HoverEnhance is a macOS app that shows useful previews and info when you hover over things: images and videos on web pages, media files in Finder, and the weather and network menu bar icons.
I built it because browser hover-zoom extensions felt flaky, and my mouse-smoothing app didn’t play well with them. I wondered if I could skip the browser entirely: use the macOS Accessibility API to find the media links under the cursor and render them in a better player.
Once that worked, I started noticing other places where hovering should show something. I’d always wanted quick previews of image, video and MP3 files in Finder, so I added that. Then I hovered over the MacOS weather icon and nothing happened. I’ve always wished the Mac weather app had more info anyway, so I made a hover overlay that works with whichever weather API provider you configure.
The network icon was the same story, so hovering it now shows your local and public IPs, interface, gateway, DNS, etc., each with a copy button. The public IP comes from addr.fyi, another free utility I maintain, which doesn’t log requests and can be disabled in settings.
Privacy: the app needs Accessibility permission to read what’s under the cursor. Nothing leaves your machine and there is no telemetry.
jesse_dot_id•41m ago
HoverEnhance is a macOS app that shows useful previews and info when you hover over things: images and videos on web pages, media files in Finder, and the weather and network menu bar icons.
I built it because browser hover-zoom extensions felt flaky, and my mouse-smoothing app didn’t play well with them. I wondered if I could skip the browser entirely: use the macOS Accessibility API to find the media links under the cursor and render them in a better player.
Once that worked, I started noticing other places where hovering should show something. I’d always wanted quick previews of image, video and MP3 files in Finder, so I added that. Then I hovered over the MacOS weather icon and nothing happened. I’ve always wished the Mac weather app had more info anyway, so I made a hover overlay that works with whichever weather API provider you configure.
The network icon was the same story, so hovering it now shows your local and public IPs, interface, gateway, DNS, etc., each with a copy button. The public IP comes from addr.fyi, another free utility I maintain, which doesn’t log requests and can be disabled in settings.
Privacy: the app needs Accessibility permission to read what’s under the cursor. Nothing leaves your machine and there is no telemetry.
https://hoverenhance.com/privacy
I’d love to hear any thoughts or any ideas for what else I could add.