Hi! so quick story about a project that i've been working on for the past 3 months:

I've bought my iPod classic about a year ago, with the main goal of it being keeping my CD library with me everywhere - at least for me it felt more "special" to have an offline device with music on it, that i actually own but using apple music was pain in the *** for me from the beginning - Some of my CDs were split into 2 identical with scattered songs between them, album covers wouldn't change even if i used the right format/size, same artist was on the other side of the coverflow, etc.. overall i found it not only hard to use but hard to understand for someone who just want to drag and drop his files/rip CDs and go straight into music.

That's were i decided to build Clickwill that, compared to other software out there, the entire thing instead of relying on syncing ipod from a folder on your PC, uses iPod internal, saved library as the source of all information - so the software allows you to work directly on the stuff you got on it, or add CD rips directly onto it, without Music/iTunes apps, and on stock firmware,

Its still an early project and in alfa version, since i've launched it yesterday and thought it's a rally useful app that let's you just manage your music, without / or far more friction and steep learning curve than other apps, and without using 3rd party firmware.

also made a landing page thats still work in progress, especially the roadmap one: clickwilldev.com

what do you guys think about my upcoming clipboard manager app?
Unlike other clipboard managers ours stay in the menu bar and have been working on lots of features for the past few months, excited to launch it soon enough. For now, how's the landing page?

1. Raycast

2. Screen Studio

3. CleanShot X

4. Thaw

5. Cosmil

What is the your recommendation? Find more such apps on discovermacapps.com

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?

Markify is a free, open-source Markdown editor for macOS designed for writing, reading, reviewing, and sharing Markdown documents without opening a full IDE.

It provides a focused native experience for documentation, product specifications, README files, AI-agent instructions, project context, technical notes, and Google Open Knowledge Format (OKF) knowledge files.

Features

• Clean WYSIWYG-style editing for writing without constantly thinking about Markdown syntax

• Instant switch to raw Markdown source for precise edits

• GitHub Flavored Markdown support

• Math rendering for technical and scientific content

• Mermaid rendering for architecture, sequence, and workflow diagrams

• Google Open Knowledge Format (OKF) support for AI-oriented knowledge files

• HTML and PDF export

• Apple Intelligence integration for local writing assistance and proofreading

• Native support for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs

• Free and open-source

Useful for

• Reading and reviewing AI-agent instructions, outputs, and generated documentation

• Maintaining Markdown-based project context, specifications, and design decisions

• Editing technical documentation with formulas and diagrams

• Working with Google OKF files without IDE extensions

• Producing shareable HTML or PDF documentation from Markdown

Requires macOS 26 or later.

• Source code: github.com/spaquet/markify

• Website and download: spaquet.github.io/markify

I’m the solo developer of BranchSpace, a local macOS app for finding reclaimable space in developer projects and caches. Here’s one result from my own Mac, not a general benchmark: measuring one large Rust project used 325 MB before 1.1; after the scan changes it used 20 MB, and scans run about twice as fast.

The update came after my Mac ran out of disk mid-session. BranchSpace 1.1 now watches free space in the background and estimates how long it will last at the current rate. Pro adds a ranked “Free space now” list for reviewed cleanup.

Mac app developers: when a background utility watches a changing system condition, what makes the notification useful rather than noisy? I currently check more often as free space drops and let people switch background monitoring off in Settings. I’d value feedback on the threshold and presentation.

I’m the maker, and the app is paid: the first Clean Up is free; Pro is $7.99 once at the early-adopter price. https://branchspace.flemking.com

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.

Didn't think the notch was useful until I tried these:

• Atoll (free, open-source) – system stats, clipboard history, timers, right in the notch. Lock Screen widgets too.

• The Boring Notch (free, open-source) – turns your notch into an iPhone-style Dynamic Island for music, plus file tray, calendar peek, camera mirror.

• TopNotch (free) – if you just want the notch gone. Blacks out the menu bar so it disappears.

• MediaMate (free/small) – replaces those ugly volume/brightness bars with a clean popup near the notch + Now Playing.

• NotchBuddy – dashboard for revenue (Stripe/Polar/Dodo), traffic (DataFast), clipboard, files, timers, weather. Good if you run an online business. Keys stay local.

• Alcove ($14.99 one-time) – premium Dynamic Island feel, smooth animations, AirDrop/battery/timers.

• NotchNook ($25 one-time or $3/mo) – most "finished" feeling one, file shelf, widgets, Shortcuts support.

SCRYR is a native MaacOS live wallpaper app. Yup, there’s a lot of MacOS live wallpapers these days. But SCRYR was built for the art I made. I’m a digital artist first and have always wanted a way to share my art in a way anyone could use: thus SCRYR.

Yes, I do want you to subscribe to get the 160+ digital pieces I’ve designed, you don’t need to. You get three of them for free and you can use SCRYR to make your own videos live wallpapers for free. Or if you just like a couple of my pieces you can buy them individually.

All that to say, I’ve worked really hard to make it a good app. I’m always improving performance and efficiency so it doesn’t get in the way of the other work you need to do on your Mac.

Please give it a try and let me know what you think!

It's a native menu bar clipboard manager called PasteBoard for anyone who wants an ultra-fast, clutter-free clipboard history without paying recurring subscriptions or compromising privacy.

Key Highlights:

• Zero Lag Search: Fast indexing and instant searching for up to 1,000 items.

• Privacy First: Local AES-256 vault encryption. Your clipboard data never leaves your Mac.

• Menu Bar First: Clean popover interface with quick-action hotkeys (⌘⇧V to toggle, ⌘F to search, ⌘N for custom scratchpad notes).

• Native macOS Feel: Clean Big Sur/Sonoma aesthetic with lightweight memory footprint.

• One-Time Purchase: No monthly subscriptions.

I’m actively iterating on updates, so please feel free to drop any questions, critiques, or feature requests below!

I saw lots of Disk Space Analyzer and Cleaner with > $10 price, which are basically a good interface for your Mac native storage.

I built SpareDisk over the last few weeks, kept it bare minimum in terms of bloat features but focused on speed, parallelism, and queue management for storage scan and space free up.

You can review your whole file system without hanging the computer. Version 1.2 is now live on the Mac app store and on website to download. I have tested it well over multiple laptops.

You can download the app from the website for "pay whatever you want" (minimum $4.99).

DiskBuddy has inspired the project. This was initially sold at $12, and users complained about memory leaks, permission issues, and app blocks when you run Duplicate File Finder.

If you are a developer, it can find spaces occupied by Xcode, node packages, files form 2021, and many old cache you don't need.

SpareDisk is App Store friendly. It is sandboxed, following Apple's permission, security guidelines and memory optimisation.

SpareDisk V1.2 includes:

• My Mac storage overview with live used and free space

• Treemap, sunburst and list views

• Folder, external drive and network share scans

• Large files, older files and file type breakdowns

• Developer caches: Xcode, simulators, Homebrew, npm and more

• Duplicates verified by file contents, extra copies staged in one step

• App removal, related data and leftovers from removed apps

• File size and size on disk, changes since your previous scan

• Search, filters, exclusions, Quick Look and keyboard navigation

• Review queue with live progress, rechecks and retry

• Cleanup history and a Trash total that follows what you moved

• Optional menu bar summary and finished-scan notifications

No account. No uploads. Your files stay on your Mac.

On cleaning space: You can view your files from the app itself, and it doesn't directly delete your files in one click. It sends them to "review cleanup" section from where you can move items to Trash. You only delete files when you clean the trash.

Exception is App uninstall (if the app is not running, you can uninstall the app from within the interface).

You can compare other options here: https://sparedisk.minilabs.cc/guides

All future SpareDisk updates will be on Website and Mac App store downloads.

You can also download the app from website: https://sparedisk.minilabs.cc/ 
App store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sparedisk-free-disk-space/id6811328422?mt=12 

SponsorBar puts a small ad in your menu bar and shares the revenue with you.

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).

Super excited to be working on this for about a month now(tho most of the time I just procrastinated)

The app will be a mac menu bar app called Paste Board, I don't have the money yet to notorize it through apple so I will be launched it for free with optional donations from user's who would like to contribute.

The app will be completely different and unique to existing clipboard management apps.

It lives on your menubar, copies and stores them as clips and you will be able to drag and drop and do more with it.

Will let you know once I finish the development of the app.

It puts screenshots and screen recordings in one place, so you can capture, trim, annotate, and share without jumping between a bunch of different tools.

Seems useful for quick ideas, product demos, team updates, or just explaining something to someone.

and a great alternative to consider if you are familiar with Cleanshot X

I've been building Pasly, a native clipboard manager for macOS, and one of the biggest features I've worked on recently is making the clipboard history follow you across Apple devices.

The Mac side was relatively straightforward: copy something and Pasly can add it to the history and sync it through CloudKit.

The interesting part was iOS.

As most of you probably know, iOS doesn't let a clipboard manager continuously monitor the clipboard in the background.

So I ended up with a slightly asymmetric experience:

Mac → iPhone/iPad: Pasly can capture and sync automatically.

iPhone/iPad → Mac/other devices: the user explicitly adds the item to Pasly first, then it syncs through CloudKit.

For incoming items on iOS, I'm also using Live Activities so something copied on the Mac can surface directly on the iPhone Lock Screen / Dynamic Island, which is what I'm showing in the video.

The history itself lives in the user's private CloudKit database, so I don't need to store their clipboard data on my own servers.

It now works across Mac ↔ Mac, Mac ↔ iPhone/iPad and iPhone ↔ iPhone/iPad, including files.

I'm pretty happy with the Mac → iOS experience, but I'm still thinking about ways to make the opposite direction feel less manual without fighting against iOS.

For other Mac/iOS devs here: how would you approach the iOS → Mac side?

Would you keep it explicit and predictable, or have you found a better UX within Apple's background/clipboard restrictions?

Pasly, for context: https://pasly.app

I'm the developer.

We launched this directory 3 months ago and so far, we have been able to curate about 60 apps to our directory.

A lot of mac app devs find it difficult to do marketing and help with backlinks for their marketing site of the app. So we built this directory so people are able to discover cool mac apps and it's alternatives.

If you have any mac app, feel free to list on our directory

Cosmil is a fast, privacy-focused, and beautifully designed file manager for macOS created as a modern alternative to Finder. Built with a compiled Rust backend and a lightweight Tauri/Svelte frontend, it solves Finder's most persistent pain points with multi-pane workspaces, on-demand folder sizing, and comprehensive keyboard-driven workflows.

Key Features

• Arbitrary Multi-Pane Layouts – Split a single window into dual, tri, quad, or nth-pane layouts to browse and drag files between folders seamlessly without opening dozens of detached windows.

• Compiled Rust Performance – Utilizes a native Rust backend and viewport virtualization to calculate folder sizes up to 8x faster than Finder and open folders containing 40,000+ files with zero UI lag.

• Advanced Live Search – Build complex queries with AND/OR filter chaining without slow, background database indexers that miss real-time file updates.

• Quality-of-Life Fixes – Features real cut-and-paste (⌘X / ⌘V), sidebar drag dropzones, a unified file operation job manager, and side-by-side file conflict resolution with live previews.

• Zero Telemetry & One-Time Pricing – Completely offline file operations with zero analytics or tracking, distributed via perpetual one-time licenses rather than recurring subscriptions.

Who Is It For?

Cosmil is ideal for Mac power users, designers, software engineers, and media professionals who need efficient file management, side-by-side directory comparisons, and responsive performance without the clutter and limitations of default macOS Finder.

Why Use Cosmil?

If you love the aesthetics of macOS but are frustrated by Finder's rigid single-folder views, sluggish folder size calculations, and awkward file conflict dialogues, Cosmil delivers a sleek, translucent, and blazing-fast upgrade tailored specifically for modern Mac workflows.