⚠️ 100% vibe-coded

Weird little Mac apps. Aged to perfection.

Big Cheese Labs is a tiny experimental design studio. We vibe-code odd, useful Mac things and ship them free while they're experiments. The ones people love enough graduate into real products. Cheese over everything.

The experiments

Three burners, always something melting.

Glow Graduated · free

Every watt in the room, explained in plain English.

Rated vs. actual, for everything you plug in Chargers benchmarked against their rating, Ethernet that quietly dropped to 1G, displays stuck below their max refresh. Flagged, not buried.
Real watts, live Wall power in, system draw and battery flow, with the direction animated so you always know which way the energy is moving.
See the energy →

Perch Fresh from the lab

Your MacBook notch, doing something useful.

Whose fault is the bad call? On any call it watches your Wi-Fi, router and connection, then says in plain English whether it's you or them. Never touches your microphone.
Spotify, in the notch Artwork, controls, volume and your pinned playlists, behind a rim that glows the colour of the album.
Peek at the notch →
Perch under the notch reporting a crystal clear call: 38ms, strong signal

Friends of the Labs

Not ours — we just think it's grate.

Tab, by Brewlabs

"What did your agents cost today?" A menu-bar tracker for your AI agent spend across Claude Code, Cowork and Codex. Free, open source, 100% local. Exactly our kind of thing.

 tab.brewlabs.ai →

???? Still aging

A bunch of cool stuff is ripening in the cave. No newsletter, no waitlist: just check back and see what's new on the board.

recipes in progress Watch this space

Vibe-coded & proud.

Everything here is designed first and vibe-coded: built fast, by feel, with an unreasonable amount of taste and a healthy disrespect for roadmaps. That means the occasional rough edge. It also means software with a pulse. Experiments are free while they're experiments; if enough people genuinely love one, it graduates into a real, supported product.

No accounts. Download, open, done.
No telemetry. Our apps never phone home. Your Mac's business stays on your Mac.
No upsells. Free things are actually free.
All vibes. Weird on purpose. Never spyware.