Side Projects: Two Mac Apps, Open Sourced

Some builds are just scratching an itch. I wanted to stream movies from my Mac to a projector without paying for Airflow, and I wanted to stop watching hour-long YouTube videos to extract ten useful minutes. Both problems became small native Mac apps, and both apps became open source once they worked. No Electron, no accounts, no subscriptions.

AirPlay Drop streams local video to any AirPlay receiver with live subtitle burn-in over HLS, so playback starts in about two seconds even for a full movie. Python drives a native WebKit window: drag a file, pick a device, press play.

Transcribe Drop runs whisper.cpp entirely on-device to transcribe any video or URL, follows YouTube channels, and uses Claude Haiku to summarise each video against a personal context file, flagging what is actually worth watching for about a cent per summary. Both ship as normal Mac apps with one-step installs.

Both apps are free and MIT-licensed on github.com/djaysan, with release builds anyone can download. Transcription costs nothing and never leaves the machine; the only paid path is optional AI summaries at roughly a cent each. They also double as my testbed for shipping native-feeling apps at AI-first speed.