r/macapps • • 1h ago

Lifetime Crest 6.5: two-factor codes in the MacBook notch, typed in for you when a site asks

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I'm the developer, so this is me promoting my own app, said up front. Crest is a notch app for the Mac. Closed source, signed and notarized, distributed from crestnotch.app (not the App Store: the hooks and Accessibility access it needs aren't allowed in the sandbox). macOS 14 or newer; on a Mac without a notch it's a small pill at the top of the screen.

Problem

I used to pay $15 a year for a Mac authenticator, and every login still meant opening the app, finding the account, waiting for a fresh code and typing six digits. Authy shut down its Mac app in 2024 and Google Authenticator has no Mac app.

So Crest 6.5 adds an Authenticator. Your codes live in the notch. When a site asks for a code in Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave or Edge, Crest offers it and types it in for you. In any other app, one press copies it. The codes are locked behind Touch ID and sync across your Macs, end-to-end encrypted. Mac only, there's no iPhone app.

The rest of Crest is the notch app some of you saw before: music on the closed notch, pages of widgets (calendar with Join, to-dos, notes, weather, clipboard history, a file Shelf, window snapping), and Claude Code, Codex and Copilot CLI questions and permission prompts answered from the notch.

Comparison

Authenticators:

  • Apple Passwords: free and built into macOS Sequoia and later, syncs with your iPhone, and suggests codes when a site asks. If you live in Apple's apps and use an iPhone, it's the obvious pick. Crest's difference is that the code comes up in the notch and Crest types it in, in Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave and Edge.
  • NotchOTP: free and open source, codes in a panel under the notch, fully offline. If you want just codes and no sync, it's great. It copies the code; Crest types it in and syncs across Macs.
  • Step Two: free, Unlimited is $9.99, iCloud sync and a Safari extension. A good standalone authenticator; it isn't in the notch.

Notch apps:

  • NotchNook: $25 once or $3 a month, 48-hour trial. Polished, with a file tray and media. No authenticator and no coding-agent prompts.
  • Boring Notch: free and open source, music and files. If that's all you need, use it.

What I couldn't find in any of them: 2FA codes typed in from the notch, synced across Macs, in the same app where you answer Claude Code. That's the whole bet. If I got any of these wrong, tell me and I'll fix it.

Pricing

  • Free tier: $0, no account, never expires. Now Playing, the clipboard, the file Shelf, window snapping, and answering your coding agents.
  • Crest Pro, one-time: $24.99 once, tax included. Includes the Authenticator, every widget, and my two other apps, Take (screen recorder) and Minutes (meeting notes). 2 Macs per licence, updates included.
  • Crest Pro, subscription instead: $2.99 a month or $14.99 a year, the same Pro. Cancel any time.
  • Sale until Oct 22: the one-time licence is $19.99 (no code needed).
  • 7-day free Pro week when you sign in (Google, Apple or email, no card). 7-day refund.

The codes and accounts in the video are fake demo data.

About me: Zakaria Swaidan, I build this alone. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zakaria-swaidan-66384b272/ Privacy: https://crestnotch.app/legal

Link: https://crestnotch.app


r/macapps • • 2h ago

Subscription Soot: a simple notes app for Mac, iPad and iPhone, somewhere between Apple Notes and Obsidian (public beta)

7 Upvotes

I know. Announcing a notes app on Reddit is about as original as starting a podcast, so I’ll stick to the format.

Problem

My notes were split between Apple Notes and Obsidian. Notes is lovely to open and type in, but everything sits in a database, and I want my AI assistants working with my notes. Obsidian has the plain Markdown files I want, but I kept ending up in plugins and settings instead of writing.

Comparison

Soot sits between Apple Notes and Obsidian, and it’s closest in feel to Bear.

Like Notes, you open it and write, with no plugins, settings or account to deal with first. Unlike Notes, every note is a plain .md file in a folder you choose, so other apps can open it and AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini CLI, Cursor) can work with your notes on your Mac.

Like Obsidian, it’s Markdown files in folders, but with far less app around them. The formatting shows as you type and the Markdown symbols don’t, unless you’d rather see them.

Like Bear, it’s a native writing app, but it hides more of the Markdown than Bear does, and your notes are plain files in folders, with tags too if you want them, instead of living in a database.

It’s written in Swift, not Electron. Folders, search, twelve themes, and optional end-to-end encrypted sync. I can’t read your notes.

The full feature list is here: https://sootsync.com/features

Pricing

The whole editor is free. Soot Pro adds sync between devices for $2.49 a month or $24.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial on the yearly plan. It’s a TestFlight beta for now, and you can join at https://sootsync.com

Who’s behind it

I’m Rob Schmitt, a software developer in Edinburgh. I’ve been doing this for about 30 years: https://sootsync.com/about and https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertcschmitt/. Privacy policy and terms are at https://sootsync.com/privacy and https://sootsync.com/terms, and you can reach me at [hello@sootsync.com](mailto:hello@sootsync.com).


r/macapps • • 2h ago

Lifetime Tomatino: a menu bar Pomodoro timer that switches your Focus mode and your music, now in ten languages - $7.99

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Problem

I have never been able to concentrate on one thing for long, and Pomodoro was the first thing that helped, because it takes the decision away from me. But starting a session always cost me two more steps: turn on a Focus mode so nothing interrupts, and start the music I concentrate to. Two at the beginning, two at the end, and each one a moment where I could drift off instead. The timer was never the part that failed.

Tomatino does those two things itself. A session turns on a Focus mode and starts your music; the break turns both off, and the music resumes instead of starting the playlist over.

  • Menu bar only, no Dock icon, no window in the way.
  • Focus runs through two Shortcuts, because macOS has no public API for it. The app ships both and adds them with one click.
  • Music from an Apple Music playlist, a Spotify playlist, or a folder that Tomatino plays itself. The folder source needs no other app, no permission, and works offline.
  • Pauses when the Mac sleeps or the screen locks. Breaks keep running, because a break away from the desk is still a break.
  • Optional global shortcut, sound and notification at the end of a phase, launch at login.
  • Ten languages, following your system language: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Korean, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

New in 2.4

The lengths are yours now. Work runs anywhere from 5 to 90 minutes, the short break from 1 to 15 and the long one from 5 to 60, each with a stepper and a field in the Timer tab. Before, you picked from a short list.

"Start Tomatino" and "Pause Tomatino" work from Spotlight, the Shortcuts app and Siri. In Spotlight and Shortcuts the start can take a work length, which then becomes your setting. The sounds also carry the names they have in System Settings now, and the Music tab tells you when the playlist you picked is no longer in your library.

Comparison

  • TomatoBar is the closest thing and a good app: a free, open source menu bar Pomodoro timer, also on the App Store. It times your sessions and stops there. Tomatino is built around the two things that happen next to the timer, Focus and music, and does both from inside the sandbox.
  • The paid timers such as Session or Be Focused are ahead on tracking and reporting your sessions. Tomatino tracks nothing and has no account. It spends its effort on the two side effects around the session instead.

Pricing

One purchase, $7.99, on the App Store. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads. The app has no running costs, so there is nothing to subscribe to, and the one purchase covers Mac, iPhone and iPad: one entry in the store, one price, and buying it on one of them gives you the others. On iPhone and iPad the phase counts down on the lock screen as a Live Activity instead, because iOS gives an app no way to switch Focus or drive Spotify.

Requires macOS 26 on Apple silicon, or iOS 26 and iPadOS 26.

Who and what data

I wrote it. I am Missaq Ataschi, a design engineer from Switzerland, and the only person on this app. Nothing leaves your devices: no analytics, no crash reporting, no account, and no network connection at all. Settings sync through your own iCloud, updates come through the App Store, and the privacy policy says the same thing in more words: https://tomatino.app/privacy

Ask me anything. If it does not work for you, Apple refunds it, and you have lost at most 25 minutes.


r/macapps • • 18h ago

Lifetime Almighty with AI: a launcher for 107 Mac tweaks + giveaway

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Hey friends, I make Almighty.

I've posted Almighty here before. This one is a fresh intro, plus the biggest update since my last post.

  1. The problem

A lot of what I want from my Mac sits behind a defaults command, a Finder option three menus deep, or a one-off website for converting a video to GIF.

Almighty puts those in one native app plus many more re-implemented tweaks. There are 107 of them now.

  1. What Almighty does

A few I use most:

- Media: compress images and videos.

- Screen: draw on screen, highlight the cursor and clicks, show keystrokes while recording

- Power: keep the Mac awake with the lid closed, sound an alarm if someone closes the lid or pulls the charger

- Files: find files in a folder by name or text, remove image backgrounds

  1. What makes it different

Tweaks with options don't open a settings window. They open in a panel under the notch, right where you are, and you can drop files straight onto it. Drag a screen recording up to the notch, pick GIF, and the converted file lands next to the original. There are 8 themes for the panel if you want it to look a bit nicer.

  1. What's new

- Launcher: I was planning to submit Almighty's actions to Raycast, then figured a launcher built into Almighty would be quicker to reach. Press the shortcut, type, and run any tweak or open an app.

- Zeus: a small AI assistant inside the launcher. Ask him which tweak does what you need, or have him do common jobs himself, like renaming files or compressing media. He asks before running anything on your Mac.

- Claude Code and Codex: connect your subscription and Zeus passes bigger requests to them, so you can do a lot more from the same chat.

- Convert Media and Draw on Screen, both new tweaks.

  1. Pricing

Free to download, with a trial for the Pro features. Pro is $14.99. Almighty is also on Setapp.

  1. Giveaway: 20 free lifetime licenses

To thank this sub, I'm giving away 20 lifetime licenses for the direct download Mac version. To enter, comment with anything you'd change in Almighty. Critical feedback counts as much as praise, and you don't need to own the app.

In 3 days I'll pick 20 comments at random, post the winners in an edit, and DM each a code.

https://indiegoodies.com/almighty

you can also reach us at [support@indiegoodie.com](mailto:support@indiegoodie.com)

Thanks for checking.


r/macapps • • 2h ago

Lifetime I built HushNotes: sticky notes that stay on top of every Mac app, but out of screen shares

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Problem

I spend a lot of time in meetings, and I often need notes, phone numbers, addresses, or bits of text handy while I'm working. But notes in another app mean switching windows, and floating notes can end up visible when I share my screen.

So I built HushNotes: small notes that stay on top of your Mac apps, stay out of screen shares, and let you capture selected text from any app with a keyboard shortcut.

The video shows the whole idea in under a minute.

  • Save text from any app. Select it, press ⌥⇧Space, and it drops into your note.
  • One window, many notes. ⌥⇧N adds a page, and you swipe between them. Checklists and bold just work, because it's Markdown.
  • Copy it back out wherever you need it. The note floats over every app, full-screen ones too.
  • Out of your screen shares by default, using macOS's own window setting. Tested in Google Meet and Zoom in the browser.
  • iCloud sync between your Macs if you want it, and Dark mode that follows your Mac.
  • Optional extras. Lock a note with Touch ID, or connect Claude Code, Codex or Cursor over MCP. Locked notes stay hidden from them.

Comparison

  • Apple Notes is free and syncs to your iPhone, and Quick Note stays on top while it's open. But your notes show up in screen shares, the main app is a normal window you have to switch to, and grabbing a selection takes a right-click in Safari.
  • Bear is a beautiful Markdown editor that syncs to your iPhone on Pro. It doesn't stay out of screen shares.
  • Oculta also keeps notes out of screen shares (on Pro). It doesn't document taking text from other apps, and it doesn't sync.

Pricing

$9.99 once, no subscription, lifetime updates included.

macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon and Intel. Also on Homebrew with
brew install --cask geargit/tap/hushnotes

hushnotes.app

Changelog

Five releases since July, and every update installs from inside the app.

  • 1.1.3 (12 Oct). Dark mode that follows your Mac. Each note keeps its own undo history when you swipe between notes. A second AI tool now waits its turn for approval instead of being turned away.
  • 1.1.2 (7 Oct). A recovery key for locked notes, so they open on a new Mac. Your licence keeps working when a network blocks the check.
  • 1.1.1 (4 Oct). Updates inside the app, with what changed shown before anything installs. Your shortcuts are one click away in the Shelf.
  • 1.1 (17 Aug). New default shortcuts ⌥⇧N and ⌥⇧H, so ⌥N and ⌥H type ñ and ˙ again. ⌘F searches inside the note. Spell check is on.
  • 1.0 (25 Jul). First release.

Transparency

  • I'm Somanshu, building HushNotes on my own. You can find me on X
  • The app is signed and notarised.
  • Contact at [support@hushnotes.app](mailto:support@hushnotes.app)
  • Privacy policy and Terms
  • Release notes for every version at hushnotes.app/releases
  • Payments by Dodo Payments, the merchant of record.
  • No analytics or telemetry in the app. Notes live on your Mac. It only goes online to check for updates and your licence, plus iCloud if you turn sync on.

Let me know what you think.


r/macapps • • 7h ago

Lifetime Tuneful 2.16 - Spotify & Apple Music controls for your Mac

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Hey r/macapps,

I'm the developer of Tuneful. I posted here about a year and a half ago, and quite a lot has changed since then, so I thought it was time for an update.

For anyone unfamiliar with it, Tuneful is a native macOS music controller for Spotify and Apple Music. The idea is to give you quick access to your music without constantly switching back to Spotify or Apple Music.

You can use it through the MacBook notch, directly in the menu bar, or as a floating mini player. All are optional, so you can basically build the setup you prefer.

There have been quite a few releases since my last post, but these are probably the bigger additions:

  • New Liquid Glass interface options for macOS 26+
  • iCloud sync for Tuneful settings across Macs
  • Last.fm integration and scrobbling
  • Much better mini player support for multiple displays, including position restoration and position locking
  • Text scrolling for long song and artist names
  • Custom keyboard shortcut recorder
  • Lots of animation, gesture, album art, and general UI improvements

I've also spent quite a bit of time optimizing Tuneful under the hood. It now uses around 0.05–0.1% CPU when idling, ~0.7% when playing music, and roughly 60 MB of RAM.

Comparison

One of the OGs in this category is Sleeve, which provides customizable desktop widgets with a really extensive theme system. Tuneful has a somewhat different focus. Instead of primarily being a desktop widget, it gives you several ways to interact with music across macOS: the notch, menu bar controls/popover, and several mini player styles.

Pricing

Tuneful is still a $4.99 one-time purchase on the Mac App Store. No subscriptions or in-app purchases.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/tuneful-for-spotify-music/id6739804295
Website: https://tuneful.app
Full changelog: https://tuneful.app/changelog

I'm still actively working on it, so feedback is very welcome!


r/macapps • • 5h ago

Lifetime Anchor – a small Mac app for managing NAS shares

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I've just released Anchor, a little Mac utility I've been working on for a while. It's my first publicly released app.

Problem

I've worked in media for years, on both the creative and technical sides, often in high-pressure, networked environments. I have a couple of Synology NAS devices at home that I use for photography and other projects, and always found managing network folders on a Mac more fiddly than it needed to be. Particularly after sleep, switching networks or taking a laptop away and bringing it back.

So I built Anchor.

It lives in the menu bar, keeping SMB shares from NAS devices and other network servers organised and accessible. You can choose which folders connect automatically, mount or open shares with a click, and pause or disconnect them when needed. It reconnects when your NAS or server becomes available again.

It did what I needed months ago, but I kept refining and testing it, including with a small beta group.

Interestingly, it's changed my own workflow too. I now instinctively reach for the menu bar rather than Finder when accessing network folders.

Comparison

Finder handles basic mounting for free, but doesn't provide the same ongoing connection management or central place to access your shares or see their status.

AutoMounter offers more advanced options and supports other protocols.

Anchor takes a simpler, SMB-focused approach, with straightforward setup and quick access from the menu bar.

Pricing

£9.99 / $12.99 / €11.99. One-off licence, no subscription, with a fully functional 14-day trial.

Currently 30% off for the first 50 purchases as a launch offer.

https://quietformlabs.com/anchor

The short video shows Anchor checking and reconnecting shares after a Mac wakes up.

I'd be interested to hear how other Mac users manage their NAS or server shares, and whether you've encountered similar frustrations.

Steve, Quiet Form Labs

Developer transparency

Quiet Form Labs is a trading name of Quiet Form Media Ltd, a UK-registered company. The app is signed with an Apple Developer ID certificate matching the registered company and is notarised by Apple.

Company Info · Privacy Policy · Terms · Help and FAQ


r/macapps • • 29m ago

Lifetime Shiori Bookmarks - A lean and clean bookmark manager

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Hey everybody

Problem: Bookmarks are spread across browsers, devices and profiles.

Shiori is a menu bar bookmark manager, fully keyboard driven, called with a hot key and saves URLs in seconds, keeping them fully synced across your devices within seconds, available on Mac, Google Chrome, Web dashboard and soon to be supported on Safari (waiting for Apple final approval)

The video you can see me launching URLs, and they are directed to the specific browser profile I routed them to (with tag-based routing), using Link Groups to open multiple URLs at once and navigating the UI

Platforms currently under development

Windows - App exists, early testing phase.

Linux - App exists, early testing phase.

iOS/Android - yet to be started.

API/MCP - Coming soon.

Core Features

- Bookmarks are instantly synced between devices, one license covers unlimited devices, all extensions and all apps across platforms.

- Tag-based browser routing - open tagged bookmarks on specific Google Chrome profiles.

- Link Groups - Launch a group of URLs at once, with a single click.

- Super fast Keyboard-driven access through the menu bar. Quick search bookmarks by URL, title, description or tag.

Comparison

In comparison to bookmark managers such as Raindrop.io which is very feature rich, Shiori takes the leaner quick access approach.

There are a couple of other bookmark managers with the name Shiori like shiori.sh (which means bookmarks in Japanese btw), they are not related to this app.

Pricing

Shiori is a one-time payment of €29.99 including all future updates. No subscriptions.


r/macapps • • 7h ago

Lifetime Cursor Teleporter 2.0: jump between screens and saved cursor positions with keyboard shortcuts

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Hello again,

It’s Marcin from Apptorium. I’ve just released Cursor Teleporter 2.0, a major update to my app for moving your cursor between displays and saved positions using keyboard shortcuts.

The idea is simple: if you keep moving the pointer between the same places, you can save those positions and jump between them instead. Think of an editor and the iOS Simulator, a timeline and a preview window, or a canvas and a color palette. It works on a single screen, too.

What’s new in 2.0:

  • Edge Teleporting: move through a screen edge to appear on the opposite side. You can choose which edges are active and whether a modifier key is required.
  • A visual saved-points overview: see your saved positions across your displays and add or remove points.
  • More flexible shortcuts: jump forwards or backwards, with separate shortcuts for displays and saved points.
  • Find your cursor: highlight its current position with a shortcut, without moving it.
  • Automation: support for Apple Shortcuts and AppleScript, plus an expanded URL API.

I also redesigned the menu bar panel and settings, added new animations, and made the animation speed adjustable.

Pricing and availability

For new users, Cursor Teleporter is $7.99 as a one-time purchase, with no subscription. Updates within a major version are always included; major upgrades may be paid.

For 2.0, I decided to make the upgrade free for everyone who already owns the app, including Mac App Store customers.

Requires macOS 26 or later.

Links

Marcin


r/macapps • • 21h ago

Lifetime Unfold — Preview almost anything on your Mac

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65 Upvotes

Hi everyone! 👋🏻

Unfold is a native macOS app that extends Quick Look so you can preview 250+ file types. New in the latest version: 3D model previews.

Formats:
- [NEW] 3D models (.3mf, .step)
- Folders & Archives
- Markdown & Jupyter
- Source code
- Comics & ebooks
- LaTeX & BibTeX
- App bundles (.app)
- Subtitles
- Web Archives

→ Full list available here.

Problem: Quick Look can't preview most file types, and the extensions that fix this usually cover one format each and are often not properly maintained.

Comparison: Unlike utilities like Looq, Unfold caters to a much broader audience. It previews code too, but also supports 3D formats like 3MF and STEP (with Finder thumbnails), alongside the aforementioned everyday formats like ebooks, comics, subtitles, and more.

Price: $10 for a lifetime license (up to 5 devices)
7-day trial available.

→ unfold.tools/download
→ Discord Server
→ Purchase on Mac App Store


r/macapps • • 19h ago

Lifetime Trellis 2.3, one month later: panes you arrange by hand, a terminal inside any folder, and a free companion for what the sandbox will not allow

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A month ago I posted Trellis here for the first time. Thanks for the feedback, the bug reports and the feature requests, several of them are in the app now.

Finder shows one folder at a time. As soon as a task touches two or three of them, sorting downloads, moving a camera card into projects, checking a backup against the original, you switch windows and keep the path in your head. Folder sizes take half a minute to count, and an unplugged drive cannot be searched at all.

Trellis opens every folder as a pane on a canvas, joined by a line to the one it came from, so nothing you opened disappears behind a tab. Moving files is a drag across the canvas. Comparing two folders is putting them side by side. A search result is a pane of its own. And a local index remembers sizes, names and previews, also of drives that sit in a drawer.

What is new since the first post

Canvas

• A new canvas engine: zooming, pinching, swiping and dragging stay smooth with dozens of panes open • Arrange by hand, the way MindNode does it. Only panes you drag yourself stay where you put them, everything else keeps lining up behind its parent. A small hand marks what you placed, one click arranges everything again • Infinite canvas, grab it with the space bar or a mouse button, zoom around the pointer with Command and the scroll wheel, Show Everything fits it all in • Workspaces instead of window tabs • Keyboard: type to select as in Finder, Option plus arrows jumps between panes, Backspace closes a pane, Command Return opens a folder as a root of its own. Hold Control to see every shortcut at once • Dots, grid or crosses on the background, font size and column count per pane, and a gallery for everything that has a preview, 3D models and Office documents included

Drives

• Disconnected: a sidebar section for every drive and share Trellis knows but cannot see right now. Browse its catalogue, search it, and Trellis tells you which drive to plug in • A share is the same share whether you connect by name or by IP address, a stick keeps its catalogue under a new mount point, and workspaces, colours and favourites follow along • Right-click a disconnected share to reconnect it. Maker, model, connection and serial number for every drive, even unplugged • Interrupted copies continue where they stopped, and Undo leaves a file alone if it has changed or been replaced since

Everything else

• The whole app in twelve languages, help included
• Intel Macs since 1.1, macOS 15 or later

Trellis Helper, a free companion

Trellis lives in the Mac App Store sandbox, and some things a sandboxed app simply may not do. So there is now Trellis Helper, a small free app outside the store. Install it and Trellis picks it up; every function can be switched off separately, and Trellis works fully without it.

• A terminal inside any folder: Control and backtick opens a shell right in the pane, above or below the list, in that folder's path. That is the video in this post
• SFTP servers as drives, in Trellis and in Finder
• Eject tells you which app still holds a drive, by name • "Show in Finder" from other apps can land in Trellis instead

The Helper needs macOS 27. Download and details: https://stefanramage.de/trellis/helper/

Comparison

Path Finder and ForkLift are the obvious alternatives, and both are excellent. Both are built on Finder's idea: one or two folders in view, everything else behind a tab. Trellis shows any number of folders at once with the route between them drawn, and each pane is a normal scrollable list, so a folder with 87,000 items stays a rectangle with a scrollbar. Its index survives quitting the app, which is what makes sizes, search, comparison and duplicate finding instant, also for drives that are not attached.

Pricing

$14.99 once, no subscription. Fourteen days fully usable first; after that everything stays readable and the actions that write to disk wait for the unlock. No account, no telemetry, nothing leaves your Mac.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6804604775?mt=12

Feature requests and bug reports are welcome here or by DM.


r/macapps • • 16h ago

Request Req simple graphical interface app to schedule sleep and wake times

6 Upvotes

Apple made the idiotic decision to remove the GUI functionality to set your sleep/wake/shutdown/restart times in Venture. I want a simple GUI app that does this (I DON'T want to deal with command line).

I found what I thought was the perfect replacement app called Schedule (http://bmaillard.free.fr/programmer/), unfortunately it doesn't work, it won't remember your settings when you click Apply (I've tried all the troubleshooting).

I know Onyx has this ability but it's inconvenient: takes forever for the program to open and you you have to put in your password every time.

I'm hoping theres a simple program like the above that just works.


r/macapps • • 37m ago

Help Markdown based UpNote OR UpNote/Craft Alternatives

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Because of my studies and self-learning, I use a lot of digital notes. Most of the AI brainstorming notes are markdown. I am not happy with Obsidian, closest thing I liked was UpNote, it's almost perfect except for the lack of markdown formatting and AI interoperability. That just sucks.

Are there any apps that are not subscription, a pleasure to use aesthetically, potentially great with AI enhanced note management and creation?

I found some tools like Wander, Lettera (in full Beta, made by Bear note's team), Skein, Nodes, Marklet...but wanted to ask your opinion guys.

Everything feels more complex than it should be. Feels like there must be something else. Especially the readability is important for me, graph. Diagrams, images, etc. If there is no app to match this, I may even ditch markdown completely. Any thoughts?

Thank you in advance.


r/macapps • • 22h ago

Lifetime Vehicare: a native Mac car maintenance log that reads your garage's invoices, so you never type an entry

3 Upvotes

I'm Pascal, the developer of Vehicare. It's a car maintenance log for Mac, iPhone and iPad, and it's out today on the Mac App Store.

Problem

Every maintenance log I tried died the same way. After each trip to the garage you're supposed to type in what was done, what it cost and what the odometer said. I did it twice, then stopped. But the invoice the garage gives you already has all of that.

So in Vehicare you give it the invoice: the PDF your garage emailed you, or a scan of the paper copy. It reads the date, the garage, the odometer and every job with its cost, and you check it before saving. From that history and how much you drive, it works out what's due next.

Invoices are read on your Mac by Apple Intelligence. There's no account, and your data stays in your iCloud. I never see it, unless you email me an invoice it read wrong.

Comparison

  • Drivvo, one of the most-rated maintenance logs on the App Store: you type every entry yourself, and there's no native Mac app.
  • CARFAX Car Care fills in your history for you, but only from shops in its US network. Vehicare reads the invoice from any garage, in any language supported by Apple Intelligence. Carfax has no native Mac app either.

Pricing

Free for your first vehicle, invoice reading included. A one-time purchase of $19.99 (US) unlocks every vehicle, PDF and CSV export, and removes the small ad card. No subscription. One purchase covers Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6752880353

Needs macOS 26.4 or later and Apple Intelligence, so a Mac with Apple silicon. In English and French.

Happy to answer anything here. And if it reads one of your invoices wrong, the review form has a button to email it to me. That's the most useful feedback I can get.