Menu-bar utility · macOS 13+
Your Mac, off duty.
Window snapping, clipboard history, a file shelf, OCR, and more — folded into one native menu-bar app. About 15 MB at rest, a measured 0.0% idle CPU, everything loaded on demand. No Electron. No subscription.
A live macOS desktop, in the notch
Hold ⌃⌥ for the snap dial, ⌘ to jump between apps, or drag a file into the notch to shelve it. The interactive demo needs JavaScript — the app itself doesn’t.
↑ this desktop is live — hold ⌘ on your own keyboard and watch the notch
≈15 MB at rest
0.0% idle CPU, measured
0 background timers
100% on-device processing
14 tools, 1 icon
The problem
Your menu bar is a junk drawer.
A window manager, a clipboard app, a file shelf, an OCR tool, a screen dimmer, a keep-awake toggle. Five or six little apps — five or six updaters, five or six things quietly eating RAM and login slots. Hammock is the one that does all of it, natively.
Before — six menu-bar apps
Six separate updaters
Six processes, hundreds of MB
Six login items on boot
Several subscriptions
After — one Hammock
One auto-updater
One process, ~15 MB
One login item
One price, paid once
One app in place of:
a window manager
a clipboard manager
a file shelf
an OCR grabber
a screen dimmer
a keep-awake toggle
an app switcher
a break timer
Fourteen tools
A whole toolkit, quietly.
Turn on only what you want. A feature that’s off holds no system resources at all.
FREE FOREVER
Snap
Snap windows into halves, thirds and quarters with keyboard shortcuts or drag-to-edge — plus a radial direction dial under ⌃⌥, built on the macOS Accessibility API.
Right-⌘ + an app’s first letter jumps to it — or launches it, once you’ve pinned the letter. Needs Accessibility, not Screen Recording.
Swipe
Instant Space switching — no slide animation.
Focus
Dim everything behind the window you’re working in.
RecentPins
1github.com/…/Clipboard.swift
2Design review notes — Tuesday
3sam@example.com
↩ paste~ pins
Clipboard
Hold ⌘V and a picker pops up at the cursor. Recent and Pins tabs, no pasteboard polling — it wakes only on a real copy.
Shelf
A drag-and-drop file stash that lives in the notch. AirDrop, format conversion, metadata stripping, Quick Look.
Snippets
Saved text, inserted by name.
OCR
Grab text or QR off the screen.
Color · free
Any pixel’s hex. No permission.
The notch HUD, live
Leader-key hints, activity chips and a now-playing bar, all drawn around the notch. The interactive demo needs JavaScript — the app itself doesn’t.
The Notch HUD
A minimal HUD that lives around the notch: leader-key hints, activity chips, and an opt-in now-playing chip with a live audio-wave and media controls. No polling, no timers — it draws only when something happens. No notch on your Mac? It draws a stand-in over the menu bar, so everything still works. Try the keys above — it’s the same HUD.
Breaks
20-20-20 eye breaks, politely.
Awake
Keep the Mac awake, timed or not.
Auto-Quit
Quit idle background apps.
Sweep
Quit an app when its last window closes.
Native & light
It sleeps until you need it.
Native Swift on Apple frameworks — no Electron, no web view, no bundled runtime. Sparkle handles the updates and is the one third-party framework in the bundle. There isn’t a single repeating timer in the codebase; the app wakes only when macOS pushes a real event, then parks every thread again. Features load lazily too — whatever you haven’t switched on costs nothing. Memory grows only for what you actually use: opening the Settings window brings SwiftUI in and holds it, and heavier work like OCR peaks while it runs.
No Electron
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No account or telemetry
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On-device Vision for OCR
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Sparkle for updates, nothing else
Pricing
Pay once. Or don’t.
Every install starts with a 5-day full trial of everything. After that it just steps back to the free tier — no lock, no nag.
Free forever
$0
No account. No nag.
Snap — window snapping
Jump — app & window switching
Color — pixel-perfect picker
Download free
ONE-TIME
Everything
$19.99
Once · 3 Macs · a year of updates
All 14 features, unlocked
Shelf, Clipboard, OCR, Breaks & more
The notch now-playing chips
No subscription
Buy a license
Already downloaded? Paste your key in Settings → General → License.
Your Mac, lighter.
One native app in place of six. Five days of everything, then $19.99 once — or stay on the free tier.