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Thirteen apps for your Mac. All of them free.
Small, handmade apps for writing comics, planning projects, recording your screen, keeping time, picking colours and playing music. Most of them glow like an old CRT screen, with themes to pick from, and every one of them is 100% free.
Free, for goodNo accountsNo adsNo tracking
Make
ComicsComics, from script to page.
Made for comic writers, and especially powerful if you make comics on your own. Write the script, import your drawings and build the pages: panels, page layouts, balloons and many other professional tools, then export. Or use it as a lab to preview layouts.
Image boardsCRT themesBoards for your references.
Collect images on boards, in a tidy grid or freeform. Sections, layers and comments for moodboards, references and visual research.
ColourPick it, keep it.
An eyedropper for any colour on screen, read in HEX, RGB, HSL and CMYK, and palettes to keep the ones you love.
FontsEvery font you own, side by side.
Browse the fonts on your Mac, sort them into collections, compare them side by side, explore every character and play with variable axes.
Plan
ProductionYour project, run like a studio.
Plan a creative project from first sketch to launch: modules, tasks, sprints, a timeline, a calendar, assets and the people on it.
CalendarCRT themesA calendar that rings on time.
Appointments, repeating events and contacts, with alarms that ring on the exact second. Today's date sits on the Dock icon, even when the app is closed.
TimerCRT themesCount down to anything.
A countdown to any date and time, a Pomodoro timer for focused work, presets, alarm sounds and a background of your own.
CalculatorCRT themesSums worth keeping.
A calculator that keeps your sums in projects, with tax, percentages, currencies and a unit converter, plus a tiny widget that stays on top.
Record and listen
Screen recorderCRT themesRecord your screen, beautifully.
Record a whole screen or a single window, with your camera as a layer, straight to any drive. If something crashes, your recording is recovered.
MusicCRT themesTwo decks and the joy of missing out.
A music player with two decks, filters, loops, brakes and five visualisers. Pick a theme, make the window transparent and let it play.
Music, minimalCRT themesJust the music.
JOMOplay with everything else taken away. Load a playlist, press play, shuffle. Light enough to keep your Mac cool.
Files
FilesCRT themesA file manager with a CRT glow.
Move through your files from the keyboard, search names and contents, and lock sensitive files with AES-256-GCM encryption.
MarkdownCRT themesAll your Markdown, in one tree.
Browse folders of Markdown files, read them rendered with one click, and open any of them in Warp with a double click.
First time opening one? I sign these apps myself rather than through Apple, so macOS asks once. Open System Settings, then Privacy & Security, and click Open Anyway.
A quick look
Comikautwriting a comic script, panel by panel
DownloadNo trials, no subscriptions, no ads. Every app here costs nothing, and it will stay that way.
No accounts and no tracking in any of them. What you make stays on your Mac.
I design and build each of these myself, at UltraNarrative. Your coffee keeps new ones coming.
Free, for good
Hi, I’m Dan. I make these tools on my own, one late night at a time. There’s no subscription and there never will be.
If one of them helps you, buy me a coffee. It keeps the updates coming and the next tools on their way, for this tribe of ours.
One coffee: a bug squashed.
Buy me a coffeeOpens Ko-fi, where you choose the amount. Every cup counts.
Say hi
A bug, a feature you wish one of these had, or an app you wish existed.
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