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My Time Zone

New!

A lightweight menu-bar world clock — saved cities, every IANA zone, and a slider to convert time.

  • macOS 13+
  • Silicon + Intel
  • Menu bar app
My Time Zone's menu-bar panel: Toronto as home, with Kathmandu, Dubai and Brisbane below it, and a slider for shifting every clock at once.
The Add a City search filtered to “New”, listing New Orleans, New Delhi, New Salem and New York with each city's current local time.
My Time Zone's Settings panel: time and date format pickers, a menu-bar display mode, and toggles for showing the date and day of week beneath each city.
Visit mytimezone.app

My Time Zone is a lightweight menu-bar world clock. Your home time — or your saved cities, cycling one by one — lives in the menu bar; click for every city at a glance, each with its time, date, and offset from home.

Add any of the 440+ IANA time zones with a searchable picker, and scrub the adjust-time slider ±12 hours to find a moment that works everywhere. Cities, home zone, and settings all persist between launches.

My Clean Desk

New!

Hide and show your desktop icons from the menu bar — for screenshots, screen shares, and focus.

  • macOS 13+
  • Silicon + Intel
  • Menu bar app
My Clean Desk's menu-bar panel reading “Desktop icons are visible”, beside a Mac desktop crowded with folders and image files.
The same desktop one click later — every icon gone, the wallpaper clear, and the panel now reading “Desktop icons are hidden”.
Visit mycleandesk.com

My Clean Desk is a tiny menu-bar utility that does one thing well: hide and show your desktop icons. One click clears the clutter for a screenshot, a screen share, or some focus — one more brings everything back.

Nothing is moved, renamed, or deleted: Finder simply stops drawing the icons, and the state survives restarts. Menu-bar only, with optional Launch at Login.

WorkMD

New!

A fast, native Markdown app for the Mac — themed preview or syntax-highlighted source, a window per file.

  • macOS 14+
  • Silicon + Intel
  • Native Markdown app
WorkMD showing a dropped repository folder: a file-tree sidebar on the left, and a rendered CHANGELOG.md on the right in the Hard Hat Dark theme.
The same document switched to the source editor — raw Markdown with syntax highlighting, delimiters left visible rather than hidden.
WorkMD's Theme Manager open beside a document, showing the built-in themes as live previews with an activated rotation at the top.
Visit workmd.app

WorkMD is a fast, native macOS app for working with Markdown. Open .md files straight from Finder into a themed preview or a syntax-highlighted source editor — a window per file, or consolidated into one window with an open-files navigator.

Drop a folder for a file-tree sidebar, toggle editor ⇄ preview per window, and theme it like Obsidian or VS Code with bundled or drop-in JSON themes.

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