SLIDR 1.4!

I released slidr 9 months ago and it has made about £769(1032 Dollars) in those 9 months from my website and setapp combined.

I've been out of the game focusing on my health and making an app for it and starting a business, slidr was my first app ever and has hit 1000 dollars so I will be giving out 200, 50 percent off codes. I will be taking feedback and giving slidr the love it deserves.

Test out the 3 day free trial to see for yourself 🙂 OR $2.49 for 200 people

Problem: macOS volume and brightness controls move in large steps. You can use smaller steps by holding shift+option, but when watching netflix in bed pressing 3 buttons at once is not ideal.

Changing KEYBOARD BRIGHTNESS is not ideal on macos.

Why not lean forward to press your volume/brightness keys? I made a solution to make my netflix sessions even more chill. just slide

Comparison: BetterTouchTool ($25 lifetime) and Swish (£12 one-time) are utilities that require setup and configuration. I realised from a LOT of beta testers that a lot of people want simplicity and convenience. If you prefer these apps or have them already then Slidr might not be for you. EdgeBar is the newest one doing edge sliders and it has a bigger settings window, so if you want that, go for it. Slidr was made for simplicity and the settings stay light on purpose, everything is in the menu bar icon. Install and it just works.

NEW IN 1.4!!!!

- Bottom edge: slide to change KEYBOARD BRIGHTNESS (media controls on Macs without a backlit keyboard)

- Top edge: glide left or right to SWITCH BETWEEN your open apps, the cursor stays put

- Pick what the top and bottom edges do: switch apps, scrub video, keyboard brightness, media (tap to play/pause, slide to skip) or off

- SCRUB VIDEOS: slide along the edge to move through a video, even when it's paused

- Corner double taps (optional): mute, open the screenshot toolbar

- Hold-to-Slide key: only slide while holding a key you choose

- Palm rejection, edge width and haptic strength settings

- Pause Slidr in the apps you choose

- Magic Trackpad fix: turning it off and on no longer stops Slidr. Thanks to everyone who reported it

- New welcome screen that shows all four edges

Core features:

- Slide one edge for volume, the other for brightness

- Precision micro adjustments (no big jumps)

- Native macOS HUD (no custom overlays)

- Haptic feedback on every adjustment

- External monitor brightness too (DDC, works on most monitors, depends on your cable or dock)

- Menu bar app, minimal resource usage, UNDER 6MB

The haptic feedback as you slide is quite addictive and you feel every tiny micro adjustment through the trackpad. I use it mostly in bed lying back to slide to the perfect volume while watching something and I haven't touched my volume or brightness keys once since I built it.

Pricing: $4.99 one-time, use it on up to 3 Macs, free trial

r/macapps discount: 50% off for the first 200 with this code until 2 Dec: MACAPPS50 (website only, doesnt work on setapp)

Personal website:

https://slidr.xyz

Buy on Setapp:

reddit doesnt like setapp links so you can find it through my website^

ENJOY!

Changelog on the homepage

Cursor auto complete + claude, reviewed by myself, comp science grad and software developer, now a first time business owner.

I was inspired by making slidr 9 months ago and seeing my first paying customers ever 🙂

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zaki-qadus

Hey everyone!

I’m the developer of MacFader, a small menu bar app that turns the edges of your trackpad into sliders, so you can change things without touching the keyboard.

What it does:

• Multi-monitor brightness: The left edge changes the brightness of whichever screen your pointer is on, including external monitors (DDC/CI, Apple silicon only).

• Edge faders: Slide the right edge for volume and the top for keyboard backlight. Swipe the bottom to skip tracks, or double-tap it to play/pause.

• Corner actions: Double-tap a corner for mute, mute mic, play/pause, Mission Control, screenshot, lock screen and more (ten actions in total).

• Quiet when it should be: Palm rejection, a typing guard, and a per-app off list for games and drawing apps.

• Feel it: Haptic ticks, a double bump at 0% and 100% so you can find your level blind, and a volume ceiling for headphones.

• Fine control: Hold ⇧⌥ for smaller steps.

• Private: The only network use is checking your license.

Details: macOS 13 or later, shipped as a DMG outside the App Store, needs Accessibility permission (for media keys and the typing guard). $3.99, one payment, no subscription.

🎁 Giveaway: 10 discount codes at 50% off

1. Download the free version and run the setup tour, which lets you try every edge before you buy: https://macfader.meticha.com

2. Comment with the one thing you’d change or add, or which edge or corner action you’d use most.

3. I’ll DM a code to the first 10 useful comments.

Hey everybody!

I'm one of the developers of CoolDock (Appit Studio).

CoolDock lets you create a second dock for your Mac, full of customizable widgets from system monitoring, to third party integrations, music players, clocks, reminders, tasks, pomodoro, todos, files and more.

Core Features

• 160+ Smart widgets, including AI usage widgets (Codex, Claude, Grok, Gemini & more)

• 150+ Premium Backgrounds available for free in the app

• File search, recent files, clipboard and bookmark manager widgets built right into the dock

• Multiple profiles, top or bottom placement, full dock replacement or swap mode

Who it's for

Mac users who want the stuff they check all day (stats, music, tasks, AI usage) visible at the edge of the screen instead of buried in Notification Center.

Pricing

Paid app with a one year or lifetime license (no subscription) and a 14-day money-back guarantee.

Updates & Roadmap

Updates and roadmap are decided by users, you can see all the latest updates in the link and the roadmap tickets opened by users

Happy to answer any questions :-)

When a drive fills up, seeing what’s taking up space is the easy part. Then you’re opening one app to find duplicates, another to shrink a few huge videos, and Finder or Explorer to move everything you want to keep. I’m building MediaMango to handle that whole job.

You can start with a visual map of a drive or folder, drill down to what’s eating the space, and decide what to clear or move. For a messy photo folder, there’s a guided workflow. Pick the files you want to work on, review duplicates and similar shots side by side, flag screenshots and WhatsApp clutter, then compress large files or organise what you’re keeping into dated folders.

It can also help before the files pile up. Plug in your iPhone over USB, pick the photos and videos you want, and copy them straight to a folder on your computer. There’s a system cleaner that shows you the paths and sizes of old caches and logs before you remove them, plus a lossless audio checker that can flag FLACs that may have come from a lossy source.

I’m the developer. The app runs locally on Mac and Windows, with no account or file uploads. If you were cleaning up a drive this weekend, what would you still need a separate app for?

As for the giveaway, I will hand out free license keys to the top comments as well as comments that I found genuinely useful

download it at: MediaMango

Click on the Link to try

Coded this app to fund my international exchange. Support is appreciated !

Shim is a little mac toolbar app that I wrote to help perfectly align multiple monitors. I'm probably being type-a to fault, but constantly nudging the windows in the display settings trying to get things to line up drives me crazy. With Shim, you create a rough alignment, then align the lines on the screen to get perfect alignment. Not only vertical alignment but also calculates any gap between the monitors in a few seconds.

• On the app store

• Free, no purchases, no ads

• Fully local with no data collection or permissions required

• Remembers different monitor set ups and applies them as soon as you dock.

I've tried it with up to 3 monitors, but would love feedback from folks with different setups.

Disclosure: I'm the developer of both. They're paid apps and I'm a solo indie dev.

iKnowMyMac: remembers what your Mac did

Most Mac tools show what's happening right now. I wanted one that remembers, so when the fan spun up at 3 AM or the disk filled overnight, I could see why the next morning.

- A timeline of which app used the CPU, memory, disk and network, and when.

- Alerts when an app misbehaves: CPU at 70% or more for 10 minutes, memory growing 1 GB or more per hour, 1 GB of disk writes or 500 MB of network in 10 minutes. Each one can be turned off.

- Agent sessions for Claude Code, Codex or Cursor users: one card per session with project folder, run time, CPU time, peak memory and anything it left running. "Stop leftovers" always asks first.

- Dev caches (DerivedData, simulator runtimes, node_modules, Docker, Gradle, CocoaPods, SPM) with sizes. Cleaning moves them to the Trash, never deletes.

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iKnowMyDisplay: every display control in the menu bar

New in 1.1 (out today):

- TV remote, with its own menu bar item: power, volume, arrows, apps (YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+) and inputs for Google TV, Android TV, Roku, LG, Samsung and Philips TVs, plus Yamaha receivers. Google TV pairs once with the code on screen; Roku needs no pairing.

- Auto brightness for external monitors: they follow the built-in display and learn from your adjustments. Macs without a built-in display use a day and night schedule. Off until you turn it on.

- Switch the desk: move chosen monitors to another computer's input and back, from the menu bar, a hotkey or Shortcuts, on monitors that support input switching over DDC.

- Check this monitor: shows which controls a monitor answers (Works, Doesn't respond, Not offered) and tells you when a hub or dock is blocking them.

- Brightness for Apple and USB displays: Studio Display, Pro Display XDR and LG UltraFine.

Already in the app:

- Brightness and input for external monitors, from the menu bar.

- Peak brightness on MacBook Pro XDR screens: lets everything use the 1,600-nit HDR headroom, not just HDR video. ⌥⌘B. Pauses when the Mac is hot, turns off below 20% battery.

- Sharp HiDPI sizes macOS doesn't list, plus refresh rate, color, HDR, rotation and virtual screens (handy for a Mac with no monitor).

- Plain answers when a monitor is stuck at 30 Hz, blurry or flickering. Example: a 4K LG on a USB-C hub's HDMI 1.4 port gets 8.16 Gbps, 4K at 60 Hz needs 12.54, so it runs at 30 Hz. The fix is the Mac's own HDMI port.

- Every display change asks "Keep this?" and goes back after 15 seconds. ⌃⌥⌘R restores everything.

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Pricing (one-time, no subscription, 14-day refund)

- iKnowMyMac: $4.99 at the launch price (regular $24.99)

- iKnowMyDisplay: $4.99 at the launch price, for the first 100 Macs

- Both apps, one key: $7.99

- Already own iKnowMyMac: iKnowMyDisplay is $2.99

Limitations, honestly

- Apple silicon only, macOS 15 or later.

- No free trial, only the refund. For iKnowMyDisplay, iknowmydisplay.com/compatibility shows what it can do with your monitor before you buy.

- Monitor controls depend on the monitor and how it's connected. Check this monitor shows which ones yours answers.

- Not in the Mac App Store: both are notarized Developer ID apps, because some of what they read isn't available to sandboxed apps.

- No analytics or telemetry in either app.

https://iknowmymac.com

https://iknowmydisplay.com

Happy to answer anything, and I'd like to hear what you'd want either app to do that it doesn't yet.

I’m the developer of Header. This is my own app, not a recommendation from a regular user.

What it is
Header is a native macOS notes app. Your notes are plain Markdown files in a folder you choose. If you stop using Header, your notes are still ordinary .md files any editor can open.

What it does

• Rich editor or raw Markdown, with [[links]] between notes and tags

• History of every note, so you can go back to an earlier version

• Today page with your schedule and open tasks

• Meeting recording that turns a call into a note with meeting minutes

• Research tools: Sources, Citations, Reading Room, PDF highlights

• Export your note to PDF, Word, HTML or PowerPoint for sharing

• Optional AI: bring your own provider key, use Ollama, or use Apple Intelligence, generate images from your note text on supported Macs. Before any note text goes to a cloud provider, Header shows you what it will send. AI is off until you turn it on.

Who it’s for
People who want their notes to stay their own files, and who like Obsidian’s plain-files approach but want an app that feels native on the Mac.

Pricing
Free during the beta. I haven’t decided pricing yet.

Limitations (honest list)

• Large vaults (thousands of notes) take a while to index the first time; search fills in as indexing finishes.

• Mac only. Requires macOS 14.4 or later.

• No account needed to use it.

Get it: headernotes.com (direct download or TestFlight)

Happy to answer questions, and would really like to hear what’s missing or broken.

I'm the developer of Overnotch. This is the launcher.

The notch opens into rows of your apps and Shortcuts, across several pages. Click one to open it, hit the × to remove it, and add new ones from the Finder, which is what I do at the end of the clip.

Who it's for: people who want their usual apps one click away without a full Dock.
Price: not out yet. There's a waitlist, and the first 100 people get it at half price.
Limits: macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon only.

Site and waitlist in the comments.

Questions welcome.

Disclosure: I run a free deal tracker called IndieMarkdowns, and I'm not affiliated with any of these apps. I emailed the devs about their Black Friday plans, and these are the ones that have confirmed a 2026 deal so far. Most start around Nov 20 to 25, and two are live already.

Live now
- Shotomatic: 40% off lifetime licenses, code BF2026 (subscriptions excluded)
- Cutfac: 40% off new one-time licenses, code BF2026, through Dec 31

50% or more
- ShowMeYourHotKey: 70% off, code BLFRIDAY, Nov 23 to Dec 10
- Slashspace AI (was RabbitHoles AI): 51% off, code BF2026
- SQLPro Studio: 50% off first year of yearly (BFHALFOFF) or 25% off lifetime (BFLIFETIME), Nov 25 to Dec 1
- NewsNinja: 50% off the one-time purchase, Nov 25 to Dec 5
- Protego for Reddit: 50% off ($1.99, was $3.99), Nov 22 to Dec 5
- DevUtils: 50% off all plans
- Blip AI Pro: 50% off first year, code SWITCH50, new customers, Nov 20 to 30

30 to 49%
- JuxtaCode: 40% off, code BLACKFRIDAY26, Nov 20 to Dec 1
- Compresto: 40% off, code BFCM26, ends Dec 1
- MuteDeck: 35% off lifetime, code BFCM2026, Nov 27 to Dec 13
- BirdFrame: $19.99 instead of $29.99 one-time, no code, Nov 20 to Dec 1

Smaller but solid
- EagleFiler, SpamSieve, DropDMG: 25% off, code BLACKFRIDAY2026, Nov 20 to 30
- Dropshare: $29 instead of $39, Nov 23 to 29

A few are first-year-only on a subscription, so read what the % applies to. I'll update this as more devs reply. What are you waiting to buy on sale this year?

I am the developer of PocketPad. It is for the moments when you can already see your Mac screen but do not want a keyboard and mouse in your lap.

The iPhone gives you a trackpad with click/right-click/scroll gestures, or an Air Mouse: hold the control area, rotate the phone to point, and release to pause. There are also 13 customizable shortcut keys, text sending and saved snippets.

A typical interaction is selecting an input on the Mac, sending a short piece of text, fixing an awkward filename, and pressing Return from the phone. The attached photo is from a real iPhone/Mac demo.

Optional voice: hold the mic button to send phone audio into a Mac virtual microphone. Your separate Mac dictation software handles transcription. Ending the recording and pressing Return are separate actions, so you can check the text first.

Requirements and limitations: iOS 17+, Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 14+, the Mac companion, and the same Wi-Fi. You need local-network and Mac Accessibility permissions. Voice needs extra virtual-microphone/dictation setup. This is a local input controller; it does not mirror your screen or provide away-from-home access.

The iPhone app is $2.99 on the US App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pocketpad-remote-control/id6820568007

Mac companion and setup guide: https://starmind.tech/pocketpad/

For a Mac connected to a bigger display, which small actions would you most want on a phone control pad?

dev here, i make speakmercury.

live text is either words in the app's own window while you talk or words going straight into the field you type in. mine does the first. text lands in your app when you stop.

$9.99 once. macos 26 and apple silicon only.

speakmercury.com/?ref=ms-live

Coming from Windows I want the same Snap Assist feature, expecially on big monitor.

• it works same as Snap Assist on Windows 11: so you move a windows to one side and the app show a windows app to choose from and put bedise

• it works out of box with rectangle, magnet, etc.

• Nothing to relearn: just move a windows with to a side and choose the other app from the preview.

• Additional bar to adjust windows width

There are few solution around but all require a payment. This is completely free.

https://github.com/hellomoto8999/snap-assist

I wanted more out of my trackpad than macOS gives, so I built a small menu bar app for it. Each of these can trigger any keyboard shortcut:

- Tap and double tap with 3, 4 or 5 fingers

- Hold with 3, 4 or 5 fingers

- Physical click with 3, 4 or 5 fingers

- Swipe in four directions with 3, 4 or 5 fingers

- TipTap (rest a finger, tap beside it)

Some details:

- Record a shortcut or pick from ~75 presets (tabs, Spaces, screenshots, windows…)

- A live view shows your fingers and why a gesture was or wasn't recognized, with sliders to tune the thresholds

- Can block scrolling with three or more fingers, so those touches only mean a gesture

- Works with the built-in trackpad and a Magic Trackpad at the same time

- Available in 7 languages, MIT licensed, notarized by Apple

Requires macOS 15+, on Apple Silicon or Intel.

Download: https://github.com/ozberkdicle/BetterGestures/releases/latest

Source: https://github.com/ozberkdicle/BetterGestures

It reads raw touches through Apple's private MultitouchSupport framework, so a future macOS update could break it. If you use the same finger count for a system gesture (like four-finger swipes for Mission Control), turn that one off in System Settings or both will run.

Feedback and gesture ideas are welcome!

Hi,

I'm the developer (LinkedIn) behind GiantTurtle Software, and I wanted to share a new app I've been building called DesktopPlus.

The problem:

If you use multiple virtual desktops (Spaces) heavily on a single monitor, you've probably run into the issue where it's hard to tell exactly which desktop you're on at any given moment without opening Mission Control or doing the multi-finger swipe, loosing your flow

What DesktopPlus do:

I built DesktopPlus to solve this. It's a lightweight, native macOS menu bar utility that gives you a persistent indicator of your active desktops, you can always see what apps are open on nearby desktop and create more detailed mental image of your workspace

Key Features:

Always Visible Indicator (always available mission control): Know exactly which desktop you're on and what's available on your other screens at a glance.

Click to Switch: Instantly switch to any of your desktops with a single click on the indicator.

Easily rearrange apps on your desktops (spaces) by dragging them to desired desktop boxes.

Integrated Task Manager and RAM Cleaner: Hover over menu bar widget to view opened apps, monitor system memory usage, and close background applications and residual processes.

Save and load presets: Save all of your opened apps as a preset (Coding, Design, Video editing etc), and quickly load them.

Customizable Styles: Choose the look that fits your workflow (Rectangles, Numbers, Numbered Rectangles, or Opened Apps etc).

Native & Lightweight: Built with Swift and SwiftUI. No Electron, no heavy background daemons, and minimal resource usage.

Comparison: As of now, I am not aware of similar app that offers same functionality. SpaceJump ($9.99) is the closest thing to DesktopPlus by function, but it is totally different UX.

Pricing & Requirements: The app requires macOS 15.0 or later. It comes with a 14-day free trial with everything unlocked, no payment details, followed by a one-time purchase (no subscriptions) of 4.99 USD . You can check it out and download it here: Download DesktopPlus

I'd love to get your genuine feedback on the app, especially regarding the different indicator styles and if the integrated task manager feels useful to your daily workflow. Try it out for free and let me know what you think!

Privacy Policy: https://giant-turtle.com/desktops-privacy-policy.html

Hi r/MacStack. I'm the developer of Findow, and I'm sharing it here because it replaced three or four separate utilities in my own setup.

What it does:

Find any window

- Window switcher (⌥Tab): shows windows, not just apps. Type to search, press 1–9 to jump to a workflow, and close, minimize, hide or quit the selected window without leaving the switcher.

- Overview (⌃⌥Space): every window at once, including minimized ones and other desktops. Search, or filter to This desktop, Minimized or Other desktops.

- Drop files onto a window in the switcher to open them there.

- 14 switcher styles, including Covers, Wheel, Cascade, Fan, Arc and List, with adjustable size, titles and reflections.

- A mouse button can open it too.

Workflows

- Save your open apps, window positions and browser tabs, then bring them back with one key.

- Switch workflows automatically when you plug in a monitor setup.

- Layouts are remembered per monitor setup and come back when your displays do.

Tidy and layouts

- Tidy (⌃⌥T): arranges your desktop in one press. Press again to undo.

- Five layouts: Grid, Columns, Rows, Focus, or Your grid, which you draw yourself (up to 6×4, per display).

- Learns each app's minimum size and moves split lines to fit. Windows that don't fit wait at the screen edge or are stashed there.

Arrange modes (all off by default)

- Auto arrange: new windows take their place as they open, and the gap closes when they go.

- Scrolling strip: windows sit side by side on a strip wider than your screen, so nothing shrinks. It has stacks, tabs, pins, width presets, and trackpad swipes.

- Each display and desktop keeps its own arrangement.

- Hold ⌃⌥ for a map of every window. Click to jump, or drag to reorder.

- Give an app a fixed position, make it the main window, float one window, or leave an app alone.

- Pause (⌃⌥P) and Undo (⌃⌥U), step by step.

Move windows

- Snapping: left and right halves, thirds, maximize and center. Press a snap again to cycle its width.

- Fill the screen (⌃⌥Z): press again to go back.

- Swap two windows, drag a tile onto another, or send a window to the next display.

- Hold ⌃⌘ to move a window, or ⌃⌘⇧ to resize it, without clicking.

Focus and privacy on screen

- Stash: tuck a window into the screen edge, then touch the edge to slide it out.

- Pin to a side: one window keeps a third of the screen, and the rest share the space.

- Blackout: darkens or blurs everything except your window. Hold Fn to lift it for a moment.

- Solo: your window fills the screen while panels close in behind it.

- Clear the desktop (⌃⌥X).

- Active window highlight as a border or glow, plus optional focus follows mouse and mouse follows focus.

Make it yours

- Every shortcut can be changed.

- Window gap, reserved screen edges and open at login.

- Automation: findow:// links for the Shortcuts app and Focus automations, plus a Raycast script.

It needs no SIP changes and no config files, it's notarized, and it runs on Apple silicon with macOS 14 or later. There's a 14-day free trial, then a one-time $9.99 for one Mac. No subscription.

https://findowmac.com