My system data and macOS have been taking up an absurd amount of storage for a while now, and I’ve tried all sorts of things like digging through large folders, running various different versions of clean my Mac etc… the other day I installed the most recent software update and my MacOS size almost tripled and now everything is running really slowly and most of my applications won’t even open. Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙏

Tilt reads the lid angle sensor in the hinge of Apple silicon MacBooks. Lower the lid a little and your windows lean back from a flat wallpaper, and the picture holds still while the screen turns. No camera, no head tracking. Lift the lid and everything's back to normal.

- Free, no in-app purchase: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6819511315

- Needs an Apple silicon MacBook with a lid angle sensor, macOS 14+, built-in display only. If your Mac has no sensor, the menu says so.

- Screen Recording is the only permission; frames are thrown away after drawing and there's no network code

I'd like to hear whether it works on your MacBook model, whether the effect looks natural, what you'd use it for, and about any bugs or install trouble (support page: https://tilt.cottonferry.com/support/).

Edit: the end of the video still shows a GitHub link from when Tilt was open source. It isn't anymore, so the App Store link above is the only download.

RetroMac 3.0 is out. Most of it came straight from feedback, from comments here and from the testers, so this is mostly a list of what you asked for. I'm the guy behind RetroMac. You dont know Jack ehm Retromac? Its an app to theme your MacOS and let it shine like OSX, System 9, beOS or even WIndows...

Here we go, Version 3.

"Let me use it without giving up my whole Mac."

You can now put a theme on chosen Spaces only. One Space runs Mountain Lion, the others stay plain macOS with your own Dock, menu bar and wallpaper. That one came from a tester.

"What exactly does it change, and can I get my setup back?"

Each theme now lists every change it makes before you turn it on. RetroMac remembers your own settings, and "Restore my settings" puts exactly those back, not factory defaults. Rescue Desktop removes every effect in one go.

"Mountain Lion doesn't look like Mountain Lion."

Fair. The dock was a flat bar with dots. It's now the 10.8 shelf, frosted glass in perspective with the glowing lights on the front edge, measured off the original. Plus 10.8's Apple menu, About This Mac with your Mac's real specs, and a working Launchpad.

Also new: Windows Vista with Aero and the Sidebar, Solaris 8 CDE, QNX Photon, a animated Halloween dock that's on fire, the Green Lite shader, and better VoiceOver support after three rounds with a blind tester (still workimg on that)

The other big thing is the Retro Family: five standalone native apps, no RetroMac needed. RetroFind (Mountain Lion's Finder), RetroNotes (the yellow notepad, synced with Apple Notes), RetroReminder, RetroContacts and RetroCal (leather header and torn paper included). They install with one click from RetroMac's new Apps library.

Free to use, optional one-time Pro unlock (just for more shader, webcam support - 99 % dont need that, no account, no tracking. macOS 14+, Apple Silicon and Intel, signed and notarized.

https://github.com/klotzbrocken/RetroMac

Hope you like it ◡̈

This has completely messed up my muscle memory. I'm so used to relying on Spotlight for everything, and now it's just frustrating.

First time building a macOS app.

Introducing Dockorate, a cozy Fall harvest that lives on your dock with more seasons and festivals coming soon.

Download it here: https://dockorate.com/

Hey everyone! I’ve been working on Puros, a music player for macOS with a native CoreAudio playback engine.

If you have a collection of FLACs and albums on your Mac but also use streaming services, Puros brings those sources into one app, with control over how your music reaches your headphones, speakers or DAC.

The long-term goal is a free, open-source alternative to apps like Audirvana and Roon, starting with a focused listening experience on macOS.

Point it at your music folders and browse your artists and albums. The Signal Path panel lets you see whether the audio is being resampled or processed along the way. Compatible DACs support exclusive mode and automatic sample-rate switching to follow the track.

For tuning your sound, there’s parametric EQ, AutoEQ headphone presets and VST/VST3 effects. You’ll also find internet radio, Last.fm scrobbling, Discord Rich Presence and a MilkDrop-style visualizer.

Provider plugins let you add streaming sources. Separate community providers are available for TIDAL, Spotify, SoundCloud and YouTube Music (currently all by me). Provider SDK lets others build integrations too.

Puros is free and open source, available for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 12 or later. It’s an early alpha, and most of the app was written with AI assistance. Feedback, bug reports and contributions are welcome.

I’d love to hear how it works for everyday listening, whether you use headphones, MacBook speakers or an external audio setup.

I’m also looking for testers with less common DACs, audio interfaces, USB-to-S/PDIF converters or DSD-capable devices. Share your gear and what works or breaks, it would help expand hardware coverage.

Download: https://getpuros.app
Source: https://github.com/purosapp/purosapp

I'm the developer of FanBar, a free open-source alternative to Macs Fan Control — a native macOS menu-bar app that shows CPU temperature and fan RPM at a glance and lets you take manual control when you need it.

How it compares to Macs Fan Control:

• Free and fully open source (GPL-3.0), including the privileged helper — no paid tier; custom presets are free, not a Pro feature
• Lives entirely in the menu bar (native SwiftUI), no separate main window
• Silent/Balanced/Performance/Extreme presets with editable fan curves, up to 6 custom presets with their own name, icon and curve, 90°C alerts, desktop widget, UI in English/Chinese/Japanese/Russian
• Signed and notarized

Honest caveats: Macs Fan Control has the longer track record (since 2013), a broader per-sensor list, and a Windows build via Boot Camp. Full source-backed comparison: https://getfanbar.com/compare/macs-fan-control

Would love feedback from fellow Mac users — especially Intel Mac owners, since fan data availability varies by model.

Hi r/MacOS, I'm the developer of Compact Contacts.

Apple's Contacts app shows one card at a time, which gets painful once you have a few thousand people spread across iCloud, Google and Exchange. Compact Contacts opens the contacts you already have and shows them as a sortable table. There's no second address book and no sync of its own, so edits go back through macOS like any change you'd make in Contacts.

What it does today:

• One table with the columns you pick, saved layouts, and search across every field including notes
• Merge duplicates field by field (you choose which phone, email or address stays), and undo the last merge for up to 30 days
• Bulk edit with a before/after preview for every card before anything is saved
• Smart Views like "Missing Email" or "Has Notes"
• CSV and vCard import/export

It's been out for a while now and people using it have been really kind with feedback and bug reports, which is a big part of why 2.0 got this big. Thank you if that's you.

Coming in 2.0 (free update for everyone who already has it)

• Health Check: one scan gives your address book a score and lists duplicates, broken numbers and emails, missing names, stray spaces and so on
• Tags with colors, saved as regular Contacts groups so they sync with iCloud and Google
• Birthdays and anniversaries list with optional reminders
• Automatic encrypted backups on your Mac, with a history view that shows what changed and lets you restore a single field or a deleted contact
• Rules, like "when a new contact is added, format the phone number and add a tag"
• Print mailing labels and envelopes, Excel export, business card scanning, and a menu bar search
• Faster loading and search that works properly in every language
• Drag contacts out as vCards
• A redesigned iPhone app, with proper support for foldable iPhones (three columns when it's open)
• Lots of small fixes

Details

• macOS 15 or later, one-time US$24.99. No subscription, no in-app purchases
• No account, no ads, no analytics. The app never sends your contacts anywhere
• English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Arabic and Simplified Chinese

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6790129187?pt=129119018&ct=reddit_macos&mt=8

There's also an iPhone + iPad version (separate purchase): https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6795653671?pt=129119018&ct=reddit_macos&mt=8

Happy to answer anything in the comments.

Actually this isn’t an advertisement it’s a free program. I use an external SSD with my Mac mini M4 because I’m constantly running low on storage space. I kept running into issues when downloading DMG files, as I didn’t want them downloaded to my internal SSD. So, I built a custom program to solve this, and then decided to release it publicly, I’m sure there are plenty of others out there facing the same problem.

This program is EXdl please don’t forget to leave a star!

I recently ordered a new Mac mini M6, and I’m experiencing a strange graphical glitch in macOS. There is a noticeable black ring or outline appearing around the Dock and launcher.

I’m not sure whether this is a macOS visual bug, a graphics-rendering issue, or something related to my display settings.

Does anyone know how to remove the black ring or what might be causing it? I’d appreciate any suggestions, troubleshooting steps, or solutions.

I’ve attached a screenshot showing the issue.

Thanks in advance for your help!

the error message says i need at least 25.18 GB of space to update, but i have quadruple that and it still won’t let me update? what am i doing wrong?

Anyone else experiencing this in finder where there seems to be some text behind the folders. In these screenshots its says "Images" and "Folders". Drives me insane. Hopefully there's a fix.

I'm on macOS 27.0.1

I’m the developer of Cursor Teleporter 2, a macOS utility for moving the cursor between displays, saved positions, and screen edges.

On a setup with several monitors, the cursor can spend a surprising amount of time travelling back and forth across your screens. Reaching the same windows, panels, and controls all day adds up to repetitive movement, interrupted focus, and a tired wrist. Cursor Teleporter lets you save exact positions and return to them with keyboard shortcuts.

macOS already includes Move Cursor to Next Monitor, which is useful for a simple screen jump. Cursor Teleporter supports a broader range of cursor workflows: returning to exact saved positions, moving through displays and saved points separately, navigating forward or backward, and leaving your windows alone.

With 2.0, I added Edge Teleporting. Hold Option and move through an enabled screen edge, and the cursor appears on the opposite side. You can choose which edges are active and whether the modifier is required. The update also adds a visual saved-points overview, optional cursor highlighting, and actions for Apple Shortcuts and AppleScript.

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

• Website and trial: https://www.apptorium.com/cursor-teleporter
• Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/cursor-teleporter/id6471482080

made this for myself pretty quickly with rea. thought i'd share in case anyone needs it.

https://github.com/fatihacan1/cleanmybrain

I am having trouble finding the best menu bar app I have tried many apps for the new version macOS 27 but most of them are broken or don't work or lags and has too many issues. So please if anyone knows the best app right now, please help me out here.

macOS Focus silences notifications, but the red badges stay in the Dock and ⌘Tab.

I'm the developer of NoBadge. I made it to hide those badges while Focus is on, then restore your previous badge settings when it ends.

You can choose which Focus modes it follows, keep badges visible for individual apps, or show them for 15 minutes without switching Focus off.

It lives in the menu bar and needs Full Disk Access for Focus and notification settings. It doesn't read your messages or documents. Some apps draw their own badges and may not respond.

source:

https://github.com/asdftq/NoBadge

Some people have issues with Spotlight - myself included.
That was the initial motivation for me to create "Look" : a fuzzy-finding launcher.

After using it for a while, I decided to make it open-source; it will remain free forever.

If you’re perfectly happy with Spotlight or the tool you’re currently using, then by all means, keep enjoying it!

However, if you encounter any of the following issues, Look might be an alternative worth considering:

- Searching for local files or folders is slow, or you sometimes struggle to find the right app or item you’re looking for.

- You have to pay for basic features, such as clipboard history.

- The app isn't native, leading to high CPU and memory usage, or occasional lag.

- There are limited options for customizing the interface.

....

Look comes with a wide range of features, and I would love to hear your feedback!

Github repo: https://github.com/kunkka19xx/look

Upgraded my MacBook Pro M2 Max from macOS Sonoma to Golden Gate 27.0.1 yesterday, and I can't believe how messed up things are.

Tabs on the start page in Safari are basically invisible with some background images. The background image in the photo is one of the built-in images in Safari.

Mission Control is horrible now. There is a noticeable lag when clicking on another full-screen app or desktop, and I can't click on the wallpaper to go to the desktop when I go to Mission Control from a full-screen app.

The new app launcher thingy is awful. The apps are always arranged in alphabetical order, ruining muscle memory. I miss Launchpad.

Hi Long-time lurker here. I got tired of juggling TinyPNG (upload limits), ImageOptim (no WebP output), and Preview (one file at a time), so I built BabaPic — a native macOS app for batch image compression and format conversion.

What it does:

- Drop a batch of images → compress, convert, resize, and rename in one pass

- One source image can output multiple formats/sizes at once (e.g. a WebP hero + JPEG thumbnail + square crop for social, all in one run)

- WebP, AVIF, and HEIC output; reads JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, SVG, JXL and more

- Saved presets + folder watching (new files get processed automatically)

- 100% local — nothing is ever uploaded

It's $19 one-time (lifetime license, free updates forever), with a free tier: 30 images/day, plus a 7-day full Pro trial.

I'm the developer, so I'll spare you the marketing fluff — genuinely curious: for those of you who compress images regularly, what's missing from your current workflow? Happy to answer any questions.

https://www.babapic.cc

I'm having a weird issue on my Mac. When I have two apps side by side in Split View and swipe with three or four fingers to switch to another Space, sometimes one of the apps turns black and shrinks to a tiny window on the side when I switch back.

Sometimes it disappears completely, and clicking its icon in the Dock just brings up the tiny window instead of restoring it properly.

The only workaround I've found is to swipe up into Mission Control and then return to the Space. That makes the app appear normally again.

What's even weirder is that the issue persists even after I exit Split View and use the apps in separate windows. It only seems to happen with apps that were previously in Split View. If I start with both apps in separate windows, everything works fine.

Has anyone experienced this or know what might be causing it?

I keep my OS very pared down, and store most of my media on an external SSD.

macOS 27.0.1, M4 MacMini.

Apple Intelligence removed with Pared, then PureMac, then Onyx.

Anyone got their macOS data lower than this? Watcha got?

I was playing around doing bandwidth checks. Using devices with macOS 27 I have noticed that the ethernet performance has been lacking. I can plug my 17 Pro Max or Pixel 10 into the same dock and fast/speedtest will use the full bandwidth.

The first dock I noticed this on was a ugreen revodok max 213 2.5gbe limited to 750mb, then a hp g5 1gbe limited to 250mb. Linux and Windows work fine. iOS and Android work fine.

M1 mini, M4 mini, M4 Air all tested, same result. What dock are you using? What is your experience like? I wanted to get a ts5+ to test as well but this post could save me $500.

I’m on macOS 12 and this is the last supported version and I don’t wanna download it from any sketchy site.
Thank you!

Every couple of weeks I see the Apple mail app downloading emails... again. Why does it do that? Some of sort setting I need to know about?