MIKE – Mike's Toolbox 1.0

First public release.

Twenty tools, one sidebar

• Web — Download (yt-dlp, with per-site settings and an audio-only mode), Direct Link for TikTok
• Text — Extract Article, Read Image Text (on-device OCR), Merge Texts, Convert Encoding
• Images — Quick Edit (straighten, crop, convert, strip metadata), Combine Images, Convert Format, Metadata, Embedded
• Video — Combine Videos, Trim Video
• Audio — Tag Editor, Track Splitter
• Files — Hash Check, Batch Rename, File Info, Find Duplicates, Compression
• Setup — shows where the external tools were found and helps install what is missing

Merge Texts and Combine Images both save as PDF and EPUB as well.

Requirements

• macOS 13 Ventura or later
• Apple Silicon (arm64)
• yt-dlp and ffmpeg for Download, Combine Videos and Trim Video; cwebp for WebP export; exiftool for editing and removing metadata

brew install yt-dlp ffmpeg webp exiftool

MIKE does not bundle these. The Setup section shows the status of each one, offers to copy that command, and accepts a full path to a standalone binary instead. Sections whose tools are missing are disabled up front and point at Setup.

Installation

1. Download and unzip, or open the disk image
2. Move MIKE.app to your Applications folder
3. On first launch macOS will refuse to open the app because it is not
   notarized. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the
   message about MIKE and click Open Anyway

Languages

English, German and Spanish, selected automatically from the system language.

Licensed under GPL-3.0. Bundles Readability.js (Apache-2.0).