Common Tools
Small, native utilities for the Mac. Each does one thing and gets out of the way.
Free forever. Open source. Nothing you do is ever reported.
macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel
Common Command
A small, fast launcher.
Press ⌥Space, type a few letters, press Return: apps, System Settings panes, files, sums, and web searches in one quiet panel.
Version 0.1.0 · Oct 20, 2026 · 2.6 MB
Common Shot
Screenshots straight to the clipboard.
Press ⇧⌘2, drag over what you want, and paste it: into a chat, a terminal, a pull request, or a document.
Version 0.1.0 · Oct 20, 2026 · 2.4 MB
Common Stats
Small type. Small graphs. Nothing else.
CPU, GPU, memory, network, disk, storage, and battery in the menu bar, with a real menu of graphs under it.
Version 0.4.0 · Oct 20, 2026 · 2.4 MB
Common Bar
A tidy menu bar.
Moves the menu bar icons you rarely use into folders, clear of the notch, and opens any one of them right where its folder is.
Version 0.4.0 · Oct 20, 2026 · 2.4 MB
Common Keys
Typed on the wrong keyboard? Already fixed.
Fixes words typed on the wrong keyboard layout, for every keyboard macOS has, and keeps each app on the language you write there.
Version 0.3.0 · Oct 20, 2026 · 4.6 MB
Common Color
Pick any color. Paste it as code.
Press ⌃⇧⌘C, click any pixel, and the color is on the clipboard as hex, CSS, SwiftUI, or AppKit, converted correctly from the display’s color space.
Version 0.1.0 · Oct 20, 2026 · 2.4 MB
Common Battery
The menu bar battery, done properly.
The level, the time left, what the battery is doing, and alerts when it runs low or reaches your charge level.
Version 0.1.0 · Oct 20, 2026 · 2.2 MB
Common Glyph
Your own images in the menu bar.
A character, a sticker, an emoji, an animated GIF, or a word: as many as you like, each its own menu bar item.
Version 0.1.0 · Oct 20, 2026 · 2.3 MB
Private.
Nothing you do is ever reported. No analytics, no crash reports, no account, and no network access except an update check that stays off until you turn it on and sends nothing about you. What an app learns stays in one file on your Mac, and you can delete it.
Free.
Completely free, forever. No trial, no subscription, no paid tier, no upgrade prompts. Every app is for everyone.
Open.
Every line is public on GitHub under the MIT license. Read it, build it yourself, change it. Every change is checked by its tests before it merges.
Native.
AppKit and SwiftUI, drawn the way macOS draws its own. Real menus, System Settings layouts, VoiceOver, and out of the way.