{"data":{"items":[{"id":"50691a38-e6b7-43df-8518-8012399c4f21","excerpt":"A Deep Dive on Rocket Typist — [Rocket Typist](https://preview.redd.it/e8pigvfrevmg1.png?width=645&format=png&auto=webp&s=0f9efc465935eee719596b8947da45ac5c5b6327)\n\nEvery text expansion app promises the same core trick: type a short trigger; get a longer block of text. What actually matters is reliability, friction, an","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1rjwn3m/a_deep_dive_on_rocket_typist/","role":"request","weight":1.3344959,"occurredAt":"2026-03-03T18:08:39.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"macapps","intent":"feature_request","painScore":0.38,"sentiment":0.8095238,"confidence":0.96702605,"matchedPatterns":["still_cannot","manual_process","urgent"],"statement":"* Custom autocorrect for words I still can't seem to type correctly.","title":"A Deep Dive on Rocket Typist","body":"[Rocket Typist](https://preview.redd.it/e8pigvfrevmg1.png?width=645&format=png&auto=webp&s=0f9efc465935eee719596b8947da45ac5c5b6327)\n\nEvery text expansion app promises the same core trick: type a short trigger; get a longer block of text. What actually matters is reliability, friction, and whether the app helps you build real workflows instead of just automating ⌘V.\n\n[Rocket Typist ](https://www.witt-software.com/rockettypist/)is a one-time purchase Mac text expander from Witt Software. It focuses on dynamic snippets built with simple macros, all managed from a centralized library that lets you preview exactly what will be inserted before you commit.\n\nIt's normally $19.99 for the Pro version; it's currently [on sale at BundleHunt for $3.50.](https://appaddict.app/post/bundlehunt-s-first-sale-of-2026-is-live-lifetime-licenses-only) It's also available through Setapp, although some users report bugs in the Setapp version that don't appear in the standalone release.\n\nThe [Mac text expansion space](https://appaddict.app/post/lots-of-choices-for-text-expansion) is crowded: **TextExpander, Espanso, aText, PhraseExpress**, and even **Raycast Snippets** all compete here. Rocket Typist positions itself as a middle ground: more capable than lightweight snippet tools; less complex and less enterprise-heavy than the big subscription platforms.\n\n# What Rocket Typist Actually Does\n\nI've used text expanders for years, and the real value shows up in boring, repetitive work:\n\n* Standardized responses to common questions, including troubleshooting steps.\n* Email templates for replies I send every week.\n* Frequently used URLs, addresses, and signatures.\n* Blog post scaffolding, AI prompt templates, and structured note headers.\n* Custom autocorrect for words I still can't seem to type correctly.\n\nRocket Typist treats snippets less like a warehouse of static text and more like reusable building blocks. That distinction matters once your library grows past a couple dozen entries.\n\n[Macro Library](https://preview.redd.it/ttli5sisevmg1.png?width=1068&format=png&auto=webp&s=41ed1a5ed066eb8661cd45e987be383ea2768a06)\n\n**Macros Are the Real Feature**\n\nRocket Typist's dynamic elements are called **macros**. These let snippets adapt at insertion time instead of being fixed text.\n\nFrom the developer:\n\n>\"Use macros to add dynamic elements to your snippets… The Labeled Macros Hub provides you a central location to edit and apply macros consistently across multiple snippets… preview your snippets, complete with all macros applied, before inserting them.\"\n\nMarketing language aside, three things matter in practice:\n\n* Multiple macro types: date, time, text input fields, clipboard content, cursor placement, key functions, and more.\n* A centralized Macro Hub for managing and reusing them.\n* Live preview before insertion, so you see exactly what will be generated.\n\nThat preview feature is underrated. When you're inserting variable content into a live email or ticketing system, being able to confirm the output before it hits the page prevents sloppy mistakes.\n\n**How It Works in Real Workflows**\n\nStatic snippets are useful. Macros turn snippets into a lightweight automation layer.\n\nConcrete examples:\n\n* Consistent date formatting across tickets and reports.\n* Templates that prompt you for name, ticket number, location, or device type.\n* Standardized headers for blog posts or Obsidian notes.\n* Support responses that insert today's date, your signature, and a preformatted checklist.\n\nRocket Typist's macro library also supports batch editing. If you need to update a common element across multiple snippets, you don't have to touch each one manually.\n\nCompared to Espanso or PhraseExpress, Rocket Typist feels less like you're configuring a YAML-driven mini-programming environment and more like you're using a Mac app. For many users, that's a feature, not a limitation.\n\n# Who It's Built For\n\nRocket Typist makes the most sense for solo Mac users. It's not trying to be an enterprise collaboration platform.\n\n# 1) Writers and Bloggers\n\nYou can create consistent document layouts with dynamic fields for titles, dates, categories, or boilerplate disclosures. It's especially useful if you publish frequently and want structural consistency without copying old files.\n\n# 2) Support Specialists and Repetition-Heavy Roles\n\nIn my tech support days, snippets handled:\n\n* Self-service password change instructions.\n* Campus Wi-Fi connection steps.\n* Clarifying which ticket type users should submit.\n* Equipment loan and purchase procedures.\n\nMacros let you personalize these without rewriting them from scratch.\n\n# 3) Users Who've Outgrown Lightweight Tools\n\nRaycast Snippets are convenient but intentionally minimal. Rocket Typist offers:\n\n* Rich text and formatted snippets.\n* A dedicated snippet management interface.\n* More robust macro support.\n* Better scaling as your library grows.\n\nIf you've hit the ceiling with basic snippet tools but don't want a subscription platform, this is where Rocket Typist fits.\n\n**Rocket Typist vs. the Competition**\n\n[**Espanso**](https://espanso.org/)\n\nPowerful, cross-platform, highly customizable. Also more complex to set up and maintain. Great for tinkerers; heavier lift for everyone else.\n\n[**TextExpander**](https://textexpander.com/)\n\nStrong team features, snippet sharing, and administrative controls. Subscription pricing reflects its enterprise focus.\n\n[**aText**](https://www.trankynam.com/atext/)\n\nIf it already works for you, there's no urgent reason to switch. Rocket Typist offers a more modern interface and stronger macro tooling at a low one-time cost.\n\n[**PhraseExpress**](https://www.phraseexpress.com/)\n\nFeature-rich and powerful; also more configuration-heavy. Rocket Typist feels simpler and more Mac-native.\n\n[**Raycast Snippets**](https://www.raycast.com/core-features/snippets)\n\nExcellent for lightweight expansions inside an already great launcher. Limited dynamic logic and no centralized macro h\n\n**Pricing and Versions**\n\nRocket Typist's pricing could be clearer. The website describes the upgrade in vague terms:\n\n>\"Rocket Typist is free to use with a basic feature set. Upgrade to Rocket Typist Pro for the full experience.\"\n\nYou shouldn't have to install an app to understand the feature split.\n\n**Rocket Typist Pro (as described in-app)**\n\nUpgrading unlocks:\n\n* Unlimited snippets\n* **All snippet types:**\n   * Images\n   * Smart snippets\n   * Code snippets\n* **All macro types:**\n   * Text\n   * Clipboard content\n   * Cursor placement\n   * Special key macros\n* Access to future Pro features.\n\nUnlimited snippets plus full macro support is the real value here.\n\n# Tiers in Practice\n\n* **Free**: Basic feature set with limits.\n* **Basic purchase ($9.99)**: App Store version that adds iOS and iPad compatibility.\n* **Rocket Typist Pro for Mac ($19.99; currently** [**on sale for $3.50**](https://appaddict.app/post/bundlehunt-s-first-sale-of-2026-is-live-lifetime-licenses-only): Full Mac feature set with unlimited snippets and all macros.\n\n**Final Thoughts**\n\nRocket Typist isn't trying to dominate the enterprise. It's not trying to turn snippet management into a side hobby. It's a practical tool for people who type the same structured content over and over and want dynamic flexibility without a subscription.\n\nIf you live in email, ticketing systems, documentation tools, or Markdown editors, and you care about consistency and speed, Rocket Typist earns a serious look\n\n# Links\n\n* [Developer Website](https://www.witt-software.com/rockettypist/)\n* [Mac App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rocket-typist/id6463636684)\n* Privacy policy: no data collected by the app.","offTopic":true},{"id":"eac18e4d-72c7-4ec6-8631-21cbf8facf08","excerpt":"I was tired of exporting Apple Notes for backup, so I built a native macOS app to export them to 10 formats + Auto Backup — Hey r/sideproject,\n\nI’ve been a long-time Apple Notes user. It’s great for quick capture, but I recently realized how difficult it is to actually *own* your data once it's in there. I spent a whol","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1q1y4g5/i_was_tired_of_exporting_apple_notes_for_backup/","role":"demand","weight":1.2117524,"occurredAt":"2026-01-02T13:05:44.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"SideProject","intent":"alternative_search","painScore":0.36,"sentiment":0.375,"confidence":0.8909944,"matchedPatterns":["switching_from","workaround","manual_process"],"statement":"If you want to switch apps, create a hard backup, or use your notes in other professional tools (like Word or Obsidian), you’re stuck with manual copy-pasting or messy workarounds.","title":"I was tired of exporting Apple Notes for backup, so I built a native macOS app to export them to 10 formats + Auto Backup","body":"Hey r/sideproject,\n\nI’ve been a long-time Apple Notes user. It’s great for quick capture, but I recently realized how difficult it is to actually *own* your data once it's in there. I spent a whole afternoon trying to manually move my notes into a developer workflow (Markdown) and realized there was no simple, native way to bulk export everything while keeping the formatting and organization intact.\n\nSo, I spent the last few months building **Apple Notes Exporter Pro.**\n\n**The Problem:** Apple Notes has no native bulk-export feature. If you want to switch apps, create a hard backup, or use your notes in other professional tools (like Word or Obsidian), you’re stuck with manual copy-pasting or messy workarounds.\n\n**The Solution:** A native Swift/SwiftUI app that gives you full control over your notes with a single click.\n\n**Key Features:**\n\n* **10 Export Formats:** PDF, Word, Markdown, HTML, Plain Text, JSON, RTF, LaTex and EPUB.\n* **Auto-Backups:** You can schedule automated exports so your notes are backed up locally on a recurring basis.\n* **Privacy First:** 100% local processing. No data ever leaves your machine.\n* **Speed:** It’s optimized for Apple Silicon; it can handle hundreds of notes in seconds.\n* **Preservation:** Keeps your folder structures, creation dates, and original formatting.\n\n**Technical Hurdles:** Building this was a challenge because Apple Notes doesn't have a public API. I ended up using approved AppleScript hooks to securely bridge the app with the Notes database. It’s fully sandboxed and compatible with macOS 15.5+.\n\n**Pricing & Feedback:** I’m moving away from the subscription model that most apps use. It’s a **$9.99 lifetime license** (currently 50% off for the launch for reddit users).\n\nI’d love to get your thoughts on the UI and if there are any other formats or automation features you’d like to see.\n\n**Check it out here:** [https://1dot.ai/notes-exporter-macos](https://1dot.ai/notes-exporter-macos)\n\n**Quick demo of the how to install our app and automation setup:** [https://youtu.be/x\\_OfOucd9\\_4](https://youtu.be/x_OfOucd9_4)\n\nThanks for letting me share!\n\n[](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_OfOucd9_4)\n\n","offTopic":true},{"id":"1b465373-28b4-4910-980e-d73d0a1201e7","excerpt":"Proxly 1.7.0 - Link History, mailto routing, JS Transformation updates, rule exclusion patterns and more - $5.99 — Hi.\n\nShort introduction: Proxly is a web and email links router. You create rules that the clicked links need to adhere to.\n\nTo be a good citizen of [r/macapps](r/macapps) and for all the people that haven","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1tjo2ts/proxly_170_link_history_mailto_routing_js/","role":"pain","weight":1.1526818,"occurredAt":"2026-05-21T15:30:37.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"macapps","intent":"problem_report","painScore":0.42,"sentiment":0.2972973,"confidence":0.8117478,"matchedPatterns":["frustrating","manual_process"],"statement":"That pretty much sums it up :D ...but also much more - from the first post I made about it: \"This particular project grew out of a personal frustration - I work from home, on my own computer and I might have different clients, different MS…","title":"Proxly 1.7.0 - Link History, mailto routing, JS Transformation updates, rule exclusion patterns and more - $5.99","body":"Hi.\n\nShort introduction: Proxly is a web and email links router. You create rules that the clicked links need to adhere to.\n\nTo be a good citizen of [r/macapps](r/macapps) and for all the people that haven't seen Proxly yet, here's PCP:\n\n**Problem**\n\n**TL;DR:** I want every link but youtube from MS Teams to open in my work browser. That pretty much sums it up :D\n\n...but also much more - from the first post I made about it: \"This particular project grew out of a personal frustration - I work from home, on my own computer and I might have different clients, different MS teams instances, github repositories, microsoft profiles or whatever at any point in time and it was annoying to have just one browser and juggle between profiles, copy/paste links manually between different browsers/profiles and dance around all of this plus my own personal stuff. I've created a prototype for this app in few days and was using it for a month or so, with ugly ui, warts and all, but it worked and was genuinely helpful to me. So I thought to myself - maybe I could make it my first 'real' project and maybe somebody could use it too and find it helpful as well.\" - and so almost a year happened and I keep iterating on it, trying to make it the best I can.\n\n**Comparison**\n\nSo, as many of you have pointed out to me across my several posts, there are a couple of apps that do similar things:  \n\\- OpenIn (paid)  \n\\- Velja (paid)  \n\\- Choosy (paid)  \n\\- Browserosaurus (open-source, free but archived)  \n\\- Finicky (open source, free)  \n\\- Bumpr (free)  \n\\- some others\n\nThey do vary between themselves in supporting things I wanted to have. They also vary wildly in UI, UX and price. Where Proxly shines, in my opinion of course, is a nice UI, Acessibility, localization, simplicity of use focus with additional power-user features. The question have come up often enough, that I think a dedicated feature matrix was warranted on the Proxly's webpage, so if you're interested in more in-depth comparison, take a look: [Feature matrix](https://proxly.chillaid.art/#comparison)\n\n**The Update**\n\nIt's been a couple of months since last major release of Proxly and I'd figured it's time to give it another go. Last time I mentioned I think it's getting mostly \"feature complete\", but I still came up with some improvements I could put in. I've been working on Proxly for almost a year now and it became crucial to my workflow - I eat my dog food, so to speak and have been testing this update for over a month now - looks pretty good to me, but I'd love feedback.\n\nThis particular update gives quite a bit of features:\n\n•\t⁠link history - now all links routed via Proxly can be recorded inside of it, making it a one stop place for your link-clicking history. The history can be searched and filtered and is configurable in the settings.  \n•\t⁠added rule exclusions patterns - you can declare patterns on a rule that in an event where otherwise link would be matched, it'll be skipped by that rule  \n•\t⁠mailto: link routing - some people I heard are using different mail clients on one computer, this is for them (some hate clicking mailto links by accident and having an email client open up - I hear you, just add a wildcard rule to mail rule and make it drop)  \n•\t⁠you can configure a rule now to point to a private profile directly... 👀  \n•\t⁠short URLs are now expanded before they are matched with rule, so the rules correctly apply to the links behind these shortened URLs (full list available and configurable in settings)  \n•\t⁠improvements to selection panel - keyboard navigation improved, added several new options like cmd+c copies the url straight from the panel, cmd+click takes you to creating rule for that domain and option+click directs it to private mode  \n•\t⁠usage based browser sorting - optional setting that sorts browsers in the picker and panel by how often you actually use them, instead of alphabetically  \n•\t⁠share extension and macOS services integration - you can send links to Proxly from any app via the share menu or the system services menu  \n•\t⁠JavaScript transformations upgraded by a lot:  \n⁠•\t⁠console.log / console.warn / console.error for debugging directly in the JS editor  \n⁠•\t⁠Mutable URL properties - modify href, pathname, host, search directly without rebuilding the URL string  \n⁠•\t⁠SearchParams API for read/write query parameter manipulation  \n⁠•\t⁠Source-app and search-provider context injected as input, so transformations can behave differently for links coming from Slack vs. Mail, or from Google vs. DuckDuckGo  \n•\t⁠rules can be now filtered in the rule list\n\nI put also a lot of work in polishing the experience and the UI - the tooltips are now almost everywhere and localized; sprinkled in some animations and worked on some coloring ; cleaned up and redesigned settings section. There were some bugfixes too, like one in particular that irked me very much, which was sometimes opening link in a wrong profile, mostly on some cold starts - this is now fixed. Also redundant accessibility calls on menu bar was culled to improve performance.\n\nInspired by a post made here by a security researcher, I also took a long look at how I do licenses and this release introduced a much improved standard for licensing. It's important enough that only releases starting with 1.6.0 are supported and they too will be phased out from that in about 3 months, so I highly recommend any current user that reads this to upgrade. If not, I will be dealing with this on a case by case basis. This of course pertains only to standalone builds, MAS version is unaffected :)\n\n**Pricing**\n\nProxly is available both as standalone version and on the Mac App Store with MAS version requiring Proxly Helper for feature parity with the standalone version (for everything that needs to go out of sandbox, so Profiles, mostly) which is available as a separate download on the webpage.\n\nBoth versions are a one time purchase:  \n[Mac App Store - $5.99](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/proxly/id6748143347?mt=12)  \n[Standalone - $5.99](https://proxly.chillaid.art/) (7 days trial available)\n\nI'm a registered Apple Developer and the release binaries are signed and notarized.\n\nLooking forward to your comments (even the bad ones!) :)\n\nCheers\n\nEDIT: Edited to have introduction in the beginning.","offTopic":true},{"id":"44c6dd01-9fc4-497c-b8a9-01bc94bf7fea","excerpt":"30 days and seven updates later: everything that came out of your feedback on LiquidWorkspace — It has been about 30 days since I posted on Reddit, and I wanted to share everything that came out of your feedback and questions. When I posted, the app was on version 2.2.0. It is on 2.3.4 now.\n\n**Markdown**\n\nThe number on","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/Markdown/comments/1v4xjqe/30_days_and_seven_updates_later_everything_that/","role":"pain","weight":1.0900619,"occurredAt":"2026-07-24T01:48:04.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"Markdown","intent":"problem_report","painScore":0.53931034,"sentiment":-0.44827586,"confidence":0.70814955,"matchedPatterns":["manual_process"],"statement":"• **Non destructive image design.** Crop (by hand or by number), Fit and Fill, shape masks, borders, corner radius, shadow, opacity, and replace, none of which touch your source file.","title":"30 days and seven updates later: everything that came out of your feedback on LiquidWorkspace","body":"It has been about 30 days since I posted on Reddit, and I wanted to share everything that came out of your feedback and questions. When I posted, the app was on version 2.2.0. It is on 2.3.4 now.\n\n**Markdown**\n\nThe number one piece of feedback was that the app was too focused on rich text and not serious enough about markdown. The question that came up over and over was some version of \"where are my files?\" Message received. Markdown became the whole build for two weeks.\n\n•  **Your notes are real .md files.** Every markdown note is also an actual .md file in a visible Markdown folder inside your project, kept current as you write, rename, and delete. To be straight with you, it is one way today (app to disk), so editing those files in another app does not round-trip back yet.\n\n•  **Three faces per document: Source, Live, and Reading.** Source is raw markdown with live syntax highlighting. Live renders everything except the line your cursor is on. Reading is a clean render, and it can sit in a split pane and update as you type.\n\n•  **Import a whole vault.** File > Import > Markdown Vault takes a folder of .md files (an Obsidian vault works as is). Folder hierarchy preserved, inline #tags extracted, images brought in as real media, .obsidian skipped, and your wikilinks work on arrival.\n\n•  **Wikilinks, aliases, and backlinks.** Title and alias with a filter as you type picker, honest resolved / ambiguous / unresolved states, and a backlinks panel that shows every mention with surrounding context.\n\n•  **The full dialect.** Headings, emphasis, highlight, fenced code with a language badge and a copy button, blockquotes, every list type, real rendered pipe tables, callouts in a dozen plus styles (> \\[!note\\], > \\[!warning\\]), footnotes with jump links both directions, clickable task checkboxes that write back to the source, YAML front matter, and inline images and !embeds in Reading.\n\n•  **Comments in both dialects.**  and  are treated identically, hidden in Reading, and collected in a Comments pane with click to jump.\n\n•  **Markdown native editing.** The toolbar buttons type real markdown into your text rather than applying invisible formatting. Return continues and renumbers lists, quotes, and tasks. Tab and Shift+Tab indent and outdent. Paste a URL onto selected text to make a link.\n\n•  **Continuous by default.** Markdown and plain text open in true continuous flow with no pages and no margins. Pages are still one tap away next to the face switcher if you want them, per note.\n\n•  **Tags and front matter join the app.** Inline #tags and tags: in YAML front matter feed the same tag system as everything else in the project, which means they feed the Brain Map too.\n\n•  **Daily Notes.** Cmd+Shift+D creates or reopens today's dated markdown note in a Daily Notes folder.\n\n•  **Checklist to task.** Right click a - \\[ \\] line, Add to Tasks, pick a list. It keeps a link back to the source note.\n\n•  **Outline tab.** A live heading tree in the left pane, click to jump. It works for rich text headings too.\n\n•  **Export.** Clean verbatim .md, self contained HTML that is dark mode aware, PDF and print from the Reading render, plus Word (DOCX) and RTF.\n\n•  **Markdown theming.** A semantic palette for headings, code, links, quotes, list markers, checkboxes, and tags, themed across Source and Reading together, and carried in shareable theme files.\n\n**Rich Text**\n\nThe rich text side got the deepest engineering work of the month. \n\n•  **Per document page design.** Each document owns its own paper: US Letter, A4, US Legal, or A5, portrait or landscape, and precise margins. That design follows the document everywhere it appears, including the Rogue Editor, page thumbnails, and PDF or print output. Changing an app wide default no longer silently redesigns work you already did.\n\n•  **Real document styles.** Body and Heading 1 through 6 are true document local paragraph styles, not roles guessed from font size. You can also create custom paragraph, character, and three level list styles, update every matching paragraph at once, or revert just the one you touched.\n\n•  **Style Sets.** Save an entire typography system and reuse it in another document, preview it as a real specimen, promote it app wide, or set it as the project default for new documents.\n\n•  **Stay on Page objects.** Images and shapes placed on a page now persist their position, size, rotation, layering, grouping, locking, and wrapping while you edit the text around them. They survive save, reopen, duplication, templates, and export.\n\n•  **One selection model for everything on the page.** Images, shapes, text boxes, charts, video, and audio all multi select, group, align, distribute, layer, lock, snap, nudge, cycle through overlaps, and rotate, with one step undo. Objects stay selectable across the full physical paper, margins included.\n\n•  **Text wrapping that holds.** Automatic, Around, Above and Below, and None, with adjustable spacing and shape aware contours. One to four column layouts belong to their section, so a section break can change the column count without recolumning what came before it.\n\n•  **Non destructive image design.** Crop (by hand or by number), Fit and Fill, shape masks, borders, corner radius, shadow, opacity, and replace, none of which touch your source file.\n\n•  **Charts and tables.** Charts move losslessly between Inline with Text, Move with Text, and Stay on Page while keeping their data and design. Native tables gained cell aware row and column operations, fills, borders, padding, and one step structural undo.\n\n•  **The Inspector follows your selection.** Click an object and its controls appear. No tab hunting.\n\n**Citations and References**\n\nThis was the single biggest ask from academic users, and one commenter here made the case bluntly: integrate with Zotero and CSL properly or researchers cannot use it. That is exactly what got built, and it went live yesterday.\n\n•  **A Reference Library in every project.** A References tab in the left pane with eleven source types and forms that speak each type's language. Cite keys generate from author and year, stay editable, and never change behind your back. It all persists in a readable references.json file that travels with your project folder.\n\n•  **Cite while you write.** Cmd+Shift+C opens a picker, search your shelf, multi select for group citations, add a page locator, Return inserts. Markdown speaks Pandoc syntax ((Vale, 2026, p. 44)), and the Reading view renders formatted citations and appends a References section automatically.\n\n•  **Six built in styles.** APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago 17 Author-Date, Chicago 17 Notes, IEEE, and Harvard. Switch the style in the Inspector and every citation and bibliography in the document re-renders on the spot, with same author disambiguation and live IEEE renumbering handled for you.\n\n•  **Or your journal's style.** The app reads real CSL style files, the open format used by more than 10,000 journals. Twenty are bundled (Vancouver, AMA, Nature, ACS, Cell, PLOS, and more), and any other is one import or one download away.\n\n•  **Bring your library with you.** Import BibTeX, RIS, or CSL JSON, which covers Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, and Bookends exports. A review sheet catches duplicates before they land. Export the shelf back out as .bib or CSL JSON, because your sources are yours.\n\n•  **Paste a DOI or an ISBN** and the reference fills itself in. It is strictly opt in: one request per explicit click, only the identifier leaves your machine, nothing saves until you confirm.\n\n•  **Live Zotero sync, no plugins and no accounts.** Point the app at a Better BibTeX \"keep updated\" export file and it watches that file. Save a paper in Zotero and it appears on your shelf seconds later. It is pure local file watching, so no API keys and nothing leaves your Mac. Sync only adds and updates, so your own edits and cite keys are never overwritten.\n\n•  **A Universal shelf** that lives beside your projects folder, for references every project shares.\n\n•  **Your PDFs become sources.** Right click a PDF in your project and the app scans it for a printed DOI to build a linked reference. While reading, right click and Copy Citation (Page N) gives you a ready citation for the exact page you are on.\n\n•  **Compile with a bibliography.** Every source cited across a compiled manuscript merges into one deduped, formatted bibliography at the end.\n\n**Canvas**\n\n•  **The canvas is infinite now.** It starts at a fixed size and extends down and to the right as far as you take it. Zoom out works, and each canvas remembers the zoom level you left it at.\n\n•  **Resizing feels right.** Resize friction is gone across every element, objects no longer have a minimum size, and there is snapping with alignment indicators for spacing objects.\n\n•  **Marquee selection, copy and paste, and undo/redo.** Drag to grab multiple objects, or your whole canvas at once to reposition it. Copy and paste objects within a canvas or across canvases.\n\n•  **Pinch to zoom** and Cmd plus two finger swipe to move between scenes.\n\n•  **Scenes.** Make any view on your canvas a named scene and navigate between them from the bottom\n\n  left, or with Option+Cmd+arrow keys.\n\n•  **New object types:** floating text, PDFs as previewable thumbnails, web links as cards with thumbnails, file cards with Quick Look, SF Symbols, task lists, calendars, and media with durable asset storage.\n\n•  **Fixes worth naming:** PDF export no longer drops connectors or layered objects, text box layering works in both directions, grouped objects can be connected without ungrouping first, and panes sit flush against the canvas edge.\n\n•  **Pin the Rogue Editor** so it floats over the canvas and you can bounce between the board and your writing.\n\n**Brain Map**\n\nSome of the sharpest criticism I got here was about the Brain Map: that a node was a navigable handle but the graph itself did not show you much. Not all of that is solved, but here is what changed.\n\n•  **Every note can be a node.** Untagged notes now join the map labeled by title, so wikilinks on untagged notes actually draw and the orphan filter finds genuinely unconnected notes.\n\n•  **Local graphs.** Right click any note in the Binder and choose Show in Brain Map to open the map focused on that note.\n\n•  **It reopens exactly as you left it,** including layout, zoom and pan, search, filters, and source selections.\n\n•  **Snapshots are real time capsules.** A snapshot captures every node position and color, every edge, the display settings, the force values, and the viewport. Clicking one enters a viewing mode rather than altering your live graph, and Compare with Today brings in everything added since, bright against the dimmed snapshot era graph.\n\n•  **It got fast.** The layout engine moved to Barnes-Hut repulsion, which raised the physics ceiling from 12,000 to 50,000 edges. Recoloring a tag repaints in place instead of reflowing the whole graph. On a 1,352 node project with 20,000 edges it settles quickly and sits at rest without burning CPU.\n\n•  **Ways to look at it:** color by tags, by Binder folder, or by connection heat. Monochrome, Heat, and Constellation looks that compose. Gentle, Standard, and Energetic motion presets.\n\n•  **Broken Links.** A section that appears when needed, listing wikilinks whose titles no longer resolve, click to open the note containing the broken link.\n\n•  **Spotlight.** Selections isolate by default, or flip Spotlight on to dim everything else instead of hiding it.\n\n**Everything else**\n\n**SF Symbols, everywhere icons go**\n\nApple's SF Symbols library is built into the app behind a searchable picker: close to 8,000 symbols across Apple's own categories, plus ten use case collections I put together (Writing, Notetaking, Education, Office and Work, Law and Justice, Health and Medical, Science, Arts and Music, Tools and Trades, Tech and Devices). Search blends symbol names, Apple's own keywords, and category names, so typing \"medical\" or \"n","offTopic":true},{"id":"88e19853-3b14-4c4e-9fbc-362faa58682b","excerpt":"iMessage, AirDrop and clipboard sync with your Mac (runbook open sourced) — I've seen a lot of posts here from people moving to Android because of the Fold 8 — I'm one of them, and some of you have seen my earlier posts.\n\nLong story short: unlike the iPhone itself, I wasn't ready to give up iMessage, my MacBook Pro, an","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyFold/comments/1vv3rht/imessage_airdrop_and_clipboard_sync_with_your_mac/","role":"demand","weight":1.0817606,"occurredAt":"2026-08-22T05:36:52.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"GalaxyFold","intent":"tool_discovery","painScore":0.3,"sentiment":0.5714286,"confidence":0.8321236,"matchedPatterns":["cant_find","free_tier","missing_feature"],"statement":"I couldn't find a clean way to package this as something you just install — it needs input that's specific to you and that I shouldn't be handling anyway (your machine's address, access tokens, permissions only you can grant).","title":"iMessage, AirDrop and clipboard sync with your Mac (runbook open sourced)","body":"I've seen a lot of posts here from people moving to Android because of the Fold 8 — I'm one of them, and some of you have seen my earlier posts.\n\nLong story short: unlike the iPhone itself, I wasn't ready to give up iMessage, my MacBook Pro, and some of the genuinely good parts of the Apple ecosystem. So I built my own versions, with AI coding and a lot of human testing on my end. It's been my daily setup for weeks.\n\nI couldn't find a clean way to package this as something you just install — it needs input that's specific to you and that I shouldn't be handling anyway (your machine's address, access tokens, permissions only you can grant). So I'm sharing my runbook instead: **one file your coding AI reads and follows to build the same thing on your own Mac.**\n\nThe runbook: [https://github.com/LJ-builds/imessage-bridge/blob/main/SETUP-AI.md](https://github.com/LJ-builds/imessage-bridge/blob/main/SETUP-AI.md)\n\nHand it to Claude Code or Codex — *\"read this runbook and set it up on my Mac.\"* It checks what you already have, installs what's missing, and stops for the few things it can't click for you: a Tailscale login, two settings switches, one permission toggle. It detects when you're done and carries on. About half an hour.\n\n# What you get\n\n* **iMessage** — read and reply from the phone, photos both ways. It reads the Messages database on your Mac and sends through the Mac's own Messages app, so nothing is spoofed and no Apple ID is involved anywhere but your laptop.\n* **Notifications that actually arrive** — a new iMessage raises a real Android notification with sender and text, even with the app closed. Tapping it opens the conversation. This was the piece that made it feel like a real messenger instead of a website I had to remember to check.\n* **AirDrop** — \"send to Mac\" in the Android share sheet, landing in Downloads with a sound. The other way is a Finder shortcut; your phone gets a notification you tap to download the file.\n* **Clipboard** — copy on one, paste on the other.\n\nI also built myself a small home-screen widget that shows whether the Mac is reachable, with a dot when a message is waiting and one-tap buttons into each tool. That one's an actual Android app rather than a web app, so it's not part of the runbook — but everything above works without it.\n\nEverything runs between your own two devices over Tailscale. No cloud, no account, nothing readable by anyone else.\n\n**None of it is an app on the phone** — they're web apps you add to the home screen. On a Fold that turned out to be the best part: a web app reflows, so no stretched layout, no letterboxing, and nothing forgets what it was doing when you unfold.\n\n# Limitations\n\nYou need a Mac that's on and awake. iMessage only — green-bubble SMS never reaches a Mac. You can reply to existing conversations but can't start new ones from the phone, and there are no tapbacks or read receipts. If you need those, BlueBubbles covers more of iMessage — the trade is a server app on your Mac, a client app on your phone, and notifications through Google unless you self-host more of it. I went the other way deliberately: nothing installed on the phone at all, and few enough lines that I could read every one of them before trusting it with my messages.\n\n\\[Screenshot 1: my widgets on my Home Screen - one tap to Tailscale ON/OFF, iMessage, Clipboard sync, and Drop (Airdrop)\\]\n\n\\[Screenshot 2: Clipboard sync UI - simple WebApp so you can control how you would like to sync text and image between Mac and Fold\\]\n\nHappy to answer questions.","offTopic":true},{"id":"5ac6dd09-3624-4683-8d38-483543d5d163","excerpt":"Atlas: Write and Collect, A Creative Workspace for the Apple Ecosystem — Hey everyone! It wasn’t too long ago that I posted here with my app [Fox Issue Tracker](https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1tyq6ry/fox_issue_trackeran_indie_dev_project_companion/), and I am back with the second my app shop has put out, thi","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1umu4g0/atlas_write_and_collect_a_creative_workspace_for/","role":"request","weight":1.0324667,"occurredAt":"2026-07-04T00:02:26.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"macapps","intent":"feature_request","painScore":0.36,"sentiment":0.67741936,"confidence":0.75916666,"matchedPatterns":["missing_feature"],"statement":"However, a lot of markdown editors lack real interactive elements like images, tables, rich links, etc.","title":"Atlas: Write and Collect, A Creative Workspace for the Apple Ecosystem","body":"Hey everyone! It wasn’t too long ago that I posted here with my app [Fox Issue Tracker](https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1tyq6ry/fox_issue_trackeran_indie_dev_project_companion/), and I am back with the second my app shop has put out, this one much newer called [Atlas: Write and Collect](https://contagious.dev/atlas/).\n\nI 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.\n\n# The Problem\n\nAtlas grew out of the inability of Scrivener to meet my needs for writing and world building back around 2022, particularly:\n\n* 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.\n* 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.\n* 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.\n* There wasn’t any way to create links between documents that updated text with their titles. (Seriously one of the first things I added).\n* 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!\n\nAtlas 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/](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/](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:\n\n>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.\n\nOn 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.\n\nOn 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!\n\n# Comparison and what makes us different from:\n\n# Scrivener\n\nI’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:\n\n* An improved writing and publishing Workspace that uses Markdown as the primary language.\n* Sync *that works* with has deep integrations to iCloud and a [robust](https://contagious.dev/help/atlas/guides/icloud-sync/#resolving-sync-conflicts) conflict resolution solution.\n* 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).\n\n# Obsidian:\n\nAlright, 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.\n\nThe 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:\n\n1. 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.\n2. Atlas is tied **directly** to iCloud through CloudKit to support some of the advanced content resolution features, especially related to [document syncing and resolution](https://contagious.dev/help/atlas/guides/icloud-sync/#the-merging-interface).\n3. 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.\n\nI hope I didn’t digress… ha. Anyway, here are a couple of things that make Atlas stand out in comparison:\n\n* One-stop shop: Markdown editing, syncing, inspiration collection, publishing… no plugin dependencies or external systems needed for these things.\n* A featured exporting and publishing tool, which exports ePub and PDF output.\n* 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.\n\n# Ulysses & Bear\n\nTwo 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](https://contagious.dev/help/atlas/getting-started/customizing-the-editor/#theme-importing-and-exporting)! However:\n\n* 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.\n* There’s wider support for Markdown interoperability, like front matter exporting.\n* Atlas includes [web clipper](https://contagious.dev/help/atlas/getting-started/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).\n\n# Pricing\n\nAtlas 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.\n\n**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 :)\n\nYou can find Atlas on the iOS and Mac app stores here! [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/atlas-write-and-collect/id6755169090 ](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/atlas-write-and-collect/id6755169090)\n\nI 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:\n\n* 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.\n* 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. :(\n* 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!\n* 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.\n\nIf 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.\n\n# A few nerdy things\n\nI 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.\n\nThe Markdown engine is entirely custom as well. It was shortly after I saw John Sundell’s [Ink](https://github.com/JohnSundell/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.\n\nThere’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.\n\n# Final Notes\n\nFinally: 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 wor","offTopic":true},{"id":"f4f87092-f3a4-4cc2-befa-3e9f0f0ea05a","excerpt":"From \"why is this so hard?\" to 13 releases and 4000+ downloads : my free clipboard shelf just got custom hotkeys, time-based clearing, and its own icon set. — Quick context for anyone who hasn't seen this: Edge-Drop is a clipboard shelf that hides on the left edge of your screen. You hover the edge, it slides out showi","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1vvhcfq/from_why_is_this_so_hard_to_13_releases_and_4000/","role":"pain","weight":1.0244213,"occurredAt":"2026-08-22T16:47:17.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"SideProject","intent":"feature_request","painScore":0.47833332,"sentiment":-0.33333334,"confidence":0.6929569,"matchedPatterns":["why_doesnt","manual_process"],"statement":"Today's release (v0.2.9) is my favorite so far because every single item came from a user complaint: → *\"Why can't I change Alt+C?!\"* \\- You can now.","title":"From \"why is this so hard?\" to 13 releases and 4000+ downloads : my free clipboard shelf just got custom hotkeys, time-based clearing, and its own icon set.","body":"Quick context for anyone who hasn't seen this: Edge-Drop is a clipboard shelf that hides on the left edge of your screen. You hover the edge, it slides out showing everything you've copied text, images, links, files and you drag things out into real apps with real drag-and-drop.\n\nToday's release (v0.2.9) is my favorite so far because every single item came from a user complaint:\n\n→ *\"Why can't I change Alt+C?!\"* \\- You can now. Full hotkey recorder with live keycap preview and conflict detection. (This was requested more than everything else combined.)\n\n→ *\"I want to clear recent stuff but keep my pinned files.\"* \\- Done. Clear by Last hour / 6h / 24h, and clearing respects whatever filter view you're in. Wipe your Images tab without touching Files.\n\n→ *\"The icons look samey.\"* \\- Hired... okay, drew by hand. Every file type now has its own pastel SVG icon — folders, PDFs, spreadsheets, code, audio, video, archives. Shows up on cards AND on the drag ghost while dragging.\n\n→ *\"Dragging felt laggy for a split second.\"* \\- Turns out we were building OLE drag handles at drag-start. Now they're pre-staged the moment you hover. Zero delay.\n\nIt's free, open source (Apache 2.0), works offline, stores nothing in any cloud, and never phones home. Windows only for now - macOS is on the someday-list.\n\nRepo: [https://github.com/Deepender25/Edge-Drop](https://github.com/Deepender25/Edge-Drop)\n\n>**If you try it, the most useful thing you can tell me isn't praise - it's the first moment where you thought \"wait, why didn't it do X?\"**","offTopic":true},{"id":"60b5b849-e867-46e4-90de-f10520bcd013","excerpt":"ClipSync — Seamless file transfer & clipboard sync between Mac and Android — **ClipSync — Seamless file transfer & clipboard sync between Mac and Android**\n\nEver used an Android phone with a Mac and thought: **“Why the hell is this still so annoying?”** 😭 That's basically why I made ClipSync.\n\n**The problem** There are","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1vv2nb2/clipsync_seamless_file_transfer_clipboard_sync/","role":"pain","weight":1.0097336,"occurredAt":"2026-08-22T04:38:57.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"MacOS","intent":"problem_report","painScore":0.40455753,"sentiment":0.57894737,"confidence":0.71889794,"matchedPatterns":["frustrating","manual_process"],"statement":"**ClipSync — Seamless file transfer & clipboard sync between Mac and Android** Ever used an Android phone with a Mac and thought: **“Why the hell is this still so annoying?”** 😭 That's basically why I made ClipSync.","title":"ClipSync — Seamless file transfer & clipboard sync between Mac and Android","body":"**ClipSync — Seamless file transfer & clipboard sync between Mac and Android**\n\nEver used an Android phone with a Mac and thought: **“Why the hell is this still so annoying?”** 😭 That's basically why I made ClipSync.\n\n**The problem** There are plenty of tools that let you move stuff between Android and Mac, but most of them still make you *do the thing*. Need a file on your Mac? Open the sharing app → find the file → share it → wait for it to transfer → open it on your Mac.\n\nNeed to quickly move an image or some text? Same story. And with a lot of clipboard-sync solutions, you still have to manually trigger the transfer. It works, but it doesn't feel seamless.\n\n**So... what does ClipSync do?**\n\nThe goal is pretty simple: **make your Android and Mac feel like they're the same device.**\n\n**Clipboard sync**\n\nCopy text or an image on Android and just hit Cmd + V on your Mac. That's it. And it works the other way around too. The really nice part is that **text and OTPs are synced over Bluetooth**, so your devices don't even need to be on the same Wi-Fi network.\n\nGot a verification code in an Android app? ClipSync can bring it straight to your Mac so you can just copy it. No more typing those damn 6-digit codes manually.\n\n**File transfers**\n\nSelect a file → hit Share → ClipSync → done. There's also a Ultra Fast Transfer mode for large files, which can sometimes be faster than AirDrop by a good margin if you are on a Wifi 5 or 6 Network.\n\n**Local or Cloud** During setup, ClipSync asks you how you want your devices to sync:\n\n**Hybrid Sync** — Sync locally when your devices are nearby, and automatically switch to cloud sync when they're apart. Everything stays encrypted. **Local Sync** — Keep everything between your nearby devices using BLE/Wi-Fi. No cloud, no internet required, and your data stays on your local network.\n\n**And a few other things** On the Mac side, ClipSync adds a **macOS Finder Share Extension**, so you can send files straight from Finder without even opening the menu bar icon or going to the app.\n\n**Pricing** **Free & open source (MIT).** I've honestly gone back and forth on whether ClipSync should be paid. But at the end of the day, I genuinely love building this thing, and I'd rather see more people actually use it than put a price tag in front of them.\n\nIf ClipSync saves you some headaches, you can support the project through [Buy Me a Coffee](http://buymeacoffee.com/clipsync).I'm also trying to get an Apple Developer account so I can make the macOS side of ClipSync more polished and properly distributed. The annual developer fee is pretty expensive for me as a student, so if anyone would like to help sponsor the Apple Developer Program fee, I'd genuinely appreciate it.\n\n**GitHub:** [https://github.com/WinShell-Bhanu/ClipSync](https://github.com/WinShell-Bhanu/ClipSync)\n\nIf anyone wanna download the apps directly, here the link to [MacOS](https://github.com/WinShell-Bhanu/Clipsync/releases/download/v3.0.0/ClipSync.v3.0.0.zip) and [Android](https://github.com/WinShell-Bhanu/Clipsync/releases/download/v3.0.0/app-release.apk)\n\nWould love to hear what you guys think — especially from anyone actually using an Android + Mac setup and here's a video Demostration of the app : [https://youtu.be/755zjYaHlEM](https://youtu.be/755zjYaHlEM)","offTopic":false},{"id":"1390aece-caa9-4b79-a058-f0c995abf221","excerpt":"Marked 3 Is the Markdown Companion a Lot of Mac Writers Have Been Waiting For — https://preview.redd.it/g63tc2lfci2h1.jpg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ccc9f9dc0a0911530f1a1a66f5dce4f34cac4d49\n\n\n\nBrett Terpstra has released [Marked 3](https://markedapp.com), and this is not just a routine update. It’s one of those","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1tjnp96/marked_3_is_the_markdown_companion_a_lot_of_mac/","role":"request","weight":0.9914737,"occurredAt":"2026-05-21T15:18:17.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"macapps","intent":"feature_request","painScore":0.36,"sentiment":0.7,"confidence":0.72902477,"matchedPatterns":["missing_feature"],"statement":"If you write in Markdown on a Mac, there’s a very good chance Marked has been the missing piece all along.","title":"Marked 3 Is the Markdown Companion a Lot of Mac Writers Have Been Waiting For","body":"https://preview.redd.it/g63tc2lfci2h1.jpg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ccc9f9dc0a0911530f1a1a66f5dce4f34cac4d49\n\n\n\nBrett Terpstra has released [Marked 3](https://markedapp.com), and this is not just a routine update. It’s one of those releases that makes you stop and think about where a tool actually fits in your workflow. If you write in Markdown on a Mac, there’s a very good chance Marked has been the missing piece all along.\n\nFor years, I lived in Microsoft Word for anything that wasn’t email. That was the EdTech world: Word was the standard, \\`.doc\\` and \\`.docx\\` were the expected formats, and no one wanted to hear about alternatives. Never mind the huge app footprint, the licensing mess, the cost, or the absurdity of the entire Office suite when all you really needed was a word processor.\n\nAnd whenever someone in tech tried to suggest something leaner — OpenOffice, Google Docs, anything that didn’t come with Microsoft baggage — the pushback was immediate and emotional. In 2015, we were literally one day away from canceling our Microsoft contract when the superintendent made a late-afternoon phone call to my boss with a $100K purchase order to renew. That was the kind of environment it was.\n\nSo yes, I value the freedom to choose my own tools now.\n\nPlain text has become the backbone of the way I work. Obsidian handles notes and longer writing. Drafts is where quick capture happens. Blogging tools and publishing platforms fill in the rest. Markdown wasn’t hard to learn, and once it clicks, it’s hard to go back. But Markdown has one weakness: the writing experience is only as good as the tools around it.\n\nThat’s where Marked comes in.\n\n# Marked Defined\n\nMarked is not an editor. That’s the first thing to understand. It works alongside your editor, taking Markdown and rendering it live so you can actually see what your writing looks like without breaking your flow.\n\nIt also works with HTML and OPML files, which makes it more flexible than a lot of people realize. And beyond rendering, Marked can convert documents to PDF, HTML, DOCX, and RTF. It also brings prose analysis, syntax checking, and integration with all sorts of writing and outlining apps.\n\n# Who It’s For\n\nThe short answer: anybody who writes.\n\nIf you’re a coder or a technical writer, you get a lot of useful extras:\n\n* Syntax highlighting for code blocks\n* MathJax and KaTeX support\n* Mermaid diagrams\n* MultiMarkdown, YAML, and Pandoc metadata support\n* CriticMarkup\n\nThat’s useful, sure, but it’s not really why I care about it.\n\nFor the kind of writing I do, the most valuable features are the ones that help me clean up my prose before I hit publish:\n\n* Spelling and grammar checking\n* Sentence simplification tips\n* Word count, sentence count, and sentence complexity\n* Reading time\n* Grade-level scoring\n\nThat’s the real value. Write where you’re comfortable, then let Marked tell you what the page actually looks like.\n\n# The Little Things That Make It Better\n\nMarked has a bunch of features that sound minor until you actually start using them regularly. Flexible search. Automatic table of contents generation. Bookmarking. A visual document overview. Collapsible sections. Keyboard access almost everywhere.\n\nIt’s also a very nice Markdown reader, even when you’re not editing. Auto-scroll is there. So is distraction-free mode. And if you want to read faster, there’s even an RSVP-style overlay with adjustable WPM.\n\nIf you work with outlines or mind maps, Marked supports embeds from popular apps and can even turn an outline into a mind map directly. That’s a niche feature, but a genuinely useful one if your brain works that way.\n\nThere are also browser extensions for sending page URLs or selected content straight into Marked 3, which is a nice touch if you spend any time collecting notes from the web.\n\n# Integrations Matter\n\nMarked works the way good Mac software should: it gets out of the way and plays well with the tools you already use.\n\nThat means it fits alongside Scrivener, Word, MarsEdit, Bear, Ulysses, Obsidian, and other writing apps. In v3, Scrivener rendering with live preview is new, and Bear and Obsidian callouts are now fully supported.\n\nAnd for the automation crowd, there’s CLI support and AppleScript. That alone makes it much more interesting than a typical “pretty preview” app.\n\n# Final Thoughts\n\nIf you have a Setapp subscription, Marked 3 is already there. Otherwise, you can [download it directly](https://markedapp.com/download/Marked.zip) for a free trial or pick it up from the [Mac App Store.](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/marked-3/id6747497179?mt=12)\n\nThe lifetime price is $69.99, which is a little steep, though not outrageous for a serious utility you’ll keep using. The subscription option is $2.99 per month, which is much easier to justify.\n\nMarked 3 is the kind of Mac app that quietly improves everything around it. It doesn’t try to replace your editor. It makes your writing workflow better by giving you a clearer view of what you’ve actually written, and that’s a pretty compelling trick.\n\nAnd in classic Brett Terpstra fashion, it’s built by someone who clearly understands the people using it.","offTopic":true},{"id":"a732a62f-ebc2-4afe-b4c5-c0b2098e2dca","excerpt":"Winstrix: A Windows style Taskbar, Launcher, and utility suite for macOS in native Swift — **Update available**: If you downloaded the trial before 7/14, please grab the latest version. I've pushed out an update that fixes some taskbar and desktop icon glitches (stuck icons, Finder windows misbehaving) and a licensing ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1utu1h1/winstrix_a_windows_style_taskbar_launcher_and/","role":"request","weight":0.96864825,"occurredAt":"2026-07-11T19:59:09.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"macapps","intent":"feature_request","painScore":0.36,"sentiment":0,"confidence":0.71224135,"matchedPatterns":["missing_feature"],"statement":"I was constantly messing up shortcut keys and missing the ability to navigate using window task bar features like hoover previews and the app launcher.","title":"Winstrix: A Windows style Taskbar, Launcher, and utility suite for macOS in native Swift","body":"**Update available**: If you downloaded the trial before 7/14, please grab the latest version. I've pushed out an update that fixes some taskbar and desktop icon glitches (stuck icons, Finder windows misbehaving) and a licensing hiccup on reinstalls. There are also a new feature allowing you to search your clipboard history. Head to [winstrix.app](http://winstrix.app) and download the newest version to get the fixes.\n\nHey everyone,\n\nMy name is Scott. I spent most of my career using Windows, before making the switch to Mac to expand my development setup. The hardware is incredible, but years of muscle memory made the switch difficult. I was constantly messing up shortcut keys and missing the ability to navigate using window task bar features like hoover previews and the app launcher.\n\nInstead of downloading five different apps to fix my minor frustrations, I decided to build a unified solution called Winstrix.\n\nTo make sure I am sticking to the sub rules, here is the PCP breakdown.\n\n**The Problem:** For anyone jumping between operating systems or making the switch to Mac permanently, the transition can slow down your workflow. While there are alot of comparable features, remembering all the correct keys to press can be difficult, and fixing your muscle memory usually requires buying multiple separate apps.\n\nWinstrix adds a highly customizable environment to macOS while letting you choose exactly what features you want active and disabling what you don’t:\n\n* **Taskbar with Hover Previews and click to minimize**: Hover over any app icon to see live thumbnails of its active windows, allowing you to instantly select or close a specific window. Click the open icon to minimize a single window or hold the icon to minimize all windows for that app.\n* **The Launcher:** A dedicated menu featuring unified search, an all-apps layout, and quick access to your pinned and recent applications.\n* **Shortcut Key Mapping**: Easily map Windows-style keys like Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+Z, and Ctrl+Alt+Delete so your typing habits remain completely seamless.\n* **Integrated Utilities**: Built-in Clipboard History with the ability to airdrop to your phone, plus a clock tray complete with a calendar dropdown and custom system shortcuts.\n* **Clutter Control:** Quick toggles to instantly hide or reveal both your desktop icons and crowded menu bar icons.\n* **Screen Capture Suite**: A full featured screenshot tool and screen recorder with an integrated editor.\n* **Linear Scroll Speed:** Removes the acceleration curve that makes standard mouse wheels feel jumpy and unpredictable. Every tick of your scroll wheel moves the exact same amount\n* **100% Modular:** Every single feature has an independent on/off toggle. If you only want the shortcuts and the taskbar, you can turn off everything else completely.\n\n**Comparison:** Unlike other individual apps like standalone clipboard managers or menu bar hiders, Winstrix focuses on a unified, modular solution. If you look at an app like uBar, it gives you a taskbar but lacks a modern Start style launcher or a built in utility suite. Tools like DockMate or HyperDock add hover previews to the standard Mac dock, but they do not change the underlying macOS workflow. Raycast and Alfred are great launchers, but they operate completely differently than a traditional Start menu.\n\nWinstrix is built as a complete, unified alternative. It gives you the taskbar, the launcher, hover previews, and the utility suite in a single lightweight native app. You do not have to piece together multiple programs, manage conflicting settings, or pay multiple subscriptions. Winstrix gives you an entire workflow suite inside a single, lightweight native app where you retain total control over what runs.\n\nIt is built entirely in native Swift with zero Electron, so it's lightweight with practically no footprint. It is also completely invisible when turned off, meaning you can flip a single switch to go right back to stock macOS at any time or you can pick and choose which features to enable and disable.\n\n**Pricing:** Winstrix comes with a 14 day free trial so you can test it out fully on your machine. I am currently running a launch discount for 30% off with code Launch30. The regular price is $24.99 before the discount, for a perpetual license that you keep forever. There are no recurring subscription fees.  \nWebsite\\*\\*:\\*\\*[ **https://winstrix.app/**](https://winstrix.app/)\n\n**Privacy & Data:** Everything happens locally on your Mac. There is no account to create, no cloud connectivity, and absolutely no telemetry or analytics tracking in the app. Your files and data never leave your device.\n\n**Transparency:** I want to be transparent so the community knows this is a legitimate project backed by a real person. LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sldavis5/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sldavis5/) The Privacy Policy and Terms of Service are fully detailed right at the bottom of the Winstrix homepage.  \n[https://winstrix.app/privacy/](https://winstrix.app/privacy/)[https://winstrix.app/terms/](https://winstrix.app/terms/)I would love to get some honest feedback and any feature requests are welcome as well. Let me know what you think and thanks for taking the time to check out this post!","offTopic":true},{"id":"dbce9b38-fc52-4f73-825b-b3e7956456a0","excerpt":"Tangrid is launching: a native macOS window manager shaped by feedback from hundreds of beta users — Hey [r/macapps](https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/), about two months ago, I posted Tangrid here while it was still in beta. The response was much bigger than I expected, and a lot of this release came directly from beta","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1srnbvp/tangrid_is_launching_a_native_macos_window/","role":"request","weight":0.96106666,"occurredAt":"2026-04-21T13:14:31.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"macapps","intent":"feature_request","painScore":0.36,"sentiment":0.71428573,"confidence":0.70666665,"matchedPatterns":["missing_feature"],"statement":"They also focus on arranging windows, but often lack a good way to find and switch between windows.","title":"Tangrid is launching: a native macOS window manager shaped by feedback from hundreds of beta users","body":"Hey [r/macapps](https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/), about two months ago, I posted Tangrid here while it was still in beta. The response was much bigger than I expected, and a lot of this release came directly from beta feedback.\n\nSince that beta post:\n\n* Hundreds of people tested Tangrid in real workflows\n* Shipped about **50 releases**\n* Handled around **200 tickets**\n* More than half of the new features came from beta feedback\n\nSo this launch feels much less like *“here’s my take on window management”* and much more like shipping something shaped by the people actually using it every day.\n\nOne of the best examples of beta feedback turning into a real feature is **Tabbed Layout**.\n\n>After enough splits, BSP can start making the desktop feel worse. People wanted a way to group related windows and switch between them quickly.  \n>  \n>We explored a few different ideas, including master-stack layouts, preset rules, and stacking layouts, before landing on **Tabbed Layout**.  \n>  \n>It ended up working really well, and many beta users started using it with really positive feedback.\n\n# Problem\n\nMany tiling window managers feel too geeky, manual configuration file, too keyboard-heavy, and not enough support for people who want a more direct mouse workflow.\n\nThey also focus on arranging windows, but often lack a good way to find and switch between windows. You can use something like AltTab, but a separate tool usually means a less unified experience in both behavior and UI.\n\nTangrid provides an integrated design and experience for arranging, finding, and switching windows, with support for both mouse and keyboard workflows, including macOS Spaces.\n\n**Tangrid** is a native macOS window manager built with **Swift, SwiftUI, and AppKit**, with:\n\n* Drag Snapping\n* BSP tiling layout\n* Tabbed layout\n* Window-level switcher (Vertical Mode + search)\n* Dock preview\n\n# Comparison\n\nvs Magnet: Snapping is more flexible.\n\nvs Aerospace: Adds tabbed layout, native macOS Spaces, built-in switching, and a visual control layer, GUI setting.\n\nvs AltTab: Liquid glass UI design, Adds vertical search, live position preview, gestures, and auto mouse centering.\n\n**Comparison table:** [https://tangrid.app/alternatives/](https://tangrid.app/alternatives/)\n\n# Pricing\n\n* Single device: $19.99\n* Double devices: $34.99\n* Five devices: $59.99\n* 7-day trial. One-time lifetime license. No subscription\n* Launch promo code `Z7V2CBEB9H` for 25% off until May 5, 2026\n\n**Download:** [https://tangrid.app/](https://tangrid.app/)  \n**Roadmap:** [https://tangrid.app/roadmap](https://tangrid.app/roadmap)\n\nTransparency links are included below\n\n* [Github Portfolio](https://github.com/winddpan)\n* [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaoping-pan/)\n* [Privacy Policy](https://tangrid.app/privacy-policy)\n* [Terms of Service](https://tangrid.app/terms-of-use)\n\nIf you tried the beta already, thank you. This release was heavily shaped by your feedback. If you're seeing Tangrid for the first time, I would love to hear how it fits into your workflow.","offTopic":true},{"id":"c9504bea-6879-4358-b9a8-493b3e0a3fa2","excerpt":"I built a push-notification service for my own alerts, and now a Chrome extension that puts the whole inbox in my toolbar — # What I built\n\nA push notification service called [Pocket Alert](https://pocketalert.app/). It started as a personal fix: I had alerts scattered across email, Slack, a Telegram bot I wrote at 2am","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome_extensions/comments/1vvec73/i_built_a_pushnotification_service_for_my_own/","role":"pricing","weight":0.89465797,"occurredAt":"2026-08-22T14:47:06.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"chrome_extensions","intent":"pricing_complaint","painScore":0.44,"sentiment":-0.5,"confidence":0.62129027,"matchedPatterns":["free_tier"],"statement":"Service free tier: 50/day, 1 device, 1 app, 1 webhook.","title":"I built a push-notification service for my own alerts, and now a Chrome extension that puts the whole inbox in my toolbar","body":"# What I built\n\nA push notification service called [Pocket Alert](https://pocketalert.app/). It started as a personal fix: I had alerts scattered across email, Slack, a Telegram bot I wrote at 2am, and a couple of cron jobs that emailed me and were therefore ignored forever. I wanted one pipe – anything I run sends a message, my phone gets a push, done.\n\nSo the service is: a REST endpoint you POST to, apps on [iOS](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pocket-alert-push-notification/id6446805143) and [Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pocketalert.app) that receive it, and per-app channels so a deploy notice and a \"disk is 94% full\" don't buzz the same way.\n\nThe Chrome extension is the newest piece. When I'm at the desk, reaching for my phone to read an alert my computer caused is stupid. So the extension puts that same inbox in the toolbar.\n\n# What the extension does\n\n* **Inbox in the popup.** Recent alerts as cards, filter by application, paginate up to 100 per page.\n* **Unread badge** on the toolbar icon, updated on a poll (configurable, 2 min default).\n* **Desktop notifications** for new messages, native ones.\n* **Mark as read / read-all**, so the badge means something.\n* **Send from the browser.** Title, body, app tag, to one device or broadcast to all.\n* **Drafts survive.** Close the popup mid-message and your text and current tab are still there. Small thing, but it's the reason I stopped using my own first version.\n* **Light / dark / follow system.**\n\nManifest V3. You paste an API key in Settings, it stays in extension storage on your machine, everything goes to the API over HTTPS.\n\n# What it's actually for\n\n**Reading, at the desk:** CI finished/failed → badge, no unlocking the phone · Grafana/Datadog/Prometheus/UptimeRobot fires → full text in the popup instead of squinting at a lock screen · Stripe payment lands · a long scrape or migration ends and you know now, not 20 minutes later.\n\n**Sending, from the browser:** send yourself a link or code before leaving the house · broadcast to every device at once · poke a teammate's device when Slack is the wrong place for \"deploy going out now\" · **test what your alerts will look like on the phone before wiring up the real integration** – this one saved me hours.\n\n**Where messages come from:** REST (`POST /v1/messages`), no-code webhooks mapping incoming JSON, a CLI, and integrations for GitHub Actions, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, UptimeRobot, Stripe, Zapier, Make, n8n, Home Assistant. Plus an MCP server – an agent in Claude or Cursor tells you it finished while you're in another room. Now my most-used feature.\n\n# Cost, upfront\n\nExtension free. Service free tier: 50/day, 1 device, 1 app, 1 webhook. Paid from $6/mo.\n\nMore detailed description of the extension: [https://pocketalert.app/tools/extension](https://pocketalert.app/tools/extension)\n\nInstall the extension: [https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/pocket-alert/hnknmapadalodjkmikfhjnmbbhpbhbdk](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/pocket-alert/hnknmapadalodjkmikfhjnmbbhpbhbdk)","offTopic":true},{"id":"2200fad5-c981-4c90-b458-da5994305389","excerpt":"I made a free, open-source scratchpad for macOS with inline math and checklists. no Electron, no telemetry, ~950KB — Backstory: I wanted something like Antinote, a quick-capture scratchpad that also does inline math and unit conversion. It's $5, which isn't a lot, but I've got a Mac and free time, so I built my own ins","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1vvyxhy/i_made_a_free_opensource_scratchpad_for_macos/","role":"request","weight":0.78375477,"occurredAt":"2026-08-23T05:56:36.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"SideProject","intent":"feature_request","painScore":0.36,"sentiment":0.8333333,"confidence":0.57629025,"matchedPatterns":["missing_feature"],"statement":"Would love feedback, especially on anything that feels rough or missing.","title":"I made a free, open-source scratchpad for macOS with inline math and checklists. no Electron, no telemetry, ~950KB","body":"Backstory: I wanted something like Antinote, a quick-capture scratchpad that also does inline math and unit conversion. It's $5, which isn't a lot, but I've got a Mac and free time, so I built my own instead. Jot.\n\nIt's plain text underneath, but understands a few things as you type:\n\n\\- Inline math with variables (\\`rent = 1200\\`, then \\`rent \\* 1.1\\` further down the note, live, right margin)\n\n\\- Unit and currency conversion\n\n\\- Checklists and ordered lists that stay real markdown on disk\n\n\\- OCR off your clipboard, fully offline\n\n\\- Five ways to show it: floating, menu bar, dropdown, dock, or a screen-edge sidebar\n\nThe build constraint I set myself: no Xcode project, no package manager, no dependencies. It's one \\`swiftc\\` invocation compiling straight to a \\~950KB binary. Whole thing's MIT licensed.\n\nbrew install lsuryatej/jot/jot\n\nRepo, README, and the full install instructions: [https://github.com/lsuryatej/jot](https://github.com/lsuryatej/jot)\n\nFirst real side project I've shipped end to end. Would love feedback, especially on anything that feels rough or missing.","offTopic":true},{"id":"2a8656ac-8b72-4d9f-8e42-608211a94611","excerpt":"The most feature rich App Store/PlayStore screenshot editor I could build, and it costs nothing — I know, I know. \"It's just another app screenshot editor.\" That is exactly what I thought too, right up until I needed a preview video, then iPad sizes, then Languages, then a second pair of eyes on the same file. Every to","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1vuq7cd/the_most_feature_rich_app_storeplaystore/","role":"pricing","weight":0.74249995,"occurredAt":"2026-08-21T19:31:37.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"androiddev","intent":"pricing_complaint","painScore":0.24,"sentiment":0,"confidence":0.5987903,"matchedPatterns":["free_tier"],"statement":"Free, not a Pro feature * 20 device types, 61 fonts including Arabic and Urdu, 3D poses, versions and full undo, panels you can tear onto a second monitor, and a community feed you can self host Everything runs client side.","title":"The most feature rich App Store/PlayStore screenshot editor I could build, and it costs nothing","body":"I know, I know. \"It's just another app screenshot editor.\" That is exactly what I thought too, right up until I needed a preview video, then iPad sizes, then Languages, then a second pair of eyes on the same file. Every tool wanted a subscription for one of those, and a different subscription for the next one.\n\nSo I built the one that does all of it. **Open Screenshot Generator**. Canva for App Store and Play Store graphics, except there is no paid tier at all: no account, no watermark, no export cap, no gated device size, and the whole source is on GitHub under MIT.\n\n\n\nhttps://reddit.com/link/1vuq7cd/video/q7avh4p65skh1/player\n\nWhat is actually in it:\n\n* **101 templates** across App Screenshots, Apple Watch, Mac, App Preview Videos and Google Play feature graphics. Open one, drop your screenshots in, done\n* **Every size both stores ask for, from one canvas.** Design the iPhone set, tick iPad 13 and 11 inch on export, and it converts the boards and the mockups on the fly. Your project stays untouched\n* **App preview videos.** Drop a screen recording into the phone, animate your headlines on a timeline, export MP4 in the browser. Including a mode that keeps your text over a full screen capture, which is what App Review guideline 2.3.4 actually allows, and a store ready conversion to 886x1920 at 30fps H.264 so App Store Connect stops rejecting your 60fps iPhone recording\n* **A store listing preview.** See the finished set inside a real App Store or Play product page, and in search results, light and dark, at real size, before you upload anything\n* **57 languages off one layout.** Text, fonts and screenshots per language, machine translations to edit, and a CSV you can hand a translator and import back\n* **An AI agent that runs on the subscription you already pay for.** Point it at your logged in Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, give it your screenshots and a sentence, and it picks a template, places the shots and writes the copy. No API key, no credits\n* **An MCP server with 49 tools**, so Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code can build and edit boards, add languages and export PNGs while you watch it happen on the canvas\n* **Live collaboration.** Multi-User editing. One link, everybody on the same project, a cursor each, and the design goes browser to browser rather than through a server of mine\n* **Upload straight to App Store Connect or Google Play** from the desktop app with your own developer credentials. Free, not a Pro feature\n* 20 device types, 61 fonts including Arabic and Urdu, 3D poses, versions and full undo, panels you can tear onto a second monitor, and a community feed you can self host\n\nEverything runs client side. Projects live in your browser, or your own Google Drive or GitHub if you want them to follow you. Nothing has to leave your machine.\n\nEditor: [https://editor.openscrgen.app](https://editor.openscrgen.app/)  \nSource: [https://github.com/dotnetdreamer/open-screenshot-generator](https://github.com/dotnetdreamer/open-screenshot-generator)  \nTwo minute walkthrough: [https://youtu.be/gfABjk1Q\\_Z0](https://youtu.be/gfABjk1Q_Z0)\n\nHappy to answer anything, and issues and PRs are very welcome.","offTopic":true}],"breakdown":[{"sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","count":14}],"total":14}}