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A MacUpdater Alternative that makes sure all your apps and cli tools on your macOS stays Current (updated). Supports macOS 15+ on Intel and Apple silicon. Current checks app updates against four safety gates and can roll back a failed install. Pay once: $3 for the first 100 licenses.

Current: MacUpdater alternative for Mac

<h3>A native HDR video player for Mac that plays Dolby Vision, HDR10+, and every file you have with the colour it was mastered in.</h3><ul><li>Accurate Colour Reproduction: Stoic measures colour, brightness, and timing, unlike other players that guess. It ensures every transform is named and every guess is flagged, providing accurate colour representation.</li><li>Dynamic Brightness and Timing: Highlights are mapped to your display's peak brightness (up to 1,600 nits), and frame rates are matched to your panel (up to 120 Hz) without dropped or doubled frames.</li><li>Dolby Vision Support: Accurately plays Dolby Vision files, preserving the mastered colour information, which is often ignored by other players.</li><li>Performance Efficiency: Uses significantly less CPU and memory compared to other players like VLC and Elmedia, especially when playing demanding 4K Dolby Vision content.</li><li>In-Moment Notes and Looping: Save specific frames with timestamped notes, create A/B loops for specific sections, and export clips or notes.</li><li>HDR Stills and Exports: Save moments as HDR stills (HEIC) with highlights intact, or as PNG for SDR.</li><li>Private Folders: Secure your sensitive footage with password or Touch ID protection for specific folders.</li><li>Broad File Format Support: Plays a wide range of formats including MKV, MP4, MOV, WebM, M2TS, MXF, with support for HEVC Main10, AV1, DTS-HD, and ASS subtitles.</li><li>Native Mac Experience: Built natively for Apple Silicon using Metal and VideoToolbox, ensuring a quiet and efficient performance.</li><li>Privacy Focused: No account, no telemetry, no sign-in, and no network requests at runtime. Videos remain on your Mac.</li><li>One-Time Purchase: Buy once and use on up to three Macs, with all future updates for Stoic 1 included.</li></ul>

Stoic — The HDR video player for Mac

<h3>Manage your tasks, habits, and expenses seamlessly in one unified list.</h3><ul><li>Unified List: Treat tasks, habits, and expenses as a single type of item, eliminating the need for multiple apps or complex categorization.</li><li>Intuitive Interaction: Pull the line up to repeat an item and make it a habit, or pull it down to assign an amount and track it as an expense.</li><li>Smart Voice Capture: Speak your items naturally, and Multi intelligently shapes them, distinguishing between tasks, habits, and expenses, and even fixing grammar. All processing happens on your device for maximum privacy.</li><li>Visual Cues: The shape of the line instantly tells you the item's type: a flat line for a task, a wave for a repeating habit, and a doubled line for an expense.</li><li>Streak Tracking: Visualize your habit consistency with a year-at-a-glance view, showing your current and longest streaks.</li><li>Expense Tracking: Monitor your spending with clear breakdowns by week, month, or year, and optionally snap receipts for on-device OCR to read totals.</li><li>Customizable Reminders: Set flexible reminders based on patterns and times, ensuring you're nudged without being nagged.</li><li>Personalized Themes: Customize the app's appearance with eight accent themes that extend to the Home Screen icon and widgets.</li><li>Privacy-Focused: Built with privacy at its core, all data processing, including speech and OCR, occurs on your device. No data is uploaded or stored on servers. iCloud Sync is used for cross-device functionality, managed through your own iCloud account.</li></ul>Multi is designed for iPhone and keeps your life on your phone. Enjoy a free tier with useful features, with an optional Pro upgrade for unlimited access.

Multi — tasks, habits and expenses

One private index for every AI conversation on your machine. Every agent you use. One place to look.Inventory reads the local stores your tools already write to, read-only and snapshotted first, and merges them into a single searchable timeline.

Inventory

Give your AI agent real eyes on your cluster.When something breaks in production, you open your terminal and start running kubectl get, kubectl describe, kubectl logs. OpsKit does that investigation for you — reading your live cluster, correlating events and logs, forming a hypothesis with evidence, and proposing a fix as a GitOps PR. It never touches anything without your review.Built for Staff SREs and Platform Engineers who already use Claude Code and want their AI to do more than guess.