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For Mac owners

Your Mac earns
while it's idle.

Install the menu-bar app in minutes. It runs curated AI workloads when your Mac is on power and your settings allow it, backs off the moment you're using the machine, and pays steady weekly earnings to your bank through Stripe Connect — every task on an itemized ledger.

Download for macOSHow earnings work
macOS 14 Sonoma·Apple Silicon (M1 or later)·Notarized & signed
Common Compute · menu bar
Earning
task_f29ab · ocr-vision
This week
$9.15
This month
$26.80
Lifetime
$38.40
Tasks done
412
CURRENT TASK
00:47 / 01:13+$0.018
How it works

Four steps. No servers to run.

01
Install
Drag the menu-bar app into /Applications. Create an account on the web, then sign in. No kexts, no terminal.
02
Set rules
Choose Balanced or Idle-only, on-power only, certain hours, workload types, and thermal protection. Defaults are safe.
03
Run work
Your Mac pulls tasks from the queue, runs them in a native runner, and uploads results. Balanced mode backs off under battery, heat, heavy load, or manual pause.
04
Get paid weekly
Earnings accrue per completed job and pay out weekly through Stripe Connect to your linked bank. See every task on an itemized ledger — steady and predictable beats a lottery.
Earnings

What your Mac makes.

Earnings depend on your hardware, uptime, and network demand — your dashboard shows exactly what each job paid.

What it looks like

What's actually happening on a provider Mac.

Walkthrough · 90 sec
A walkthrough of the provider app
Live dashboard, a few jobs running, Balanced and Idle-only controls, and Stripe Connect payout setup.
  1. Menu-bar icon — green means ready or running, grey means paused.
  2. Dashboard — live CPU / GPU / ANE utilisation, plus today's job count.
  3. Switch between Balanced and Idle-only from Settings.
  4. Open the Jobs view to inspect a completed task and its receipt.
  5. Earnings tab — job-by-job history and Stripe Connect payout state.
Promises

Your machine. Your rules.

Controlled foreground impact
Balanced mode can run small jobs while you work, then backs off when your Mac is busy, hot, on battery, or outside your rules.
Doesn't touch your files
Tasks stream their input from the network, run through Apple frameworks, and stream the result back — your documents, photos, and keychain are never part of a job.
Thermal safety
We won't start new work while your Mac is hot, on battery, or in use — it waits for a cooler moment. A job already running is left to finish.
Transparent earnings
Every task is signed and ledgered. You can audit every cent and see exactly what ran when.
Pause at any time
One click in the menu bar or a hotkey stops everything. No contracts, no commitments.
Battery-friendly by design
By default your Mac only works while plugged in and pauses when you're using it — it never drains your battery or gets in your way.

Turn idle into income.

Ten-minute setup. Weekly Stripe Connect payouts. Pause with one click.

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