Vertex Lab

Lab · free tools

Small tools, built with AI in days.

Each one started as a real problem in our own school. We publish them free so you can see what AI-built software looks like in practice.

Apps

What's on the bench

01 · macOS · Available now

MacCare

A menu-bar health panel and clean-up tool for the Mac. Frees space without ever deleting a file outright.

  • Disk, memory, CPU, battery and network at a glance
  • App caches, logs, leftovers of uninstalled apps, large files, apps unused for 6 months
  • Screen-cleaning mode that locks the keyboard and trackpad
  • Update checker for Homebrew, App Store and Sparkle apps
  • English and Chinese, follows your system language

Built to be safe. Everything goes to the Trash first, so it can be put back. Mail, Messages, Photos, Documents, iCloud and system files are refused in code. Every move is logged.

macOS 14 or later · Apple Silicon and Intel · Free, MIT licence · Built with AI in one afternoon, 4 November 2026

02 · iPhone · Coming soon

PhotoClean

One-tap photo library clean-up: screenshots, duplicates and oversized videos, grouped by month.

  • Only uses the system's own delete, so everything lands in Recently Deleted for 30 days
  • Never uploads a photo, never goes online
In development

03 · macOS · Coming soon

DanceMold

Drop in a dance video, get a 3D figure animation you can turn to any angle, and export a practice video for students.

  • Built for our own dance school's choreography library
  • No motion-capture suit, just a phone video
In development

Installing MacCare

  1. 1. Unzip and drag to Applications

    Double-click the zip, then drag MacCare into your Applications folder.

  2. 2. Allow it once

    macOS will say the developer cannot be verified. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. We have not paid Apple for a developer certificate yet; the app is signed locally.

  3. 3. Look for the ♥ in your menu bar

    Click it for the health panel; Open MacCare for the clean-up tools.

These tools are free and provided as-is under the MIT licence, without warranty. They are built so that nothing is deleted outright, but please keep a backup as you would with any software. Questions or problems: [email protected]

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