FREEWARE, OPEN SOURCE, (endless) TRIALS AND PAYWARE software and apps
for ELECTRONIC MUSIC & MUSIC TECHNOLOGY
Audio Editor and DAW
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free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing |
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(mac only) a fully equipped music creation studio right inside your Mac |
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a complete digital audio production application for Windows, OS X and Linux |
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Live is fast, fluid and flexible software for music creation and performance |
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Create. Produce. Mix. Repeat. |
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a complete professional recording studio on the Mac |
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everything you need to compose, record, edit, and mix music and audio |
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TwistedWave for Mac a very powerful and yet very easy to use audio editor |
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Modern music production and performance |
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a complete software music production enviroment |
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an audio spatialization engine that places individual sound sources in space |
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advanced, feature-rich interactive audio solution for games |
Plugins
FX
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a tool for creating surreal transformations of audio streams. Specifically, it is a real-time delay-line granulator. |
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Fast-Fourier-Transform (FFT) based Multi effect VST plug-in for Windows and Mac. |
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a FREE buffer effect geared toward creating robotic artifacts and musical malfunctions |
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a freeware suite of 23 Audio Unit plug-ins that implement real-time spectral processing of sound |
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Granular synth/sampler plugin |
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14 Free VST plugins, audio AAX and AU plugins |
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powerful audio plug-ins with superb sound quality and innovative interfaces |
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electroacoustic music creation software |
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plug-ins that merge the sound and vibe of classic analog gear with modern and musical twists |
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innovative audio products that inspire and enable people to be creative |
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Sennheiser’s free binaural panner plugin |
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a set of free audio effects from Melda Production |
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granular synthesizer |
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a spectral sound-design toolbox |
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multichannel sound spatialization plug-in |
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OTT |
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audio plugin suite including Ambisonic plug-ins |
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a full-featured ten-voice true stereo granular synthesizer |
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Ambisonic Toolkit addresses the holistic problem of creatively controlling a complete soundfield |
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alter any audio input in a new and musical way |
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collection of audio plugins that utilise the FFT algorithm |
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a real-time plug-in for structural audio morphing by Zynaptiq |
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lets you morph between 2 audio materials, leading to inexhaustible creative potential |
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free oscilloscope |
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collection of free, open-source immersive audio production tool for AL |
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free plugins Fracture, Hysteresis, Teratoma, Spore, Shadows, Cybernetics |
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high-definition binaural spatialization engine |
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advanced ambisonic processing |
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bringing the classic sound of analog hardware into your DAW |
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VST2/AU Plugin for extreme time stretching and other spectral processing of audio |
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Glitch 1.3, Crusher, Stretch, and TapeStop (Windows only) |
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Audio effects for modern music |
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De-Esser that smoothes out high frequencies while maintaining a natural and musical sound |
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variable-tube compressor, saturation & distortion, effortless character comp |
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a trance gate effect with a Euclidean sequencer |
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Airwindows Plugin Starter Kit with 11 plugins |
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granular synthesis effect plug-in |
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digital reverb and analog-inspired delay plugins for musicians, engineers and other audio artists (free: Space Modulator, Freq Echo, Super Massive) |
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free synths, effects, analysis and developer tools AU/VST |
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all-in-one signal visualizing package |
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A complete set of tools for multichannel creation and "immersive sound" |
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free and legacy plugins |
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A collection of open-source VST audio plug-ins for producing and reproducing spatial sound scenes |
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A unique stereo delay system producing other worldly echoes using granular techniques |
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a granular resynthesis effect |
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open source Neural amp modeler plugin |
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NOVA is a parallel dynamic equalizer |
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a powerful granular FX/synth that provides detailed control over it's granular engine |
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Spectral Compressor and other plugins |
Instruments
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a multi platform, multi format plugin synth that is closely modeled on the Yamaha DX7 |
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a virtual analog synth with some special features like oscillator hardsync and frequncy modulation |
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an improved version of TAL-Elek7ro |
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The supreme suite for pro audio production (sounds, instruments and effects) |
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Advanced Wavetable Synthesizer |
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polyphonic synthesizer with a powerful modulation system |
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Oxe FM synth |
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open source hybrid synthesizer |
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An infinite series of free software instruments |
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Spectral warping wavetable synth |
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a compact, sporty synth |
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a virtual analog synthesizer |
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based on the Oberheim OB-X |
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Hercules Synthesizer by Fruitymasterz (windows only) |
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easy spectral synth |
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"The sound of this 24-voice polyphonic beast will take you from your studio right to Valhalla" |
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an intuitive and user friendly FM synthesizer plugin |
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a modular polyphonic software synthesizer |
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the legendary Synth1 virtual analogue synthesizer |
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a polyphonic, subtractive virtual analog (VA) synthesizer plugin (windows only) |
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a polyphonic analog-modeling subtractive synthesizer (windows only) |
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a semi-modular software synthesizer featuring both subtractive synthesis and FM synthesis |
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an authentic emulation of a classic monophonic analog synthesizer |
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a synthesizer inspired by many of the hybrid synths of the 80s (windows only) |
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a chaotic mono-synth that uses a brand new double-pendulum-oscillator |
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employs various types of comb filter, often in series, to generate and modify sound |
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The Hadron plugin is your ultimate granular synthesis tool |
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Free sampling plugin that allows you to play samples |
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4 voice granular synthesiser inspired by modular synthesis |
Sound Transformation
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Creative dsp filters and synthesis techniques |
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Composers Desktop Project, by Trevor Wishart help you to create original sounds, textures and effects |
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Granular synthesis |
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sound processing in the frequency domain |
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a program for stretching the audio |
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a high quality software library for audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting |
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a graphical interface where users can draw and edit trajectories to control granular sound synthesis |
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Spectral Sound Processing for the Macintosh |
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Sinusoidal Partial Editing Analysis and Resynthesis |
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WaveEdit is a free tool on PC/Mac/Linux that allows powerful creation and editing of wavetables |
Synths (standalone)
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a complete general MIDI instrument |
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Open-source virtual modular synthesizer |
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The supreme suite for pro audio production (sounds, instruments and effects) |
Computer Aided Composition
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Algorithmic music composition program for MacOS |
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Composers Desktop Project, by Trevor Wishart help you to create original sounds, textures and effects |
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Graphical open-source sequencer for digital art |
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a visual programming language based on Lisp |
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computer aided composition in Max |
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a comprehensive computer-aided environment for the whole work of music composition |
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a framework for static and dynamic computer-assisted orchestration |
Audio Toolkit
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Composers Desktop Project, by Trevor Wishart help you to create original sounds, textures and effects |
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a sound and music computing system |
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an open source visual programming language for multimedia |
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A visual programming environment for audio experimentation, prototyping and education |
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a platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition |
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Extension plugins for the SuperCollider3 audio synthesis server |
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connects objects with virtual patch cords to create interactive sounds, graphics, and custom effects |
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software for live performance, audio processing, sound design and music composition |
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vst for Pd and SuperCollider |
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Standalone template for macOS and SuperCollider version |
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toolkit of objects for decomposing and describing audio in musical creative coding enviroment |
Analysis
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an interactive beat tracking and visualisation system |
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sound-based music analysis |
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Open-source library and tools for audio and music analysis, description and synthesis |
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an easy-to-use program for audio feature extraction |
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doing phonetics by computer |
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A batch tool for feature extraction and annotation of audio files using Vamp plugins |
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an application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files |
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Sinusoidal Partial Editing Analysis and Resynthesis |
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a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks |
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software for viewing, analysis and processing of sounds |
Notation
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LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible |
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Create, play and print beautiful sheet music |
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Finale is the world-wide industry standard in music notation software |
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The Fastest, Smartest, Easiest Way to Write Music |
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Music notation software |
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a LilyPond sheet music text editor |
Audio Player
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a modern music player and library organizer |
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makes it simple to create intricate designs of light, sound, and video, which you play back during a live performance |
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a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files |
Diversen
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Dante Virtual Soundcard turns your computer into a Dante-powered workstation |
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will track a face and send its pose and gesture data over OSC |
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macOS virtual audio driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero latency |
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Universal ASIO drive for wdm audio (windows) |
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macOS system extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications |
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multitrack, multi-party live audio and recording, using only a browser |
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application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet |
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virtual audio device working as virtual audio cable |
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stream digital audio |
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audiovisual effects in real time |
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a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs |
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use machine learning to build new musical instruments |
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a visual development platform to create stunning realtime projects |
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a sequencer for audio-visual artists, designed to enable the creation of interactive shows, museum installations, intermedia digital artworks, interactive music and more in an intuitive user interface |
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solutions to help you at every stage of the game development |
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suite of high quality audio solutions for real-time applications |
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a live oriented pluginJoin our Cloud HD Video Meeting host for Windows and OSX |
Apps (iOs/Android)
Remote/controller
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Modular OSC and MIDI control surface for iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad |
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the professional MIDI and OSC controller app that doesn't cut any corners |
(System) Tools (mac only)
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Find serious problems on your Mac |
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an app to display MIDI signals going in and out of your Mac |
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a multifunction utility that you can use to verify the startup disk and the structure of its system files |
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a little app that lives in your menu bar and helps keep your Mac awake |
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