Mac tools

Small tools, for problems worth fixing properly.

Things built because the existing options wanted an account, an advert or a subscription for something a menu bar item should do for free. Both are open source, both run entirely on your own machine, and neither has any networking code in it.

Tock

Authenticator

A two-factor authenticator that lives in your menu bar. Built because the free Mac authenticators are ad-supported, abandoned, or want you to sign in before they will show you your own codes.

  • TOTP and HOTP, SHA1 / SHA256 / SHA512, 6 or 8 digits, custom periods
  • Secrets live in the macOS Keychain, never on disk in the clear
  • No networking code at all. Grep the source for URLSession and you find nothing, so it cannot phone home
  • Imports straight from Google Authenticator by scanning its export QR
  • Free, no account, no ads

VoltKeep

Battery

A menu bar battery tool for Apple Silicon Macs. Shows real battery health, and stops charging before 100% so the cells spend less time sitting at full.

  • Charge limit at any level from 50 to 99 percent
  • Sailing mode randomises the cutoff within a band you set, so the battery is not parked at one voltage
  • Pause charging above a temperature you choose
  • Top up to 100% on demand before travel, and forced discharge while still plugged in
  • Cycle count, health against design capacity, temperature, voltage and wattage, live

Why they are free

Because both took a weekend and neither is a business. They exist because I wanted them on my own Mac. The source is public so you can read exactly what a tool holding your two-factor seeds or writing to your battery controller is actually doing, which is the only sensible reason to trust either one.