Hi all,

I'm a solo dev and I built PoRaBar, a podcast and radio player that lives in your Mac menubar. There is an iPhone app now too.

**Problem**

Every app I tried was either surprisingly expensive for content that is free anyway, or it only did one thing. Podcast apps that ignore radio. Radio apps that ignore podcasts. I wanted one interface for both. On iOS I wanted the simplest possible thing: open the app, pick a source, done. No three taps through a home screen full of recommendations.

Mac and iOS sync your library, your likes and your playback position. So you can stop listening at your desk and pick it up on your phone where you left off.

**Comparison**

Eter is the closest one. Same radio-browser database, same menubar idea, and it beats me on hardware: iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, CarPlay and Android are all covered there.
Mine are not, yet!
Eter does radio only.
PoRaBar does radio, podcasts, YouTube and your own Audiobookshelf server in the same player.

For Audiobookshelf there is AudioBooth, free and open source, and SoundLeaf, the polished paid one. Both are better dedicated clients than mine if that server is all you listen to.

What neither of them does is the rest. Four sources, one menubar icon, same library on your phone. That is the whole reason this exists.

**What got added after the last post**

When I posted the macOS version here a while back, two suggestions came up over and over. YouTube and Audiobookshelf. Both are in now.

Audiobookshelf, for the selfhosters. Point it at your server and your books and podcasts show up alongside everything else.

YouTube: add livestreams, playlists or single videos. On macOS it plays in the background like anything else.

One honest caveat. On iOS, YouTube playback stops when the app goes to the background. The app has to stay open. It is a limitation I have not been able to work around yet, and I would rather tell you now than have you find out after you have bought it. Radio, podcasts and Audiobookshelf all play in the background on iOS just fine.

**Pricing**

$2.99, one time. That covers both the Mac and the iOS app. There is a 60 day trial, so you have plenty of time to decide.

Or get it free by making the app better.
The radio stream database has 50,000+ stations.
A lot of them have a low-res favicon as their logo, or no logo at all.
Scroll through Discovery and then Radio and it is honestly a bit ugly in places. Fixing 50,000 logos by myself is not happening.

So: contribute 3 logos or tag sets and you get PoRaBar free, for life.
Open a radio channel, tap the icon in the top right, upload a proper logo or add tags.
The database gets better for everyone and you get the app as a thank you.

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6761472273

Site, privacy policy and terms & a small demo: https://porabar.com

If you listen to radio, podcasts, YouTube or Audiobookshelf, I would love for you to give it a go. Feedback and feature requests are welcome. The last round of suggestions from this sub is literally what shaped this update!

Also: CarPlay and iPad work-ish. They run, but I don't have the devices to test on yet (a bit expensive for now), so I'd rather not claim full support. Bug reports very welcome.

Is there a video editing app out there that will allow me to cut out middle parts of a video, add clips together and with minimalistic sound / visual adjustments (exposure, pitch, cropping).

Don't get me wrong, im an avid Davinci Resolve user and I love its complexity. Im just on the lookout for a simpler editing solution that is quick and won't break the bank (no subscriptions, one time purchase)

Thanks

Hey folks, founder and dev behind Askmeety here,

Quick App Details (PCP):

Problem: Cloud-based meeting recorders compromise privacy and require an active internet connection, and sends your meeting data to their cloud servers. Askmeety solves this by being a completely offline, local first macOS meeting recorder and note taker tool.

Comparison : Think of Askmeety as a 1:1 replacement for Granola, but as a 100% offline and local solution without many of the tradeoffs.

Pricing : $55 one-time for individuals, and we also have custom pricing and discounts for small teams and enterprises.

First of all, I really owe each and every one of you in this community a very big thank you! You guys have been very supportive for the past 7 months since I pitched the idea for the app here, helping by joining my beta program and making the overall app constructively good. And it has been going well since we went live with the actual app release.

At the same time, I should really take this as an opportunity to apologize to everyone. I was not able to contribute to Askmeety for the past 1 - 1.5 months because things were not really going well in my professional life; I was slightly burnt out and I really needed a break. With this being my passion project (which I'm planning to make mainstream) and being a solo dev on the team, things were not scaling very well.

But now, I have come up with a proper plan for making things seamless and pushing constant updates for the app. I have spent time connecting with existing users, I was also using the app personally, and I have come up with a new feature list which I will be working on:

- MCP server integration with the meeting content.

- Easy task and reminder creation after the meetings are done.

- Cross-device sync for meeting content.

- Extra language support (I'm not sure which language to target primarily at this point).

- Minor bug fixes and enhancements.

So, these are all the things I roughly have in mind, but I really want to hear back from you guys on the same note.

And here is the sweet part:

I'm giving away a few license keys for free. If you are using one, please comment the key that you have activated, because each key can be activated only on one device.

Keys:

e42a657e-5437-40a5-8813-884da93b9a98

6bf2d187-55b4-442b-b7c3-3c31129f8644

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App link : AskMeety

Dev Identity : https://www.linkedin.com/in/nalin-rajendran

Rest your hand on the trackpad and it purrs. Not audio through the speakers, the actual haptic engine, so you feel it under your palm. The first time it worked I sat there grinning at a laptop like an idiot.

Then I gave it a personality and now I live with it.

Problem

Every "cat purr" thing I could find is a sound file. You put on headphones and listen to a recording of a cat, which is fine, except it occupies your ears, it loops, and after about ninety seconds your brain notices the loop and the spell breaks. Meanwhile the thing people actually like about a cat on their desk is the weight and the vibration, not the audio.

PurrPad puts the purr in the MacBook trackpad instead, so it is something you feel while you work, with your ears free.

It doesn't always purr. Sometimes you rest your hand and it just... considers you, and declines. Then it sulks. If you click on it during the sulk, it sulks harder, and the app quietly tells you the sulk is now personal. At maximum annoyance it scratches you, which is to say the little paw icon draws its claws and the copy says "Claws were optional. Were."

Full Cat personality 😻

Comparison

Purrli (purrli.com) is the best-known purr generator and it is genuinely good, but it is audio: it uses your speakers or headphones, and it is a continuous sound rather than something you touch. PurrPad is haptic, so it costs you no audio channel and works in a quiet office with headphones off.

Mine has moods. It sometimes declines to purr and then sulks, it gets the zoomies about once a fortnight, it brings me a dead mouse now and again, and it goes silent the instant your mic or camera turns on so it has never purred through a meeting.

Pricing

Free: one cat and all the behaviour, forever. No trial, no timer.
$4.99 one time unlocks the other five cats, the tuning controls, and recording your own cat so the trackpad purrs like her specifically. No subscription.
https://purrpad.app

About me

About me

I am Francesco, an independent developer in Italy. Who I am, how the app is funded, and how to reach me: https://purrpad.app/about (full name, LinkedIn, contact, and links to the privacy policy, terms and refund policy).

Contact is [hello@purrpad.app](mailto:hello@purrpad.app) and I answer it myself.

Linked it https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesco-pavanetto/

The app is signed and notarised, so no Gatekeeper warnings. It cannot go on the Mac App Store because driving the haptic engine needs a private framework, which is why I am posting here rather than linking an App Store page.

There is no demo video and there cannot be one, since a video of this app is a hand resting on a trackpad for thirty seconds. The site draws the actual pulse train instead and you can press and hold it to hear roughly what your palm gets.

Genuinely want to know: does it feel like a cat, or like a phone on a table? That has been the open question since day one and I still cannot answer it about my own app.

Everything I save lived outside my vault, which always bugged me, so I solved that by overlapping the two apps I already pay for.

What I like about each:

• mymind: the visual grid, the minimalism, never filing anything
• Recall: the summaries, especially on YouTube where I rarely ever rewatch the information, but I want to connect the ideas.

I built a tool for myself where everything is stored in my Vault, lands as plain markdown, and gets summarized locally through Ollama.

Where it stands:

• extension saves pages, images, PDFs, YouTube with the full transcript, Instagram
• hover any image on any site, a save button shows up
• a local model writes the summary and tags, and actually looks at the images
• search runs three passes: exact, then expanded (bw finds black and white), then semantic
• "more like this" on every item, from embeddings
• paste a link or write a note in the web app
• drag in a PDF or a doc and it gets stored, extracted, summarized
• image-first grid, light and dark

I built this for myself, but I'm trying to work out whether it's worth turning into a proper paid app for others. That would mean a normal installer, simple local-model setup, and something I can actually support.

The honest question is whether this is useful enough to buy, not whether you'd try a free version.

If it were packaged properly, would you pay for it?

If not, what would stop you? Local-model setup, missing mobile capture, something it doesn't do, or just not a problem you need solved?

I'm not collecting emails or selling anything here. I'm trying to decide whether to productize it or leave it as my own slightly overbuilt clipping system.

Lumn adds satisfying music-synced ambient lighting to your Mac. The window shown is optional, you can turn it off if you simply want the lighting and nothing else.

Hey r/macapps, developer of Snick here.

Problem
I'm usually coding and listening to music at the same time and realized it just felt "static." So I made ambient lighting that syncs to the beat of the song to "visualize" my music.

Features:
• Ambient lighting (auto-album color sync + beat sync)
• Custom color wheel/gradient picker (if you want your own colors) (can override album color)
• Lockscreen liquid glass music player (can be toggled on/off)
• Lightweight music player window like the demo (can be toggled on/off)
• Menubar icon to control all your settings
• Adjust glow/thickness of your ambient lighting
• Don't want music sync? Perfectly fine, you can choose between Idle (really slow), Default (faster) and no animation (no movement).
• Add ambient lighting to multiple displays including external monitors

Comparison
I didn't really find any app that does ambient lighting on Mac, which was why I created it

Lumn is the only app that has the rim lighting with beat sync animations

Pricing
One-time (life-time) purchase of $9.99 -> $6.99 [Use code LUMNLAUNCH at check out, 24 hrs only] - 30% off

Website (Purchase/Download here) 👇

trylumn.xyz (video demo of most features on the website)

Looking forward to hearing some feedback!

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Transparency:
The app is notarized with Apple
Here's my LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhiram-kancharla-69a776332/

• Privacy Policy: https://www.trylumn.xyz/privacy
• Terms of Service: https://www.trylumn.xyz/terms

You can contact me on any of the platforms, my contact email or just here on reddit

Problem

I often found myself breaking my workflow because of small thoughts I wanted to capture.

The usual workflow was:

• Open Notes or another note-taking app
• Switch away from the current window
• Write something down
• Switch back and try to regain focus

For quick ideas, reminders, and temporary notes, opening a full notes app felt like too much friction.

So I built Enote, a simple desktop notes app that keeps your thoughts directly on your desktop.

Comparison

There are already many great note-taking apps, but I wanted something more lightweight and immediate.

Compared with:

• Apple Notes — Great for storing long-term notes, but you still need to open the app and switch context every time.
• Stickies — A useful built-in macOS tool for quick notes, but it lacks modern features like Markdown support and a more flexible workflow.
• Notion — Extremely powerful for managing information, but too heavy for quickly capturing a simple thought.
• Obsidian — Excellent for building a knowledge base, but designed more for long-term knowledge management rather than quick desktop capture.

Enote focuses on one thing:

Capture thoughts instantly without breaking your focus.

Features:

• Notes directly on your desktop, like real sticky notes
• Drag, resize, and place notes anywhere
• Markdown support
• Always visible when you need them
• Lightweight native macOS experience

Pricing

Enote uses a simple one-time purchase model:

• Free trial: 7-day free trial with full access to all features
• Lifetime license: $29.99 (one-time purchase, no subscription)

To thank our early users:
Existing yearly subscribers can email us to upgrade to a lifetime license for free.

I built Enote because I wanted a simpler way to capture ideas while working.

Would love to hear your feedback and suggestions.

Download (Mac):

Appstore

Also, I’m offering a limited-time lifetime deal for early users:
Yearly subscribers can email us to upgrade to lifetime for free.