Wokyintosh turns a spare Mac display into a Macintosh dashboard: a big clock and date, the weather, whatever is playing on Apple Music or Spotify with the artwork, and a few system stats, all in black and white with the old chrome. Salar Farahani bought a retro dock station for his Mac mini, liked the hardware, then spent months failing to find a dashboard for its little screen, including ones he was willing to pay for. He is not a macOS developer. He built it with ChatGPT next to him, learning and debugging as he went, and it is free and open source, and he is already in the comments talking about cutting redraws so an always-on dashboard does not sit there eating a laptop battery.

Captain Kill Switch is one button in your menu bar that closes every running app. Simon Crean built it after the same stupid moment kept repeating, finishing for the day with thirty-odd windows open and shutting them one at a time, which he describes as tidying a room by picking up individual grains of rice. No dashboard, no settings, no account. Anything still open a couple of seconds later gets force-closed, unsaved work and all, and he says that on the launch page rather than letting you find out on a Friday evening, which is the right way round.

LinkFlick throws your Magic Keyboard and mouse from one Mac to the other on a hotkey. Roman Abramenko has a personal MacBook and a work MacBook sitting six inches apart on two different Apple IDs, which is exactly the arrangement Universal Control refuses to accept exists. So the Bluetooth handover happens on a keystroke instead of in System Settings. His own summary is that it is not fancy and does one job, and the thing he actually asks for in the comments is people telling him where it breaks on their setup.