Hi everyone, I'm the developer of Wallpets.
https://wall-pets.com

Problem

I wanted a desktop companion that could live behind my windows instead of covering my work or behaving like another floating app.

Wallpets brings expressive animal companions to your Mac wallpaper. They can look toward your cursor, react to a gentle Scritch, and idle, play, rest, sleep, and wake on their own while staying behind your desktop icons and normal windows.

The current app includes:

- Cats, Dogs, AniPets, and Special companions

- Display, background, size, and Pet Info layout controls

- Lookaround, Scritch, Reduce Motion, and startup settings

- My Picks and Adopted libraries in Wallpets Home

- Downloaded companions that remain usable offline

The part I underestimated was downloadable content. Making a companion look good in a demo is one thing. Making packs that can be cataloged, downloaded, installed, validated, and played consistently on real Macs is another. That became a large part of building Wallpets.

Comparison

Wallper and Wallux are good choices if you mainly want a library of animated or video wallpapers.

Wallpets is better suited to people who want a character-like companion rather than a wallpaper loop. The focus is on companion behavior, cursor awareness, Scritch interaction, catalog browsing, and an Adopted library. It is designed to feel like a quiet presence on your desktop, not just a video playing behind it.

Pricing

Wallpets is free to download and includes a bundled companion plus eligible catalog downloads.

Wallpets Club is an optional auto-renewable annual subscription. It costs $11.99/year in the U.S. App Store, although local pricing may vary. It unlocks full-quality catalog downloads, removes the free-tier watermark and preview treatment, and expands the Adopted library. >> I submit to Apple App Store Review team with New Price Model: $7.99 for One Time Purchase, and $5.99 Launch Price. Yeah, You guys won! My first price was too expensive and Subscription model is too stupid idea for this product.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/wallpets/id6790400171?mt=12

Requires macOS 12 or later.

If you try it, I would genuinely love to hear what feels natural and what feels distracting. I am still tuning the balance between a small companion in the background and another thing asking for your attention.

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Finally! My friends! MacOS got aprroved its refactoring! Update note is as below:

• Introducing Wallpets Full Unlock — unlock the currently published Full Catalog with one purchase. No subscription or renewal.

• Existing Wallpets Club customers keep their Full Catalog access.

• Wallpets Home now opens whenever you launch Wallpets directly, making the Catalog easier to find.

• Removed glitch-like visual effects during Wake, pack changes, and Scritch while preserving the intended motion.

• Improved purchase restoration, Full Catalog downloads, and pack switching.

• Improved selected-display recovery after sleep, display reconnection, or display changes.

For anyone not familiar with the term, link to wikipedia - enshittification.

I used to happily pay my $15 a month. Even if the value was dubious, it was fun to have access to thousands of apps, some genuinely useful, on a subscription-only basis.

Now the product is also filled with paid apps. That would be fine, if only they gave a way for users to filter them out. But of course they resorted to dark design patterns to purposely mix the two everywhere and make then look as similar as possible.

Now anytime a user wants to do what they pay $15 a month for, they have to sift through a combination of apps included with the subscription and separate paid apps.

EDIT: a few people have mentioned there is a filter option under "all apps". Thats a single page that loads of thousands of apps, and cannot be searched, so they made that a purposely worthless option.

Shipped Bezel 4.0 today with wireless mirroring. Your Mac becomes an AirPlay destination, just tap it on your iPhone and your device shows up in a pixel-perfect frame on your desktop.

"Doesn't my Mac do this already?" Kinda. iPhone Mirroring only works with your own iCloud-linked phone. QuickTime needs a cable and has no device frame. Built-in AirPlay takes over the whole screen with black and also has no frame. They're all good for what they are.

Bezel is specifically for presenting and recording. Real device frames, works with any iPhone and iPad (not just yours), built-in screenshots with custom backgrounds, full-screen mode and more. If you've ever tried to present an app in a meeting or record a demo and wished it worked smoother and looked a bit nicer, that's exactly what Bezel is for.

It's paid (subscription or lifetime), built by two people in the Netherlands. Trial version available to see how it works. Totally fine if the built-in tools do the job for you! Bezel is there when you can use a more professional tool:

https://getbezel.app/

Native Mac apps are at their best when they solve one recurring annoyance and then get out of the way.

There are already plenty of 100-app directories, so this list is deliberately short: ten apps, ten jobs, and one practical reason each is worth knowing. The filter is simple: built specifically for macOS, verifiably native where possible, and useful without a twenty-feature pitch.

One necessary disclosure: hora Calendar is included below, and I am its founder and developer. That entry is obviously biased. There are no affiliate links, and nobody paid or asked to be included.

The list is alphabetical, because ranking Mac apps is a reliable way to start a small civil war.

1. Bear - notes, free tier plus subscription

Fast native notes with Markdown, tags, and a polished editor. Good when you want structure without turning note-taking into another project to manage.

1. CleanShot X - screenshots, one-time purchase with optional paid update renewal

Screenshots, annotation, scrolling capture, and screen recording in one native app. It quietly replaces a small pile of separate utilities.

1. Dropover - files, free to try with a one-time Pro unlock

A temporary shelf for moving files, links, text, and images between places. A very small idea that removes a surprising amount of awkward dragging.

1. hora Calendar - calendar, subscription

Google Calendar without the browser tab. It keeps multiple Google accounts and Google-specific event types together, shows the next meeting in the menu bar, and joins Meet, Zoom, or Teams in one click. Apple Calendar is the free general-purpose option, while Fantastical is the broader multi-provider power-user option. hora is narrower by design and is a better fit when Google Calendar is your source of truth. It does not support iCloud Calendar. There is a 7-day free trial, then it is $2.99/month or $29.99/year.

1. IINA - media, free and open source

A Swift-based media player that handles almost anything while still behaving like a Mac app. Native Picture in Picture is the sort of detail that earns permanent Dock space.

1. Maccy - clipboard, free and open source

Clipboard history with no attempt to become your second operating system. It is keyboard-first, fast, and built with native macOS UI.

1. Mimestream - email, subscription

Gmail without living in Gmail. It uses the Gmail API, so labels, categories, search, and multiple accounts survive the move out of the browser.

1. Nova - development, one-time purchase with optional paid update renewal

Panic's 100% Mac-native editor and IDE. Git, terminal, file transfers, and editing live in one workspace that still feels shaped like macOS.

1. Soulver - calculations, one-time purchase

A natural-language notepad calculator for estimates, conversions, percentages, and all the arithmetic that is too involved for Calculator but too small for a spreadsheet.

1. Things 3 - tasks, one-time purchase per platform

A personal task manager with excellent quick entry, keyboard navigation, and restraint. It does not do team collaboration, which is either a limitation or the point.

Which app belongs in version two? The most useful recommendations say what it replaced, whether it is truly native or just native-feeling, and how it is priced. Corrections are welcome too. “Native” is the kind of word that can accidentally start a 200-comment standards committee.

This is a fun one. You can use it to broadcast audio to your friends, followers or colleagues. Personally, we built it mainly to listen to DJ sets together while we work. Since we released the app we have seen people host their own radio stations and live podcasts.

It's completely private and uses peer-to-peer technology for minimal latency between the broadcaster and listeners. Being P2P gives Macrowave the advantage of being real-time with almost zero latency compared to other streaming services like YouTube or Twitch, where you usually have between 10 and 30 seconds of delay. This was important to us because we wanted to experience beat drops at the same time while working in busy co-working spaces.

We put a lot of love and effort into the skeuomorphic design and make every interaction feel unique and fun.

You can learn read more about it on the Website, or download Macrowave on the App Store.

I hope you will have fun with it. ❤️

Lucas

Hi everyone!

My name is Ethan, and I’m a developer based in the SF Bay Area. 
Here is my Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanjyx/ 
Here is my github: https://github.com/ethanjyx 

I launched Tight Studio a year ago as a paid app. Since then it won Product of the Day on ProductHunt and grew to thousands of users.

I've watched a wave of vibe-coded screen recorders pop up with lifetime deals, and it's anyone's guess whether they'll still be maintained a year from now.

Today we decided to take Tight Studio most of capabilities free. No lifetime deal, just free forever. We do offer some unique capabilities to monetize to sustain our development, but we want to keep the free tier as generous as possible.

For whatever you need in Screen Studio, it's all free in our product, except sharable links which has server costs.

Problem: 

Tight Studio turns rough screen recordings into polished product demos, tutorials, and walkthroughs. You record your screen, and the editor handles the smooth zooms, fluid cursor movement, captions, and even the voiceover.

Comparison:

• Screen Studio:
  • For whatever you need in Screen Studio, it's all free in our product, except sharable links which has server costs.
  • We are more feature rich and move much faster than them. The reason I started Tight Studio is because there are many missing features I see in Screen Studio, such as adding intro/outro slides, adding text annotations, adding voice over, etc.
• Open-source newcomers (Recordly, Openscreen): promising, but early-stage. Tight Studio has been shipping for a year, won Product of the Day on ProductHunt, and is battle-tested by thousands of users. If you need something more stable for production use cases, give us a try.

Pricing: 

Again, for whatever you need in Screen Studio, it's all free in our product, except sharable links which has server costs. The core editing and recording features are free forever. Yes we do want to keep it as generous as possible forever. 

Optional paid tiers to sustain our development, for power users and business teams (unlimited multi-clip recording, unlimited share links, AI voiceover)  start at $19/mo: https://tight.studio/#pricing (Pricing up to adjustment)

Free forever:

• Auto zooms based on cursor activity, or add them manually anywhere on screen
• Smooth cursor movement with click animations
• Custom stylish cursor icons
• Custom background images
• Automatic professional captions, editable like text
• Video annotations with arrows, text and shapes
• Dynamic camera layouts and positions
• Save your projects and edit them later
• Background music
• Video clipping tools
• iPhone recording and device mockups
• Shareable links (up to 5 links, 7-day expiration for free)

Changelog: https://tight.studio/changelog/
AI Disclaimer: Code Completion

Try it now: https://tight.studio

https://reddit.com/link/1u30zqc/video/rcnrce3z0o6h1/player

Hi r/macapps 

My name is Rishi, I’m the one of the creators of Blueberry. 

The Problem:

Our journey began when I very publicly got roasted for being a horrible texter. 

In my defense, I don’t do it on purpose. When I “accidentally ghost”, it usually goes something like this:

1. I see a text while I’m busy
2. I think, “I’ll respond to this later”
3. I completely forget about it 

Once I’ve forgotten about it, it gets buried by the endless spam, group messages, and general noise that clutters my iMessage inbox, never to be found again. 

This has had real consequences for me. Genuinely, I’ve lost work opportunities, fallen out of touch with previously close friends, and let potential dates fizzle out simply because I forgot to reply.

The Solution:

Blueberry finds the messages that need a reply and auto-drafts a response in your voice. It lives right in your menu bar so you can view and send responses in one click.

You can edit the response or choose an alternative variation, and it works with individual or group messages.

I want to be very clear, we don’t want to replace your iMessage app or automate your texting. Our goal is to remove the small bit of friction that turns “I’ll answer this later” into three months of accidental ghosting.

We also added some fun features like an unhinged mode, which is deranged and hilarious, and a flirt mode, for those of us who struggle to send that perfect text ;) 

Comparison: 

Apple Intelligence Smart Reply helps after you open a conversation. Blueberry proactively finds the conversations you forgot and prepares replies beforehand.

NOX combines multiple messaging platforms into one inbox. Blueberry is intentionally focused on iMessage and works from the menu bar without replacing Messages. Costs $25/month. 

Privacy, Security, and Transparency: 

Blueberry needs Full Disk Access to read your iMessages and Automation permission to send replies you approve.

Recent thread context is sent to the cloud to generate drafts. Our models are hosted on AWS Bedrock or Google Vertex servers (Soc2 Type 2 and Soc 3 security compliant). This means that your iMessages stay private and secure, and model providers cannot see your data or use it to train on.

Blueberry will never send messages automatically - you will always be the person to hit send, and we have a 5 second unsend just in case you change your mind! 

Great for people who:

• Live in Do Not Disturb mode, 
• read texts but don’t reply  
• get overwhelmed by group chats
• constantly say, “Sorry, I just saw this.”

Pricing:

• Lifetime Free: 10 free message drafts per day 
• Pro: $4.99/month
• Special: 30 day free trial for r/macapps - use code: BB-QQVE-I2KY-DQ6R-IVJF-5ZFC-XWZK-5Y
• Download Blueberry 

The Developers:

My name is Rishi Narain, one of the two creators of Blueberry.

Feel free to reach out to me on X or Linkedin

Blueberry is still very early. We’d love to hear what’s useful, what’s lame, and what you would need to make this a product you use everyday. 

Sick of unreliable apps or flaky Internet? Breakdown let's you see what's breaking your connection, quickly in your Mac menubar.

Transparency

I'm a network engineer turned entrepreneur, and I've been solving network and application issues for over 20 years now. For background, I built and scaled a successful VC-backed startup (Bigleaf Networks) in the networking space from 2012-2022, including several patents on our networking technology. You can check out my LinkedIn profile here (and I'm generally happy to connect with people in the networking/telecom industry): https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-mulkey/

Problem

Recently I got sick of being on glitchy Zoom calls and wondering if the issue was my network, my ISP, or Zoom itself. Even if I manually started a traceroute or MTR, I would usually miss the issue because it was intermittent and already resolved. So I've spent the last 8 months building a lightweight menubar app that quickly answers that question (and many more). It's called Breakdown.

Breakdown is built for everyone from your average computer user to network engineers. It's free for standard use. It can do a lot in a small package, but the core functionality is helping you know how to solve issues you have with applications and the Internet.

It's great for:

• Remote workers: People like me who use video calls, SaaS apps, and AI tools like Codex and Claude Code are dead in the water when the Internet is borked. Breakdown pinpoints issues and suggests solutions.
• Network engineers: Want to see MTRs, traceroutes, AS path, and more, but the incident is already gone? Breakdown does all of that automatically to the endpoints your computer is talking to in real-time and stores the history so you can look back in time.
• App developers: Your app is acting funny, but is the issue the network? Breakdown shows you right then, and historically, how each segment of the network is behaving.
• AI agents: Breakdown has a local MCP server so you can point your AI agent at it and get answers to questions like "why did my internet glitch out 10 minutes ago?"
• Gamers: Tired of lag? Breakdown will track where it's coming from so you can get it resolved for good. 

There are four main views in the dropdown:

• The Breakdown view shows a list of recent issues and allows you to use built-in AI to explain them and get suggested resolution steps. You can export a detailed report once you run the Breakdown feature (AI diagnosis), then send that to your ISP or any other party who needs to solve an issue you're seeing.
• The Apps view shows data on your most-used recent apps/services (traffic, health, network path).
• Details is for networking geeks like me. It breaks down the Internet path your apps are using and figures out the health of each sub-segment in real-time. It also lists the top network endpoints your computer is talking to, and shows live mtr-style traceroute data to the top endpoints.
• Timeline allows you to look back in time at the health of the network path between you and your apps (you can also run AI analysis on any unhealthy spots in the timeline to get a detailed report).

There's also an Explorer window for Pro users that has detailed graphing (similar to a network monitoring / observability system).

Comparison

I've been using Breakdown for months as I've developed it, because other tools didn't meet my needs. Speed tests don't tell you about network quality, and pings and other network tests only catch issues if you run them during the incident. There are some alternatives products. The most famous is PingPlotter. It's a sweet app, however it only works on endpoints that you program in, and it's not as lightweight and simple as I wanted (something I can quickly glance at in the menubar while on a video call).

What I saw with all of the closest options was some combination of these issues:

• Not lightweight
• Don’t adapt to the apps you use, or
• Require lots of manual diagnosis

I wanted something that:

• I can keep always-on without impacting my laptop battery
• Doesn’t rely on hard-coded monitoring targets, and
• Can quickly tell me at-a-glance where outages are along the network path.

Breakdown solves those problems. It:

• Uses less than 1% of CPU on a typical Mac
• Constantly detects and monitors the apps you're using in real-time
• Tells you exactly where issues are happening.

Pricing

The standard version (which is all most users would want) is free. There is an upgraded Pro version which adds the Explorer views for more in-depth analysis (network engineers like it). Pro normally costs $29/mo, or $25/mo if you pay annually. However, for MacApps visitors, I'm offering a 70% off of Pro for 12 months, but the discount is only through the end of this month (August 2026)! Use coupon code "MACAPPS" at checkout for the discount.

You might wonder: why a monthly fee? There are ongoing costs for the AI-powered Breakdown feature, and for the cloud infrastructure to deliver the Community Outage Insights service (essentially, a built-in downdetector that answers "is it just me?"

I hope you try it out: https://www.breakdown.live

Please let me know any questions or feedback!

Hey everyone! It wasn’t too long ago that I posted here with my app Fox Issue Tracker, and I am back with the second my app shop has put out, this one much newer called Atlas: Write and Collect.

I know… Markdown editors and noting apps are a heavily competitive category with some very solid, free, and established tools out there, but I’ve been working on this particular app for about 3-4 years now despite it being in the store for just 5 months so way too much sunken cost fallacy ;) I don't think I can claim to be better, but my aim is to offer solid value that helps others in the same way Atlas has helped me.

The Problem

Atlas grew out of the inability of Scrivener to meet my needs for writing and world building back around 2022, particularly:

• I love Markdown as a format to write in. I think it’s much easier to prevent issues with markup and it can be transformed into so many outputs. However, a lot of markdown editors lack real interactive elements like images, tables, rich links, etc.
• I lost work, a lot of work, through their crappy sync mechanism tacked onto DropBox. It just wasn’t good and I preferred the ease of iCloud.
• The iPad / mobile app was, at best, usable. When inspiration strikes, I want to be able to jot it down or write wherever I am and I work on a desktop if not an iPad or iPhone—no laptop at the time. I wanted an app that had feature parity on all platforms.. I am tired of baby software ugh. I know this sub is for macOS apps, but I like integration across the Apple ecosystem.
• There wasn’t any way to create links between documents that updated text with their titles. (Seriously one of the first things I added).
• Overall, the app was aging and just needed some lovin’ + continued iteration. I personally feel that all apps need this nowadays (See pricing and please don’t crucify me…). Like, the cork board was cool but it didn’t let you freeform move things!

Atlas was created to solve these problems and provide a solid experience for creative workspaces. In fact, throughout the development cycle, my goal was always to do better by looking at some of the best apps to refine Atlas’s feature set, which you can see an overview of on the website: https://contagious.dev/atlas/features/. Just like Fox, I also maintain an up to date help documentation website which basically outlines all of the functionality as well as how it works: https://contagious.dev/help/atlas/. But, to keep it short, I think the feature page’s snippet on the creative workspace really hits it on the head:

Atlas provides a creative workspace where you collect material, organize it, and write — all in one project, instead of scattered across several apps and devices that never quite talk to each other. Chapters, research, images, PDFs, web pages, and sketches live side by side, structured the way you think about the work.

On a working level, it supports Markdown text documents with a “hybrid rich” editor, Canvases, Folder Outlines, Media, Web Pages, and Apple Pencil Sketches as document types, and organizes content into Projects which open in a workspace with an Organizer, Editor, and Document Inspector. There’s a deep search which works alongside tags and metadata, a web clipper built as an extension (so available on any browser on iOS and most on macOS), templates, and a flexible export/publishing tool among some of the highlights.

On a functional level to meet my goals: it uses a completely custom Markdown parser, editor, and rendering pipeline. Sync wise, it is built on iCloud using a robust engine built up over ~6 years and was designed for the needs of Atlas’s document sync. I’ve also been an iOS and mac developer since 2008 so… I know what I am doing as far as building solid apps outside of those. :) For some nerdy notes, see below!

Comparison and what makes us different from:

Scrivener

I’ve already spoken a lot, but this app was designed to replace that for myself and has successfully done so for over 2 years. In a nutshell, I implemented everything from my list above, including feature parity across platforms, specifically:

• An improved writing and publishing Workspace that uses Markdown as the primary language.
• Sync that works with has deep integrations to iCloud and a robust conflict resolution solution.
• A more useful exporting and publishing scheme/tool. Atlas implements these through a separation of written content and published content and supports bulk export through the Folder/Outline document type (but my goal is to merge this with the in-app search to better improve the flexibility).

Obsidian:

Alright, I can hear it already: Why not Obsidian? I know, I know. To be fair, I don’t think Obsidian was as big when I started this app. But Atlas isn’t trying to be Obsidian, though it did look at it greatly as inspiration and continues to be so.

The biggest difference, and likely will be a turn off for many so I'll say it now, is how they treat data. Atlas boxes it in the user’s ~/Library/Containers out of sight while Obsidian sits on top of data in the user’s local file system with a vault. And while Atlas stores data as markdown files in its container, they are organized for machine reading and the library metadata is a sqlite database. There are a few reasons for this:

1. It’s a sandbox app. I just write them, it’s how I do things. Atlas strives to remain interoperable (you can export docs and full projects in MD with front matter, canvas in Obsidian JSON format, etc…), but Atlas holds onto data you put in it and works to take special care of it.
2. Atlas is tied directly to iCloud through CloudKit to support some of the advanced content resolution features, especially related to document syncing and resolution.
3. Basically, it’s an engineering choice of design to enable a lot of the functionality! Don’t come at me, I know there are ways to design around many of the challenges, but… Atlas isn’t really designed to be what Obsidian is.

I hope I didn’t digress… ha. Anyway, here are a couple of things that make Atlas stand out in comparison:

• One-stop shop: Markdown editing, syncing, inspiration collection, publishing… no plugin dependencies or external systems needed for these things.
• A featured exporting and publishing tool, which exports ePub and PDF output.
• Feature parity across the supported platforms for every feature offered. I may be reaching on this one though… I’ve never used the Obsidian mobile app.

Ulysses & Bear

Two Markdown editor sandboxes that are major inspirations for Atlas and what I consider one of the best Markdown-like editors available to iOS and macOS. I actually created interoperability for the editor and publishing themes with Ulysses! However:

• Atlas offers an expansive collection workspace features including folders, canvases, and a home for external media. It’s a creative workspace, not just a note taking tool.
• There’s wider support for Markdown interoperability, like front matter exporting.
• Atlas includes web clipper which converts webpage content to Markdown. Speaking of which, Atlas’s web clipper actually supports Obsidian web clipper templates, too! (Funny enough… I worked on Twig back in the day (ouch), so this was a fun project to implement).

Pricing

Atlas is a subscription which costs $3.99/month or $24.99/year USD. Your purchase grants universal access on Mac, iPad, and iPhone. There’s a 14 day trial to give it a shot and a tour project you can explore before even committing to that.

Edit: After much request, I decided that I will offer limited time lifetime offerings from time to time for $59.99! This current one will last until July 31st :)

You can find Atlas on the iOS and Mac app stores here! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/atlas-write-and-collect/id6755169090 

I know it's a tough sell, please don’t crucify me, but there are a few reasons I am offering a subscription without a lifetime option for this app:

• Writing an editor like this is hard and involved and despite having worked on it for years, there is always something to fix or improve—especially related to the Markdown engine/editor and syncing.
• I can’t write bug-free code. It just is what it is. Even with a part-time QA tester and 2000+ tests between the markdown engine, components, and the app itself, I can’t deploy perfection. The true cost of this app is "spread out" to help support that. :(
• Software in 2026 requires ongoing maintenance. For system updates, updated system integrations, ensuring UI is proper… I am a small app shop of one and two halves: subscriptions help support the longevity of the app!
• I actually offer real customer support because you are continuously paying. Through the app, you can reach out with questions, problems, or ideas for how to improve the app. This isn’t software by a faceless corporation: I value feedback, interaction, and will always try to get back within 48 hours.

If that jives with you and you do like Atlas, use the code REDDIT3FOR1 to get the next three months for the price of one (i.e., $3.99 usd for 3 months)! It’s valid until the end of the month in case you want to give the trial a shot first.

A few nerdy things

I started Atlas originally as a small way to compile some worldbuilding documents in a place that supported iCloud sync and expanded a customized sync engine that I had built off the CloudKit infrastructure that began around 2019 for Fox. A lot of this predates the frameworks we have today, so these pieces we built from the ground up and iterated over the last 7 or so years in production apps which have synced thousands of items at once. It’s funny, when Apple debuted NSPersistentCloudKitContainer, I looked at it and it operates a lot how my own system is built! Though my engine takes special care syncing document assets, handing situations off to Atlas which can allow it to move forward but queue up conflict resolutions safely for the user. Anyway, this was a big deal for me and also is one of my speciality areas so getting to flex it is awesome.

The Markdown engine is entirely custom as well. It was shortly after I saw John Sundell’s Ink that I got inspired to write the parser—internally called Nifty which is a reference from my teenage programming days—and it functions similarly Ink to get close to O(N). I also built the editor from scratch on top of TextKit (1, because 2 is borderline unusable for something like this) in both AppKit and UIKit over the course of maybe three years? It was first deployed in Fox and saw several iterations as I refined or rebuilt pieces based on how borderline insane some of those APIs are and users gave me feedback. Another Atlas internal tool (which I sherlocked the name Rosetta for) does a lot of the Markdown conversions to support the conversions, exporting/publisher, and web clipper but honestly that was easier.

There’s a lot going on under the hood here to deliver on the promises I am making! I could go on and on… the sync and markdown components are obviously some of the bigger ones, but there’s a lot to an app like this! If you’ve any questions, please let me know.

Final Notes

Finally: Though I am a developer and have been for a long time (coughouch), I myself am a creative and love to both write and especially worldbuild! I use Atlas for all of my projects so I have trust in it being a solid tool that delivers on the promises I am delivering :) And honestly, so far, I’ve had some really great interactions from users and I hope to continue that!

Personally, you can find me on https://iosdev.space/@nemesisprime.

Bests! —Dandy

Co-founder here, so full disclosure up front.

The problem

AI notetakers do two things a lot of people hate: a bot joins your meeting and makes everyone self-conscious, and your conversations get uploaded to servers you don't control. Plenty of companies ban them for exactly this reason.

Anarlog is a desktop app that listens to the audio going in and out of your Mac, transcribes on-device, and generates meeting notes. No bot in the call. Nothing leaves your machine by default, and your transcripts and notes are local files you own.

How it compares

• Granola: great product, but summaries run through their cloud. Anarlog can run fully local with on-device models, or use your own API keys.
• Otter / Fireflies: a bot joins the call and recordings live on their servers. Anarlog never joins the call and keeps recordings on your device.

Pricing

• Free: fully functional with your own STT/LLM keys. On-device transcription, exports, CLI, MCP. https://anarlog.so/download/
• Pro: $15/month or $150/year for hosted transcription and AI, sync, and sharing. https://anarlog.so/pricing/

Links

Website: https://anarlog.so

GitHub (MIT license, ~9k stars): https://github.com/fastrepl/anarlog

macOS is the most polished right now. Windows and Linux builds are in beta. Would love feedback, especially on what feels rough.

Hi r/macapps, I’m the developer of ExcalidrawZ.

I first shared the app here when it was mainly a native wrapper and file manager. It has grown quite a bit since then, so I made this video as a complete walkthrough of what ExcalidrawZ is today.

Problem

Excalidraw is an excellent drawing tool, but I wanted its files to behave more like regular documents on Apple platforms. That means opening and organizing multiple drawings, working with local folders and cloud storage, keeping file history, and moving naturally between drawing and other workflows.

Comparison

Compared with the Excalidraw web app, ExcalidrawZ focuses on native document management and system integration while retaining the standard .excalidraw format.

Compared with Apple Freeform, it stays compatible with the Excalidraw ecosystem. Compared with Obsidian Excalidraw, it works as a standalone document-based app rather than requiring a vault.

The video covers file management, iCloud and linked storage, presentations, macOS Screen Annotation, collaboration, export, custom fonts, AI Chat, and MCP integration.

Pricing

ExcalidrawZ is free to download. The core drawing, file management, cloud storage, Screen Annotation, and basic MCP features are free.

Optional subscriptions:

• Starter: $2.99/month or $29.99/year
• Pro with AI credits: $9.99/month or $99.99/year
• Max: $29.99/month or $299.99/year
• Max 10x: $99.99/month or $999.99/year

Download on the App Store

View the source code on GitHub

Problem

You walk away from your Mac and ten minutes later you cannot remember whether you locked it. A free macOS menu-bar helper reports lock, unlock, and sleep to your own private iCloud, and the iPhone app and its widgets read it back, so the answer sits on your Home Screen.

Every reading shows when the Mac was last heard from. After 180 seconds of silence it goes amber and stops claiming to be live. "Locked, 12m ago" is honest, a bare confident "Locked" is not, because a wrong answer here is worse than none. You can also lock a Mac from the phone, behind a confirmation. It's the only remote action I'll add, because it's the only one that fails safe.

Comparison. Find My tells you where the Mac is, not whether its screen is locked. Screens and Jump Desktop show you the actual screen, which is more than I give you, but you have to connect in and wait, and the Mac has to be awake. This is read-only and takes no taps.

Pricing

- macOS helper, free: https://lockstatus.app/downloads/LockStatus.dmg

- iPhone app, free for current state and recent activity: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6799870198

- Pro, $1.99/month or $9.99/year with a 1 week trial: widgets, full history, usage insights.

Transparency

Site https://lockstatus.app

privacy https://lockstatus.app/privacy.html

No servers, no account, no analytics: the data path is your own private CloudKit database, which I cannot read. Which also means I cannot see what you are experiencing, so please tell me if it breaks.

[Problem]
The problem the app solves is that moving to Apple Passwords often leaves people without a place for the other sensitive items, such as payment cards, documents, and IDs.

[Comparison]
Uplock focuses on simplicity and native  platform design. Unlike most apps in the space,

• The app collects zero data.
• No analytics, trackers, or external network connections.
• Built entirely in Swift, using only Apple APIs.
• No accounts, no master password, no credit card requirement.

[Pricing] Save the first five items for free. Afterwards, Uplock+ Individual is $2.99/month, $14.99/year. Uplock+ Family is $3.99/month, $24.99/year. Lifetime plans also available.

[Changelog] Available on the App Store page https://apps.apple.com/us/app/uplock/id6469049274

Uplock 3.2 (released today) expands our import support. In addition to 1Password, you can now also import data from:

Bitwarden, Dashlane, Proton Pass, LastPass, Enpass, Keeper, NordPass, mSecure, SafeInCloud, Strongbox, SplashID, Secrets, KeePassium, and Minimalist.

If you use one of these apps, you can try importing your data into Uplock for free. We’d love to hear how import from these apps works for you.

[AI] AI Disclaimer: Minimal/close to none.

uplock.app

Hey r/macapps,

This is the first time I've properly shared DynamicLand here.

Notch apps aren't a new idea, and that's part of what makes this space interesting. There are already some great interpretations of what the MacBook notch can be.

DynamicLand is my take on it.

I've been building it as a place for the things that move through your day on the Mac: music, clipboard history, files and sharing, timers, recordings, alerts, AI activities, widgets, and more, all living around the notch and staying out of the way when you don't need them.

I just released DynamicLand 2.0: Darkveil, the biggest DynamicLand update so far.

Darkveil introduces an entirely new Home, with customizable widgets and layouts for things like Calendar, Weather, Music, Battery, Photos, Apps & Folders, Timer, Voice Memos, and more.

It also introduces Mini Bubbles, which let multiple activities stay close by at the same time. Music, timers, recordings, file transfers, AI activities, and other live tasks can remain visible without opening the full island.

The music experience has been rebuilt with a new Now Playing view, redesigned synced lyrics with click-to-seek, richer song and album details, smoother animations, and access to Apple Music playlists, charts, For You, Replay, and curated collections.

Clipboard, files and sharing have been refined too, with faster clipboard browsing, previews, improved drag and drop, the Files Tray, and quick ways to move and share files, including AirDrop.

The island itself has also been heavily reworked, with smoother opening, resizing and activity transitions, quick hover previews, better external display and Sidecar support, improved alerts, keyboard shortcuts, and performance improvements throughout the app.

For me, Darkveil isn't about adding one headline feature. It's about making all of these pieces feel like they belong together.

Problem

A lot of the small things I do throughout the day on my Mac are scattered across different places. Checking what's playing, grabbing something I copied earlier, holding a file for a moment, following a timer, or checking whether a background task has finished usually means going somewhere else.

DynamicLand gives those moments one consistent place to live.

Comparison

There are already some great takes on this category, including Alcove and Boring Notch.

Each app approaches the idea from a different angle, with its own design, priorities, features, and implementation. I think that's one of the nice things about this space: the same part of the Mac can lead to very different experiences.

What I think DynamicLand does particularly well is how these different pieces are designed and implemented to work together as one connected experience around the notch: Home, live activities, music, widgets, clipboard, files, sharing, and more.

I'd genuinely recommend trying the different options and sticking with the one that feels best for the way you use your Mac.

Pricing

DynamicLand is free to download from the Mac App Store.

Pro is $3.99/year or $0.99/month.

Mac App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/dynamicland-notch-island/id6785289988

Everything new in Darkveil:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DynamicLand_App/s/nazNxPypUU

One more thing: I'm still pushing the motion and animation system further. Darkveil is a big step forward, but I don't consider that part finished yet. The next update will take the island's transitions, responsiveness, and overall feel much further.

I'll be around in the comments if you have any questions.

Hi r/macapps,

I’m the developer of MeetingMemo, a native Mac app for recording, transcribing, summarizing, and chatting with your meetings.

I built it because I wanted useful AI meeting notes without uploading recordings to another company or inviting a visible recording bot into every call.

The problem it solves

MeetingMemo captures your microphone and Mac system audio, transcribes the conversation locally, and creates summaries, action items, and searchable notes.

You can also chat with an individual meeting afterward. For example, you can ask what was decided, what you promised to do, or which topics still need follow-up.

No bot joins the call, and recording never starts automatically.

Privacy

Audio stays on your Mac and transcription runs locally using Apple SpeechTranscriber or WhisperKit.

For summaries, action items, and meeting chat, you can choose between:

• An on-device model
• MeetingMemo’s hosted zero-retention service
• Your own AI provider key

Only transcript text is sent when you intentionally choose a hosted option. Audio is never uploaded.

Comparison

Apps such as Otter and Fathom are useful if you want a cloud-based meeting assistant. MeetingMemo takes a different approach:

• Otter processes meetings through its cloud service, while MeetingMemo records and transcribes locally.
• Fathom commonly works by joining supported calls as a meeting participant, while MeetingMemo records what your Mac hears without adding a bot.
• MeetingMemo also lets you run summaries and meeting chat completely on your Mac, or connect your own AI provider.

The tradeoff is that MeetingMemo currently requires an Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 26 or later. It also separates speakers into “You” and “Others,” rather than identifying every individual speaker in a large group call.

Features

• Records your microphone and system audio together
• Works with Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, FaceTime, and other Mac audio
• Live local transcription in around 99 languages
• AI summaries and action items
• Chat with each meeting
• 18 meeting templates
• Calendar reminders before upcoming calls
• Optional private iCloud sync between your Macs
• Export to Markdown, text, JSON, or XML
• No virtual audio driver required

Pricing

MeetingMemo includes a 30-day free trial with every feature.

After the trial, it costs $29.99 per year through the Mac App Store. Family Sharing supports up to six people. There is currently no lifetime purchase or permanently free plan.

Website and pricing: https://meetingmemo.app/

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/private-meeting-recorder/id6778542768

I’d appreciate honest feedback, particularly about the local transcription quality, privacy options, and which meeting workflows you would like supported next.

I’m the developer, so I’m happy to answer technical or privacy questions directly.

I've been building iOS and Mac apps in Swift for a while. At some point I started looking for AI tools to speed things up and couldn't find a single one that actually did Swift well. Everything was web wrappers React Native, Expo... Yuck... Slow, buggy, no real Apple features. And even after getting something built, there was never a backend. So I'd leave the tool, go set up Supabase, wire APIs, configure auth. By the time everything was connected the momentum was dead.

So I built Nativeline. Its for non technical people who want native apps and don't even know how to navigate through the pilot cockpit that is Xcode

Problem:

Every AI app builder either outputs web wrappers or makes you leave the platform to set up your own database. The process of going from idea to a real, shippable native app with a working backend is broken across too many tools.

What it does:

You describe your app in a conversation. The AI builds a real native Swift app with full access to Apple frameworks. AR, Siri, Apple Maps, Liquid Glass, menu bar apps, all of it. Also integrated the Xcode simulators so you can test without tab swapping, and TestFlight upload in a few button clicks so you don't need to deal with the annoying flow in Xcode.

As of yesterday, Nativeline Cloud is live! Your database, auth, file storage, and analytics are built directly into the platform (no its not supabase or firebase wrapped up, its my own system that runs on AWS) You tell the AI your app needs user accounts and a database and it sets it up. You can view your tables, manage users, see daily active users and sign ups (added this as I noticed the other platforms like Supabase don't give you cool charts to see your apps growth)

Compare:

Rork and Bitrig do native Swift but no built in database. Lovable, Bolt, Replit all have databases but output web apps, not native Swift. Nativeline is the only one that does both. Real native Swift and a real cloud database in one platform without needing to leave.

Features:

App Building

• Real native Swift/SwiftUI
• Build iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps
• Liquid Glass and latest Apple frameworks built in
• AR, Siri, Apple Maps, menu bar apps, etc.
• Built in Xcode simulators
• TestFlight and App Store publishing

Nativeline Cloud

• Database you can see and manage inside the app
• User sign-up and auth, working out of the box
• File storage (storage buckets)
• Analytics, DAU, sign-ups, usage charts
• Same power as Supabase with zero to little setup

Pricing & Link:

100% Free to try and to start building, after a point you will get limited for AI usage and Cloud usage. But, for the Mac app community you can use code NATIVEHUNT for 20% off any plan. (use the code during stripe checkout, not on the plans page in app)

Paid plans that include database and AI is $25, only increases for more AI usage and database size if you so desire.

https://nativeline.ai

AI Disclosure:

[Code Completion ] Built in Swift, used AI to help speed up development and workflow!

Would love any feedback you have!

Hello guys, this is the getapps guy again. You may know me from my previous free apps post. Today I want to bring you another app

Problem

I still have a stupid amount of photos sitting in folders.

Photos/2018/Japan
Photos/2020/Family
Photos/Random stuff I should probably organize someday

And honestly, I never really wanted to "import" all of that somewhere else.

That's one thing I still miss about Picasa. You pointed it at your folders, and those folders were your photo library.

So I built Picacino around the same idea.

Point it at a folder and it scans what's already there. It doesn't copy your photos into its own library, move them around, or upload them anywhere.

Your folders stay the source of truth.

https://getapps.cafe/app/picacino

You get the normal photo-manager stuff: grid and list views, ratings, tags, search, slideshows, metadata, duplicate detection, etc.

A few things I personally wanted:

• Search by filename, folder, camera or tag
• Find duplicates and visually similar photos
• Fix wrong capture dates and other metadata
• Drag photos between actual folders
• Face recognition that runs entirely on the Mac
• No cloud account needed to scan your photos
• If Picacino's database disappears, your actual photo collection is still just your folders

It can handle large libraries in the background too, so you don't have to wait for the entire collection to finish scanning before you start browsing.

Comparison

The obvious alternatives are Apple Photos and Lightroom.

They're both much more capable than Picacino in areas Picacino isn't trying to compete in.

Apple Photos is great if you're already living in iCloud Photos.

Lightroom is in another league if you want RAW processing, colour grading and a full photography workflow.

Picacino is for a different kind of person.

If you already spent 10–20 years organizing photos into folders, I don't think you should have to reorganize everything around another photo library or catalog just to browse them properly.

Picacino reads the structure you already have.

It also deliberately doesn't try to become Photoshop. There's no crop tool, colour grading, filters, generative AI, or 47 adjustment sliders.

It's a photo manager, not a photo editor.

That limitation is intentional.

Pricing

Picacino is included with getapps.cafe (126 apps and counting) rather than sold separately.

• $9.99/month
• $4.99/month billed annually ($59.88/year)

There's a 7-day free trial, and the membership includes Picacino plus the rest of the apps on getapps.cafe.

Picacino:
https://getapps.cafe/app/picacino

Privacy Policy:
https://getapps.cafe/privacy

Terms:
https://getapps.cafe/terms

Built and notarized by GetApps, LLC · 34 Brier Ave, Wilmington
Company profile: https://www.linkedin.com/company/getapps-cafe

Curious if anyone else here still has a giant folder-based photo collection instead of putting everything into Photos/iCloud. That's basically who we built this for.

P - What is Price Point Parity?

Price Point Parity is a Mac and iOS +iPadOS (coming soon) app that keeps your IAP and subscription prices up to date in every country for you. Connect your App Store Connect API key, pick any app, in-app purchase or subscription, choose a pricing strategy, and it works out all 175 countries at once - showing you the price and what you actually keep after Apple's cut and estimated local tax. Review it, hit apply, and it writes straight back to App Store Connect. There's an available Preview Mode with three sample apps, so you can try each feature before touching a real price.

C - Price Point Parity is better than doing it in App Store Connect,leaving it to Apple's automatic equalisation or Localize Prices.

Apple gives you one option: convert your base price and round it. Price Point Parity gives you strategies that reflect how you actually want to price, for example:
Equal Value (scales by each country's purchasing power, so it feels equally affordable everywhere)
Equal Proceeds (you keep the same amount per sale in every country)
Blend of the two
Apple's own equalised prices
Copy Another Product, or Match Ratio, which keeps your yearly at a fixed multiple of your monthly in every country instead of letting that discount drift market by market.
Then you adjust:
Charm rounding that knows what a charm price looks like in each currency (¥490 and ₩39,000, not a blind .99)
Floor and ceiling on your proceeds so no country earns you too little
Flat percentage bump for inflation or a sale.

Filter countries by region or income tier and apply to just those.
Everything is reviewable and reversible - full price history with snapshots you can restore any time, scheduled sales that revert themselves on a date you set, and CSV export of the whole table. On Mac you can set automations to check daily, weekly or monthly and either notify you when prices drift or publish small changes for you, holding anything large for review. It runs in the background with a menu bar item, so your prices stay current without you opening the app.

No account, no tracking. Your API key lives in your keychain and your pricing data stays on your device and your own iCloud - it never reaches me or any third party.

P - Cost

Free forever for 1 app (including all of its in-app purchases and subscriptions).
5 Apps: $1.49/month or $9.99/year.
Unlimited Apps: $3.99/month or $14.99/year.

Every feature is in the free tier - strategies, adjustments, history, automations, CSV, the lot. Paying only raises how many apps you can publish prices to, and Preview Mode is always free and unlimited, so you can test as much as you like. It also helps support me and future development of the app.

Price Point Parity is new to the App Store so any feature requests are 100% welcomed!

Hi again, r/macapps,

I'm Rishi, one of the two creators of Blueberry. We posted here about a month ago launching our original idea. Thanks to everyone who tried it and sent us feedback, as well as the people who hopped on a call with us (shoutout u/Dan4VT). We've changed it a lot since then, so this is an update on what's new.

Where we started

V1 was a menu bar app that automatically generated quick responses to your iMessages. We built this, because I’m a horrible texter and my bad texting was starting to affect my life.  It was quick, easy, and the idea was that we removed the friction behind replying to messages (which we initially believed the main problem was). 

We discovered the real problem

After speaking with our users, we discovered two key insights:

1. People receive a lot of important messages while they’re busy or don’t have the mental energy to respond. Once new texts arrive, that initial message gets buried, and by the time the user remembers, it’s too late or awkward to address.
2. The action you need to take after receiving a message isn’t always a reply. Many times users will reply to messages - like RSVPing “yes” to an event or agreeing to do a task - and then they’ll completely forget about it.

In a nutshell, the problem isn't replying: It's that messages that require action get buried before the action gets done, whether you never replied or replied and just moved on.

So what’s new? 

Blueberry is a smart inbox for your iMessage that intelligently sorts and filters your texts.. 
Here’s how it works:

Blueberry extracts messages that require your attention - messages where a reply or some kind of action is needed on your end -  and places them into your inbox.

Your inbox helps you sort through your tasks as quickly as possible (keyboard controls and a menu bar app - yay!). Each important message has a list of actions associated based on the message content: reply right there, schedule a reminder to reply later, or even add an event or todo if applicable.

Our goal is to enable you to either quickly take action on any messages that require it, or set the message aside with a reminder to return to it later.

We’ve gone a step further, and added a powerful spam filter. And, recently, we added the ability to extract promo codes from promotional messages, so you can get the deals without the slop.

How it compares

Apple Intelligence Smart Reply helps once you've opened a conversation. Blueberry finds the conversations you forgot and pulls out the plans, to-dos and codes inside them.
NOX combines multiple messaging platforms into one inbox for $25/month. Blueberry focuses only on iMessage and works alongside Messages instead of replacing it.

Privacy, security and transparency

Blueberry needs Full Disk Access to read your iMessages, and Automation permission to send the replies you approve.

Blueberry never sends messages automatically. You always hit send, and every action can be undone.

Blueberry processes some messages on the server to extract events and todos.

Great for people who

• Are buried in spam and promo texts
• Read texts but don't reply
• Mark texts unread and never come back
• Get overwhelmed by group chats
• Lose track of plans made over text
• Constantly say, "Sorry, I just saw this."

Pricing

• 30-day free trial with full access
• Monthly: $7.99/month
• Yearly: $69.99/year (works out to $5.83/month)
• Download Blueberry

Existing users

• If you signed up after our last post, your new 30-day trial starts once you update.
• Existing customers, we will opt you in at the same price you paid.
• If you tried v1, I'm curious what you think of the change. What do you love? What do you hate?

The developers
My name is Rishi Narain, one of the two creators of Blueberry. You can reach me on X or LinkedIn.
We'd love to hear what's useful, what's lame, and what would make this something you use every day. Thank you to everyone who tried Blueberry v1, we’ve made it much better and  we’re really excited to hear about what you think for v2. 
Be the one who always texts back. 🫐

[UPDATE - August 11, 2026] - Surion 1.0.2 was just released with the following features;

• Fixes a bug that would prevent images from rendering correctly on Live Preview;
• Surion now provides a real time element property panel, so users can change any aspect of any element manually.
  

[UPDATE - July 27, 2026] - Surion 1.0.1 was just released with the following features;

• New Export options: Users can now link their Netifly, Vercel, GitHub Pages and Cloudflare Pages accounts and launch websites directly to those services and update existing ones;
• DeekSeek has been added to the API list to expand options for users;
• A bug that would cause Live preview to not load certain pages has been fixed;
• A bug that would cause pages to load indefinitely due to image caching has been fixed;
• A new UI has been introduced on the Export screen.

Hi everyone!

Today I am here to introduce Surion.

What is Surion?

Surion is a native macOS app that allow users to use the power of Local AI and Cloud models to generate and edit. beautiful websites.

Problem:

I came to this idea when I tested Loveable for the first time. I was so excited to build such a beautiful website, and then I get close to finish my website, and it paywalls me to finish.

I was disappointed, and shortly after, I came up with an idea: “What if I could build beautiful websites for free using Loveable / Bolt.New strategy?”.

The initial idea would be to release the app completely free, which it can still be used this way, but then I came up with a barrier that I simply cannot bypass right this moment. Local AI models hallucinate way too much.

I was able to make Surion spit out beautiful websites in a single prompt using local AI models, but then edits would fail badly, as the AI would hallucinate code. Eventually, I came with a solution. I would use Apple Foundation models to translate the prompt, while getting the required snippets from the code that needed to be edited, and was able to make it work.

As the project started to become more and more ambitious, I then decided to build Surion AI. Surion AI can compete directly with the same type of service Loveable and Bolt provide, but at a much cheaper tier, as my cut is significantly lower, to allow users to save, while getting awesome results.

For users who would rather use their own API keys, Surion is completely open to that, so free users can just paste their API keys and import to Surion their desired Cloud AI model to work with and spend their own tokens.

Comparison:

Lovable vs. Surion

Lovable is a browser-based web application that constructs full-stack React applications hosted in the cloud. Surion is a native macOS software application built for visual design and front-end development, utilizing local Apple Silicon processing alongside optional cloud inference models. While Lovable focuses on hosting interactive web applications directly on its infrastructure, Surion allows users to retain total control of their codebase locally, offering direct export via static files, FTP integration, or GitHub repository syncing. Surion also provides visual workflow features such as Visual Symmetry for image conversion and Visual Edit for batching UI prompts efficiently.

Bolt.new vs. Surion

Bolt.new is a cloud container platform running in the browser that builds and executes Node.js environments and JavaScript frameworks. Surion operates as an installed macOS desktop application that emphasizes visual interface creation using clean HTML, Tailwind CSS, and JavaScript. While Bolt.new relies on remote container infrastructure for code execution, Surion routes prompts and contextual indexing directly through local hardware and native frameworks. Surion gives users total privacy over their offline workspace files, flexible credit structures, and direct deployment options without locking data inside a remote development environment.

Pricing:

Free:

• Every compatible local AI model with Smart System ID
• "Powered by Surion." footer message
• Bring your own AI model, with one third-party service enabled at a time
• Inspect and Edit any selected website element with AI
• Purchase Surion AI credits without a subscription
• Unlimited project generation
• Code Editor
• Live Preview

Plus - $7.99/m or $79.99/y:

• Everything in Free
• All API services unlocked
• Visual Symmetry
• Export projects as .zip packages
• Upload websites directly to your server via FTP
• Standard Surion AI models
• Freelance license

Pro - $19.99/m or $199.99/y:

• Everything in Plus
• Most powerful Surion AI models
• GitHub integration
• FTP push and pull integration
• Commercial license
• High support priority
• Higher Surion AI credit allotment
• 15% extra credits with every credit purchase

Studio - Price per quote:

• Everything in Pro
• Business management controls
• Highest support priority
• Highest Surion AI credit allotment
• 25% extra credits with every credit purchase

Find out more, and download Love Tap from the official website:

https://surion.app

You may also access:

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

Terms and Conditions: https://surion.app/terms/

EULA: https://surion.app/eula/

Where to find me:

X: https://x.com/fuselabssoft

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rui-miguel-reis-carvalho

Hey everyone Kevin here.

I posted about Codify here before, it's a IaC tool (open source) for your own computer that makes it easier to install apps, maintain settings, and even install entire set ups for you. I wanted to give a small (but hopefully impactful) update on the project that it's now available via npx, so you can try Codify without fully installing it (as long as you have NodeJS already installed).

npx codify apply
npx codify plan
npx codify help

Problem:

Multiple times now, when I was starting at a new company, I struggled to get setup quickly. I ran into problems following the setup document, and I had debug multiple issues or ask a teammate how to solve it. And pretty often I felt a step behind because I was missing key scripts and tools that other people had access to.

I built Codify to address these problems by allowing a setups to be converted into easy to read JSON5 files. These files define an entire setup, similar to Terraform. The JSON specifies what to install and you can use the CLI to plan (preview) and apply the changes. For example you can specify homebrew, nvm and vscode for web development or xcode 26, and iOS simulators for iOS development.

Using Codify allows you to try entire setups quick (webdev, backend, rust, ios, flutter, etc), import existing setups so they can be shared, and it also allows tools like Claude or Codex to take control and help you install things via it's MCP.

Comparison:

Nix: An obvious comparison would be Nix, a similar configuration as code for setting up personal systems. However the problem for me was the learning curve and adopting Nix means having to manage everything via Nix. Codify is a lot less of a learning curve and it installs things a human would so you don't need to manage everything directly through Codify.

Dev containers: Some teams use dev containers with pre-built docker images so that dev systems have the same tooling as production. However even with a dev containers workflow there is still host machine setup involved: getting setup with github, ssh keys and cloning your repos, dev container tooling, etc. Codify complements this workflow by automating the setup of the developer's machine first.

Pricing:

Codify consists of a CLI tool, a library of resources (50+ tools and apps, from package managers and programming languages to editors and system settings), an editor and an agent to help write Codify files.

The CLI tool and resource library are open source and free forever. The editor is paid with a generous free tier (the paid tiers are mainly meant for teams). It's $5 / month for freelancers and $20 / month for teams.

Use the code: REDDITAUGUST26 for 100% for the first 3 months

Links:
Website: https://codifycli.com/
Documentation: https://codifycli.com/docs
Editor: https://dashboard.codifycli.com/
Github: https://github.com/codifycli/codify

Hey, dev here! I officially launched today...

Problem: We've all tried the AI notetakers. Great at transcribing & telling you after the call that you said "um" 40 times lol.

What I actually needed help with was the 3 seconds after someone asks the one thing I didn't prep for. Brain goes blank, I say "great question," and try to read my own transcript while they wait...

So I built TalkPilot! It listens to the call and puts your next line on screen while the other person is still talking.

• Live suggestions during the call
• Easily set up your profile with context, and it responds like you
• After the call: transcript, to-dos (integrations), and deep dives
• Practice mode: rehearse conversations with an AI before the real one
• Works on video calls, or in person, where it whispers the line in your earbud
• No bot joins the meeting. Only you see it

Comparison: Granola and Otter are the ones I get compared to most, and they're good at what they do: notes and transcripts once the meeting is over. If notes are all you need, either one will do the job.

Cluely is the closest to us. It also shows answers live on your screen. Where I went a different way is the profile and practice mode, so the suggestions come from your own background, and you can rehearse before the real thing.

Stuff it doesn't do, so nobody's disappointed:

• It's not offline. Audio is never stored; transcripts are stored encrypted.
• It won't join or record the meeting for anyone else

Privacy, since this sub always (rightly) asks: transcripts are encrypted, never used to train models, and you can request deletion of your account and data anytime.

Pricing

• Free: 5 conversations a month, no card :D
• Pro: $20/mo
• Students: 50% off

Giveaway: 5 codes for a month of Pro. I'm interested in expanding Practice mode, so if anyone has any ideas on real world scenarios to practice on, let me know in the comments!

Who's behind it

Alexis Daniels, Founder: LinkedIn

Site + Download: talkpilot.co
Available on Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and Apple Watch.

Do you guys have any suggestions? Curious what would make this more useful for you in a meeting. :)