AI category
AI menu bar apps
AI menu bar apps for macOS. 3 listed: 1 free and 2 free with a paid upgrade. Of those, 1 with a free trial. Prices and trials as the developers state them.
3 apps
- About Clavio
Clavio , also on the App Store , opens the developer's site in a new tab Turn speech into text that's ready to send.
AI dictation for Mac. Hold a key or say ‘Hey Clavio’ — speak in any app and polished text drops in. Per-app styles, 28 languages, free to start.
£12 - About Cowork Island
Cowork Island, opens the developer's site in a new tab Monitor Claude Cowork, Codex and other supported AI sessions on your Mac. See progress, spot requests and return to the right task.
Cowork Island is a panel at the top of your Mac for anyone who runs several AI tasks at once. It shows your AI sessions from Claude Cowork and recent Claude desktop chats, plus Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor and other supported tools. Without switching apps, you can see which ones are working and which need you.
Freemium - About Brief
Brief, opens the developer's site in a new tab Someone pasted 1,200 words from ChatGPT. Press ⌃X on any window. Get just the point.
Brief is a free macOS menu-bar app for reading long AI-generated text. Press Control-X on any window and Brief returns only the lines that change what you do next. It works in browsers, chat apps and terminals, uses the transcript on YouTube, and shapes the output to the source: an answer for chats, ordered points for videos, and what changed plus what to check for pull requests. It runs on your existing Claude or ChatGPT plan, or on-device with Apple Intelligence. No account needed.
Free