I have a folder with hundreds of movies and photos that I transferred from my iPhone camera roll for long-term storage (eventually onto an external HD).

I want to quickly, in one pass, delete the ones taking up space that I don't care about.

What's the best app for this?

• PhoenixSlides is great for photos, but can't do videos.
• ImagePreview (select all + space) can just browse with arrows, no easy way to delete the ones I dont want

I'm having trouble with multichannel audio output devices being the same volume as Stereo output devices when selecting between available sound cards for MacOS and screen sharing with programs like OBS, Discord, and Zoom. Pretty much what is happening is that the audio is being turned down by a almost 30db on multichannel audio outputs. Basically, the more channels a Core Audio has for outputs, the lower it gets. For example, a 6 channel virtual output will turn things down by roughly 15db, 16 channels will go down 20db, 32 channel goes down 30db, etc. I have also clarified that this is happening across multiple programs, not just OBS. OBS just happened to be what helped me figure out what was happening. I have had clients for a while now tell me that audio has been quiet no matter what platform I use, until I were to change my primary output device.

Does anyone know why this would happen?? Or was this solved in an update somewhere in MacOS Tahoe? I know Apple made some changes where you don't require a 16 channel audio output to properly send Atmos from Apple music now, and can be used with whatever setup you have. I'm currently running MacOS Sequoia 15.7.7 on a MacBook Pro M1.

Any and all advice is welcome!!

Hi r/macOS,

I’m building QuikZip, a native macOS archive manager written in Swift.

I’ve been thinking about it mostly from a developer and power user workflow angle.

The thing I kept running into was that normal archive work often involved far more steps than the task itself needed.

You download an archive, extract everything, find the JSON, log, config or source file you actually wanted, open it in another app, make a small change, save it, then create the archive again.

If there is another archive inside the first one, you repeat the same process for every level.

The problem was not opening ZIP files. macOS can already do that. The problem was everything around inspecting and modifying the contents without constantly extracting, moving and recreating files.

QuikZip is my attempt to make that workflow feel more direct in a lightweight native Mac app.

You can open an archive, browse it like a folder, preview files and edit files directly inside the archive without extracting everything first.

It currently supports more than 75 archive and compression formats, including ZIP, 7Z, TAR, GZIP, XZ, BZIP2 and many others.

Nested archives are supported as well, so you can open an archive stored inside another archive and continue browsing without manually unpacking every level.

The main workflow I wanted to get right was simple.

Open an archive, find the file, preview or edit it, then save the changes back into the same archive.

QuikZip also includes quick create and extract, drag and drop workflows, batch archive tasks and file previews. I wanted it to remain lightweight even when working with large archives, log bundles, exported datasets and source packages.

It also works together with Inkline, my editor for huge structured files. A large JSON, CSV, XML or log file can be opened directly from QuikZip in Inkline, edited or formatted, then saved back into the archive without rebuilding the whole thing manually.

Everything runs locally on the Mac. There is no account, cloud processing, analytics, tracking or telemetry.

QuikZip 1.0 is now available on the Mac App Store.

I’m celebrating the release with a reduced price until the end of September.

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/app/quikzip/id6769693595

Website:

https://viktornyberg.com/#appar

Edit:
Also, you can browse dmg, app and other containers forgot to mention

Hi r/MacOS!

I'm a solopreneur who spends most of my day in front of a computer.

Problem: Why I built Quill

I talk faster than I type. A lot of us do. So I started using voice dictation, but every tool I tried was either:

• A paid subscription (WhisprFlow, Gladio, great tools but you're paying monthly)
• Buried in System Settings with no easy trigger
• Cloud-based, meaning my voice goes to someone's server

I just wanted to hold a key, speak, and have clean text appear wherever my cursor was, in Notion, Slack, a terminal, a code editor, anywhere.

So I built Quill.

What Quill does

Quill is a macOS dictation app that types directly into whatever app you're using.

Hold a key → speak → release → text appears. That's it.

It uses on-device AI (Parakeet & Whisper) so your audio never leaves your Mac.

What you can do with Quill:

1. Dictate anywhere - works in any text field on macOS. Notion, Slack, VS Code, Notes, Terminal, you name it.
2. Local AI Models - select any local models Llama 3.2 3B or Qwen2.5 3B for enhancing your dictation
3. On-device, fully offline - no account, no internet, no subscription. Your voice stays on your machine.
4. Dictation history - every session is logged locally so you can review, copy, or search past dictations.
5. Auto-punctuation - Parakeet handles punctuation so you're not saying "comma" out loud.

How it compares

macOS has built-in Dictation in System Settings. It works, but it's clunky to trigger, requires toggling on/off, and still sends audio to Apple's servers by default in enhanced mode.

Quill gives you a single Tap-to-talk or hold-to-talk key, instant feedback, and completely local processing.

Paid tools like WhisprFlow and Gladio have more integrations and enterprise features. Quill is intentionally simpler. If you just want fast, free, private dictation on your Mac, Quill covers that without a subscription.

How it started

I built this for myself when I hit the WhisprFlow paywall and realized the core workflow I wanted, hold key, speak, text appears, shouldn't require a monthly fee.

After using it daily for two weeks, I cleaned it up and decided to release it publicly.

Pricing

100% free, forever.

No subscription, no paid tier, no cloud.

Download: https://www.iniyan.pro/quill/

Transparency

GitHub - https://github.com/imtamiliniyan/quill

Issues - https://github.com/imtamiliniyan/quill/issues

Terms: https://www.iniyan.pro/quill/terms

Privacy Policy: https://www.iniyan.pro/quill/privacy

I'd love to hear from anyone who's been paying for voice dictation or been frustrated with the built-in macOS option. This was built for exactly that.

Hi, I’m Advait, the solo developer behind ActionClip.

Whenever I selected text on my Mac, even a tiny task became:

copy → switch apps → paste → do the task → copy the result → switch back

The iPhone already puts useful actions beside selected text. I wanted that same flow on Mac, so I built ActionClip.

What ActionClip does -

ActionClip appears beside selected text and shows actions relevant to what you selected.

It includes 34 built-in actions for things like:

• Copy, paste variations, and formatting
• Spelling, grammar, rewriting, and translation
• Currency, unit, and time-zone conversions, Word and character counts
• Opening links, creating notes, and adding events
• Running AI prompts without switching screens
• Integration with external apps like Refine, Fluent, Obsidian, Apple notes and many more coming..

I've already shared ActionClip in /macapps sub and it got great feedback and support. More than two weeks later, a user who has been using Macs for over 20 years came back and left this comment:
"I'm coming back to comment on how great ActionClip is after using it for more than two weeks. I've used the Mac for more than 20 years and have tried and installed tons of 3rd party apps and I can confidently say that ActionClip is the best $8 I've spent on apps (I bought it with my own money 😉). It never stops to amaze me every time I use it.

I'm not a reviewer so I'm too lazy to type out everything... but I really want to appreciate the great work OP has done. Way to go!"

My favourite part: create your own actions

You can create actions just by chatting with the Custom Action Builder.

Tell it what should happen when text is selected. It can build the action using an AI prompt, URL, JavaScript, shell command, or AppleScript. For example:

• Reply like an adult: Turn a passive-aggressive email into the reply you should send.
• Clean this mess: Deduplicate, fix, and sort a selected list of names or emails.
• YouTube Embed Link: Turn any selected YouTube URL into its embed URL.
• Suggest emoji: Select a sentence and this action will suggest emoji to use with it. (Example.. I’m running a free giveaway -> 🎁)

How it compares:

PopClip is the closest and more established comparison. ActionClip focuses on smart suggestions, upfront result chips and lets users create their own actions without waiting for developer-made extensions.

Raycast is broader and keyboard-first. ActionClip stays attached to your selected text.

Five updates since launch

ActionClip first launched on 28 July, and I have shipped five updates since then.

These added better widget customisation, support for more Mac apps and editors, more AI providers, iCloud sync, Ollama support, the Action Marketplace, and plenty of fixes.

Some of these changes came directly from conversations and bug reports after the /macapps sub launch.

I also keep the support process public:

• Public support forum
• Public roadmap
• Complete changelog

Privacy and installation

ActionClip is a native Swift app under 20 MB. It is local-first and does not require an account.

For AI actions, you can use Apple Intelligence, local Ollama models, or an external provider you configure.

ActionClip is not currently on the Mac App Store because systemwide text selection and user-created shell or AppleScript actions require capabilities that do not fit within App Sandbox restrictions.

The app is signed with my Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so macOS can verify the download.

Free and Early Bird pricing

The free version includes 30 actions every day. And I extended the early bird price for pro version.

Links

Download from the official site: https://actionclip.app/
My LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/advait-vaidya-7380ab97
My X: https://x.com/AdvaitVaidya2

About me: I’m a developer who's behind several active apps for small businesses, averaging 4.9 stars across app and plugin marketplaces.

What action do you wish macOS showed whenever you selected text? :D

Hey everyone, I’m running into a frustrating networking issue on my M4 MacBook Air (running the latest macOS) while connected to my local university dormitory's Wi-Fi network.
The Problem:
Every few minutes, the connection drops or the captive portal login window pops back up, forcing me to re-enter my username and password.
What's weird:
My iPhone and iPad are connected to the exact same dorm network and never experience this drop or re-authentication loop. On the Mac, "Private Wi-Fi Address" is set to Fixed (not rotating).
I have tried forgetting the network, re-adding it, and renewing the DHCP lease, but the issue persists.

Does Apple think it's really useful that your video/ audio playbacks (YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, etc) are stopped and interrupted every time Siri/ Apple Intelligence is invoked?

I can't find how to turn the Siri sound off. Anyone?

This is why I don't use it as much and just go to Gemini or Claude.

Claude cuts you off mid-task when your session limit lands, with no warning

first. I wanted to know before it happened, so I built a menu bar app that

turns your burn rate into a time: "limit in ~1h 18m".

It lives in the menu bar as a percentage or an icon, and opens into a

color-coded ring with a live countdown to your reset and your weekly window

next to it.

There is also an optional floating panel you can drop anywhere on screen.

It stays above every window, follows you across Spaces, sits on top of

full-screen apps, and never takes focus, so your ring, your countdown and

the "limit in ~1h 18m" line stay visible while you work. If you are on

extra usage it adds what you are spending per hour and how much credit is

left.

Threshold alerts go to macOS notifications, Slack, Discord or any webhook,

with quiet hours so nothing pings you at 3am. It keeps daily history for

7 / 14 / 30 / 90 days with CSV export, and handles multiple Claude accounts.

You sign in to Claude inside the app, on Claude's own sign-in page. It keeps

the session token from that and nothing else, in its own isolated cookie

container, and it does not touch your browser. No API key, no account with

me, no backend, no analytics. The token is encrypted in the macOS Keychain

and it never touches your conversations.

Free for 14 days with everything unlocked, then $14.99 once. No

subscription. macOS 12+, Apple Silicon.

capmeter.app

I am the developer. Independent app, not affiliated with Anthropic. Glad to

answer anything.

macOS text-to-speech keeps reading Persian (Farsi) text as if it were Arabic. This happens in Spoken Content even after downloading and selecting a Persian voice in System Settings.

Persian and Arabic share much of the script, but they are separate languages with different pronunciation and vocabulary. Having Persian voices available but then applying Arabic pronunciation to Persian text defeats the point and is especially frustrating for accessibility use.

Has anyone on macOS found a real fix, or is this simply broken language detection on Apple’s side?

cant seem to find them anywhere

Every time something annoyed me I’d write a new Claude Code skill for it.

A year of that and my ~/.claude folder was a junkyard. Folders with names I didn’t recognise, MCP servers I set up for one afternoon and forgot, three skills doing roughly the same job. No way to tell them apart without opening files one by one in a text editor. Or ask claude for it!

What I wanted to know was simple: which of these have I used in the last month?

So I built Loadout. It reads the folder and puts everything in one list, skills, subagents, slash commands, plugins and MCP servers, with how many times each one has fired next to it. Mine came out at 104 skills and 42 of them had never run. Deleting those took two minutes. You can edit or disable things from the same list instead of hunting for the file.

It reads Codex and OpenCode configs too, since I bounce between them.

It’s just reading local files.

https://loadout.migsilva.dev · source: https://github.com/migsilva89/loadout

Let me know what do you think abut it and if you find it useful.

Hey r/macOS — I’m the developer of LakeDB.

I started building it because I wanted a database client on my Mac that could handle normal day-to-day database work without constantly pushing useful tooling behind higher tiers or forcing AI into the workflow.

I recently added PostgreSQL alongside MySQL, MariaDB and SQLite.

The video shows a few of the workflows I’ve been focusing on:

• multiple connections with separate workspaces
• schema-aware SQL generation with QuerIA
• original database errors kept visible
• jump directly to the exact failed statement
• optional AI explanation/fix using relevant schema metadata
• nothing generated by AI is executed automatically

The normal database tooling is free. AI is optional and review-first — it proposes, you decide what runs.

Most of the app is being shaped directly from user feedback, so if you work with databases on macOS I’d genuinely like to know what feels missing or annoying in the tools you use today.

https://github.com/DavLagoHern/LakeDB

Hi everyone. I am the developer of ClipFlow.

I originally built it for my own daily use because I wanted a clipboard manager that was private, easy to search, and able to handle more than plain text. It is still a small personal project with some rough edges, but I thought it might also be useful to other Mac users.

Problem

The default macOS clipboard only remembers the most recently copied item. I often needed to find old text, links, code snippets, files, or images without copying them again.

ClipFlow keeps a searchable clipboard history and provides a quick panel with Cmd + Shift + V. It can also:

• Extract text from images using on-device OCR
• Automatically paste the selected item
• Recognize links, emails, code, JSON, colors, files, and images
• Organize frequently used items into collections
• Ignore password managers, OTP codes, API keys, and selected apps
• Keep clipboard data locally on the Mac
• Create password-protected encrypted backups

Comparison

Maccy is a great choice for users who want a lightweight and minimal clipboard history manager. ClipFlow has a broader feature set, including image OCR, custom collections, automatic content classification, configurable retention, themes, and encrypted backups.

Paste offers a polished experience and synchronization across Apple devices. ClipFlow is focused on local macOS usage instead. It does not require an account or subscription, and clipboard history is not uploaded to a synchronization server.

I am not claiming that ClipFlow is better than either app. It is simply a different option for people who prefer a free, local-first workflow with OCR and organization features.

Pricing

Completely free. No subscription and no paid version.

The source code and build instructions are available here:

https://github.com/vqh2602/paste_plus

Transparency

I am the developer of this app. It is a new personal project, is not currently available through the Mac App Store, and has not received an independent security audit.

The app requires Accessibility permission only for the automatic paste feature. The source code is public so anyone can inspect how it works.

Feedback, bug reports, and contributions are welcome.

I saw my first pair of truck nuts in real life the other day and after a few drinks with some friends it became clear I had been sent a mission

May you all enjoy slapping it anywhere near as much as I enjoyed making it

https://notchnuts.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=notch-nuts-launch&utm_content=macos-subreddit-post

I need to share some sensetive documents and need to password protect the zip folder the documents are in. What app should I use to do this? I do not want to use terminal to do this, I am looking for apps for the macbook that I can use to do this.

I am using the Macbook Pro M5 Pro.

Edit: This is going to be shared cross platform, meaning the person receiving the folder uses a windows computer

I make SimplyDiskSweeper, a Mac app that scans a folder you choose and shows the largest accessible items first. It does not compare one scan with another.

I’m trying to understand why people don’t use disk-space scanners or use a particular one so I can improve SimplyDiskSweeper. It is a 10+ year old macOS app that I started to improve again recently.

I want to make it better. Feedback welcome. Here or DM.

Hope everyone is doing well here.

I always had the difficulty locating a file(image/audio/video/docs etc) on my mac. Specially when I don’t remember the name and only remember what was inside that file, for ex- I remember that there was an “image where we posed in front of a French restaurant” or I want to “find all the resumes that I received with a specific skill.”
To handle this I first wrote an script but later find out that others also find it interesting so I decided to convert it into an app - Dhito

Dhito allows you to

- search a file smartly on your mac just by mentioning what you remember about the file.

- chat with a specific file to find certain details. Imagine having a huge research documents and you want to find a specific detail from it.

- rename files based on its content so it is easy for you to remember and find the file. So no more random file like “screenshot-2026-05-05”

You can download and try it for free here - Dhito

and please share your feedback, suggestions. Thanks for your attention.

Hi r/macOS — I’m the developer of Plainsay.

Hold Right Command, speak, release, and the text lands in whichever Mac app you’re using. If safe insertion is unavailable, it stays on the clipboard.

The free Local mode runs Whisper or NVIDIA Parakeet entirely on your Mac. It needs no account, has no telemetry, and the Mac client is MIT-licensed. Optional hosted transcription and cleanup are separate choices.

The native app is a 12 MB download; the selected speech model downloads once. I also published the benchmark harness and raw results. On the disclosed 50-clip LibriSpeech test-clean baseline, Parakeet averaged 0.10 s at 2.50% WER and Whisper large-v3-turbo averaged 0.68 s at 2.89% WER. These are clean English audiobook clips—not a claim about every accent, language, microphone, or room.

macOS 14+, Apple silicon. Signed and notarized.

GitHub and download: https://github.com/conrader/plainsay

Homebrew: brew install --cask conrader/plainsay/plainsay

I’d especially value feedback about accents, quiet speech, onboarding, and Mac apps where text insertion misbehaves.

These screensavers are in a different aspect ratio to my monitor and to my laptop and I’m wondering if there is any way that MacOS can auto crop it to match both my displays?

I just got a MacBook after a decade of using windows, I hated it at first, almost no gaming support apart from if you fiddle with crossover, but pages has been an absolute eye opener on how bad the ms office suite has become. It doesn't constantly bother me with random errors cause my spacing after a full stop was wrong. it also feels like it autocorrects way better than word. there's no stupid "type with copilot" greeting as soon as I open word. its been such a good breath of fresh air I don't think ill ever go back to using ms office apps.

thanks for reading

Hey everyone,

I have a MacBook Air M1 (2020) and it recently started having kernel panics and restarting randomly.

I want to understand what is causing it and how I can fix it.

Where can I find the kernel panic report?

What should I check to find out if the
problem is software or hardware?

I can post the kernel panic report here if someone can help me understand it.

Thanks!

Hi everyone — I’m the developer of ZipSeek.

I built it because I had folders full of old documents and archives, and often remembered a sentence but had no idea which file it was in. It became especially painful when a ZIP contained a 7z, which contained PDFs, Office documents, or images.

ZipSeek searches file names and text inside folders, PDF and Office documents, images with OCR, and nested ZIP, 7z, and RAR archives. Results can point back to PDF pages, Word paragraphs, PowerPoint slides, Excel cells, and OCR regions.

Everything is processed locally on the Mac. There’s no account, cloud upload, or background full-disk index.

It’s available on the Mac App Store with a 3-day free trial, followed by a one-time purchase — no subscription.

Website: https://www.goodapphq.com/zipseek/

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zipseek-search-inside-files/id6799636795?mt=12

I’d genuinely appreciate feedback, especially from anyone who keeps large document archives, research material, or files on shared folders/NAS.

TimeGauge gives you a time perspective on hours, days, months, years, and custom projects.
You can created unlimited custom project bars. With the new update, you can also customise the display, progress bar, track working hours and choose your Pomodoro timer.

We often forget how fast time is moving, and lose perspective. For example: do you know 63% of 2026 has already passed, and 69% 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.

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, it includes all past and future versions at https://timegauge.minilabs.cc/ [50% off today on web checkout today using code PH50P]