The best one-time purchase utility tools. No subscriptions required.
39 apps
By Sergey Belenky
A native Mac toolkit for offline Music.app libraries. Find duplicates and missing files, compare recordings with real-time A/B listening, inspect and convert audio, manage playlists, and enjoy three original players, including a customizable 3D Glass Player.
By BrutalFoundry
Make PC stats and music part of your setup with a customizable Windows dashboard, saved themes and layouts, plus overlays for windowed and borderless games. US$4.99 one-time purchase.
By Lostdomain
A desktop app that turns meetings into summaries and speech into text, without sending either to the cloud. One-time purchase.
By max
Native macOS window manager with automatic tiling, snapping, window search, Dock previews, and saved Workspaces. Restore project window layouts to a chosen macOS Space. Requires macOS 14+. A 7-day trial is followed by a one-time lifetime license.
By Haystack Software
Arq backs up your Mac or PC to cloud storage you choose, with versioned and encrypted backups.
By Bombich Software
Carbon Copy Cloner makes bootable backups and clones of your Mac drives, including to network destinations.
By BinaryNights
ForkLift is a dual-pane file manager and file transfer app for Mac, with SFTP, S3 and other remote connections.
By Bjango
iStat Menus monitors CPU, memory, disks, network and sensors from the macOS menu bar.
By Surtees Studios
Bartender organises and hides menu bar icons on macOS so the bar stays tidy.
By Resilio
Resilio Sync moves files between your devices peer-to-peer, with no cloud in the middle, under a one-time Home Pro licence.
By SADFinder
SADFinder is a native macOS file manager with Windows Explorer-style keyboard navigation, tabs, an editable path bar, fast folder filtering, Desktop control, and built-in window snapping. Version 0.1.80 adds drag-to-reorder tabs and more forgiving full-row sidebar selection. A lifetime license costs $49 once for up to three Macs after a free 7-day trial.
By Paste Team
Paste stores everything you copy on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad — so it’s always there when you need it.
By St. Claire Software
Jettison eliminates the hassle of manually ejecting external drives before you put your Mac to sleep and remounting them when it wakes.
By St. Claire Software
App Tamer tames applications that are chewing up excessive CPU time and battery life on your Mac.
By St. Claire Software
Default Folder X makes it easier to open, save, and organize files on your Mac.
By C-Command Software
Organize and edit files, archive e-mails, save Web pages and notes, search everything.
By DisplayBuddy
Control the brightness of monitors directly from your Mac.
By Software Ambiance Corp.
Find out what’s taking up your disk space and recover it in the most efficient and easy way.
By @rob3rth
Native, fast process monitor for macOS.
By Alberto Gallego
Picmal is a fast, private image converter for macOS with a native design, batch processing, and all conversions done locally on your device.
By Screenpipe
Screenpipe captures your computer while you work - including your meetings - letting you go back to any moment in an instant.
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