Apps
A Mac productivity suite. Seven small, native apps, each doing one job well. I build them for my own machine first and ship the ones that survive daily use.
Everything runs locally: dictation transcribes on-device, journal entries are encrypted on your Mac, screenshots never leave it. Every app is Developer ID signed, notarized by Apple, and updates itself.
The apps
- Murmur — dictation. Hold Right ⌘, talk, and the text appears at your cursor. Transcription runs on-device.
- Conjure — text expansion. Snippets expand as you type, and common misspellings fix themselves.
- Glyph — emoji. Type
;anywhere, search by name or keyword, press Return. - Framed — screenshots and screen recording. Capture a region, style it, annotate, copy — or record and export an MP4.
- QuickCal — a calendar in the menu bar. One click for the month. No permissions, no accounts.
- Anew — a daily positive-thinking journal. One prompt each morning, locked with Touch ID.
- Draftline — a Markdown writing app with an editorial AI that critiques but never writes for you.
What they have in common
- Native. Swift and SwiftUI, built for Apple silicon. Draftline is the one exception — it's Electron.
- Local-first. AI features run on-device where the hardware allows (Apple Foundation Models, CoreML). Cloud models are opt-in, per feature, and off by default.
- Menu bar first. Most of them live in the menu bar with a global shortcut, so they work whichever app is in front.
- Signed, notarized, self-updating. Developer ID signature, hardened runtime, and a Sparkle appcast so fixes reach existing installs.
- No accounts. Nothing asks you to sign up. Where an app is paid, payment and license keys go through Polar as merchant of record — there's no backend of mine holding your data.
Who builds them
I'm Kavir Kaycee, a product manager and builder based in Bombay. I'm Director of AI and Growth at Table22, and I've previously led product at CarDekho and Hashnode. I write a newsletter on product and AI for 5,000+ subscribers. More at my homepage and proof of work.