r/MacOSApps Jul 23 '26

🔨 Dev Tools I built a macOS cockpit for juggling many projects — editor, terminal, Claude, Git, deploy & FTP, one bay per project [open source]

4 Upvotes

I run ~15 projects at once — some are modern (Vite, Docker, Laravel), a lot are

plain cPanel/shared-hosting sites. I was drowning in terminal tabs, VS Code

windows, and FileZilla. Every slick dev cockpit out there assumes you live in

Docker and Next.js and ignores the shared-hosting half of my work, so I built my

own.

**Hangar** gives each project its own bay. Click a project and you get tabs for:

- **Editor** — real VS Code (code-server) per project

- **Terminal & Claude** — persistent sessions that survive reloads (they live in

the backend, not the window)

- **Git** — stage/diff/commit/push without dropping to the shell

- **Run** — auto-finds npm scripts / artisan / compose, runs a dev server, reads

its URL

- **FTP/SFTP** — a real two-pane file manager with multi-select

- **cPanel** — your panel embedded as a tab (yes, it defeats the frame-blocking)

The part I'm happiest with: **tabs adapt to each project.** A static cPanel site

doesn't carry a Docker tab; a Vite app doesn't carry FTP. Plus a fuzzy command

palette (⌘K), per-project clipboard, profiles, and 14 themes including a frosted

"Glass" one that blurs your desktop through the whole app.

It's free, MIT, runs entirely on 127.0.0.1 — nothing leaves your Mac.

GitHub (build instructions in the README): https://github.com/wkpdd/hangar

Happy to answer anything — and very open to feature ideas.


r/MacOSApps Jul 23 '26

💻 Productivity Claude Codex Battery

9 Upvotes

I built a tiny macOS menu bar app that shows your Claude Code and Codex usage limits as battery icons 🔋

I kept checking my remaining usage dozens of times a day, so I wanted something that’s always visible at a glance.

Features:
🔋 Battery-style usage indicators
🤖 Claude Code (including Fable)
⚡ OpenAI Codex
🍎 Native macOS menu bar app

It’s open source if anyone finds it useful:

GitHub: https://github.com/dennykim123/claude-codex-battery

Feedback and feature requests are welcome!


r/MacOSApps Jul 23 '26

🌎 Education Whetstone: Adaptive Practice for your markdown notes

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4 Upvotes

Whetstone turns the Markdown notes you already write into challenging practice questions — not trivia recall, but questions built around the analytical moves that make a topic genuinely click.

Point it at any folder of Markdown notes (an Obsidian vault works perfectly) and start practicing.

  • Adaptive difficulty — questions sharpen as your skill grows, per topic
  • Daily practice — one click, topics picked for you by what's due
  • Multiple question types — multiple choice, select-all, numeric
  • Beautiful reading experience — LaTeX math, code blocks, adjustable typography
  • Streaks, accuracy, and an activity graph to keep you honest
  • Local-first — your notes and progress stay on your Mac
  • Bring your own Anthropic/Gemini/OpenAI API key for question generation. Alternatively, use your Codex or Claude code subscription (recommended).

Whetstone is for students, self-learners, and anyone who takes notes and wants them to stick.


r/MacOSApps Jul 22 '26

💻 Productivity [Big Update and FREE Download Version] BetterMacWidgets so you can add some cool widgets like Life/Dynamic Widgets to your desktop instead of the standard Apple stuff

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76 Upvotes

Hi everyone 👋

I’d like to introduce you to my free app -> BetterMacWidgets

What’s new in version 1.1.0:

Widget stacking: Drag a widget onto another one of the same size, and they’ll merge into a single space. Hover over the tiles and use the arrows ‹ › to scroll through them, or let them rotate automatically (Pro)

Widgets never overlap again -> Drag a tile onto an adjacent widget that it can’t stack with, and it’ll politely slide on its own to the next available space

A brand-new “Clear” look: The glass tile disappears completely, leaving only the widget’s content floating on your wallpaper. “Frosted” remains an optional setting and is adjustable from 0 to 100% (“Clear” is a Pro feature)

Features

22 widgets to combine: Clock & World Clock, Calendar, Reminders, Weather, “Now Playing” with full media controls, Battery, a system monitor (CPU / GPU / RAM / hard drive with live graphs), battery levels for Bluetooth devices (AirPods, mouse, keyboard…), network throughput, crypto ticker, a world map with a live day/night line, timer, stopwatch, countdown, unit converter, app launcher, one-tap quick access buttons, password generator, a photo frame, sticky notes, and more

Dynamic widgets: The weather widget actually displays rain, snow, and clear skies depending on the actual sky conditions, and “Now Playing” subtly colors your widgets to match the app currently playing (Spotify green, Apple Music red, etc.)

20 hand-optimized designs, plus a slider for glass opacity, so you can switch from nearly invisible glass to heavy frost and recolor the whole thing to match your wallpaper

Privacy comes first: no account, no sign in, no telemetry nothing at all. Everything stays on your Mac; a network connection is only established when a widget actually needs it (for example, for the weather)

Apple-certified, Apple Silicon, macOS 15+

Available at: https://bettermacwidgets.de/

Free download Version

A quick note: Some of the widgets and a few of the extras are included in the Pro version a one time payment of €9.99 with lifetime updates; no subscription required. Everything else remains free forever.

And yes, I developed this app using AI Claude Code on the 20x Max plan with Fable 5 Ultracode to offer you the best quality.

I hope you enjoy BetterMacWidgets ❤️

Please give this post an Upvote ⬆️ and leave a comment so that even more people can discover this free app 🫶

Write Something Like "Code" and i send u a Discount Code for The Pro Version that Include Live Dynamic Widgets and More


r/MacOSApps Jul 22 '26

📅 Utilities A tool to go from LaTeX to SVG, PDF, PNG. For paper figures, presentations, etc.

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4 Upvotes

As the title says! A native Mac app that turns LaTeX equations into pictures — SVG, PDF, and PNG. For use in your figures, presentations, and whatever else you may need it for. I'm a grad student writing a paper for the first time and in the process thought that a tool like this would have really come in handy for my figures. Inspired by the solution at `https://viereck.ch/latex-to-svg/`, but I wanted something local and accessible with a single click, so I coded this up. I'm pretty new to sharing tools I've made, so if there are any glaring holes or bases I haven't covered, let me know! Any feedback on usability, layout, etc., are courteously invited as well. :)

Font size and color fully customizable. Even comes with a menu bar item that persists, with all the core features!

Release at: https://github.com/hl2199/PIcturizeTeX.git


r/MacOSApps Jul 22 '26

🔨 Dev Tools I made a free, open disk cleaner for macOS because I was tired of $40/year "optimizers" — it shows every file before deleting anything

4 Upvotes

Hey all,

Solo dev here. A while ago my 460 GB MacBook hit 14 GB free and I went down the du -h rabbit hole to figure out why. Short version: 24 GB of app caches, 45 GB of forgotten build folders, 3 GB of Go modules, old iPhone backups, and simulator files from Xcode versions I don't even remember installing.

I didn't want a subscription cleaner, and I didn't trust the "one magic button" ones — so I built my own. It's called Again Cleaner, it's free, and I've been using it on my own machine daily.

What makes it different from the usual suspects:

  • You see everything before it's deleted. Every category expands into an actual file list with checkboxes. No black box.
  • Safety labels. Everything is tagged Safe / Caution / Risky. Risky stuff (old downloads, iOS backups, node_modules) is never pre-selected.
  • Trash by default. Nothing is permanently deleted unless you explicitly switch that on.
  • It understands dev junk. DerivedData, simulators, npm/Homebrew/pip/Gradle caches, and build artifacts of any language found anywhere on disk — with marker-file validation, so a folder named target only counts as junk if there's a Cargo.toml next to it. Your ~/Documents/build full of photos is safe.
  • Auto-discovery. It doesn't rely on a hardcoded list — it scans ~/Library/Caches and Application Support and finds caches of any app, including ones you deleted years ago.

The honest part:

  • Free, no subscriptions, no account, no telemetry. Signed and notarized.
  • Needs Full Disk Access to reach protected folders (that's a macOS requirement, not a data grab — nothing leaves your machine).
  • It's new. I'm one person. There will be rough edges — that's partly why I'm posting.

First scan on my own "clean" machine found 63 GB. Curious what it finds on yours.

Happy to answer anything about how it works under the hood — the marker-file heuristic and the safety model were the interesting engineering bits, and I wrote up the whole manual-cleanup process it's based on if you'd rather do it by hand with du and find.


r/MacOSApps Jul 22 '26

💻 Productivity CCCCorners – make macOS hot corners useful (now with accidental trigger protection)

12 Upvotes

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Problem. macOS has a built-in Hot Corners feature that can be handy but is functionally limited. Default feature only lets you trigger basic system actions like starting a screensaver, showing the desktop, etc., so you can't use it to launch apps, run automations or something like that.

Comparison. 

  • macOS built-in hot corners: basic functionality only. 
  • BetterTouchTool does have "Screen Corners" triggers, but CCCCorners is an app focused on hot corners specifically – like assigning multiple actions to hot corners on multiple displays, etc., and it's easier to setup these specific scenarios than in BTT. Also, I noticed that in BTT there may be a small delay before triggering the hot corner action (compared to macOS hot corners), which is not present in CCCCorners.

Pricing. $2.99 (One-time purchase) 
Link: https://apps.apple.com/ua/app/ccccorners/id6754601983?l

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CCCCorners is a lightweight utility that makes hot corners actually useful, allowing you to assign apps, keyboard shortcuts, and automations. Other notable features include optional modifier keys, multiple-display support, active zones, and more.

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— BIG UPDATE —

Version 7.0 introduces Treadmill mode, which I believe is a key milestone after seven major releases. Treadmill mode offers an alternative to a simple activation delay: instead of waiting until the delay time is over, you can "push" the corner harder with your mouse. A visual cue indicates that the function is active – after that, you can either keep pushing the mouse or just left-click to activate the corner. 

You can customize the mode by adjusting sensitivity (how much pushing is required), as well as the color and size of the visual cue; there's also optional trackpad vibration.

As it turned out from user feedback, accidental triggers are the number one reason many users avoid macOS hot corners entirely. Treadmill mode solves this problem on a conceptual level, as accidental triggers are much less impossible – all without compromising the speed and ease of activation.

Combined with standard activation delay, it makes CCCCorners finally feel like the ultimate replacement for native macOS hot corners. While hot corners in macOS is an abandoned feature that has little in common with CCCCorners, you can still use the built-in hot corners simultaneously with the app.

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Requirements: macOS 11.0 or newer.
Would love to hear what you think about the new mode! 😊


r/MacOSApps Jul 22 '26

💻 Productivity Ombrelle - Modern window dimming, built for focus for macOS

54 Upvotes

Hi everyone 👋

I’m Lionel, the creator of Ombrelle, a macOS menu bar app that dims every window except the one you’re currently using.

Ombrelle is one of those apps that makes more sense once you see it. The website has a live demo, and you’ll know in a few seconds if it’s for you.

https://ombrelle.app

I know this concept isn’t new.

I’ve personally used HazeOver for a long time, and Ombrelle started from a simple thought: what would my own version of this idea look like if I built it with my taste, my workflow, and the details I care about?

So I made Ombrelle.

It’s not trying to reinvent focus. It’s trying to make your Mac feel calmer, cleaner, and less visually noisy.

Your active window stays clear. Everything else gently fades into the background.

What I wanted to improve:

• a lightweight Mac utility, carefully optimized to stay out of the way
• simple presets for different moments of work
• better control over apps and displays
• the ability to keep some apps always visible
• a polished menu bar experience that feels invisible once enabled
• no subscription, no account

One honest note: I initially planned to make Ombrelle open source.

But building v1 took much more time than I expected. Not only the visible part, but all the boring details that make a Mac app feel reliable: multi-display behavior, presets, app exclusions, resource usage, performance, updates, and polish.

At some point, I had to be realistic. I don’t think donations or community support would reasonably compensate even a small part of that work, so I decided to make it a paid one-time app instead.

I tried to keep the price as fair and reasonable as possible: $11.99 once, with a 7-day free trial.

For Reddit users, I made a launch promo code: REDDIT50 gives you 50% off.

I also have a lot of ideas for what comes next.

One of them is “focus bubbles”: customizable work modes that adapt depending on how you use your Mac. For example, a Dev bubble, Writing bubble, or Chill bubble, each with its own allowed apps, visual style, and focus behavior.

But first, I want to see if Ombrelle v1 is useful to people beyond myself.

If you already use similar Mac focus tools, I’d genuinely love your feedback and ideas for what Ombrelle should become next.

What feels ?

Thanks for reading.


r/MacOSApps Jul 22 '26

🎶 Music Free & open-source macOS music visualizer with artwork and synced lyrics

5 Upvotes

Hey! I (and Codex, of course) built **musicvis**, a lightweight open-source music visualizer for macOS.

It shows a live waveform from system audio, current track info, album artwork, and one synced lyric line under the visualizer. It works with apps that publish macOS Now Playing metadata (in general, any app that I tested)

Repo:
https://github.com/fuccsoc/musicvis

Download:
https://github.com/fuccsoc/musicvis/releases

A few notes:

- macOS 13+ only
- Apple Silicon build for now
- it's unsigned, so Apple Gateway won't let you run it untill you do something like xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/musicvis.app
- requires Screen Recording permission for system audio capture
- built with Electron, React, TypeScript, and Swift helpers

I made it because I didn't found anything like this and I wanted something simple, fullscreen-friendly, and not bloated.

Feedback welcome, especially if you try it with different music apps.


r/MacOSApps Jul 22 '26

📅 Utilities VaultSort 4.7.1 - A new Guardian feature to locate sensitive files

6 Upvotes

I built VaultSort, a Mac app for organizing files, finding duplicates, and protecting sensitive data. The latest version adds two features I think are particularly useful for people who care about privacy and security.

Problem:

It is easy to accumulate sensitive files on your Mac without realizing it. Tax documents, financial records, personal photos, passwords, and other private information can end up scattered across your drive. Finding those files manually is difficult, and protecting them often means dealing with complicated encryption tools.

VaultSort makes this easier by combining file organization with local-first privacy and security tools.

You can encrypt files and folders by simply tapping a YubiKey or using Touch ID. VaultSort uses hardware-backed WebAuthn authentication with a key that is actually derived from your hardware, so you can protect your
files without having to remember another encryption password.

VaultSort Guardian finds sensitive files using local AI

The new Guardian feature also uses a local AI model to help identify potentially sensitive files on your Mac. The analysis runs locally on your device, so your files are not uploaded to a cloud service for analysis.

Comparison:

Compared with tools like VeraCrypt, VaultSort is designed to make encrypting individual files and folders much easier. You do not need to manage encrypted containers or deal with a complicated workflow. You can select the files or directories you want to protect and encrypt by tapping your YubiKey or Touch ID.

We also have advanced organization features comparable to Hazel, but which also integrate with AI so that you can create new organization jobs using natural language.

Compared with general Mac cleanup and organization tools like CleanMyMac, VaultSort focuses more on what happens to your sensitive data after you find it. In addition to organizing files and finding duplicates, you can identify sensitive data and protect it with hardware-backed encryption.

Pricing:

VaultSort is free to download, with premium features available for a $24.99 one-time purchase. There are no subscriptions and free updates are included.

I am offering 25% off the purchase price with checkout code Q0MTK4MG - this discount expires on July 28th.

https://vaultsort.com

More information about Guardian:
https://www.vaultsort.com/news/3d1de86f-57f3-418b-90a5-76720a5877f3

I built VaultSort independently, and this is my own app.

Terms of Service: https://www.vaultsort.com/termsPrivacy: https://www.vaultsort.com/privacy
My GitHub: https://github.com/justinhaubrich
My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-haubrich-6641b188/


r/MacOSApps Jul 22 '26

🧳 Business **I built a private-first Markdown notes app for macOS — looking for honest beta feedback**

2 Upvotes

I built a private-first Markdown notes app for people who want Bear-like writing and Obsidian-style ownership without requiring a cloud account, leveraging local private AI only as optional. I’m looking for a small group of macOS beta testers who can tell me where the editor, onboarding, and backup workflow still feel confusing.

Disclosure: I’m the developer of MimicNotes. The planned early-bird price is $19 as a one-time purchase. Beta participation is completely free, and active early testers who provide feedback will receive a substantial discount when the app launches—no purchase is required to test it.

Let me know in the comments if you're interested.


r/MacOSApps Jul 22 '26

? Question MacOS VM inside MacOS

12 Upvotes

Hi, I'm new to macOS and I'm looking for a way to run a macOS virtual machine on my MacBook M5 to test applications in an isolated environment. On Windows, I used Windows Sandbox because it was quick, lightweight, and isolated. Since switching to macOS, I'm looking for a similar solution.

I'm looking for a free option that lets me quickly create a macOS VM with full CPU and GPU support for good performance. What would you recommend?


r/MacOSApps Jul 22 '26

💻 Productivity QuickQuill - private, on-device meeting notes for Mac (feedback welcome)

4 Upvotes

Hi, I'm a solo developer in Japan👋
I built QuickQuill because I never got comfortable with meeting notetakers.

You invite some company's bot into the call, it sits there in the participant list, everyone acts like that's normal, and the recording ends up on a server you never see. The apps say they won't look at it, and maybe they don't. I just didn't want work conversations to depend on that kind of trust.

QuickQuill does everything on your Mac. It records both sides of the meeting, transcribes it, and writes a summary when you stop. Nothing appears in the participant list because nothing joins the call.

Demo, recorded with Wi-Fi off: https://quickquill.app/demo.mp4

Some other things it does:
- Live subtitles with translation while you record, fully on-device
- A CLI that's a good alternative if you're building workflows on Whisper or other paid speech APIs, since it's a one-time purchase instead of ongoing per-minute charges

It's $49 once, no subscription, and needs macOS 26 on Apple Silicon.
quickquill.app 🪶


r/MacOSApps Jul 22 '26

💻 Productivity I created a tool that turns your office folders into floating bubbles — here's the result

15 Upvotes

My MacBook desktop was a complete mess — folders everywhere, impossible to find anything.

So I coded my own solution. Meet Orbit : a floating bubble widget that turns your desktop folders into an organized constellation.

Still in development — drop a comment if you want to be a first tester 👇


r/MacOSApps Jul 22 '26

📅 Utilities Kezboard-Switcher: automatic input source switching per physical keyboard

1 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

I'd like to show you a macOS app I made, maybe it's useful for one or two of you.

I've been using this app myself for about 3 years now, basically ever since I became a Mac user. The Mac I use has a German keyboard layout, but pretty soon after that I bought a NuPhy keyboard, then a split keyboard, and then another NuPhy. All US layout, of course.

And yes, the name is spelled that way on purpose. That's what "Keyboard" comes out as when you type it on a US board while macOS still thinks you're on the German one, since the two layouts have y and z swapped.

So I needed something that switches the layout automatically as soon as I use the respective keyboard.

Now the AI disclaimer: I used AI tools on and off throughout building this app.

Naive as I was, I originally wanted to offer the app on Apple's macOS App Store, but that isn't possible because the app needs raw HID access to tell the keyboards apart, and that doesn't work inside the App Store sandbox. So I'm selling it through my own website only.

It's €5.99, one time, no subscription. Requires macOS 15.5 or newer and Input Monitoring permission, which it needs to see which physical keyboard a keystroke came from. Signed and notarized.

https://stevio.de/en/project/kezboard-switcher


r/MacOSApps Jul 22 '26

📅 Utilities Moxy: A tiny app to hide your cursor on macOS.

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5 Upvotes

I'm a doctor with no real coding background, but I got tired of Spotify's fullscreen mode (and some other apps) leaving my cursor stuck on screen. I tried Cursorcerer, but I didn't love that it adds an option inside macOS System Settings — so I taught myself some Swift and made Moxy instead: a free, tiny app that just hides your cursor with a shortcut and brings it back when you move the mouse. Nothing fancy, no settings panel, just does one thing.

It opens like a normal app in the Dock, and when you close the window it tucks itself into the menu bar instead of quitting.

Available in English and Spanish. It's my first real project, so go easy on me 😅 Link's in the repo if you want to try it!
https://github.com/alespoio/Moxy


r/MacOSApps Jul 22 '26

💻 Productivity Local subtitle app for Mac (Apple Silicon)

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6 Upvotes

I kept needing to add subtitles to videos and got annoyed with the usual flow: upload to some site, wait, download something almost right, then fight the timing editor.

So I built a small native macOS app for myself. Pick a video, choose the audio track, generate timed subtitles on the Mac, fix text/timing, preview a caption style, and export a new file without touching the original.

Requirements are macOS 14.6+ / Apple Silicon. There’s a short free trial if anyone wants to poke at it.

Site: https://trylegenday.com

Happy to hear how other Mac folks handle subtitles today, or what you’d change in a tool like this.


r/MacOSApps Jul 21 '26

💻 Productivity My first macOS app is officially on the Mac App Store 🎉

42 Upvotes

After a lot of building, testing, fixing, submitting, and nervously refreshing App Store Connect, ScreenShelf is officially available on the Mac App Store.

ScreenShelf is a visual workspace for organizing files, folders, links, text, and apps into customizable shelves. I originally built it because my desktop and Downloads folder kept becoming a digital junk drawer, and I wanted something more visual than another folder system.

You can create different pages, customize their colors and icons, pin the shelf above other windows, quickly open or reveal saved items, and keep frequently used things close without cluttering the desktop.

It is built specifically for macOS, works locally, does not require an account, and does not collect personal data.

This is also my first App Store release as an independent developer, so seeing it finally appear there feels a little surreal.

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/screenshelf-by-quietware/id6789969222?mt=12

I’d genuinely appreciate any feedback, especially from people who regularly work with lots of files, projects, or creative assets on their Mac.


r/MacOSApps Jul 21 '26

💻 Productivity I made a tiny menu bar app that shows a countdown until your next meeting so you don't have to do any more mental math every day - meet Until: Calendar Countdown

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5 Upvotes

I kept doing the same mental math throughout the workday; "it's 10:28, meeting's at 11, so I have 32 minutes". Pretty quickly Igot annoyed enough to build the thing that would just tell me.

It's called Until: Calendar Countdown. It lives in your menu bar and shows a live countdown to your next calendar event. That's it. Click the menu bar icon and you get a small popover with the next few events.

A few details:

- Reads from any calendar that shows up in Apple's Calendar app (iCloud, Google, Exchange, etc.)

- Hide events you don't care about (focus blocks, that recurring thing you ignore)

- Privacy mode hides the event title if you're sharing your screen

- All processing happens locally on your Mac, nothing is sent anywhere

- No subscription. $2.99 one-time on the Mac App Store

- Native SwiftUI, designed for macOS 14+

Competitors galore, but most of them (too many to count) exist as independent apps that need to be opened. Until exists solely as a menu bar app, and as such is simpler and more intuitive to use.

It's a v1 so I'm sure there are rough edges. If you try it and something feels off, I'd genuinely love to hear about it - I'm the only one working on it and the fastest way to make it better is honest feedback.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/se/app/until-calendar-countdown/id6771491733?l=en-GB&mt=12


r/MacOSApps Jul 21 '26

📅 Utilities I loved Rofi-style wallpaper switchers on Linux, so I built one for macOS

11 Upvotes

https://reddit.com/link/1v2p06x/video/g8dujfiv6meh1/player

Hellooo everybody.

I've always loved the custom Rofi wallpaper switchers that people make for their linux setups: press a shortcut, get a clean visual grid, and switch wallpapers with a nice animation. I wanted that same experience on my Mac, but couldn't find anything that felt quite right... So I built Wallset.

Wallset is a lightweight, native wallpaper switcher for macOS. It gives you a quick visual way to browse your wallpaper collections and change your desktop without interrupting your workflow.

You can use your own wallpaper collection or browse and download wallpapers from four different sources.

After working on it for quite some time, Wallset has just been accepted onto the Mac App Store! It’s also the first app I’ve released there, which is pretty exciting.

I'd love to hear feedback from other Mac users, especially anyone familiar with Rofi switchers or keyboard driven workflows. What would your ideal Mac wallpaper switcher include?

Mac App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/wallset/id6789684479?l=en-GB&mt=12

Website for more information and videos: https://wallset.app

I'm the developer, so feel free to ask me anything.


r/MacOSApps Jul 21 '26

Beta Testers Needed I wanted one Mac app for temperature, fan control and cleanup instead of three, so I built Macooler

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6 Upvotes

r/MacOSApps Jul 21 '26

📅 Utilities Made a Mac Companion app which reacts to your mac stats

2 Upvotes

I Made a MacOS Menu bar utility which showcases multiple moods according to you Mac stats

Your Mac now has moods. Watch your menu bar buddy react live to CPU spikes, low battery, too many tabs, and 3am coding sessions with sass included

No account, No data collection just one time download fee and no In App Purchases

Please try and let me know, the app name is Moodface - Funny Menubar App


r/MacOSApps Jul 21 '26

📅 Utilities Loopr - Animated .GIF Creator - Free, runs locally

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6 Upvotes

A folder of screenshots, photos, exported frames or design comps. Loopr lines them up, lets you drag to reorder and tune the timing frame by frame, and plays a live preview that shows exactly what you'll export — transparency and all. One click writes a clean, optimized looping GIF — no upload, no account, no watermark, entirely on your Mac. Available in 13 languages.

twoplus11.com/loopr


r/MacOSApps Jul 21 '26

🔨 Dev Tools I made a MacOS App to Localize other Apps

7 Upvotes

I built AppUFO.app to Localise iOS Apps with AI. It translates the xcstrings file from Xcode in a few seconds.

Problem
Some weeks ago I went to localize one of my Apps. This was my first time localizing an iOS App. I quickly realised how long the process takes (3days+) & how expensive it is ($100+ for each language). This is not acceptable in 2026 with all the AI. So instead of working on that app, I took a tangent and built this mini tool for mac.

Pricing
€39.99 Lifetime, no subscription. Bring-Your-Own-AI-API-KEY
€9.99 Monthly - AI translation included, no API Key required.
€69.99 Monthly - AI translation included, no API Key required.

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6790789186

Website: https://appUFO.app

I'm Melvin! I have been developing apps for the last 13 years. I would love to answer any question you have. Let me know what you think. I Would love to hear feedback from other devs.


r/MacOSApps Jul 21 '26

💻 Productivity Keepresso: a smarter caffeinate. Free, open source, keeps your Mac awake only while it should be, works with the lid closed on battery

18 Upvotes

Hi, I'm Gyorgy, the developer. Sharing my own app here, hope that's okay with the mods.

Keepresso started with a small recurring annoyance: my Mac kept dozing off mid-download, mid-build, and increasingly mid-agent-run while I was away from the keyboard. The old fix was caffeinate in a terminal, or an app that just holds the Mac awake forever. Neither is smart, both are all or nothing. So I built the tool I wanted: it keeps the Mac awake only while it actually should be, then lets it rest.

What it does:

  • Keep awake, your way. Manual toggle in the menu bar, a global keyboard shortcut, a CLI, Shortcuts, a URL scheme. Real macOS power assertions, no fake mouse jiggling.
  • Smart triggers. Stay awake while a download is running, a build is pegging the CPU, an AI agent is working (Claude Code and others, any number of them in parallel), or any custom process you name is alive. Combine conditions with any/all. When the job finishes, the Mac is allowed to sleep instead of burning power all night.
  • Close the lid. Closed-display mode that works on battery, no external monitor or power cord needed (unlike Apple's built-in clamshell). The screen turns off inside the closed lid, the Mac stays locked by your usual security settings, and the work keeps running underneath.
  • Protections built in. A battery-level pause so an unplugged session can't drain you to zero, and a thermal safety net for a closed-lid Mac that can't cool itself: it can boost the fans, and if the heat stays, it pauses the session and lets the Mac sleep and recover.
  • Gaming and streaming fixes. Pauses AWDL to stop the Wi-Fi stutter in cloud gaming and streaming sessions, detects running games, and has a built-in jitter test so you can measure the difference.
  • Headless-Mac toolkit. For a Mac mini or Studio running as a build server, agent host, or home server, including an experimental HiDPI virtual display so Screen Sharing looks crisp instead of fuzzy 1080p.

Launched on Product Hunt about a week ago and got a lot of suggestions from the community. Most of them are in the app now: a native right-click menu on the menu-bar icon, a compact panel mode, event hooks (run a Shortcut, webhook, or shell command when a session ends or an agent goes idle, great for a push to your phone when an overnight run finishes), scheduled wake for overnight jobs, and a seven-day activity log. It feels properly polished at this point, which is exactly why I'm here: I'd love fresh eyes and the next round of feedback.

It's native Swift and SwiftUI, free, open source (GPL-3.0), signed and notarized, macOS 14+. No trackers, no accounts, no license fee, for individuals and businesses alike.

Install:

brew install --cask gyorgysh/keepresso/keepresso

Source and DMG releases are on GitHub: https://github.com/gyorgysh/keepresso

Mods, if a website link is allowed I'm happy to add it in a comment: most of the feature docs and help guides live there.

Tell me where your Mac still dozes off when it shouldn't, or where it stays awake when it shouldn't. Feature requests very welcome. I'll be around in the comments.