Video, audio, images, docs, text and speech, files and developer tools, plus everyday Mac utilities. Native tools that run on your Mac, with no account, no uploads and no subscription.
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Ask Claude, Cursor or Codex to compress a video or merge PDFs, and Toolbox does it on your Mac. 35 tools, and your files are never uploaded.
Compress the videos on my Desktop so I can email them.
Toolbox · Compress Video
Done. 2 videos, 566 MB smaller. They’re in a new folder in Downloads.
Now merge these PDFs and add a password.
Works with
The tools you used recently stay open in the background, with their files, settings, typed text and half-finished signatures still there.
Start a long export and move on. The toolbar and the Dock show progress, and a message tells you when it finishes. Your Mac won’t fall asleep halfway.
What you type into JSON Formatter, Regex Tester, Translate or Summarize is still there after you quit, for 7 days, kept only on your Mac.
These are the real windows, captured from the app. Each tool opens on its own screen with only the settings it needs.
Download VideoVideo
Paste links from YouTube, X, TikTok, Instagram, Vimeo and many other sites. Choose Best Quality, 1080p, 720p or audio only, and the original file lands in your Downloads folder.
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Beautify ScreenshotImages
Set a screenshot on a gradient, a solid color or an image of your own, then adjust padding, corner radius and shadow. Pick 16:9 for X or 4:5 for Instagram and save a PNG at full resolution.
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Remove BackgroundImages
Apple’s Vision framework finds the subject on your Mac and saves it as a PNG with a transparent, white or custom color background. Drop a whole folder and crop each result to the subject.
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Redact PDFDocs
A black box in most PDF apps only covers the words. Redact PDF flattens each redacted page so the text underneath no longer exists, and strips the file’s metadata. Drag boxes by hand or redact every match of a word.
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Battery HealthMac
See maximum capacity, cycle count against your Mac's rating, temperature and the charger's wattage at a glance, plus battery levels for AirPods, Magic Keyboard and other accessories.
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TranscribeText & Speech
Drop in an audio or video file and get what was said, with a timestamp for each segment. Speech recognition runs on device, and you can export plain text, timestamped text or SRT subtitles.
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Storage ExplorerMac
Space Hogs checks the usual suspects: Xcode caches, iOS simulators, iPhone backups, app caches and old Downloads. Anything you remove goes to the Trash, so you can still change your mind.
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Network Speed TestMac
Toolbox runs networkQuality, the network test Apple builds into macOS, and shows download, upload and responsiveness. Every run is saved to a history, so you can compare rooms or times of day.
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Real app windows, captured with each tool at work. Here are 37 of the 101 tools you get with one purchase.
Open any tool with a keystroke and switch away whenever you like. Your work keeps going, and your originals are never changed.
Press Control Option Space, type a few letters and hit Return.
Press Control Option V in any app, pick an entry and press Return. Passwords from password managers are never kept.
Switch tools or close the window and it keeps going. A message tells you when it’s done, even if you’re in another app.
Drop a whole folder. The results go to a new folder in Downloads, and the files you dropped stay exactly as they were.
Small utilities for the chores macOS leaves to you, in the same app as everything else.
macOS does a lot for free. Toolbox picks up where its built-in apps stop.
| macOS app | What it does for free | What Toolbox adds |
|---|---|---|
| Preview (PDFs) | Read, annotate, fill in and sign PDFs, and rearrange their pages. | Redact, compress, convert to Word and make scans searchable. Redact PDF, Compress PDF, PDF to Word, Make PDF Searchable |
| Preview (images) | Open, crop, mark up and export a picture. | Convert and resize many at once, remove backgrounds and strip metadata. Convert Images, Resize Images, Remove Background, Remove Metadata |
| QuickTime Player | Play, trim and record your screen. | Compress, convert, merge, make GIFs and burn in subtitles. Compress Video, Convert Video, Video to GIF, Burn In Subtitles |
| Screenshot | Capture the screen or a window, or record it. | Beautify, annotate and blur faces in the result. Beautify Screenshot, Annotate Screenshot, Blur Faces |
| Finder | Browse, rename and compress files, and see sizes in Get Info. | Batch rename, find duplicates and see what fills your disk. Batch Rename, Find Duplicates, Storage Explorer |
| Price | Included with macOS | $19 once |
Keep using the built-in apps for quick jobs. Reach for Toolbox when you need more than they offer.
The kinds of single-purpose apps people tend to collect, and the Toolbox tool that does the same job.
| Single-purpose app | Typical price | In Toolbox |
|---|---|---|
| Screen recorder | $10 to $30, or a subscription | Record Screen |
| Video downloader | $10 to $30, or a subscription | Download Video |
| Video compressor and converter | $10 to $30 each | Compress Video, Convert Video |
| Background remover | Often a subscription or credits | Remove Background |
| Screenshot beautifier | $10 to $30 | Beautify Screenshot |
| PDF editor and signer | Often a subscription | Sign PDF, Redact PDF |
| Transcription app | Often a subscription | Transcribe |
| Disk cleaner and uninstaller | $10 to $40 each, or a subscription | Storage Explorer, Uninstall App |
| Keep-awake utility | Free to $10 | Keep Awake |
| Battery and network utilities | Free to $15 each | Battery Health, Network Speed Test |
Toolbox
All of the above and 87 more tools, in one app, for less than most of them cost alone.
$19 one-time
Buy ToolboxPrice ranges are rough, change over time and vary by app, and some good options are free. A dedicated app can go further than a single Toolbox tool. Most people need the everyday version of each job, and Toolbox covers those for one price.
Online converters ask for your files first. Toolbox does the same jobs offline.
Compression, OCR, transcription, background removal, translation and every Mac utility run locally. Your files never go to a server.
Nothing to sign up for or log in to. The app has no analytics and no tracking SDKs.
Toolbox only writes new files. Each run gets its own dated folder in Downloads.
Toolbox asks only when a tool needs something, and says why before macOS shows its prompt.
Toolbox goes online only for Download Video (the link you give it), installing FFmpeg with Homebrew, Network Speed Test (Apple’s networkQuality servers), Coordinate Picker (Apple Maps) and license activation, plus a quiet weekly license check that sends only your license key and activation ID to Dodo Payments. Nothing else leaves your Mac.
I like this, ngl. Screw those websites. One framework for all the vibe-coded utilities to live in.
John, @jjainschigg on X
Been looking for MacBook tools for quite a while. Nice to see some essential tools all in one place.
Maruf, @as_maruf62783 on X
96 Mac tools. One app. Pay once. WOW!!
Stéphane Prud'homme, @stepru on X
Hey brother, love the tool.
Sehran Khan, @SehranKhann on X
Insta buy.
@_eeyuh, on X
Bought.
David Palmer, @DMOPalmer on X
One purchase. No subscription, and no tool held back for a higher tier.
All 101 tools and every future update, on your Macs.
$19one-time
Buy for 1 MacmacOS 15 Sequoia or later · Notarized by Apple · 7-day refund
Checkout by Dodo Payments. Taxes are calculated at checkout.
Need more than 50 Macs, or an invoice for your company? Email us. [email protected]
Something else? Email [email protected].
Toolbox is signed with the developer’s Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, which scans every build for malware before macOS lets it open. You can check it yourself in Terminal: spctl -a -vvv /Applications/Toolbox.app should say “Notarized Developer ID”. Your files are processed on your Mac and never uploaded, and the app has no analytics or tracking. It goes online only for features you use, like downloading a video link, plus the license check and update check, so a firewall such as LuLu shows nothing else. If it isn’t right for you, you get a full refund within 7 days.
AI apps like Claude, Cursor and Codex can now use 35 Toolbox tools on your Mac when you ask, like “compress the videos on my Desktop”. See how it works. And your work is never lost when you switch tools: the tools you used recently stay open with their files and settings, jobs keep running in the background, and a message tells you when they finish. Toolbox 2.0 added 5 tools, free for everyone who already has Toolbox: Watermark, Clipboard History, Disk Speed Test, Password Generator and CSV ↔ JSON.
English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified) and Korean. Toolbox follows your Mac’s language, or you can pick one just for Toolbox in System Settings › General › Language & Region › Applications.
FFmpeg is the open-source engine behind most video software. Toolbox uses it for the video and audio tools that macOS can’t do on its own, such as WebM, GIF and subtitle burn-in.
It isn’t bundled with the app. The first time a tool needs it, Toolbox offers to install it with Homebrew in one click, or you can point it at your own copy in Settings. Docs, image, Text & Speech, file, developer and Mac tools don’t need it, apart from MP3 export in Text to Speech.
18 everyday utilities: Storage Explorer, Uninstall App, Keep Awake, Display Control for external monitors, Battery Health, Wi-Fi Password & QR, Network Speed Test, Login & Background Items, Hidden Settings and more. See all Mac utilities.
macOS 15 Sequoia or later. Summarize and Ask a Document use Apple Intelligence, so they need macOS 26 Tahoe on a Mac with Apple Intelligence turned on. Every other tool works on macOS 15. Toolbox follows your Light or Dark Mode setting, or you can pick one in Settings.
Into a new dated folder in your Downloads folder, one per run, so nothing is ever overwritten. Toolbox never changes the files you drop in. You can choose a different output folder in Settings.
Toolbox does its work on your Mac, so a heavy job such as compressing a video or transcribing audio uses your Mac’s processor while it runs. For video there is a hardware encoder option for more speed. Your results go to a new folder and the files you drop in are never changed.
Yes. Team licenses cover 10, 25 or 50 Macs with a single key that each person activates on their Mac. Pick Team in pricing, or email [email protected] for more than 50 Macs or an invoice.
Yes. One license covers your own Macs, up to the limit listed under Pricing. To move it to a new Mac, deactivate it on the old one in Toolbox › Settings › License. If you’ve lost access to an old Mac, email [email protected] and we’ll reset it.
Email [email protected] within 7 days of buying and we’ll refund you in full. No forms, no questions. Refund policy
No. You pay once and every future update is free, for life. Payments, invoices and sales tax are handled by Dodo Payments as merchant of record.
No. Toolbox costs less where incomes are lower, from 40% of the price, based on where your billing address is. Checkout shows it in your local currency, and the license is the same everywhere.
No. Every tool runs on your Mac, including OCR, transcription, translation and background removal. Toolbox has no account, no analytics and no server to send files to. It goes online only for Download Video (the link you paste), installing FFmpeg with Homebrew, Network Speed Test (which uses Apple’s networkQuality servers), Coordinate Picker (which uses Apple Maps) and license activation. After that, a quiet weekly license check sends only your license key and activation ID to Dodo Payments. Nothing else leaves your Mac.
macOS only reveals the name of the Wi-Fi network you’re on to apps with Location permission, so Wi-Fi Password & QR asks for it to read the network name. Coordinate Picker uses it only when you click My Location, to drop a pin where you are. Toolbox never stores or sends your location.
Yes, after you activate your license. Every tool runs on your Mac. The few that go online are Download Video, installing FFmpeg with Homebrew, Network Speed Test, Coordinate Picker and the quiet weekly license check.
From $19 one-time · macOS 15 Sequoia or later
Buy Toolbox from $19macOS 15 Sequoia or later · Notarized by Apple · 7-day refund · Tax added at checkout where it applies
