Community-maintained directory of Glaze Store alternatives to standalone and paid Mac apps. Search by product or category, compare alternatives, and open matching apps directly in the Glaze Store.
Glaze keeps small, useful tools inside one local-first desktop platform. This project makes those replacements easy to discover. The catalog is community-maintained through pull requests.
See also: Raycast Alternatives.
Products are standalone applications people may want to replace. Add an object to data/apps.json:
{
"id": "example-app",
"name": "Example App",
"url": "https://example.com/",
"iconUrl": "https://example.com/icon.png",
"category": "utilities",
"description": "Short description of the standalone product."
}Use a stable official website or App Store URL. iconUrl must point to a working square image. Available categories: productivity, developer, media, utilities, design.
Add an object to data/glaze-apps.json:
{
"id": "example-glaze-app",
"name": "Example Glaze App",
"description": "What the app does inside Glaze.",
"url": "https://www.glaze.app/app/APP_ID",
"iconUrl": "https://example.com/icon.png",
"replaces": ["example-app"]
}replaces contains IDs from data/apps.json. One Glaze app may replace several products; one product may have several Glaze alternatives.
Only submit real, publicly available Glaze Store apps with substantially overlapping core functionality. Dead pages, placeholders, broken icons, and speculative mappings are not accepted.
Run checks before opening a pull request:
npm ci
npm test
npm run buildSee CONTRIBUTING.md for the short contribution checklist.