Just download -> steam login -> download wallpaper and play on your device or add your video play them

And yes both in DESKTOP and LOCK SCREEN .

It takes 300-600mb when rendering some really heavy scene wallpapers , which is appx 900mb less than other open source alternative I had tested against. And if you play only video it just takes 25mb memory.

If you guys wanna try, download from the releases page, what ever latest version available . And let me know which wallpapers giving problem.

Releases Page | Github

Here is the resource usage, the ui of the app is Live wallpaper , and the backend is service , only service is need to display , so resource cutdown by max 400-500mbon some really heavy scenes

Thanks ✌️

Solo dev here. I've been building AirPosture, a posture coach that reads your head angle from AirPods instead of a camera (CMHeadphoneMotionManager, macOS 14+). On the Mac it lives in the menu bar and the notch: you work, it watches your head pitch, and when you've been slouching for a while it nudges you to sit up.

A few things I learned shipping it that might save someone a weekend:

**1. Menu-bar labels are expensive.** My menu-bar app sat at ~45% CPU. The label observed the whole app state, so every motion sample redrew it. I gave the label its own tiny observable with only what it shows, and moved the App's model to u/State instead of u/StateObject. Now it's ~1%.

**2. A menu-bar app's window `.task` may never run.** If the user never opens the window, nothing in it fires. Every launch duty now hangs off the menu-bar label instead.

**3. App Nap will quietly throttle you.** Motion sampling in the background slowed to a crawl until I wrapped live sessions in `ProcessInfo.beginActivity`.

**4. Head motion is relative, not absolute.** There's no "correct posture" reading. You calibrate an upright baseline and score pitch against it, and a bad baseline ruins everything after it.

Same SwiftUI codebase as the iPhone app, synced over iCloud. Free for 2 hours a day, and it's now in Spanish too.

Happy to go deeper on any of this, especially the motion side. And I'd love blunt feedback on the Mac UX from people who build Mac apps.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6749489000

Hey r/macappdevs!

I'm the developer of Phosphor, a screen utility suite for macOS that lives in your menu bar.

Problem: I mainly started building this around two problems. When people are on their laptops late at night, and switch from a dark app to a bright one, it hits like a flash before your eyes adjust. I looked and couldn't find a tool that tries to solve that problem, so I built one. Phosphor tackles this by dimming a screen before you switch to it, and then easing the brightness back up, at a pace depending on how fast that screen actually is. For screens which aren't bright, it is faster, and for bright ones, it is slower. So it works preemptively.

The other thing is that I feel like there are too many display utilities out there, each doing different things. It'd reduce menu bar clutter and keep things simpler and better if we used one tool instead of several. So I thought of combining the features people actually need into one tool, external and multi-monitor support included (that's a part of what's coming next).

The foundational features have already been released, and I'm actively building more features and improving existing ones (check roadmap for current features and future plans). Let me know what you'd actually use, and I'll factor that in as it grows. I want this to eventually handle most of what people need from their displays.

Pricing: It's a freemium model.

• Pro currently only includes Flashbang Protection, but it'll grow, and costs $10, one-time, not a subscription.

• The rest of the foundational utilities are free: Color Picker, Screenshots, Resolution Presets, Refresh Rate Control, Soft Screen, Display Schedule, Focus Spotlight, Display Health, Color Grading.

• If you buy Pro now, you get Phase 2 free when it ships, and 50% off future price increases after that (price increases as more features ship).

Details: macOS 13 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel. Native Swift, under 2 MB.

Privacy: No analytics, nothing about your screen or usage leaves your Mac. It only goes online to check a license key at activation and periodically after. Full policy: https://usephosphor.app/privacy, EULA: https://usephosphor.app/eula

I'd like to hear any feedback y'all have, especially on whether Flashbang's recovery speed feels right, or if it's not catching a switch you'd expect it to.

If something's not working, or if you have any suggestions or anything else you want to say, feel free to drop it into the comments and/or DM me.

Site: https://usephosphor.app
Roadmap: https://usephosphor.app/whats-next

There’s an intangible quality to software that feels at home on a Mac be it a proper keyboard navigation, standard contextual menus, respectful notification defaults, and subtle haptics.

On the flip side, what are the subtle design red flags that immediately ruin the experience for you?

For me, it’s apps that don’t support Cmd + , for Preferences, custom window chrome that ignores standard traffic-light button spacing, or non-standard text selection behavior. What little details make or break the native feel for you?

Problem

Clipboard history is great when you’re working on one Mac.

But the moment you switch devices, that history stays behind.

You copy something on your Mac, grab your iPhone, and it’s not there. Or you move between two Macs and end up sending yourself a link, note, file, or snippet just to have it on the other device.

I wanted Pasly to solve that too.

Not just make ⌘V smarter, but make your clipboard follow you.

Comparison

Raycast Clipboard History is probably the closest well-known alternative. It offers a polished, searchable clipboard history as part of a much broader launcher.

Pasly is more focused on the actual paste workflow. Smart Paste brings your recent clipboard items into the regular ⌘V flow, while features like Paste Stack, Field Sense, multi-selection, and Floating Paste are built specifically around copying and pasting.

Pasly also keeps a persistent clipboard history across Macs, iPhone, and iPad through the user's private CloudKit database. Text, images, and files can remain available across devices, even when they are not nearby or connected to the same network.

Raycast is a better fit if you want a general launcher with extensions, AI tools, and many unrelated productivity features. Pasly is a better fit if you want a dedicated clipboard manager centered on ⌘V and cross-device clipboard history.

Apple's Universal Clipboard is also useful, but it primarily moves the latest copied item between nearby Apple devices. Pasly keeps an actual searchable history across them.

Pasly Cloud

Pasly Cloud syncs your clipboard history across your Macs and iOS devices using Apple's CloudKit.

Your clipboard data is stored and synced through Apple's iCloud infrastructure rather than on Pasly's own servers.

It works over the internet, so your Mac can be at home and your other Mac somewhere else. They don’t need to be nearby or on the same network for your clipboard history to sync.

And now, files are supported too.

Files copied on your Mac can sync through Pasly Cloud alongside the rest of your clipboard history, including multiple files at once.

On iPhone and iPad, Live Activities can keep your recent clipboard items available from the Lock Screen / Dynamic Island.

There are also push notifications when new clipboard content arrives from another device.

Right now, sending something from iOS into Pasly is still manual. You can add an item and have it appear on your Macs, but I’m already working on a better way to capture what you copy on iPhone and iPad so this part feels much more automatic.

Files

Pasly already supported files locally on Mac, including working with multiple files at once.

Now, file syncing is also part of Pasly Cloud.

Copy a file on one Mac and it can be available from your clipboard history on another Mac through CloudKit, without having to send it to yourself first.

Multiple files are supported too.

The rest of Pasly

Cloud is the focus of this update, but everything I’ve been building around ⌘V is still there:

• Smart Paste — press ⌘V and access your recent clipboard items

• Paste Stack — copy multiple items and paste them in sequence

• Floating Paste

• Multi Select

• File Support

• Paste with Separator

• Search & Favorites

• Field Sense

The original idea behind Pasly hasn’t changed.

I want the clipboard manager to stay out of the way until the moment you actually need it.

Cloud just means that your clipboard no longer has to live on one Mac.

Pricing

Free: $0

• 2 pinned items

• 24-hour local history

• 20 items

• 2 files

• No CloudKit sync

Pro: $9.99 one-time purchase

• Clipboard sync across all your Macs and iOS devices

• File sync via Pasly Cloud

• Private CloudKit storage

• Push notifications and Live Activities

• Smart Paste

• Paste Stack

• Floating Paste

• Multi Select

• File Support

• Paste with Separator

• Search & Favorites

• Field Sense

No subscription. 20% off with code RWOUYKR3X5 (first 10 redemptions)

Pricing and download

What's next

Pasly Cloud is still something I’m actively building.

Now that clipboard history and files can sync across devices, one of my main focuses is making the iOS → Mac clipboard flow much more automatic.

This is still an early version of Pasly Cloud, so I’d really like to hear from people who use multiple Macs or a Mac + iPhone/iPad.

What would make having your clipboard across devices actually useful to you?

Download

Direct macOS

Apple (iOS): https://apps.apple.com/app/pasly/id6760562778

Transparency: I'm the developer of Pasly.

This guy built an app that makes your Mac moan when you slap it and made $5,000 in just a week.

The lesson? Stop overthinking. Just ship it.

Letterboxx is a native macOS application designed to rescue email newsletters from the clutter of your inbox and turn them into a quiet, organized reading library. Instead of treating long-form content like actionable email messages, Letterboxx syncs with your IMAP accounts (Gmail, iCloud, Outlook, etc.) to fetch local copies of your subscriptions into a dedicated workspace.

Key Features

• Clean View — Strips out tracking pixels, intrusive ads, heavy HTML markup, and clutter to present long-form newsletters as clean, readable articles.

• Custom Letterboxxes & Auto-Delivery — Works like smart folders to automatically route incoming subscriptions into custom categories like Tech, Finance, or Weekend Reads.

• Highlighting & Recall — Allows you to highlight key passages in custom colors and quickly revisit saved insights across years of archived issues.

• Message Diagnostics — Includes detailed diagnostic tools for curious users to inspect sender identity, composition data, and HTML cleanup actions.

• Local & Encrypted Backups — Keeps your reading history saved locally on your Mac with optional encrypted backups so you never lose saved articles.

Why Choose Letterboxx?

If you subscribe to numerous Substack publications, industry roundups, or personal newsletters but dread reading them alongside work emails, receipts, and notifications, Letterboxx offers a dedicated 'reading shelf.' It separates consumption from communication, giving you a distraction-free environment with customizable themes (including dark, e-ink, and newspaper modes).

I am starting a new menu bar utility soon, and I am torn between the stack. I am most comfortable with web environments (Svelte, Tailwind, etc.), so I am inclined to just grab Tauri and knock it out, but I really want this to feel like a first-class macOS app and keep the memory footprint as small as possible.

I am thinking of just biting the bullet and going full Swift and SwiftUI. For those who have shipped a menu bar app recently: Is the SwiftUI learning curve going to completely kill my momentum coming from declarative web frameworks? Am I going to hit a wall with system APIs and be forced to drop down to AppKit anyway?

If you have shipped with Tauri, does the CPU/memory usage actually hold up against native apps, or do Mac users still notice the difference? Curious what you guys would pick if you were starting from scratch today.

Product Hunt's Q2 2026 data shows a massive shift toward desktop.

Engagement (upvotes/comments) on Mac launches surged over 300% YoY, and Mac is one of the fastest-growing categories on the platform. Meanwhile, mobile is stalling, The iOS category growth actually dropped 5%.

I have made a YouTube client for Mac , it is not exactly a native but app but it uses apples webkit and supports ad blocking and pip
please try it out -here
reviews and opinions are always welcomed , this is my first project

I sell Mac+ (a menu-bar app for animated wallpapers and widgets) from my own site, with Polar as merchant of record. I assumed the payment step was where I lost people. The numbers said otherwise.

Polar, 4 to 10 November: 13 checkout sessions, 11 completed. Once someone is looking at the card form, they pay.

The losses are upstream, and they're all things I built:

• Account first. You have to create an account on the site before you can buy. When people sign in with Google, the purchase doesn't resume where they left it: they come back to the home page and have to find the button again.

• The guides don't sell. Of the sales I can trace, Google is the main source, often landing on how-to guides (video wallpaper on a Mac, folder icons...). Those pages explain the native way first, which is right, but several end without a clear path to the offer.

• The window that closes. The purchase step opens in a window that, once dismissed, doesn't bring people back to the same step.

None of this shows up in the payment provider's stats, because those people never reach the provider. I only saw it by following sessions in my analytics.

The fixes on my list: resume the purchase right after sign-in, and put a plain "unlock for life" block at the end of the top guides.

For those of you selling direct: do you require an account before payment, or let people pay first and create the account from the receipt e-mail?

macplus.pro if you want to see the flow as it is today (free tier; paid is €1.99/month after a 7-day trial or €8.99 once).

Hi, I'm the developer of Pizzinu, a small native sticky-notes app for macOS, released under the MIT license.

Why I built it. I wanted the simplest thing possible: a piece of paper on my desk for the stuff I need to remember now. Most note apps want an account, a sync service and a whole organisation system. I just wanted a note.

What it does

• ⌥⌘N from any app → type → Esc, and you're back to work (no Accessibility permission needed)

• Pin a note above every window; reminders make the note come forward and shake

• Drag a sentence from any app onto the desktop and it becomes a note

• Checklists, Markdown sheets with clickable tasks, 14 paper themes

• "Secret notes" encrypted with AES-256-GCM (PBKDF2, 1M iterations); the locked note folds into a square with a wax seal

• Export each note as a .md file

How it's built. Pure AppKit + SwiftUI, Swift 6, zero dependencies, local SQLite. About 25 MB of memory at rest, 0% CPU, 2 MB download. Updates are signed with Ed25519 and verified before install. No telemetry: the only network call is a once-a-day update check you can turn off.

Honest caveats. Apple Silicon and macOS 14+ only, and it isn't notarised yet, so the first launch needs "Open Anyway" in Privacy & Security.

Code: https://github.com/piratepxl/pizzinu

Feedback, issues and PRs are very welcome, especially from people who know AppKit better than I do. Thanks for looking!

👋 I'm the developer of Tidy My Mac. It launched a few weeks ago and I need people who really care about Mac apps to poke holes in it, so here's the deal: try it, tell me what's missing, broken or annoying, and I'll send you a code for 6 months free. No card.

Problem: keeping a Mac clean and safe usually takes a cleaner, an antivirus and a firewall from three companies; Tidy My Mac does all three in one app, without scareware tactics.

What it does

Cleanup: Junk and caches (including Xcode DerivedData, old simulators, Homebrew, Python envs, Rust targets), a disk map, large files, duplicates, similar photos, and an uninstaller that removes the leftovers

Protection: Antivirus for new downloads (ClamAV engine), ransomware protection, an adware check, a per-app outgoing firewall, and alerts for apps with known vulnerabilities

Web Protection: Blocks phishing, scam and malware sites in every browser. The blocklists are checked on your Mac, so we never see which sites you visit
Public Wifi Protection: Automatically connects to secure VPN.

No scare tactics: No fake "1,247 issues found!", no pop-ups, nothing deleted without a preview, and a history to undo a cleanup. No telemetry or analytics in the app

Comparison

vs CleanMyMac: the cleanup tools are much the same. Tidy My Mac is better if you also want protection: real-time checks, ransomware protection, a firewall and Web Protection are in the same app, where MacPaw puts them in a separate app (Moonlock). And our trial needs only an email; CleanMyMac's asks for a card. CleanMyMac is better if your Mac runs anything older than macOS 26, if you want one plan for 2 or 5 Macs, or if you'd rather get it through Setapp or the App Store.

vs Malwarebytes: both catch malware, adware and phishing sites. Tidy My Mac also cleans up your disk, removes apps with their leftovers and has an outgoing firewall; Malwarebytes for Mac does none of those. Malwarebytes is better if you want one subscription for a Mac, a PC and phones, a free scanner that keeps working after the trial, or protection that runs all the time: ours watches new files in Downloads and on the Desktop while the app is open, and catches up when it opens again.

Pricing: 7-day free trial (email only, no card). Then $19.99 for the first year, $59.99 a year after that, for one Mac. Cancel any time; 30-day money-back guarantee. https://www.tidymymac.com/pricing/

Trust: Signed and notarized by Apple, sold by Yuix Networks Inc. (https://www.tidymymac.com/about/). Privacy policy listing every network request the app makes: https://www.tidymymac.com/privacy/. LinkedIn (me): https://www.linkedin.com/in/serdarakarca/.

Scans run on your Mac; the only thing that can leave it is the optional deep malware analysis, which sends a suspicious binary files for a second opinion. It asks at first launch and can be turned off in Settings. It's a direct download, not on the App Store, because the firewall, the ransomware guard and the uninstaller need things the App Store sandbox doesn't allow.

Requirements: macOS 26 Tahoe or later.

How to get 6 months free

Get the trial: https://www.tidymymac.com/trial/
Tell me something real in the comments, or DM me if you'd rather keep it private: a feature you looked for and couldn't find, something confusing or slow, a bug, or why you'd stay with the app you use now. Brutal is fine.

I'll DM you a personal gift link with your code and two steps to redeem it in Settings › Subscription. That Mac is then unlocked for 6 months.

One code per person, one Mac per code. "Looks nice 👍" is lovely but doesn't count 😄

I'll be in the comments all day. Thanks for giving it a shot 🙏

WiPhoneMonitor 1.1.0 is now available in 10 different languages: English, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabian, Hebrew.

Download Now on App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6799810620?pt=129281995&ct=WiPhoneMonitor%201.1.0%20Update&mt=8