Lumina

Your desktop’s Swiss Army knife.

The small tools you reach for all day, folded into one panel in your menu bar. Made for macOS.

Download for Mac Why not the App Store?
  • Free for 14 days
  • Pay once, price to be announced
  • No account

Version 0.1.21 · Requires macOS 26 · Updates itself

Lumina’s panel open below its menu bar icon, with CPU, Caffeine, Stay Green, a world clock, batteries, Pomodoro and Appearance Lumina’s panel open below its menu bar icon, with CPU, Caffeine, Stay Green, a world clock, batteries, Pomodoro and Appearance

Seventeen tools. Four jobs.

Everything in Lumina helps you focus, keep an eye on your Mac, clean it up, or get through the day.

Get the highlights.

Every utility in one panel. Show the ones you use, hide the rest.

Caffeine: Keep your Mac awake.
Stay Green: Always available.
Pomodoro: Focus in rounds.
World Clocks: Every time zone you work with.
Batteries: Every battery, one look.
Media: What’s playing, at hand.
Top Processes: See what’s keeping your Mac busy.
Storage: See what’s filling your disk.
System: Your Mac’s vitals.
Appearance: Light or dark, instantly.
Keyboard Lock: Clean your keyboard, not your document.
Quit All: A fresh start, in one click.
Cleanup: Junk out, space back.
Uninstaller: Gone means gone.
Quick Actions: One click, done.
More: Ready, out of sight.
Customize: Make it yours.
Caffeine Stay Green Pomodoro World Clocks Batteries Media Top Processes Storage System Appearance Keyboard Lock Quit All Cleanup Uninstaller Quick Actions More Customize

Try it free. Pay once.

No subscription and no account. Just a licence that’s yours.

  • Try everything for 14 days

    Every utility works during the trial, with no account and no card.

  • Pay once, keep it

    When the trial ends, buy a licence from the panel. Your key arrives by email.

  • Enter your key

    Click … › Licence… in the panel and paste it. A key you’ve just copied fills itself in.

  • Yours for good

    Your licence works offline and stays with you through every update.

Price To be announced soon One payment for a licence that never expires. Try it free in the meantime.

Why Lumina isn’t on the Mac App Store

Every app on the Mac App Store runs inside Apple’s App Sandbox, a walled-off space that keeps it away from the rest of your Mac. For most apps that’s the right call. But Lumina’s whole job is the rest of your Mac, and inside the sandbox most of its utilities couldn’t work:

In the App Sandbox

A handful of toggles

7 of 17
  • Caffeine
  • Stay Green
  • Pomodoro
  • Quit All
  • System
  • Top Processes
  • Storage
  • Batteries
  • Cleanup
  • Uninstaller
  • Empty Trash
  • Keyboard Lock
  • Media
  • World Clocks
  • Appearance
  • Sleep
  • Silence

The ten dimmed tools can’t do their job from inside the sandbox.

Sold directly

All of Lumina

17 of 17
  • Caffeine
  • Stay Green
  • Pomodoro
  • Quit All
  • System
  • Top Processes
  • Storage
  • Batteries
  • Cleanup
  • Uninstaller
  • Empty Trash
  • Keyboard Lock
  • Media
  • World Clocks
  • Appearance
  • Sleep
  • Silence

Download it here, pay once, and it updates itself in place.

  • Other apps’ files

    Uninstaller and Cleanup find and remove what other apps leave in your Library. A sandboxed app can’t see other apps’ files.

  • Asking other apps to act

    Quit All, Empty Trash, Appearance and Uninstaller ask Finder and System Events to act for you. The sandbox doesn’t let an app control other apps this way.

  • Keyboard and pointer

    Stay Green and Keyboard Lock work with your keyboard and pointer, through the Accessibility access the sandbox restricts.

  • Private hardware readings

    System, Media and Batteries read your Mac’s temperature and fan speed, what’s playing in any app, and your AirPods’ and accessories’ charge. macOS has no public interface for these, and App Store apps may use only public ones.

Sold directly, signed every time.

A sandboxed Lumina would be a handful of toggles. So Lumina is sold directly instead, as many of the best Mac utilities are: you download it from our site, pay once, and it updates itself in place. Every update is cryptographically signed, and Lumina checks that signature before installing anything.

Only what you ask.

Lumina only touches what you ask it to. It never removes system files, every uninstall goes to the Trash first so you can put it back, and nothing on your Mac ever leaves it, apart from an anonymous ping with its activation state, which you can turn off.

Install in a minute.

Lumina comes from this site, not the App Store, so macOS asks you once to allow it.

  1. Download and unzip Get Lumina.zip and open it.
  2. Move it to Applications Drag Lumina into your Applications folder, then open it.
  3. Click Open Anyway The first time, macOS says it can’t check Lumina for malicious software. Scroll down and click Open Anyway next to the message about Lumina. System Settings › Privacy & Security

You only do this once. Some utilities ask for a permission the first time you use them, like Accessibility for Keyboard Lock. Lumina checks for updates when it opens and every six hours, installs them in place, and shows you what’s new.

Try Lumina.

Free for 14 days, then pay once. Requires macOS 26.

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