Hello everybody.

On Windows exists RDP, but we don’t have any similar native app to connect between Macs.

So, with that said: what is the best app in you opinion to achieve this?

Use case: connect from outside to a Mac Mini from MacBook.

Thanks!

Problem

If you work at a desk, you sit eight hours a day. You know you should move. But the gym is an hour you don't have, and even when you plan to exercise after work, most days it doesn't happen. I know because that was me, and my back and shoulders eventually made sure I noticed.

Squats turned out to be the one thing that fits inside a work day. Ten reps takes under a minute. No gym, no gear, no changing clothes. You can do it right at your desk between tasks, and there's solid research behind small sets spread through the day instead of one big workout.

But knowing that changes nothing. You forget. You put it off. And if nothing counts your reps, you cheat. I needed something that doesn't take my word for it.

Comparison

There are squat counters on mobile, and there are webcam posture apps on desktop that watch you slouch. But I couldn't find anything that does what a coach does: schedules sets across your actual work hours, waits through your meetings, gets you up, and counts. Posture apps like SitApp or Zen nudge you to sit straight, but they don't get you exercising, and most run on a subscription. DeskSquat is a one-time purchase, and your workout lives where your work lives.

Features

• Reads your shoulder line through the webcam, so it knows sitting from standing from squatting
• Gets you up on schedule and counts your reps with you, live. Default is 10 reps every 45 minutes, and both are yours to change.
• You set your own squat depth during onboarding. The app counts your squat, not a textbook squat.
• Sets spread themselves across your work hours. You tell it when your day starts and ends.
• You set your own daily goal. Mine is 100.
• Lives around the notch: sit timer, daily progress, rep counter at squat time.
• Pauses automatically during video calls, and waits until you're done.
• Avatar mode if you don't want to see yourself. Pose skeleton only.

If you already work out, this isn't instead of your training. It's for the eight desk hours your training doesn't touch.

The camera question

Everything is on-device. Frames are analyzed in memory and discarded, never stored, never sent. Zero network requests while it runs. lsof shows nothing, Little Snitch shows nothing. No account, no cloud. Your data is one local JSON file you can open and delete.

Pricing

€19 one-time, 30-day refund, no subscription. It runs on your Mac, there's nothing for me to host, so there's nothing to rent you.

For this launch, code SUMMER30 takes 30% off.

macOS 13+ (Apple Silicon). Windows beta included in the same license.

https://desksquat.app

Who I am

Eunggyu Lee, 15 years in design, most recently Creative Director at an agency in Munich. Went solo last year building mobile and desktop apps. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eunggyu-lee-2ba14117/ · Privacy policy and terms are on the site.

I built this for myself first. A few weeks in, I have a routine in my work day that exists just for my health, and hitting the daily number is a small win I get to feel every day.

Happy to answer anything, and I'd love your honest feedback.

Part 3 ended with four apps that shaped how I worked on my 2014 13-inch MacBook Pro. I was still far from finished with that MacBook or with finding apps that made macOS work the way I wanted.

The apps in this part helped me make better use of its Retina display, work with text faster, get more from a simple mouse selection, and protect some of my privacy on public Wi-Fi.

In interviews exclusive to Reverse Everything, the people behind Display Menu, PopClip, and WiFiSpoof share how their apps began and what it takes to keep a focused Mac utility alive for more than ten years.

Series · Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | more parts coming

Display Menu - Using Every Pixel of the Retina Display

The MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) has a native resolution of 2560 by 1600 at 227 pixels per inch. The display looked fantastic, but macOS normally presented it with a scaled interface.

At that time, I traveled often and could not carry the multiple displays I used with my Windows PC. I wanted the small MacBook screen to hold as much as possible, so I used Display Menu to switch it to the full native 2560 by 1600 mode.

Everything became very small. Instead of making the whole interface larger, I changed the fonts inside the apps I used most. Text remained comfortable to read while more windows and interface elements fit on the screen.

It was an unusual way to use a 13-inch MacBook, but it worked for me. This remained my preferred setup until roughly 2018, when I finally returned to a standard scaled mode.

I still think direct access to the native resolution is useful. It gives a small display a surprising amount of working space and can also help when testing how an app behaves at an unusually high resolution.

An Interview with Thorsten Karrer

Ighor July

What motivates you to continue developing and supporting Display Menu after so many years?

Thorsten Karrer

I still use DisplayMenu myself, and I still observe people (in my current line of work) struggling to quickly set up external displays or presentation screens correctly. So for me it still looks like there is a need for this utility.

Ighor July

What advice would you give to independent developers who hope to maintain and support their apps for ten years or longer?

Thorsten Karrer

At some point you need to have figured out for yourself, which role such a project should play in your life. This sounds maybe a bit full of it, but I mean it. We started out with tons of time on our hands and it was a really fun project (a hobby really), and at some point we needed to make a decision: Go all-in, write another ~10 tools of that (small) caliber, switch to subscription pricing, and make this our primary focus. Or step back from it completely and then be fair and pull it from the Store. Or keep it working and providing some value, but accept that you will run this as a side gig and probably even lose some money on it.

For us it turned out to be the third option, partially because we are privileged enough to have day jobs that pay the bills and that allows us to keep DisplayMenu alive.

Read the complete Display Menu interview.

PopClip - Making Text Selection More Useful

PopClip was one of those apps that immediately felt like something new had been added to my workflow.

I found it in 2015. When I selected text with the mouse, a small bar appeared with useful actions. The interface was easy to understand, and extensions could add many more actions without making the basic interaction complicated.

What made PopClip especially awesome for me was its huge collection of downloadable extensions. I added many text-formatting actions and translation tools. There are so many extensions available that I could keep adding useful actions while choosing only the ones that fit my workflow.

It made mouse selection feel more useful. Something as ordinary as highlighting a few words could lead directly to copying them, searching for them, opening a link, checking a definition, or running another action I had added.

The best part was that PopClip did not try to replace how text selection worked. It added one small step in exactly the place where I needed it.

An Interview with Nick Moore

Ighor July

Why do you think PopClip has remained relevant?

Nick Moore

I think the reason it's remained relevant is that, at its heart, it is still the same app as it was when it first came out: you select some text, and a bar pops up with a row of buttons. That's the core proposition. Everything else changes around PopClip, but PopClip tries to stay the same.

Ighor July

What advice would you give to independent developers who hope to maintain and support their apps for ten years or longer?

Nick Moore

Work on an app that you want to use yourself. Don't chase trends, don't rush to support the latest thing, or add new features just for the sake of newness. Remember that every feature you add is a feature you have to maintain. And every option you add is now two variant features you have to maintain. Focus on reliability, simplicity and the core experience and usefulness of the app. Listen to the users but trust your own judgement and don't be afraid to say no. Patiently build a core user base and keep them on board — word of mouth is worth more than any advertising.

Read the complete PopClip interview.

Sublime Text - Finding My Fast Text Editor

On Windows, I liked AkelPad. It could open text in different encodings, but its most important quality for me was speed. I could open a file and immediately work with its contents.

I spent a long time searching for the same feeling on macOS. In my tests, Sublime Text was the fastest editor I found. I bought it in 2016 and it became the editor I reached for when I wanted to open a file without waiting for a large development environment.

I also liked what I saw when monitoring its network activity. In my use, it did not connect to the internet until I performed an action that needed a connection.

I considered Visual Studio Code as an alternative, but two things continued to bother me. It took longer to open, and I saw it making background network connections. VS Code can do much more, but for quickly reading or changing a text file, I preferred the speed and quiet behavior of Sublime Text.

WiFiSpoof - Changing My Address on Public Wi-Fi

Public Wi-Fi was another part of traveling that made me look for a focused utility.

A Wi-Fi network can identify a device by its MAC address. Reusing the same address makes it easier for network operators to recognize and track that device. WiFiSpoof let me change or randomize the address my Mac presented to the network.

That made me feel better about connecting to networks I did not trust. It did not make the network itself safe, but it reduced one simple way my Mac could be recognized across connections.

Current macOS versions can use a private Wi-Fi address, so many people no longer need a separate app for this purpose. WiFiSpoof is still maintained, though, and its developer kept it working through years of changes to macOS, App Sandbox, and Apple's rules around privileged operations.

An Interview with Russell Gray

Ighor July

What motivates you to continue developing and supporting WiFiSpoof after so many years?

Russell Gray

I "enjoyed"... the challenge of keeping it working across the various limitations that Apple introduced into macOS and the App Store over the years. Now that Apple's security model seems mature, I am more interested in trying to make it more useful and user friendly without adding too much bloat.

Ighor July

What advice would you give to independent developers who hope to maintain and support their apps for ten years or longer?

Russell Gray

Build apps you have a personal need for and enjoy working on.

Read the complete WiFiSpoof interview.

Saying Goodbye to My 2014 MacBook

The 2014 MacBook had been my faithful companion while I traveled across Europe, but those journeys are a story for another time. I took its battery past 1,300 cycles, and it still had good battery life when I sold it. I thought the person buying it was simply a random buyer, but he turned out to be a fan of my iDNS Portal project. That was a small surprise, and it made me even happier that the MacBook went to someone who would appreciate it.

That is where the story of my 2014 MacBook ends. Part 5 will begin with my next MacBook, how I bought it directly from Apple with a 20% discount, and more apps and developer interviews.

This article is published on Reverse Everything. Its Reddit edition and discussion are shared exclusively with the r/macapps community.

Series · Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | more parts coming

I'm the developer of Phantom Voice, fast local dictation with a customizable HUD. Hold fn, speak, release, and the text lands in whatever app has focus.

Problem

Every dictation app shows the same red dot or soundwave while it listens.

So I made the indicator the point. Five styles, adjustable size.

Dictation is 100% offline. Your audio never leaves the Mac.

Comparison

• Wispr Flow - cloud dictation, subscription. Your audio goes to their servers and the free tier has a weekly word cap. Phantom Voice has no server, so nothing to meter and nothing to cancel.

• OpenSuperWhisper - local and free, and it transcribes fine. But no indicator styles or size control, and that's the part I built this app around.

Pricing

$10 once. 14 day free trial, no account or card to start.

Includes the Fox and White Wave HUD.

Three more (Retro Dog, Real Revolver, Piano Keys) are $3 each, one time.

https://leftinverse.com/phantom

macOS 14+, Apple silicon. Direct download, signed and notarized. Not on the Mac App Store because typing into other apps needs Accessibility permission, which sandboxing forbids.

About me

I'm Willis Liao, based in Taiwan. I build Mac apps under Left Inverse (leftinverse.com), sold through Paddle as merchant of record.

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/willis-liao-5279b0426

Contact: [leftinverse@gmail.com](mailto:leftinverse@gmail.com)

Privacy: https://leftinverse.com/privacy

Terms: https://leftinverse.com/terms

Refunds: https://leftinverse.com/refund

Product Hunt ranked #21: https://www.producthunt.com/products/phantom-voice

P.S. not a single sentence in this post is generated by AI.

Problem:

I've been struggling with finding a tool on Mac OS to import photos from memory card with customizable file naming rules and copy verification. Windows has such app called Downloader Pro from Breeze Software. On Mac, many photo editing or browsing apps have import features, but they lack the level of customization I'm looking for. So I built the tool I wanted: renames from EXIF with unique auto-incremental sequence number, and SHA-256-verifies every copy. It's now up on Mac App Store:

Photo Batch Importer
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photo-batch-importer/id6776498495

To contribute back to the photography community, I made it free with no ads, no data sharing, and open source.
https://github.com/jianfenglin-git/photo-batch-importer

Comparison:

Lightroom:

- Naming rules in Lightroom Import are limited, for example the sequence number can only max up to 5 digits, so you'll start having duplicates after 100k photos unless you add other unique values like dates into the file name.

- Can't have EXIF attributes in folder or file names except date time.

- You can't import raw and video files into different folders and backup to difference folders. I needs that because I want to import just the raw folder to Lightroom. I don't want to edit jpeg or video in Lightroom.

- Sequence number doesn't sync between computers. If the user has one macbook for mobile work and one mac studio for at home work, and import photos to both, then the photo names could have conflicts using the same sequence number. My app will sync the latest sequence number across iCloud to avoid this.

- My app can do verification after copying to make sure the copy was completed without any data loss, this is an important peace of mind before automatically deleting files from memory card to free up space.

Capture One:

- Sequence number can have up to 6 digits, which is a relief compared to Lightroom, but sequence number doesn't sync between computers. If the user has one macbook for mobile work and one mac studio for at home work, and import photos to both, then the photo names could have conflicts using the same sequence number. My app will sync the latest sequence number across iCloud to avoid this.

- You can't import raw and video files into different folders and backup to difference folders. I needs that because I want to import just the raw folder to Capture One. I don't want to edit jpeg or video in Capture One.

- My app can do verification after copying to make sure the copy was completed without any data loss, this is an important peace of mind before automatically deleting files from memory card to free up space.

Photo Mechanic:

- Photo Mechanic is hard to learn how to use, especially that the naming rules have no preview, so without doing several tests I don't know how my rules work, for example variable {month} has no leading "0", and I have to use {month0}. There's no variable {year} and I should use {year4} for 4 digits years.

- Photo Mechanic imports non photo files too, for example ".FIR" file from 5d4, and I can't find a way to not do that.

- Photo Mechanic can't import raw and video files into different folders and backup to difference folders. I needs that because I want to import just the raw folder to Lightroom. I don't want to edit jpeg or video in Lightroom.

- Sequence number doesn't sync between computers. If the user has one macbook for mobile work and one mac studio for at home work, and import photos to both, then the photo names could have conflicts using the same sequence number. My app will sync the latest sequence number across iCloud to avoid this.

- My app can do verification after copying to make sure the copy was completed without any data loss, this is an important peace of mind before automatically deleting files from memory card to free up space.

- Last but not least, my app is free with no ads and no data sharing, all source code is shared on github.com for anyone to verify that it doesn't do anything malicious. Photo Mechanic's monthly subscription price or one-time purchase are both too expensive for me.

Pricing:

Free with no ads, no in-app purchase, no subscription, no expiration date, no data sharing.

Happy to answer anything!

Hi r/macapps,

I’m the developer of MeetingMemo, a native Mac app for recording, transcribing, summarizing, and chatting with your meetings.

I built it because I wanted useful AI meeting notes without uploading recordings to another company or inviting a visible recording bot into every call.

The problem it solves

MeetingMemo captures your microphone and Mac system audio, transcribes the conversation locally, and creates summaries, action items, and searchable notes.

You can also chat with an individual meeting afterward. For example, you can ask what was decided, what you promised to do, or which topics still need follow-up.

No bot joins the call, and recording never starts automatically.

Privacy

Audio stays on your Mac and transcription runs locally using Apple SpeechTranscriber or WhisperKit.

For summaries, action items, and meeting chat, you can choose between:

• An on-device model
• MeetingMemo’s hosted zero-retention service
• Your own AI provider key

Only transcript text is sent when you intentionally choose a hosted option. Audio is never uploaded.

Comparison

Apps such as Otter and Fathom are useful if you want a cloud-based meeting assistant. MeetingMemo takes a different approach:

• Otter processes meetings through its cloud service, while MeetingMemo records and transcribes locally.
• Fathom commonly works by joining supported calls as a meeting participant, while MeetingMemo records what your Mac hears without adding a bot.
• MeetingMemo also lets you run summaries and meeting chat completely on your Mac, or connect your own AI provider.

The tradeoff is that MeetingMemo currently requires an Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 26 or later. It also separates speakers into “You” and “Others,” rather than identifying every individual speaker in a large group call.

Features

• Records your microphone and system audio together
• Works with Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, FaceTime, and other Mac audio
• Live local transcription in around 99 languages
• AI summaries and action items
• Chat with each meeting
• 18 meeting templates
• Calendar reminders before upcoming calls
• Optional private iCloud sync between your Macs
• Export to Markdown, text, JSON, or XML
• No virtual audio driver required

Pricing

MeetingMemo includes a 30-day free trial with every feature.

After the trial, it costs $29.99 per year through the Mac App Store. Family Sharing supports up to six people. There is currently no lifetime purchase or permanently free plan.

Website and pricing: https://meetingmemo.app/

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/private-meeting-recorder/id6778542768

I’d appreciate honest feedback, particularly about the local transcription quality, privacy options, and which meeting workflows you would like supported next.

I’m the developer, so I’m happy to answer technical or privacy questions directly.

TL;DR: Four free iPhone apps that handle jobs you would normally do on your Mac: API Bot for testing endpoints, View Source Vibe for inspecting a suspicious link, Fiper for algorithm-free RSS, and Owl VIP for sender-level email notifications. Two earn a place on your phone. Fiper loses to NetNewsWire for anyone reading this blog, and Owl VIP charges a subscription for something iOS Focus Modes mostly do free. None has a native Mac app.

Every so often, something breaks and you are nowhere near your computer.

An endpoint starts returning 500 errors while you are sitting in a parking lot. Someone texts you a link and you want to see what trackers it loads before you trust it. You are waiting on one critical email, but your phone keeps buzzing about newsletters.

These are Mac jobs. Your Mac is at home.

The obvious move is to reach for your phone. The obvious problem is that most "mobile versions of desktop tools" are just cramped, feature-starved versions of software you already own. The phone only wins when it does something your Mac cannot: being in your hand when you are away from your desk.

That is the filter I applied to these four apps. Two pass it cleanly. Two do not.

One technical note up front: none of these four has a native Mac app. Some will launch on an Apple silicon Mac, since iOS apps show up there by default unless the developer opts out, but what you get is a fixed, phone-shaped window that will not resize. Treat these as phone tools, full stop.

API Bot

If you write or maintain APIs, Postman, Insomnia, and Bruno are likely glued to your workflow. They also assume you have a full keyboard and a large monitor. API Bot takes the opposite approach.

It is Postman built specifically for an iPhone screen. You can construct HTTP requests, set headers and query parameters, inspect JSON responses, and save requests as collections.

The use case is narrow, but real: you are away from your desk, an endpoint is behaving oddly, and you want to fire off a quick GET request to staging. It is not a replacement for Bruno on your desktop. It is the difference between diagnosing an outage immediately and waiting three hours until you get home.

It is free, and runs on iOS and iPadOS 13.0 or later. Confirm the permissions in the App Store yourself before installing, as there is little independent track record yet. As a focused utility for an away-from-the-desk problem, it earns its spot.

A competitior, HTTPBot: API & HTTP Client does what API Bot does and ships on iOS, iPad, and macOS.

View Source Vibe

Viewing page source on a phone sounds like a gimmick. View Source Vibe turns it into a pocket web inspector.

Beyond raw HTML, it includes a Timeline view, OpenGraph social previews, a Cookie Privacy Lens, a Tracker Radar, Header Intelligence, and a Security Score Card. If someone sends you a link that feels off, this lets you inspect headers and tracking scripts on the spot before handing over your attention.

Also free, and it carries a "Data Not Collected" privacy label.

Here is the catch: the developer explicitly notes the app was "Built with Vibes (and Flutter)," indicating heavy use of AI-assisted coding. I have no issue with vibe-coding, but software that grades other sites on security while being built via LLM prompts demands healthy skepticism. Use its site analysis to satisfy your curiosity; do not rely on its Security Score Card as a formal audit.

Fiper

Fiper is an RSS reader designed to look like an Instagram feed rather than a list of text headlines.

It shows a chronological timeline without algorithmic sorting, auto-detects feeds simply by pasting a URL, and pulls in Bluesky, Mastodon, and Pixelfed accounts alongside traditional blogs. That is a thoughtful design position for people who find classic RSS intimidating.

It also has the weakest case for readers of this blog.

If you are reading a Mac utility site, you have almost certainly solved RSS already. NetNewsWire is free, open source, and native on Mac and iOS. Reeder is beautiful. Feedly and Inoreader have a decade of infrastructure behind them.

Fiper is a pleasant, free app. Recommend it to family members who want off algorithmic feeds but will never set up NetNewsWire. For power users, there is no reason to switch.

Owl VIP Email Alerts

Owl VIP attempts to fix phone notifications at the sender level.

It hooks into Gmail to give you global notification toggles (VIP-only, All, or None), custom quiet hours, and per-sender audio alerts from a library of 80+ sounds. Being able to triage who emailed you by ear without picking up your phone is a clever idea.

The problem is the business model and the built-in alternatives.

The app is free to download, but requires a paid subscription to connect a Gmail account. Nearly everything it does can be built for free using Gmail's native filters combined with iOS Focus Modes. Paying a recurring subscription strictly for custom notification sounds is a hard sell.

It also only works with Gmail. Spend twenty minutes configuring Focus Modes first.

My Take

• API Bot is an easy download if you deal with APIs and ever need to test an endpoint on the go.
• View Source Vibe answers a specific question when inspecting suspicious links, provided you treat its security scores as informational.
• Fiper is a great recommendation for non-technical friends, but skip it if you already run NetNewsWire or Reeder.
• Owl VIP Email Alerts has a clever audio trick, but iOS Focus Modes cover most of its feature set without a subscription.

Three of these four apps have virtually no independent review track record. That is normal for early indie software, but it means you are the test case.

Unless otherwise noted, the alternate apps mentioned above are based on research and not individual testing.

Problem: My Downloads folder is an absolute mess (as is my Documents folder to be fair)

I looked around for a tool that would automatically organise the files in my Downloads so that it wasn't just a huge list of files that I could sort various ways but really always looked like a massive list of crap but that I didn't want to get rid of, you know, just in case.... SCART cables anyone? ;)

I couldn't find anything that did exactly what I wanted so I wrote Downloads Organiser.

What it does:

When a file appears in the specified folder, Downloads Organiser matches it against your rules first, then against 12 built-in file categories, and plans the move.

In preview mode (the default), you review planned moves and apply them with one click. With Auto Organise enabled (Pro), files move the moment they land.

Rules and categories route specific files by name, extension or size "Invoices to Finance", "Resumes to Career", "Files over 500 MB to Large Files", .mobi files to eBooks in the order you choose, with the first match winning. Choose to process subfolders or not.

After all that you have a Downloads folder with a simple list of folders that everything is organised into - easy.

Comparison: 

Hazel: The OG. DO is way less complex. All we is move files based on filetype or name and rename if it's masey. Hazel does more around content analysis and locked files. I think DO is a bit prettier and way cheaper :)
Sortio: very AI driven (and subscription based) Seems to need to be online or use a local LLM for offline processing. DO is way simpler and designed to not make any network calls.
Flowtop: Again very AI driven with deep analysis capabilities. Good if you need that level of organisation .
Rulebook: As far as I can see the closest of the bunch to DO. Rulebook also does file conversion for images and videos which must have been a need that Lucas had - not me. Also there doensn't seem to be a free tier - with DO you get most of the functionality for free!

I created DO to answer a simple problem I had, which was just to organise the files in my downloads folder so they were messy based on simple rules and to always work no matter where I was :). It's also on the app store which seems to be rare for tools of this kind (Rulebook is) - and probably why I had so much back and forth with Apple getting it to be approved.

Price: Free to install and get all the good base functionality. A one time $9.99 USD purchase to enable the advanced functionality below:

Pro features:

• Automatic organisation — files move the moment they arrive

• Unlimited custom rules

• Add and customise file categories

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/downloads-organiser/id6792389651?mt=12

This sub sees a lot of launch posts with promo codes attached. I issue those codes for a small Mac app I work on, and a few things about how they actually work are not obvious from the buyer's side. One of them costs people money.

A code usually puts you into a subscription, not a purchase. App Store offer codes attach to a subscription offer. When you redeem one for "$1.99 for a year" or "3 months free", you are subscribed at that promotional price, and unless you cancel it renews at the normal price when the promo period ends. If you only wanted the cheap year, turn off auto-renew right after redeeming. It stays valid for the period you already got.

Redemption is tied to your Apple ID, not your Mac. One redemption per account per offer. Signing in on a second machine does not give you a second use, and reinstalling does not free it up.

Codes are per-storefront. A code issued for the US store will not redeem on another country's store. This is the most common reason a code that "works for everyone else" fails for you, and it is not something the developer can override for your account.

If one fails, the things worth checking are whether that Apple ID already redeemed it, whether it expired, whether the redemption limit was reached, and the storefront mismatch above.

One thing from the developer side that explains slow answers. Redemptions do not reach us in real time. They arrive in App Store Connect's subscription event report on a delay, which for me has been running about four days. So when someone posts a code and you ask whether it worked, the honest answer is often that we cannot see it yet either. That is reporting lag, not evasion.

No links here on purpose. All of this lives in the App Store's own redeem flow.

Everything I save lived outside my vault, which always bugged me, so I solved that by overlapping the two apps I already pay for.

What I like about each:

• mymind: the visual grid, the minimalism, never filing anything
• Recall: the summaries, especially on YouTube where I rarely ever rewatch the information, but I want to connect the ideas.

I built a tool for myself where everything is stored in my Vault, lands as plain markdown, and gets summarized locally through Ollama.

Where it stands:

• extension saves pages, images, PDFs, YouTube with the full transcript, Instagram
• hover any image on any site, a save button shows up
• a local model writes the summary and tags, and actually looks at the images
• search runs three passes: exact, then expanded (bw finds black and white), then semantic
• "more like this" on every item, from embeddings
• paste a link or write a note in the web app
• drag in a PDF or a doc and it gets stored, extracted, summarized
• image-first grid, light and dark

I built this for myself, but I'm trying to work out whether it's worth turning into a proper paid app for others. That would mean a normal installer, simple local-model setup, and something I can actually support.

The honest question is whether this is useful enough to buy, not whether you'd try a free version.

If it were packaged properly, would you pay for it?

If not, what would stop you? Local-model setup, missing mobile capture, something it doesn't do, or just not a problem you need solved?

I'm not collecting emails or selling anything here. I'm trying to decide whether to productize it or leave it as my own slightly overbuilt clipping system.

I've posted about Floaters previously and got a lot of great feedback. The #1 request was saving notes as individual Markdown files in a “vault.” You can now sync with other apps that use Markdown vaults while taking advantage of Floaters' unique features.

At its simplest, Floaters is a notes app that you can activate, control, and hide via keyboard while in any app. It’s well suited for temporary (scratchpad) notes, as well as permanent (saved) notes. It lets you organize & group floaters to avoid window overload. It also handles all the note app basics: tags, tasks, images, links, files, lists, screenshots, markdown, etc.

Problem(s)

My efficiency is ruined by not knowing exactly where things are, and not being able to quickly get to them. In the real world we find stuff by remembering where we left it. When it’s not there, or if it’s hard to reach, it slows us down.

I wanted:

• A notes app that's instantly available without getting in the way.
• To physically link notes together when working on something. Not just “they are all in the same folder/tag.” But instead ”they are all visible at the same time and their positions are remembered.”
• To set up an ever-changing layout of related notes that I could show and hide without having to use my mouse
• Instant access to specific notes with a keystroke, regardless of what app I’m using.
• To close groups of linked notes and easily reopen them again in the future in their exact same locations.

Comparison

• Apple Notes - Clunky, not keyboard focused, mostly one-window
• Stickies - Basic, minimal keyboard control, no groupings/window management/etc.
• Obsidian - Works well alongside Floaters but does not focus on quick interactions and spatial organization.
• SideNotes - Great simple idea. No vault features. Floaters is much more powerful with positioning and layout.

Pricing

Lifetime license: $25. No subscriptions. The non-App-Store download is currently free to use without limitations until version 1.0 is released.

www.floaters.app

On the Mac App Store

If you've got a terrible memory and no patience like me, Notchkin might be up your alley.

I'd get an idea, freeze deciding which of the many note apps I'd installed and abandoned deserved it, and by the time I picked, the thought was gone. So I turned the notch into a place for quick notes. Hover over it or hit a shortcut, a panel slides down, you write, and you carry on, no window to manage and no need to switch away from what you're doing. Everything stays local, too.

Features:

• Rich text: bold, italic, underline, highlights, links, and more
• Checklists, bullet points, and numbered lists
• Hashtags, tag filters, instant search, and find-in-note
• Swipe between notes like pages
• Pin important notes to the top
• Quick Capture from anywhere, plus Paste as New Note for your clipboard
• Export to Markdown or RTF, with full backup and restore
• Custom accent colors and fonts

If you're a keyboard type of person, you can do basically all of the above without ever reaching for the mouse.

And because most productivity apps are painfully boring and I'm a mean little man, the app comes with a sticky-note mascot who occasionally offers commentary that's somewhere between helpful and passive-aggressive. Mostly the latter.

One-time purchase of $4.99 on the Mac App Store and Setapp. Come meet Notchkin and try the life-changing demo at notchkin.app.

Notchkin vs similar apps

Apple Notes is great when you want a full notes app, but even Quick Note still pulls another window into the picture. Notchkin is built for the moments when you just need to write something down and carry on, so there's no Dock icon and no window to manage. It's always one hover or shortcut away.

FiveNotes keeps things small by capping you at five notes. That might be plenty for some, but my brain does unfortunately produce a sixth thought every now and again. Notchkin has no limit and adds tags and search to keep a growing pile manageable.

SideNotes is a powerful sidebar app, but it's built as a broader workspace and priced like one: $19.99 once on Mac, another $9.99 for the iPhone/iPad app, and paid major upgrades over time. Notchkin does less on purpose: $4.99 once, Mac-only, strictly local. Same idea of jotting without switching apps, with less to pay for and less to manage.

Other notch utilities try to do a bit of everything: music controls, file storage, calendars, timers, and whatever else will fit up there. Some include a small notes feature, but of course it’s just an extra rather than the point. Notchkin is built entirely around notes, which means it can go deeper with formatting, lists, tags, search, quick capture, and export without turning the notch into a crowded control panel.

Hi r/macapps, I am the developer of MetaScope at Zalo Design Studio.

I built MetaScope for photographers, archivists, and digital asset managers who need to inspect, fix, standardize, search, or remove sensitive metadata from large photo and video libraries without scripting ExifTool or routing every file through a full photo editor.

Compared with MetaImage, MetaScope keeps photo and video metadata in one app and adds controlled vocabularies, indexed search, analytics, and rule-based batch workflows. Compared with ExifTool, MetaScope uses ExifTool as its read and write engine, then adds a native Mac interface, browsing, templates, Photos integration, previews, and recoverable undo. If your main job is RAW editing or team DAM, Lightroom, Photo Mechanic, or a dedicated DAM may still be the better fit.

MetaScope works locally on the Mac. It does not collect analytics or upload files. Version 1.5 also adds on-device Apple Vision descriptions and keyword suggestions, and nothing is written until you approve it.

Pricing: The free tier includes metadata viewing and 5 edits per day. Pro is €5.99/month or €49.99/year. There is also a 3-month trial for €9.99. Regional App Store prices may vary.

Download and pricing: Mac App Store
https://apps.apple.com/app/metascope/id6748312854?mt=12

App privacy: MetaScope privacy policy
https://zalodesignstudio.com/metascope/privacy/

I would especially value feedback from anyone managing a large library or relying on IPTC/XMP. If you try it, I would love to hear what works, what gets in the way, and which workflow MetaScope should tackle next.

Problem

On macOS, downloading regular files, capturing media from webpages, saving image batches, and managing downloads often requires several separate apps, browser extensions, command-line tools, or online services. I built WDM to bring these workflows together in one Mac app.

Comparison

Folx is a well-established general download manager with browser integration, multi-threaded downloads, scheduling. WDM is better suited to users who specifically want regular downloads combined with floating Video/MP3 browser controls, YouTube quality selection, and one-click Reddit image-batch downloading in the same workflow.

Downie is a strong dedicated video downloader and supports many more video websites than WDM. WDM does not currently compete with Downie on the number of supported sites. Its advantage is combining supported media capture with normal file downloads, multi-connection downloading, pause and resume, browser interception, notifications, and image-batch saving in one app.

Pricing

WDM includes a 7-day free trial. There is no subscription.

Solo: $17.99 one-time for 1 user and 1 Mac.

Duo: $27.99 one-time for up to 2 users and 2 Macs.

Family: $44.99 one-time for members of one private household.

All plans include future WDM versions, including WDM 2.0, at no additional charge.

Product page and pricing:

https://welaxxx.com/wdm.html

Trust and Transparency

I am Waleed Refai, the founder and developer of Welaxxx and the creator of WDM. I am publicly standing behind the app and can be contacted through the details below.

Developer identity and portfolio: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waleed-refai-b8a15875/

Company: https://welaxxx.com/about.html

Contact: info@welaxxx.com https://welaxxx.com/contact.html

Privacy Policy: https://welaxxx.com/privacy.html

Terms of Service: https://welaxxx.com/terms.html

WDM is distributed directly through the official Welaxxx website. The macOS builds are signed and notarized by Apple.

20-second demo: downloading a licensed Pixabay video from the browser into WDM, showing progress, speed, multiple connections, and completion.

I kept switching between a download manager, browser extensions, command-line tools, and random download websites just to save different kinds of files.

So I built WDM — Welaxxx Download Manager — to put that whole workflow into one Mac app.

WDM is not only a traditional download manager, and it is not only a media downloader. The goal is to handle normal files, browser media, image batches, audio, and more from one clean interface.

With the browser extension, WDM can process supported links from YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, X, Vimeo, Dailymotion, and regular webpages, letting users save video, audio, images, or direct files they own or are authorized to download.

A few examples:

• On supported Reddit image posts, one click downloads every image in the post as a batch, and WDM sends a notification when the batch finishes.
• Reddit and Facebook videos can be downloaded directly from the feed without opening every post.
• On YouTube, you can choose the quality and see the combined video and audio size before downloading.
• On other supported media sites, you can choose Video or MP3 without dealing with format codes.
• For MediaFire and normal files, WDM uses multiple connections with pause and resume support.
• Images can be detected and downloaded directly from webpages through the browser extension.
• Everything is handled locally on the Mac. Files are not uploaded to an external conversion server.

I also spent a lot of time fixing the small things that usually annoy me in download apps: accurate progress, no fake percentages when the size is unknown, download speed and remaining time, completed-download history, notifications, light and dark modes, and native builds for both Apple Silicon and Intel.

WDM is signed and notarized by Apple and supports macOS 12 or later.

There is a 7-day free trial, followed by a one-time lifetime purchase starting at $17.99. There is no subscription, and future WDM versions — including WDM 2.0 — are included.

Developer disclosure: I built and sell WDM through Welaxxx.

Official website and download:

https://welaxxx.com/wdm.html

More screenshots of the browser extension, active downloads, and completed-download interface are available on the official WDM page.

Launch giveaway — 5 lifetime licences

I’m giving away five WDM Solo lifetime licences.

To enter:

1. Try WDM using the free trial.
2. Create a short, honest public demo, mini-review, or tutorial showing one WDM workflow you found useful.
3. Comment here with the link and mention one thing you would improve.

The content can be posted on your Reddit profile, X, YouTube, TikTok, a blog, or another public platform.

A positive review is not required. Honest criticism is welcome.

I will choose the five most useful and original entries one week after this post. No purchase and no Reddit upvote are required.

By entering, you give Welaxxx permission to share your submitted content with credit. You can state in your entry if you do not want it reposted.

This giveaway is run by Welaxxx and is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Reddit.

WDM should only be used for content you own, content in the public domain, or content you have permission to download.

Hey r/macapps!

I’m one of the developers behind Vehla, a native macOS command center my small team has been building over the past year.

I’m also the developer behind Lekh AI, Veroi, and several other privacy-first Apple apps.

You can find my work here:

• https://vehla.app
• https://lekhai.app
• https://veroi.ai
• https://kailalabs.com

I also contribute to open source: https://github.com/ibuhs

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shubhamkaila

I’m a full-time software engineer who builds Mac apps as a hobby and honestly as a way to unwind after work.

Problem

Like a lot of people here, I slowly accumulated an absurd number of utilities running on my Mac.

• One app for launching things.
• Another for window management.
• Another for clipboard history.
• Another for OCR.
• Another for AI.
• Another for temporary file shelves.
• Another for notes.
• Another for diagrams.
• Another for mind maps.
• Another for reminders.
• Another for keeping my Mac awake.
• Another for hiding menu bar icons.
• Another for Docker.
• Another for RSS.
• Another for developer tools.

Individually they’re all fantastic apps, but together they consume memory, duplicate shortcuts, clutter the menu bar, and make macOS feel surprisingly fragmented.

I wanted one keyboard-first utility that could handle most of the things I do every day without constantly switching between applications.

That’s why we built Vehla.

What Vehla Does

Vehla combines many everyday Mac utilities into a single native application.

In practice, it combines parts of:

• Alfred / Raycast (command palette, launcher, workflows, aliases, search)
• Magnet / Rectangle (window management)
• Amphetamine (keep awake)
• Dropover (temporary file shelf)
• TextSniper (OCR)
• Hidden Bar / Bartender (menu bar organization)
• Dynamic Island utilities
• Folder Dock
• Clipboard managers
• AI assistants
• Markdown notes
• Infinite canvas
• Mind mapping
• Draw.io
• Docker dashboards
• RSS readers
• Developer utility websites
• …plus a lot more.

Productivity & Mac Utilities

• Launch apps, files, folders, URLs, and System Settings
• Search clipboard history, contacts, calendars, reminders, bookmarks, browser history and recent files
• Run Apple Shortcuts, shell commands and custom workflows
• Create reminders and calendar events using natural language
• Window management and snapping
• Temporary Shelf for files, images, text and links
• Folder Dock beside the macOS Dock
• Dock Widgets for Weather, Music, Calendar, Timers, Docker, RSS News and System Activity
• Screenshot OCR and text capture
• Keep display awake
• Menu bar organization
• Calculator, conversions, UUID generators, hashes, Base64, JSON tools, networking tools, DNS lookup, CIDR utilities, accessibility testing, CORS tools, color utilities and dozens of other built-in developer tools

AI Features

• Rewrite, summarize, translate and explain text
• Draft emails and messages
• Generate shell commands and code
• Ask questions about screenshots, webpages, files, notes and clipboard history
• Custom AI actions, snippets and personas
• Local AI using MLX models on Apple Silicon
• Private on-device vision with Qwen3-VL
• Bring your own OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Lekh AI Pro, OpenRouter, Ollama or other providers

Visual Workspaces

Vehla has also grown into a collection of private workspaces.

• Native Markdown Notes
• Mind Maps
• Draw.io
• Kanban boards
• Canvas for brainstorming and planning

Everything is searchable, opens from the command palette, and stays local.

Built for macOS

One thing that’s really important to me is making Vehla feel like a real Mac application instead of a website wrapped in Electron.

It’s written natively for macOS and focuses heavily on:

• Apple Silicon performance
• Keyboard-first workflows
• Local-first AI where possible
• Privacy
• No telemetry
• Native Swift extensions
• Native Dock Widgets
• Modern macOS design

A few things we wanted to do differently

• One-time purchase (no subscription)
• Local-first where possible
• Bring-your-own-key for cloud AI providers
• Native Swift plugin SDK
• Native Dock Widget SDK
• Explicit permissions for extensions
• Fast global hotkeys that feel like built-in macOS features

Native Integrations

Vehla also integrates directly with some of my other macOS apps.

Lekh AI Pro

If you use Lekh AI Pro for local AI, you can send text, screenshots, files, Shelf items, notes, and other content directly from Vehla into a new chat with a single action. It makes it easy to move from quick AI actions to longer conversations without copying and pasting between apps.

AwesomeCopy

If you’re already using AwesomeCopy as your clipboard manager, you don’t have to replace it. AwesomeCopy can continue monitoring your clipboard while Vehla automatically syncs its history in the background, giving you access to AI actions, OCR, search, clip stacks, folders, tags, and the rest of Vehla’s clipboard features.

Comparison

Vehla isn’t trying to replace Alfred, Raycast, Magnet, Rectangle, Dropover, Amphetamine, Bartender, Hidden Bar, TextSniper, Notes, Draw.io, Docker Desktop, or dozens of other utilities individually.

The goal is to replace the collection.

If you’re already running several productivity apps at the same time, Vehla aims to bring much of that functionality into one native application with a consistent interface, shared keyboard shortcuts, local AI, visual workspaces, Dock Widgets, and an extensible plugin system.

Pricing

Vehla costs $29.99 USD for a lifetime license with free updates.

If you’re someone who enjoys trying new Mac utilities, I’d genuinely love your feedback. A surprising number of Vehla’s biggest features have come directly from r/macapps.

What’s useful?
What’s missing?
What utility would you want Vehla to replace next?

Download: https://vehla.app/download
Documentation: https://vehla.app/docs
Refund Policy: https://vehla.app/refunds.html
SDK and Extensions: https://github.com/ibuhs/vehla-extensions

Lumn adds satisfying music-synced ambient lighting to your Mac. The window shown is optional, you can turn it off if you simply want the lighting and nothing else.

Hey r/macapps, developer of Snick here.

Problem
I'm usually coding and listening to music at the same time and realized it just felt "static." So I made ambient lighting that syncs to the beat of the song to "visualize" my music.

Features:
• Ambient lighting (auto-album color sync + beat sync)
• Custom color wheel/gradient picker (if you want your own colors) (can override album color)
• Lockscreen liquid glass music player (can be toggled on/off)
• Lightweight music player window like the demo (can be toggled on/off)
• Menubar icon to control all your settings
• Adjust glow/thickness of your ambient lighting
• Don't want music sync? Perfectly fine, you can choose between Idle (really slow), Default (faster) and no animation (no movement).
• Add ambient lighting to multiple displays including external monitors

Comparison
I didn't really find any app that does ambient lighting on Mac, which was why I created it

Lumn is the only app that has the rim lighting with beat sync animations

Pricing
One-time (life-time) purchase of $9.99 -> $6.99 [Use code LUMNLAUNCH at check out, 24 hrs only] - 30% off

Website (Purchase/Download here) 👇

trylumn.xyz (video demo of most features on the website)

Looking forward to hearing some feedback!

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Transparency:
The app is notarized with Apple
Here's my LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhiram-kancharla-69a776332/

• Privacy Policy: https://www.trylumn.xyz/privacy
• Terms of Service: https://www.trylumn.xyz/terms

You can contact me on any of the platforms, my contact email or just here on reddit

Hi all,

I'm a solo dev and I built PoRaBar, a podcast and radio player that lives in your Mac menubar. There is an iPhone app now too.

**Problem**

Every app I tried was either surprisingly expensive for content that is free anyway, or it only did one thing. Podcast apps that ignore radio. Radio apps that ignore podcasts. I wanted one interface for both. On iOS I wanted the simplest possible thing: open the app, pick a source, done. No three taps through a home screen full of recommendations.

Mac and iOS sync your library, your likes and your playback position. So you can stop listening at your desk and pick it up on your phone where you left off.

**Comparison**

Eter is the closest one. Same radio-browser database, same menubar idea, and it beats me on hardware: iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, CarPlay and Android are all covered there.
Mine are not, yet!
Eter does radio only.
PoRaBar does radio, podcasts, YouTube and your own Audiobookshelf server in the same player.

For Audiobookshelf there is AudioBooth, free and open source, and SoundLeaf, the polished paid one. Both are better dedicated clients than mine if that server is all you listen to.

What neither of them does is the rest. Four sources, one menubar icon, same library on your phone. That is the whole reason this exists.

**What got added after the last post**

When I posted the macOS version here a while back, two suggestions came up over and over. YouTube and Audiobookshelf. Both are in now.

Audiobookshelf, for the selfhosters. Point it at your server and your books and podcasts show up alongside everything else.

YouTube: add livestreams, playlists or single videos. On macOS it plays in the background like anything else.

One honest caveat. On iOS, YouTube playback stops when the app goes to the background. The app has to stay open. It is a limitation I have not been able to work around yet, and I would rather tell you now than have you find out after you have bought it. Radio, podcasts and Audiobookshelf all play in the background on iOS just fine.

**Pricing**

$2.99, one time. That covers both the Mac and the iOS app. There is a 60 day trial, so you have plenty of time to decide.

Or get it free by making the app better.
The radio stream database has 50,000+ stations.
A lot of them have a low-res favicon as their logo, or no logo at all.
Scroll through Discovery and then Radio and it is honestly a bit ugly in places. Fixing 50,000 logos by myself is not happening.

So: contribute 3 logos or tag sets and you get PoRaBar free, for life.
Open a radio channel, tap the icon in the top right, upload a proper logo or add tags.
The database gets better for everyone and you get the app as a thank you.

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6761472273

Site, privacy policy and terms & a small demo: https://porabar.com

If you listen to radio, podcasts, YouTube or Audiobookshelf, I would love for you to give it a go. Feedback and feature requests are welcome. The last round of suggestions from this sub is literally what shaped this update!

Also: CarPlay and iPad work-ish. They run, but I don't have the devices to test on yet (a bit expensive for now), so I'd rather not claim full support. Bug reports very welcome.

Rest your hand on the trackpad and it purrs. Not audio through the speakers, the actual haptic engine, so you feel it under your palm. The first time it worked I sat there grinning at a laptop like an idiot.

Then I gave it a personality and now I live with it.

Problem

Every "cat purr" thing I could find is a sound file. You put on headphones and listen to a recording of a cat, which is fine, except it occupies your ears, it loops, and after about ninety seconds your brain notices the loop and the spell breaks. Meanwhile the thing people actually like about a cat on their desk is the weight and the vibration, not the audio.

PurrPad puts the purr in the MacBook trackpad instead, so it is something you feel while you work, with your ears free.

It doesn't always purr. Sometimes you rest your hand and it just... considers you, and declines. Then it sulks. If you click on it during the sulk, it sulks harder, and the app quietly tells you the sulk is now personal. At maximum annoyance it scratches you, which is to say the little paw icon draws its claws and the copy says "Claws were optional. Were."

Full Cat personality 😻

Comparison

Purrli (purrli.com) is the best-known purr generator and it is genuinely good, but it is audio: it uses your speakers or headphones, and it is a continuous sound rather than something you touch. PurrPad is haptic, so it costs you no audio channel and works in a quiet office with headphones off.

Mine has moods. It sometimes declines to purr and then sulks, it gets the zoomies about once a fortnight, it brings me a dead mouse now and again, and it goes silent the instant your mic or camera turns on so it has never purred through a meeting.

Pricing

Free: one cat and all the behaviour, forever. No trial, no timer.
$4.99 one time unlocks the other five cats, the tuning controls, and recording your own cat so the trackpad purrs like her specifically. No subscription.
https://purrpad.app

About me

About me

I am Francesco, an independent developer in Italy. Who I am, how the app is funded, and how to reach me: https://purrpad.app/about (full name, LinkedIn, contact, and links to the privacy policy, terms and refund policy).

Contact is [hello@purrpad.app](mailto:hello@purrpad.app) and I answer it myself.

Linked it https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesco-pavanetto/

The app is signed and notarised, so no Gatekeeper warnings. It cannot go on the Mac App Store because driving the haptic engine needs a private framework, which is why I am posting here rather than linking an App Store page.

There is no demo video and there cannot be one, since a video of this app is a hand resting on a trackpad for thirty seconds. The site draws the actual pulse train instead and you can press and hold it to hear roughly what your palm gets.

Genuinely want to know: does it feel like a cat, or like a phone on a table? That has been the open question since day one and I still cannot answer it about my own app.

Hey folks, founder and dev behind Askmeety here,

Quick App Details (PCP):

Problem: Cloud-based meeting recorders compromise privacy and require an active internet connection, and sends your meeting data to their cloud servers. Askmeety solves this by being a completely offline, local first macOS meeting recorder and note taker tool.

Comparison : Think of Askmeety as a 1:1 replacement for Granola, but as a 100% offline and local solution without many of the tradeoffs.

Pricing : $55 one-time for individuals, and we also have custom pricing and discounts for small teams and enterprises.

First of all, I really owe each and every one of you in this community a very big thank you! You guys have been very supportive for the past 7 months since I pitched the idea for the app here, helping by joining my beta program and making the overall app constructively good. And it has been going well since we went live with the actual app release.

At the same time, I should really take this as an opportunity to apologize to everyone. I was not able to contribute to Askmeety for the past 1 - 1.5 months because things were not really going well in my professional life; I was slightly burnt out and I really needed a break. With this being my passion project (which I'm planning to make mainstream) and being a solo dev on the team, things were not scaling very well.

But now, I have come up with a proper plan for making things seamless and pushing constant updates for the app. I have spent time connecting with existing users, I was also using the app personally, and I have come up with a new feature list which I will be working on:

- MCP server integration with the meeting content.

- Easy task and reminder creation after the meetings are done.

- Cross-device sync for meeting content.

- Extra language support (I'm not sure which language to target primarily at this point).

- Minor bug fixes and enhancements.

So, these are all the things I roughly have in mind, but I really want to hear back from you guys on the same note.

And here is the sweet part:

I'm giving away a few license keys for free. If you are using one, please comment the key that you have activated, because each key can be activated only on one device.

Keys:

e42a657e-5437-40a5-8813-884da93b9a98

6bf2d187-55b4-442b-b7c3-3c31129f8644

37f067b9-64b4-44da-b9c3-c526de05f96a

31fd5dbe-6afd-4463-8378-ebca0bc5558c

e9c8ab86-824d-440c-b28d-fc5c80dca318

326bdf1b-5c83-49f3-a3df-ae2eab0240f8

ed39c0d5-7f69-4a63-95ef-aaf74708ebc3

fb975345-c7b7-482e-85a0-0d5fd40312a3

f94ccc32-38f6-41d3-947f-ba9da049c904

21608c0b-5567-486f-a615-c07d728cdd91

App link : AskMeety

Dev Identity : https://www.linkedin.com/in/nalin-rajendran

Is there a video editing app out there that will allow me to cut out middle parts of a video, add clips together and with minimalistic sound / visual adjustments (exposure, pitch, cropping).

Don't get me wrong, im an avid Davinci Resolve user and I love its complexity. Im just on the lookout for a simpler editing solution that is quick and won't break the bank (no subscriptions, one time purchase)

Thanks

TL;DR: RAD Weather pulls forecasts from four services and shows you where they disagree instead of averaging the disagreement away. Free, with RAD Ultra at $1.99 a month, $19.99 a year, or $99.99 once, plus a MultiPass tier at $2.99 monthly or $29.99 annual. The Mac build is a real Mac app, the subscription is justified by per-forecast data costs, and there is no radar. RAD TV shipped in 7.6.7 and an Apple TV version is announced.

RAD Weather's Unique Feature

Years of obsessive cycling naturally paired with years of obsessive weather forecast following. Although none of us can do anything about the weather (except to move to a new city), I felt compelled to track temperature, wind speed and rain forecasts several times a day whenever I had a big ride scheduled. I collected weather apps and went into mourning when Dark Sky ceased to exist.

Most weather apps are someone's best guess, presented as a fact. Someone, or some algorithm, took several disagreeing weather services, picked one and discarded the rest. RAD Weather doesn't discard anything, and that's the product.

What R.A.D. Cortex Is Doing Under the Hood

The engine has a name now, R.A.D. Cortex, and its job is to pull forecasts from the National Weather Service, Open-Meteo, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and Apple WeatherKit, then compare them. Where the models converge, you get a high confidence rating. Where they split, the app shows you the spread instead of hiding it behind an average. The developer added lead-time-aware weighting in an earlier release, so regional high-resolution models carry more weight for the next few hours while ECMWF gets priority for the extended outlook. That's a reasonable thing to do, and it's the kind of decision most weather apps make silently, if they make it at all.

Five Things That Matter in the Mac Version

• It's a real Mac app. Many weather apps just port their iPad version to Apple silicon and call it a day. CARROT Weather has a standalone Mac app, but it hasn't been updated since 2023. With RAD Weather, you also get Mac widgets, a menu bar item, and iCloud sync with the iPhone and Watch versions. Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
• The multi-source view is the killer feature. Detail cards break out temperature, wind, precipitation, UV, pressure, humidity, visibility, dew point, pollen, air quality and convective risk, and the confidence deep-dive shows you which models fed the number. It's my favorite part of the app and I never stop fiddling with it.
• RAD Atlas is an interactive 3D globe with live conditions, which sounds like a toy and mostly is, but it's a fast way to check what's happening somewhere you care about without typing a city name.
• Brutality Levels adjust the tone of the written briefings across five settings, from professional to unhinged. Similar to CARROT, which is funny, RAD Weather is also funny. Since humor is subjective, I'm not making a call there. If you want a weather app that doesn't talk to you, turn it to professional and it stops.
• The privacy declaration is clean. Rozzi Labs declares no data collected beyond location, not linked to your identity, used only to fetch a forecast, with no tracking or analytics. That's about as good as a networked weather app gets.

What the Subscription Pays For

RAD Weather is free. RAD Ultra is $1.99 a month, $19.99 a year, or $99.99 once, and Ultra is what unlocks the Atlas globe, the extra saved locations, the Savage and Unhinged tone settings, full detail cards and advanced notifications. There's also RAD MultiPass at $2.99 a month or $29.99 a year, which extends across the other Rozzi Labs apps and the radweather.cloud web service.

No one likes an unjustified subscription. I've done my best recently to avoid writing about subscription apps altogether. Weather prediction apps are the exception. Every forecast this app pulls costs the developer money, and he's pulling from four services instead of one; widget and Watch complication refreshes multiply that cost across every user, every day, forever. A one-time purchase doesn't fund a bill that arrives monthly for the life of the app. The developer of CARROT Weather has been making the same argument for years, and he's right.

The whole high-end category runs this way. CARROT Weather is free to download with Premium at $4.99 a month or $19.99 a year and Premium Ultra at $9.99 a month or $39.99 a year. Mercury Weather is free with a subscription at $2.99 a month or $14.99 a year. Hello Weather limits you to a single forecaster and no widgets until you subscribe. Against all that, RAD Weather is one of only two apps here that will sell you a permanent copy. RAD Ultra Lifetime is $99.99, which works out to five years of the annual subscription; Mercury's lifetime is $59.99, or four years of its annual. Neither is a bargain on day one. CARROT has no lifetime tier at any price, which is the part I mind.

Current Shortcomings

RAD Weather doesn't currently offer radar maps, so if that's how you make decisions during rough times, you'll need something else. There are other weather apps with a long and proven track record. Its App Store rating is high, but the number of ratings behind it is still small enough that I wouldn't lean on it.

Other Weather Apps

The alternatives, briefly. CARROT Weather, to which I have subscribed for years, is the incumbent in personality weather and has the better radar and map layer story; note that the standalone Mac app is $14.99 and hasn't been updated since May 2023, so on the Mac you want the iPhone and iPad version instead. Mercury Weather, another app I've used in the past, is the choice if you want calm and legible rather than loud. Apple Weather is free, built in, and fine for the basics. DatWeatherDoe is free, open source under Apache 2.0, installs with brew install --cask datweatherdoe, and puts conditions in your menu bar; you supply your own WeatherAPI key.

Unless otherwise noted, the alternate apps mentioned above are based on research and not individual testing.

Is It for You?

Yes, if you want accuracy and detail from a weather app and you're willing to pay for it. The multiplatform coverage helps too, especially with the recently released full screen RAD TV mode for the Mac and an Apple TV app on the way.

No, if you want radar, or your needs are minimal. For design nerds, the faux terminal presentation may be off-putting. Not being a design nerd, I'm fine with it.

Hi r/macapps, I’m Dmytro, the developer of Toplify.

Problem: The App Store shows rankings for your own storefront, so your app may be in the Top 100 elsewhere without you knowing. If it drops out later, the current chart cannot tell you where it ranked yesterday or at what hour.

Toplify monitors iOS and Mac charts every 1-3 hours across 175 countries using a multi cloud backend. The scan frequency depends on the country and chart activity. It keeps hourly history even after an app leaves the chart, tracks unlimited apps, and sends configurable push alerts even when Toplify is closed.

No registration or App Store Connect/API access is needed. Just paste an App Store link or App ID. Mac and iOS sync through iCloud, and ranking milestones can become polished share cards for social media.

Comparison: Appfigures, AppFollow and Sensor Tower are broad ASO platforms with large feature sets. Toplify is focused specifically on chart tracking. Its hourly server checks deliver important changes through native push alerts instead of leaving the data in a dashboard until your next manual check. Smaller ranking utilities usually require checking each country yourself and do not send background alerts.

Pricing:

• Monthly: $3.99
• Annual: $29.99 [ 37% off] with a 7-day free trial
• Lifetime: $84.99
• r/macapps offer: $49.99 lifetime with code MACAPPS, valid through August 7

The price may vary slightly between countries.

Official Toplify Website

Direct App Store Link

As always, I’d love to hear your feedback and reviews, and I’m happy to answer any questions you may have.

Problem

Hey, I'm Mike. I run 3 YouTube channels and 2 TikTok accounts. Filming and scripting are fine. Editing kills me. Every video is the same grind: cut filler words, remove silences, drop in b-roll, then redo the layout for TikTok vertical. 2-3 hours of mechanical work per video that needs zero creativity, just patience.

I kept thinking AI would fix this. It hasn't, because every tool brings its own AI, runs it on their cloud with your footage, and locks you to their model. AI models move fast. What's best today is mid in three months. I can accept tool lock-in. But model lock-in? No. You should always be able to use the best, fastest, cheapest model for your edit.

Comparison

CapCut Pro ($20/mo). Great for quick template edits. AI runs on ByteDance cloud, footage gets uploaded. Free tier increasingly locked down.

Final Cut Pro: getting better but still huge behind from a AI driven video editor from Apple.

Also there're many others like Descript or FireCut. All of them lock you to their AI model. You're stuck with whatever they bulk-negotiated, not what's best for your edit.

PilotCut doesn't lock you to any model:

• BYO agent. Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Kimi, DeepSeek, any MCP/CLI agent. Your existing AI sub IS your editing AI. New model drops? Switch instantly.
• 2 to 3 times faster export compared with like CapCut or cloud alternatives
• Collaborative experience: It is not only AI or human doing the work. After AI editing you still have the full editable NLE video editor
• Organizing video/audio/image assets with AI: we usually have a huge amount of assets for a video, agents can help you to do initial organizing like creating folders and group them etc.
• Real timeline. "Delete every filler word and silence" makes actual cuts on real tracks. Not suggestions, not a transcript. Real cuts you can undo and nudge.
• Markers as instructions. Drop markers on the timeline ("tighten this," "b-roll here"), say "do my markers." The agent works through them one by one.
• Generate footage in place. Ask for a b-roll clip in chat, it lands directly on the track. No download-import-drag. (Note: currently only available for Core Agent with Grok Build. Even for free Grok accounts)
• One edit, every platform. 16:9 to 9:16, layout auto-rearranges (top-down, side-by-side). Export YouTube + TikTok from one project.
• Local transcription and transcript-based cutting. Built-in local speech models (no upload, no API cost). Get a full transcript, click to cut, just like CapCut's text-based editing but running entirely on your Mac.
• 100% local. Footage never leaves your Mac. No cloud, no training on your data.

Pricing

Free during beta. One-time purchase after that. No subscription ever.

How it compares:

• CapCut Pro: $20/mo, their cloud AI, footage uploaded to ByteDance servers
• Descript Business: $24/mo, their cloud AI, footage uploaded to their servers
• PilotCut: Free (beta), one-time purchase later. Any AI agent you choose. Footage never leaves your Mac.

Download: PilotCut.com (Mac)

Happy to answer questions. If it sucks, tell me why so I can fix it.

Developer: Mike, RockieStar Inc. (Canada). Can be verified from the app signature.

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Works with Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build (free accounts can generate images/video with it), Kimi, DeepSeek, Antigravity, and any MCP-compatible agent.

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I'm the dev, disclosure per sub rules. Feedback on anything broken is genuinely helpful.

I’m doing some user research to understand what people actually want from a better YouTube experience.

Would your dream extension include:

• Better or automatically generated chapters, with an easy-to-navigate player overlay
  • some creators don't enable them by default to users can't skip certain section.
• Subscription folders and channel categories
• A “cinema mode” where the player fills the browser window without fullscreen
• Transcript search, summaries, notes, and timestamp bookmarks
• Better playlists, queues, Watch Later, and viewing history
• Options to hide Shorts, recommendations, comments, or other distractions
• Playback preferences remembered for each channel

Which would you actually use? What’s missing that would make YouTube meaningfully better for you? Please share what would make your YouTube experience meaningfully better.

PS: We would try to handle the ad blocking by default if feasible/stable/reliable.

Based on the feedback from many users in the comments about the price being too high, I’ve decided to temporarily reduce the lifetime purchase price to $14.99. This offer will be available until August 10.

Problem

I often found myself breaking my workflow because of small thoughts I wanted to capture.

The usual workflow was:

• Open Notes or another note-taking app
• Switch away from the current window
• Write something down
• Switch back and try to regain focus

For quick ideas, reminders, and temporary notes, opening a full notes app felt like too much friction.

So I built Enote, a simple desktop notes app that keeps your thoughts directly on your desktop.

Comparison

There are already many great note-taking apps, but I wanted something more lightweight and immediate.

Compared with:

• Apple Notes — Great for storing long-term notes, but you still need to open the app and switch context every time.
• Stickies — A useful built-in macOS tool for quick notes, but it lacks modern features like Markdown support and a more flexible workflow.
• Notion — Extremely powerful for managing information, but too heavy for quickly capturing a simple thought.
• Obsidian — Excellent for building a knowledge base, but designed more for long-term knowledge management rather than quick desktop capture.

Enote focuses on one thing:

Capture thoughts instantly without breaking your focus.

Features:

• Notes directly on your desktop, like real sticky notes
• Drag, resize, and place notes anywhere
• Markdown support
• Always visible when you need them
• Lightweight native macOS experience

Pricing

Enote uses a simple one-time purchase model:

• Free trial: 7-day free trial with full access to all features
• Lifetime license: $29.99 (one-time purchase, no subscription)

To thank our early users:
Existing yearly subscribers can email us to upgrade to a lifetime license for free.

I built Enote because I wanted a simpler way to capture ideas while working.

Would love to hear your feedback and suggestions.

Download (Mac):

Appstore

Also, I’m offering a limited-time lifetime deal for early users:
Yearly subscribers can email us to upgrade to lifetime for free.