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A little lube for your day.

Less time on the little things that interrupt your work. Three apps are in private beta, with more on the way.

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Life could use a little lube.

We make tools that help you get things done with less fuss and more fun. Especially at work.

We’re not trying to make you a workaholic. We just want you to enjoy work enough to chase your own ideas and reach a casual 10,000% of your potential.

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You copied a link an hour ago and now it’s gone.

Lube ClipboardsPrivate beta

Clipboards keeps everything you copy: text, links, images, files and code. Press ⌘⇧V anywhere, find it, and paste it the way you need.

find an earlier copy without leaving your app
  • Your last copy is still thereFind an earlier copy with ⌘⇧V. Paste it with ⌘1 to ⌘9.
  • Keeps every kind of clipText, rich text, links, images, files, colours and code, with the app each one came from.
  • Finds anythingSearch text, links, file paths, colour codes and the text inside screenshots. Filter by app, site, kind or date.
  • Paste it your wayPlain text, any case, tidy JSON, or a link with the tracking stripped. Rules per app.
  • Screen captureCapture an area, a window or the full screen, record it, or copy just the text in it.
  • PinboardsKeep the clips you reuse. Pinned clips never expire.
  • Code in 46 languagesHighlighted, and it keeps its colours when you paste it into docs and slides.
  • Private by defaultNever records copies from password managers. AI access is off until you turn it on.
The Links view of Lube Clipboards in dark mode. Copied links are grouped by site, developer.apple.com and feedback.lube.work. The selected link, Notarizing macOS software, shows its full URL with Copy, Pin and Delete buttons.
Find that page again, with links grouped by site and titles you recognise.

Three coding agents are running and the fans just took off.

Lube Activity MonitorPrivate beta

See which agent is busy in which project, the dev servers and ports it left behind, and what each process is doing. Then set the fans yourself.

fan speeds that suit your work, plugged in or on battery
  • Coding agents at workSee which agent is busy in each project, the dev servers it started, and what has already exited.
  • CPU and memoryLive CPU load on every core, GPU and memory, and which processes use the most memory.
  • Free up memoryGive apps their memory back without closing anything.
  • Fan controlTune your fans with RPM targets, multi-sensor curves and AC or battery profiles.
  • Ports and open filesSee what a process has open, and stop the one holding a port.
  • Disk spaceScan your disk to see what is using it, including the worktrees Claude Code, Codex and Cursor leave behind. Browse any folder and clean up.
  • Drives and networkThroughput, IOPS and service time for each drive, volumes grouped by device, and eject for external drives.
  • Alerts on sustained loadKnow when CPU or memory stays high, even with the window closed.

The recording needs the window at exactly 1920 × 1080.

Lube ResizerDogfooding

Get your window ready to record with a saved size. Resizer confirms the size it actually accepted.

1498 × 929
the right window size for your next recording
  • Your saved window sizesReuse a size with ⌥ and a click, or ⌘⇧R.
  • Points or Retina pixelsSize the whole window or just its content.
  • The size it really tookSee what the window accepted, so you know the recording is right.
  • One permissionAccessibility only. No Screen Recording permission.

Your 2FA codes are on your phone and you’re working on your computer.

Lube SecurityPrivate beta

Keep your 2FA codes and passkeys on the Mac you’re using. Lube Security puts them in your menu bar. Passwords are coming soon in a separate app.

your sign-in codes within reach, with end-to-end encrypted sync
  • PasskeysKeep your passkeys and 2FA codes together for sign-in.
  • Passwords, kept apartComing soon in their own app, so a password and its second factor are never in one place.
  • Your code, within reachFind a code by name in the menu bar. Return copies it.
  • End-to-end encrypted syncCodes are encrypted on your device. The server only stores ciphertext.
  • The next code, earlyCopy in the last few seconds and you get the next code.
  • Bring your codesImport from Google Authenticator, Aegis and 2FAS.

The screenshot needs explaining before anyone will get it.

Lube ClipboardsPrivate beta

Make your point on the screenshot itself. Try all 17 markup tools, including redaction and speech bubbles, plus 338 stickers.

Try it on this photo. Make your point, then save a copy to keep. Nothing is uploaded.

Bring your favourites. Import any Telegram sticker pack from a link or a zip.

Make your point clear

The redact tool in the Lube Clipboards markup editor, set to Blur, on a billing page screenshot. The card number, name and email are blurred, a red circle marks a Failed status, and a ruler measures the invoice table at 794 pixels.
RedactionPixelate, blur, mosaic, black box or erase. Remove data takes the original pixels out of the saved image.
The sticker tool in the Lube Clipboards markup editor. A panel of emoji reaction stickers sits on the right, and a laughing emoji is being placed on an annotated billing page screenshot.
Stickers, a spotlight and speech bubblesDim everything but the part that matters, say why in a bubble, and stick on a reaction.
The screenshot style panel in the Lube Clipboards markup editor. An annotated billing page sits on a peach to blue gradient background, with settings for padding, background colours, angle, corner radius and shadow.
BackgroundFrame your screenshot with padding, a background, round corners and a shadow.
A billing page screenshot annotated in the Lube Clipboards markup editor: numbered highlights on a failed payment notice and the Update payment method button, an arrow to a Failed status, a callout reading Retried 3 times, still failing, and a laughing emoji sticker. The card number and email are blurred.
Arrows and numbered stepsGuide readers with straight, curved or freehand arrows and numbered steps.

What customers told you never makes it into what ships.

lube Product OSDogfooding

We’re building our own Product OS out of every problem we’ve hit building products over the past decades. The best practices come built in, and as many of the headaches as we can find are solved before you reach them, so you can build high-quality products that scale and that your customers enjoy. We run our own products on it, and it gets better with each one.

  1. Customers
  2. Product
  3. Engineering
  4. Reliability
  5. Analytics
one customer problem, followed from the first conversation to support

Not just for Mac

Use the computer or phone you prefer. Most of our apps are coming to Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.

  • macOSPrivate beta
  • WindowsComing soon
  • LinuxComing soon
  • iOSComing soon
  • AndroidComing soon

More apps are on the way.

Built for the problems we run into too. Explore what’s coming, or try our free tools today.

Lube Kubernetes Viewer

Early access

Dashboard tools for Kubernetes. See your cluster, follow its logs and fix what’s broken.

For Apple Silicon Macs. Sign in with a lube account, then bring your kubeconfig.

Better OpenAPI Viewer

Open source

The API viewer we wanted when using Swagger UI. Shareable filters, models, and Try It Out with curl.

View on GitHub ↗

engineering@lube

110+ tools

Tools, references and learning resources we reach for, in one place.

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