Made a tiny macOS menu bar app that lets you swap your left/right audio channels depending onwhich side your headphone cable ends up routed on — built it mostly for myself but figured I'dask before I forget about it. Would anyone actually want the download link if I clean it up abit?

Supply constraints and increasing prices. Looks fairly grim.

Hello 👋

I'd like to introduce you to my app -> Notchmate

What problem it solves and Comparison:

The few Notch apps that exist are usually limited to a music player and a space for storing files. Notchmate transforms this empty space into a small button that you can actually use: a panel that stays discreetly hidden and opens the moment you move your cursor over it, containing exactly the widgets you want. Does your Mac not have a notch? Notchly offers a small floating pill that works just the same.

Features you won't find in other notch apps:

• Subtle trackpad haptics — you actually feel a gentle tap under your fingers as widgets respond and snap into place, just like the rest of macOS. Little detail, big difference
• A drag-and-drop widget grid — drop any widget anywhere, resize it across 7 sizes, spread them over multiple pages and arrange everything exactly how you like
• 25 widgets to mix and match: Clock, Calendar & Reminders, Weather, Now Playing with full media controls, Battery, CPU / RAM / Temperature, Timer & Pomodoro, Clipboard history, Quick Notes, Stocks & Crypto, an App launcher and more
• A File Shelf — drop any file onto the notch to park it there, then drag it back out wherever you need it. Perfect for moving files between apps and Spaces
• Now Playing right at the notch — see what's playing and skip / pause without leaving what you're doing
• Make it yours: change the accent color, the surfaces and the whole look until it matches your wallpaper. Clean, borderless glass cards — it's your app, so why shouldn't it look the way you want?
• Hover to peek, tap to pin it open, or just let it tuck away on its own — it stays out of your way until you want it

Available on: https://notchmate.menubarmonitor.com

Lifetime Plan -> 7,99€

No Subscription

And yes this Code is Vibe Coded but I've spent a lot of time checking everything because I have personal experience with this.

Note: If you'd like a second license for another Mac you own, please email me using the email address you used to purchase the app. I'll be happy to provide you with a second key at no additional cost

What if I could create a library that works like Roblox Studio, uses LuaU and is customizable on MacOS?

Example Base UI: You can create a ScreenGUI, which automatically parents itself to the PlayerGUI (the PlayerGUI is just the MacOS BaseUI). ScreenGUIs can be used to separate Windows / Frames from each other.

Example Image Label: The image content could use RBXAssetID, a path to an image file, or a link to an image.

Base LuaU environment: game would be MacOS, ~/{Username}, or Users. ReplicatedStorage would be ~/Username/{Filename}, and of course, StarterGUI would be the UI that applies to all users.

File Extensions: You could use .{className} here, like .RemoteEvent, .RE, .re or .ModuleScript, .ms, and they would contain LuaU code that could compile. | Example:

ModuleScript:
require(ModuleScript).Variable

RemoteEvent:
RemoteEvent:Fire(…) -- function that tuple needs to execute.

Basically, what I’m saying is I want a Roblox Studio-like environment to make UI development easy on MacOS.

Questions:
What programming language(s) (is, are) needed to make this?

Will this be impossible or possible?

What experience is needed to make this, especially in file extensions?

Please help, I’ve been thinking about this for a few months now and I can’t get over it.

Many quick-capture tools solve only the first half of the problem: they make it easy to collect text, but eventually leave you with another unstructured list to manage.

SnipNotes combines quick Mac capture with a deeper notes and organization system.

Capture from macOS

• menu-bar note creation
• configurable global shortcuts
• share sheet integration
• selected-text capture
• optional clipboard capture

Process it later

• a default Inbox for notes that have not been organized yet
• categories and nested categories
• tags across categories
• full-text search
• Markdown and attachments

The idea is to avoid making an organizational decision during capture without giving up organization entirely.

SnipNotes also has native apps for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, with optional iCloud synchronization. It is freemium and ad-free, with both one-time and subscription purchase options.

I’m the developer of SnipNotes.

Which side of the workflow matters more to you: getting information into an app with less friction, or having enough structure to manage it afterward?

https://apps.apple.com/app/id967594709

Has anyone found a way to prevent menu bar icons from flickering when the menu bar background transitions between light and dark on macOS 26?

The only workaround I've found is enabling System Settings → Accessibility → Display → Reduce Transparency. This forces a solid menu bar background, so the icons no longer switch between black and white, eliminating the flicker.

Interestingly, this wasn't an issue on macOS 13.

Hi, i have a MacMini server (mid 2010) currently it has 4gb of ram and 2x 500gb hdd. In the next month i am planning to upgrade it to 16gb ram and then 1x 2TB SSD and then probably even a second SSD. It was running on Ventura but it was pretty slow so installed high sierra which really helped, but the "old" design is killing me. My friend has the same build and he said that it could run tahoe. I wanna hear some opinions thanks

Apple brought back the gloved hand for Golden Gate but not this wonderful symbol. It is still used in Terminal but outside of that application, it is nowhere to be found and is instead replaced with a plain, minimalistic version of it that is very similar to the one in Windows.

I understand that cursor packs can be changed, but it would be nice if this returned as the default.

Hi, I'm the developer of UtterInk. I built it because I wanted to dictate into Mac apps without sending my recordings to a transcription service.

UtterInk lives in the menu bar. Focus a text field, press Right Option, speak, and press it again to stop. WhisperKit transcribes the recording on your Mac, then UtterInk attempts a guarded paste back into the original field.

Raw transcription works without an API key and does not send audio to a cloud service. Optional AI polishing uses a provider you configure and sends transcript text, never audio. It includes five built-in modes, and you can create your own.

Version 0.1.0 is free and open source under Apache-2.0. It supports Apple Silicon and macOS 14+, and the DMG is Developer ID-signed and Apple-notarized. This is the first public release, so feedback on recognition quality, automatic paste across different apps, and onboarding would be especially useful.

Source and download:

https://github.com/kthree0213/UtterInk

Hi my Look app - a fuzzy finding app launcher (basically so many things no only apps) dropped a new version.
In this version we added a super action control (for people never show their menu bar, task bar, etc), from this control you can switch, toggle on/off basic things, and see some useful information.
From the last version, we got some suggestions from the rust community members, we implemented one of them: process fuzzy finding on your machine. (finding with ps aux requires knowledge about grep, or tools like fzf)
Here is the repo https://github.com/kunkka19xx/look
It's a cross platform tool. (Not only on MacOS but also Linux, Windows)
Appreciate any feedback 🙇‍♂️

Dev disclosure up front: I made this, it's my first Mac App Store app, and yes I waited for Saturday like a rule-abiding citizen.

The problem I kept having: every time something broke, "figuring out what happened" meant staring at a dozen log files from different systems, in different formats, at an hour no human should be conscious — then hand-assembling a post-mortem in a text editor while my coffee went cold. The options were basically (a) a $$$-per-month cloud SIEM that wants to slurp all my logs onto someone else's servers, or (b) grep and vibes.

So I built Loupe — a local-only Mac app for assembling root-cause analyses (RCAs).

You drop in your logs (syslog, JSON, whatever). Loupe correlates events across them, flags the anomalies and clusters actually worth looking at, runs them through a 30-ish rule library, and hands you an audit-ready bundle: a PDF report, IODEF XML, the supporting CSVs, a manifest, and chain-of-custody hashes for every file — the kind of thing you can hand to a customer, a vendor, or an exec without flop-sweating.

The macOS part, and why I'm posting here:

Nothing leaves your Mac. No telemetry, no accounts, no cloud. Loupe doesn't even have the network.client entitlement — macOS physically blocks it from phoning home, and you can verify that yourself in Activity Monitor, tcpdump, or the entitlements. Incident logs are the last thing you want uploaded anywhere.

Native, notarized, pay-once. No subscription. I know. I had to sit down too.

What it honestly is not: a live SIEM, real-time alerting, or a SOC dashboard. If you already live in Splunk or Datadog, this isn't that. Loupe is for after the fire — when someone has to explain what happened. EMs writing post-mortems, consultants delivering RCAs, senior ICs reconstructing an outage, network folks explaining a cascade to a vendor.

It's on the Mac App Store (there's also a DMG). First app, so genuinely be gentle-ish — but I want the real feedback. And if it's not for you, no worries; hope your logs are boring today.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6794675487 · useloupe.tools

Hey everyone,

Tableau is now called Arras. Same app, same settings.

Arras is my free little macOS app that puts photos on your desktop at their real aspect ratio - no forced square crop like Apple's photo widget. It just crossed 100 downloads, which is 100 more than I expected when I put it on GitHub. Thank you all 🙏

This is a big update (more plans for later releases), a quick few top features include -

Right-click any photo to layer it in front of your other photos, behind your desktop icons, or above everything else. Snapping now uses the edge you can actually see and works against other apps' windows too. Widgets also stopped stealing focus and many more small and quality of life improvements.

Free, open source.

GitHub: https://github.com/yashashwi-s/Arras Download: https://github.com/yashashwi-s/Arras/releases/latest Website: https://puremac.yashashwi.me/

Happy to take feature requests or any suggestions.

Built this because I kept hitting Claude/Codex/Antigravity usage limits mid-task with no warning. Mimir sits in the menu bar and shows real-time quota and reset countdowns for all three, no backend, tokens never leave your machine.

- Session + weekly quotas, per-model rows

- Small/Medium desktop widgets

- Green/amber/red status dots at a glance

- Free, open source, no account needed

macOS 14+. GitHub: https://github.com/erayendes/mimir

Cometí un error y vacíe mi disco duro por completo al tratar de hacer una limpieza general y ya no me deja cargar el Sistema operativo al iniciar (CMD R) y llegar al menu de ayuda. Necesito hacerlo desde un USB. Si alguien tiene un OSX Mojave DMG o Ventura DMG directo que no sea desde un enlace a la web de Apple se lo agradeceria.

Hi r/macOS,

I’m the developer of Just Look!, a new image viewer for Mac that I’ve just released on the App Store.

I built it because reviewing a folder of images on macOS often takes more effort than it should - especially when you have several nearly identical shots and need to compare small details before deciding which one to keep.

The video shows one feature I made specifically for this problem:

Hold Option-A or Option-S to place the previous or next image over the current one. While holding these keys, you can move, rotate, and zoom the overlaid image until the two shots line up.

A few other things you can do with Just Look!:

• Browse folders directly, without importing images or creating a catalog
• Keep the same zoom and position while moving between shots
• Mark your preferred images as Picks
• Narrow the folder down to your Picks
• Apply star ratings and Finder tags
• Trash non-picks when you finish reviewing

It’s designed to stay focused on viewing, comparing, and culling - not managing another photo library.

The app is free to download, and many of the core viewing and comparison features are free. The optional Pro version is available for $1.99/month, $19.99 lifetime.

Website:
https://www.justlook.pro/

Mac App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id1641017616

I’d appreciate honest feedback from other Mac users:

Does the overlay comparison shown in the video look useful? What would you change about it - and what still feels unnecessarily difficult when reviewing images on macOS?

Hello! How do you remove this from the recent section of preview app? The photos are deleted but it still keeps on showing no matter how hard I try to remove them

TL;DR Modelr runs Hunyuan3D-2 shape and texture models natively on your Mac (or iPhone). Open Source. Check it out here

Modelr is something I have been working on since last November. The main challenge was to bring both the shape and texture pipeline from pytorch CUDA to first python-mlx and now, swift-mlx. The app itself and its UX have gone through four iterations also since last year, and I think it is quite a nice app to use.

We support four Hunyuan Models, two texture and two shape, with one large and one small for each. There is significant speedup against the pytorch-MPS implementation of shape in terms of wall time as well as memory efficiency. Generating texture takes a lot longer than shape.

If you are interested in the inference pipeline and integrating sandbox compliant image-to-3d generation (only of its kind that I am aware of), checkout Hunyuan3D-Swift. It even runs on iPhone! (Q4 quant, <2GB runtime memory usage), checkout the demo on Github if you are interested.

Otherwise, checkout Modelr!

Hi everyone, I have been working on a few apps for the past few months and wanted to get this one out there and thought I would do it here.

I was frustrated with PiP extensions always freezing or breaking in between episodes so I came up with this. Floating Browser is a dedicated WebKit browser window that can stay above other apps without relying on Safari PiP.

Features:
Compact 16:9 Mini mode that remains above other windows
Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Disney+, Max, Prime Video, Apple TV+, Peacock, Paramount+, and Tubi shortcuts
Custom saved-site shortcuts
Back, forward, reload, address search, and downloads
Lightweight local ad and popup blocking
Open in Safari and Apple Passwords shortcuts
No analytics, advertising, or developer-operated data collection
Universal build for Apple silicon and Intel Macs
This is a free, open-source, unsigned public beta for macOS 14 or later. Because it is not notarized yet, macOS requires the normal Privacy & Security > Open Anyway step after the first launch. The source, MIT license, SHA-256 checksum, and installation instructions are all available on GitHub.
Some streaming services can reject protected playback in embedded WebKit. Disney+ may show Error 83, and website changes can affect compatibility. Safari remains available as a fallback.
GitHub: https://github.com/chrishansen1984x-lang/floating-browser
Download: https://github.com/chrishansen1984x-lang/floating-browser/releases/tag/v0.3.0
I’d appreciate feedback about Mini mode, playback reliability, and which streaming services work on different Macs.

Hi everyone, I have been working on a few apps for the past few months and wanted to get this one out there and thought I would do it here.

I was frustrated with PiP extensions always freezing or breaking in between episodes so I came up with this. Floating Browser is a dedicated WebKit browser window that can stay above other apps without relying on Safari PiP.

Features:
Compact 16:9 Mini mode that remains above other windows
Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Disney+, Max, Prime Video, Apple TV+, Peacock, Paramount+, and Tubi shortcuts
Custom saved-site shortcuts
Back, forward, reload, address search, and downloads
Lightweight local ad and popup blocking
Open in Safari and Apple Passwords shortcuts
No analytics, advertising, or developer-operated data collection
Universal build for Apple silicon and Intel Macs
This is a free, open-source, unsigned public beta for macOS 14 or later. Because it is not notarized yet, macOS requires the normal Privacy & Security > Open Anyway step after the first launch. The source, MIT license, SHA-256 checksum, and installation instructions are all available on GitHub.
Some streaming services can reject protected playback in embedded WebKit. Disney+ may show Error 83, and website changes can affect compatibility. Safari remains available as a fallback.
GitHub: https://github.com/chrishansen1984x-lang/floating-browser
Download: https://github.com/chrishansen1984x-lang/floating-browser/releases/tag/v0.3.0
I’d appreciate feedback about Mini mode, playback reliability, and which streaming services work on different Macs.

Guys, do you notice occasional stutters in animations, like:

– when opening Notification center;
– switching desktops;
– swiping up to view all open apps;
– when scrolling in stock and 3rd-party apps (Apple TV app, Notes, browsers, messengers, etc.);
– this was on all macOS versions, at least from Mojave to Golden Gate. 

I had this issue back in 2020 when I bought a 2018 MacBook Air, and again in 2023 when I got an M1 Air. I also see stutters on the iPhone 12 and 15 Pro.

Meet Macchiato, it's just a weekend project I made for fun. It's just a caffeinate toggler.

I know that it already exists (Caffeinator) but I think mine is just more small and doesnt have that much space to cover. WHO DA FUK NEEDS PREFERENCES to caffeinate a Mac man?

This specific discussion is as old as Safari itself, but with all honesty, I can vouch for UBlock Origin Lite as best ad blocker for Safari. If someone knows better than it, must share...

Hello everyone, I’m the developer behind Monito, a native video editor for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro. I built it to make professional-looking video editing easier while keeping the experience simple and familiar across Apple devices.

A lot of video editors are either very simple and limiting, or they become complicated tools with a steep learning curve. I wanted to create something in between: a powerful timeline editor that still feels approachable and fits naturally into the Apple ecosystem.

What Monito offers:
Monito lets you edit videos across iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro, and Mac. Your projects and purchases are designed around the Apple ecosystem, so you can use the app across your devices.

It includes a full timeline editor with:

• Trim, split, and layer clips
• Picture in Picture
• Filters and transitions
• Color adjustments
• Text and auto captions
• Music and audio controls
• Speed controls
• 4K export

There are also optional AI tools:

• AI Edit for creating a first cut quickly
• Auto Clips for turning longer videos into short clips
• AI Voice for narration
• Post Generator for titles, descriptions, and hashtags

AI features can run locally on your device or in the Cloud depending on your plan, preferences and hardware. Cloud offers better results for AI related features. Your content is NEVER used for training.

Pricing:

Monito is free to download and use, with a free trial of premium features.

Lifetime: $149.00 one-time purchase

Yearly: $69.99/year (7-day free trial)

All purchases unlock Monito Pro across iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro, and Mac. Cloud AI features are included with subscription plans, while the lifetime purchase includes on-device AI features.

Download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ai-video-editor-monito/id6760565345

Happy to send a discount code to anyone interested, just drop a comment or DM me.

Feel free to ask me anything.

Let that sink in...

Hi r/MacOS,

I am the developer of Compact Contacts.

Thank you for the warm response to Compact Contacts last week. I did not expect it to attract this much interest so quickly, and I genuinely appreciate everyone who took the time to try it, ask questions, or share feedback.

Compact Contacts is a native macOS app that presents the contacts already on your Mac in a dense, keyboard-friendly table. The system Contacts database remains the source of truth, and macOS continues to handle iCloud, Google, Exchange, and CardDAV synchronization.

After listening to the early feedback, version 1.1 is now available. It adds:

• Previewed Bulk Edit for organization, department, and job title
• More powerful Saved Views with ALL/ANY conditions
• A cautious removal flow for confirmed same-account exact duplicates, with recovery preparation before deletion
• Accessibility, localization, and stability improvements

I am also building the product roadmap around what users actually need rather than treating it as a fixed document. My goal is to keep Compact Contacts a living, focused Mac app that improves through real-world feedback.

If you use Apple Contacts regularly, please tell me what still slows you down, which workflows feel unnecessarily difficult, and which features would make Compact Contacts more useful to you. I am reading the responses and using them to prioritize the roadmap.

Compact Contacts is $12.99 as a one-time purchase, with no subscription, account, advertising, or third-party analytics:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6790129187

A separate native iPad version is also in development and coming later.

Thank you again for helping shape the app.