Tiny apps for Mac & iOS

Small apps that do one thing well.

LilStudio builds native Mac and iOS utilities. Each one is small, fast, and finished — no subscriptions, no accounts, nothing phoning home.

The Apps

Ten right now. Each one solves a single annoyance properly.

LilDisplay

iPhone & iPad · macOS

Turns any iPhone or iPad into a second monitor for your Mac — over USB or peer-to-peer WiFi, with the touch input macOS never had.

Touch relay USB + WiFi No shared network
Open LilDisplay → 3 free sessions, then $2.99 once

LilUsage

macOS menu bar

A bar in your menu bar that fills as you use Claude. Click it for your session and weekly windows, and how long until each one resets.

Session + weekly Live countdowns No account
Open LilUsage → Free · macOS 14+

LilHide

macOS menu bar

Hides every icon on your desktop with one click, across every display you have. Your files aren't moved or deleted — just covered, until you click again.

One click All displays Zero permissions
Open LilHide → $1 once · macOS 13+

LilMirror

macOS menu bar

A mirror in your menu bar for the ten seconds before a video call — with a small compliment underneath. Close it and the camera shuts off, green light and all.

One click 153 compliments No network
Open LilMirror → $1 once · macOS 13+

LilVibe

macOS menu bar

Turns your desktop into a slow, looping nature scene with the sound of it underneath — two rainy forests, a café on a wet night, or a campfire under the stars. Pauses itself whenever you can't see it.

4 scenes Layered sound Works offline
Open LilVibe → $0.99 once · macOS 14+

LilDock

macOS menu bar

Your favorite apps and your Downloads in the menu bar, next to Wi-Fi and the clock, with Dock-style magnification. Hide the macOS Dock and your windows get the whole screen.

Running dots Downloads stack No permissions
Open LilDock → $0.99 once · macOS 14+

LilStats

macOS menu bar

CPU, GPU and RAM in your menu bar, in twelve styles from plain numbers to rings and per-core bars. Click for P-cores, E-cores and a minute of history. Light enough not to show up in its own numbers.

12 styles P + E cores No permissions
Open LilStats → Mac App Store · macOS 14.6+

LilPad

iPhone → Mac

Turns your iPhone into a Mac trackpad: click, scroll, pinch, drag windows, Mission Control and Spaces. Nothing to install on the Mac — it uses the Screen Sharing already built in.

Every gesture No Mac app Day & night
Open LilPad → App Store · iOS 17+

LilPass

iPhone · Cards

Every loyalty, gym, library and membership card on your iPhone, with a crisp barcode at checkout. Home Screen widgets, Siri and Face ID. Works offline, no account.

11 barcode formats Widgets Offline
Open LilPass → App Store · iOS 17+

LilBounce

iPhone & iPad · Toy

Squishy cartoon balls with faces, living inside your phone and moved only by real physics. Tilt, shake, tap and swipe them, and feel every bounce. Seven balls, rooms, pegs, no data collected.

Real physics 7 balls Haptics
Open LilBounce → Coming soon · iOS 18+

How We Build

The same four rules apply to everything here.

One job, done properly

Every app is scoped to a single annoyance. No dashboards, no feature creep, no onboarding wizard.

Your data stays put

No accounts, no analytics, no telemetry. Nothing leaves your machine unless the app literally can't work without it.

Pay once, or nothing

Free where it can be free, one small payment where it can't. No subscriptions for a utility that sits in your menu bar.

Native, not a web page

Swift and SwiftUI, built for the platform. Small binaries, low CPU, no Electron shell eating your battery.

Got an idea, or a bug?

Feature requests, bug reports, or just to say the thing worked — every message is read and answered.

support@lilstudio.app