistent high scores.

Gans

Usable

Access Ente Auth verification codes from a Mac menu bar or Linux tray.

GitEnough

Usable

A very simple native Mac Git client with a branch graph.

GitEnough's Linux port with a branch graph and the selected commit's diff

ia-get Docker Wrapper

Usable

Queue and monitor Internet Archive downloads through a self-hosted web interface.

Invoque

Usable

Launch apps, find files and run custom commands from a keyboard-first Mac panel.

Invoque launcher panel with sample application and command results

Jetty

Polished

A Mac Dock with flexible placement, information tiles, and a command bar.

Jetty appearance settings with factory-default material, sizing and indicator controls

Kagi × Karakeep

Polished

Show matching Karakeep bookmarks alongside Kagi search results in Firefox.

Karakeep bookmarks beside Kagi search results

Kararead

Usable

Read articles from your Karakeep library on Android.

Kirsch

Experimental

Capture glare-reduced digital copies of printed photographs on Android.

Kirsch reviewing a scan of a sample landscape print, with corner handles and a Save to Photos button

Lantenna

Polished

Scan your local network for hosts, names, and open ports.

Lantenna listing local network devices with a selected printer's details

Leaflit

Experimental

Read EPUB books from an OPDS library on Android.

Leaflit library showing a grid of book covers

Lern Deutsch (Pebble)

Usable

Learn German vocabulary with Chinese-language flashcards on Pebble Time 2.

LLimit

Polished

Monitor AI subscription quotas in a Mac menu bar, desktop widgets, or Linux status bars.

LLimit quota dashboard with built-in sample accounts and usage

Lucerne

Experimental

Write letters and small documents with a ClarisWorks-inspired word processor.

Meltorama 2000

Polished

A photo-warping app for macOS and Android.

Meltorama warping a portrait photo with the brush tool

Monkey's Paw

Experimental

Pick a Markdown prompt, fill its placeholders and deliver the result into the field you are typing in.

Monkey's Paw prompt picker with a prompt list and Wish Card preview

Neutrodyne

Experimental

A podcast player in development for Android and the desktop that sorts podcasts and YouTube channels into groups, each with its own feed.

Neutrodyne on Linux with Tech, News and Fiction group tabs above a day-grouped list of podcast episodes

Obtainintosh

Polished

Track installed apps against GitHub and Forgejo releases, and find suitable updates.

Obtainintosh comparing installed and latest application versions

Pararena 2

Usable

Play John Calhoun's classic Macintosh game on modern desktops and Android.

Pararena 2 match on the arena bowl with two players contesting the ball and both scoreboards

Pict

Usable

Choose custom app icons shared by Pict, Jetty, Zap and Top Drawer.

Pict icon browser with five invented sample applications

Planchette

Usable

Edit local text, configuration files and scripts with a focused desktop editor.

Planchette editing a Compose YAML file with syntax highlighting

Poltergeist

Usable

Browse and transfer files with a two-pane SFTP client.

Poltergeist with a local folder and an SFTP server side by side and a file inspector

QRat

Usable

Design QR codes in your browser.

QRat designing a styled QR code with a scannability rating and export buttons

RelayBar Scion

Usable

Manage SSH port forwards and remote file access from a Mac menu bar.

RelayBar menu listing three SSH tunnels in two groups

Rememoru

Experimental

Save and restore Mac window layouts across displays and Spaces.

Rememoru menu with layout save and restore commands and a sample saved-layout status

RepoMen

Usable

Find and reclaim regenerable build artifacts and developer caches on your Mac.

RepoMen category list and artifact table rendered from its source views with synthetic projects, sizes and ages

RSS Spy

Polished

Discover and validate RSS, Atom and JSON feeds for the current Firefox page.

RunningMan

Usable

Manage self-hosted GitHub Actions and Forgejo runners on your Mac: status, queues, job history and controls in one window.

RunningMan overview of example runners and their status

Séance

Usable

Connect to remote machines over SSH, with a file browser and optional encrypted sync.

Séance server browser with invented example-domain hosts

Shortking

Usable

Find which Mac apps claim a keyboard shortcut and diagnose who intercepted it.

Shortking shortcut inventory with invented sample apps and key combinations

ShrinkPub

Usable

Reduce EPUB file sizes by recompressing and resizing embedded images.

Sion

Usable

Draw diagrams and illustrations with editable shapes and routed connectors on macOS.

Sion editing a sample creative-workflow diagram with shapes and routed connectors

Skip that Noise

Polished

Automatically skip selected artists on YouTube Music in Firefox.

Sortomat

Usable

Organize incoming Mac files with folder rules and optional language-model classification.

Sortomat inbox with three invented files and suggested destination folders

Spots

Experimental

Show sensor-driven motion cues at the screen edges on Android.

Spots home screen with motion cues switched on and a live preview of cue dots at the screen edges during a demo drive

Sweetbriar

Experimental

A native Mac email client for Proton Mail, built on a shared Rust core.

Sweetbriar native archive message list with eight invented messages

Tiltburst

Experimental

A digital pinball project for desktop computers and converted pinball cabinets.

Tiltburst's Neon Drift source renderer preview with neon arcs, wireforms and a horizon grid

TopDrawer

Polished

An edge-tab launcher with a notes editor for macOS.

TopDrawer appearance settings showing its built-in synthetic Apps drawer preview

VaultSquire

Experimental

Access Vaultwarden, Proton Pass and 1Password from a native Mac password-manager client.

VaultSquire Quick Search with four invented example logins in a sample vault

Vervellum

Usable

An LLM search/research panel that opens with a hotkey and shows its sources.

Vervellum research panel showing a question and response

WhatsApp Backup

Usable

Back up and browse WhatsApp messages and media through a local web interface.

WhatsApp Backup message browser and synchronization status

WordWarp

Usable

Create warped, metallic, and dimensional text in a browser or native editor.

WordWarp text-art editor with a dimensional text composition

Wrapybara

Polished

Turn a website address into a Mac app in your Applications folder or an Android APK.

Wrapybara website-to-app creation window

Zap

Polished

A configurable replacement for the Mac's Command-Tab app switcher.

Zap app switcher displaying running applications

Zen Backup Manager

Usable

Browse and restore saved Zen Browser sessions on macOS.

Zen Backup Manager displaying five invented example-domain tabs in a sample backup

帮你Draw

Usable

Layered drawing and painting with pressure-sensitive pens and pigment colour mixing.

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