every tool in hop
twenty small utilities share one menu bar icon. turn off the ones you don't need — what's left is yours. each page below explains what a tool does and how to set it up; a tool with two separate jobs gets a page for each.
- text recognitionpull text off anything on screen — a video in Chrome or VLC, a locked pdf, another app's window.
- qr code scannerread the code where it sits on screen — no reaching for your phone.
- keep awakedownloads, renders and calls run to the end. even with the lid closed.
- color pickerany pixel on screen, in hex, rgb and hsl at once.
- archiveszip, rar, 7z and the rest — unpacked right where you are looking.
- keyboard lockwipe the keyboard clean without shutting the Mac down.
- speed testdownload, upload and responsiveness — measured through Apple's own servers.
- file converterimages, video, audio and documents. offline, with the size shown up front.
- app uninstallerremove an app together with what it left in about thirty places.
- vpn switcherevery vpn your Mac knows about, one switch each.
- app firewallsee which programs go online, and where — block any of them with one click.
- time trackerwhere the hours went, kept on this Mac and nowhere else.
- timerwork-rest cycles that survive a sleeping Mac.
- clipboard historyeverything you copied — text, links, screenshots and whole files.
- window layoutseighteen zones, one click or one hotkey.
- system monitorload, temperatures, memory and battery — quiet until something is wrong.
- app launcherthe apps you open all day, one click away.
- screenshotsan area, a window or the whole screen — marked up before it leaves the screen.
- draw on screena transparent layer over the live screen, seen by everyone on the call.
- torrentsdrop a file or paste a magnet link — it downloads in the panel.
free alternatives to paid Mac apps
hop.tools overlaps with a few paid utilities. see the honest comparisons, including where the paid one is the better buy.
frequently asked questions
- do i have to use all twenty tools?
- no. every module is switched off independently in settings, and a module that is off is not in the panel and not running. people usually keep three or four and never look at the rest.
- does running twenty tools slow the Mac down?
- no, because twenty are never running. only the modules you left on are loaded, and most of them do nothing until you open the panel. the ones that do work in the background — the timer, the tracker, the system monitor — are the same background work a single-purpose app would do.
- is every tool free, or is there a paid tier?
- all twenty are free and there is no paid tier, no trial and nothing to unlock. hop is open source under the MIT licence and makes no money; support is voluntary.
- what does hop send about me?
- nothing. there are no accounts, no analytics and no telemetry in the app. once an hour it asks whether a newer version exists, passing only its own version number. the source is public, so this is checkable rather than a promise.
- which Macs does it run on?
- any Mac with macOS 14 or newer, Apple silicon and Intel alike. each processor gets its own build, so neither download carries code it will not run.
download hopfree · macOS 14+ · Apple silicon and Intel