Small Mac tools, cooked to order.
One person making menu bar apps and Chrome extensions.
Free, for macOS 14 or later.
Five Mac apps, one served so far.
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Bento Grid
Snap windows to a grid, or set up a project’s desk with one shortcut.
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Dropdot
Hides the menu bar icons you never click.
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Clip
Your assets, notes and Markdown in the menu bar.
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Bento Pick
Picks one video out of the feed, on the Mac or in the browser.
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Bento Kettle
Charger watts and Mac heat.
Cooking
Bento Grid sets up your desk.
Press ⌃⌥Space, type the project, press Enter. Its apps, files and links open; the rest hides.
Cooking- Example Kitchen4 apps, 2 links
- Example Site3 apps, 1 folder
- Example Taxes2 apps, 5 files
Agents do the cooking. I keep the taste, and the ship button.
From The Bearly Kitchen, the studio’s working notes.
Four Chrome extensions that end in Markdown.
castmd
Any web page, as clean Markdown for a model.
On GitHub: castmd
Threadmark
Threads posts as Markdown, HTML or text.
On GitHub: Threadmark
Offline Notes
Notes kept in your browser, out as Markdown.
On GitHub: Offline Notes
Wikidown
DeepWiki and Devin Wiki pages as Markdown.
On GitHub: Wikidown
Start with Clip.
Assets, a Markdown reader, transforms and snippets, one click from the menu bar. Free, and it updates itself.
Download ClipRequires macOS 14 or later.
What’s served, what’s cooking.
What is Bearly Studio?
Bearly Studio is a one-person studio that makes small Mac apps and Chrome extensions. The Mac apps are Bento Grid, Dropdot, Clip, Bento Pick and Bento Kettle; the four Chrome extensions all turn web content into Markdown.
Which Bearly Studio apps can I download today?
Clip is the one Bearly Studio Mac app with a public release. Clip is free and runs on macOS 14 or later. Bento Grid, Dropdot, Bento Pick and Bento Kettle are still in development.
What does Clip do?
Clip is a Mac menu bar app for content work. Clip keeps images and text in a drag-and-drop vault, renders Markdown files for reading, transforms pasted content and stores reusable text snippets.
Is Clip free and open source?
Yes. Clip is free, and its source is on GitHub at blacklogos/markutils under the MIT license. Clip checks GitHub releases when it starts and tells you when a new version is out.
What will Bento Grid do?
Bento Grid is a Mac menu bar window manager in development. Bento Grid snaps windows into halves, thirds or quarters, and sets up a whole project desk, with its apps, files and links, from one shortcut: Control, Option, Space.
What is Dropdot?
Dropdot is a Mac menu bar app in development. Dropdot hides every menu bar icon behind one quiet dot and gives you a searchable panel to reach the hidden icons.
What is Bento Pick?
Bento Pick is in development at Bearly Studio. Bento Pick lets you pick one video out of a feed, as a Mac app with a Safari and Chrome extension.
Which Chrome extensions does Bearly Studio make?
Bearly Studio makes four Chrome extensions. castmd turns any web page into clean Markdown for language models, Threadmark saves Threads posts as Markdown, HTML or plain text, Offline Notes keeps notes in your browser and exports them as Markdown, and Wikidown converts DeepWiki and Devin Wiki pages to Markdown.
Where is the source for the Bearly Studio extensions?
The source for all four Bearly Studio Chrome extensions is public on GitHub under the blacklogos account: castmd, threadmark, offline-notes-extension and wikidown.