Shiny is a menu-bar app for Mac that frees inactive memory and quiets the background apps eating your RAM, so your Mac feels like the day you bought it. A quiet indicator in the menu bar tells you when your Mac wants some relief, then one click polishes it back. Most slow Macs aren't dying. They're just out of working room. Shiny gives the room back.

Features:

• Menu-bar indicator that shifts as your Mac gets busier, so you can see at a glance whether your Mac needs relief.

• Edge glow that drifts in at the corners of your screen when memory pressure is high. No popups, no red badges, no scare tactics. Click polish and the glow recedes.

• One-tap Polish that releases inactive memory, refreshes stale DNS lookups, pauses background helpers that have been idle for hours, and reads system memory pressure as it shifts. Then shows you exactly what it freed.

• Pause Apps tab that lists every background app in plain English. Tap to pause or quit the ones eating memory you don't actually need. You decide what stays.

• Auto-relief that quietly polishes on its own when pressure gets tight.

• Global keyboard shortcut so you can summon Shiny from any app without leaving what you're doing.

Shiny only works with the parts of macOS that are safe to touch. Your files, apps, and data are never opened, read, or changed.

One-time purchase, $4.99. No subscription, no account, no telemetry in the app. Free updates forever.