“As polished as the paid ones, without the subscription, the telemetry or the scare tactics.”
root-lr, on github.com ↗
Mac cleaners sell you a subscription and a scary pop-up. Balai sweeps the disk for free and skips the scare.
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.”
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.”
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.”
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