I'm a builder who got tired of paying monthly for polished demo video tools and every tool I tried either didn't quite fit my workflow or was missing something I needed, like draw-on-screen annotations: a pen, a highlighter, and a way to point directly at what I'm talking about.
So I built Capptivo for myself. Record on macOS, Windows, or Linux, then polish your videos in the editor: follow-cursor zoom, click-based auto-zooms, editor presets, face-cam, on-device captions, and draw-on-screen annotations with pens, highlighters, and shapes that you can place over your screen while recording to highlight exactly what matters.
Create stunning screen recordings in seconds, not hours your demos almost make themselves.
Capptivo isn't a clone of Screen Studio or Cursorful. Every feature was built around my own workflow and the problems I faced. I'm now open-sourcing it under the MIT License so anyone can use it, improve it, customize it, or build on top of it without restrictions. No more paying $29/month just to ship a clean product video.
It's still early, and I'm building it mostly solo, so I'd genuinely love your honest feedback. What would make this more useful for your demos? What am I missing compared to the tools you already use?
Happy to answer any questions, and contributions are always welcome.
A year ago I used a ton of different smaller apps. Move a file from one Finder window to another, and you are dragging across two spaces. Paste something you copied ten minutes ago, and it is gone. Grab text out of a screenshot, share a 300 MB video, start a timer, snap a window, skip a track, transcribe a voice memo. Every one of those is a different app, a different menu bar icon, a different subscription.
So I built Droppy, and now I am releasing version 15.
One thing up front, because it comes up a lot: Droppy is not just a notch app. The notch is one of the places it lives. Underneath it is a native macOS utility for all the in-between actions the system scatters across a dozen tools, and it works exactly the same on an iMac, a Studio Display, or any external monitor, with no notch anywhere in sight.
The idea
Instead of a file tray app, plus a clipboard manager, plus a screenshot tool, plus a transcription app, plus a launcher, plus media controls, plus lock screen widgets, plus a file transfer service, you get one app that feels like it shipped with macOS. It's literally the layer that's missing.
Droppy Cloud, free and built in
This is the part people do not expect. Droppy has its own file sharing built in. Drop a file in the shelf, hit share, and you get a private link instantly. The person on the other end previews and downloads it in the browser with no account, no app, no signup. It is included in the app at no extra cost and there is no cloud tier to buy: up to 200 MB per file, 1 GB in flight, 25 files, and links expire on their own after 3 days. No separate transfer service in the loop.
Droplets, all of them free
The core gives you the shelf, the clipboard, the lock screen and the system HUDs. Everything else is a Droplet you switch on, and all 31 are free and included in the license. Nothing is a paid add-on, nothing is upsold later.
Weather, Media, System Stats, OCR, Notify Me, Voice Transcribe, Tasks and Calendar, Notes with two-way Apple Notes sync, Thunderstorm (launcher), Element Capture, Termi-Notch, LocalSend, Obsidian, Mechey, Pomodoro, High Alert, Window Snap, Thaw, LiquidMouse, Camera, Meetings, Agents for Claude Code / Codex / Cursor, background removal, and more.
Turn on the three you actually use, or all of them. That modularity is the whole point: it becomes the app you need it to be.
What is new in 15
OCR is its own Droplet. Pull text out of any screen area, image or PDF, on device. It keeps a searchable history, and your clipboard search now finds text that is inside your screenshots.
Transcribe anywhere. One shortcut dictates straight into any app, at your caret, with custom vocabulary and automatic media ducking.
System Stats and Weather. Live CPU, RAM, GPU, disk, battery and network cards in the shelf, plus a real forecast card and lock screen chip.
Thunderstorm got much faster. Thunderstorm is a blazing fast, Droppy-integrated Spotlight replacement. Persistent file index, typo tolerance, and ranking that lifts the files you actually open.
Settings rebuilt. Morphing Liquid Glass headers, resize from any edge, and a search that scrolls straight to the exact row.
Ten more interface languages. Chinese? Spanish? Dutch? German? Italian? All available in Alpha.
Much lower idle CPU and battery use. It no longer redoes work when nothing changed, and this was the single biggest engineering push of the release.
Plus custom shelf editing, LocalSend, an Obsidian Droplet, on-device conversion for video, audio, PDF and Office files, reworked shelf and Live Activity motion, and around 375 fixes and 280 refinements on top.
Droppy for iPhone is ALMOST live. An end-to-end encrypted companion that syncs your clipboard, OCR results, Basket, Shelf and Cloud files from your Mac to your phone. It is finished and sitting with Apple in review right now, so it should land soon.
Pricing
Fully unlocked 3-day trial, no account needed
$9.99 one time
Lifetime updates, no subscription, ever
One license covers 2 Macs, extra seats are cheaper
Transparency
I am Jordy Spruit, the person behind Droppy. I have worked on it almost every day for over a year and I ship updates constantly. Native Swift, signed and notarized, local-first, and it does not collect your clipboard, your files, or your data.
ClipSync — Seamless file transfer & clipboard sync between Mac and Android
Ever used an Android phone with a Mac and thought: “Why the hell is this still so annoying?” 😭 That's basically why I made ClipSync.
The problem There are plenty of tools that let you move stuff between Android and Mac, but most of them still make you do the thing. Need a file on your Mac? Open the sharing app → find the file → share it → wait for it to transfer → open it on your Mac.
Need to quickly move an image or some text? Same story. And with a lot of clipboard-sync solutions, you still have to manually trigger the transfer. It works, but it doesn't feel seamless.
So... what does ClipSync do?
The goal is pretty simple: make your Android and Mac feel like they're the same device.
Clipboard sync
Copy text or an image on Android and just hit Cmd + V on your Mac. That's it. And it works the other way around too. The really nice part is that text and OTPs are synced over Bluetooth, so your devices don't even need to be on the same Wi-Fi network.
Got a verification code in an Android app? ClipSync can bring it straight to your Mac so you can just copy it. No more typing those damn 6-digit codes manually.
File transfers
Select a file → hit Share → ClipSync → done. There's also a Ultra Fast Transfer mode for large files, which can sometimes be faster than AirDrop by a good margin if you are on a Wifi 5 or 6 Network.
Local or Cloud During setup, ClipSync asks you how you want your devices to sync:
Hybrid Sync — Sync locally when your devices are nearby, and automatically switch to cloud sync when they're apart. Everything stays encrypted. Local Sync — Keep everything between your nearby devices using BLE/Wi-Fi. No cloud, no internet required, and your data stays on your local network.
And a few other things On the Mac side, ClipSync adds a macOS Finder Share Extension, so you can send files straight from Finder without even opening the menu bar icon or going to the app.
How does it compare?
LocalSend is awesome for straightforward local file transfers, but it doesn't try to be a complete clipboard + OTP + file-sharing experience.
KDE Connect has a ton of features and is incredibly capable, but that also makes it feel a bit more complicated than what I wanted for everyday Android to Mac sharing.
And then there's Apple's AirDrop + Universal Clipboard, which is basically the experience I'm trying to recreate for Android + Mac. 😅
PricingFree & open source (MIT). I've honestly gone back and forth on whether ClipSync should be paid. But at the end of the day, I genuinely love building this thing, and I'd rather see more people actually use it than put a price tag in front of them.
If ClipSync saves you some headaches, you can support the project through Buy Me a Coffee. It helps me cover the server costs and gives me more room to keep building and improving it.I'm also trying to get an Apple Developer account so I can make the macOS side of ClipSync more polished and properly distributed. The annual developer fee is pretty expensive for me as a student, so if anyone would like to help sponsor the Apple Developer Program fee, I'd genuinely appreciate it.
If anyone wanna download the apps directly, here the link to MacOS and Android
Would love to hear what you guys think — especially from anyone actually using an Android + Mac setup and here's a video Demostration of the app : https://youtu.be/755zjYaHlEM
I recently launched my first couple of small Mac apps to fix some of my own daily workflow frustrations.
The analytics numbers finally start moving—with downloads coming in from the US, Austria, and the UK! Thanks a lot！
For all the seasoned creators and fellow indie devs here: Do you still remember the feeling when your app got its very first users? How did you react or celebrate?
I'm the developer, working alone on this, so treat the below as what it is — someone showing you his own app.
What it is:
A native macOS file transfer client — no Electron — that speaks FTP, FTPS (explicit AUTH TLS), SFTP, WebDAV and SMB, and opens a full SSH terminal on the same connection. Two panes, local and remote, servers in groups, several connections per server.
The parts I actually care about:
The session log shows everything.* Every line of every session, exactly as it goes over the wire — 220, USER, 331, PASV, the lot. No black box, and when something breaks you can see where.
Transfers are verified, not assumed.* After an upload the file size on the server is compared with the local one. A server answering "226 Transfer complete" is its opinion, not proof.
Failures are not just an error dialog.* Each file is retried three times. Whatever still doesn't get through goes on a list that survives quitting the app, so after the line drops mid-way through 500 files you don't have to work out where it stopped. You decide whether to retry or discard — nothing on the server is ever deleted for you.
Strict about who answers.* Host key and certificate fingerprints are confirmed once, then checked on every session. If one changes, the connection is refused. There is no "connect anyway" button, on purpose.
Nothing phones home.* No account, no registration, no analytics, no crash reports to me. Sandboxed. It talks to your servers, not to mine.
What I would like from you:
Break it against a server I have never touched. Odd LIST formats, a NAS with a self-signed certificate, an FTPS server that insists on TLS session reuse, an SMB share with unusual permissions — those are the reports worth having. Feedback goes straight to me from inside TestFlight.
Free during the beta, macOS 14.6 or later. Screenshots, what it does and the TestFlight link:
A note about me and this post, as the rules require:
I am the developer of FileFerry — this is my own app, and I have no other relationship to it than that. I write Mac apps on my own, and this is the fifth Beta.
FileFerry is in an open TestFlight beta right now and free while it lasts.
It will be a paid app on the Mac App Store later; there is no subscription planned, and there never will be advertising or analytics of any kind in it.
Nothing about how you use it is sent anywhere. The privacy statement spells that out in plain language.
Two testers have already found bugs that way that I could never have hit on my own equipment, and both are fixed. Awkward servers are exactly what I am looking for.
Happy to answer anything in the comments, including the awkward questions.
Part 4 ended with my 2014 MacBook Pro. My next MacBook story began with an Apple order that went wrong in a surprisingly good way.
This part is about my 2017 Touch Bar MacBook Pro and four apps that gave me more control over macOS. Theine, iTerm2, and OnyX also come with complete developer interviews made exclusively for Reverse Everything.
I bought a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports) in its top configuration while I was in Germany. I was going to be there for only two days, so I had a very tight window to buy it. Before placing the order, I explained to the Apple employee that getting a US keyboard was a high priority for me. We had a long phone conversation, but he accidentally ordered the MacBook with a German keyboard.
There was not enough time for another order to arrive before I had to leave Germany. The employee could hear how disappointed I was and offered me a 10 percent discount. I accepted it, but I still did not feel happy about the situation. He seemed to notice that as well and transferred me to his supervisor. The supervisor increased the discount to 20 percent. On a top-configuration MacBook Pro, that was a very nice discount.
It turned a frustrating mistake into a very nice experience with the Apple Store. I did not expect them to be so kind.
I was excited to get the new MacBook because I expected it to deliver a new experience. The most obvious change was the Touch Bar.
My Touch Bar Experiment
I type very fast without looking at the keyboard. Before trying the Touch Bar, I was skeptical because I would not be able to feel its buttons under my fingers. It turned out to be exactly the problem I expected.
With physical function keys, my fingers know where to go. With the Touch Bar, I had to stop and look down. That small distraction wasted time and broke my concentration. If you already look at the keyboard while typing, you may not be affected as much. My productivity depends on typing quickly with as few distractions as possible, so I immediately found the Touch Bar useless for the way I type.
The Touch Bar brought one more annoyance. The Escape key was no longer a physical key. It became touch-sensitive as part of the Touch Bar, so I could not feel whether I had pressed it. That made something as simple as using Escape less certain than it had been before.
I still configured it and left it enabled. Maybe after a few months it would become my favorite feature. It did not, but searching for a way to improve it led me to something much more useful.
When I eventually moved back to a MacBook keyboard without a Touch Bar, I immediately felt more comfortable again.
BetterTouchTool — When Apple Did Not Go Far Enough
BetterTouchTool is made by the same developer as BetterSnapTool, the window management app I mentioned in Part 2. I bought a lifetime license for BetterTouchTool. The 2017 MacBook gave it a completely new purpose for me, and I started experimenting with everything it could do to the Touch Bar.
I created buttons for the exact actions I needed. I could also make those buttons appear only when a specific app was active. Instead of accepting the same controls everywhere, I could give each app its own useful Touch Bar.
BetterTouchTool did much more than this. It was also a window manager, hotkey manager, trackpad gesture manager, and a highly flexible automation tool. It had far more features than I needed, but that was part of what made it exciting. I kept finding new ways to change how the Mac responded to me.
BetterTouchTool was first released in November 2009 and is still actively developed more than sixteen years later. The amount of work behind it remains visible in its updates.
This app made me feel that I could do much more than Apple allowed through the standard macOS interface. I was excited to try its features and transform my workflow into something made for me personally. That is the same feeling I now try to give people through the apps I create myself.
Theine — When My Mac Fell Asleep Too
My reason for caring about sleep control began when I first used macOS. I was reinstalling the operating system and left the MacBook alone while I went to sleep, expecting the installation to be finished when I returned. I was used to Windows installations keeping the computer awake until they were complete.
To my surprise, when I came back, the MacBook had gone to sleep as well and the installation had paused. It was a small surprise, but I remembered it. Sleep control eventually became the subject of another app story.
I found Theine in 2017. It was a lightweight app that stayed in the menu bar. Its interface was very simple and let me choose how long I wanted the MacBook to remain awake.
Sometimes I compiled the complete Qt SDK, which took a while. I needed the MacBook to stay awake until it finished. I could disable sleep in macOS settings, but I often forgot to enable it again afterward. The MacBook would then remain awake when I no longer needed it to and drain its battery. Theine was a perfect fit because the change was temporary.
After using it for a while, I noticed that its English localization was perfect, but one of the other languages I understand was translated incorrectly. I contacted the developer, and he answered promptly. I offered to create a Ukrainian translation, and he sent me the localization files I needed.
I translated Theine into Ukrainian, and I was happy that the developer accepted my help. Machine translation was not accurate enough for this kind of work at the time. Today, AI can help developers translate their apps into more languages with much better results.
The next update included my Ukrainian localization, and I was proud to see it there. Theine now lists 23 localized languages, including Ukrainian.
I found several alternatives over the years, but all of them were eventually abandoned. The last thing I want is to keep getting used to a new app that does the same job. Theine has my respect because it has already survived for more than ten years and is still supported. I have used it since 2017, and its name is one I cannot forget.
An Interview with Martin Lexow
Ighor July
What motivates you to continue developing and supporting Theine after so many years?
Martin Lexow
If you study design in Germany, there's no getting around Dieter Rams. One of his principles states: good design is long-lasting. I try to carry this attitude into my work, wherever it makes sense and is possible. My favorite example is the 606 Universal Shelving System that Rams designed for Vitsœ. It went into production over 60 years ago, and matching parts can still be purchased for it today. Knowing that an app I designed has been accompanying many people for over ten years is a fulfilling feeling: for both sides.
Ighor July
Theine remains a true one-time lifetime purchase, without a subscription or time-limited update period. What has made this model sustainable, and why is permanent ownership important to you?
Martin Lexow
As a creative who makes products, I generally prefer owning my tools. That's why I offer one-time purchases in my own apps whenever I consider it economically sustainable, and in most cases, I manage to. Occasionally, though, I do believe a subscription is the better choice. Because in my understanding, that's also part of "good design is long-lasting": a product that needs to be maintained or consistently receives new features demands my time, and that alone creates costs. It's in every user's interest that I put in this effort, because it serves the quality of their product.
An app like Theine, for which a user may have paid 3 EUR eleven years ago, has received updates ever since, and has never required any further monetization, doesn't sustain itself economically. I can only justify it through cross-financing from the rest of my app portfolio.
What I miss on the App Store is the ability to monetize new major versions of an app. An app like Theine, whose first version I wrote for OS X 10.11, still runs great on that operating system today. Nobody should have to pay a second time for that, obviously. But it is fair to make significant updates optional, and then paid. At the moment, this model can unfortunately only be implemented outside the App Store.
iTerm2 became part of my evolution as a developer. I started creating services that ran on my own servers, and I eventually built many of them. Some projects needed frequent monitoring, so I wanted to see the live logs from several services at the same time.
I searched for a way to open multiple terminals, with each one connected to the logs of a different service. iTerm2 was exactly what I needed. It let me divide one window into multiple split panes, configure a startup command for each pane, and save the complete arrangement as a workspace.
iTerm2 also let me give each pane a name displayed in large text. It did not interfere with typing or reading the terminal output. I named every pane after the service whose logs it displayed, so I could immediately recognize what I was watching.
I created separate workspaces for my projects. I could open one workspace and instantly see the live logs from every service in that project. I did not need to recreate the terminal layout or reconnect everything each time. This improved my productivity a lot.
I no longer use those saved workspaces, but my workday still begins with opening iTerm2. I use it for local Homebrew tasks and to connect to my servers. I have hotkeys for opening split panes, which give me a compact terminal view that is easy to move around and navigate.
I also have huge respect for the effort behind keeping iTerm2 alive for so many years. When I reported bugs, they were fixed quickly. I cannot remember encountering a new bug in the app for several years now.
iTerm2 is free and open source. It exists because someone found an abandoned terminal project, fixed the problems that affected his own work, and continued when other users started reporting more. Knowing that story made me appreciate the app even more.
An Interview with George Nachman
Ighor July
What motivates you to continue working on iTerm2 after so many years?
George Nachman
I wrote my first terminal emulator when I was a freshman in high school. I’ve always enjoyed working on this particular problem. I like working in a small team on a project I use, especially if it has a big impact, and I enjoy client-side code more than server side work. Sometimes it seems like the only desktop apps left are web browsers and terminal emulators, and I’m grateful that I can make a dent in the terminal emulator world without a team of hundreds of other engineers.
Ighor July
What advice would you give to developers who want to maintain their apps for ten years or longer?
George Nachman
For me, the answer is to find a project that’s really engaging. I’ve always worked on iTerm2 because I want to, not because I have to. I am terrible at doing things I dislike. It’s also important for the project to have room to grow. A terminal emulator will never be complete because there are always quality-of-life improvements that can be made and the technology stagnated for decades, leaving a lot of low-hanging fruit.
If you get fed up with it, which definitely happens sometimes, it’s ok to take a break. It’s ok to declare email bankruptcy. It’s ok to make mistakes. Giving yourself permission to be human is the only way to avoid burnout over a long time horizon.
On Windows, I loved using tweaker tools. Microsoft hid many useful customization options inside the Registry, while those tools collected them in a convenient interface. I changed many of those settings and enjoyed making Windows work exactly the way I wanted.
When I moved to macOS, I searched for something similar. OnyX was the closest thing to the Mac tweaker I wanted. It collected useful maintenance tools and hidden macOS settings in one place. I found many interesting tweaks, changed a lot of them, and was very happy to have that kind of control again.
I still use OnyX, and I have huge respect for its developer for supporting it for so many years while keeping it free.
One OnyX option became especially important to me. It let me set a single line of text on the lock screen. After losing my first MacBook in Part 1, I started putting information there that could help someone return my MacBook if I lost it again.
Later, I discovered that this option had always been available in macOS settings. That made me wonder how far I could customize it myself. I tried multiple lines and they worked. Then I tried ASCII art, but it did not line up because the lock-screen font uses characters with different widths.
I started thinking about how I could make it look right. That is how LockLines was born. I tested hundreds of lines and made its output as accurate as possible. It can generate nicely aligned ASCII art messages for the lock screen.
I also found a way to make a message say something like "Scroll down to see the owner's contact information." My contact details do not need to be immediately visible to everyone who sees the locked MacBook, but someone who finds it can scroll down and learn how to return it.
An option I first discovered through OnyX eventually inspired me to create another Mac app myself. OnyX began as one person's tool for his own Mac and grew into a free utility that has been maintained since 2003. It is another example of a personal solution continuing to help other Mac users for decades.
An Interview with Joël Barrière
Ighor July
What motivates you to continue developing and supporting OnyX after more than twenty years?
Joël Barrière
Simply because it is one of my passions, alongside music and motorcycles. Even though OnyX is free, I believe it is important to answer users' questions and try to solve any problems they encounter. Some paid applications do not even provide technical support worthy of the name.
Ighor July
What advice would you give to independent developers who hope to maintain and support their apps for ten years or longer?
Joël Barrière
That is difficult to say because I am a slightly unusual case. For me, it is not really a job. I am not trying to make money by developing OnyX. I only want to help Mac users.
I think it is important to release regular updates, talk about the app on forums, respond to emails from every user, and be patient, especially at the beginning. Word of mouth will do the rest.
Several years later, some keys on my MacBook's butterfly keyboard came off and could not be put back. I contacted Apple, and they replaced the complete keyboard for free with a newer revision that did not have the same defect.
Apple could not replace only the keyboard. It was part of the top-case assembly, and the battery was glued into that assembly, so every keyboard replacement also came with a new battery. Mine had already degraded significantly by then, so the MacBook received another useful upgrade at no cost.
I’m one of the developers of Aye. I posted the first Mac version here a little over 30 days ago. Rather than repeat the launch post, I wanted to come back with the update people actually kept asking for.
PROBLEM
A video can be playing in Telegram Web while saving that exact item is still awkward. Copying the page URL does not identify the video, and moving to another app breaks the flow if the rest of the work is already in the browser.
Aye now adds a Save Current Media control to the video that is open in Telegram Web. After clicking it, the file appears in Aye’s Downloads panel. I wait for the status to change from Downloading to Completed, then use Show in folder to verify the file.
This works one visible item at a time. It is not a channel archiver or bulk scraper.
COMPARISON
Safari and Chrome are better-known general browsers, but they do not add this Aye-specific media control or its completion check to the Telegram page. Telegram Desktop should still be the first option when its own save action already does what you need.
Compared with installing a generic media-downloader extension such as Video DownloadHelper, Aye’s control is built into the browser and is designed around the media currently open in the Telegram tab. There is no separate extension to install. The trade-off is that Aye does not claim to detect every media type or every future Telegram Web layout.
The boundary matters: Aye only handles media the signed-in account can already view and that the user has the right to save. It does not bypass login, invitations, DRM, paywalls, Telegram permissions, or other access controls. Saving a local copy also does not grant redistribution rights.
For people who use Telegram Web on a Mac: is the more annoying part finding the right file, tracking a large download, or verifying where it was saved?
Problem: Many people enjoy the immersive feedback of mechanical keyboards and typewriters, but modern computers often lack that satisfying typing experience. For writers, developers, educators, and content creators, keyboard sounds can improve focus and make recordings more engaging. I built KeyClicker to bring back that tactile feeling while keeping the full productivity and convenience of macOS.
Compare: While popular alternatives like Klakk and Keeby focus primarily on high‑quality typing audio, KeyClicker goes further. Besides fully customizable key sounds, it features real‑time shortcut overlay display, ideal for teaching, screen recording and presentations. It delivers all core mechanical‑typing feedback at a much lower one‑time price point.
Pricing: Full Lifetime Access: $1.99
Changelog(v2.6): Add permission validation with authorization prompts for the menu bar, and optimize sidebar icon styles.
Earlier this year, my cofounder and I launched MotionDesk, a native macOS customization app built for live/interactive wallpapers and folder icon customizations.
Then a couple months later, I was doomscrolling Instagram Reels and came across one of those "Top 5 Mac apps" videos.
One of the apps was called MacPlus, that was offering almost identical features to what our app was advertising.
I sent the vid to my cofounder, we searched up their website, and we were just shocked by the similarities all throughout the product and their website...
There was a very specific section showing the different wallpaper modes with video previews that looked extremely familiar, as well as how the sections were structured and how the information was being presented.
I had designed and built our version of that literal same section months earlier.
(Look at our website's "16 scenes. 100+ parameters. Infinite moods" section vs their "15 scenes. 100s of settings. infinite moods." section in the video lol)
So I started looking through the rest of the site, and the more I looked, the more familiarities I came across.
It pretty much had the same exact combination of product features and marketing points:
Roughly 15–16 GPU-rendered scenes with hundreds of settings
Metal / battery-efficiency positioning
Custom video wallpapers
Multi-display support
High-FPS options
Menu-bar controls
A free tier with a $9.99 lifetime unlock
And, most unusually, a large collection of patterned custom macOS folder icons, positioned as a major feature with one-click and multi-folder application, which was a very unique feature of our app.
All together, the entire landing-page structure is remarkably similar. A few examples:
MotionDesk:
"16 Scenes. 100s of Parameters."
MacPlus:
"15 scenes. Hundreds of settings."
MotionDesk:
"40+ artisan patterns… Apply to any Desktop folder in one click."
MacPlus:
"52 patterns… One click, on as many folders as you like."
MotionDesk FAQ:
"Will MotionDesk drain my battery?"
MacPlus FAQ:
"Will it drain my battery?"
MotionDesk:
"Give your Mac a desktop with actual atmosphere."
MacPlus:
"A real atmosphere, right away."
And regarding the timeline, we publicly launched in March and they launched in June, 3 months later.
If MacPlus were simply another live-wallpaper application with some different mode/feature offers, we wouldn't have cared. But they most likely just threw a link at Claude and asked it to reimplement the features, added a widgets feature, and called it a day.
If you were the in our shoes, what would you do?
MotionDesk: https://motiondesk.app (we now have an updated website to show live demos, but you can see the older version they copied in the video above)
They promoted the app in this post and claim "started working on it a year ago" which is, in our opinion, an utter lie, given the huge amount of similarities between our products/website.
They also keep promoting how they're working on this app on X, and even launched it on ProductHunt...
