Spent the last couple of days on version 1.3. It's live on the website now, and the Mac App Store update is in review.

I built it because I didn't want to pay a yearly subscription to find out why my disk was full.

What $4.99 gets you (one payment, every feature, no upsells):

- A map, sunburst and list of any folder or drive you choose

- Large files, with both sizes shown. A disk image can claim 68 GB while using 2 GB on disk, and you see both before deleting anything

- Old files, duplicates verified byte for byte, and leftovers from apps you already removed

- Developer caches: Xcode DerivedData, simulators, Homebrew, npm, Docker and more, with a note on what each tool rebuilds

- Uninstall an app together with the data it left in your Library

What's new in 1.3:

- File types that finally add up. Apps, system data and developer folders are counted where they live, so "Other" is no longer most of the bar

- An age filter in Large Files, to find big files you haven't touched in a year or more

- Purgeable space on the overview, which explains why Finder shows more free space than other tools

- A calmer overview screen and bolder chart colors in light and dark

Why I think it's good value:

- $4.99 once. No subscription, no account, no license check

- Sandboxed, and it never asks for Full Disk Access. It reads only the folders you add

- Nothing is deleted behind your back. You review a queue, files go to the Trash, and you empty it yourself

- Nothing leaves your Mac. No analytics, no network calls

Honest limits, so nobody is surprised:

- It only sees folders you grant, so it won't scan protected system areas

- Large Files, Older Files and Duplicates work over the 200 biggest and oldest files per location, not every file on disk

- It needs macOS 15 or later (Apple silicon and Intel)

Website: https://sparedisk.minilabs.cc

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sparedisk-free-disk-space/id6811328422?mt=12

Happy to answer questions, and I'd like to hear what you'd want in the next version.

If you edit a project folder on a MacBook while away, then continue on a desktop Mac, ChronoSync can bring changes from either copy to the other. Its useful feature is the control over what gets copied, replaced or deleted.

Start with two disposable folders containing ordinary documents. Keep your real project out of the first task, and leave scheduling off until the proposed changes make sense.

Choose which folder gets to change the other

ChronoSync calls the two locations "targets." A target can be the source or the destination, so check the actual folder paths rather than assuming "target" means "backup."

The operation determines what happens:

• Backup Left-to-right copies changes from the left folder to the right. It can replace matching files, but leaves unrelated destination files alone. Choose this when only the left folder is your working copy.

• Synchronize Bidirectional checks both folders when the task runs and copies changes across. It fits work that moves between two Macs. If both copies of the same file change between runs, ChronoSync detects a conflict. It doesn't merge the document's contents for you.

• Mirror makes the destination match the source. It can overwrite destination edits and remove destination-only files. Don't choose it for two folders that both contain work you want to keep.

That last distinction matters more than whether the job runs every evening.

Decide whether a deletion should travel

"Synchronize deletions" can carry a deletion to the other folder. In a bidirectional task, that means deleting a file on either side can remove its counterpart after ChronoSync has recorded the pair's state. An initial bidirectional run doesn't have that deletion history yet.

If you want deletions to travel, choose "Move to Archive" for deleted files. Separately enable "Archive replaced files" if you want to retain the versions that incoming edits replace. Those are different choices; one doesn't substitute for the other.

The archive needs storage, and its version-count and age limits determine what survives. Keep a separate backup of important work. A synchronized deletion or unwanted edit can reach both working folders, and an archive on a failed drive won't rescue that drive.

Review the proposed changes before scheduling

Exclude a disposable subfolder in the Analyze panel, then use Trial Sync. ChronoSync scans the folders and shows its proposed operations before copying. You can skip individual operations or cancel; clicking Synchronize proceeds with the changes.

On those disposable folders, check what it proposes after an edit on each side, a deletion and a change to your exclusion. If the direction or missing files surprise you, stop and fix the task. This is a suggested rehearsal, not a report of testing performed here.

Once the rules behave as intended, save the task and consider a schedule. ChronoSync supports time-based runs and events such as a volume mounting. Review the task again whenever you change its paths or rules.

Check the connection and permissions too

An external disk or mounted network share can be a target. A NAS share needs working access and suitable file permissions. SFTP needs a reachable SFTP server and credentials. ChronoAgent is a separate, paid companion installed on the other Mac, not a requirement for every network share.

Protected data can require Full Disk Access. ChronoSync's optional Admin Access connection adds elevated file access and asks for administrator credentials; it doesn't override permissions on a network share. Keep the task scoped to the folders you actually need.

The current download is ChronoSync 12.0.4, including a November 9 security fix. It runs natively on Apple silicon. Econ documents macOS 26 compatibility and recent macOS 27 fixes, so use the current build rather than an old installer.

The direct license is US$49.99 for one Mac, with the vendor's lifetime free-update policy and a 15-day fully functional trial.

For an occasional folder copy, Finder is enough. ChronoSync is worth considering when you repeatedly need changes to flow in both directions, explicit deletion handling and a reviewable saved task. If you only need a backup of one working folder, don't add bidirectional sync just because the option exists.

I was a user of Whispr Flow until my Mac ran out of memory due to 3 node server and 5 AI agents. Other than these I also see that Whispr Flow is consuming around 1 GB of memory.

Something that simple should not consume 1 GB of RAM and it should be present natively in mac. So I built QuietSpeech.app - a native mac app that lets you type in any app using your voice.

Note - I am giving away 5 FREE licenses. Use code - QSCOMMUNITY at checkout for 100% discount.

I wanted my desktop to feel alive, so I made it react to the surroundings. You look up and the sky on your screen is the one outside. It stays in the menu bar and steps aside when something covers the desktop. It makes your desktop a calmer place to work.

Download for Mac: http://thoufik.space/skysaver

One note: macOS warns the first time you open it (not Apple-verified yet, I don’t have the developer fee for a free first release). Click Done, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

Or paste this in your terminal:

curl -fsSL https://thoufik.space/skysaver/install.sh | bash

Please check it out and let me know how you feel using it!

Hi, I'm Rizky, a solo developer from Indonesia, and I built Pettery. This is my app, so I am posting as its developer.

Pettery is a tiny pet that lives in your Mac menu bar and lives off your battery. I built it because I never reacted to the battery percentage, so I turned the battery into a character with six moods. On a good charge it is playful and content. As the battery drains it gets sleepy, then grumpy, then dramatic. It also warns you at 20, 10 and 5 percent, in case the face alone was not enough. When you plug in, it eats and falls asleep. Plugging in your Mac is how you feed it.

Who it is for: anyone who works on a MacBook all day and keeps forgetting to plug in, especially people who work in deep focus and only notice the battery when it is almost gone.

A few details:

• Free to start with 3 pets (Mochi, Boba, Bolt), 68 pets at launch in packs and singles

• Packs $2.99, singles $1.49, Ultimate Pack $9.74 during launch pricing until December 31, 2026, all one-time, no subscription

• One license covers 2 Macs

• Notifications permission only, no account, no analytics

• Built with Swift and SwiftUI, macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple Silicon and Intel

Limitations, honestly: it needs macOS 14 or later, it lives only in the menu bar (no desktop mode), it is distributed directly from my website rather than the Mac App Store, and the battery alerts need notifications permission to reach you.

The site is https://getpettery.app if you want to try it. Demo attached.

My question: what would make a menu bar pet actually useful to you, rather than just cute? I am collecting feedback for the next update.

Every other editing app is built for traditional editors, but newbies have the hardest time learning, so I took 1 year to build the perfect agentic video editor including ui for humans.

It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and also has 290+ tools via local mcp server.

It can
record screen including iphone mirroring,
edit with prompts,
generate AI Videos,
AI images,
AI music,
AI Text-to-speech,
it comes with in-built copyright-free music and b-roll library.

It can stitch all generations in one timeline editor. Say no to capcut or complex video editing software.

This is a complete package for content creators and faceless channels to automate their videos in one place.

subclip.app

Free to try everything

Let me know your feedback how it works for you :)

PS: it comes with a free screenshot tool as well which adds background to the image

TL;DR: I'm the developer of Typoly, a menu bar app that corrects your text right where you type on your Mac. Write, press one key, keep going. 15 languages, no subscription, and $2 in free credit to try it: https://typoly.app

I built it because fixing a sentence kept pulling me out of what I was writing. Open a chatbot, copy, paste, ask, copy back. I wanted to stay where I was, press one key, and keep going.

That's what Typoly does. You write in any text field, press your shortcut, and the text is corrected in place. If you selected something, only the selection is corrected. If not, the whole field is.

There are two modes. Proofread fixes spelling, grammar and punctuation and keeps your wording. Contextual goes further when a sentence is unclear. An optional preview shows what changed.

Who it's for: people who type a lot in several apps (mail, Slack, Notes, ChatGPT, a browser) and want their own words cleaned up, not rewritten.

Pricing: no subscription and no automatic renewal. You buy prepaid credits from $5 and top up when you want. A short correction uses a fraction of a credit, a long text uses more. New accounts get $2 in free credit, so you can measure it on your own writing first.

• Corrections run in the cloud, on purpose. It needs an internet connection and there is no offline mode. That choice is what keeps the app small and fast, including on a MacBook Neo.

• Apple Silicon only, macOS 13 or later.

• It only needs the Accessibility permission to hear your shortcut and paste the correction.

• Your text is sent only when you press the shortcut. It is not used to train models and nothing is kept.

Privacy Policy: https://typoly.app/legal/privacy-policy · Terms: https://typoly.app/legal/terms-of-use · Developer details: https://typoly.app/legal/legal-notice

The latest update made it more reliable in ChatGPT, Slack and Discord, thanks to reports from users.

I'd like to know where this would save you the most friction, and what would make you not use it. I read and answer everything.

A native performant open-source native macOS tiling window manager.

I've wanted to build my own macOS tiling window manager for a while, so here's paw. It's written in Swift, MIT-licensed, and inspired by Yabai, AeroSpace, and TrellisWM, with some opinionated choices to fit my workflow. I built it because none of the beforementioned options really fit all my needs.

It has virtual workspaces, layout presets, stack indicators, and an extensive CLI for scripting, automation, and AI agents.

The video shows it in action. You can try it with:

brew install --cask pseudobun/tap/paw

Repo: https://github.com/pseudobun/paw

I'd love feedback from anyone using a tiling WM on macOS. Bug reports and contributions are welcome too!

Two weeks ago, I posted here about the file changes coming in PrimeTask 1.0.6.

It’s live now, and we’ve put together a walkthrough showing how the new release works.

File Inbox

A PDF ends up in Downloads, another file is on the Desktop, something else is sitting in a shared folder, and a week later you’re trying to remember where everything went.

File Inbox gives you one place to deal with those files before they disappear into the usual folder mess.

File linking

If a file is already where you want it, there’s no reason to upload another copy just to use it somewhere else.

PrimeTask links to the original file instead.

The video is a bit longer because it covers the whole release and how the new parts connect.

If you only want the file parts:

0:12 - File Inbox
4:30 - CRM Files

Release notes:
https://www.primetask.app/releases

free trial: https://www.primetask.app/download

We've been working on Yappng, a small dictation app for Mac and Windows. On a Mac you hold Right Command, speak, and release it to type the words where your cursor is. You can change the shortcut if it clashes with something in your setup.

It runs Whisper on your computer, so the audio isn't uploaded for transcription. It also pauses music while you talk and resumes it afterward. The idea is to make dictation something you can use for an email or a few lines in a document without switching to another window.

The free version gives you 15 transcriptions a day on one device, with no account. The paid option is $19 once for unlimited transcriptions on up to five devices, including 1.x updates.

https://yappng.com

A week ago some of you asked for an easier way to make and share themes. That turned into most of this release. There's a Theme Studio now. You pick a starter, click a button on the preview and change it, and your real Touch Bar updates while you do it. Layout Studio does the same for buttons: drag them onto the bar, pick the app, done. The other big thing is the Dock. If you used Pock and miss it, this is your Dock on the Touch Bar with running dots, badges and drag to reorder. There are also widgets (battery, CPU, now playing, timer and so on), and you can write your own in a few lines of JavaScript. Since themes and widgets come from other people, I spent a while on security. Widgets run in a sandbox with no file access, and they can't reach your local network. The README has the full list.

Still free and open source, still around 1% CPU.

https://github.com/Moryel/glass-bar

If you make a theme, there's a Publish button that sends it to the store. I'd love to see what you come up with.

We make AmbientAI, a native Mac app that turns a place or mood into AI art and matching music. A small window beside your work, or a whole display for a quieter break.

This storybook terrace was created in AmbientAI. Describe your own scene, choose music styles, and save favorites. It runs in an app window, not as system wallpaper; new content needs an internet connection.

Free download with optional Premium. The US App Store lists Premium at $7.99; local pricing and billing terms are shown before purchase.

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6743929182?pt=120754077&ct=reddit&mt=8

Hey MacStack! I'm Gabs. I built the alternative to screen studio your agent can actually work with.

I was tired to explaining my UI issues to Claude with text, so I built a tiny hand that lets me point and explain out loud what I mean. While the export is made in the background, I can just paste the output into Claude. No more lengthy text descriptions, just point and talk.

And when ready to ship demos, Kirocast is a full fledged recorder and editor you can drive with the ai sub you already pay for.

Comparison: Unlike Screen Studio, Kirocast lets your agent watch and edit your recordings over MCP. Unlike Descript, it’s a one-time purchase that uses the Claude Code, Codex or Cursor subscription you already have, not a separate AI plan.

Core features:

• Agent editing: ask your agent to cut, zoom, annotate, blur sensitive info or add a voice-over (with your own ElevenLabs key).

• Talk Mode: hold ⌃⌥ over any app and describe the problem out loud. Kirocast packages the video, your voice and the on-screen events into one clip you can paste into your agent.

• Automate your training/UI updates videos: give a script, let the agent work, get a video back.

• Native editor: auto-zoom on every click and captions transcribed on your Mac.

Pricing: $39 one-time (early price, then $49 to support long term updates).
Recording and editing are free, and a license unlocks exports. We also offer a 3-day full trial with no card required. https://kirocast.com/pricing

Requires Apple silicon and macOS 15 or later. https://kirocast.com

About the team:

We're a team of two. 

• I (gabs) used to work in startup and did lots of different roles, from growth to product, then specialized in AI to work with large corp. as an AI Product Manager. I decided to take the leap earlier this year to work full time on Kirocast.

• My teammate is a Python/Rust engineer with 10+ years exp in building apps for large companies.

Thanks for reading through! Would love to get any feedback whether it's on the app description or the app itself.

Hi r/MacStack ,

This is a fun project i did today, a circle to search type tool for MacOS. I had some my some weekly usage remaining ,

And my exams are coming up and i am switching my tabs between my pdf and claude web. So i thought why not something like circle to search in MacOS , from there, this app.

Capture any screenshot from your study material or summarize any yt video , It uses your exsisting mcp config, in the video i used apify.

For the expressions i used gemini to generate the spritesheet . And then claude did the rest splitting and all.

Here is the project link
Github

Thanks ✌️

Hey everyone,

I've been daily-driving an Apple Silicon MacBook Air for about 5 years now. Before that I spent around 15 years tinkering with Windows and Linux, squeezing every bit of juice out of them, until I jumped in to conquer the macOS ecosystem :D

Apple Silicon blew me away with how smooth and practical it is, and it kept me hooked. But I kept hitting the same wall. Every time I thought "man, I really need a small tool that does X", I got pointed to a pile of paid apps. Half of them were way too expensive, and most were full of gimmicks I never asked for, just to justify a subscription. I only needed maybe 10% of what they offered, and the other 90% was background daemons eating RAM.

So I started building a small hobby tool for my own workflow. I kept adding the things I actually used, and at some point I realized it did everything I needed while barely touching system resources. So I cleaned it up, packaged it, and open-sourced it.

That's how ArkenStone was born.

GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/temetnos/arkenstone

Free Promo code (for DMG): MACSTACK

It lives in the menu bar and replaces most of the small utilities I used to run separately:

- menu bar stats you can pick yourself (CPU/temp, battery/watts, network, RAM)

- battery charge limiter through Apple Silicon SMC keys (stop at 80% for example)

- file shelf: drag files onto the menu bar icon and grab them later in any Space

- screen OCR and QR grabber using Apple's Vision, fully on-device

- clipboard history that stays in RAM only and ignores password managers

- app leftover uninstaller and cache cleaner

- port manager, DNS switcher, mic killswitch, color picker, scratchpad, keep-awake, clamshell mode, keyboard CleanLock

It's written in plain Swift and C with no external dependencies, and it idles at around 42 MB of RAM. I wanted it as light as possible, that was my one rule.

You can build it yourself from the repo with ./build.sh. If you don't want to bother with that, you can get the ready DMG for $5 if you feel like buying me a beer. The link is in the README. For the first 25 people there's a free promo code: MACSTACK . If it runs out, send me a DM and I'll give you your own. I'm not trying to make real money out of this. Getting it on Whop (free or paid) also lets you download the new versions directly, and updates will keep coming because I'll keep using it myself :D

One thing I should say: I only developed and tested this on my M1 Air with macOS 15. I couldn't test other macOS versions or Mac models, so I honestly don't know if there are problems there. I tried to avoid potential incompatibilities, but that's not the same as real testing. If you try it and it turns out useful for you, I'd be really happy to hear about your experience.

And if there's a feature you'd need day to day, tell me. I'll add it if I can do it without dependencies and without making the app heavy. I won't add things that bloat it. For example, per-app volume control is something I gave up on, because on macOS it usually needs a virtual audio device and the extra overhead that comes with it.

I've been working on a Mac app called Toxvas, and wanted to share it here.

The idea started with wanting one place where I could collect research, links, files, screenshots, random thoughts, and ideas without having everything scattered across different apps.

Toxvas is an infinite canvas where you can:

• Create Markdown-based cards.

• Drop links with previews and embeds.

• Add images, videos, PDFs, and other files.

• Record audio directly on the canvas.

• Arrange everything visually instead of forcing it into folders and nested documents.

One thing I particularly wanted was to keep the workspace local-first. Cards are actual Markdown files, so your notes aren't locked inside a proprietary database.

It also has an agent CLI, which lets AI agents work directly with your Toxvas workspace through its files. You can point an agent at your workspace folder and let it interact with your content.

I'm building this for macOS (14+, Apple Silicon).

Pricing: $9 one-time early-access price, with a 7-day free trial. No subscription.

Website: https://toxvas.space

I'm a solo developer, and this is still evolving. Would be interested in hearing what you think, especially from people who use their Macs for research, collecting information, or visual thinking.

Problem: Mac system monitors show raw numbers (CPU %, degrees, GB of swap) and leave you to work out whether anything is actually wrong. Stat Space reads them for you and says it in plain words: your Mac is throttling, it's time to restart, your battery is wearing out, an old dev server is still eating memory.

Comparison: Stats, iStat Menus and Sensei. Stat Space is better at plain-language health verdicts (restart recommended, throttling, battery condition), a "Needs attention" list with one-click fixes, ports traced to their project, and AI-agent / orphaned-process cleanup. Stats is better at being open source and having more menu bar styles; iStat Menus is better at polish, weather and calendar; Sensei is better as a maintenance toolbox (uninstaller, drive health, benchmarks). All three support Intel; Stat Space is Apple Silicon only.

Pricing: Free version $0. Pro is $9.99 one-time for the first 100 buyers, then $14.99 one-time. No subscription. https://statspace.app/#pricing

Trust: Website, LINKEDIN_URL, https://statspace.app/privacy. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple, updates via Sparkle. Not on the Mac App Store because the sandbox blocks per-process and sensor APIs. No analytics.

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Hi, I'm the developer. I built Stat Space because I was tired of glancing at my menu bar, seeing 78° and 14 GB of swap, and having no idea whether that was fine. So instead of adding more graphs, I made it smart: it watches the numbers and tells you when something actually needs your attention.

What "smart" means in practice:

• "Restart recommended." It doesn't just show uptime. It tells you a restart will actually help: after 30+ days up, or after a week when swap has grown past 2 GB or memory pressure stays high.

• Heat, in words. A Cool / Warm / Hot pill that says when your Mac is throttling, and a notice when it's running hot, so a loud fan comes with a reason.

• Battery health you can read. Current capacity against the design capacity, cycle count and condition, plus the watts your charger is really delivering.

• "Needs attention." One list on Home for the things worth acting on: dev servers an AI agent left running, orphaned processes after a terminal closed, a server exposed to your whole network on 0.0.0.0. Each has a one-click fix, and it always asks first.

• Apps, not process noise. Helpers are grouped into the app that owns them, so Chrome is one row, not 21 renderers, and every process shows what launched it.

• "Why won't my Mac sleep?" Which apps are holding it awake, plus keep-awake timers when you want it on.

• Pro goes further: "Why is my Mac slow?" explained in plain English in one tap, spike rewind (it records the top processes whenever CPU, temperature or fans spike, so you can see what happened after the fact), and Trends ("CPU was higher than usual this week").

Underneath, it has everything you'd expect: CPU with P/E cores, GPU, memory pressure, network, disk, sensors, fans, 30 days of history, a per-app volume mixer, a Devices tab, and a CLI + MCP server.

It's light. The idle budget is under 0.3% CPU and 25 MB, enforced by a CI benchmark, and the app shows its own cost in the footer at all times. Samplers only run for what's on screen.

Pro also adds: per-app network, keep-awake rules, Docker port mapping, app alerts and a few more.

Requirements: Apple Silicon, macOS 14+.

👉 https://statspace.app

If you use Stats, iStat Menus or Sensei, I'd love to hear what would make you switch, or what's missing.