Anton Shakirov
makes hop
updated
a MacBook with a notch fits about ten icons in the menu bar, and the eleventh disappears: it is running, but you cannot see it. everyone who has used a Mac for a few years ends up there, because small apps accumulate on their own. one keeps the machine awake, another remembers what you copied, a third snaps windows, a fourth shows the temperature. each of them is good on its own, and together they turn into a queue of icons, six login items and three subscriptions for work that fits in a hundred lines of code.
how it works
my name is Anton, and hop is what i built about it. eighteen of those tools live under one icon, and the ones you have no use for are switched off and stay out of the way.
you turn on three modules and the other fifteen never load: they are not in memory and not in the panel. a module you switched off does not turn into an offer to buy the full version, because there is no full version.
the panel is yours to arrange: up to four tabs on the icon, in whatever order suits you. if in a month the timer turns out to be useless and the clipboard is what you need, swapping them takes ten seconds.
who i am
i launch products, my own and other people's: research, positioning, the first version, sales. that is what i earn from, as a founder, as a ceo and as a consultant, and that is what i teach on my courses.
hop has nothing to do with that money. it has no paid tier, no plans, no ads and no affiliate links, and i am not planning to add any. the app is released under the MIT licence and the source is open, so anyone can see exactly what it does, or build it themselves.
what hop knows about you
nothing. there are no accounts in the app, so there is no data that could leak anywhere. timers, clipboard history and tracker entries stay on your Mac, in the same place you created them. once an hour hop asks the server whether a newer version is out, and the only thing it says about itself is its version number.
if something is not working
write to me. i read the issues on GitHub and the email myself, and i answer them myself, so you will not have to explain yourself to a contact form and a bot.
small things are worth writing about: the panel grew to eighteen modules because people said what they were missing. if a fix will take weeks, i will tell you it takes weeks, and no letter goes unanswered.
and when it is not obvious how to switch something on, there is the guide: every module, step by step
in short
- modules
- 18, each switched off on its own
- releases
- 21, the first on 13 july 2026
- size
- about 6 mb
- requires
- macOS 14, Apple silicon and Intel
- licence
- MIT, source public
- price
- free, no paid tier
- telemetry
- none