Small Mac apps,
easy to peel.
Every Mikan app starts as a small annoyance on my own Mac — the kind you live with for years because nobody got round to fixing it. So I fix it, use the fix every day until it's right, and then share it.
Why “mikan”
A mikan (みかん) is the Japanese mandarin: small, sweet, and famously easy to peel — the skin comes away in one go, and there are usually no seeds to deal with. It's the fruit you eat without thinking about it.
That's the standard for the apps. Small enough to understand at a glance. Easy to get into: install it and it just works, with no account or setup tour standing between you and the thing it does. And no seeds — nothing hidden inside, no tracking, no surprises.
What every app promises
The same four things, whether it's free or paid.
One job, done properly
An app here does one thing. It doesn't grow a dashboard, a companion service, or a settings window that needs its own search field. When the job is done, the app is finished — and finished software is a feature.
Made for the Mac
Native Swift apps that behave like Mac apps: they respect your menu bar, your Spaces, your focus, and your battery. Nothing is a web page in a frame.
Nothing phones home
No accounts, no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no third‑party SDKs, and no Mikan server for anything to report to. When an app does need the network — Claude Usage reads your limits from claude.ai — the privacy policy says exactly what it sends and where, and you can watch it with a firewall.
Signed and notarized
Every release is signed with a real Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so macOS's own Gatekeeper checks pass without a workaround or a trip to System Settings.
Logo and brand assets
Writing about one of the apps? Use these rather than a screenshot of the site. Please keep the mark's colours and proportions as they are.
Logo mark
The mikan on a transparent background. Works on light and dark backgrounds.
Icon
The square tile used for the favicon, app listings, and anywhere the mark needs to sit in a small box.
On dark
The same mark needs no special version for dark backgrounds. Colours: peel #FF8A1E, leaf #2F7A3E, cream #FFF7EC.