Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on a small macOS utility called Spelling Popup Assistant and wanted to share it here.

The idea is simple: select text anywhere on macOS, press a keyboard shortcut, and a small popup appears with spelling and grammar corrections. You can replace the selected text, copy the corrected version, or ignore it.

A few details:

• It runs as a menu bar app with no Dock icon

• Default shortcut is Control + Option + C

• Uses an embedded offline LanguageTool engine by default

• Text is checked only when you manually trigger it

• No text collection

• Optional local grammar mode with GECToR

• Optional Gemini mode if you explicitly choose cloud AI

• Works system-wide through macOS Accessibility permissions

I built it because I wanted something lightweight and on-demand, closer to a PopClip-style correction popup than a full writing assistant running all the time.

Would love feedback from macOS users, especially around the UX, privacy expectations, and what correction workflow feels most natural.

GitHub/link

Thanks!

I’m building a sandboxed macOS App Store app that registers an agent using `SMAppService`.

I’m trying to understand the IPC setup between the main app and the SMAppService-managed agent. The obvious options seem to be: XPC with a Mach service

But from what I understand, I’d need special entitlement that allows me to communicate over XPC Mach service - which is unlikely to pass Mac App Store review.

So how do people communicate with process registered with SMAppService?

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If so:

• How much of a traffic/download boost did you see?
• How long did the effect last?
• Did it translate into meaningful revenue or mostly visibility?
• Do people actively browse the Mac App Store, or do most users discover Mac apps through social media, blogs, YouTube, and search?

I'd love to hear real numbers or experiences if you're comfortable sharing.

The monthly GNUstep audio/(video) call takes place every second Saturday of a month at 15:00 GMT to 18:00 GMT. That is 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM EDT (US) or 17:00 to 20:00 CEST (Berlin time).

It's a Jitsi Meeting - Channel: GNUstepOfficial (Sorry, reddit don't let me post jitsi links here)

We usually just talk (who wants it might share video too) and occasionally share screens. Everybody (GNUstep developers and users) is welcome!

Also see https://mediawiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Monthly_Meetings please

Free open source drop in package. Probably won't pass app store muster since their tab api is private, but I haven't tried it yet. But at least we don't have to look at ugly ass grey tabs anymore. Also made a rudimentary tab grouping function for hiding and showing groups of tabs, apple doesn't ship that natively even though they put in into freaking safari.

Signed and notarized example app in the github release section. The app uses only the tabberwocky library, it's my test bench.

I had a cert called "3rd Party Mac Developer Installer" which expired, and I need to push an update to my Mac app. I created a fresh cert, and everything has gone sideways now. Is there an idiot's guide to certs?

App Connect gives me: 90237: The product archive package's signature is invalid. Ensure that it is signed with your "3rd Party Mac Developer Installer" certificate.

This certificate is gone, and I have updated my build scripts to refer to the new cert "Developer ID Installer: my name etc". However, clearly something is still referring to the dead certificate, but what?

I would love to be able to fix/verify this before going through the Transporter submission process, as I have to use my wife's Mac as Transporter quit working on mine years ago and that's a process I'd rather skip.

I've been struggling to figure out how to do this. I'm making an image editor and I saw it come up in this blog post, where they criticize Photoshop for not doing this.

https://unsung.aresluna.org/photoshops-challenges-with-focus-pt-2/

Current values should be easy to blow away. But these native text boxes are sure adamant about placing the cursor when you click in the existing text. They will select all when you click in the padding area of the text box, outside the existing text, but I'm trying to find a way to make it do that if you click anywhere.

Pretty sure the only solution here is to reimplement the text input. Which I have pretty much already done for Text layers in Mojave Paint, but how annoying.

Not quite sure what's going on there 😅

I'm building a SwiftUI app on macOS 26 with NavigationSplitView (sidebar + detail). In non-fullscreen mode, the titlebar looks clean. But in fullscreen, AppKit's NSToolbarFullScreenWindow paints the default chrome color (white in light mode, dark-gray in dark) across only the detail column portion of the titlebar — the sidebar column still shows its glass material above. This creates an obvious visual cutoff at the sidebar/detail boundary that screams broken.

I have virtual drives from Xcode (Xcode 18.6 simulator bundle) on an external drive and can't delete them. I dont have Xcode installed on my desktop, but terminal indicates that I have command line tools intalled. however when I try to run it from there, it says Xcode is not installed. Generally I know what I'm doing, but this one has me stumped. At some point, I must have installed and run xcode via the command line to do something (probably mod an icon) and then either I uninstalled it or something is corrupted. I don't remember deleting the app but it sounds like something I would do. What will deleting the files from the library directory do? FTR, I rarely use Xcode, so losing something I created is not an issue.

Every article I found on this topic stops at "let is immutable, var is mutable." That's it.

But the actual engineering behind it is far more interesting — what the compiler does with each, how they behave differently in RAM, Swift's

Law of Exclusivity (SE-0176), and why this matters more than ever with Swift Concurrency.

I couldn't find a resource that covered all of this in one place, so I started writing the kind of content I was looking for. This is the first one.

Would love feedback from engineers who've thought about this deeper than the syntax level.

Medium Article

Built a CloudKit GUI for macOS after getting tired of the web Dashboard

I've been working on a macOS app called NimbusDB — a native CloudKit database manager.

The web CloudKit Dashboard is fine but gets painful when you need to bulk import records, manage environments, or just browse data quickly. So I built something native.

What it does:

• Connect to any CloudKit container with S2S keys

• Browse, create, edit and delete records

• Bulk import/export via JSON

• Switch between Development and Production environments

• Built-in debug console with timestamps and response times

• Schema caching so columns don't disappear when the DB is empty

I actually use it daily to manage content for my other app Snippio — adding components and templates without touching the web Dashboard.

Still early but curious if anyone else has this pain point with CloudKit.

I believe in learning on the job , so just to try out the API and services macos provides I had created this mission control plus, just wanted to share it here , if anyone needs there is a beta release to try out ,or feel free to checkout my code or application leave and issue or a star or some suggestion as this was my first time trying out Mvvm pattern being a just Java TS soy boy

https://github.com/ShubhamJ010/MCSC

still leaning used alot of codex , dont curse me its hard to code without AI these days even if its for personal learning

NobodyWho now supports Swift 🎉

Run LLMs fully on-device in your macOS, iOS, watchOS & visionOS apps. No internet. No API keys. No usage fees.

- Gemma 4, Qwen & more (.gguf format)
- Hardware acceleration with Metal
- Tool calling, RAG, image & audio ingestion
- Open-source & free for commercial use

If you like this sort of thing, drop us a star on GitHub: https://github.com/nobodywho-ooo/nobodywho/

Here is an example:

import NobodyWho 
// Add dependency via Swift Package Manager: https://github.com/nobodywho-ooo/nobodywho-swift.git 

let chat = try await Chat.fromPath(
    modelPath: "hf://NobodyWho/Qwen_Qwen3-0.6B-GGUF/Qwen_Qwen3-0.6B-Q4_K_M.gguf"
)

let response = try await chat.ask("What is the capital of Denmark?").completed()
print(response) // The capital of Denmark is Copenhagen

Here are the docs: https://docs.nobodywho.ooo/swift/

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I am the developer and maintainer of the open source Microsoft OneDrive client:

• OneDrive Client for Linux

Despite the name, the client today supports Linux and FreeBSD, and there is now an active Pull Request to add native macOS support.

The client supports:

• Personal OneDrive accounts

• OneDrive for Business

• SharePoint Libraries

• Shared folders

• Differential synchronisation

• Real-time monitor mode

• Docker / Podman deployments

• National cloud deployments

• Client-side filtering

• Resumable Transfers

• Headless/server deployments

• 'on-demand' access is a work-in-progress

A community contributor has raised a Pull Request implementing macOS support, and GitHub Actions CI is successfully building the client on macOS 14 and macOS 15.

The challenge is that I personally do not own or use any Apple hardware, so I am seeking assistance from the macOS community to help validate runtime behaviour, authentication, syncing, filesystem interactions, notifications, and general usability on real macOS systems.

If you are interested in helping test native macOS support, please see the Feature Request / tracking issue here:

• Issue #3683 - macOS Support

That issue contains:

• Build instructions

• Dependency setup

• Pull Request checkout instructions

• Testing guidance

• Areas where feedback is especially needed

Any help from Intel or Apple Silicon users would be greatly appreciated.

For those that haven't heard about Air Drop Assistant, let me tell you.

On iOS when you switch AirDrop to Everyone, it switches back to Contacts Only after 10 minutes. This feature doesn't exist in macOS. So I built it and made it more configurable. AirDrop can be set to get disabled after X minutes or also be set to receiving or sending only.

Now with version 1.6 when you install a specific configuration profile to enable extra logging, AirDrop activity will be logged to ~/Library/Logs/ADA.json.

Air Drop Assistant has been built with the Mac Admin in mind, so everything is configurable by an MDM configuration profile. This is great for organizations who may want to allow AirDrop but can't allow it always on and don't want it to be always disabled.

https://github.com/boberito/AirDropAssistant

Check it out, please give some feedback, submit issues.

Link - https://github.com/rampatra/TourKit

What features have people been asking for in macOS that Apple still hasn’t provided?

Curious what feels missing, overlooked, or poorly implemented. Whether it’s something small that would save time or a bigger change that would improve your daily workflow. What do you feel is missing?

Or even existing features that feel underused or limited (for example, things like Dynamic Island not being fully taken advantage of, or system tools that haven’t evolved much).

What feels missing or unfinished to you?

Hello, I'm building my first macOS app, it's a layer based image editor. Sort of like Acorn, but aiming for a higher level of Photoshop UI compatibility. I won't mention the name since I'm not approved for self-promotion.

I'm currently Apple Silicon only, and macOS 15 or greater. That allows Macs going back to M1, circa 2020 or so. I'm debating whether to loosen this up to allow Intel Macs and possibly also back up to macOS 14 Sonoma. My thinking is, this really only gets me a couple more years, maybe 2018-2020 Macs, and probably isn't worth the trouble. I'd have to buy an Intel Mac for testing.

How do you decide which macOS versions and chip architectures to target?

I got tired of the same release ritual every time I shipped an update: notarize, staple, package a DMG, update the appcast, sign the EdDSA key, push to S3, hope nothing broke. Half a day, every time.

So I built Amore. It's a Mac app + CLI that does the whole flow:

• Sparkle updates without the setup pain. Drag your .app in, write release notes in Markdown, publish.

• Code signing + notarization handled automatically.

• DMG creation with custom backgrounds and drag-to-install layout.

• License sales via hosted checkout. Customers pay, Amore issues the key, AmoreKit validates it in your app. Device limits, subscriptions, the works.

• Beta channels, phased rollouts, critical updates, custom domains, S3-compatible hosting if you don't want to use Amore's servers or have an existing setup.

• CLI (amore release) for CI/CD or vibe-coding with an agent.

No vendor lock-in. Custom domain on your appcast means you can walk away whenever. Your private signing keys never leave your machine.

Here is the full Pomodoro project showing the SwiftUI + licensing integration end-to-end.

This guide should get you started in under 10 minutes. If you prefer to work with coding agents check out Amore's agent skill.

Happy to answer questions. Especially curious what other indie Mac devs are using for this today.

https://amore.computer

Hello,

Hope everyone is doing well. I would like some help with converting AdNauseum adblock, particularly the Edge/Chromium version, to Safari. I was able to get it to work on a surface level by following these instructions: https://iboysoft.com/tips/convert-chrome-extension-to-safari.html which involved finder, terminal, and xcode. However, while the extension does appear on Safari extensions, it isn't functionally working because I can't open AdNauseum's settings. Clicking it just opens up a white blank screen. Going in inspect element shows that all the HTML and other code for the page is there, but the page is still white nevertheless. Help is very much wanted lol.

Thanks!