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“Holding it around 80% when it is plugged in is the usual fix, and it has been a paid feature in other apps.”
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AlDente charges €11.49 a year to stop your Mac at 80%. BalDente stops it for free, and knows when you're home.
Unplug Alarm makes you upgrade to guard your own laptop. Yowl screams, locks the screen and pings your phone when someone grabs your MacBook, and upgrades are not a thing.
“A free alternative to apps like Unplug Alarm, which has paid upgrades.”
Paid Mac disk analyzers charge ten bucks to draw a pie chart; BloomDisk draws the same sunburst for free and never phones home.
“It runs entirely on your computer — no account, no cloud, no subscription.”
CamLoop wants $4.99 a month before it hands you a hotkey to step away from your own call. LiveLoop loops you, ships the hotkey and never asks for a card.
“CamLoop already does this, but the hotkeys are in its $4.99/month plan. I wanted something free, so I made one and put the code on GitHub.”
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