MacDaddy

Independent Mac software

Mac utilities that do one job well.

Backup, data recovery, bootable installers, battery monitoring and on-device dictation, written by one developer and free to download. No accounts, no subscriptions, no telemetry.

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The apps

  • Mac Backup Guru

    Direct clones, incremental snapshots you can browse in Finder, and scheduled backups that wait for the disk.

    Free · macOS 15 or later · Apple silicon and Intel

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  • Install Disk Creator

    Turn a USB drive into a bootable macOS installer in under a minute, with the installer downloaded straight from Apple.

    Free · macOS 10.13 or later · Apple silicon and Intel

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  • Mac Data Recovery Guru

    Deep-scans a drive read-only and previews every recoverable file before anything is written.

    Free · macOS 10.13 or later · Apple silicon and Intel

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  • Camera Recovery Guru

    Recovers lost photos and video from camera cards, with RAW and ProRes-aware previews.

    Free · macOS 10.13 or later · Apple silicon and Intel

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  • Battery Guru

    Live power draw in the menu bar, plus battery health, cycle count and temperature, so you can see what is eating your MacBook’s runtime.

    Free · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon

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  • Turbo Whisper

    Press a shortcut, speak, and paste private on-device dictation into any Mac app.

    Free · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel

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Noticed

The MacBook Pro analysis Apple answered

In 2016, Apple’s Phil Schiller replied directly to Benedict Slaney’s analysis of the MacBook Pro’s 16 GB memory limit, with two technical corrections. 9to5Mac and other publications covered the exchange.

Read the analysis and response The 9to5Mac coverage

How MacDaddy works

One developer

Every app here was written by the same person, who also answers the support mail. Bugs are fixed by someone who can actually fix them.

Free, without the catch

The apps on this page are free and fully functional. No trial period, no subscription, no locked “pro” tier.

Your Mac stays yours

No analytics SDKs, no accounts, nothing phoning home. The work happens on your Mac, and the only thing that runs in the background is the small login item Mac Backup Guru uses to start scheduled backups.

Used daily by the developer

These apps back up and run on the developer’s own Macs. If something breaks, it breaks here first.