Mac apps

What it does

LockDrop is a small Mac app. You drop files or a whole folder on it, and it saves a zip locked with your password, right beside the originals. Strong (AES 256) for anything private, or a standard zip that opens with a double click on a Mac or Windows. Everything runs on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded. No account, no subscription.

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MetaDrop is a small Mac app. You drop photos or a whole folder on it, and it writes camera, lens, exposure, date, title, caption, keywords, rating, copyright, credit, location and GPS into one file beside the originals. JSON, CSV, or both. It can read Lightroom sidecar files, and you can turn GPS off before you share. Everything runs on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded. No account, no subscription.

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MDDrop is a small Mac app. You drop a Word file, a PDF, a Pages document, or an image onto it, and it hands back clean Markdown. Pasting that into a chat uses far fewer tokens than pasting the original, with its layout, headers and junk still attached. You pay for the words, not the mess around them.

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PDFDrop is a small Mac app. You drop in a PDF, several PDFs, or a whole folder, and it saves every page as a JPG beside the original — a PDF named Report becomes a folder called Report JPGs, with files numbered Report 01, Report 02, and so on; a single-page PDF just makes Report.jpg. It defaults to 300 dpi, with Screen (150 dpi) and Large (600 dpi) options, and it never overwrites an existing file. If a PDF is password protected, it asks for the password once and doesn't store it. Everything runs on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded. No account, no subscription.

It needs a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) running macOS 13 or later. It isn't signed or notarised, so the first time you open it, right-click the app, choose Open, and confirm once.

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ScribeDrop is a small Mac app. You drop in a recording of a meeting, an interview or a conversation, and it gives you the words with proper punctuation, split into Speaker 1, Speaker 2 and so on. Type a real name over any speaker and it changes everywhere. Click any time to hear that spot, move words to the right person if it got a change wrong, and export as text, Markdown or PDF. Everything runs on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded. No account, no subscription.

It isn't perfect, so listen back and check anything important. It needs a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) running macOS 14 or later, and the first time you use it, it downloads its speech models, roughly 1 GB.

What it does

SyncDrop is a small Mac app. You pick your main drive and your backup by name, and it reads both and lists what it would copy, replace or remove. Nothing is touched until you press Sync. Go one way, the other way, or both, and Two way never deletes anything. Mirror makes the backup an exact copy, and what it removes goes to the Trash first. Every copy is size checked and keeps its date, and a log is saved when the sync ends. Everything runs on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded. No account, no subscription.

It needs a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) running macOS 13 or later.