Utility and gaming corner.
A free, open-source Mac app by Zephydian. Utilities, notes and games, with more utilities coming soon.
Try it on zephydian.comInstall
Free and open source. For macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
Paste it into Terminal. Later, update with brew upgrade zephdeck.
Unzip it and drag Zephdeck into Applications.
Zephdeck isn’t signed with an Apple Developer certificate yet, so macOS asks before the first launch. You only do this once per version.
Run this once, then open Zephdeck normally:
Features
Zephdeck lives in your menu bar. Push the pointer into a corner and it’s there. Move away and it’s gone. And when you want more, switch on Mac features one by one, or start from a preset (Lite, Essential or Everything): a Dynamic Island around your notch with music, timers, your next event and a shelf for files, Dock previews, a ⌘Tab switcher, window snapping, a command bar, a radial menu around your pointer, per-app volume, cut and paste in Finder and many more.
Add only the ones you want from the Library: a private clipboard history, screenshots and screen recordings with editors, a dictionary and thesaurus, an uninstaller and cleaner, app updates, a timer, a calculator, a color picker, passwords, QR codes and more. None come preinstalled, and each one tells you what it can use before you add it.
Built in: up to 20 tabs saved as you type as plain Markdown files on your Mac. Preview them formatted, tick checklists, search and export, open them in their own window, and pin single notes anywhere on your screen.
Start with Snake, Stackr and Five, then add Spokes, Fleet, Airship, 2048, Mines, Nines, Switch and more from the Library. Close the panel and your game pauses, and Stats keeps your wins, best scores and streaks.
Pick any screen corner and how long to linger. Prefer the keyboard? Set a global shortcut instead.
Six accent colors or your Mac’s own, a small, medium or large panel, your own tabs (a favorite game, utility or control like Sound, one click away), light and dark mode, and a choice of menu bar icons, or none at all.
Built for macOS 26 Tahoe’s Liquid Glass, with a frosted style on macOS 14 and 15.
About an 11 MB download, and around 30 MB of memory while it runs. It uses almost no CPU while it waits.
More everyday tools are on the way, free and open source like the rest, and they install from the Library without updating the app. Have an idea? Suggest a utility.
Utilities
Open the Utilities tab, click Get more, and add the ones you need. Most work offline, and more are coming soon.
Games
Each one is made for a short break, and more are on the way. Three of them run in your browser on zephydian.com.
Privacy
It counts anonymous page views with Vercel Web Analytics, without cookies. The demo on zephydian.com keeps your notes and scores in this browser only. Messages from the contact form are delivered by Formspree and used only to reply.
FAQ
A Mac with macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Apple Silicon and Intel are both supported.
Quick Notes is built in. From the Library you can add Clipboard, Screenshot, Markup, Dictionary, Passwords, Colors, Timer, Calculator, Text, QR Code, Awake and System, and more are coming soon. Follow the project on GitHub to see them land, or suggest one there.
Click Get more above the Games or Utilities grid to open the Library. Snake, Stackr and Five come installed, the other built-in games install instantly, and everything else downloads in seconds. Remove anything you don’t use.
Yes. Zephdeck is open source under the GNU GPL v3 license, with no ads, no subscriptions and no in-app purchases.
Apple asks developers to sign and notarize apps with a paid Developer account, which Zephdeck doesn’t have yet. The code is public on GitHub. Follow the three steps above once and macOS remembers your choice.
From version 0.9.1, Zephdeck checks for updates itself: when a new version is out it tells you, shows what’s new, and installs it with one click (Settings → General → Updates). You can also run brew upgrade zephdeck, or download the new zip and replace the old app in Applications.
With Homebrew, run brew uninstall --zap zephdeck. --zap also deletes your notes and settings. Otherwise, quit Zephdeck from its Settings tab and drag it from Applications to the Trash.
That’s macOS Hot Corners. Choose a different corner in Zephdeck’s Settings, or change it in System Settings → Desktop & Dock → Hot Corners. Zephdeck warns you when the two clash.
In Zephdeck’s own folder on your Mac, as one Markdown file per tab. Reveal in Finder in the Notes menu takes you there.
Use the contact page, or email contact@zephydian.com. For bugs and ideas, GitHub issues are fastest.
Please do. Open an issue or a pull request on GitHub.