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I built 3 macOS menu bar apps in my spare time — here's what I learned

DEV Community·Sushanth·26 days ago
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I've been a Mac user for years and kept running into the same small frustrations daily. Instead of waiting for Apple to fix them, I built 3 tiny apps myself. Here's what I built and why. 🔊 Sound Warden — Per-app audio routing Every time I jumped between Spotify, Zoom, and YouTube I had to manually switch audio outputs. It drove me crazy. Sound Warden lives in your menu bar and automatically routes each app to the audio device you want. Set it once, forget it forever. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sound-warden/id6762252431 ✕ Clean Quit — Quit all apps in one click End of the day. 15 apps open. Closing them one by one. Clean Quit adds a single menu bar button that quits everything instantly. Add a whitelist for apps you always want running and it skips those automatically. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clean-quit/id6763597949 ☀️ Glowix — Smart display sleep preventer My screen kept going dark mid-presentation, mid-recipe, mid-video call. Glowix prevents your display from sleeping on demand.…

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