PureMac
Small, native macOS apps.
No Electron, no subscriptions, no telemetry you didn't ask for. Built for macOS, signed ad-hoc, fully open source. Audit every line or build it yourself.
Fadeo
$2 lifetime
Fadeo watches your workflow: the app in front, the desktop you're on, whether you're in a meeting. It plays, fades, or switches audio to match. Every rule is yours to define, down to the second.
near 0% idle CPU
no steady-state polling
never touches system volume
Tableau
Free
Tableau places photos directly on your desktop as borderless, always-on overlays that match each image's real aspect ratio: no cropping, no black bars, no forced grid sizes.
any aspect ratio, exactly as shot
click-through floating mode
~20MB RAM, zero CPU idle