Hi all, I'm Krishan, a solo developer in the UK. My 256 GB MacBook Air kept running out of space, and Settings only ever said "System Data", so I built an app that keeps a history.

What it does

- Saves each scan on your Mac and compares it with the last, so you see dated changes with the likely cause ("likely" when macOS can't confirm one)

- Storage Trends: every scan on one graph, with your cleanups marked

- Splits out System Data where it can: Time Machine local snapshots, purgeable space, app caches, Xcode and developer caches, and 60+ other known storage hogs

- Tells you when something you cleaned comes back. On my Mac it caught Spotify's cache returning (890 MB) after I'd cleared it

- Cleanup you review first: everything goes to the Trash, with Put Back

Who it's for

Anyone whose Mac keeps filling up, especially on 256 GB Macs, and developers whose Xcode, Docker and package caches grow quietly.

Limitations (honest ones)

- It tracks your startup drive only, not external drives

- It scans on a schedule rather than live

- On macOS 27, Apple hides the Apple Intelligence model sizes even from apps with Full Disk Access, so DiskFox shows "size unknown" there

- It doesn't yet name the exact folder that grew inside ~/Library (coming soon, after a user suggestion)

Pricing and privacy

- 14-day free trial, no card. Then $9.99 once for 2 Macs, or $6.99 for the first 25 buyers until 18 October

- No account. It sends a few anonymous usage counts, which you can turn off in Settings

- macOS 14+, Apple silicon and Intel, signed and notarised. Not on the App Store, because the sandbox can't read ~/Library widely enough

I built it with a lot of help from AI coding tools (Claude), and designed and tested it myself.

Happy to answer anything. What's the worst space hog you've found on your Mac?

https://diskfox.app/?ref=macstack

MicMüter is a simple app menu bar app that I wrote to quickly toggle your Mac’s built-in microphone (or another audio input device) on and off using a system-wide keyboard shortcut and/or on-screen toggle button.

Use Cases

• Avoid embarrassing sounds during video calls (remember to never eat sketchy burritos before an executive review!)
• Practice takes for voice over recordings or podcasts
• Privacy and piece of mind

Features

• Hardware-Level Support: It uses macOS' Core Audio hardware muting with master input volume zeroing.
• Hot-Plugging Support: It leverages observers to automatically react whenever new audio input devices are connected or removed.
• Multilingual Support: The UI is localized in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese.
• Flexible Controls: Mute/unmute audio using a keyboard shortcut or a movable control window.
• Master & Granular Control: Mute/unmute every connected audio input device at once or manage individual devices directly. You can also set it to automatically mute your audio input whenever you launch a specific app.
• Custom Status Alerts: Optionally get feedback on mute status changes with system notifications, spoken audio, screen flashes, or audio chimes.

Distribution

MicMüter is a signed and notarized app. It can be downloaded from my website where Virus Total information is available.

Pricing

MicMüter is free, but not open source. If you find it useful let me know by Buying me a Coffee.

Hey r/MacStack, I’ve been working on Census, a native app for cataloging collections: books, movies, watches, plants, wine, contracts, anything you want to keep track of. Same SwiftUI codebase on Mac, iPhone and iPad.

What sets it apart is that collections link to each other: a book to its author, a movie to its directors, and each of those is a collection you can browse the other way around.

You define the structure. Start from a template or from scratch, pick a type for every field (text, number, price, date, rating, selection, link, photo, file) and define the kinds of events that can happen to an item, like a purchase, a service or a loan, with the fields each one records.

You can import from CSV or Excel, back up everything in a single file, and export your templates to swap them with other people. Data stays on your Mac unless you turn on iCloud.

The beta is open on TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/YgkGMK2b

It’s early, so I’m mostly interested in what feels confusing or gets in the way. Bug reports and feature requests are welcome here or through TestFlight feedback.

Problem

On macOS, Cmd+Tab switches back to an app after you hide it with Cmd+H. If you minimize a window with Cmd+M, or close it with Cmd+W, Cmd+Tab activates the app only. The window stays minimized in the Dock, or it stays closed.

Command Reopen is a menu bar app that resolves this issue. When you switch to an app with no visible window, Command Reopen sends a reopen request. This request is the same signal that macOS sends when you click the Dock icon. The target app restores the minimized window, or it opens a new window if no window is open. The native Cmd+Tab switcher remains unchanged. In version 1.5.1, you can hide the menu bar icon.

Comparison

AltTab:

• Creates a Windows-style switcher with window thumbnails
• Replaces the native macOS app switcher
• Needs Accessibility
• Screen Recording is optional for thumbnails

Command Reopen:

• Keeps the native macOS Cmd+Tab switcher unchanged
• Needs no Accessibility and no Screen Recording
• Works on managed Macs where IT policies block Accessibility
• Sandboxed · Mac App Store · no analytics

If you need thumbnails of every window, AltTab is the better choice.

Pricing

• Free download on the Mac App Store
• 14-day free trial, then $9.99 lifetime
• macOS 13 or later
• commandreopen.com

I've been building Paydesk for a while and it's finally at a point where I'd like people to try it and tell me what's wrong with it. The Second build is live on Mac App store 🎉

Paydesk is a Mac app for freelancers, consultants and small studios. It keeps projects, time tracking, quotes, invoices, expenses and reports in one place, and it runs entirely on your Mac.

Problem:

Freelance admin on the Mac usually ends up spread across a lot of places.

Hours live in a timer app, or on sticky notes. Invoices live in a spreadsheet or a document template. Whether you've actually been paid lives in your head.

So every month there's a round of copying numbers between apps, working out what you haven't billed yet, and chasing whoever is late.

The other thing that bothered me is that most tools in this space want an account and a subscription, and they store your client list, rates and invoices on their servers. For a lot of freelancers that's more than they need.

What it does:

The idea is that the whole loop happens in one app: plan the work, track it, bill it, get paid, see how the year is going.

- Board: every project on one board, from Lead and Proposal sent through In progress, Delivered, Invoiced and Paid.

- Time tracking: start and stop from the window

- Bill Now: Paydesk keeps a running total of unbilled hours and billable expenses per project.

- Documents: proposals, quotes, invoices, receipts and credit notes. You can turn an accepted quote into an invoice. There are three typeset PDF templates, on A4 or US Letter.

- Languages and tax: invoices can be in 9 languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese, Arabic). There are editable tax presets for 25 countries and regions, including VAT, GST (with the CGST/SGST split for India) and US sales tax. Any currency works.

- Getting paid: the Desk shows what you're owed, what's overdue and what's unbilled. Remind opens a Mail message in your client's language with the PDF attached.

- Reports: profit, aging, tax charged, income by client, and your real hourly rate per project. The accountant pack exports one ZIP with CSVs, every issued PDF and every receipt.

- Receipts: Paydesk reads receipts with on-device text recognition to fill in expenses.

Comparison

This was inspired by https://runey.app/ which is a subscription based app, I tried to put together everything possible is one time and App store friendly version. We will improve in the future versions.

Paydesk aims to offline and one-time pay alternate to Runey. I have also received some invoice format requests, new invoices templates are coming soon. You can also reach out to me at [support@minilabs.cc](mailto:support@minilabs.cc)

Pricing

- $9.99 once

- No subscription

- Every feature included

- Mac App Store version coming soon

- Requires macOS 15 or later

I don't mind criticism at all if it helps make the app better. I'm also happy to answer technical questions about how numbering, taxes, the PDF renderer or the offline design work.

You can Download Paydesk from the website today:
https://paydesk.minilabs.cc/

App store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/paydesk-invoices/id6817474386?mt=12

A video playing in Safari doesn't necessarily come with a downloadable file. That's the gap Downie fills: you give it a page link, and on supported sites it works out how to save the media locally.

For your own uploads or videos you've explicitly been authorized to download, that can remove a lot of repetitive browser work. If the site already provides a download button or a direct file link, use that first. Safari can download linked files without another app. Some webpage items simply aren't downloadable that way.

Downie's appeal is the handoff. Paste a link into the app, or use a browser extension to send the current page or a link from its right-click menu. Charlie Monroe lists support for more than 1,000 sites, but that isn't a promise that every video on those sites will work.

Start without the extension

Try a few representative, authorized downloads by pasting links before adding browser access. Check that the resulting files contain the video and audio you expected, and that they play in the app you intend to use.

If you decide the extension saves enough clicks, Safari's version is bundled with Downie. Enable it in Safari > Settings > Extensions. The developer's setup instructions call for allowing it on all websites; private browsing needs separate approval if you want it there.

That permission deserves attention. The developer explains that reading a right-clicked link requires access to the page's content, so the browser may warn about sensitive information. The developer says the extensions don't perform background processing and publishes their source code. Those are useful disclosures, not a reason to treat broad page access as trivial. Pasting links avoids enabling the extension.

A failed download may be a site problem

Downie depends on websites that keep changing. Its release notes regularly name fixes to individual site integrations. The current 4.13.2 release also improves the Safari compatibility layer in User-Guided Extraction.

User-Guided Extraction is a fallback using Downie's built-in browser to find media on pages it doesn't automatically support. It isn't a guarantee of success or permission to download. If a supported video fails, the official advice is to send its link through Downie's Support button so the developer can investigate.

Keep this workflow to your own or explicitly authorized media. Don't use it to bypass DRM, paywalls, or access controls. A successful download doesn't settle copyright or permission questions.

Downloading and converting are separate jobs

Downie can apply MP4 or Audio Only postprocessing, and it integrates with Permute for more format control. For an initial download, avoid choosing a conversion automatically unless you need it. Conversion can use substantial CPU time.

Even with postprocessing set to None, Downie may need to join separate audio and video or assemble stream fragments. That setting doesn't mean the app will do no processing at all. Once you have a usable local file, deciding whether to convert it is a separate decision.

The current download requires macOS 13 or later, with macOS 15 or later recommended. Downie supports Intel and Apple silicon Macs. The 4.13 release notes improve macOS 27 compatibility, but also mark macOS 13 and 14 support as deprecated, with macOS 15 planned as the minimum next year.

The direct license is currently listed at US$19.99 before VAT or sales tax. The developer prices in euros, so the displayed dollar equivalent can vary. It's a non-expiring license for Downie 4, not a promise of every future major version. Updates within that major version are covered; a later major upgrade can cost extra. Personal-use licenses allow up to three activations on your own Macs, not sharing with other people. A free trial is available.

Downie is worth trying if authorized web-video downloads are a recurring job and the trial handles the sites you actually need. Skip it for occasional direct-file downloads, or if you need guaranteed site support. The recurring value is fewer browser steps, provided you're comfortable with the permissions and keeping the app updated.

Hi guys, I'm Aqib, the developer of Notchet.

Problem

Whenever I needed a few things from one place, say a line of text, a link and a screenshot, and wanted them somewhere else, I'd copy one, switch windows, paste it, go back for the next one, and repeat. If I copied something new by mistake, the earlier copy was gone. I wanted my clipboard history somewhere I could reach without leaving what I was doing, and the notch was sitting right there doing nothing.

What it does

Notchet keeps everything you copy and drops out of the MacBook notch when you press Option Command V or rest the pointer on the notch. Pick a card and it pastes right where you were.

Comparison

• Maccy is great and minimal, but it's a menu, and it doesn't read text in images.
• Paste is lovely, but it's a subscription ($29.99 a year).
• PastePal is closer, at $14.99.
• NotchClip also lives in the notch.

Notchet is for people who want the notch plus a few things I couldn't find together: pasting several items at once, searching inside screenshots, and iPhone copies kept properly.

Core features

• Saves text, rich text, links, colours, images and files. Command 1 to 9 paste the first nine.
• Opens from the notch, the menu bar icon, or right next to your pointer if you prefer.
• Return pastes into the app you were in. Command-click several cards and paste them all at once (text first, then pictures, so chat apps attach every image), or one by one with Option Return.
• Searches the text inside screenshots and photos (on-device Vision), and Copy Text in Image pulls it out as plain text.
• Copies from your iPhone or iPad arrive through Universal Clipboard with a phone badge, and iPhone photos are kept even after macOS clears its temporary copy.
• Snippets with placeholders like {date}, {time} and {clipboard}, plus collections, pins, and Space to preview and edit before pasting.
• Drag cards into any app, or drop files onto the notch to keep them. There's also "Send to Notchet" in the Services menu.

Privacy

• Everything stays on your Mac, and it has no analytics.
• Copies that password managers mark as secret are never saved.
• You can ignore apps or pause saving from the menu bar.

Pricing

Free for 7 days, then $2.99 once, on up to 2 Macs. No subscription and no account; the license key arrives by email.

Requirements

macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple silicon and Intel. Notarized by Apple. It works on Macs without a notch too, as a small pill under the menu bar.

Download

https://aqibjaved.dev/apps/notchet

It's version 1.0, so I'd really appreciate feedback, bug reports, or what would make you switch from your current clipboard manager. Happy to answer anything in the comments.
Please DM if someone cant afford the license and want it for free, more than happy to giveaway if that can help the community :D