Not looking for the usual popular names, more like those random little utilities that do one thing really well and end up becoming part of your daily flow.

Just curious.

Hi everyone,

I'm Sujeevan. Some of you might know me from FileMinutes. This community helped shape that app, and I'm hoping you'll help me do the same with my new app.

Today I'm introducing Vinaa, a native Mac app for chatting with cloud and local AI models. I started building it last December, and it's now in public beta. I'd love your feedback.

Problem

I think of my AI chats as a personal knowledge base. I want to keep them for the long term, organize them, and find them easily. The tools I tried didn't give me the experience I wanted.

There are great apps in this category, and I used some of them, but none felt quite right for how I work. So I built the one I wanted to use every day.

Here's what you can do in Vinaa:

• Cloud and local models: use your own API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and more, your ChatGPT subscription, or Ollama and LM Studio for local models.
• Organization: projects, nested folders, favorites, and automatic filing of new chats.
• Multitasking: keep chats open in multiple tabs and windows, for example when working on several projects at once.
• Conversation outlines: jump directly to a message or heading in a long chat.
• Reusable prompts: prompt templates with placeholders.
• Imports: bring in ChatGPT and Claude history and continue conversations.
• Tools: provider web search and connections to apps and services through MCP.

See more features.

Chats are stored locally, with optional sync through your private Apple iCloud account. I don't run a server that stores your conversations. Cloud AI requests go directly to your chosen provider, which receives the content needed to answer you.

For fellow Mac app nerds: the interface is 100% native, built with SwiftUI and AppKit, with some Rust underneath. No Electron, Tauri, or WebView chat interface. I even built a custom Markdown renderer using TextKit. Smooth streaming, familiar controls, and keyboard navigation matter a lot to me.

Comparison

BoltAI is an established leader with more features today, a developer I respect, and the app I used before building Vinaa. My focus with Vinaa is better chat organization, private iCloud sync instead of hosted sync, 100% native chat rendering instead of a WebView, and a lifetime licence that includes future updates.

Raycast AI: v2 uses a WebView interface in a native host, and API-key requests to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google pass through Raycast's servers. You need a paid plan even for your own keys or local models; Vinaa has a fully native interface, direct provider connections, private iCloud sync, and a one-time licence with lifetime updates.

Pricing

You can download and use Vinaa free during beta: https://www.vinaa.ai/

As a thank-you to this community, I'm offering $15 USD per lifetime licence for the next 48 hours. Each licence covers one Mac, and you can buy as many licences as you need during the offer.

• 48-hour community offer: $15 USD with code MACAPPS at checkout. Get the offer.
• After this offer: $20 USD early-launch lifetime pricing while that offer lasts.
• After beta: $80 USD lifetime pricing.

This $15 price will never be offered again, including on Black Friday. The offer ends 48 hours after this post goes live.

At general release, I also plan a lower-priced perpetual licence with one year of updates. That price is still to be announced.

Purchases come with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

🎁 20 lifetime licences to give away

To enter, please upvote this post and leave a comment about how you use AI for your work, or one frustration you have with AI tools. One sentence is enough.

After 48 hours, I'll randomly choose 20 commenters, one entry per person, and contact the winners by Reddit DM. I may give a few extra licences for useful feedback on Vinaa posted as comments, in addition to the 20 random winners.

If you buy at the promotional price and then win the giveaway, you can choose a refund of your purchase or keep the giveaway licence as an additional licence. It's up to you.

Tell me what feels good, what feels awkward, and what's missing. Your feedback will help me decide what to build next. Thanks for giving Vinaa a try!

Transparency and links

I'm the developer of Vinaa and FileMinutes.

• Website and download: https://www.vinaa.ai/
• Privacy policy: https://www.vinaa.ai/privacy/
• Discord: https://discord.gg/B98t4wj8N8
• Roadmap: https://vinaa.featurebase.app/roadmap
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sujee81
• X: https://x.com/sujee
• FileMinutes: https://www.fileminutes.com/

Hi all,

Been a user of Thaw since it was first promoted on here by its dev taking on the challenge of continuing the Ice legacy. I don't know anything about developing, but can imagine that a menu bar manager in particular is extremely difficult to develop due to all dependencies and different edge cases to be accounted for.

In my experience it's always been quite wonky: app icons moving themselves from hidden to unhidden, icons not keeping the place you gave them, etc. Now it's been getting worse over the past weeks for me, and especially when updating to macOS 27 it's become unusable. Icons are flashing all the time on top of the more 'regular' issues.

Anyone with the same experience who may have found a fix? Perhaps the dev could weigh in?

Problem

If you work with coding agents, their memory usually lives in one place (CLAUDE.md, MEMORY.md, loose notes) and your project tracking lives in another app. When a session ends or the context fills up, the agent forgets what it was doing and you explain it all again.

Kanban Pro is a project board whose database is just a folder. Every ticket is a plain Markdown file with YAML frontmatter. Point your agent at the same folder and the board becomes its memory:

• Every ticket has a terminal built in. Launch Claude Code, Codex, Goose etc. from the ticket and it starts with that ticket as context.
• Agents tick off subtasks and write their progress into an "Agent Working Notes" section of the ticket, so the next session picks up from there. In the video the second session only gets "continue T-18".
• The app keeps CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md rules and a one-line-per-ticket MAPPING.md index up to date, so agents find their way without you pasting context.
• If you run a claw (OpenClaw, NanoClaw, Hermes), you can point its workspace at the same folder. There's no special integration, it's just files.
• Collaborate with your team via sharing the project folder (Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud folders etc).

For the human side: board, list, calendar, notes and a Gantt with epics and dependencies, drag and drop everywhere, light/dark and nine colour palettes.

Comparison

• Linear: better if your team lives in the cloud. It has real-time sync, integrations and mobile apps, which Kanban Pro doesn't. Kanban Pro keeps everything as local files with no account, works offline, and agents read and write tickets directly with no API or MCP layer in between.
• Obsidian + the Kanban plugin: also local Markdown, and a better general notes tool with a huge plugin ecosystem. Kanban Pro is built for project work: one file per ticket with structured fields (status, assignee, dates, subtasks, links), a Gantt with dependencies, and the agent rule files generated for you.
• Where it falls short today: it's an Electron app, not native SwiftUI. It's not on the Mac App Store (signed and notarized DMG instead). No iOS app. It's early access, so expect rough edges.

Pricing

Free. No account, no subscription, no in-app purchases.

Download links

- Download (Apple Silicon and Intel, macOS 12+): https://goodguyapps.com

- Releases: https://github.com/donkruger/Kanban/releases

About us

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/good-guy-apps/about

- Contact: [contact.goodguyapps@gmail.com](mailto:contact.goodguyapps@gmail.com)

- Privacy policy: https://goodguyapps.com/privacy/

- Builds are Developer ID signed and notarized. The only network call the app itself makes is the update check against GitHub Releases.

- Reddit page: https://www.reddit.com/r/KanbanPro/

Happy to answer anything. I'd especially like to hear from people already running agents day to day.

I'm on an old version of AltTab from before the Pro change, so I've still got all the features, but it lags with a lot of windows open. I think it's time for me to move on.

DockDoor was the main pick in the older threads here, and I've also seen BetterCmdTab and Vorssaint come up, but there's been a wave of new switchers since. What are you guys using now?

Hi r/macapps, I'm Etienne, the maintainer of OpenScreen.

Some of you may remember it from last spring. When its creator archived the original repo in June, he pointed users to my fork, and I've kept working on it since. 2.0 is out today.

Problem
Making a good demo or tutorial takes far longer than recording it: zooms to place by hand, a jittery cursor to hide, a plain screen to dress up, silences and mistakes to cut. Most apps that do this well are paid. With OpenScreen, your first take already looks finished: it opens zoomed on your clicks, framed, styled and with a smooth cursor. Anything left to fix, you cut by deleting words in the transcript, and captions are generated on your Mac.

Features
(new since the spring marked with *):
• Auto zooms placed on your clicks, or manual ones anywhere on the screen
• Smooth cursor, click effects, cursor themes
• * Edit by transcript: delete words in the text and they're cut from the video
• Captions transcribed on your Mac after a one-time model download (264 MB), audio never uploaded
• Webcam overlay, beside the recording, above it, or in a corner
• * Camera background blur or removal (Apple Silicon)
• Backgrounds, padding, shadows, motion blur, * 3D camera and cursors, device frames
• Timeline editor: trims, speed changes, annotations, * music tracks
• * Export to MP4 or GIF, rendered natively on Metal (it's an Electron app, but the video never goes through the browser)
• Runs on macOS, Windows and Linux. Signed and notarized Mac builds for Apple Silicon and Intel

Comparison
Screen Studio is the most polished app here, and its 4.0 has things OpenScreen doesn't, like the glass loupe and face tracking. It's paid and Mac-only.
Cap is the other well-known open-source option, built around recording and sharing links. Its desktop app needs a $29/year license for commercial use.
OpenScreen is MIT licensed: free for any use, commercial included, with no license to buy and nothing to share back. You get Screen Studio-style editing, your files stay on your machine, and exports are fast: on an M1, the same edit takes 20 s, against 22 s for Cap and 38 s for Screen Studio 4 (open benchmark, other apps included).

Pricing
Free ($0), including commercial use. MIT license, no account, no watermark, no paid tier.

Link
https://github.com/getopenscreen/openscreen (3.5k stars)

Hi r/MacApps 👋

I'm Adham. Katami is a Mac app for everything except editing and tethering: import, browse, search, cull and clean up, right where your photos already live. It runs entirely on your Mac, costs $79 once, and hands photos off to the editor you already use. This is the first release, and a public roadmap is coming to our website soon. Problem

Photo apps are good at editing. They're weak at everything else: importing from the card, finding photos years later, choosing the best shot, and checking that every file copied correctly. I used separate tools and manual habits for those jobs. Here's what that looked like:

• I never wanted my personal photos on someone else's cloud. Nine years later, that's 140,000+ photos from my phone alone, spread across hard drives I rarely open.
• Duplicate and similar-photo finders made cleanup a chore, not a habit. The one thing eventually I kept up was a weekly import into a folder structure I've refined for years.
• Adobe taught me to be wary. I don't want unclear answers about what happens to my work, or cancellation terms that are hard to walk away from, from the tool that holds my photos.
• Format support is getting better, but some cameras still wait years before popular apps open their RAW files. And seeing a RAW's true colors up close can still take an extra click.

I wanted one app that does all of this without a subscription, a cloud account, or a list of approved cameras. Everything stays on your Mac. I couldn't find that app, so I'm building Katami.

What it does

Katami isn't an editor. It handles everything around the edit, then hands photos to Lightroom, Capture One or whatever you use. See it in motion: https://katami.io/features

• Library: Reads photos where they already are: your Mac, external drives or a NAS. Nothing is imported or moved. It reads 70–90 photos a second, and photos stay browsable when a drive is unplugged.
• Formats: RAW from every major camera, plus older ones like Sigma Foveon, Minolta, Kodak and Mamiya. Missing yours? Request it at https://katami.io/formats.
• Viewer: Nine tools for judging a photo: sharpness, clipped highlights, focus point and more, with findings in plain words. Opens any photo straight from the Finder.
• Search: Search by what's in the photo: objects, scenes, faces, text. It runs on your Mac.
• Library Health: Finds duplicates, blurry or badly exposed shots, and damaged files, with a reason for each. Nothing is removed without your OK, and removals can be undone for 30 days.
• Sessions: Imports a card, checks every file, groups the shoot into moments and suggests the best frame of each, with reasons. Picks go to your editor as star ratings.
• Privacy: Your photos never leave your Mac. No analytics, no tracking. Full list: https://katami.io/features#private

Compared to

• Photo Mechanic. The culling standard, and fast. It's $14.99/month or $299 one-time with a year of updates. Katami is $79 for a lifetime on the same model (with only 39$ if you decide to upgrade). It groups a shoot into moments for you, explains every frame it sets aside, checks your sensor for dust, and adds a searchable library across all your drives.
• Peakto. The closest to Katami in spirit: one place for all your photos, with private on-device search. It imports your folders directly and can also read your Lightroom, Capture One and Apple Photos catalogs. It's from $11/month, or 684$ billed every 2 years; Katami is $79 for a lifetime on the same model (with only 39$ if you decide to upgrade). Peakto is built for finding photos. Katami is also built for judging them: the inspection tools, Sessions for culling a shoot, and a Library Health that goes past duplicates to blur, exposure, damaged files and RAW + JPEG pairs, with a reason for every finding.

Pricing

$79 once, on two Macs: https://katami.io/pricing

Includes a year of updates. Then $39/year, optional, and Katami keeps working without it.

Full refund within 14 days. 50% Student and educator discounts: https://katami.io/discounts

Changelog

https://katami.io/updates

AI Disclaimer

Human Validated

System Requirements:

Requires macOS 26 on Apple Silicon.

Who's behind it.

Bespoke Byte:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bespokebyte
• Email: [hello@katami.io](mailto:hello@katami.io)
• Privacy: https://katami.io/legal/privacy
• Terms: https://katami.io/legal/terms

Getting here has been a hell of a ride. Bring your toughest questions and your hardest RAW files. Happy to answer any questions

hi, i'm samir, the solo dev of buffer, a free open-source clipboard manager for mac (searchable history, ⇧⌘V quick paste, on-device OCR, tags, bookmarks, inline editing). it's been posted here once before, back in april when it was much younger. since then it crossed 430 stars on github, got its first external contributor, and just shipped a big v3.0.

Comparison:

• vs maccy (free, $0, open source): maccy is a great minimal text history and the closest match. buffer adds on-device OCR for images, inline editing, an interactive image canvas (pinch to zoom / pan on copied screenshots, double-click reset), tags, bookmarks, and multi-select paste, while staying menu-bar light (~2 mb).
• vs raycast (freemium, paid pro subscription): clipboard history there is a feature inside a launcher suite tied to an account. and disk size of raycast is 200MB+, buffer is a dedicated single-purpose app: no account, no cloud, everything stays local.

what's new in v3.0:

1. interactive image canvas: copied screenshots are no longer static thumbnails. pinch to zoom, pan, ⌘+/⌘- to zoom, double-click to reset. read small text in a copied screenshot without opening preview. the video shows it in action.
2. clipboard noise suppression: filters rapid duplicates and transient clips so hammering ⌘C doesn't wreck your history. contributed by CrCs2O4 on github.
3. history tiers: essential (200 items), deep (1,000), or unlimited.
4. in-app update notifications: small header chip when a new version is out, with a changelog popover before downloading.
5. ⌘/ shortcuts cheat sheet.

also, my earlier post here asked whether esc in the inline editor should save or revert an edit. feedback said revert, so v3.0 now discards edits on esc instead of overwriting. thanks for that.

Developer disclosure:

• I am the sole developer, personal side project
• MIT open source, no accounts, no tracking, no telemetry, runs 100% locally on your mac. nothing leaves the device
• signed and notarized, distributed as dmg from github releases (not the app store)
• no AI features in the app itself

Links:

• github (430+ stars): https://github.com/samirpatil2000/Buffer
• v3.0 download (apple silicon + intel dmg): https://github.com/samirpatil2000/Buffer/releases/tag/buffer-v3.0.0
• product page + privacy info (all local, no data collection): https://samirpatil2000.github.io/products/buffer/

feedback welcome, especially on the image canvas and noise filtering thresholds.

I built this app, so take that into account.

Problem: Freelancers in Belgium must now send B2B invoices over Peppol. France follows in 2027. Most freelance tools have no Peppol support at all, and the ones that do require a managed cloud service that handles your credentials for you.

Comparison: Harvest and FreshBooks have no Peppol integration. Tools that do offer Peppol are full accounting platforms, not freelance workflow tools. Flowara adds Peppol in a BYOK model: you connect your own Invoro account, your credentials stay yours, Flowara never touches them. Everything else, projects, time tracking, invoicing, stays in a local SQLite database on your Mac with no cloud dependency.

Pricing: Free tier permanent, Peppol included. Pro at €5.99/month or €49.99/year, 30-day trial included.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760207975

Over the last months I collected a few apps that bring back older looks without breaking anything. All of these run on current macOS, and none of them are mine, I'm just a happy user.

NullPlayer (free, GPL-3.0, macOS 14+)

A (new) media player that loads real Winamp (.wal) and Windows Media Player (.wmz) skins. Not lookalikes, the original skin formats.

https://github.com/ad-repo/nullplayer

QuickTune (free, macOS 14+, Apple Silicon and Intel)

Oldie, but goldie! A mini player for Apple Music with the brushed metal and glassy buttons of the old QuickTime Player. By Mario Guzman, who also made the classic iTunes-style mini players.

https://marioaguzman.github.io/quicktune/

Classic Mac Finder (free, Apache 2.0, macOS 10.11+)

A pixel-for-pixel recreation of the original Macintosh Finder, with Chicago and Geneva fonts and spatial windows that remember where you left them. About 250 KB.

https://github.com/bszyman/classic-mac-finder

Sheru (macOS 26+)

The new kid in town ◡̈ A file browser that puts local drives, remote machines and web services in one window, with a built-in command line on Cmd+J. It ships with Aqua, Windows 98, XP, 7 and XFCE themes next to the native one.

https://sheru.app/

Mojave Paint ($9.99 after a 14-day trial, macOS 15+, Apple Silicon only)

An image editor with a 90s-style feel and familiar key bindings. No generative AI, just classic tools.

https://mojavepaint.app/

Problem

Every Mac ships with TextEdit. None of them ship with MacPaint's replacement. So when you need to crop a screenshot, drop an arrow and a speech-bubble callout on it, knock out a background, and export a PNG, you're choosing between a $50 pro imaging app, a browser tool that uploads your image to someone's server, or Preview's limited markup.

DrawSimple is the native, fully offline, tools-first app for exactly that job: 31 tools in a sidebar, unlimited layers with 24 blend modes, bitmap and vector in the same document, curves/levels/16 photo adjustments, 29 GPU effects, Select Subject running on Apple's on-device Vision, WordArt, editable callout/arrow/star shapes, and a History panel you can scrub. Opens HEIC straight from Photos with EXIF intact; exports PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, WebP.

Comparison

vs. Paintbrush (free, open source): Paintbrush is the honest MacPaint successor and still the app people recommend in this sub. But it's a long-lived Objective-C 2.x release with no layers, transparency only in formats that carry an alpha channel, and a UI from an older macOS. DrawSimple keeps the same "just let me draw" premise and adds layers, blend modes, vector-in-raster, adjustments, effects, and a current-macOS interface.

vs. Pixelmator Pro (now Apple's, $49.99 one-time, or $12.99/mo in Apple Creator Studio): Pixelmator went pro and went up in price. If you want a full professional imaging app, buy it, it beats us at being that, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. DrawSimple is for people who wanted what cheap, simple Pixelmator used to be and don't want or need the overhead of a $50 pro editor to put an arrow on a screenshot, turn a pic into a comic with a callout, or separate a subject onto a separate layer from the background.

Also, Pixelmator has no official MCP server/support, which has become a huge part of what distinguishes DrawSimple, and potentially makes both quick edits and full design sessions accessible through the coding agent you already use (tested with Claude Code, Codex, Kimi Code, Gemini CLI).

(Acorn at $29.99 sits between us. More depth, six times the price.)

Pricing

$5, one time.

Optional Pro upgrade in-app, $10, adds adjustment layers, advanced blend modes, multi-stop gradients, and SVG/PDF export. The base app is the complete core editor; Pro features stay hidden until you buy them. No lock icons, no nags. No subscription, no account.

Requires macOS 15.6+, Tahoe recommended. Apple silicon and Intel.

Fully offline. Fully private. No Account, no subscription. MCP is localhost only (DrawSimple does not include any LLM/AI but works with any MCP-compatible tool-aware model you already use).

Two-person team, here all day. 

Hi r/macapps, I'm the developer of Siteprint, a Safari extension for Mac.

Siteprint reads the live page in Safari and measures its design: every color as an exact hex value with its role (background, surface, text, accent, border), ranked by how much of the page it paints. It also gets the font families and type scale with exact sizes, weights and line heights, the spacing and corner radii, and a blueprint of every section with its grids, flex rows and widths. Pro writes all of that into one prompt or a "DESIGN.md" for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Lovable or any other coding agent you use. Your agent can also read your scans directly via MCP, so you don't have to paste anything. And with Compose, you can mix two sites into a new style, like the colors from one and the type and layout from the other.

What makes it special on Safari is that Apple Intelligence is built in. On a Mac that has it, the on-device model reviews each scan, names the colors and type styles, and answers your questions about the design. You don't need an API key or an account, and it doesn't cost anything extra. Without Apple Intelligence, everything measured works the same.

It's made just as much for designers who want to study a page in detail as for developers exploring its themes and technical details, and for vibe coders who want everything in one prompt, fast.

Problem: Safari is my main browser every day, and I couldn't find a good extension like this for it, while Chrome has plenty. And really understanding a design takes more than a quick look. Designers want the exact palette and type scale, developers want the themes and layout details, and an AI has to piece all of that together from screenshots or the page's code, which is slow and often slightly off. Siteprint measures everything from the live page in one click.

Comparison: CSS Peeper is the best known tool for this, but it's a Chrome extension and gives you a list of values. Siteprint is built for Safari, gives each color its role, measures the layout too, and writes it all into a prompt your agent can build from.

Pricing: Free to inspect, with the Library included. Pro is a one-time $9.99, no subscription and no account. Everything runs on your Mac and nothing is uploaded. Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/siteprint-design-to-prompt/id6817107438

Website: https://siteprint.pages.dev

Happy to answer anything, and bug reports are very welcome.

Got tired of the usual choice: share your whole screen and hope nothing embarrassing pops up, or painstakingly minimize everything before the call starts. So I built something that lets you toggle windows on and off from the broadcast in real time.

Here's what it actually does: You install it, it puts a virtual camera on your Mac. People join the meeting and pick "PrivacyStage" as your camera instead of "Share Screen." Now your screen shows up as video, and you get a list of every window on your Mac. Uncheck a window — it disappears from what they're seeing. Check it again — it's back. All while you're still talking.

Not just windows either. Notifications don't make it to the broadcast. Your desktop and file names stay private. There's an optional AI mask that finds email addresses and card numbers on your screen and puts a blur over them before anyone sees them.

The trade-off I'm being honest about: It's a video feed through a virtual camera, so the resolution is lower than a direct screen share. Small text gets a bit fuzzy. If you're reading something off screen that other people need to read too, you might want to zoom in or switch back to normal sharing for that bit. It's not a magic solution, just a practical tool.

Comparison How does PrivacyStage compare to other solutions?

• Built-in Screen Share (Zoom / Teams / Meet): They let you share one single window or the entire screen. But if you need to share multiple apps (like a browser and a terminal/code editor), you usually have to share your whole screen. PrivacyStage lets you pick and choose multiple windows and toggle them instantly.
• PliimPRO: PliimPRO is a great Mac app for presentation mode (it mutes notifications and hides desktop icons). However, PrivacyStage goes further by using a virtual camera to actively exclude specific windows from the feed, plus it adds live AI blurring for sensitive data.
• OBS Studio: You can technically achieve a similar result using OBS Window Captures and its Virtual Camera. But OBS has a huge learning curve and is overkill for a quick work meeting. PrivacyStage is a friction-free, one-click menu bar tool designed specifically for this single problem.

Pricing

• $6.99 One-time purchase.
• Includes a 7-day free trial (no credit card needed, risk-free).

https://aieltokhy.com/privacystage/

If you try it and find something broken or annoying, email me. I actually respond.

FileFluss is a file manager specifically designed to work with your cloud starage providers. There are features like search across all the accounts, a storage analyzer shows which folders and files use the most space and a file indexer that can index accounts and external & internal drives, so you can search for files, even when the account is offline or you detached the drive and so much more. With more than 250 stars on GitHub there is already an active community that helps me to constantly improve FileFluss and shape its features.

• Problem: You are looking for specific files & documents, but they are somehow all spread across OneDrive, Dropbox, Mega, Nextcloud or other services. You want to quickly copy or sync specific folders to the cloud. You want to find storage hogs to have more free space in the cloud storage. Or you want to quickly share a link to a file with a friend without logging into the cloud storage account. All this and more is possible with FileFluss.
• Comparison: The excellent Transmit or Air Explorer are similar apps, but they are missing the universal search, the storage analysis or the sharing feature. In addition FileFluss is Open Source and free.
• Pricing: FileFluss is free and Open Source. Give it a try. For more information and download take a look here: https://filefluss.de/ or directly at GitHub: https://github.com/rana-gmbh/FileFluss Of course you can also use Homebrew with the following command: brew trust rana-gmbh/filefluss && brew install --cask rana-gmbh/filefluss/filefluss

I really look forward to hear your feedback. Many of the new features are based on user requests, so feel free and comment. Thank you and greetings from Germany!

Hi r/macapps,

I'm the developer of Chunk, a time-blocking app for Mac that plans around your calendar. Last time I posted was v3.2.0, and since then the app has had possibly its biggest redesign yet, so here's what's changed.

Problem:

Time blocking in a normal calendar app or to-do list can feel clunky and detached. Your tasks live in one app, your calendar in another, and planning the day means flicking between them. Chunk puts your task lists and your schedule in the same place, so planning your day is just dragging tasks onto the calendar, and the plan is always one shortcut away (⌘/ opens it over anything, even fullscreen apps).

Comparison:

Sunsama / Akiflow: the two biggest names in daily planning, and both are genuinely polished. But they're subscriptions (roughly $15-20/month, every month, forever). Chunk is a one-time purchase, keeps your data on your own devices, and has features like fullscreen notifications and a floating timer.

What's new in v3.4:

• Three layouts: Tasks, Plan and Calendar. Plan is the new one: your lists sit in the sidebar beside a week, and you drag tasks straight onto the calendar. One toolbar, a date bar above every view, and a View menu for day/3-day/5-day/week/month.
• Search everything. Tasks, Apple Reminders and calendar events, all from the sidebar. Filter or sort by list, source and priority.
• Priorities and links on any task, shown on its card and its calendar block.
• Repeating calendar events. Edit a Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar repeat as "this event", "this and following" or "all events", and set or change the repeat from inside Chunk.
• Apple Reminders sync is more reliable and now brings over notes, priority and repeats. There's an All Reminders list, you can move reminders between lists, and reminders due today or overdue show up in the Plan sidebar ready to drag onto the calendar.
• More ways to repeat a task: on a day with no set time, or on a weekday of the month like "first Monday" or "last Friday".
• Overlapping blocks cascade so every title stays readable, and finished blocks grey out (there's a setting if you'd rather they didn't).
• New welcome flow that sets up your lists, day hours and calendars, then a getting started checklist.
• Claude can now edit your calendars and reminders without asking each time, if you turn that on in Settings.

Also since the last post (v3.3):

• Task notes are now a proper Markdown editor (headings, checklists, clickable links)
• ⌘-click to select several tasks and move, complete, pause or delete them together
• Calendar blocks can take their colour from your connected calendars
• 12/24-hour time, time zone, date format and first day of the week settings
• Attachments sync between Macs
• Tick off a repeating task early, and choose whether a change applies to one occurrence or all from then on

Do I have to use it from the menu bar? No. ⌘/ opens Chunk as a panel over whatever you're doing, or you can detach it into a normal window you can resize and take fullscreen. Chunk remembers which one you used last.

About iOS: I said 1-3 weeks last time, and that was optimistic. Chunk for iPhone is in TestFlight testing now. It'll be a separate one-time purchase that syncs with your Mac through iCloud, and I'll post here when it's on the App Store.

Pricing:

• 7-day free trial, all features, no card required
• $29.99 one-time lifetime licence (covers 2 Macs)
• $59.99 family lifetime licence (covers up to 6 Macs)
• No subscription
• Code MACAPPS for 10% off

Requires macOS 12 Monterey or later.

A lot of 3.4 came from Reddit and email feedback, so once you've had a play, tell me what you'd want next. I'll be in the comments. Otherwise drop me a message on LinkedIn or r/ChunkApp.

Hello everyone! I'm Allen, developer of SCM (Screen Memory). SCM is an open-source AI visual library search engine for macOS — 100% local.

Problem I'm solving:
my photo library is a graveyard — thousands of IMG_1234s, screenshots mixed with real photos, and videos where I know the moment exists but can't find it. Built-in search only matches filenames/dates, and anything smarter means uploading my life to someone's cloud. I wanted to type what I actually remember — a vibe, a scene, a spoken line, text on a sign — and land on the exact shot, with nothing ever leaving my Mac.

What's SCM

It indexes your photos and videos with local models (CLIP / SigLIP2) and lets you search in plain language — "retro-style devices" or "a few men at a party" jumps straight to the image or exact video scene.

Five search modes: Files / Scenes / OCR / Dialogue (exact Whisper spoken-line search) + LLMs (opt-in local chat over your library with citations). Save any query as a tab.

Search in a selected view: tabs aren't just browsing — they're search scopes. Select Screenshots, Email, Videos, or any saved tab and every query stays inside it. Scope first, then search. In LLMs chat it's explicit: start with /screenshots, /videos, or /email to narrow the corpus before the model runs.

- Github repo link: https://github.com/allenv0/SCM
- Download link: https://github.com/allenv0/scm-dmg/releases (Apple Silicon only) — heads-up, it's unsigned.

Pricing

completely free and open source. Free. No signup, no in-app purchases, no subscription, no account.

Transparency

I'm Allen Lee :) feel free to reach out anytime.

- Personal website: https://www.allenlee.site/

- X: x.com/allenleexyz

- Email: [allenleexyz@gmail.com](mailto:allenleexyz@gmail.com)

I make Piano Glide, a Mac app that turns a MIDI keyboard into a falling-notes game for practice. Plug in the keyboard, pick a song or import your own .mid/.midi file, and play while it tracks timing, accuracy and streaks.

Versus Synthesia: that's the obvious comparison, and it costs $39 one-time. Piano Glide is built for macOS and costs half of that even at full price. I'd rather you compare them yourself than take my word for it, so there's a free tier to try first.

Cost: free to start, $19.99 one-time lifetime unlock (in-app purchase, no subscription). For the next 14 days, code REDDIT50 takes it to $9.99. It expires October 16th.

Redeem here: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6761230770&code=REDDIT50

No data collected. Happy to answer questions or take feature requests here.

• Problem: thousands of Winamp and Windows Media Player skins exist on the internet with no way to be used on macOS
• Comparison: There is no media players capable of this on macOS, these have been windows only for 20+ years
• Pricing: Free and open source

NullPlayer skin support is clean room reverse engineered. Development is coded with claude and controlled by a real working Software Engineer who personally stands behind the app. The app has accumulated 31 releases and 124 github stars over the 11 months.

r/nullPlayer

https://github.com/ad-repo/nullplayer

https://github.com/ad-repo/nullplayer/blob/main/PRIVACY.md

Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or newer.

A few weeks ago, I discovered tinycast after looking for raycast alternatives. it looked promising. But it was still barebones in some areas. so, i opened an issue about a feature i wanted and said that i'd develop it myself as i have pretty good swift knowledge. So, I did and opened a PR. it was closed for some stupid bureaucratic reasons (a small repo btw 🤣) and strangely, a few hours later, the dev made a PR that's surprisingly close to mine with the exact featureset i had requested. now, why would the dev do this? i have no idea but definitely the weirdest experience ever. never submitted PR's to that repo again lol. i maintain a fork of it with my own custom features that i developed.

My friend sent me this yesterday. Thankfully, I'm still in a position where I'm able to find this hilarious (until January when I've got to figure healthcare, thanks America), but this does raise some questions.

How many developers on here are doing well from their creations, better than they would if they found a job in their area, and how secure does everyone feel?

Also, what pricing models are buyers resonating with? I've been maybe a little overly fixated on promoting a small monthly subscription with the idea that it keeps the customer and dev better aligned, because the dev will be more motivated to update and respond to tickets, but it does cost more to the customer if they stay with the app for longer than a year or two, and the payment processor loves it.

Model advances have also been raising the floor quickly. Opus 5.5 doesn't need the constant babysitting the older models did where they would produce some flawed experiment then confidently declare in a 2-page essay that X wasn't possible.

What is the best clipboard manager available for macOS?

I am currently using Clippy and would appreciate some recommendations, both free and paid.

OptiSound has officially turned 3 years old. 🎉

I originally built it because macOS gives you surprisingly little control over how individual apps sound, where they play, or how outputs behave. Three years later, it has grown into a native SwiftUI audio suite built specifically for Apple Silicon.

Problem: macOS has no native way to properly route, tune, delay-sync or calibrate audio on an app-by-app basis.

Comparison: SoundSource is the obvious benchmark and an excellent app, but OptiSound focuses heavily on advanced tuning, multi-output audio, and automation:

• Play apps through multiple outputs simultaneously, with independent volume, balance, EQ, and sync delay.
• Built-in AutoEQ, guided personal tuning, and microphone-based room calibration.
• Audio Scenes and automatic rules, call-aware mixing, AU effects, and dialogue processing.
• Share Mix for isolated app routing into OBS, QuickTime, and calls.
• Live Audio Map, audio history, volume guardrails, and more.

Pricing: €4.99 once. Lifetime licence. No subscription.

3-Year Anniversary: Anyone who buys OptiSound before October 31 gets 10 lifetime licences with their purchase, to use on other Macs or share with friends and family.

Check Out OptiSound Here

I’m Lukkas, just building this solo out of Munich. Contact and legal info are over at optitools.org/legal. Happy to answer any questions or take feature requests!

I’ve recently replaced Raycast with Tinycast, a very RAM-efficient, vibe-coded Raycast-clone. I’ve come across a bug regarding the hyperkey feature (it randomly stops working) so I reported it on github.com/abue-ammar/tinycast/issues

The next day the topic was closed with a comment from the developer, saying he has never experienced the bug himself, bragging that the app has 50k users and that nobody else had reported the issue. I congratulated him for the app and stated that it has already replaced Raycast for me, which took up to 800 MB of RAM.

However, I kept experiencing the issue (happened again just a few minutes ago). Another user also commented that he had the same bug. I’ve received an email notification about this comment. The next day, the comment was deleted by the repository owner.

After experiencing the bug multiple times today, I’ve commented again, asking if the dev needed logs or what else I could do. I’ve attached a screenshot of the comment by the other user, proving that the issue is not unique. Then the whole issue was deleted. Apparently I’ve hurt the ego of a guy who cloned Raycast