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Your idle Mac,
earning its keep.

Install the menu-bar app. It runs sandboxed AI workloads when your Mac is idle and on power, pauses instantly when you touch it, and pays weekly in USD.

Download for macOSHow earnings work
macOS 14+·M1 or newer·Notarized by Apple
Common Compute · menu bar
Earning
task_f29ab · whisper-large
This week
$42.18
This month
$168.40
Lifetime
$1,427.05
Tasks done
8,421
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. Sign in with email or Apple ID. No kexts, no terminal.
02
Set rules
Choose when to participate — idle only, on power only, certain hours, max GPU heat. Defaults are safe.
03
Earn
Your Mac pulls sandboxed tasks from the queue, runs them, and uploads results. Paused instantly when you touch the keyboard.
04
Get paid
Weekly payouts in USD via ACH, Wise, or stablecoin. See every task on a signed ledger.
Earnings

What a typical Mac makes.

Earnings scale with GPU cores, RAM, and how often the machine is truly idle. These are observed ranges from the current network. Your mileage will vary.

Hardware
RAM
Typical idle
Per week
Per month
M1 MacBook Air
8 GB
~4 hrs/day idle
$18–34
$70–140
M2 Mac mini
16 GB
~18 hrs/day
$60–110
$240–440
M3 MacBook Pro
18 GB
~6 hrs/day
$42–78
$170–310
M4 Mac Studio
64 GB
~22 hrs/day
$160–280
$640–1120
M4 Max MacBook Pro
48 GB
~8 hrs/day
$95–175
$380–700
Net of electricity (Common Compute subtracts measured wall-power draw at your local utility rate).
Payout estimator

Plug your Mac in at night. Earn while you sleep.

99% of every dollar a customer pays goes to the provider running their job. Paste a serial, let the browser sniff your GPU, or pick your chip below — we'll show the low/high range we've observed on the network, net of measured wall-power at your utility rate.

AC power required — provider runtime auto-pauses on battery to protect your laptop. Defaults also pause during work hours and respect your wifi if it's metered.

Apple serial (optional)
Chip
Unified memory
Idle hours per day
8 hrs
Typical laptop: 4–8 hrs. Desktop Mac mini / Studio left on: 18–24 hrs.
Estimated payout
$121–$188
per month · net of power
PER DAY$4.05 – $6.26
PER WEEK$28 – $44
PER YEAR$1478 – $2283
M2 Pro · 16 GB · 8 idle hrs/day. Range reflects 55–85 % fill on the queue; the server is the authority on every actual payout.
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, the moment a key press triggers the pause, and the Friday payout view.
  1. Menu-bar icon — green dot means earning, grey means paused.
  2. Dashboard — live CPU / GPU / ANE utilisation, plus today's job count.
  3. Touch the keyboard. Watch the app pause within two seconds.
  4. Open the Jobs view to inspect a completed task and its receipt.
  5. Earnings tab — week-by-week, with the Friday payout marked.
Promises

Your machine. Your rules.

No foreground impact
The agent yields instantly when you touch the keyboard, trackpad, or run a demanding app. You won't notice it.
Never touches your files
Tasks run in a signed, ephemeral sandbox with no access to your disk, network shares, or keychain.
Thermal safety
Workloads throttle before your Mac gets warm. You set the ceiling. Defaults keep it cool and quiet.
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.
Electricity reimbursed
We subtract measured wall-power at your utility rate so the number you see is net.

Turn idle into income.

Ten-minute setup. First payout in seven days. Cancel with one click.

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