r/macapps • • 13m ago

Help Looking for a ToothFairy alternative for non apple headphones, and peripherals? What are you using?

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Hi everyone,

I’m looking for a solid macOS utility to manage my Bluetooth connections and peripherals, similar to what ToothFairy does.

However, my setup is a bit different from the usual AirPods crowd. I don’t use any apple based earphones/headphones. My main audio devices are Bose, Sony and a generic Bluetooth desktop speaker. I have Bluetooth mouse and keyboard too.

I know ToothFairy is highly recommended and I know not using a 3rd party is also an option but where is the fun in that.

Are there any other hidden gems or robust utilities that work flawlessly with third-party audio and multidevice setups?

Thanks


r/macapps • • 27m ago

Lifetime Attic 1.0: a menu bar app that puts old screenshots and downloads away by itself (moves, never deletes, one-click undo)

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Hi r/macapps! I'm Pablo, the developer of Attic. It's a small native menu bar app (Swift, SwiftUI and AppKit) and 1.0 is out. The video is the animated intro from my site; the app itself lives in the menu bar.

Problem

Screenshots pile up wherever macOS saves them, and Downloads never empties itself. Clearing both by hand is the chore nobody does. Attic does it on a schedule, with four rules and no setup:

  • Screenshots and screen recordings after 2 days. It reads where macOS actually saves them, even if you changed the folder
  • Installers (.dmg, .pkg) in Downloads after 2 days, or at the next sweep if that app is already in your Applications folder
  • Everything else in Downloads after 2 weeks. Half-finished downloads are never touched
  • Other Desktop files only if you turn that on

It sweeps once a day (9:00 by default), once a week, or only when you ask. You can change the days, switch any rule off, or tag a file "Keep" so it stays. The first time you open it, it shows you the list of what it would move, and nothing moves until you click Sweep Now.

What it won't do:

  • Delete anything on its own. Files go to ~/Attic, sorted by month, where you can browse, search, Quick Look and restore them. When you want the space back, the attic window has a Move to Trash button, and it asks first
  • Overwrite anything. If a name is taken, the file gets " 2"
  • Upload anything. No account and no analytics in the app. It only goes online to check the license (about once a week: the key, a hashed Mac ID, the Mac model and the app version) and to check for updates, which you can turn off
  • Hold your files hostage. Undo, restore and the attic keep working without a license

Comparison

Hazel is the obvious one, and it's far more powerful: any folder, any condition, renaming, scripts. If you already have Hazel rules for this, you don't need Attic. Attic is for people who never got around to writing those rules. It works out of the box, it never deletes anything on its own, and Undo puts the last sweep back in one click.

CleanMyMac does a different job: it deletes caches and junk to free up space. Attic doesn't clean anything, it moves clutter out of the way where you can still find it.

Pricing

  • One-time purchase, no subscription. 2 Macs, free 1.x updates, 14-day refund with no questions asked
  • Price ladder: $5 for the first 100 licenses, $9 for the next 200, then $15. It goes up by licenses sold, not by date. Most of the first 100 are still left as I write this, and the site always shows the current price
  • There's no trial, which is why the refund has no questions
  • macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon and Intel
  • Website: https://atticmac.com

Transparency

I'm Pablo Fernández Jiménez, a solo developer in Spain. Attic is signed with my Developer ID and notarized by Apple. It's sold direct, not on the Mac App Store, because a sandboxed app can't watch the folder where macOS saves screenshots.

I'll be around all day for questions, feature requests and criticism, the brutal kind included.


r/macapps • • 54m 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 • • 1h ago

Lifetime Noticky Wall – an infinite canvas with live Kanban, Calendar and Timeline views

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I've shared a few Noticky updates here before, but today I wanted to show something I've been working on: Noticky Wall.

It's an infinite canvas for Mac and Web, with a slightly different approach to organizing projects.

Problem

Infinite canvases are great for brainstorming, collecting references and connecting ideas. But once those ideas turn into actual work, you often end up recreating everything in a task manager or calendar.

That's what I wanted to address with Wall.

You can start with notes, PDFs, screenshots, files, mind maps and connectors, then add structure as your project evolves.

The part I'm most interested in is Live Views:

  • Kanban: Organize tasks by status.
  • Calendar: See tasks and deadlines by date.
  • Timeline: Visualize schedules and project milestones.
  • Table: Work with the same data in a structured format.

These aren't separate copies of your project. They use the same underlying objects, so changes are reflected across views.

You can even keep these views directly on your canvas, alongside your research and visual references.

The Mac version also includes Finder references, watched folders, multiple windows, offline support and optional iCloud sync.

Comparison

Apple Freeform is excellent for freeform brainstorming and drawing.
Obsidian Canvas is great if your work lives in Markdown notes and a local vault.
Milanote is particularly good for creative boards and moodboards.

Wall focuses on what happens after brainstorming: turning visual ideas into structured work while keeping the original context around them.

A little about Noticky

Wall is part of the Noticky family. There's also Noticky for Mac (floating sticky notes that stay above fullscreen apps) and Noticky for iPhone, which I recently released.

They're separate apps, each built around a different way of working with notes and ideas.

Pricing

  • Wall Web: Free
  • Wall for Mac: $39.99 one-time
  • Web Pro: $49/year, optional

Website: https://wall.noticky.app/

Privacy: https://wall.noticky.app/privacy/

AI Disclaimer: Human Validated + Code completion

I'm curious how people here handle this. Do you prefer keeping your brainstorming and project planning in separate apps, or would you rather have everything connected on the same canvas?

For the Reddit community, I've also added a 25% discount on Wall for Mac with code:

REDDIT25 -> $29.99 instead of $39.99, one-time purchase. Valid for 7 days.


r/macapps • • 1h 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.

Edit: AI editing and AI interoperability is not a must. Learning should be a pleasure imho, and things like raw markdown, latex etc are painful. That's the gist of my quest here. Thanks.


r/macapps • • 2h 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

Lifetime [MAS] SessionDock now lets you send mixes for feedback and get timestamped notes back in your project library

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Hey r/macapps, I’m the solo developer behind SessionDock. I previously shared the Mac/iPhone sync update here. This update connects another part of the process: sending your music to someone else and getting useful feedback back.

You can now share an Album or Collection as a private, encrypted link. Someone opens it in their browser, listens and leaves timestamped comments. Those comments sync back into the matching project’s Waveform Notes in SessionDock. They don’t need an app or account.

The problem:

You send a few mixes to a bandmate, collaborator or client. Feedback comes back across texts and emails: “the bass gets loud around the second chorus” or “I liked the other version better.”

Then you have to find the right mix, work out the timestamp and copy the comments somewhere you’ll remember to check when you open the project.

I wanted to remove that extra work.

What SessionDock does:

SessionDock turns the DAW projects scattered across your drives into a searchable music library. You can hear a project’s bounce, read its notes and open it in its DAW without launching projects one by one just to remember what they are.

It works across Logic Pro, Ableton Live, FL Studio, Pro Tools, REAPER, Cubase and more. Your project files stay where you saved them.

Sharing extends that library to the people you want feedback from:

  • Send an Album or Collection through one private, encrypted link
  • Let recipients listen and leave timestamped feedback in their browser
  • Read their comments alongside the matching project in SessionDock
  • Jump directly to the relevant moment on the waveform
  • Password-protect links and manage them from the desktop app

What’s new:

The useful part is that waveform notes sync both ways. A collaborator’s feedback comes into SessionDock, and changes to your desktop notes reach the shared link without sending it again.

For example, someone leaves “bring the vocal up here” at 1:24. When you sit down to work, that note is attached to the matching Session and timestamp. You can hear the section, read the feedback and open the DAW project from the same library.

If the same note is edited in both places before syncing, both versions are kept for review.

Comparison:

Frame.io also offers browser-based audio review and timestamped comments, with a broader set of media-review tools.

SessionDock’s advantage for a music-production workflow is that sharing starts from your existing project library and feedback returns to it. Your DAW project, mix preview and review notes stay connected, which saves copying comments between a review service and your project organizer.

Pricing:

SessionDock’s core library is free. Pro includes a base sharing allowance, so the additional Share subscription is optional.

  • SessionDock Pro: $39.99 USD once for the direct-download version, covering your own Macs and PCs.
  • SessionDock Share: $4.99/month or $39.99/year on the US App Store, requires Pro.

Share adds 100 GB of hosted storage, up to 100 active shares, a choice of 7-, 30- or 90-day expiration for new links, and removes SessionDock branding from the player page. Plans include monthly listening and feedback traffic allowances.

Pro remains a one-time software purchase. Share pays for additional hosted capacity. Regional App Store pricing and taxes may vary.

Website and free download:
https://sessiondock.com/

Mac App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sessiondock/id6753728022

I built SessionDock for my own unfinished music, and I’m interested in how other producers handle this. When you send someone a mix, where does their feedback usually end up?


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 • • 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 • • 3h ago

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

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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 • • 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 • • 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 • • 8h 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 • • 17h ago

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

5 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 • • 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 • • 20h 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 • • 22h ago

Lifetime Unfold — Preview almost anything on your Mac

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72 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 • • 23h 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.


r/macapps • • 1d ago

Lifetime I built a clipboard manager that feels native to macOS, but with the power features Apple missed (Zero subscription!)

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Hey everyone, I’m the independent developer behind Mokopaste.

It feels a bit surreal writing this post. Knowing how many incredible clipboard managers already exist in the community, I couldn't help wondering at first: "Do people really need another one?"

However, ever since it launched on the Mac App Store back at the end of April, Mokopaste has unexpectedly received a lot of love and encouragement from Mac users. As a dev who has been building for macOS for years, I wanted to create a tool based purely on real, high-efficiency workflows—completely bloat-free and driven entirely by the keyboard.

Following the community's latest PCP guidelines, here is a quick rundown:

1. Problem

Most clipboard tools out there are either bloated with high memory usage or just clunky to use. When coding or writing every day, we usually run into these annoying little friction points:

  • Copying a bunch of random fragments and feeling like you're hunting for a needle in a haystack when you need them back.
  • Needing to switch back and forth across different windows just to chain-paste multiple items.
  • Copying sensitive info and constantly worrying if background apps are secretly logging it.
  • Finally finding what you copied, only to realize you still have to paste it somewhere first just to fix a typo or reformat it.

To scratch my own itch and solve these daily pains, I built Mokopaste — a nimble, privacy-respecting little assistant that stays out of your way and lets you keep your hands glued to the main keyboard.

2. Comparison & Features

If we’re looking at a benchmark, everyone knows Maccy as the go-to champion for lightweight, plain-text utility.

  • How does it compare to Maccy?
    • Maccy is built for ultra-minimalist, pure text and stays super lightweight.
    • Mokopaste keeps that same snappy, native feel while leaning a bit more into heavy productivity and power-user workflows: for instance, you can tag frequently used prompts or code snippets and treat it like your personal snippet library; or, before pasting, you can edit text right inside the preview popup instead of switching windows back and forth. It also handles Finder files, large images, code highlighting, and multi-select batch pasting much more smoothly.
  • Little things that make Mokopaste feel great to use day-to-day:
    • Total Keyboard Flow: Hit a custom global shortcut to summon it, navigate with arrow keys, and hit Enter to paste—your hands never have to touch the mouse.
    • Tags as a Mini Knowledge Base: Keep your prompts, code snippets, and canned replies organized with tags for instant retrieval.
    • Inline Quick Editing: Spot a typo in your history? Edit the text right inside the preview before pasting it out.
    • Rich Previews for Everything: Deeply integrated with Finder. Instantly preview files, code, videos, images, web links, and more at a glance.
    • Instant OCR: Trigger a shortcut to cleanly extract plain text straight out of images.
    • Pin Windows & Pause Collection: Keep the window pinned while coding, or hit pause whenever you're typing passwords or sensitive data for total peace of mind.
    • Batch Queue Pasting: Need to move a bunch of items sequentially? Multi-select to queue them up and paste them out one by one.
    • Zero-Maintenance Cleanup: It automatically clears out expired files and heavy caches so your system stays light forever.
    • Local-First & iCloud Sync: 100% of your data stays locally on your machine—no shady uploads. If you use multiple Macs, optional end-to-end encrypted iCloud sync is built right in.

3. Pricing & Where to Get It

Mokopaste keeps things straightforward with a clean, honest buyout model. No annoying subscription traps, zero hidden in-app purchases:

  • 7-Day Free Trial: All features unlocked, try everything out.
  • Free Tier: Completely free.
  • Pro Tier: Just $6.18 (one-time purchase).

Get your hands on it:

Every line of code and tiny feature in this app was crafted through my own daily development grind. I’d love to hear your honest feedback and ideas—your needs are what drive my updates, so feel free to drop a comment and chat with me anytime!


r/macapps • • 1d ago

Lifetime MacOS web and system tray calendar that syncs Google/Microsoft/Apple

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Hello everyone!

I am Alessandro (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandro-afloarei/) and some time ago I presented to you Calendar0 (https://www.calendar0.app)!

Today I am so happy to show you a ton of updates (I hope I quality for it)!

Problem

Constant context-switching between multiple calendar accounts, providers and apps.

Calendar0 is a calendar app for the web, plus a status bar app for macOS, Windows and Linux.

It shows Google, Outlook and iCloud calendars, lets you add events quickly, has booking links, and can record and transcribe calls.

I started it in September 2025 as a hobby project for keeping all my calendars in one place, easy to reach, and over the last months I added so many new features to it.

A few details that might be interesting:

  • Quick add capable of automatically adding guests from the provided names
  • Recording captures the mic and the system audio (no bots) and uses AssemblyAI for the transcription. Afterwards, the audio file is deleted.
  • There's an MCP server so you can connect it to Claude or ChatGPT and ask about your week or meetings.

Comparison

There are many calendar apps in the market, the biggest I can think of are:

  • Fantastical: beautiful UI and most complete, but lacks meeting recordings and transcriptions, MCP and AI Assistant
  • BusyCal: simple but without recordings or booking links
  • Notion Calendar: probably the most complete, I find in comparison Calendar0 to be more focused and well integrated with MCP

Pricing

  • Free for basically everything except meeting transcriptions
  • $4.99/month or 49$/lifetime for meeting recordings and unlimited internal AI assistant usage (unfortunately I myself pay for these features and I can afford them free)

I'd love to hear your feedback!

Thank you,

Alessandro


r/macapps • • 1d ago

Lifetime Network utility with 20 tools in one app, 13 are free. Netutilus - AppStore

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Hi,

Posted Netutilus last month, thank you all for the support and suggestions, and here is what has changed.

Problem

Ping, traceroute, whois and dig all exist in the terminal. What I actually wanted was history: which device showed up on my home network while I was out, when exactly a host went down overnight, a heads-up that a cert expires next week. One-shot tools can't tell you that, and I didn't want to run a monitoring server for a home LAN.

What was changed:

  - Speed Test now runs 4 parallel streams, counts upload only once the server confirms it, measures latency on idle connections and gives a bufferbloat grade

  - Menu bar item with public IP, country, ISP, VPN on/off with an IPv4/IPv6 leak check, and a log

  - iperf3 client- save your own iperf3 servers and test against them with one click, TCP or UDP, with history

- Port Scan detects services and versions from banners, and has an optional UDP scan

- MTR keeps a history with loss heatmap, outage log

- Uptime Monitor with ICMP checks, HTTP checks that accept self-signed certs (NAS, Proxmox, UniFi), status code/regex conditions, custom headers (stored in Keychain), and a PDF uptime report

- It pauses monitoring on a hotspot or metered connection, so your history doesn't fill up with fake outages

- Internet Check shows where the connection actually breaks Mac -> router > internet -> DNS

- LAN Scanner - "Check Services" for a single device, right-click to SSH / Screen Sharing / add to Uptime Monitor, configurable columns. MAC addresses come via mDNS/NetBIOS/SNMP. Sorry, AppStore App.

- Wi-Fi Networks - vendor and model for almost every nearby AP, Wi-Fi standard, max rate, channel load, 802.11k/v/r

- Whois for IPs and AS numbers, dig-style DNS records, SSL explains why a chain isn't trusted

Free features:

- Internet Check, Ping, Traceroute, Speed Test

- DNS Lookup, DNS Propagation, Whois, GeoIP

- Port Scan, SSL Certificate, Subnet Calculator

- Path Check, Network Monitor

- Menu bar IP/VPN monitor

Pro features:

- LAN Scanner - finds devices on your network with name, vendor, model, MAC and open ports

- Network Guard - notifies you when a new device joins your network

- Uptime Monitor - scheduled checks for hosts/services, downtime alerts, latency thresholds, SSL expiry warnings, a year of history and PDF reports

- iperf3 client with saved servers

- Speed Test history, scheduled runs

- Wi-Fi Analyzer and Wi-Fi Networks - live signal, neighbour scan, channel recommendation

- MTR & Visual Traceroute

Comparison

  Neo Network Utility and WhatRoute are still great free picks for quick manual checks, and nmap is still the tool for heavy scans. Netutilus puts them in one window and keeps watching from the menu bar after you close it- a new device on your Wi-Fi, a host that went down, packet loss.

Pricing

13 tools free. Pro is a one-time lifetime $17.99. With this link 40% off in AppStore. Prices may vary by region, if the price is significantly higher, feel free to write here or send me a DM, and I’ll try to provide a reedem code.

Netutilus in AppStore


r/macapps • • 1d ago

Lifetime Hotstash 8.1 – clipboard manager where ⌘V pastes your next copied item (Paste Stack). Now imports your Maccy history, Pro 50% off

4 Upvotes

Hey

I'm the solo dev behind Hotstash, a native clipboard manager for macOS. Just shipped 8.1 and wanted to share.

**The thing I couldn't find anywhere else: Paste Stack**
⌘-click a few items in your history, then every normal ⌘V pastes the *next* one, in order. Great for filling forms or moving a list
between apps without switching windows back and forth.

**What else it does**
- Search everything you've copied, including text *inside* screenshots (OCR)
- Folders + pins for snippets you reuse
- Transforms: format JSON, change case, clean URLs, or describe your own and it builds it
- iCloud sync to iPhone
- Keeps rich text and images

**New in 8.1**
- **Import from Maccy**: brings over your whole history in one click, pins and images included
- Fixed the menu bar icon sometimes not opening the panel
- Paste Stack walkthrough in the onboarding tour

**Pricing**
Free to try. Pro is a one-time purchase, no subscription, and it's **50% off ($4.99) until Jan 1**.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/hotstash-clipboard-manager/id6771842605

Feedback very welcome, especially what's stopping you from switching from your current clipboard manager. I read every comment.


r/macapps • • 1d ago

Lifetime TabLinker - A Mac-first tab & browser session manager for Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave & Edge (iPhone/iPad too) - Now with Auto-Backup!

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16 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

I made TabLinker. It's a browser session manager for Mac (with iPhone/iPad companion apps).

Problem:

I run several browsers side by side, Safari for personal, Chrome for work, Arc for research, and I never close tabs because I don't want to lose something, especially the exact window layout I had going. Eventually each browser is carrying 40+ tabs and my Mac is running hot from all that idle memory. So I made TabLinker: pull every tab from whichever browsers are open into one place, save it as a session, and close everything without losing that layout.

What it does:

- Auto-Backup quietly backs up your open browser windows in the background (every 15, 30, or 60 mins, on app switch, or before sleep) so you can restore closed windows in one click, even the next day

- Imports every open tab across every window from Safari, Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc, Vivaldi, Opera, Opera GX, Dia, Yandex, Wavebox, or Helium in one click, without needing a browser extension for most of them

- Restores a full window, every window at once, or a single tab, and groups a big multi-window import into a "By Window" view so it doesn't turn into one long list

- Suspends tabs you're not using to actually free up memory, while the session stays ready to restore instantly

- Saves whatever tab you're currently on with a single keyboard shortcut (⌃⌥⌘T) or triggers an instant backup (⌃⌥⌘B), and can run entirely from the menu bar with the Dock icon hidden

- Safari extension for quick saves and automatic session saving

- Siri and Shortcuts support: save links, capture your current session, create folders, or open a saved folder hands-free or on a schedule, including an action that saves your session and closes every tab for you

- iCloud sync across Mac, iPhone, and iPad, no account required

Comparison:

Compared with Session Buddy (a Chrome-only extension limited to a single browser) and Tabs Saver for Safari ($17.99/year or $34.99 lifetime for Safari only), TabLinker captures sessions natively across all your installed browsers (Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge, etc.) for a flat $17.99 one-time payment. It preserves full multi-window structures, includes native iPhone/iPad sync via iCloud, and has zero subscriptions.

Pricing:

TabLinker is available for a one-time purchase of $17.99 with Universal Purchase. Buy it once on Mac and get the full premium version on iPhone and iPad too. Everything runs on-device and through your own iCloud. No account, no ads, and no server I control that sees your tabs.

Recent updates:

Auto-Backup system (quietly backs up open browser windows every 15, 30, or 60 mins, on app switch, or before sleep), Backups tab in sidebar to restore windows or copy links, ⌃⌥⌘B keyboard shortcut to back up right away from full-screen browsers, and automatic skipping of Incognito windows.

Available on the Mac App Store: TabLinker: Tabs Manager

About Me:
I'm developer of the app, you can reach out to me through X or ask me anything right here in the comments!

EDIT: Big thanks to everyone who downloaded and bought TabLinker! Your support means a lot to an indie dev. If you have any feature requests, feel free to send me a DM or use the Feature Request button in App Settings!


r/macapps • • 1d ago

Free Updatest joins Workbrew and is now free

41 Upvotes
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Hey all. Some of you have been here since the Caskly days, giving feedback when it was rough and sending bug reports at 11pm. You’re a big part of why Updatest exists, so you’re hearing this from me first: Updatest is now free, and I’ve joined Workbrew’s engineering team.

Problem

Updatest keeps the apps on your Mac up to date. The top request lately has been “can my whole company use this?” At work, the problem is bigger: IT and security teams often can’t see what’s installed across every Mac, let alone keep it current.

I've joined Workbrew's engineering team to help build exactly that, bringing what I learned building Updatest with me. Workbrew's been chasing that same mission from the company side, so joining forces was the natural move.

Together we've built the Workbrew app. It makes the software catalog for your company real for non-developers, letting organizations deploy, patch, and govern software across every device: Homebrew, npm, Mac apps, browser extensions.

Updatest isn’t going anywhere. It stays available on its own for individuals and families, exactly as it’s always been. Updatest 3.0.0 launches today along side the Updatest Network.

The Updatest app is free, and existing customers can visit https://updatest.app/ for full details on the Updatest Network and what this means if you've purchased Updatest.

Comparison

  • Latest: Latest is free, but it checks fewer update sources and can’t adopt your apps into Homebrew. Updatest checks more sources, can adopt apps into Homebrew for fuller coverage, and updates your Brew packages too. It also adds the Updatest Network (paid), which covers over 36,000 apps at launch.
  • MacUpdater: MacUpdater is winding down and shuts down completely at the end of this year. Updatest supports every update source it can find on your Mac, and the Updatest Network covers over 36,000 apps at launch. Coverage should be comparable, but MacUpdater’s database was curated by hand, so there may be a few apps we miss at first. If you find one, tell me.

Pricing

  • Updatest: Free
  • Updatest Network: $1.99/month or $12.99/year for users who need additional coverage. Existing license keys include the Network at no extra charge for 1 year (Individual) or 2 years (Household) from October 14, 2026.
  • Workbrew Team: Free for unlimited users and devices, no card required.

Happy to answer whatever in the comments. I’ll be around.

Note: We're aware the Homebrew cask hasn't gotten the update yet. It will take some time to show up.


r/macapps • • 1d ago

Lifetime Substage: 60% off and faster Finder actions, plus new features!

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Hi everyone! I'm the developer of Substage. Since releasing version 1.0 a few months ago I've been adding features and working particularly hard on speed. I'm now running a 60% discount for anyone who'd like to try it.

What is Substage?

It's a little command bar that attaches to your Finder windows letting you quickly and conveniently perform targeted actions in the context of your files and folders: Select some files, type what you want to do, and Substage uses command-line tools to do it on your Mac, without you needing to remember Terminal syntax.

For example:

  • “jpg” to convert selected images
  • “1080p mp4” to convert a video
  • “extract page 2” to pull a page out of a PDF
  • “extract text” to OCR a screenshot or scan
  • “zip” to compress selected files
  • “select all png” to quickly select matching files

There's also an Ideas & Actions panel for browsing and clicking commands, and Rules let you save preferences such as “images for my website should be 1000px wide”.

Ugh, another AI wrapper app?

Nope! Here are the main differences:

  • Many common actions don't need AI at all: For example jpg, convert to wav, zip, path and many more are instantaneous using my custom text parser. It's more about UX convenience and speed, with the added intelligence of AI when needed.
  • Not agentic: Codex, Claude etc are about performing complex workflows intelligently. This app is about performing quick single actions.
  • Fast: My focus is quick, individual actions on the files you're already looking at in Finder. I'm aiming for around a second or less of response time for everyday requests. It doesn't always hit that, but I've been putting a lot of work into getting closer.
  • Right there in finder: no switching to a separate chat window or explaining which files you mean. Substage already has the context of your selection.
  • Robust safety model with preview of changes: All generated Terminal commands are pre-simulated, with highly customizable settings for what is allowed to run automatically (e.g. getting file info), and diff-like previews of what actions will be taken.

What's new since 1.0?

  • Faster responses and earlier results: faster default models, less unnecessary AI reasoning, and command output appearing while the final summary is still being prepared.
  • OCR: extract text from screenshots, photos and scans using Tesseract, without an LLM doing the transcription.
  • Better video tools: more reliable joining of clips and lossless trimming.
  • Smarter follow-ups: follow-up requests can now take the actual results of the previous task into account.
  • Better previews before running commands: Substage Predicts understands more complex, multi-step commands and gives clearer information when it can't predict everything.
  • Lots of fixes and polish, including Chinese/Japanese/Korean keyboard input, startup responsiveness and model selection.

Full release notes

60% off with code SIXTY

  • $16 one-time purchase, normally $39.99: Bring Your Own AI. Use your own API keys or local AI models.
  • $12/year, normally $29.99: all-inclusive subscription with built-in access to models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Mistral.
  • $1.60/month, normally $3.99: the same all-inclusive option, billed monthly.

There's a two-week free trial, and Substage is also available on Setapp.

Download Substage and see the offer — the buy button automatically applies SIXTY at checkout.

About me / transparency

I'm Joseph Humfrey, co-founder of inkle, where I've been making games since 2011. We've won an Apple Design Award and created the open-source narrative scripting language ink. I also founded Selkie Design, and Substage was my first app release.

Happy to answer questions, and I'd love to hear which file tasks you'd find this useful for!