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r/macapps

Receipts

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Paydesk: time tracking, prokect management, and invoicing on Mac for freelancers/Small business. Offline, no account.

I've been building Paydesk for a while and it's finally at a point where I'd like people to try it and tell me what's wrong with it. Paydesk is a Mac app for freelancers, consultants and small studios. It keeps projects, time tracking, quotes, invoices, expenses and reports in one place, and it runs entirely on your Mac. **Problem:** Freelance admin on the Mac usually ends up spread across a lot of places. Hours live in a timer app, or on sticky notes. Invoices live in a spreadsheet or a document template. Whether you've actually been paid lives in your head. So every month there's a round of copying numbers between apps, working out what you haven't billed yet, and chasing whoever is late. The other thing that bothered me is that most tools in this space want an account and a subscription, and they store your client list, rates and invoices on their servers. For a lot of freelancers that's more than they need. What it does: The idea is that the whole loop happens in one app: plan the work, track it, bill it, get paid, see how the year is going. \- Board: every project on one board, from Lead and Proposal sent through In progress, Delivered, Invoiced and Paid. \- Time tracking: start and stop from the window \- Bill Now: Paydesk keeps a running total of unbilled hours and billable expenses per project. \- Documents: proposals, quotes, invoices, receipts and credit notes. You can turn an accepted quote into an invoice. There are three typeset PDF templates, on A4 or US Letter.

Sep 29, 2026

r/macapps

Raycast

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Pasly — Make every ⌘V smarter. Everywhere (iOS, macOS)

# Problem Clipboard history is great when you’re working on one Mac. But the moment you switch devices, that history stays behind. You copy something on your Mac, grab your iPhone, and it’s not there. Or you move between two Macs and end up sending yourself a link, note, file, or snippet just to have it on the other device. I wanted Pasly to solve that too. Not just make ⌘V smarter, but make your clipboard follow you. # Comparison Raycast Clipboard History is probably the closest well-known alternative. It offers a polished, searchable clipboard history as part of a much broader launcher. Pasly is more focused on the actual paste workflow. Smart Paste brings your recent clipboard items into the regular ⌘V flow, while features like Paste Stack, Field Sense, multi-selection, and Floating Paste are built specifically around copying and pasting. Pasly also keeps a persistent clipboard history across Macs, iPhone, and iPad through the user's private CloudKit database. Text, images, and files can remain available across devices, even when they are not nearby or connected to the same network. Raycast is a better fit if you want a general launcher with extensions, AI tools, and many unrelated productivity features. Pasly is a better fit if you want a dedicated clipboard manager centered on ⌘V and cross-device clipboard history. Apple's Universal Clipboard is also useful, but it primarily moves the latest copied item between nearby Apple devices. Pasly keeps an actual searchable histo

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Sep 29, 2026

r/macapps

Raycast

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App Archiver - Free up space without deleting your Mac apps

I like trying Mac apps. When I find something useful, I keep it in my Applications folder for later. But I run out of space quickly, start deleting apps, and end up forgetting some great ones ever existed. That's why I made [App Archiver](https://apparchiver.com/?utm_source=reddit). It compresses apps and, optionally, their app data so they take less space while staying ready to use. I don't have to remove them just to make room. I also added "Archive in Place" for apps I rarely use. It can shrink them further while keeping a small, restorable `.app` bundle in the same place in `/Applications`. The icon stays there to remind me the app exists. When I need it again, I open it to restore the full app. That was the goal. More free space without having to give up useful apps. # Three ways to save space Instead of focusing on temporary caches that quickly return, App Archiver reduces the space used by the apps themselves. You can choose what works for each app. * **Optimize App** applies native macOS filesystem compression while keeping the app installed, ready to open, and able to update normally. You can also choose an app-data folder to compress alongside it. * **Archive in Place** keeps the app as a smaller, restorable `.app` bundle in its original location. You can also choose an app-data folder to archive alongside it. It stays visible in Applications, Spotlight, Raycast, Alfred, and other app launchers. Open its icon to restore it before running or updating it. * **Create a

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Sep 29, 2026

Show HN: NetWasm – Independent .NET Compiler/Runtime (82.5 KB Hello World in C#)

I’ve been building NetWasm: an independent .NET compiler, CoreLib and runtime designed specifically for WebAssembly. It compiles Roslyn-generated CIL into standalone core WASM or WASI Preview 2 components - without shipping CoreCLR or Mono. A clean Release application containing Console.WriteLine(42) produces 82.5 KB of final WASM with WASI p2, including the runtime and precise garbage collector. Website: https://www.netwasm.com/ Playground: https://playground.netwasm.com/ The playground runs fully on the browser without a backend / cloud server compiling your code - it's all WASM! Locally, you use dotnet new, dotnet build, dotnet test, etc like you would normally. You can run the self-contained .wasm output with wasmtime, fully portable. GitHub repos: https://github.com/zion-sati/NetWasm https://github.com/zion-sati/NetWasm.Libraries What is it? It's CIL (used to be called MSIL - it's the dotnet bytecode in other words) to WASM compiler. But more than that it's intentionally not using Microsoft's Corelib. We avoid reflection, typename with full namespace strings etc where the resulting .wasm can end up bloated. The goal is to have C# (and later .NET in general - thus F# and VB.NET) be on equal footing as Kotlin/WASM. Note that Kotlin/WASM uses WasmGC, NetWasm uses BoehmGC in precise mode. NetWasm makes Wasm a first class target. Why NetWasm? I fell in love with C# in 2006 and have OSS attemp

Sep 29, 2026

r/macapps

Bartender

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Any good menu bar managers for macOS 27 Golden Gate?

Both Bartender 7 and Thaw are buggy for me (not remembering where icons are / not reordering properly, etc.), and I'm not sure what to try. Any suggestions?

Sep 29, 2026

r/macapps

OpenCode

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✴️ Voyager: a macOS file manager for working with AI agents

I'm building Voyager, a macOS file manager for working with AI agents. ### Problem AI agents can now find and organize files for you. Within the same task, you may move between working with files yourself and asking an agent to do something with them: - Looking through files an agent found, then asking it to follow up on that material. - Working with folders and files yourself, then asking an agent to help organize or analyze them. I'm building Voyager to bring both ways of working into the same file manager. Today, you can chat with an agent inside the file browser, using the current folder and selected files as context. The connection goes beyond putting a chat panel next to a file list: the folder you're browsing or the files you've selected can be the subject of your request. ### Comparison - File manager (Finder, ForkLift): Compared with using a file manager alongside a separate AI app, Voyager connects the folder you're browsing or the files you've selected to an agent conversation in the same file manager. - Agent harness (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cowork, ChatGPT Work): These tools can already read and edit local files. Voyager's distinction is the file manager, not local file access itself. You can browse folders, save and reopen searches, and select files to use in a request. It's for people who want to work with an agent from the same place they work with their files directly. ### Pricing Voyager Free is $0 and available now. You can connect your existing ChatG

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Sep 29, 2026

r/macapps

Moves

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Update: Lathe 1.2 is built from your feedback. Recipes, Watched Folders and the fixes from my last post (Free, or $49.99 lifetime Pro)

I'm the developer. I [posted about Lathe](https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1vxannm/lathe_browse_edit_and_batch_photos_video_audio/) here about a month ago, and that thread gave me a to-do list of more than twenty items. Every confirmed bug from it is fixed, and most of the requests have shipped. Here's where each one went, with thanks to the people who took the time. **You asked, it's in** * u/GroundCaffeine: filenames now sort naturally (1, 2, 3 instead of 1, 10, 100), and IPTC/XMP keywords are searchable, which you called your biggest want. * u/useiris: folders are remembered even after you rename or move them, and folder watching now works on NAS and network volumes. * u/melanias_scrotum: Space now closes the viewer, D and E work straight from the grid, and two-finger swipe moves between photos. Every point on your polish list also shipped: pinch to resize thumbnails, pinch zoom in the editor, fine-control Develop sliders, a real list view you can sort by rating and tags, and a reorderable tray. * u/awraynor: the sidebar has a proper folder tree now. * u/Pirasee: scanned PDFs can be made searchable, and ⌘F works inside PDFs. * u/sergiubp, u/zwobotmax, u/Frequent-Staff-134, u/CostSensitive8188: Lathe is now available in all 27 EU storefronts. * Also: ⌘R refreshes a folder from anywhere. **New: Recipes and Watched Folders (Pro feature, one-time free use to try)** A Recipe is a saved sequence of steps. For e.g, one is called "Instagram Ready": * Step 1: crop to 4:5,

Sep 29, 2026

r/macapps

Notion

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Griply for Mac: Projects, two-way calendar sync and more since January (+ lifetime giveaway)

Hi everyone, I'm Amber, one of the developers of [Griply](https://griply.app/download), so this is my own app. I shared it here in January, and a lot has changed on the Mac app since then. Time to check back in, with another giveaway. Griply for Mac is downloaded from our website, not the Mac App Store, so I've added a Transparency section below with my LinkedIn, contact details, privacy policy and terms. # Problem Most task managers are built to get tasks out of your head and onto a list, and they're very good at it. But a to-do list holds what you have to do, not why you're doing it. You can clear your Today list every day for a month, feel busy the whole time, and still be no closer to what you wanted this year. That was me for a long time. My goals were in Notion, my habits in one app and my tasks in another, and it never came together. Griply starts at the other end: with what you want to reach. Give a goal a target and a deadline, like "Sign 10 new clients by December", then plan the projects, habits and tasks that get you there, all in one place on your Mac. When you plan your week, you see which tasks move a goal forward, and it's easier to spot what's only keeping you busy. # Comparison A lot of our users came from one of these apps. Here's what's notably different: * **Things 3** is the most polished task manager on the Mac, and a one-time purchase. It shows your calendar events, but you can't time-block your tasks next to them. There's also no timeline, and no plac

Sep 29, 2026

MacScriber 4.0: real-time transcription, translation and speaker recognition for meeting/streaming plus summaries of any part you miss (lifetime license)

50% off lauch deal with this code :) **MYNJYWMG** [**https://macscriber.com/**](https://macscriber.com/)

Sep 29, 2026

r/macapps

Versions

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Floodtide - MacUpdater alternative back on 1.3.12 :)

I posted Floodtide here a while ago when it was still on **0.8.5 beta**, and the posting cooldown has finally passed, so I thought I’d share an update. It’s now on **1.3.12**, and quite a bit has changed since then. For anyone who didn’t see the first post, Floodtide scans the apps in your Applications folder, checks which ones are out of date, and lets you update supported apps from one place. # Problem The main problem I was trying to solve is that Mac app updates are kind of all over the place. Some apps use Sparkle, some are in Homebrew, some publish updates on GitHub, some use Electron feeds, some are from the App Store, and some use their own updater. So checking whether everything on your Mac is actually up to date is more awkward than it probably should be. Something I also didn’t like with early versions of Floodtide was that an app it couldn’t properly check could look basically the same as an app that was genuinely up to date. So now, if Floodtide can’t get a reliable answer, it tells you. You can also open the inspector for an app and see which sources were checked and what Floodtide actually found. # Comparison The obvious comparison is **MacUpdater**, which I used myself before I started building Floodtide. Floodtide works a bit differently. Instead of relying completely on one manually maintained version database, it checks multiple update sources depending on the app. That includes things like: * Sparkle * Homebrew casks * GitHub Releases * Electron update fee

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Sep 29, 2026

r/macapps

Stash

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Update: I got sick of saving things I could never find, so I built Stash Anything. Over 20,000 people use it now. (Free, or $9.99 lifetime)

[Stash Anything on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6758998468?pt=128323480&ct=reddit-macapps&mt=8) Hey! Last time I posted Stash Anything here, the feedback was really helpful. People liked the idea, but the Mac side was underdeveloped because I'd been focused solely on the iPhone app. I soon realised how useful it is across the two. Sync also wasn't working well, which caused almost all of the bad reviews (fair enough). That's now fixed :) **So this update is mostly about the Mac**, and the video shows the whole thing on a real iPhone and Mac, from saving something to finding it again. **New to Stash Anything?** I built Stash because I'd had enough of saving things and never finding them again. A screenshot of a product, a link someone sent me, a PDF for work. I'd save it, need it a week later, check Photos, my bookmarks and my messages, then give up and Google it again. Stash gives everything you save one home. You share it from any app into a stash you've made, like "Kitchen ideas" or "Work project", and it's there on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. **Over 20,000 people use it now.** **Setting it up on a Mac, properly this time** * **The first-run setup explains what each device does.** Your iPhone is where you catch things, and your Mac is where you sort and use them. * **There's a practice save during setup.** Drag something in or paste it, and you see exactly where it lands. * **Right-click to save from any Mac app**, with a step-by-step guide for the

Sep 29, 2026

r/macapps

Xcode

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Overlaid: draw, zoom, spotlight your cursor, and show keystrokes on your Mac screen while you present

Hey r/macapps, https://reddit.com/link/1wt9drv/video/cwucwbzlhgsh1/player I'm Himanshu, I work as a SWE at Google, and I built this on the side because I share my screen a lot and kept running into some problems: 1. The mouse shake. To show people what I was talking about, I'd shake the cursor in circles and hope they caught it. Nobody could tell "here" from "I'm just moving my mouse." 2. Annotating screenshots afterwards. I hated taking a screenshot, opening an editor, and then drawing on it. I wanted to mark up the screen first, then take the screenshot with everything already on it. 3. No zoom outside the browser. Pinch-zoom works in Safari and Chrome, but not in Figma, Xcode, a terminal, or the desktop. Small text on a call is unreadable. 4. Keystrokes. When I demo something, people can't see what I pressed, and "press command-shift-something" doesn't help anyone. Every tool I tried solved one of these, and none solved all four the way I wanted. So I built Overlaid. **How it solves each one** 1. Draw on top of any app with a shortcut: arrows, boxes, highlighter, text, a ruler. Fading ink disappears after a few seconds, so you can gesture and never clean up. Cursor effects (spotlight, halo, click ripples, trail) mean the mouse shake is gone. 2. Draw first, then screenshot with the built-in macOS shortcut. Your marks are already on the screen. 3. Pinch to zoom the whole screen in any app, then draw at that zoom and pan around. 4. A keystroke overlay with raised keycaps that

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