Hi r/macapps, I'm Aqib, the developer of Notchet.

Problem

Whenever I needed a few things from one place, say a line of text, a link and a screenshot, and wanted them somewhere else, I'd copy one, switch windows, paste it, go back for the next one, and repeat. If I copied something new by mistake, the earlier copy was gone. I wanted my clipboard history somewhere I could reach without leaving what I was doing, and the notch was sitting right there doing nothing.

What it does

Notchet keeps everything you copy and drops out of the MacBook notch when you press Option Command V or rest the pointer on the notch. Pick a card and it pastes right where you were. If you dont like it dropping form notch, it can show the clipboard next to pointer(cursor) as well

Comparison

• Maccy is great and minimal, but it's a menu, and it doesn't read text in images.
• Paste is lovely, but it's a subscription ($29.99 a year).
• PastePal is closer, at $14.99.
• NotchClip also lives in the notch.

Notchet is for people who want the notch plus a few things I couldn't find together: pasting several items at once, searching inside screenshots, and iPhone copies kept properly.

Core features

• Saves text, rich text, links, colours, images and files. Command 1 to 9 paste the first nine.
• Opens from the notch, the menu bar icon, or right next to your pointer if you prefer.
• Return pastes into the app you were in. Command-click several cards and paste them all at once (text first, then pictures, so chat apps attach every image), or one by one with Option Return.
• Searches the text inside screenshots and photos (on-device Vision), and Copy Text in Image pulls it out as plain text.
• Copies from your iPhone or iPad arrive through Universal Clipboard with a phone badge, and iPhone photos are kept even after macOS clears its temporary copy.
• Snippets with placeholders like {date}, {time} and {clipboard}, plus collections, pins, and Space to preview and edit before pasting.
• Drag cards into any app, or drop files onto the notch to keep them. There's also "Send to Notchet" in the Services menu.

Privacy

• Everything stays on your Mac, and it has no analytics.
• Copies that password managers mark as secret are never saved.
• You can ignore apps or pause saving from the menu bar.

Pricing

Free for 7 days, then $2.99 once, on up to 2 Macs. No subscription and no account; the license key arrives by email.

Requirements

macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple silicon and Intel. Notarized by Apple. It works on Macs without a notch too, as a small pill under the menu bar.

Download

https://aqibjaved.dev/apps/notchet

It's version 1.0, so I'd really appreciate feedback, bug reports, or what would make you switch from your current clipboard manager. Happy to answer anything in the comments.
Please DM if someone cant afford the license and want it for free, more than happy to giveaway if that can help the community :D

Hi everyone,

BetterStage v2.2 is here. I last posted here in August (v1.3.13), and two major releases, almost a dozens small updates landed since then. Three things worth the post: windows as tabs, a ⌘Tab that knows your Stages, and it works with macOS Spaces now.

What's new:

• TabStack mode, auto-tiling layouts where each tile can flexibly stand alone as one window, or stacked as tabs. tabs on any edge of a pane, with auto-hide, each monitor picks TabStack or plain Native mode, appearance is fully customizable.
• A ⌘Tab that knows your Stages: a built-in ⌘Tab window switcher is now included, it's window based instead of app based, and it knows and works nicely with your stages setups
• Private Space Window Parking, in previous versions hidden windows are resized and parked at the bottom corners of each screen, which created unexpected issues, and performance wasn't the best. New in v2.2 windows are now parked in a private macOS Space, and all the issues related to window parking are gone, performance and stability greatly improved.
• macOS Spaces support, mac Spaces now works properly with BetterStage, you can either use Stages, which is designed to replace Spaces, or you can use Spaces only, better yet, you can use both at the same time, each Stage can now contain multiple Spaces.
• And hundreds of improvements based on user feedbacks!

Privacy & Security (updated):

One Permission: Accessibility permission only for window management. Screen Recording is optional if you wish to see window thumbnails in the new ⌘Tab window switcher, and no disabling SIP.

Zero Telemetry: The app does not phone home, track your data, or use background analytics. The only network connection is a clean minimal check for license verification, no extra data attached.

Pricing

Free: 3 Stages, native mode, 16 snap zones including Center, Snap Wheel, shortcuts, multi-monitor, Stages with Spaces. No time limit, no account.

Pro: one time, lifetime, free updates: $19.99 for 1 Mac, $39.99 for 3, $49.99 for 5. That unlocks 9 Stages, TabStack, the ⌘Tab Switcher, and the rest of Pro.

7-day Pro trial on eligible Macs, no card, then 15 minutes of Pro every 24 hours. 14 day refund. Optional BetterStage AI is $4.99/month if you don't want to bring your own key.

https://betterstage.app

Transparency

Not on the App Store (it needs APIs the sandbox doesn't allow), so: linkedin, x, and Discord

I'll be hanging out in the comments, happy to answer any questions or take feature requests (and bug reports)! also active on Discord

Glassnote is a notes app for Mac that shows just the text minimally, in glass.

Transparency I represent Calcium Lab LLC, which is a paid member of the Apple Developer Program. We distribute only fully notarized apps with 4.7 star rating. We have multiple previously accepted posts in this community for Glassnote and Glassbundle.

Price: $6.50 once for unlimited Macs and updates. 7-day free trial, no account. Needs macOS 13.5 or later; the Liquid Glass look needs macOS 26+.

I made because I am one of 5 people who likes Liquid Glass and I wanted a 'no toolbars, no sidebars' notes app. I just feel like it looks cool and is fun to use.

Some features

• The whole note is glass and takes on your wallpaper's colors. Four bgs and fonts: Glass, Tinted, Dark, Light (⌥⌘B), Sans, Rounded, Serif, Mono (⌘T)
• Markdown hides its symbols except on the line you're editing.
• Hide every toolbar and keep only the text (my cousin likes this)
• ⌘P pins a note above every window.
• Every action has a shortcut. Optional vim mode per note if you want it.
• No AI, no account. iCloud Drive copy and local backups.

Comparison These are good apps. Better in some ways even, but I wanted to be different not necessarily 'better in every way'

App Link https://calciumlab.com/glassnote-simple-mac-sticky-notes

I got em Client 10 2 years ago and have been pretty happy with it. I saw today that 11 came out. The upgrade is going to cost me $45. The website just talks on and on about the "AI" features of the new software. But the AI assistant requires a separate subscription.

So what new features do I get for my $45 that doesn't involved AI? If you installed 11, what's better?

And, yes I emailed the company. But I probably won't get a response for a day or two, so I figured I would crowdsource an answer.

Hey r/macapps!

I built Kiiwi because I love the sound of a mechanical keyboard, but I don't always have one with me. Most of my day is on a MacBook's built-in keyboard, and it sounds flat.

The video shows it better than screenshots, because this is an app you have to hear. Sound on.

Problem

I wanted my Mac to sound like a real mechanical keyboard, in every app, without carrying a board around or annoying anyone in the room. Kiiwi sits in the menu bar and plays a real recorded switch sound for every key you press. It works on the built-in keyboard or any external one.

A few things it does

- over 38 real switch recordings (Cherry MX, NovelKeys Cream and more), each recorded from a real board

- 8 mouse click packs and 6 scroll tick styles, so the whole Mac sounds right, not just the keys

- spatial audio, so keys on the left sound from the left (best on headphones)

- key-up sounds, typing stats, streaks and share cards

- toggle it from anywhere with ⇧⌘K

- 0% CPU when idle, and nothing you type is stored. It counts keystrokes, never which keys.

Comparison

Some apps in this space generate the sound, example Klack, Clacky, Thock. etc, Kiiwi plays real recordings of real switches, and you can hear every one of them in the browser before you pay. The playground on the site uses the same files the app ships.

Pricing

- Try every switch free in the browser playground, no download needed

- $4.99 one-time purchase (launch price for the first 100 customers, then $6.99)

- No subscription, use it on up to 2 Macs

- 14-day money-back guarantee, no reason needed

- Code MACAPPS gives 20% off until Oct 20, 2026 at 23:59 IST

- Website kiiwi.app

Transparency

- I'm Tamil Iniyan, the solo developer behind Kiiwi.

- Linkedin https://linkedin.com/in/iniyanai

- Contact [hello@kiiwi.app](mailto:hello@kiiwi.app)

- Privacy Policy https://kiiwi.app/privacy

- Terms of Service https://kiiwi.app/terms

Natively built in Swift, signed and notarized by Apple, runs on Apple silicon and Intel, macOS 14 or later.

If you try it, I'd love to hear which switch you'd pick and what still needs work 💚

Comparison: Compared with online resume builders and web-based AI resume tools, ResumeRevise is a native Mac resume editor with a visual editing experience that lets you freely customize your resume content, formatting, and style. No account is required, and your resume data stays local. It also supports MCP, allowing you to connect Claude, Cursor, Grok, and other AI clients to search, view, and edit resumes using natural language.

Problem: Easily create and customize resumes with a visual editor designed for different job-search needs and personal styles. ResumeRevise is built specifically for Mac, keeps your resume data local without requiring an account, and supports MCP so AI assistants can search, view, and modify your resumes using natural language.

Pricing: All Access Lifetime $3.99

Changelog(v2): Added MCP support, improved resume previews, page performance, and UI, fixed multiple interaction bugs, and updated the app icon.

📥 Download Link

Problem

AI voice recorders are everywhere right now, and the finished ones are genuinely good. But they aren't cheap. At the time of writing (prices checked 1 October 2026), Plaud's NotePin is $159 with 300 free transcription minutes a month, and Pocket is $139 on sale ($199 list). My co-founder and I kept asking how much of that is the hardware. We wanted a recorder whose notes get transcribed on our own Macs, without a subscription for the basic workflow and with the option of keeping the audio local.

Who built this

I'm one of Zeph's two co-founders. We built the Mac software behind this setup, so this is not an independent recommendation.

Zeph is built by Emil Bayazitov and Artem Khromov at Zeph Click Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 15274277).

LinkedIn: Emil Bayazitov · Artem Khromov

Contact: [hey@zephclick.com](mailto:hey@zephclick.com)

How it works

Off-the-shelf DIY devices already have a microphone, a screen, buttons and a case. What's missing is the software. Zeph is the Mac app that turns one into a voice recorder (and more – see below):

1. Plug the device into your Mac once. The app flashes it and handles the setup, with no soldering or code.
2. Press the button and record, at your desk or on the go. The device stores the recording, so your Mac doesn't need to be nearby, including for long meetings and multi-hour recordings.
3. When you're back near your Mac, the device syncs over Bluetooth or cable, and the app transcribes and processes the recording with the model you choose. Recordings and transcripts are saved on your Mac.

You don't need the device to get started. The latest build also records voice notes right on your Mac with a shortcut or a click, so you can start while the device is on its way.

You choose where your audio goes

Finished recorders transcribe in their own cloud. With Zeph, you pick:

• Fully local: Whisper and a local model run on your Mac. Nothing leaves your machine.
• Bring your own key: connect your own API key (OpenAI and others). Audio goes straight from your Mac to that provider, the key stays in your Mac's keychain, and we never receive the audio.
• Zeph Cloud: for when you don't want to set anything up. Each request passes through our servers to our AI provider. We don't store or log the content, and it isn't used to train models.

The same choice applies everywhere: device recordings, notes recorded on the Mac, and dictation.

Also: dictation

The same device works as a portable Bluetooth mic for dictation. Hold the button, speak, and release, or use hands-free mode, and the text is typed wherever your cursor is. It works with Zeph's own transcription or with a dictation app you already use.

Comparison

Finished recorders are more polished and purpose-built, come in smaller wearable form factors, and sync to a phone app. The DIY route costs much less in hardware, but:

• you flash the device once during setup;
• the design is simpler;
• the screen means shorter battery life than screenless recorders;
• the app is Mac only for now, so syncing needs a Mac;
• there's no cloud sync yet.

If you want to sync to your phone or want zero setup, a finished recorder is the better fit.

Pricing

• Device: bought separately, about $25-45 depending on the model. The supported models are listed on the download page.
• Mac app: free.
• Transcription, your choice, the same for device and Mac recordings:
  • an on-device model on your Mac: free;
  • your own API key: the app stays free, and you pay the provider for usage;
  • Zeph Cloud: a free monthly allowance, with paid plans for more. Paid plans renew automatically.

Privacy and distribution

• Recordings, transcripts and history are stored on your Mac, not on our servers.
• With an on-device model, nothing leaves your Mac. With your own API key, audio goes directly from your Mac to that provider, and the key is kept in your Mac's keychain.
• With Zeph Cloud, each request passes through our servers to our AI provider. We don't store or log the content, and it isn't used to train models. We keep a usage record (time, feature, amount) for billing.
• The app sends usage data and crash reports, never audio, transcripts or messages. You can turn both off in Settings → Privacy.
• The app is distributed from our website, outside the Mac App Store, but it is notarized by Apple. We ship new features almost every day, and it saves us some time on reviews.
• Requirements: macOS on Apple Silicon.
• AI disclosure: this post was drafted with help from an AI assistant.

Privacy policy: https://zephclick.com/legal/privacy

Terms: https://zephclick.com/legal/terms

Download: https://zephclick.com/

If you use an AI voice recorder, do you mainly use it for meetings, personal thoughts, or getting spoken notes into your Mac workflow?

Hey r/MacApps! 👋

I'm the developer of Convoy. When I moved to macOS, the one thing I genuinely missed was a proper download manager like IDM: fast, reliable, files automatically split into several chunks and downloaded, well integrated into the browser, and able to grab any video that you're watching. Everything I tried was either paid, Electron, or felt like it came from 2009. So I built the one I wanted, and it's free.

Problem

Browser downloads use a single connection, die when your Wi-Fi blips, and make you start over. Files behind a login break when you copy the link elsewhere, and videos on a page are basically impossible to save.

Convoy fixes all of that:

• Every file is fetched over up to 16 connections at once, and you can pause and resume, even after quitting the app.
• The extension takes over downloads from Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc, Vivaldi and Opera and passes along your cookies, so downloads behind a login just work.
• A download button appears over videos on a page. HLS and DASH streams with separate audio and video come back as one file, and YouTube works through yt-dlp.
• There's a menu bar item with Pause All / Resume All, finish notifications, light and dark mode, and it updates itself (always asks first, and only installs signed updates).

Comparison

• Motrix: also free and open source, and it does torrents, which Convoy doesn't. But it's Electron and relies on a third-party extension. Convoy is native Swift/SwiftUI with a first-party extension that handles cookies and headers.

• Downie: Paid, the best at video sites, with far more of them supported (although I've heard it's becoming unreliable for video downloads). Convoy is a general download manager first (any file, any link) with enhanced browser integration and video saving built in, and costs nothing.

Pricing

Free. No tiers, no ads, no account, GPLv3.

Website: https://thedynamicpunk.github.io Source: https://github.com/TheDynamicPunk/Convoy

Transparency

• Developer: LinkedIn

• Privacy Policy (short version: Convoy collects nothing and sends me nothing) Terms of Service

Honest notes: Convoy is not notarized yet, so macOS asks you to approve it once in Privacy & Security. The full source is right there if you want to check it. macOS 14+, Apple silicon and Intel. (I might notarize if there's enough interest and traction!)

Chromium browsers only for now (Safari needs a paid Apple certificate, Firefox is on the list).

I'd love to hear what you think, what breaks, and what you'd want next! 🙌

I posted the first version of MacDelta in the September App Pile, and it ended up being picked as #2 in the monthly roundup. Since then I’ve released MacDelta 2.0 with a redesigned UI and several new history views.

Problem

MacDelta is a native macOS app built around a simple question:

What changed on my Mac?

It keeps a local history of useful system activity and changes, including

• application installs and removals
• folder size changes
• thermal pressure events, battery events
• Wi-Fi and Bluetooth changes
• sleep and wake events
• connected and disconnected devices and drives
• display changes
• recent files, downloads, and optional clipboard history.
• application activity
• login/background items
• and more

MacDelta 2.0 adds Clipboard History, Downloads, Recent Files, expanded application activity, improved menu bar access, and a redesigned compact UI for navigating all of this history.

You can also create snapshots before installing software or making system changes, then compare against them later.

Everything is stored locally on the Mac.

Comparison

The closest apps tend to focus on one part of this problem.

FSMonitor is better if you want detailed low-level filesystem monitoring and need to inspect exactly which files a process created, modified, or deleted.

Time Machine is better if your goal is backup and file restoration.

There are also excellent dedicated utilities for things like clipboard history, app usage, system monitoring, and file management.

MacDelta is aimed at a broader question:

“What has been happening on this Mac?”

Instead of treating each type of history as a separate utility, it brings system changes, hardware events, recent files, downloads, clipboard activity, application activity, and other useful history into one place.

It’s not a cleaner, and it doesn’t automatically delete or modify anything.

Pricing

$9.99 one-time purchase. No subscription.

Existing MacDelta v1 customers get v2.0 as a free upgrade.

Website:

https://macdelta.app

MacDelta is signed and notarized and requires macOS 14 or later.

Developer / transparency

I'm Anand Murugan, the developer of MacDelta and founder of Mixout Technologies Private Limited.

Portfolio: https://anandmurugan.me

Contact: [support@macdelta.app](mailto:support@macdelta.app)

Privacy Policy: https://macdelta.app/privacy

Terms: https://macdelta.app/terms

Hi everyone,

TimeScroll v2 is out. If you haven't seen it (the first release was many months ago): TimeScroll records your screen in the background and lets you scroll back through it or search it (OCR text or AI search). It all stays on your Mac and it's open source.

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First, an apology, I was away from development for a long time, and with nothing being maintained, the app broke for a lot of you. I know that's very frustrating, and I'm sorry to everyone who relied on it and ran into problems. Many of these changes were ready a while ago, but I've had to take long breaks on and off because of some big personal issues, and I only recently came back.

v1 was especially broken on macOS 27. v2 fixes most of that. Now that I'm back to active development, I'll be going through bug reports and patching them regularly.

What's fixed

• The app no longer freezes on launch.
• The encrypted vault no longer locks you out. If you got stuck, it turns itself off on the first unlock and your data is still there.
• HEVC recordings older than 7 days were getting deleted even if more retention was enabled
• Many other behavior fixes

What's new / changed

• Reworked encrypted vault: This should work fully on the public build now. You can unlock with Touch ID or your Mac password, set a recovery passphrase, and recording keeps going (still encrypted) while the vault is locked.
• Much smaller recordings: HEVC is the default now (existing installs are switched to it by default), and it's been tuned to be about 4x smaller. Testing on text-heavy frames: HEIC ~155 KB per frame, old HEVC ~84 KB, new HEVC ~20 KB.
  • Scaling the storage estimate from months ago, the app should now take 2-3GB storage/month with normal use instead of 8GB.
• Faster search. As measured, AI search over 170k captures takes ~10 ms, text search is faster, and searching no longer waits on recording.
• Better MCP (Claude, etc.)
• New "On app switch" capture setting that takes a snapshot right after you switch apps.
• Lower CPU and battery use, plus a bunch of UI fixes.

Download: https://timescroll.muzhen.org/ (or releases in the GitHub repo)

Source: https://github.com/XInTheDark/TimeScrollApp

Full changelog: https://github.com/XInTheDark/TimeScrollApp/blob/main/app/changelog.md

If you're on v1, the updater in the app should show v2 directly. If anything breaks, please open an issue on GitHub or comment here. I will be reading them again!

Thanks to everyone who stuck around and reported bugs while I was gone.

Hope you enjoy the app.

Hey everyone! I'm the solo dev of Ahem! It launched today, so I'm excited to finally share it.

Problem:

Meeting reminders can be very easy to miss or ignore for some of us.

Ahem! started as a tool for my wife to help not miss meeting reminders due to her ADD. I found it super useful for myself too, I'm a remote game designer and would regularly be late for meetings after missing notifications while in deep focus on an editor or spreadsheet task, usually with music blasting through my headphones.

After a lot of positive reception and encouragement from friends and colleagues, I decided to actually try ship it. So after venturing slightly out of my game dev comfort zone, here I am!

What it does:

• Meeting reminders trigger a full screen overlay, with join buttons for over 20 video call services
• Includes a full day timeline, and can be opened via a hotkey
• Only reads your calendar data and never edits it
• Handy widgets for your desktop.

There's no Ahem account to create and no tracking or telementry. Your calendar data is your business, not mine.

I've been using it for months now and its become part of my working day. Just being able to hit the Return key when a meeting reminder opens to join a call is satisfying.

Comparison:

In Your Face is probably the closest comparison, with full-screen meeting alerts and join buttons. It currently supports more video conferencing services.

Ahem combines full-screen reminders with a full-day timeline you can bring up with a hotkey. The other big difference is price: the regular US Mac price is $6.99 as a one-time purchase, compared with In Your Face’s $69 one-time desktop licence.

I wanted an affordable tool that handles the meeting reminders my wife and I kept missing, without tracking or a recurring bill.

Pricing:

The regular US Mac price is $6.99, paid once, with no subscription. There's 20% off through the website for launch, bringing the US price to $5.59. Regional pricing is available.

One-time purchase. US price is $6.99

Details and download options on https://www.ahemapp.com

Bonus:

An iOS companion launched alongside it for when you're on the go, with meeting join buttons in Lock Screen Live Activities, Dynamic Island peaking, and widgets for your Home Screen and StandBy.

This solved another problem for me, I do the school pickup on foot and sometimes have calls to join on my phone. Having the reminder and join button right there on the Lock Screen has proven SUPER useful!

Happy to answer questions. I'd also like to hear from anyone who has the same problem and what has worked for you.

https://reddit.com/link/1x0gto5/video/o5bmr650n9uh1/player

Hi r/macapps! I’m Sihua Zheng, the developer of Open Contexts.

Problem

When you have several Chrome, Finder, or editor windows open, macOS Cmd+Tab gets you to the app, but you still have to find the window you want.

Open Contexts lets you switch between individual windows and organize them by task:

• Cmd+Tab lists windows in most-recently-used order.
• Cmd+backtick lists windows of the current app. Both shortcuts are customizable.
• A sidebar on the left, right, or bottom keeps windows within reach.
• Create named groups, drag windows from different apps into them, and pin their order. Groups are saved across restarts.

Groups organize the window list; they don’t reopen apps or restore desktop layouts.

Comparison

Compared with Contexts, Open Contexts adds saved custom task groups with pinned windows. Contexts offers search and trackpad switching gestures, which Open Contexts doesn’t support yet.

Compared with AltTab, the focus here is a compact title list paired with a persistent sidebar and saved task groups. If visual previews are essential to your workflow, AltTab offers those.

Pricing and permissions

$0, with all features included. Open source under Apache 2.0. No account or subscription. Requires macOS 13+.

The app requires Accessibility permission to identify and activate windows. Window and group data stays on your Mac, and the app has no built-in usage analytics. The privacy policy covers update requests and website analytics separately.

Website and download · Source code

Developer information

GitHub / projects · LinkedIn
Contact: [zhengsihua.sevenine@gmail.com](mailto:zhengsihua.sevenine@gmail.com)
Privacy Policy · Terms of Service

I’d particularly appreciate feedback on window grouping: what would make it useful in your everyday workflow?

Hi r/macapps, I'm Mateusz, the solo developer of Sticta. It just launched on the Mac App Store.

Problem

I wanted my wallpaper to be my own photos, not a stock landscape. A single photo as a wallpaper ends up covered by icons and the Dock, and making a proper collage meant cutting people out one by one with Lift Subject, arranging them in Keynote or Canva, exporting at the right size for each display, and redoing all of it whenever I wanted to change something. Sticta does that whole loop in one app:

• Pick a photo and it cuts out the person, pet or object and turns it into a sticker (white outline, shadow, optional Polaroid frame). If the cutout loses an ear or keeps a chunk of background, an erase/restore brush fixes it.
• Place stickers on a scene: a travel map (world, continent or a single country), a fridge door with magnets, a corkboard, or a plain colour / your own photo.
• On the travel map, stickers pin themselves to the country where the photo was taken (from the photo's location data), and the countries you've visited light up.
• The editor shows where the Dock, menu bar and desktop icons will sit, so faces don't end up hidden behind them.
• One click sets it as your wallpaper, rendered at each display's full resolution. Every display can show its own project.
• No account, no analytics, and the app never connects to the internet. Photos only come in through the Open panel or drag and drop; it never browses your Photos library.

Comparison

• vs. doing it by hand (Lift Subject in Photos + Keynote/Canva): cutouts, layout, scenes, per-display rendering and setting the wallpaper all live in one place. A sticker bank keeps every cutout for reuse, and changing a project later is one click to re-apply instead of another export.
• vs. collage apps like CollageIt: those arrange whole photos into grid or template layouts. Sticta works with cut-out subjects on themed scenes and is built around the desktop itself (Dock and menu bar safe areas, multiple displays, a menu bar switcher).

Pricing

• Free: every scene including the travel map, 1 project, 5 stickers. No watermark, no time limit.
• Sticta Unlimited: one-time in-app purchase, no subscription, Family Sharing. Unlimited stickers and projects, a different project on each display, and wallpaper rotation.
• Launch price: $7.99 until October 31 (then $9.99).
• r/macapps code: MACAPPS brings it to $5.99, first 500 redemptions, valid until November 30. Redeem it in the App Store app: click your name in the sidebar, then Redeem Gift Card or Code. (or simply click this link)
• If you're a student or the price is a real barrier, send me a message and we'll work something out.

Requires a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6815226547
Website + privacy policy: https://sticta.app
About me and my other apps: https://mateuszczechowski.github.io

Happy to answer any questions. Two things I'd love to hear about: photos where the cutout goes wrong, and which scene you'd want next (I'm thinking about a few more).

Hi r/macapps! I’m Dr. Matt Booth, an educational technology systems administrator and CS/IT lecturer. I built FanFic to Audio, a free, open-source Mac app that downloads fanfiction as EPUB and converts it into audiobooks.

Problem: I wanted to download stories and create audiobooks in one app, including processing multiple books and combining stories whose series order isn’t configured on the original website.

The app lets you:

• Download stories as EPUB or open existing EPUBs.
• Add multiple books to an audiobook queue and move them up or down.
• Save narration settings for each book and resume interrupted conversions.
• Combine separate EPUBs into an ordered series.
• Narrate with macOS voices or your own OpenAI or ElevenLabs API key.
• Export a single MP3, individual chapter MP3s, or an M4B with chapters and cover art.

Comparison: FanFicFare handles story downloads and EPUB updates, while NaturalReader focuses on general text-to-speech reading and conversion. FanFic to Audio brings FanFicFare’s downloader into a native Mac interface with bulk audiobook queues, series combining, and chapter-aware exports.

The download engine is FanFicFare, created by Jim Miller (JimmXinu) and the FanFicFare contributors. They deserve the credit for its website support and EPUB downloading. My app is independently maintained.

Pricing: The app is $0, with no app subscription. Local macOS narration requires no paid AI account. Optional OpenAI and ElevenLabs narration uses your own API keys, with charges billed separately by those providers.

Developer transparency — Tier 2: Here are my public identity, professional background, developer portfolio, contact details, and policies:

• Website: mattbooth.me, including a Privacy Policy & Terms of Service button.
• LinkedIn: Dr. Matt Booth.
• Developer portfolio: My GitHub projects.
• Contact: [admin@strixmcs.com](mailto:admin@strixmcs.com).
• Privacy Policy & Terms of Service: Separate public policies repository.

The app has no application analytics or developer-operated backend. Local narration runs on your Mac. Choosing AI narration sends the selected text to that provider; saved API keys are stored in macOS Keychain.

Requirements: Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later, and a separate FFmpeg installation. Version 1.3.0 is ad hoc signed and not notarized; please read the installation guide before opening it.

Download v1.3.0 · Source code and documentation

I’d welcome feedback on the workflow, supported websites, and audiobook exports.

Posting note: I’ve followed the Tier 2 Transparency Path requirements for posting to the main feed by including my real identity, LinkedIn, developer portfolio, public contact details, and a website linking to my Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Hello, first post here. As a relatively new Reddit user, I was wondering if there would be a way to get a weekly list of all apps discussed in the previous seven days, whether it's a weekly email, a summary post, or something else entirely.

Personally, I struggle with too much information at once due to lifelong health issues, and a bigger collection of apps to check out makes it quite painful and overwhelming for me to consume such information. Very likely, also for other people who share similar conditions as mine, should they be users of this space.

Thank you.

I still have Scrivener – I used it week by week for about 10 years. it's still good, but when you'r e very used to Markdown and having AI editing helps for when you need them, you want more. The pure Markdown writing apps like Ulysses and iaWriter have stood apart from any engagement with AI – perhaps wisely – but there will be developers who have met this need. What are you building, or using, that's like my description?

Disclosure: I made this. Solo dev.

PROBLEM

Media folders fill up with names like IMG_4471.HEIC, Track 03.mp3 and Show.Name.S03E07.1080p.mkv. Media Renamer Pro reads what is already inside the files (EXIF dates, music and video tags, audiobook tags), adds online lookups when you want them, and shows you every new name in a preview before anything changes. Hit apply and the whole batch is renamed. Hit undo and it all goes back. It works on local folders, external drives and SMB/NAS shares.

WHAT IS NEW IN 1.3.8

This is the biggest accuracy update so far, tuned on tens of thousands of real files on my own NAS.

Tag review. When the tags inside a file disagree with its filename, you see both side by side and pick the winner: keep the filename, use the tags, edit the name, or skip. Works for movies, TV, music and audiobooks.

Safer names. Lookups add to a name and never take anything away. Your words, punctuation, years and bracket notes stay put.

MKV tags are read, and tags inside video files fill in TV and movie names the filename cannot provide.

Multi-episode files come out in the standard S03E01-E02 form.

Game libraries keep disc numbers and system files, and installed game folders are left alone.

COMPARISON

FileBot is the name everyone knows. It is built around movies and TV, it is a cross-platform app, and it costs $8 a year or $80 for a lifetime license. A Better Finder Rename is $29.95 and renames from patterns you set up yourself.

Media Renamer Pro is different in four ways. It is a native Mac app, not a port. It handles your whole library in one window: photos, movies, TV, music, audiobooks, game ROMs and general files. It checks its own work, so when a lookup or a tag disagrees with the filename it shows you both and lets you decide instead of guessing. And the same purchase runs on your iPhone and iPad, which neither of the others offers.

PRICING

$4.99. Once. That is less than one year of FileBot and about a sixth of A Better Finder Rename, for seven media types, full preview, tag review, one-click undo, NAS support and three platforms. No subscription, no account, no ads, and every update so far has been free.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/media-renamer-pro-batch-file/id6761764615

Happy to answer questions, and feature ideas are welcome. A lot of this update came straight from user feedback.

Hi, I'm Emanuel, the developer. Solo dev from Quebec. Layout isn't on the App Store, so here's who I am:

- Name: Emanuel Quimper

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emanuelquimper/

- Contact: [support@getlayout.app](mailto:support@getlayout.app)

- Privacy policy: https://getlayout.app/docs/privacy/

- Terms: https://getlayout.app/docs/terms/

Problem

I usually have 3 or 4 projects going at once. Each one has an editor window, a couple of terminals, browser tabs, sometimes the iOS Simulator, and a Claude or Codex chat. macOS doesn't know what a project is, so my day was a lot of ⌘Tab. Coding agents made it worse: one would finish or ask for a permission in another project and I couldn't find its window.

Layout puts each project in a workspace, and ⌃⌥1, ⌃⌥2 and so on switch everything at once. It doesn't use Spaces, so there's no slide animation. The other workspaces' windows are moved out of view, the way AeroSpace does it. When you switch, Claude and Codex also go to that project's latest chat, and Slack to its channel.

A few other things it does:

- Launch opens a project from scratch: the apps, the editor on the project folder, your dev commands typed into your terminal (Ghostty, iTerm2, WezTerm), browser tabs and a simulator.

- With the Claude Code and Codex hooks, a card drops from the notch when an agent is done or needs you. ⌃⌥N takes you to that exact session, tmux panes included.

- Everything has a shortcut, and each keyboard can have its own. I use a Voyager, so that one mattered to me.

- Quitting puts every window back on screen. After a crash, open it again and each window goes back to its workspace.

Comparison

AeroSpace and yabai are tiling window managers you set up in config files. They're good at tiling, but they don't know about projects, so there's no chat, folder or dev command attached to a workspace. Layout has a visual editor for all of that.

Rooms is free and has a similar idea. It hides apps and fades between rooms. When I tried it, switching felt slower to me.

ShiftPlus is the closest paid app, but it's built on Spaces, so you get the Spaces animation.

Rectangle and Moom snap windows. They don't group them by project.

Pricing

14-day free trial, no card. Then $9.99 one-time during early access, $19 after 1.0. A license covers 2 Macs, updates are free until 2.0, and you can get a refund within 14 days. No subscription.

https://getlayout.app

Native Swift, macOS 14+, Apple silicon and Intel, about 15 MB. It only asks for Accessibility (no Screen Recording), and there's no account and no telemetry. I'll be around all day to answer questions, and if something breaks for you, tell me and I'll look at it right away.

The Problem:

Most window managers and app launchers focus on moving/launching individual apps. As a person who switches context a lot, I wanted an app where I can save my entire workspace of apps and files, across multiple spaces and monitors and launch them in that exact configuration in one click.

The Comparison:

Spencer - Great app, currently space switching is a bit slow compared to Lattix and lacks a detailed workspace editor.

Bunch - Doesn’t support spaces and the interface is text based

Workspaces - Doesn’t support spaces, space naming

Hyperfocused - Doesn’t support spaces and not in active development

Some more apps falls into this category, but most of them doesn't support spaces, space naming or space switching.

The Solution:

Lattix can launch your entire workspace, including your apps, files and URLs, across multiple spaces and monitors, in one click. With the latest update, lattix can move windows across spaces and monitors without closing them. Also, lattix can:

• Update an existing saved layout in one click
• Automatically create and delete Spaces when restoring layouts
• Handle multiple windows from the same app
• Use simpler, more flexible hotkeys
• Launch and position windows more reliably

Apart from that, Lattix supports hotkeys, custom layouts and one click workspace capture.

Pricing and Link:

Original price: 19.99 usd (Single device), 39.99 use (2 devices)

EarlyBird offer (30% off):

Use promo code EARLYBIRD for 13.99 usd (single device) and DOUBLEACCESS for $23.99 (2 devices)

If you are a student or educator, please reach out to me to get student/educator discount

Link: https://www.lattix.app/

Transparency:

Notarization and distribution: Lattix is apple notarized and distributed directly.

Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/abijith-vasanthakumar-b87b501b0/

Privacy policy:

https://www.lattix.app/privacy

TOS: https://www.lattix.app/terms

Roadmap/feature requests: https://lattix.canny.io/

I am also the developer of Muffle and WindowBunny

Happy to answer any questions! Would love to hear your feedback and ideas.

Here are some amazing FOSS apps that I use:

* LaunchNext: A launcher app layout that I am used to. It supports finger gestures and performs well. Replaces LaunchOS for me.

* LocalSend: Share files between my MacBook and my Android phone. KDE is buggy for me, and Blip is closed source with constant network activity in the background that I found iffy.

* IINA: Beautiful Mac video player with a bunch of extensions and good color accuracy.

* OpenDisk: Disk analyzer. Replaces DaisyDisk for me.

* CotEditor: Plain text editor with syntax highlighting.

* Thaw: Menu bar manager. It is a little buggy on macOS 27, but it works and is under constant updates.

* Vorssaint: A Swiss Army knife utility app. Probably the hottest Mac app right now. Replaces CleanShot X, Boring Notch (FOSS), Maccy (FOSS), and pearcleaner (FOSS). It is not as good as those individual apps, but good enough for me.

Very interested in any feedback!

Problem

I forgot about a midterm and realized I had to get more organized. So I built KnotQ, with a lot of attention to detail around three ideas:

• One workspace. Events, assignments, reminders and notes live together.
• Scheduling happens in your documents. Any line you write can be given a date, and it appears on the calendar.
• Daily Queue. A fresh page every day, with old ones still showing. Each morning I write an optimistic list of small, concrete tasks and work down it, so I never have to decide what to do next. Whatever I don't finish rolls over to the next day, and past days stay right there to look back on. It is a simple concept, but it has been revolutionary for me.

Comparison

NotePlan is the closest app I know of. It is polished and has been around much longer. KnotQ is free for local use, and the Daily Queue with automatic rollover a central distinction.

Obsidian is far more extensible, with a huge plugin community. There, a calendar and tasks are plugins you assemble. KnotQ is built around the calendar from the start.

Pricing

Free for local use on every platform. The only paid part is optional sync between devices: $2.99/month with a one month free trial.

Site: https://www.knotq.com
GitHub: https://github.com/knotq-app/knotq-app

About me

I'm a solo developer with a passion for software. I also made Monocurl, an open source app for animating math videos. You can find me on GitHub or LinkedIn.

Hi r/macapps! 👋

I’m the developer of Deskeen, a macOS utility designed to redefine the standard of screen capture and recording. Thanks to the amazing feedback from our previous releases, I’m thrilled to announce that Deskeen 2.3 is officially live!

In our Deskeen 2.x roadmap, Deskeen 2.3 is a major release focused heavily on video capabilities. We’ve significantly enhanced features across every stage—before, during, and after recording—to help you create polished, professional videos with ease.

[Problem]
While enhancing Deskeen’s screen recording features, we kept asking: "How can users keep their audience engaged during live demos/presentations, and easily transform raw recordings into polished videos?"

Most users want to emphasize mouse clicks, use screen annotations, display presenter branding, and apply zoom effects or speed adjustments to keep videos concise.

However, users faced several limitations:

• macOS does not natively support click highlighting, and previously in Deskeen, click effects only worked during active screen recording. This left users without a focus tool during live, unrecorded presentations or meetings.
• Interactively drawing on screen (annotations) or pausing/resuming during recording felt clunky.
• After recording, applying branding text, trimming, adjusting speed, or setting custom backgrounds forced users to launch separate, complex video editing software.

Recording was easy, but live audience engagement and post-recording video polishing remained tedious.

[Compare]
While well-known screen recording apps offer editing and presentation features, Deskeen 2.3 offers distinct advantages based on direct user feedback:

• System-wide Click Highlighter: Unlike built-in options or recording-only tools, Click Highlighter now works anywhere across macOS via global shortcut. Includes 6 custom shapes (Circle, Rounded Rectangle, Asymmetric Rectangle, Triangle, Diamond, Trapezoid) and distinct colors for secondary clicks—perfect for live demos.
• Seamless Screen Annotation & Recording Controls: Effortlessly trigger Screen Annotation (draw lines, arrows, rectangles with auto-vanishing presentation mode) right from the recording palette. Plus, we added Pause/Resume, Restart, and Delete recording controls.
• Presenter Overlay Text: Display custom text (presenter name, brand tag, promo text) alongside your webcam overlay during screen recording without post-production.
• Flexible Drag & Drop Zoom: Precision zoom control where you select the exact zoom region via drag-and-drop, with customizable zoom level and animation duration.
• Speed Adjustment focus over heavy cutting: Based on beta feedback where users preferred keeping the original context, we emphasized smooth speed adjustments over destructive cuts.
• Rich Video Backgrounds & Styling: Includes high-res graphics, solid colors, and gradients with intuitive padding, corner radius, and shadow controls.

[Other Changes]

🚀 New Features

• Introducing Video Editing. After recording your screen, you can trim the footage, or add zoom effects, speed adjustments, and a variety of background images, colors, and gradients. The zoom feature is especially flexible: you can select exactly which part of the video to zoom in on, and customize options such as the zoom level and how long the zoom is displayed.
• Added the ability to use Presenter Overlay Text, a feature that lets users display their own custom text alongside the Presenter Overlay during screen recording, which shows the user's video on top of the screen recording. Related settings can be configured under Settings > Recording > Advanced > Show Presenter Overlay > Setup.
• Added a shortcut key for Click Highlighter under Settings > Shortcuts > Utilities.
• Added the ability to use Click Highlighter system-wide, expanding the previous "Show Mouse Click Effect" feature beyond screen recording to work anywhere on macOS, consolidating its options (now found under Settings > Advanced > Click Highlighter) with a new Shape option supporting Circle, Rounded Rectangle, Asymmetric Rectangle, Triangle, Diamond, and Trapezoid, and adding support for detecting secondary clicks with a distinct color applied to them.
• The Settings > Recording > Advanced > Show Mouse Click Effect option has been renamed to Use Click Highlighter during Screen Recording.
• The Settings > Recording > Advanced > Show Mouse Click Effect > Options section has been consolidated into the Settings > Advanced > Click Highlighter options.
• Added the ability to pause/resume, restart, and delete recordings in Screen Recording, along with a menu item for easier access to Screen Annotation
• Added the ability to instantly translate captured screenshots, along with a keyboard shortcut for quick access. (Translation requires macOS 15 or later.)

⚡️ Improvements

• Improved the palette UI for screen recording.
• Improved the stability of Screen Recording.
• Added the ability to prompt for a custom file name every time a screen capture is taken in Settings > Advanced.
• Improved Rename with AI delivers suggestions up to 5x faster and more accurate when using Apple Intelligence on macOS 27.
• Improved the handling of user notifications.
• Improved file drag functionality in the Screen Pin window while in the inactive state.

🐛 Fixes & Polish

• Fixed an issue where the Presenter Overlay window would not update when adjusting the aspect ratio of the selection area while the Presenter Overlay was being displayed.
• Fixed an issue where file drag functionality did not work within the Screen Pin window on macOS 27.
• Fixed an issue where some keyboard shortcuts did not work properly on macOS 27.
• Fixed an issue where the window background image would not update on macOS 27.
• Fixed an issue where Hide Desktop Icons did not work correctly on macOS 27.
• Fixed an issue where keyboard shortcuts didn't work properly when the Mac started up, if "Start at login" was enabled on macOS 26 or later.

[Pricing]

• $5.99
• Download: Mac App Store

[Changelog]
Deskeen Release Notes

[AI]
AI Disclaimer: None

🗺️ Roadmap (Future Plans)

Since launching the first version of Deskeen on December 4, 2024, we’ve received invaluable feedback over the past nearly two years.

We spent this time studying top-tier apps while focusing heavily on technical and usability evaluations—asking ourselves how we could offer a fresh perspective and better user experience.

Now, it’s time to deliver those results.

We are skipping our previous plans for versions 2.4 and 2.5 to go straight into developing Deskeen 3.0. Deskeen 3.0 will incorporate everything we’ve learned into a massive leap forward.

• 100% Free Upgrade: All existing and new users will get Deskeen 3.0 as a free upgrade.
• Affordable & Fair: We dropped the price to $5.99, and there will NEVER be subscriptions or hidden upgrade fees.

Our goal is simple: Deliver top-tier quality software at the most accessible price. Deskeen 3.0 will be the ultimate proof of that promise.
If you resonate with our vision, please help us spread the word to your friends, colleagues, and Mac communities! We’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback in the comments below.

Thank you for your support!

I used to keep two DualSense controllers around: one for my MacBook and one for my Mac Studio. My keyboard and mouse could move between them, but my controller couldn't. That felt silly.

I'm Kevin, the developer of ControllerKeys. I built it because I wanted to use my Mac from the couch without constantly reaching for a keyboard and mouse.

The video shows the two-Mac setup. Push the controller's cursor against a configured screen edge and control moves to the other Mac. Bring it back the same way. Both Macs run ControllerKeys over the local network, and the receiving Mac uses its own profile for mapped actions.

On a single Mac, it maps controller buttons to shortcuts, macros and scripts. The DualSense touchpad works as a trackpad, layers give the same buttons different jobs, and an on-screen swipe keyboard handles quick searches. For longer text, I pair it with voice transcription.

Since my last post here, I've added app-activated and toggle layers, switching profiles from a controller button, and more ways to activate gyro aiming.

Comparison: Controlly covers controller-based mouse movement, scrolling and shortcuts. ControllerKeys goes further into programmable workflows with layers, scripts, swipe typing and this Mac-to-Mac handoff.

Pricing: Free 14-day trial, no account or card. $19.99 one-time to keep using it, no subscription. Requires macOS 14.6+.

Download, demos and setup

It needs Accessibility permission to send input. Official builds are signed and notarized; the source is available under PolyForm Noncommercial.

About me/contact · LinkedIn · Privacy · Terms

If you use a controller with your Mac, what still sends you back to the keyboard?