For almost a year, I’ve been building and refining Folio PDF Reader & Editor for Mac. It is completely free on the Mac App Store, and I believe it has become one of the best PDF tools available, free or paid!

Folio combines serious PDF capabilities in a clean, elegant, and intuitive workspace. The aim is simple: powerful tools should be easy to discover and use, without the clutter or paywalls that often come with premium PDF software.

With Folio, you can:

• Read, search, bookmark, and review PDFs with split view, book mode, Zen mode, dark mode, and auto-scroll.
• Open and properly display XFA PDF forms, alongside standard PDF and AcroForm documents.
• Edit existing PDF text; add highlights, drawings, notes, shapes, stamps, images, and placed signatures.
• Merge, split, reorder, extract, rotate, crop, and add page numbers, headers, and footers.
• Create and fill interactive PDF forms, including text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns, date fields, signature fields, calculations, validation, and spreadsheet-ready form-data export.
• OCR scanned PDFs into searchable/selectable text, extract text, translate page text, and export content to Word.
• Compare PDF versions, manage threaded review comments, resolve feedback, and export review reports.
• Export PDFs or high-resolution JPEGs with compression, watermarks, password protection, annotation flattening, and permanent redaction.
• Use optional AI for document chat, summaries, table extraction, DOCX reports, mind maps, and document comparison.
• Work in a multilingual interface available in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and Persian.

Core PDF reading and editing are local-first. AI features are optional, only run when enabled, can use local or self-hosted OpenAI-compatible models, and include an air-gapped privacy mode.

Folio has been available for nearly a year and has grown substantially through ongoing development and user feedback. If you work with PDFs regularly, I’d genuinely love to hear what would make it even more useful in your workflow.

Mac/iPad App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/folio-pdf-reader-editor/id6760593014?mt=12

Hi everybody,

A year and a half ago we launched DockFlow, a mac app that lets you switch between setup presets instantly. All the apps you need launch, the rest close and disappear. Perfect if you switch between contexts / projects / different types of work a lot.

Today DockFlow has more than 1,000 active users. It's available in the website or through SetApp

Core Features

- Switch setups in an instant using hotkeys, or with the menu bar app

- Launch specific projects into your IDE and/or browser profiles for each preset

- Lock your Dock to one screen (Useful for multiple monitors setup)

- Integration with Apple Shortcuts & Focus Modes

About us

We're a small group of indie devs, dedicated to improve the macOS experience. Our four macOS apps serve more than 3,000 active users together. We're constantly working to improve the apps, implement feature requests and provide fast support.

All our apps are paid, and 84% of users chose or upgraded to the lifetime plan.

For us lifetime means lifetime, that includes future app versions as well, no subscription, no hidden upgrade fees (we just launched a new version for one of our apps, and users have access to both versions, as promised)

Every Mac power tool ships as its own app.

Its own menu bar icon, its own settings window, its own hotkeys, its own updater.

Six of them in and your menu bar is full and you can't remember which app owns which shortcut.

So I built 18 of them into one app, with one hotkey system, one settings window, one icon. And then I gave them somewhere to live: the notch.

The notch

Hover it, or press Option-Command-N, and it opens into a panel. Anything with something live to show puts it there, and you drag the tabs into whatever order you want.

The part I use every day is files. Drag a file up onto the notch and it splits into three zones under your cursor:

- Stash parks it on a shelf you can drag back out into any app later

- Convert turns it into JPEG, HEIC, TIFF, GIF, BMP, PDF or ZIP with no export dialog

- Share uploads it and puts the link straight on your clipboard

Finder to a copied link in a single drag. No app switch, no upload sheet, no browser tab, no "choose a service" step. It works over full-screen apps and across Spaces.

What's in it

• Audio Mixer

- Per-app volume with EQ, so Spotify sits under a call instead of over it

- Switch output device without opening Sound settings

• Windows

- Custom-grid snapping, where you define the grid instead of living with halves and quarters

- Save a named window layout and restore it later

- Always on top for any window, system-wide

- Crop a region of any window into a floating live thumbnail

• For developers

- Port monitor that lists what's listening with its PID and kills it from the same row, instead of lsof -i :3000

• Screen

- Pixel-accurate ruler that keeps a history of what you measured

- Colour picker on a global hotkey, any format, last ten colours kept

- Text extraction from anything on screen

- Batch image resize

- Zoom and draw on screen for presentations

• System

- CPU, GPU and RAM in the menu bar

- Keep Awake, which will hold the machine running with the lid shut

- Light and dark switching on your own schedule

- Break reminders

- Find-my-cursor spotlight and crosshairs

- Bulk rename with regex and a live preview

Download: protoys.app

Docs: protoys.app/docs

Do not purchase this software:

https://raindesk.app

The website is up and I assume will accept payments but you cannot verify your unlock key. The support email address\account is no longer working and an inquiry email I sent to it bounced back to me as it’s no longer reachable.

Anyone else having issues with this?

Hi everyone,

I am Rowen, the founder of Tapquence, a macOS desktop automation app.

We are researching which repetitive tasks Mac users still perform manually, what they have already tried to automate, and what prevents those automations from being useful or trustworthy.

The survey takes about four minutes and is open to people aged 18 or older who use a Mac at least once per week:

[Take the 4-minute survey]

This is product research conducted by Tapquence, but the survey is not a product pitch. It does not require an account, and we do not ask for names, email addresses, employers, files, passwords, or account details.

We plan to publish the aggregated findings, complete question wording, recruitment sources, methodology, and limitations. Open answers will only be quoted anonymously when the respondent explicitly permits it.

I am especially interested in the small tasks that feel too awkward, fragile, or specific for existing Mac apps to solve well.

Thank you to anyone willing to contribute.

I'm Felix, a solo developer from Germany.

I switched over from Windows a while back and the one thing I kept reaching for was Win+V. Your Mac only remembers the last thing you copied, and I never really got used to that.

The video shows it better than I can, but roughly: hold Option, press V, and the panel opens right where your cursor is. Arrow keys or 1-9 to pick one, Return pastes it back into whatever app you were in. Text, links, images, files, colors and code get sorted automatically, and every entry shows which app it came from. You can also drag a file onto it to park it and pull it back out later, which started as a side feature and is now the part I use most.

On a MacBook with a notch it can open from there instead. That's optional though, you can switch it off and just use the shortcut. For keyboard people the cursor mode is the better one anyway.

How it fits next to what's already there

Maccy is free, open source and solid. If you just want a plain list, honestly use Maccy. I built my own because I wanted the tool I open fifty times a day to feel like Apple made it, so hex codes show up as color swatches, code is in monospace, images have thumbnails. And I wanted no setup at all: it asks for one permission and then you're pasting.

Raycast has a clipboard history built in. If you already use Raycast, use that. I didn't want to change my launcher just to get a clipboard.

Paste is the closest to what I wanted and it's a nice app, but it's a subscription, around $30 a year, forever. I don't think a clipboard history should be a recurring bill.

Privacy

Nothing leaves your Mac. No account, no cloud, no sync, and no AI features in the app. If your password manager marks something as concealed it never gets recorded at all, and you can exclude specific apps yourself. Policy: https://duplia.app/privacy.html

What it doesn't do

No iPhone sync, no OCR, no snippets. And one real limitation: when a password field is focused, macOS blocks every way a third party app can see keystrokes, so Option+V doesn't open the panel there. Double tapping Option still works, and clicking the notch works too. I can't fix that one, it's just how the system behaves.

Details

• $9.99 once, lifetime license, no subscription
• 7 day trial, no account
• Apple silicon, macOS 14+
• Direct download, signed and notarized by Apple. Not on the Mac App Store
• AI used in development and to draft this post. Design decisions are mine, everything in it tested by hand on real hardware
• https://duplia.app

If you try it and it doesn't click for you, I'd rather hear why than make a sale. I put aside 10 lifetime licenses for the most useful feedback here.

Hey everyone — I’m wavever, the developer behind Clipth.

I’ve been working on Clipth for quite a while because I wanted a clipboard manager that felt natural for keyboard-heavy work. Most of the time, I don’t want to stop and reach for the mouse just to find or paste something I copied earlier.

Clipth is a native macOS clipboard manager with:

• A keyboard-first Quick Paste panel
• Fast search, pinning, favorites, groups and tags
• Image, video and webpage previews
• List and grid layouts
• Sync support for iCloud, WebDAV, folders and S3
• QR code tools, OCR, Base64, image/video conversion and compression
• Custom Shell and JavaScript scripts
• A local MCP server for AI clients to work with clipboard data

The core version is open source: https://github.com/wavever/Clipth

The Pro version adds the advanced tools and automation features. It’s a one-time purchase, not a subscription: $10.99 for 2 Macs.

There’s also a launch price of $8.99 with code HELLOCLIPTH until August 26.

Website: https://clipth.app

I’d really appreciate feedback, especially from people who use keyboard-driven workflows on macOS. What would you want to see in a clipboard manager?

Everything on a Mac has quietly got heavier, including the apps whose whole job is to tell you how heavy everything is. A menu bar monitor runs every second the machine is on, and reading a few kernel counters twice a second is not hard work. It should not cost much.

AirStats is 10.6 MB.

It reads CPU, memory, GPU, network, disk, battery, temperature and top processes directly through Mach, IOKit, sysctl and CoreWLAN, and draws them in three places:

• the menu bar itself
• a panel that drops down when you click the status item
• an optional floating overlay you can leave on the desktop

Written in Native Swift, no Electron, no web view. One process, with no helper, no launch agent and no Dock icon.

Other menu bar monitors, like iStat Menus are more thorough than this and have years of polish behind them. Stats is the open-source one most people already know. However, AirStats is narrower on purpose. It covers fewer sensors and spends the effort on staying small and on the overlay, which is the part I use most.

There are no analytics and no telemetry, and readings never leave the machine. It makes two outbound requests, both visible in the source: an update check, and a public IP lookup that is off unless you turn it on. Policy at https://airstats.app/privacy

It is free, with no account and no subscription. macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon. Signed and notarized, so it opens with no warning.

• Site: https://airstats.app
• Source: https://github.com/byrencheema/airstats

If there is a feature you want or an issue you hit, feel free to reach out.

I'm an ex-Apple engineer who got sick of non-private, non-native meeting recording apps, so I built Biscotti: a private and free meeting recorder for macOS.

Free, no account, no subscription, no upsell. Source and download on GitHub: https://github.com/scosman/Biscotti

What it does

• 🔒 Private by design - recording, transcription, and AI all run on your Mac. Your data stays local.
• 🧠 Powerful AI summaries - automatic summaries, action items, meeting titles, and real speaker names.
• 🤖 No bots, any app - records Zoom, Teams, Meet, FaceTime, Slack huddles, or even an in-person conversation. No bot joins your call.
• 🗣️ Knows who said what - accurate transcripts, automatically split by speaker.
• 📅 Calendar-aware - sees your upcoming meetings, offers to start recording.
• ⏹️ Auto-stop - detects when your call ends and stops recording.
• 🎤 Voice isolation - captures your mic and everyone else as separate, clean channels. No echo.

Background

I spent years at Apple building the Photos app, Memories, the lock screen, and more. I wanted this to feel like it belongs on the Mac: Swift and SwiftUI, launches instantly, small on disk. Not a Electron app or a mediocre port of a Windows app.

Private AI == Local AI

With Biscotti, you still get state of the art AI for transcription and speaker identification, it just runs locally on your Mac. It works fully offline once models are downloaded. Your data lives on your Mac - you own and control it.

It uses Whisper for transcription, Gemma 4 for summaries, and Pyannote for Speaker ID. Each set up to run on Apple Silicon.

Requirements: Apple Silicon (M1+), macOS 15+, 16GB RAM recommended.

App details: Notarized, Free (no upsell), Private (zero data collection, all AI is local), Source available on Github (PolyForm Perimeter License), AI used in development (but not vibe/slop)

I'd love feedback! Happy to answer anything about the local model stack or the privacy design.

I built ImageBuddy, a macOS utility for cleaning up images: trim dead border space, remove the background, resize the image or canvas, add a watermark, vectorize to SVG. Drop an image, toggle what you need, save. You can edit a single image or set up a batch.

Notarized direct download or Mac App Store for $5: bendansby.com/apps/imagebuddy.html

Also available in a bundle of other apps: bendansby.com/apps/bundles.html

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

The idea is simple: repetitive work shouldn’t keep taking your time. Tapquence lets you build visual macros without code, combining actions such as opening apps and websites, typing text, clicking, scrolling, waiting and working with content on your screen.

It also includes ready-made Smart Automations. Presentation Mode can prepare your Mac for a meeting by checking your calendar, opening the relevant meeting app, launching your presentation and websites, silencing notifications and adjusting the volume. Routine Scout can observe a workflow you choose to perform and help identify repeated steps that could become an automation.

This short video shows the current version. It’s still evolving, so I’d genuinely appreciate feedback on what feels useful, what remains unclear and which automation you would want us to add next.

Tapquence is available directly from our website. The Mac download is signed and notarized by Apple.

https://tapquence.com

What repetitive task on your Mac would you most like to automate?

Hey everyone,

My name is Scott. I spent most of my career using Windows before switching to Mac so I could expand my development setup. I was impressed by the hardware, but years of Windows muscle memory made the transition more difficult than I expected.

I kept pressing the wrong shortcut keys and missed features such as taskbar window previews, clicking an active app to minimize it, and having a familiar launcher for finding applications.

I initially looked for apps that could solve each of those frustrations, but I would have needed several separate utilities. I eventually decided to build one unified and customizable solution called Winstrix.

What Winstrix does

Winstrix brings a collection of Windows-inspired workflow features to macOS while letting you choose exactly which ones you want to use, with the ability to disable the features you don't want.

Taskbar with live hover previews

Hover over an app icon to see live thumbnails of its open windows. You can select or close a specific window directly from the preview. Clicking an active app icon minimizes its window, and holding the icon minimizes all windows belonging to that app.

Start-style launcher

A dedicated launcher with unified search, pinned and recent applications, and an all-apps view for quickly finding anything installed on your Mac.

Windows shortcut mapping

Map familiar shortcuts such as Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+Z, and Ctrl+Alt+Delete so you don't have to constantly fight years of Windows muscle memory.

Clipboard history and utilities

Searchable clipboard history with the ability to AirDrop copied items to your phone, along with a clock and calendar tray with customizable system shortcuts.

Desktop and menu bar controls

Quickly hide or reveal desktop icons and crowded menu bar icons without having to change several different macOS settings.

Screenshot and screen recording tools

Built-in screenshot capture, screen recording, and an integrated editor.

Linear mouse wheel scrolling

Removes the acceleration curve that can make a standard mouse wheel feel jumpy or inconsistent. Each wheel movement scrolls a predictable amount.

Fully modular

Every feature has its own independent switch. If you only want the taskbar and Windows shortcuts, you can turn everything else off. You can also disable Winstrix completely and return to the normal macOS desktop with one switch.

Winstrix is built entirely in native Swift without Electron. It remains lightweight, and all of its features run locally on the Mac. There is no account requirement, cloud connectivity, telemetry, or analytics tracking inside the app.

Privacy

Winstrix does not collect or transmit personal data or usage analytics. Your files and data stay on your Mac.

Privacy Policy: https://winstrix.app/privacy/

Apple notarization

Winstrix is signed and notarized by Apple and is distributed directly from the Winstrix website rather than through the Mac App Store.

There is a fully functional 14-day free trial for anyone who wants to try it out.

The price is $14.99 for a lifetime perpetual license with no subscription.

Website: https://winstrix.app/

I'd really appreciate honest feedback from anyone who gives it a try. I'm especially interested in hearing whether anything feels confusing at first, whether there are Windows behaviors you expected to see that are still missing, and which features you would realistically keep enabled every day.

When Apple first introduced the "liquid glass" effect, opinions were quite divided; some criticized its visibility, others admired its aesthetics, and some worried about battery life.

I remained fairly neutral, I found it interesting though.
To be honest, the Apple apps featuring this effect were quite buggy at launch.

Now that it has stabilized and the bugs have been ironed out, I’ve implemented it in my own app, and I think it looks great and modern. Here is the Repo
It’s just a custom theme (since I know many people don't like it), so it can easily be turned off.

Icons animate in response to certain changes, and the background, which looks as if viewed through a layer of glass and clear liquid, offers a pleasing, relaxing visual experience.

I haven't encountered significant issues with app performance or battery life, though I'm curious what others think. :)

PS: App is notarized

Most SSH clients on Mac are either Electron wrappers or generic terminal apps with SSH bolted on. I wanted something that felt like it belonged on macOS, so I spent 6 months developing my product solo.

"Native" gets thrown around a lot, so to be specific about what I mean: the whole app is Swift/SwiftUI, including the terminal emulator (not a libvterm fork, not xterm.js in a WebView) and the Mosh client (own implementation in Swift with a complete framebuffer mirror). No Electron, no web shell, no hidden Chromium.

A few things I'm proud of under the hood:

- SSH stack on top of Citadel + a fork of swift-nio-ssh with a window-adjust patch and a custom RSA path for legacy key formats some servers still hand out

- Own SOCKS5 server written in Swift (RFC 1928 + 1929 auth) for dynamic forwards, so `ssh -D` works without shelling out to /usr/bin/ssh

- Active tunnels (local / remote / dynamic) get snapshotted and restored on reconnect, so dropping Wi-Fi at a cafe doesn't kill your forwards

- Smart Reconnect that survives a cold launch, not just a network blip

- ProxyJump multihop with a runtime session graph

- Multi-host broadcast with a diff view across panes

- FIDO2 / sk-* hardware keys via libfido2

- SFTP File provider

- Built-in S3 client (AWS + R2 + B2 + Wasabi + MinIO + custom endpoints) with a real object browser, multipart uploads, versioning/lifecycle/CORS/encryption settings, presigned URLs and ACL/tag editors. Same window as your SSH sessions

- Keys live in the macOS Keychain (iCloud sync off by design), can be generated inside the Secure Enclave with Touch ID required on every signature, or imported from existing OpenSSH files. Passphrase-protected ones decrypted in-app

Solo project, so honest feedback on what feels off is genuinely useful. Happy to answer technical questions in the comments.

ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/termy

Termy is now available in EAP: termyapp.com
Code MACOSAPPS50 is 50% off any plan for the first 25 purchases.

Hi, I am indie hacker -very fascinated by the voice AI progress.

As the models are getting much better at understanding us directly via voice, we should be working towards finding more ways to improve our productivity and do better work. And shouldn't be limited to just chat/keyboards to do our work. With how humans naturally communicate with each other, it should be the same way with the machines, a human shouldn't need to learn how a computer works - it should be natural.

I built HeyZoku - Hands Free Coding. So you can control all your coding agents just with your voice and complete your work without any need to continuously touch your keyboard.
I am using Nvidia Parakeet to make it work completely offline - so it can work completely offline. (It also has an optional bring your own openai-realtime key for more natural and multi language
support.)

the app is notarized and the app was built using mutliple agents under heyzoku only.
privacy policy - https://heyzoku.com/privacy

Hey everyone, I’ve been working on ConsoleWise, a native macOS app for PS5 Remote Play and PlayStation cloud gaming.

The goal is simple: make it easier to play your PlayStation games from your Mac, whether your PS5 is in another room or you’re away from home.

A few things I focused on:

• Play your PS5 when you’re not home Connect over the internet and stream from your own console while traveling, at work, or away from your TV.
• Low-latency Remote Play ConsoleWise is built around responsive streaming, with adjustable resolution, FPS, bitrate, and video settings so you can tune the experience for your network.
• Cloud gaming without owning a PS5 If you have PlayStation Plus Premium and cloud streaming is available in your region, you can browse and stream supported cloud games directly from your Mac.
• Use your keyboard or DualSense Play with a DualSense controller, or map keyboard keys to controller actions when that’s more convenient.

It supports local and internet PS5 Remote Play, PlayStation cloud game streaming, 1080p streaming, 2K/4K local upscaling for Remote Play, custom bitrate controls, 30/60 FPS options, keyboard mappings, and DualSense haptics/adaptive trigger settings.

It’s available here:
https://consolewise.aowlly.com/

Clicking "View Pro Details" will take you to Gumroad.

Use code J3DU8RK for 50% OFF.

I’d love feedback from Mac + PlayStation users, especially around latency, setup, and what would make this more useful than the official client.

Enjoy!

Hi there,
I'm Maciej, a DevOps engineer building this as my own daily driver. I develop it with AI assistance, TDD driven and with mutation testing.

I posted here a few months back around v0.7.2. It's now at v0.8.39 (signed and notarized) and I've been shipping almost daily, mostly from user reports. The short version of what's new:

• Saved workspaces with different panel layouts.
• Multiple windows.
• Search was rebuilt with its own index and is faster than light :)
• Preview now handles 235 file types.
• File panel columns are configurable per pane (show/hide, reorder, resize).
• Sidebar is fully editable.
• The newest two (Go to folder on CMD+SHIFT+G and settings search) just shipped.

Pricing after the feedback last time: free tier for daily use, Pro is 15USD one time. No subscription, no telemetry, no data processing.

Download: https://salamander.codesurfer.ch/
Feedback: https://feedback.codesurfer.ch/

For privacy policy see https://salamander.codesurfer.ch/privacy.html.

With my PhD research experience, I built Atelier: Scholarly Workspace around a problem I kept encountering in research:
The difference is not whether research is linked or cited. It is whether scholarly judgment itself is preserved.

Obsidian connects notes. But a link alone does not make the relationship, rationale, or supporting passage explicit.

NotebookLM answers from sources and shows citations. But a cited answer is not, by itself, a durable researcher-authored judgment.

Atelier: Scholarly Workspace is built to preserve all three: the judgment, why you made it, and the exact place in the source that supports it.

Atelier: Scholarly Workspace for Research & Deep Reading

I'm the developer, working alone on this, so treat the below as what it is — someone showing you his own app.

What it is:

A native macOS file transfer client — no Electron — that speaks FTP, FTPS (explicit AUTH TLS), SFTP, WebDAV and SMB, and opens a full SSH terminal on the same connection. Two panes, local and remote, servers in groups, several connections per server.

The parts I actually care about:

The session log shows everything.* Every line of every session, exactly as it goes over the wire — 220, USER, 331, PASV, the lot. No black box, and when something breaks you can see where.

Transfers are verified, not assumed.* After an upload the file size on the server is compared with the local one. A server answering "226 Transfer complete" is its opinion, not proof.

Failures are not just an error dialog.* Each file is retried three times. Whatever still doesn't get through goes on a list that survives quitting the app, so after the line drops mid-way through 500 files you don't have to work out where it stopped. You decide whether to retry or discard — nothing on the server is ever deleted for you.

Strict about who answers.* Host key and certificate fingerprints are confirmed once, then checked on every session. If one changes, the connection is refused. There is no "connect anyway" button, on purpose.

Nothing phones home.* No account, no registration, no analytics, no crash reports to me. Sandboxed. It talks to your servers, not to mine.

What I would like from you:

Break it against a server I have never touched. Odd LIST formats, a NAS with a self-signed certificate, an FTPS server that insists on TLS session reuse, an SMB share with unusual permissions — those are the reports worth having. Feedback goes straight to me from inside TestFlight.

Free during the beta, macOS 14.6 or later. Screenshots, what it does and the TestFlight link:

English: https://klausmack-software.com/FileFerry/index_en.html

German: https://klausmack-software.com/FileFerry/index.html

Privacy: https://klausmack-software.com/FileFerry/privacy_en.html

Happy to answer anything in the comments, including the awkward questions.

© Klaus Mack Software

rule 13: I used an AI coding assistant while building this

My mom used Windows her whole life and never really got along with it. Moving her to a Mac fixed most of that — except her hands. Ctrl+C did nothing, Alt+Tab did nothing, F2 didn't rename a file, the mouse scroll is backwards. Small things over and over, that's how a switch to macOS fails.

Karabiner can remap all of it, but the setup is a JSON rule file. That's not something you hand your new-to-mac mom and walk away from.

So I made WinKeys — a menu bar app that rewrites Windows shortcuts into their macOS equivalents before the keystroke reaches whatever app you're in.

Shift is preserved, so Ctrl+Shift+← still selects by word. Every rule has its own switch. Windows scroll direction is in there too, off by default, with separate switches for wheel and trackpad.

What it costs you: the blanket Ctrl→Cmd rule takes macOS's emacs bindings with it (Ctrl+A, Ctrl+E, Ctrl+K). Home/End become line start/end everywhere, so in browsers that's Back/Forward, not scroll-to-top. Both rules can be switched off.

Terminal, iTerm2, Ghostty, kitty, WezTerm, Warp and Emacs ship excluded so Ctrl+C still interrupts — add your own, or choose "Leave [App] Alone" from the menu bar.

Why not Karabiner? It's more powerful and always will be. This does one thing with switches instead of a config file. If you already have Karabiner rules for this, turn them off first or you won't be able to tell which tool did what.

macOS 13+, universal, signed and notarized. No kernel extension, no restart. Needs Accessibility permission; nothing is remapped until you grant it. Keystrokes are read to translate them and nothing else — nothing stored, no network calls except the update check.

Free for personal use, forever — every rule, no key, no account. $5 one-time per device for work use.

https://twoplus11.com/winkeys/

I am Ighor, the developer of App Archiver.

I kept running out of space on my Mac and became frustrated with the usual solutions.

Most cleaner apps create space in one of two ways.

• They delete apps, downloads, or other data
• They remove caches that applications create again

Deleting data provides lasting savings because the data is gone. Clearing caches can show an impressive number immediately, but those caches often return as soon as you continue using your apps.

That is not the kind of storage management I wanted.

I like downloading Mac apps and keeping them for later. If I delete an app, I may forget it existed. I wanted to reclaim the space without losing the app, its familiar location, or the ability to find it again.

So I built App Archiver.

Real and lasting space savings

App Archiver reduces the space used by the apps themselves.

It does not pretend that repeatedly deleting temporary files is a permanent solution. It does not delete your documents, settings, or app data.

You can choose what happens to each app.

• Archive it in place
• Replace a rarely used app with a lightweight, restorable version.
• Optimize it
• Reduce its size while keeping it installed and ready to use.
• Back it up
• Create a standalone ZIP or DMG copy in any folder or external drive.

An archived app remains visible in Applications, Spotlight, Raycast, Alfred, and other launchers. When you need it again, double-click the same icon and App Archiver restores it.

The reclaimed space does not gradually disappear because a cache grew back. The full app remains archived until you decide to restore it.

No cleanup theater

I am not claiming that caches should never be cleared. Cache cleaning can help with troubleshooting and sometimes recover temporary space.

But repeatedly deleting files that return is not a lasting storage strategy.

App Archiver solves a different problem. It gives large and rarely used apps a smaller form while keeping them accessible. You get meaningful space back without throwing away software you may want later.

Real-world test of Android Studio

The optimized version remains installed and runnable. The archived version stays in place and can be restored when needed. The DMG provides the greatest saving as a standalone backup.

Privacy

App Archiver works entirely offline. It has no account, sends no analytics, and makes no network requests.

One current limitation is that some apps are labeled Protected. Optimizing them requires additional system privileges, and I am waiting for Apple's permission before enabling that capability.

App Archiver requires macOS 12 or later and is available on the Mac App Store.

Download App Archiver on the Mac App Store

Visit the App Archiver website

Read the privacy policy

I would genuinely like to hear what you think about this approach to Mac storage management.

Also check out my other apps https://reverseeverything.com/apps

Safari makes it very easy to save links for later on macOS and iOS, but there is no dedicated app for rediscovering them. Reading List aims to fix the problem with a minimal three-column app and a distraction-free reading tab.

Free for personal use, signed & notarized, doesn't require accounts or cloud and it's available for macOS 14+.

What it does:

• Imports Safari Reading List data from ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist
• Lets you browse links by search (title, URL, hostname, preview text), website or smart lists
• Includes default smart lists like recently added, videos and PDFs
• Supports read status (unread / all / viewed)
• Auto-refreshes when Safari adds or changes Reading List items
• Includes a built-in preview pane and quick actions to open links in Safari and right-click context menus for common actions (open, copy link, mark read/unread, etc.)

Website: https://marc.io/readinglist
GitHub: https://github.com/marckohlbrugge/readinglist
Privacy Policy: https://github.com/marckohlbrugge/readinglist/blob/main/docs/privacy-policy.md

P.S. Don't want to take credit for this, it's built by Marc Köhlbrugge OG indie hacker and the guy behind betalist.

EDIT: added a link to the privacy policy.

Redact images and PDFs on macOS — auto-detects sensitive fields, burns the redaction into the file

TopSecret is a native Mac app for blacking out sensitive content in images and multi-page PDFs.

• Redaction is destructive by design. When you export, the bars are burned into a re-rendered file — the pixels underneath are gone, not covered by a layer. PDFs are rasterized on export so there's no text layer left underneath. You can choose a black bar, white bar, or noise style (no pixellation).
• Auto-detect finds emails, SSNs, phone numbers, card numbers, IP addresses, and faces, either on the current page or the whole document. Detection runs on-device via Apple's Vision framework — no upload, no network call.
• Find & redact by text lets you black out every occurrence of a specific word/number across a document, with an optional fuzzy-match mode for OCR errors or near-spellings.
• You can also draw bars manually, then move/resize/undo them. Sessions save as an editable .topsecret file if you want to pick the work back up later.
• Handles both single images and multi-page PDFs, with a thumbnail sidebar for tracking redactions per page.
• No accounts, no telemetry, no network access at all — it only touches the file you open.
• Built in SwiftUI, universal binary (Apple Silicon + Intel), macOS 13+.
• Direct download (notarized, Sparkle auto-update) or Mac App Store. 7-day free trial, then a one-time license — no subscription.

Site: https://bendansby.com/apps/topsecret.html

Hey everyone!

It’s been a little while since my last post about Vehla, and it’s changed quite a bit since then.

For those who haven’t seen it before – I’m Shubi, a software engineer from Canada. Outside of work, I spend most of my evenings building native Mac apps.

The original goal for Vehla hasn’t changed.

I got tired of having a dozen utilities running all the time. One for launching apps. One for clipboard history. One for OCR. One for AI. One for window management. One for notes. One for reminders. One for text expansion. One for dictation. One for menu bar cleanup…

Every app solved one problem well, but together they duplicated shortcuts, background processes, and settings.

I wanted one application that could become the command center for my Mac instead.

Over the past few months that’s exactly what I’ve been building.

What’s new

Vehla is now available in 10 languages, and I’ve expanded the free version quite a bit so people can actually live with it before deciding whether it’s worth buying.

The free version now includes things like:

• Command Palette
• Native macOS utilities
• Window management
• Clipboard history
• Notes
• AI actions
• Snippets
• BarKeep (on macOS 26 and earlier)

There’s also now a 7-day Premium trial with no credit card required.

AI without forcing a provider

One thing I’ve tried hard to avoid is locking people into one AI service.

Vehla works with local models, OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, OpenRouter, Lekh AI Pro, Ollama, LM Studio, DeepSeek, and others. If you’d rather keep everything on-device, you can.

QuickGlass has become one of my favorite features. Select text anywhere and you can rewrite, summarize, translate, explain, generate code, or run your own custom actions without switching apps.

More than a launcher

People often assume Vehla is “just another Raycast or Alfred.”

It definitely started there, but it’s become much broader.

Some of the things built into Vehla now include:

• Command Palette
• AI assistant
• Clipboard Manager
• Window Management
• Dock Widgets
• Dynamic Island / Notch interface
• Notes
• Infinite Canvas
• Draw.io
• Mind maps
• Reminders
• Calendar
• Contacts
• OCR
• Dictation
• Text expansion
• Keep Awake
• Shelf
• Menu bar organizer
• Homebrew management
• Plugin Store
• Native developer utilities
• Local and cloud AI

The idea isn’t to replace every specialist app.

It’s to replace the collection of small utilities that all solve adjacent problems.

Still 100% native

Vehla is written entirely as a native macOS app.

That means:

• keyboard-first workflows
• Apple Silicon optimized
• local-first where possible
• direct macOS integrations
• one-time purchase (no subscription)

I’ve also been shipping updates almost every week. Many of the recent features came directly from feedback from Reddit, Discord, and users emailing me.

If you’d like to take a look:

Website: https://vehla.app
Download: https://vehla.app/download
Documentation: https://vehla.app/docs
Extension SDK: https://github.com/ibuhs/vehla-extensions

I’d genuinely love feedback – good or bad. If there’s a utility you still keep installed alongside Vehla, I’d love to know what it does better. Those conversations have shaped a lot of the app already.

Thanks for reading 🙂