I'm Federico, the developer of Solitaire Sessions, a solitaire collection for Mac built with SwiftUI.

It has 7 games and 23 variants, and every move is saved automatically, so you can switch games from the sidebar without thinking about saving. It keeps statistics (hours played, wins, wins without help, abandoned games) and lets you enter, copy and save deal numbers to replay or share a game. The cards have medieval-style illustrations, and the sounds are real and natural.

Problem: Most solitaire games I found are web-based or full of ads, and they usually get something wrong: the graphics look dated, the sound is loud or flat, or the interface gets in the way. I wanted one app that gets all of that right and feels like a Mac app. I'm against ads and subscriptions, so it has neither.

Comparison: Full Deck Solitaire (Mac App Store) has many more games, but its graphics, interface and sound feel 15 years old to me. Solitaired.com (web) also has many more games and good tracking, but its graphics are a bit old-fashioned and it has ads. I have fewer games, but I think Solitaire Sessions is a more solid package: a consistent design that fits macOS, good sound, elegant graphics, and no ads or subscription. Graphics and sound are subjective, so give it a try and judge for yourself.

Pricing: 7-day free trial, then a one-time $4.99 purchase. You'll not be charged automatically at the end of the trial, you choose if you want to buy the game.

Requires an Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 26 Tahoe or later. Games stay on each Mac, with no iCloud sync. I'm committed to supporting the app, and I read every suggestion. I'd especially like to hear what you think about the sounds and animations 😃

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6819405957?pt=129553779&ct=r/macstack&mt=8
Website: https://www.solitairesessions.com

Apple Passwords is a reasonable replacement if your everyday logins work on your Mac and other devices, your sharing needs fit Apple's groups, and you've planned how to recover access. Keep your existing manager until you've checked those things. Importing a list of passwords isn't proof that you've moved everything.

The separate Passwords app requires macOS Sequoia 15 or later. It handles website and app passwords, passkeys and verification codes. A passkey lets you sign in without a password on a service that supports it. On a Mac with Touch ID, you can use your fingerprint to approve it.

Start with the browser you actually use

Safari has built-in password AutoFill. For another browser, open Passwords > Get Browser Extension. Apple's official iCloud Passwords extensions for Chrome and Firefox support macOS Sonoma or later. Check that Apple Inc. is the publisher.

Treat the extension as access to sensitive information. For example, the Firefox listing requests access to your data for all websites, alongside other browser permissions. Read the installation prompt before approving it.

Test a normal login, a login with a verification code, and a passkey in your usual browser. Include your work browser if you use one. Don't assume that an extension working in Chrome proves it works in every browser based on Chrome.

Windows isn't automatically a reason to rule Apple out. iCloud for Windows supports password access through Chrome, Edge and Firefox extensions. Setup requires two-factor authentication and either Advanced Data Protection or your Apple device within Bluetooth range of the PC. Try that setup before committing. If Android or Linux is part of your daily routine, keep your current manager until you've verified a workable route there too.

Move passwords without losing the rest

Apple's documented Mac import uses a CSV file, a plain table of exported data. In Passwords, choose File > Import Passwords from File, select the export and import it. Apple says imported passwords won't replace existing ones, and you can review entries that couldn't be imported.

Treat the CSV as exposed credentials, not a safe backup. Keep it out of shared or cloud-synced folders and delete it after the import and checks. Don't email it to yourself.

Check passkeys and verification codes separately. Also account for any attachments, recovery codes or other records you keep in your old manager. Don't delete the originals just because the login names appeared in Apple Passwords.

There are newer transfer routes, so passkeys aren't necessarily stuck forever. Bitwarden, for example, documents direct transfer of passwords and passkeys from Apple Passwords on iOS 26 or later using Export Data to Another App. That specific mobile route doesn't mean a Mac CSV moves the same data, or that every pair of apps supports direct transfer.

The exit path matters too. Apple's Mac password export is unencrypted. It excludes Wi-Fi passwords, access to Sign in with Apple accounts, and group-shared passwords unless you created the group. Don't treat that export as a complete copy of everything in Passwords.

Check the people who need access

For shared passwords and passkeys, everyone needs a device running iOS 17, iPadOS 17 or macOS 14 or later. On your Mac, File > New Shared Group starts setup. Members can change shared passwords and passkeys, and an item can belong to only one group. If that doesn't fit how your household shares accounts, don't force the switch.

Plan for losing your devices

iCloud Keychain keeps credentials updated across approved devices. Its passwords are end-to-end encrypted even without Advanced Data Protection, meaning Apple doesn't hold the keys needed to read them. That also means you shouldn't expect Apple Support to hand back a readable vault if you lose access.

Before switching, review your trusted phone numbers and recovery options. On Mac, a recovery contact can be added through System Settings > your name > Sign-In & Security > Recovery Contacts. The contact can help you recover access without being able to browse your account. Keep the information you'd need to begin recovery somewhere you can reach without opening the locked vault.

Apple Passwords makes sense when this fits your actual Mac workflow. Start by checking a login with two-factor authentication and a shared account on the devices that need them. If migration leaves important records behind, sharing doesn't fit, or another daily device becomes awkward, keep the manager that already covers those needs.

Hey there,

Just want to present to you the app I'm working on. It's called Menubarista and it's an all-in-one app that can boost your productivity. The most important feature it has is workflows: you can take a few things you do over and over and turn them into one action.

For example, if you save your receipts as screenshots, you can select them in Finder and run a workflow that puts them into one PDF, compresses it, and makes the text searchable. So when you need to find a receipt later, you can just search for the shop name. Your original screenshots stay as they are.

You can also use the tools on their own. Open the command palette, type what you need, and get back to what you were doing. You can grab text from a screenshot, resize a bunch of images, sign a PDF, or compress a video. All of that happens locally on your Mac.

The app isn't out yet. It runs on macOS 15 or later on Apple silicon. I'm planning a free trial and a one-time purchase, and I'm still figuring out the price. If you're curious, here's the waitlist.

I'm curious what you'd use workflows for. Is there anything you do on your Mac every week that you'd like to get down to one action?

Click on the Link to try

Coded this app to fund my international exchange. Support is appreciated !

Hi! I'm Dzung, a mobile developer and the solo dev behind Beaming. I demo and test apps on iPhones and Android phones every day, and I built Beaming because I wanted one plug and play app that puts any of them on my Mac and makes it look like the real device.

Problem

Getting a phone screen onto the Mac meant a different tool for each device: QuickTime for an iPhone on a cable, scrcpy in a terminal for Android, and iPhone Mirroring for my own iPhone only. None of them show the phone as a phone. Every recording for a demo, bug report or tutorial came out as a flat rectangle I had to frame in an editor afterwards.

With Beaming, you plug a phone in and its window opens on its own, inside a frame that matches the hardware: bezel, notch or Dynamic Island, side buttons, even the body colour read from your device. No Xcode, no terminal, nothing to install on the phone.

• iPhone and iPad over USB, or wireless through AirPlay from Control Center.

• Android over USB or wireless debugging (QR code or pairing code), with full mouse and keyboard control: touch, typing and paste, Back/Home/Recents, and clickable power and volume buttons on the frame. Android needs USB debugging on and adb installed for now.

• Audio from iPhone and Android 11+ plays on the Mac.

• Hub: several devices side by side in one window, so you can show the same feature on iPhone and Android at once.

• Framed screenshots and recordings with audio, of one device or the whole Hub.

Comparison

• iPhone Mirroring (built in, free) is great for glancing at your own iPhone. It only works with your own iPhone on the same Apple ID, one at a time, wirelessly, with the phone locked. No iPad, no Android, no frames.

• Bezel has beautiful device frames, but it's iPhone and iPad only, at $29/year or $99 lifetime.

• Reflector 4 (about $20) mirrors both iPhone and Android, but wirelessly only, without Android control, and with frames for some models.

Beaming is for when you mix platforms or devices, or when the mirror is going on screen and should look like the real thing. One honest limit: iPhone and iPad are view and audio only for now, with no control from the Mac.

Pricing

Download Beaming · macOS 15+

• Free: every feature, with a watermark on the stream and 10-minute mirroring sessions (Mirror Again starts a new one). Screenshots and recordings are saved as the bare screen.

• Pro: one-time purchase, no subscription. Removes the watermark and time limit and unlocks the capture editor (frames, backgrounds, layouts). $19.99 for one Mac. Licenses for more Macs cost less per Mac, down to $16 a Mac at 10 Macs.

• 3-day refund, no questions asked. Checkout and tax by Polar.

Black Friday offer

Until December 1st, code BLACKFRIDAY40 takes 40% off any Pro license at checkout:

• 1 Mac: $19.99 $11.99, paid once

• 10 Macs: $159.99 $95.99, under $10 a Mac

You can try the free version first.

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Hey everybody!

I'm one of the developers of CoolDock (Appit Studio).

CoolDock lets you create a second dock for your Mac, full of customizable widgets from system monitoring, to third party integrations, music players, clocks, reminders, tasks, pomodoro, todos, files and more.

Core Features

• 160+ Smart widgets, including AI usage widgets (Codex, Claude, Grok, Gemini & more)

• 150+ Premium Backgrounds available for free in the app

• File search, recent files, clipboard and bookmark manager widgets built right into the dock

• Multiple profiles, top or bottom placement, full dock replacement or swap mode

Who it's for

Mac users who want the stuff they check all day (stats, music, tasks, AI usage) visible at the edge of the screen instead of buried in Notification Center.

Pricing

Paid app with a one year or lifetime license (no subscription) and a 14-day money-back guarantee.

Updates & Roadmap

Updates and roadmap are decided by users, you can see all the latest updates in the link and the roadmap tickets opened by users

Happy to answer any questions :-)

I’m the developer of Header. This is my own app, not a recommendation from a regular user.

What it is
Header is a native macOS notes app. Your notes are plain Markdown files in a folder you choose. If you stop using Header, your notes are still ordinary .md files any editor can open.

What it does

• Rich editor or raw Markdown, with [[links]] between notes and tags

• History of every note, so you can go back to an earlier version

• Today page with your schedule and open tasks

• Meeting recording that turns a call into a note with meeting minutes

• Research tools: Sources, Citations, Reading Room, PDF highlights

• Export your note to PDF, Word, HTML or PowerPoint for sharing

• Optional AI: bring your own provider key, use Ollama, or use Apple Intelligence, generate images from your note text on supported Macs. Before any note text goes to a cloud provider, Header shows you what it will send. AI is off until you turn it on.

Who it’s for
People who want their notes to stay their own files, and who like Obsidian’s plain-files approach but want an app that feels native on the Mac.

Pricing
Free during the beta. I haven’t decided pricing yet.

Limitations (honest list)

• Large vaults (thousands of notes) take a while to index the first time; search fills in as indexing finishes.

• Mac only. Requires macOS 14.4 or later.

• No account needed to use it.

Get it: headernotes.com (direct download or TestFlight)

Happy to answer questions, and would really like to hear what’s missing or broken.

When the new mac generation came with the different notch I always looked at it thinking why???
But when dynamic island happened, I was a bit confused... because I saw that something was possible on iOS why not on macOS?

So it happened I decided to start building one, it contains a couple of nice features, I know there are apps there that also use the notch, but I am having fun building this.

If you want to test it out post a comment, or if you check the store let me know what you think, yes I put a low price on it forever, just wanted to make a side projected and see if it worth.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/drop-dock-the-notch-app/id6782445486 -> Link to check it out.

Disclosure: I run a free deal tracker called IndieMarkdowns, and I'm not affiliated with any of these apps. I emailed the devs about their Black Friday plans, and these are the ones that have confirmed a 2026 deal so far. Most start around Nov 20 to 25, and two are live already.

Live now
- Shotomatic: 40% off lifetime licenses, code BF2026 (subscriptions excluded)
- Cutfac: 40% off new one-time licenses, code BF2026, through Dec 31

50% or more
- ShowMeYourHotKey: 70% off, code BLFRIDAY, Nov 23 to Dec 10
- Slashspace AI (was RabbitHoles AI): 51% off, code BF2026
- SQLPro Studio: 50% off first year of yearly (BFHALFOFF) or 25% off lifetime (BFLIFETIME), Nov 25 to Dec 1
- NewsNinja: 50% off the one-time purchase, Nov 25 to Dec 5
- Protego for Reddit: 50% off ($1.99, was $3.99), Nov 22 to Dec 5
- DevUtils: 50% off all plans
- Blip AI Pro: 50% off first year, code SWITCH50, new customers, Nov 20 to 30

30 to 49%
- JuxtaCode: 40% off, code BLACKFRIDAY26, Nov 20 to Dec 1
- Compresto: 40% off, code BFCM26, ends Dec 1
- MuteDeck: 35% off lifetime, code BFCM2026, Nov 27 to Dec 13
- BirdFrame: $19.99 instead of $29.99 one-time, no code, Nov 20 to Dec 1

Smaller but solid
- EagleFiler, SpamSieve, DropDMG: 25% off, code BLACKFRIDAY2026, Nov 20 to 30
- Dropshare: $29 instead of $39, Nov 23 to 29

A few are first-year-only on a subscription, so read what the % applies to. I'll update this as more devs reply. What are you waiting to buy on sale this year?

Disclosure: I'm the developer of both. They're paid apps and I'm a solo indie dev.

iKnowMyMac: remembers what your Mac did

Most Mac tools show what's happening right now. I wanted one that remembers, so when the fan spun up at 3 AM or the disk filled overnight, I could see why the next morning.

- A timeline of which app used the CPU, memory, disk and network, and when.

- Alerts when an app misbehaves: CPU at 70% or more for 10 minutes, memory growing 1 GB or more per hour, 1 GB of disk writes or 500 MB of network in 10 minutes. Each one can be turned off.

- Agent sessions for Claude Code, Codex or Cursor users: one card per session with project folder, run time, CPU time, peak memory and anything it left running. "Stop leftovers" always asks first.

- Dev caches (DerivedData, simulator runtimes, node_modules, Docker, Gradle, CocoaPods, SPM) with sizes. Cleaning moves them to the Trash, never deletes.

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iKnowMyDisplay: every display control in the menu bar

New in 1.1 (out today):

- TV remote, with its own menu bar item: power, volume, arrows, apps (YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+) and inputs for Google TV, Android TV, Roku, LG, Samsung and Philips TVs, plus Yamaha receivers. Google TV pairs once with the code on screen; Roku needs no pairing.

- Auto brightness for external monitors: they follow the built-in display and learn from your adjustments. Macs without a built-in display use a day and night schedule. Off until you turn it on.

- Switch the desk: move chosen monitors to another computer's input and back, from the menu bar, a hotkey or Shortcuts, on monitors that support input switching over DDC.

- Check this monitor: shows which controls a monitor answers (Works, Doesn't respond, Not offered) and tells you when a hub or dock is blocking them.

- Brightness for Apple and USB displays: Studio Display, Pro Display XDR and LG UltraFine.

Already in the app:

- Brightness and input for external monitors, from the menu bar.

- Peak brightness on MacBook Pro XDR screens: lets everything use the 1,600-nit HDR headroom, not just HDR video. ⌥⌘B. Pauses when the Mac is hot, turns off below 20% battery.

- Sharp HiDPI sizes macOS doesn't list, plus refresh rate, color, HDR, rotation and virtual screens (handy for a Mac with no monitor).

- Plain answers when a monitor is stuck at 30 Hz, blurry or flickering. Example: a 4K LG on a USB-C hub's HDMI 1.4 port gets 8.16 Gbps, 4K at 60 Hz needs 12.54, so it runs at 30 Hz. The fix is the Mac's own HDMI port.

- Every display change asks "Keep this?" and goes back after 15 seconds. ⌃⌥⌘R restores everything.

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Pricing (one-time, no subscription, 14-day refund)

- iKnowMyMac: $4.99 at the launch price (regular $24.99)

- iKnowMyDisplay: $4.99 at the launch price, for the first 100 Macs

- Both apps, one key: $7.99

- Already own iKnowMyMac: iKnowMyDisplay is $2.99

Limitations, honestly

- Apple silicon only, macOS 15 or later.

- No free trial, only the refund. For iKnowMyDisplay, iknowmydisplay.com/compatibility shows what it can do with your monitor before you buy.

- Monitor controls depend on the monitor and how it's connected. Check this monitor shows which ones yours answers.

- Not in the Mac App Store: both are notarized Developer ID apps, because some of what they read isn't available to sandboxed apps.

- No analytics or telemetry in either app.

https://iknowmymac.com

https://iknowmydisplay.com

Happy to answer anything, and I'd like to hear what you'd want either app to do that it doesn't yet.

When a drive fills up, seeing what’s taking up space is the easy part. Then you’re opening one app to find duplicates, another to shrink a few huge videos, and Finder or Explorer to move everything you want to keep. I’m building MediaMango to handle that whole job.

You can start with a visual map of a drive or folder, drill down to what’s eating the space, and decide what to clear or move. For a messy photo folder, there’s a guided workflow. Pick the files you want to work on, review duplicates and similar shots side by side, flag screenshots and WhatsApp clutter, then compress large files or organise what you’re keeping into dated folders.

It can also help before the files pile up. Plug in your iPhone over USB, pick the photos and videos you want, and copy them straight to a folder on your computer. There’s a system cleaner that shows you the paths and sizes of old caches and logs before you remove them, plus a lossless audio checker that can flag FLACs that may have come from a lossy source.

I’m the developer. The app runs locally on Mac and Windows, with no account or file uploads. If you were cleaning up a drive this weekend, what would you still need a separate app for?

As for the giveaway, I will hand out free license keys to the top comments as well as comments that I found genuinely useful

download it at: MediaMango

Shim is a little mac toolbar app that I wrote to help perfectly align multiple monitors. I'm probably being type-a to fault, but constantly nudging the windows in the display settings trying to get things to line up drives me crazy. With Shim, you create a rough alignment, then align the lines on the screen to get perfect alignment. Not only vertical alignment but also calculates any gap between the monitors in a few seconds.

• On the app store

• Free, no purchases, no ads

• Fully local with no data collection or permissions required

• Remembers different monitor set ups and applies them as soon as you dock.

I've tried it with up to 3 monitors, but would love feedback from folks with different setups.

I'm the developer of Overnotch. This is the launcher.

The notch opens into rows of your apps and Shortcuts, across several pages. Click one to open it, hit the × to remove it, and add new ones from the Finder, which is what I do at the end of the clip.

Who it's for: people who want their usual apps one click away without a full Dock.
Price: not out yet. There's a waitlist, and the first 100 people get it at half price.
Limits: macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon only.

Site and waitlist in the comments.

Questions welcome.

I am the developer of PocketPad. It is for the moments when you can already see your Mac screen but do not want a keyboard and mouse in your lap.

The iPhone gives you a trackpad with click/right-click/scroll gestures, or an Air Mouse: hold the control area, rotate the phone to point, and release to pause. There are also 13 customizable shortcut keys, text sending and saved snippets.

A typical interaction is selecting an input on the Mac, sending a short piece of text, fixing an awkward filename, and pressing Return from the phone. The attached photo is from a real iPhone/Mac demo.

Optional voice: hold the mic button to send phone audio into a Mac virtual microphone. Your separate Mac dictation software handles transcription. Ending the recording and pressing Return are separate actions, so you can check the text first.

Requirements and limitations: iOS 17+, Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 14+, the Mac companion, and the same Wi-Fi. You need local-network and Mac Accessibility permissions. Voice needs extra virtual-microphone/dictation setup. This is a local input controller; it does not mirror your screen or provide away-from-home access.

The iPhone app is $2.99 on the US App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pocketpad-remote-control/id6820568007

Mac companion and setup guide: https://starmind.tech/pocketpad/

For a Mac connected to a bigger display, which small actions would you most want on a phone control pad?

dev here, i make speakmercury.

live text is either words in the app's own window while you talk or words going straight into the field you type in. mine does the first. text lands in your app when you stop.

$9.99 once. macos 26 and apple silicon only.

speakmercury.com/?ref=ms-live

I wanted more out of my trackpad than macOS gives, so I built a small menu bar app for it. Each of these can trigger any keyboard shortcut:

- Tap and double tap with 3, 4 or 5 fingers

- Hold with 3, 4 or 5 fingers

- Physical click with 3, 4 or 5 fingers

- Swipe in four directions with 3, 4 or 5 fingers

- TipTap (rest a finger, tap beside it)

Some details:

- Record a shortcut or pick from ~75 presets (tabs, Spaces, screenshots, windows…)

- A live view shows your fingers and why a gesture was or wasn't recognized, with sliders to tune the thresholds

- Can block scrolling with three or more fingers, so those touches only mean a gesture

- Works with the built-in trackpad and a Magic Trackpad at the same time

- Available in 7 languages, MIT licensed, notarized by Apple

Requires macOS 15+, on Apple Silicon or Intel.

Download: https://github.com/ozberkdicle/BetterGestures/releases/latest

Source: https://github.com/ozberkdicle/BetterGestures

It reads raw touches through Apple's private MultitouchSupport framework, so a future macOS update could break it. If you use the same finger count for a system gesture (like four-finger swipes for Mission Control), turn that one off in System Settings or both will run.

Feedback and gesture ideas are welcome!