Tools that are free — Macos

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Hilium

Live

Turns your iPhone into a trackpad and remote for your Mac, with gesture input, live stats, and one-tap launch or quit of Mac apps from your phone. Free.

Free
What to know▼
How it works
Turns an iPhone into a trackpad and remote for a Mac, syncing after a one-time pairing code, with gesture input, live stats, and a dock that can launch or quit Mac apps with a single tap.
What's different
Goes beyond basic phone-as-trackpad apps with seamless persistent pairing, Mac power-user controls, and one-tap app quitting from the phone.
Pricing
Free.
Best for
Mac users who want phone-based remote control with more than basic trackpad functions.
Watch out
The iOS app is currently in TestFlight beta.

Watched for 19 days · last checked 4d ago

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Harker v2

Live

A free Mac app for private speech-to-text; the listing is thin beyond that, so treat it as a lightweight dictation utility.

Free
What to know▼
How it works
A Mac app that does speech-to-text transcription privately.
What's different
Private (not cloud-based) speech-to-text on Mac.
Pricing
Free forever.
Best for
Mac users who want dictation without sending audio to a cloud service.

Watched for 19 days · last checked 13d ago

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