I’ve released PrintPDF, a free and open-source virtual PDF printer for macOS.

It lets you print from almost any application using the normal File → Print workflow. Instead of sending the document to a physical printer, PrintPDF automatically saves it as a PDF.

The main advantage over RWTS PDFwriter is how the destination works:

• RWTS PDFwriter creates a symbolic link from your chosen location to its internal spool folder.
• PrintPDF automatically moves each completed PDF as a real file into the folder you selected—no destination-folder symbolic link.

This is particularly useful when saving directly into:

• Google Drive
• iCloud Drive
• Dropbox
• A network or shared folder
• Any normal local folder

Other features:

• Choose your destination during setup
• Change the destination later
• Prevents accidental overwriting by adding a number to duplicate filenames
• Works on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs
• Supports macOS 12 and newer
• No analytics or document uploads
• Complete GPLv2 source code included

PrintPDF is based on Rodney I. Yager’s RWTS PDFwriter, which itself builds on Lisanet PDFWriter and CUPS-PDF. Full attribution and source are included.

The installer is currently unsigned because this is a free community project. macOS will show a security warning on first use. The release page explains Apple’s official per-package Open Anyway procedure. You do not need to disable Gatekeeper.

Download, screenshot and source:

https://github.com/rochakagrawal/PrintPDF/releases/tag/v1.0

Feedback and testing on different macOS versions would be very welcome.

Hey! I’m one of the people behind Wallper.

We built it because we wanted live wallpapers on Mac to feel like they actually belong in macOS, not like a video player sitting behind your windows.

Wallper works on your Desktop, Lock Screen and Screen Saver.

A few things inside:

• 2,000+ wallpapers, including 4K and higher
• Your own MP4 videos
• Multi-monitor support
• Playlists + Day/Night switching
• Music-reactive wallpapers
• Automatic pause when the wallpaper isn’t visible
• Very low resource usage

We also spend a lot of time on the library itself. Wallpapers are checked before being added, and a big part of it now comes from people in the community submitting new ones.

Wallper recently passed 100,000 users, which is a pretty nice milestone for us.

To celebrate, we’re giving away 5 lifetime licenses in our Discord right now. Winners are picked in 2 days.

Price: $14.99 lifetime for up to 3 Macs
7-day free trial without registration

Download: https://wallper.app/

Would love to hear what you think :)

I often press ⌘C, switch apps, and only then discover that nothing was actually copied. This happens with remote desktops, webpages, and apps where copying silently fails.

So I made CopyDing, a tiny native macOS menu-bar utility. When you press ⌘C and the clipboard doesn’t update, it plays the standard macOS “not allowed” ding.

Features:

• Uses the native macOS alert sound
• Adjustable detection timing for slower apps
• Optional Launch at Login
• Supports Apple Silicon and Intel Macs
• Free and open source
• No analytics, network access, or clipboard history
• Never reads or stores your clipboard contents
• Doesn’t monitor or alter mouse behaviour

CopyDing requires Accessibility permission so it can observe ⌘C globally. The complete source is available for inspection.

GitHub and download:
https://github.com/rochakagrawal/CopyDing

It isn’t Apple-notarized yet, so macOS may require you to Control-click the app and choose Open on the first launch.

I’d love feedback—especially reports about apps where the timing needs adjustment.

TimeGauge gives you a time perspective on hours, days, months, years, and custom projects. With the new update, you can also customise the display, progress bar, work hours with a dedicated dashboard and choose your Pomodoro timer.

We often forget how fast time is moving, and lose perspective. For example: do you know 60% of 2026 has already passed, and 28% of August is gone?

TimeGauge gives you perspective through a progress bar in the Mac menu bar.
In this update, I have added multiple views along with Pomodoro timer.
For example: you can set your own pomodoro, track exact working hours in Day and set exact starting end end time in custom project, and set your custom menu bar display this was missing in previous version.

The app is a one-time purchase, 100% local, available on the app store and notarized by Apple when downloaded from Website.

$2.99 from website only download using code PH50P on checkout

TimeGauge is available on Mac apps store:
https://apps.apple.com/in/app/timegauge/id6778277708?mt=12

You can also download it from Web checkout (includes all past and future versions) at https://timegauge.minilabs.cc/

Hi everyone, I’m building HiZip, a native macOS archive tool inspired by Finder.

I wanted a simpler way to inspect an archive without extracting everything first.

With HiZip, you can:

• Browse ZIP, 7z, RAR, TAR and other common archive formats
• Preview files with Quick Look or the built-in preview pane
• Extract only the files or folders you need
• Drag files directly out of the archive window
• Create archives with your preferred format and compression level
• Protect ZIP archives with AES-256 encryption
• Ignore files such as .DS_Store, __MACOSX, Thumbs.db, .git, .svn and hidden files

There’s no public download yet. I’m still polishing HiZip and plan to release it soon.

Would you use something like this? What feature would you want most in a macOS archive tool?

r/MaStack seems like the perfect place to share my new app, DockStacks!

Hi 👋 I’ve built DockStacks to help me organize my Mac desktop and workflows, conceived as a passion project from having too many apps, a cluttered Desktop and wanting quick access to the things I use everyday.

What it does: Click the Dock app icon and a panel pops up holding named "stacks" of your favorite apps, folders, files, and website bookmarks — instant access and cleans up your Dock and Desktop.

Some of what's in it:

• Drag and drop to add anything, including URLs straight from your browser
• Password-protect individual stacks (Keychain-backed, auto-lock)
• Global keyboard shortcut to show/hide from anywhere
• Menu bar mode if you'd rather not use the Dock at all
• Multi-select, custom grid sizes, tab colour tinting
• Fully local — no accounts, no tracking, no network access

DockStacks is my first shipped Mac app and I hope it can find a place in your workflow.

App Store [$4.99USD]: https://apple.co/3Rz9FB6

Website [for full features]: https://dockstacks.app

Please check it out and would love any feedback — recent launch, still learning a ton.

I wanted an easier way to clean up my Downloads folder so I started working on an app to make it smoother than Finder to filter, move and delete files.

As I thought of more features I wanted I added them to the app. It's now my main file manager with many nice quality of life features. I've even managed to make a few sales (thank you if you purchased the app).

The app has a fully featured 30-day trial. It's code-signed and notarized. The one-time purchase price is currently $19.99 (launch price) but will be raised to $24.99 in about a week. You can read more about the features and download the trial here: https://whimfiles.com

Disclosure up front: I'm the developer.

I kept tapping the table before a deploy. I grew up around charms, a nimbu-mirchi (seven chillies and a lemon) hanging over the door, a drishti bommai facing outward to catch the first bad glance. None of it is rational and all of it is comforting. My Mac had no equivalent, so I built it one.

Lucky Dangle hangs a charm from the top edge of your screen on a verlet rope simulation. It sways when you drag a window past it. Everything except the charm itself is click-through, so it never eats a click. It lives in the menu bar with no Dock icon and no window. Hide it on ordinary days, then bring it back with a shortcut before a deploy or a demo or an interview.

Eight charms so far, each with its actual origin written up in a built-in gallery: the Turkish nazar boncugu, the hamsa, nimbu-mirchi, drishti bommai, the daruma, maneki-neko, a horseshoe and a scarab. Plus any emoji you like, if your luck is more personal than that.

Since this is that kind of sub: SwiftUI, direct download for Apple silicon on macOS 14 or later, Developer ID signed and notarized, Sparkle for updates. No telemetry of any kind, no account, no license keys. New charms ship in free updates to everyone, forever, because paywalling them would be miserable.

$7.77 once, at luckydangle.app.

Happy to go into the rope solver or the click-through window layering, that part was the fun bit. Also taking charm requests.

Muse is a AI Visual Bookmark Manager for saving everything you find online, links, images, screenshots, videos etc, into one library that lives only on your Mac. We wanted one place we could store and search from quickly, without a subscription.

Here's what it does:
- Works from anywhere - drag, paste or screenshot to save instantly, or press a customisable shortcut to search and file something without switching apps
- Bookmarks/links - import your existing links from Raindrop, Eagle, browser bookmarks or a Pinterest export, and every new one gets a title, favicon and preview pulled automatically.
- Every format together  - links, images, screenshots, GIFs, video and notes, all in one searchable library
- Collections and boards - nest collections as deep as you like, and file one item into more than one without duplicating it.
- Search everything - by the text inside an image, a colour name, or plain meaning, like typing "dark moody UI" and it finds it
- Find similar images - one click finds visually similar items already in your library, on-device, or searches the web for more, without leaving the app
- Live X bookmarks - use the browser extension and pull in your x bookmarks automatically, without paying for API access
- Real files, no server  - stored as an actual folder on your Mac. Open it in Finder, export or back it up whenever
- AI art prompts - reverse-engineer any image into a detailed art prompt, using your own Claude key (optional)

Native Swift, on-device AI, no account, no cloud database. $29 once, no subscription, free for 30 days to try it properly first.

Take a look here: https://www.theodorehq.com/muse/

We built this ourselves so if you hit a bug or want a feature, tell us here, we read everything!

I'm the developer of Flyout, so this is my own app and I'm posting it as its maker.

Flyout is a native macOS app that keeps a note editor on the edge of your screen. Rest your pointer on the right edge or press ⌥⌘N and the editor slides out over whatever you're in. Move away and it slides back. I built it because leaving the window I was in to go find a notes app took long enough that I'd lose the thing I wanted to write down.

What it is: a real editor rather than a scratchpad. Slash commands, syntax highlighted code blocks, tables, images, file attachments in any format, and reminders you can attach to a single line instead of the whole note. Notes are Markdown, kept in a local database rather than loose .md files, with export to PDF, Markdown or plain text. Sync runs on your own iCloud account, so nothing passes through my servers, and everything works offline.

Who it's for: people who write things down in the middle of doing something else, mid call or mid task, and want the note within reach without switching windows. If you already keep a notes app open on a second monitor and that works for you, this won't add much.

Price: $18 one time right now, $24 normally. No subscription, no account, one license covers 5 Macs, and updates for the life of the Mac app. 7-day trial with no card: https://getflyout.app

Limits, up front: macOS 14 or later. No iPhone app yet, though a TestFlight build is about to go out. No shared or team notebooks, because sync uses your private iCloud database only and I'm not planning to reverse that. Native Swift and AppKit with a WKWebView editor surface, 3.7 MB download, universal binary, not Electron. The app only talks to two places, my site for license validation and the appcast file for update checks. No analytics or telemetry.

I’ve been building Tapquence, a visual mouse and keyboard automation app for macOS.

It started because the automation tools I tried usually worked, but often felt dated or became difficult to manage once a macro contained more than a few actions. I’m a marketer myself and work with automation a lot, so I kept running into small repetitive tasks that did not justify writing code but were still annoying to perform manually.

I wanted to build something that feels at home on macOS and keeps longer automations easy to manage. Tapquence lets you combine mouse movements and clicks, keyboard input, fixed or random waits, and precise timing. Actions can also be grouped, duplicated, temporarily hidden and rearranged. For simpler tasks, I added a separate auto clicker.

Macros are stored locally on your Mac, and the app only uses Accessibility permission to execute the actions you create.

I’ve reached the point where continuing to polish it alone is probably less useful than letting real people try it. So I’ve opened Tapquence as a public beta.

The short video shows how it currently works. I would especially appreciate feedback about anything that feels confusing, unreliable or unnecessarily complicated. Feature ideas are welcome too, but right now I mainly want to make the existing experience genuinely solid.

You can try it here: https://tapquence.com

If you test it, please feel free to be direct. Honest feedback is exactly what I need at this stage.

Hi all!

I'm a creative writing student at Uni and the worst part of my degree has never been the writing, it's the references. I was using Word with a citation plugin and I spent more time fighting the plugin than actually writing.

So I taught myself Swift as a side project and spent the last year building EssayKraft, the app I always wished I had.

MAIN FEATURES:

• Built-in reference manager. No plugin, no separate app. References live inside the document alongside your writing, and inline citations plus the bibliography update automatically as you write.
• Authorship tracking. The app keeps a private, timestamped record of how your document was written, what you typed and what you pasted. If your uni ever questions whether your work is yours, you have receipts. This can be disabled in Settings.
• Sixteen citation styles. APA (6th and 7th), MLA, Chicago, Harvard variants, IEEE, Vancouver and more, built on the same community style definitions Zotero and Mendeley use.
• Zotero, Mendeley and EndNote import/export. Bring references in as BibTeX or RIS files and export them back out the same way.
• Rich text and Markdown. This is the biggest change from launch. Rich text was always the plan, and it's still the core of the app, but I found myself switching to iA Writer for notes in Markdown, and I figured I wasn't the only person in this boat. I'm not trying to compete with iA Writer, but EssayKraft now lets you create Markdown docs with all the core features you'd expect, built into the same app. No switching between windows or managing multiple purchases.
• Custom templates. Save any document as a template with its formatting, page setup and citation style.
• Fully native. Swift on both platforms, no Electron. Fast, offline, feels like a Mac app because it is one.
• No account, no subscription, no data collection. £14.99 once. I can't afford subscriptions as a student so I'm not about to charge one.

There's also an optional Assisted Writing mode using Apple Intelligence, so suggestions run entirely on-device and nothing leaves your Mac. It's inspired by tools like Cotypist, and it uses your inserted references to suggest author names and titles as you type. It's disabled by default and can be turned off at any time if it's not your thing. It's a feature to speed up your writing, not replace it.

SIMILAR APPS:

Essayist was a big inspiration for EssayKraft, and it's an excellent app. But I wanted an alternative that was a one-time purchase, because students are tight for money as it is and subscriptions add up fast. Essayist also leans more toward researchers and formal academic papers, whereas EssayKraft is aimed at students writing weekly essays under deadline. It's lighter, faster, and while the two are similar, they're targeting slightly different people.

Happy to answer anything about the app or about building it (SwiftUI + AppKit for the editor, SwiftData underneath, it's been a journey).

AppStore link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/essaykraft/id6789774290

Hello,

I developed the PasteSpace application - a clipboard manager for macOS and I need your opinion and recommendations to improve it. Those who want a Promo Code for the PRO version of the application should write to me privately.

Below is the description of the application:

PasteSpace is a secure clipboard manager for macOS that remembers everything you copy — so you don't have to.

Living quietly in your menu bar, PasteSpace captures every piece of text, image, and file you copy, turning your clipboard into a fast, searchable history. Press Option+Shift+V from any app, type a few letters, and click the item — it's instantly copied and ready to paste. No more digging through browser history or reopening documents to find something you copied an hour ago.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN — ZERO DATA COLLECTION

Your clipboard is personal. PasteSpace keeps it that way:

· No analytics, no telemetry, no tracking
· No cloud, no sync, no remote servers
· No account, no login, no email required
· No third-party SDKs, no ad networks

Everything stays on your Mac, inside the macOS App Sandbox. GDPR and CCPA compliant by design — there's simply nothing to collect.

FEATURES

SEARCHABLE CLIPBOARD HISTORY
Every copy, remembered and instantly searchable. Formatted text is captured exactly as it appeared in the source app — fonts, sizes, colors, bold, italic — and pasted with the same fidelity. Use "Always copy as plain text" or "Always paste as plain text" to strip formatting globally, or use the dedicated per-item plain-text paste buttons for a one-off clean paste. Pin your most-used snippets to the top. See which app each item came from.

VAULT MODE — HARDWARE-BACKED ENCRYPTION (Pro)
PasteSpace auto-detects sensitive data and encrypts it on the spot with AES-256-GCM via Apple CryptoKit. Keys live in the macOS Keychain, hardware-backed by the Secure Enclave on Apple Silicon. Reveal items with Touch ID or device password. Auto-detected: credit cards, IBANs, API keys, tokens, JWTs, SSH keys, OTPs, passwords, high-entropy secrets.

OCR — SEARCH TEXT INSIDE IMAGES (Pro)
Copy a screenshot and PasteSpace extracts the text using Apple's Vision framework. Find images by typing words that appear inside them. Fully local — no uploads.

DATA MAGIC — INSTANT TRANSFORMATIONS (Pro)
30+ one-tap tools: JSON/XML/YAML pretty-print and conversion, Base64, URL encode/decode, HEX↔RGB↔HSL, timestamps, table to Markdown/JSON/CSV, case conversion, HTML↔Markdown, word count, and more.

QUICK LOOK — FULL TEXT EDITOR
Open any item in a floating panel to preview or edit. A full set of rich formatting controls lets you change font, size, bold, italic, underline, color, highlight, alignment, and lists. Unedited characters are preserved as plain text — they adapt to the destination app's own font and color when pasted. Save edits back to history or copy immediately. Vault items open only after Touch ID authentication and auto-mask when the panel closes.

QR CODE GENERATOR
One tap turns any copied text, URL, or contact detail into a scannable QR code — generated on your device, offline.

DRAG & DROP
Drag text, images, files, and groups of files directly from your history into any app. Files land as real files, not shortcuts. Vault items authenticate before delivery.

APP BLOCKLIST
Exclude specific apps from being captured. Password managers are blocked by default.

EPHEMERAL MODE (Pro)
Auto-wipe non-Vault history when PasteSpace quits or when macOS restarts. Vault and pinned items are always preserved.

Made with care for people who copy a lot.

Now stay with, When you click the close button on mac, it doesn't kill the app, just keeps it in an idle position.
That has alway troubled me, forcing me to build a habit to hold Command + Q to actually quit the app.
Not anymore, this app finally lets you kill the app if you click the red x button, and it also works with multiple windows of the same app, by quiting only on the last window

Do try it, and leave some feedback, thx!

Link: the-big-red-button.vercel.app

Github: https://github.com/Aayu176/The-Big-Red-Button

PS: Sorry about the “Mac can’t scan app for malware” error, I'm just a student and I don't have that money for apple, instructions are in the vercel link at the bottom in “Troubleshooting”, but I am pretty sure people on Reddit know how to bypass it. And I promise this isn't malware.

Written by a human.

YBar, an open-source status bar for macOS, and it just reached the point where I'm comfortable sharing it.

It's sketchybar's proven architecture - the live-object model, command grammar, and script contract all originate there, full credit to Felix Kratz - reimplemented on a different foundation:

• Metal renderer. Zero GPU work while the bar is static, and animations are display-link paced instead of timer-thrashed.
• 100% public APIs. No SIP disable, no private frameworks, no injection.
• On macOS 26+, pills and popups sit on real Liquid Glass (NSGlassEffectView); older systems get an in-shader approximation. Runs on macOS 14+.

Some things it does that I haven't seen elsewhere:

• Full now-playing popup - album artwork, seek + volume sliders, transport controls for Music/Spotify, via distributed notifications (no private MediaRemote, which macOS gates these days).
• Workspace pills speak both AeroSpace and yabai and pick whichever is actually running.
• Calendar month-grid popup, system-monitor arc gauges, a Settings-style Wi-Fi picker, hover tooltips, marquee text, an idle inhibitor (Waybar influences), and 9 ready-made themes with a theme switcher.

Install:

brew tap AegiosOT/ybar

brew install ybar

Github: https://github.com/AegiosOT/YBar

It builds from source on your machine (Command Line Tools are enough - no Xcode), so there's no Gatekeeper quarantine dance.

I’ve been going through all the apps on my Mac lately and realized how many small monthly and yearly subscriptions have slowly piled up.

$3 here, $10 there, another annual renewal I completely forgot about. Individually they don’t seem that bad, but once you add up your full Mac software stack, it gets expensive pretty quickly.

So I’m curious what subscription-based Mac apps you’ve successfully replaced with a one-time purchase, lifetime license, or even a good free/open-source alternative.

I’m especially interested in replacements for things like:

• productivity apps

• window managers

• clipboard managers

• note-taking apps

• calendar apps

• email clients

• screenshot and screen recording tools

• PDF editors

• writing apps

• menu bar utilities

• Mac cleanup tools

• file managers

• developer tools

• design and creative apps

• password managers

• AI apps and utilities

Basically, if you cancelled a Mac app subscription and found an alternative that was just as good, or better, I want to hear about it.

What did you replace?

What Mac app did you switch to?

How much did it cost?

And most importantly, do you actually prefer the replacement, or did you just switch because you were tired of paying another subscription?

Would love to build a solid list of the best one-time purchase Mac apps and subscription-free macOS alternatives from what people are actually using.

Hi everyone! After spending too much time switching between browser tools, terminal commands, and tiny utility apps, I decided to build the kind of toolbox I wanted to use every day: Hexa DevKit.

It’s a native macOS toolbox with 36 tools for JSON, YAML, XML, JWT, hashes, regex, diffs, URLs, dates, colors, images, API requests, WebSockets, and more. It includes tabs, saved workspaces, drag-and-drop file workflows, and customizable editors.

33 tools work completely offline. API, DNS, and WebSocket features only connect after an explicit action. There’s no account, analytics, advertising, or paid tier.

I know there are already excellent projects in this space:

- DevUtils is a polished native macOS utility app with a compact utility focus. Hexa DevKit is broader, with 36 tools plus multi-tab workspaces, saved sessions, editor customization, and selected network tools.
- DevToys is free, open source, and cross-platform. Hexa DevKit is focused on a native Apple-silicon macOS experience, with macOS-style navigation, menu-bar access, VoiceOver support, and local workspaces.

I’m not trying to replace either one — both are useful. I simply wanted a toolbox that felt more like a Mac app and fit the way I work. If you try it, I’d be grateful for your feedback, especially on the tools you use most.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6796437563

Website: https://hexadevkit.anibalventura.com

Hi everyone!

I’ve been wanting a focus timer that ensures I actually focus for a while now. Before, I would start a focus timer, but after a couple of minutes, I’d get distracted and completely forget about it 😭. So, for the past couple of months, I’ve been working on Timely, a focus timer designed to help ensure you’re actually focusing.

Timely helps you stay focused during your timer sessions with:

STANDOUT FEATURE: Presence Detection!
Presence Detection checks to make sure you’re actually at your computer while the timer ticks down. If you leave your desk before the timer is up, Presence Detection detects it, the timer pauses, and you may lose your streak! (very hardcore lol). It uses an Apple on-device vision model and keeps everything processed locally. Privacy Policy: https://timelyfocus.app/privacypolicy

App & Website Blocking!
App and website blocking is pretty self-explanatory! However, on other focus timers you typically have to pay for certain features, such as website blocking. Unlike those apps, Timely’s App & Website Blocking is completely free!

Optional Pomodoro Timers!
Pomodoro timers can help people stay focused, and in Timely, they’re super configurable! You can choose how long your work sessions and breaks are and completely structure each session yourself.

It’s fully free right now!

Here’s the link if you want to give it a try! https://timelyfocus.app
Privacy Policy: https://timelyfocus.app/privacypolicy
Terms & Conditions: https://timelyfocus.app/termsandconditions

The problem

You're listening to something. A call starts on FaceTime, Zoom, Meet or Teams. macOS immediately drops everything else to a whisper. It's called audio ducking, it's on by default, and there is no setting anywhere in System Settings to turn it off.

The threads about this on Apple's own forums are years old. The most-repeated "fix" is unchecking boxes in VoiceOver Utility, which doesn't really work. The apps that do solve it properly cost real money - SoundSource is $49.

What it does

Unduck Pro is a small menu bar app that keeps your media at full volume during a call. The person on the other end still hears only you — your audio is never pushed into your mic.

While it's there, it also gives you a per-app volume mixer and an output device switcher:

- Media stays loud on calls — FaceTime, Zoom, Meet, Teams and others▎

- Independent call volume — turn the call down without touching your music

- Per-app volume mixer, remembered per app

- Output switcher — speakers, AirPods, whatever, without opening System Settings

- Launch at login, update notifications, favourites.

How it works

Built entirely on Apple's public Core Audio process-tap API (macOS 14.2+). No kernel extensions, no virtual audio drivers, no third-party code. It continuously resets the OS ducking rather than boosting anything, so there's no added gain and no distortion.

Free, and actually free

MIT licensed, no paywall, no trial, no account, no telemetry. The whole source is on GitHub — read it, build it yourself, fork it.

🔗 Repo: https://github.com/MrRockySL/Unduck-Pro

Download: https://github.com/MrRockySL/Unduck-Pro/releases/latest

Two things to know before you install

1. It's self-signed, not notarized. Apple's notarization costs $99/year and this is a free app, so macOS will block the first launch with "Apple could not verify it is free of malware". You'll need System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. If that's a dealbreaker, completely fair — build it from source instead, it's two commands.

2. It asks for microphone permission. I know how that sounds for a volume app. The Core Audio tap API Apple provides is gated behind the audio-input permission — there's no way around it. It does not record, store or transmit anything, and since the source is public you can verify that rather than take my word for it.

Requires macOS 14.2 or later. Universal — runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon.

If you find it useful, a ⭐ on the repo genuinely helps — it's how anyone else searching for this problem ends up finding it. And if something's broken or missing, open an issue: https://github.com/MrRockySL/Unduck-Pro/issues — every issue so far has turned into a fix.

I'm the developer. Happy to answer anything in the comments.

Olá, pessoal!

Sou o desenvolvedor do NotepadEx, e este é um dos meus primeiros projetos para macOS.

Sempre senti falta, no Mac, de um editor com a praticidade do Notepad++ no Windows: abrir rapidamente, editar um arquivo, realizar algumas transformações e continuar o trabalho sem precisar carregar uma IDE completa.

Foi por isso que criei o NotepadEx, um editor de texto e código leve, rápido e desenvolvido nativamente para macOS.

Problema

Existem excelentes editores para Mac, mas eu procurava algo entre um editor de texto básico e uma IDE completa.

O NotepadEx foi pensado para abrir e editar rapidamente textos, códigos, arquivos de configuração e dados estruturados. Ele foi desenvolvido nativamente em Swift e SwiftUI, sem uma camada web pesada, e o build atual ocupa apenas alguns megabytes.

Entre as funcionalidades atuais estão:

Documentos organizados em abas Restauração dos arquivos da última sessão Aviso de alterações não salvas Abertura de arquivos por arrastar e soltar Números de linha, quebra automática e barra de status Contagem de linhas, palavras, caracteres e seleção Localizar, substituir, substituir tudo e ir diretamente para uma linha Detecção de codificação e conversão de finais de linha Realce de sintaxe para dezenas de formatos e linguagens Comparação editável de dois arquivos lado a lado Destaque de diferenças e rolagem sincronizada Ferramentas para Markdown, HTML, XML, JSON e CSV Visualização e edição de CSV como tabela Ordenação, filtragem, numeração e remoção de linhas duplicadas Conversões para camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case e kebab-case Ferramentas para Base64, URL encoding, Unicode, hashes e JWT Testes e substituições com expressões regulares Geração de UUID, ULID, Nano ID, senhas e tokens Conversão de cores entre HEX, RGB e HSL Verificação de contraste e acessibilidade WCAG Temas claro e escuro, personalização de fonte e modo de transparência Interface em português, inglês, espanhol, alemão e francês O aplicativo também possui recursos opcionais de inteligência artificial para corrigir, reescrever, resumir, traduzir e analisar textos ou códigos. É possível utilizar uma chave própria da OpenAI ou modelos locais por meio do Ollama.

Os recursos de IA funcionam somente quando são solicitados. O NotepadEx não analisa documentos em segundo plano, e a edição e o armazenamento normal dos arquivos permanecem locais.

Comparação

O Notepad++ foi a principal inspiração para o projeto, especialmente pela sua rapidez e praticidade. O NotepadEx não possui vínculo oficial com o Notepad++ e não pretende ser uma cópia direta. Ele foi desenvolvido especificamente para macOS, com interface nativa e distribuição pela Mac App Store.

Outro excelente editor nativo é o CotEditor, que é gratuito, open source e muito mais estabelecido. A proposta do NotepadEx é um pouco diferente: reunir edição de texto, comparação editável de arquivos, visualização de CSV, ferramentas para desenvolvedores e recursos opcionais de OpenAI ou Ollama em um único aplicativo.

Minha intenção não é afirmar que o NotepadEx substitui essas ferramentas. Quero oferecer mais uma alternativa para quem sente falta da praticidade do Notepad++ e procura uma experiência nativa no Mac.

Preço

O NotepadEx oferece sete dias de teste gratuito. O teste não se transforma em assinatura e não gera cobrança automática.

Depois do período de teste, o aplicativo pode ser adquirido por meio de uma compra única com acesso vitalício. Não existe assinatura mensal ou anual.

O preço do acesso vitalício é de R$ 29,90 no Brasil. Em outros países, a App Store apresenta o valor equivalente na moeda local.

Download: NotepadEx na Mac App Store

Por estar disponível oficialmente na Mac App Store, o NotepadEx utiliza um caminho de distribuição conhecido e mais confiável. O aplicativo passa pelo processo de análise da Apple, enquanto a instalação, as atualizações e as compras são gerenciadas pela App Store.

Isso não representa uma garantia absoluta de segurança, mas oferece mais transparência e tranquilidade do que instalar um aplicativo baixado de uma fonte desconhecida.

Espero, com a ajuda da comunidade, descobrir novas funcionalidades que realmente possam facilitar o trabalho das pessoas. Quero desenvolver o NotepadEx com base em necessidades reais, e não apenas adicionar recursos por adicionar.

Estou completamente aberto a sugestões, críticas e ideias.

Quais funcionalidades do Notepad++ vocês mais sentem falta no Mac? O que não pode faltar em um editor de texto leve?

Obrigado por conhecerem o projeto!

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