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[OS]Quick Update: Sonexis is Open to Contributions

Sonexis is now ready for open-source contributions! I've added a [CONTRIBUTING.md](http://CONTRIBUTING.md) with setup and contribution guidelines, and opened a few starter issues for bugs, improvements, and features that are ready to be worked on. Bug reports, feature ideas, and pull requests are welcome as well. If you're interested in macOS audio, Core Audio, DSP, Swift, or UI work, the repo is here: GitHub: [https://github.com/skanda-vyas-srinivasan/sonexis](https://github.com/skanda-vyas-srinivasan/sonexis) For some context on Sonexis: [https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1wm3sw3/comment/pb56juy/?screen\_view\_count=1](https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1wm3sw3/comment/pb56juy/?screen_view_count=1) Who am I? I'm Skanda lol. Here's my LinkedIn: [https://linkedin.com/in/skanda-vyas](https://linkedin.com/in/skanda-vyas). Feel free to reach out if you want to chat about literally anything.

Sep 25, 2026

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Built a Mac developer memory tool for AI coding sessions, terminal history & clipboard smart actions (50 Free Promo Codes)

THE PROBLEM As a developer, my daily workflow is constantly losing critical context across tools: • AI Coding Agent Sessions: Losing track of which Claude, Cursor, Codex, or terminal AI session produced a specific solution, prompt, or architectural decision earlier this week. • Terminal History: Forgetting complex docker, k8s, or git commands with multi-flag parameters that I ran days ago. • Payload Context Switching: Copying a JWT, JSON payload, or cURL and having to jump into web tools or utilities just to decode, validate, or format it. • Screenshot Amnesia: Snapping error messages, architecture diagrams, or UI specs and having zero way to search the text inside them later. HOW L2CACHE COMPARES Standard Clipboard Apps (Maccy, Paste, Raycast): * Stores raw text and images only * No built-in AI session tracking or prompt indexing * No terminal history integration * Often requires subscriptions or cloud syncing L2Cache: * AI Coding Agent Memory: Indexes prompts, responses, and session context * Developer Smart Actions: Instant JWT decode, regex tester, JSON formatter, and QR code tools right on ⌘C * Terminal & Visual OCR: Search past CLI commands and search text inside screenshots * Session Analytics: Coding statistics and clipboard activity dashboard * 100% Local & Private: SQLite-backed on your Mac with zero telemetry or cloud sync * Pricing: One-time purchase ($4.99) with no subscriptions PRICING & GIVEAWAY • Regular Price: $4.99 (One-time purchase, lifetime access, no sub

Sep 25, 2026

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Sablate: the subtitle app I built because caption tools wanted my footage on their servers

Every time I needed captions on a video, the tools wanted the file uploaded to their servers first and $20-40 a month after. For a job Whisper and ffmpeg can do on a laptop, that never made sense, and some footage just shouldn't leave the machine. MacWhisper is great at the transcript itself, but styling the captions and burning them into the video still meant a second app, and I work on Windows too. So I built Sablate to do the whole job locally, on both. What it does: drop in a video, get subtitles back, as a file or burned into the picture. * Transcribes on your machine with Whisper, from Fast (tiny) to Best (large-v3), \~100 languages with auto-detect * Translation is a layer on the same timing, so fixing one cue fixes every language. Argos runs offline, DeepL / OpenAI / Claude with your own key * Editor with video, cues and style side by side: drag cues on the timeline to retime, split/merge, find & replace * Custom vocabulary for names Whisper keeps getting wrong * 13 presets, e.g. Classic, Cinema, Hormozi, Karaoke with a word-by-word sweep. The preview uses the same renderer as the export, so what you see is what you get * Export .srt, .vtt, .txt, .ass, a soft-subbed .mkv with every language as a track, or an .mp4 with the captions burned in, optionally reframed to 9:16 or 1:1 * Runs entirely on your machine. Models download once, after that the only call home is a daily license check. Cloud engines are opt-in, with your own key * Windows 10+ and macOS 12+ Free, no acc

Sep 25, 2026

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[Developer] Introducing VrushPDF Pre-release : A lightweight PDF reader + annotator

Hi r/macapps! I'm the developer of **VrushPDF**. I wanted a PDF app for everyday reviewing and signing: highlight, comment, fill in forms, sign, move pages around. I didn't want a subscription, an account or a 270 MB download for that, so I built one. **What it does** * **Annotate:** highlight, underline, strikeout and squiggly on selected text; pen and eraser; rectangles, ellipses, lines and arrows; text boxes; comments; image stamps; built-in APPROVED / DRAFT / CONFIDENTIAL stamps. Every annotation has colour, opacity and stroke width controls, and undo/redo covers everything. * **Signatures:** draw one once and reuse it. * **Forms:** fill in text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons and dropdowns. Your answers are saved into the PDF's real form fields. * **Pages:** reorder by dragging thumbnails, rotate, delete, insert blank pages, insert another PDF, or merge several PDFs into one. * **Viewing:** tabs, continuous scroll, whole-document search, bookmarks, thumbnails. * **Nothing gets flattened.** Annotations are saved as standard PDF annotation objects, so they stay editable in Preview, Acrobat and Chrome. You aren't locked into my app. **Mac-specific touches** * A full native menu bar, where Undo tells you what it will undo. * Liquid Glass toolbar and sidebars on macOS 26. * Follows your system accent colour. * Single-key tool shortcuts (V, H, T, P, E, R, O…) plus the usual ⌘ shortcuts. **Privacy:** no account, no telemetry, no cloud. The app never goes online. Even the lice

Sep 25, 2026

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Show HN: I couldn't deal with another Claude Code tab

Sep 25, 2026

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Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?

We all pay for things. Either personal (like Spotify) or at your company (Slack). Out of those, which one would you swap if a better thing was available?

Sep 25, 2026

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I built a Mac app with animated vinyl, real-time lyrics and 4K live wallpapers

Hey! I’m one of the developers behind [Wallper](http://wallper.app). [Wallper](http://wallper.app) is a live wallpaper app for Mac with a large library of high-quality wallpapers, support for your own videos, native Lock Screen + Screen Saver playback, and very low resource usage. In this update, we expanded Music Sync and added a lot more layouts. Your wallpaper can now turn into animated vinyl, album art, real-time lyrics and more, all changing automatically with whatever is playing on your Mac. **Problem** macOS has great wallpapers, but you're pretty limited once you want to go beyond Apple's collection. Wallper brings live wallpapers to your Desktop, Lock Screen and Screen Saver, with 4K wallpapers from our library or your own videos. **Comparison** iWallpaper or Dynamic Wallpaper are good options if you mainly want live wallpapers. Apps like Sleeve and Dynamic Lyrics are great for album art, track info or synced lyrics. Wallper combines both sides: a large library of high-quality live wallpapers, your own videos, native Lock Screen and Screen Saver support, plus Music Sync that reacts to whatever is playing on your Mac. We’ve also spent a lot of time keeping it lightweight. **Wallper uses under 2% CPU** in our tests and pauses completely when the wallpaper is covered. **Pricing** You get a **7-day free trial right after downloading**. No account, no payment details and nothing to activate. After that, Wallper Pro is **$14.99 lifetime** for up to 3 Macs. [**https://wallp

Sep 25, 2026

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Hacker News

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Show HN: Doom or Bloom, map your AI worldview

Map your AI worldview by answering a few questions, and see how you compare with others. only takes a few minutes && free & open source && private by default && powered by Jev I think this is a really important question for everyone to be asking themselves, and my hope is that this lil project helps to move our conversations around AI futures in a more balanced, productive direction.

Sep 25, 2026

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Show HN: I couldn't deal with another Claude Code tab

Sep 25, 2026

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Hacker News

Hacker News

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Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?

We all pay for things. Either personal (like Spotify) or at your company (Slack). Out of those, which one would you swap if a better thing was available?

Sep 25, 2026

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I built a Mac app with animated vinyl, real-time lyrics and 4K live wallpapers

Hey! I’m one of the developers behind [Wallper](http://wallper.app). [Wallper](http://wallper.app) is a live wallpaper app for Mac with a large library of high-quality wallpapers, support for your own videos, native Lock Screen + Screen Saver playback, and very low resource usage. In this update, we expanded Music Sync and added a lot more layouts. Your wallpaper can now turn into animated vinyl, album art, real-time lyrics and more, all changing automatically with whatever is playing on your Mac. **Problem** macOS has great wallpapers, but you're pretty limited once you want to go beyond Apple's collection. Wallper brings live wallpapers to your Desktop, Lock Screen and Screen Saver, with 4K wallpapers from our library or your own videos. **Comparison** iWallpaper or Dynamic Wallpaper are good options if you mainly want live wallpapers. Apps like Sleeve and Dynamic Lyrics are great for album art, track info or synced lyrics. Wallper combines both sides: a large library of high-quality live wallpapers, your own videos, native Lock Screen and Screen Saver support, plus Music Sync that reacts to whatever is playing on your Mac. We’ve also spent a lot of time keeping it lightweight. **Wallper uses under 2% CPU** in our tests and pauses completely when the wallpaper is covered. **Pricing** You get a **7-day free trial right after downloading**. No account, no payment details and nothing to activate. After that, Wallper Pro is **$14.99 lifetime** for up to 3 Macs. [**https://wallp

Sep 25, 2026

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Hacker News

Hacker News

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Show HN: Doom or Bloom, map your AI worldview

Map your AI worldview by answering a few questions, and see how you compare with others. only takes a few minutes && free & open source && private by default && powered by Jev I think this is a really important question for everyone to be asking themselves, and my hope is that this lil project helps to move our conversations around AI futures in a more balanced, productive direction.

Sep 25, 2026

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Kontakt Artwork: I made a Mac app that fixes the blank and stretched cover art in Native Instruments Kontakt (pay what you want)

Developer here. This is a small, single-purpose Mac app and I'm the one who made it. If you use Kontakt 8 for sample libraries, the browser is full of covers that look soft or are just a grey folder. The cause: Kontakt wants a 420x316 tile per library, and when one isn't shipped it stretches a 134x66 thumbnail from an older version to fill the slot. On my Mac that's 74 of 195 libraries. Kontakt Artwork reads your library list from Kontakt's own database, shows which ones are actually missing a tile, finds a picture (search built in) or takes one you drag in, and installs it at the sizes Kontakt reads. There's a layer editor if you want to go further: mirror a picture across the wide banner, lift lettering off a cover, add a name, backdrop or sticky note. It also reorders the library browser, which Kontakt doesn't let you do, and backs everything up to iCloud or Dropbox for a new Mac. Safety: it archives every original before touching it and one button restores them. Never touches samples. Developer ID signed and notarised. macOS 13+, Apple silicon and Intel, Kontakt 8 required. Pay what you want from $3: [https://allgoodfolks.com/kontakt-artwork](https://allgoodfolks.com/kontakt-artwork) Happy to answer anything about how it works.

Sep 25, 2026

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Making the best macOS screen recorder and pro video editor, now with best AI editing and 3D mockups: ScreenKite 2.0. Imagine CapCut + Screen Studio + Loom with Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex.

A lot of late nights later, ScreenKite 2.0 is here and I can't wait to show you. ScreenKite is a screen recorder and video editor for Mac. You can record your screen, take screenshots, and edit your video in one app, by hand or with AI. Version 2.0 brings a redesigned timeline and inspector, 3D device mockups, fast auto subtitles and translation, a screenshot editor with blur, and a new way to edit with AI. Last month I posted ScreenKite 1.16 here. You left a lot of great comments, and many of them are now in this update. Thank you. The goal is the same. I want ScreenKite to be the best screen recorder and video editor for Mac. No more recording in one app and finishing in another. [https://www.screenkite.com/](https://www.screenkite.com/) # Core features **1. Record and edit like a pro, in one app.** Most screen recorders only let you trim. ScreenKite has a real, pro-level video editor built in. That's the big difference. * **Record:** your screen, a window, an area, your iPhone, or your camera. Up to 144 fps, with HDR. Auto zoom follows your clicks while you record. * **Edit like a pro:** multi-track timeline, B-roll, transitions, speed changes, subtitles, backgrounds, camera layouts, noise removal, and music that gets quieter when you talk. * **Edit with AI:** use your own AI agent (Claude Code, Codex, Grok, Kimi, Antigravity, OpenCode) right in the AI chat in ScreenKite. ScreenKite doesn't charge for AI. **2. Redesigned timeline and inspector.** The timeline and the inspe

Sep 25, 2026

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PixyCAD just shipped Loft, Swept, Sketch Text and more. Here's what's new.

Hi there! I am one of the developers behind PixyCAD. For those of you who don't know it yet, it’s a CAD app for Mac and iPad built around the sketch-extrude-print workflow and specifically designed for makers and 3D printing. It runs fully on your device and works with Apple Pencil seamlessly. **Problem** Most mainstream CAD tools are either too complex for casual use or too limited for real 3D printing workflows. We've been heads down fixing that, and in the last few months we have shipped lots of new cool features that have been requested by the community: * *Sketch Text*: you can now drop real text directly into your sketch. Pick a font, set the height, and it instantly becomes geometry you can extrude, emboss or cut into your model. Labels, name plates, logos, all in a single step. * *Loft*: select a series of profiles and PixyCAD builds a smooth solid that flows through all of them. Transitions, funnels, adapters and organic shapes that used to be a real pain are now a single operation. * *Swept*: drive a profile along a path and get tubes, handles, frames and curved geometry out the other side. A lot of you asked for this one on our feedback board at [https://feedback.pixycad.com](https://feedback.pixycad.com/), and it's finally here. * *Copy*, Transform, Paste: copy any element and transform it as part of the paste step. Reuse geometry you've already built without rebuilding it from scratch. * *Sidebar* folders by type: your Bodies and Sketches now live in their own co

Sep 25, 2026

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MacPulse 1.3 — 6 months in: see which apps actually drain your battery (real watts, not estimates)

Hi everyone, This is my third MacPulse post here (\[previous update\](https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1umds44/macpulse\_update\_3\_months\_later\_your\_mac\_explained/)). Thanks to everyone who tried it and sent feedback. A lot of what's below came straight from those comments and from the GitHub feedback repo. \*\*Problem\*\* Raw system stats don't answer questions. MacPulse is a system monitor built around explaining your Mac instead of just displaying numbers: an Insights Engine that says in plain English what's happening and what to do about it, plus Ask Insights, where you can ask questions about your Mac's history, answered on-device. \*\*New in the last 3 months\*\* The big one is 1.3, which is mostly about power and connectivity: \- \*\*Energy by App.\*\* Which apps used the most energy over the last 24 hours or 7 days, in real watt-hours from the per-app energy counters macOS keeps, not a made-up "energy score". Filter to time on battery to see what actually drains it. Helper processes (Chrome renderers etc.) are grouped under their app. \- \*\*Power flow.\*\* Live watts from the charger, what your Mac is consuming, and whether the battery is charging or discharging. It warns you when a charger can't keep up (plugged in but still draining) and flags low-wattage chargers. \- \*\*Wi-Fi details.\*\* Signal and noise (with SNR), channel, band and width, link rate, Wi-Fi standard, security, router and DNS. \- \*\*Latency monitor.\*\* Current latency, average, ji

Sep 25, 2026

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How it works?

Turn a link into a decision in 3 steps

https://screen.studio/

read public page

identify apps + claims

keep source attached

1. Paste a link

Start with a product page, review, comparison, or public discussion.

15 Apps
Fields
Price
Privacy

2. Choose what matters

Keep the apps and buyer factors that actually affect your decision.

ResearchPUBLIC
Evidence
Decision

3. Create reusable Research

Save the result, add priorities, share it, or use someone else's work as your starting point.

Analyze first. Save when useful.

[OS]Quick Update: Sonexis is Open to Contributions
Swift

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Built a Mac developer memory tool for AI coding sessions, terminal history & clipboard smart actions (50 Free Promo Codes)
Raycast

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Sablate: the subtitle app I built because caption tools wanted my footage on their servers
DeepL

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Features

Research that reduces uncertainty, not just tabs

Source-backed research

Every published answer stays attached to the source that supports it, so you can verify before you buy.

Factor
Screen Studio
ScreenSage Pro
System audio
Yes; all apps or selected apps2 sources
System audio1 source
Automatic zoom
Yes; auto-zooms on screen actions/cursor3 sources
Auto zoom supported; trigger not specified1 source
Edit zooms after recording
Yes; drag zooms on timeline3 sources
Yes1 source

Comparison that fits the decision

Compare the apps you choose across category-specific factors, not a generic checklist that fits nothing.

Factor 1
Factor 2
Factor 3
Factor 4

Research you can reuse

Save a comparison as Research, add your own priorities, share it, or use someone else's work as a starting point.

RESEARCH LIBRARY

Mac launcher shortlist

6 apps · 11 key factors

PUBLIC

Screen recorder research

15 apps · 48 factors

SAVED

Buy-once utilities

8 apps · Pricing evidence

PUBLIC

Public facts, private thinking

Public facts remain evidence-backed while your notes, priorities, and decisions stay yours until you publish them.

Private notes

Stay separate from public facts.

Evidence model · live

Research that stays traceable

Missing evidence remains an open question. Conflicts stay visible.

Start a Research

AI research agents

TheMacApps for AI research agents

Connect agents to structured Mac app research so they can plan, investigate, expose evidence gaps, and keep every answer traceable.

analytics-mcp — terminal
$ research screen.studio vs screensage.pro
✓ Connected acme.example
$ Compare Screen Studio, ScreenSage Pro, and Tella for polished Mac product demos.
Evidence covers zoom, cursor polish, system audio, pricing, and release history. Missing facts stay explicit instead of becoming guesses.
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Works with the sources you already use

PRODUCT SOURCES

App Store
Official sites
Documentation
GitHub
Support
Release notes
Pricing
Changelogs
Help centers
Product pages
Downloads
Repositories

COMMUNITY SOURCES

Reddit
YouTube
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Web reviews
Forums
Agent discovery
Launch posts
Tutorials
Comparisons
Comments
Videos
Public web

Use the public URL you already have.

TheMacApps
Hey, Mac app person 👋

TheMacApps exists because a directory tells you what exists, but a purchase decision needs evidence: what matters for this category, what each app actually supports, what changed, and which source proves it.

Public facts stay separate from your personal Research, so better sources can improve shared knowledge without overwriting anyone's notes or decisions.

Research the decision, not the marketing page.

  • Keep evidence visible.
  • Keep missing facts as open questions.
  • Reuse good Research instead of restarting from zero.

That is the product.

Kontakt Artwork: I made a Mac app that fixes the blank and stretched cover art in Native Instruments Kontakt (pay what you want)

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Research access that matches how you work

Start free. Save, reuse, and publish Research when it becomes part of your workflow.

Research size1 app · $0
1 app15 apps
Start researching for $0

1 app · Personal · $0

FAQ

What kinds of links can I research?

Public product pages, reviews, comparisons, discussions, documentation, and other public HTTP/HTTPS pages can be analyzed as a research starting point.

How are facts verified?

TheMacApps separates what a page claims from verified facts. Research cells keep source links and evidence state so missing evidence is never silently turned into a negative answer.

Can I compare more than two apps?

Yes. A Research can contain a broad comparison set, while the table keeps the first app pinned and lets you scroll across the rest.

Can I add my own research fields?

Yes. You can add the questions that matter to your purchase instead of waiting for a global schema to anticipate every niche app category.

Do I need an account to analyze a URL?

You can analyze a public URL before creating a saved Research. An account is required when you want the research to become your persistent asset.

Can Research be private?

Research supports private, unlisted, and public visibility. Personal notes are not exposed to other viewers of a public Research.

Can I use someone else's Research?

Yes. Use this research creates your own Research while preserving lineage to the source, so you can change priorities without rewriting public facts.

Is TheMacApps only a directory?

No. The catalog is the identity layer for apps; the core product is evidence-backed Research that turns scattered web pages into reusable purchase knowledge.

Where does TheMacApps get its evidence?

Research can cite official product sites, App Store pages, documentation, support pages, release notes, GitHub, reviews, Reddit, YouTube, X, and other public web sources.

What happens when sources disagree?

Conflicting evidence stays visible as conflicting. TheMacApps does not silently pick one source and present it as settled fact.

Does missing evidence mean a feature is unsupported?

No. Missing evidence remains an open question until a source supports a yes or no answer.

Can Research change when an app changes?

Yes. Public facts can be refreshed as products, pricing, requirements, and features change, while your private notes and priorities remain separate.

Can I share a Research without making it fully public?

Yes. Unlisted Research can be shared by link without appearing as a normal public listing.

Can I keep personal notes inside a Research?

Yes. Personal notes and decision context belong to your Research layer and are kept separate from reusable public facts.

Can I start from a Reddit or X discussion?

Yes. Public discussions can be analyzed as starting evidence, then the important product claims can be verified against stronger sources.

Can AI agents use TheMacApps research?

Yes. The research model is designed so agents can plan, investigate, identify evidence gaps, and work with structured app facts instead of opaque summaries.

Does TheMacApps research non-Mac software?

The product is centered on Mac apps and Mac buying decisions. Cross-platform products can appear when their Mac version is relevant to the comparison.

Can makers correct outdated information?

The evidence model is designed for corrections to be backed by newer or stronger sources rather than overwriting facts without traceability.

How is it better than another app directory?

Read the real conversations that become Research inputs.

Swift

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[OS]Quick Update: Sonexis is Open to Contributions

Sonexis is now ready for open-source contributions! I've added a [CONTRIBUTING.md](http://CONTRIBUTING.md) with setup and contribution guidelines, and opened a few starter issues for bugs, improvements, and features that are ready to be worked on. Bug reports, feature ideas, and pull requests are welcome as well. If you're interested in macOS audio, Core Audio, DSP, Swift, or UI work, the repo is here: GitHub: [https://github.com/skanda-vyas-srinivasan/sonexis](https://github.com/skanda-vyas-srinivasan/sonexis) For some context on Sonexis: [https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1wm3sw3/comment/pb56juy/?screen\_view\_count=1](https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1wm3sw3/comment/pb56juy/?screen_view_count=1) Who am I? I'm Skanda lol. Here's my LinkedIn: [https://linkedin.com/in/skanda-vyas](https://linkedin.com/in/skanda-vyas). Feel free to reach out if you want to chat about literally anything.

Sep 25, 2026

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[Developer] Introducing VrushPDF Pre-release : A lightweight PDF reader + annotator

Hi r/macapps! I'm the developer of **VrushPDF**. I wanted a PDF app for everyday reviewing and signing: highlight, comment, fill in forms, sign, move pages around. I didn't want a subscription, an account or a 270 MB download for that, so I built one. **What it does** * **Annotate:** highlight, underline, strikeout and squiggly on selected text; pen and eraser; rectangles, ellipses, lines and arrows; text boxes; comments; image stamps; built-in APPROVED / DRAFT / CONFIDENTIAL stamps. Every annotation has colour, opacity and stroke width controls, and undo/redo covers everything. * **Signatures:** draw one once and reuse it. * **Forms:** fill in text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons and dropdowns. Your answers are saved into the PDF's real form fields. * **Pages:** reorder by dragging thumbnails, rotate, delete, insert blank pages, insert another PDF, or merge several PDFs into one. * **Viewing:** tabs, continuous scroll, whole-document search, bookmarks, thumbnails. * **Nothing gets flattened.** Annotations are saved as standard PDF annotation objects, so they stay editable in Preview, Acrobat and Chrome. You aren't locked into my app. **Mac-specific touches** * A full native menu bar, where Undo tells you what it will undo. * Liquid Glass toolbar and sidebars on macOS 26. * Follows your system accent colour. * Single-key tool shortcuts (V, H, T, P, E, R, O…) plus the usual ⌘ shortcuts. **Privacy:** no account, no telemetry, no cloud. The app never goes online. Even the lice

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Sep 25, 2026

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I built a Mac app with animated vinyl, real-time lyrics and 4K live wallpapers

Hey! I’m one of the developers behind [Wallper](http://wallper.app). [Wallper](http://wallper.app) is a live wallpaper app for Mac with a large library of high-quality wallpapers, support for your own videos, native Lock Screen + Screen Saver playback, and very low resource usage. In this update, we expanded Music Sync and added a lot more layouts. Your wallpaper can now turn into animated vinyl, album art, real-time lyrics and more, all changing automatically with whatever is playing on your Mac. **Problem** macOS has great wallpapers, but you're pretty limited once you want to go beyond Apple's collection. Wallper brings live wallpapers to your Desktop, Lock Screen and Screen Saver, with 4K wallpapers from our library or your own videos. **Comparison** iWallpaper or Dynamic Wallpaper are good options if you mainly want live wallpapers. Apps like Sleeve and Dynamic Lyrics are great for album art, track info or synced lyrics. Wallper combines both sides: a large library of high-quality live wallpapers, your own videos, native Lock Screen and Screen Saver support, plus Music Sync that reacts to whatever is playing on your Mac. We’ve also spent a lot of time keeping it lightweight. **Wallper uses under 2% CPU** in our tests and pauses completely when the wallpaper is covered. **Pricing** You get a **7-day free trial right after downloading**. No account, no payment details and nothing to activate. After that, Wallper Pro is **$14.99 lifetime** for up to 3 Macs. [**https://wallp

Sep 25, 2026

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Making the best macOS screen recorder and pro video editor, now with best AI editing and 3D mockups: ScreenKite 2.0. Imagine CapCut + Screen Studio + Loom with Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex.

A lot of late nights later, ScreenKite 2.0 is here and I can't wait to show you. ScreenKite is a screen recorder and video editor for Mac. You can record your screen, take screenshots, and edit your video in one app, by hand or with AI. Version 2.0 brings a redesigned timeline and inspector, 3D device mockups, fast auto subtitles and translation, a screenshot editor with blur, and a new way to edit with AI. Last month I posted ScreenKite 1.16 here. You left a lot of great comments, and many of them are now in this update. Thank you. The goal is the same. I want ScreenKite to be the best screen recorder and video editor for Mac. No more recording in one app and finishing in another. [https://www.screenkite.com/](https://www.screenkite.com/) # Core features **1. Record and edit like a pro, in one app.** Most screen recorders only let you trim. ScreenKite has a real, pro-level video editor built in. That's the big difference. * **Record:** your screen, a window, an area, your iPhone, or your camera. Up to 144 fps, with HDR. Auto zoom follows your clicks while you record. * **Edit like a pro:** multi-track timeline, B-roll, transitions, speed changes, subtitles, backgrounds, camera layouts, noise removal, and music that gets quieter when you talk. * **Edit with AI:** use your own AI agent (Claude Code, Codex, Grok, Kimi, Antigravity, OpenCode) right in the AI chat in ScreenKite. ScreenKite doesn't charge for AI. **2. Redesigned timeline and inspector.** The timeline and the inspe

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Built a Mac developer memory tool for AI coding sessions, terminal history & clipboard smart actions (50 Free Promo Codes)

THE PROBLEM As a developer, my daily workflow is constantly losing critical context across tools: • AI Coding Agent Sessions: Losing track of which Claude, Cursor, Codex, or terminal AI session produced a specific solution, prompt, or architectural decision earlier this week. • Terminal History: Forgetting complex docker, k8s, or git commands with multi-flag parameters that I ran days ago. • Payload Context Switching: Copying a JWT, JSON payload, or cURL and having to jump into web tools or utilities just to decode, validate, or format it. • Screenshot Amnesia: Snapping error messages, architecture diagrams, or UI specs and having zero way to search the text inside them later. HOW L2CACHE COMPARES Standard Clipboard Apps (Maccy, Paste, Raycast): * Stores raw text and images only * No built-in AI session tracking or prompt indexing * No terminal history integration * Often requires subscriptions or cloud syncing L2Cache: * AI Coding Agent Memory: Indexes prompts, responses, and session context * Developer Smart Actions: Instant JWT decode, regex tester, JSON formatter, and QR code tools right on ⌘C * Terminal & Visual OCR: Search past CLI commands and search text inside screenshots * Session Analytics: Coding statistics and clipboard activity dashboard * 100% Local & Private: SQLite-backed on your Mac with zero telemetry or cloud sync * Pricing: One-time purchase ($4.99) with no subscriptions PRICING & GIVEAWAY • Regular Price: $4.99 (One-time purchase, lifetime access, no sub

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Show HN: Doom or Bloom, map your AI worldview

Map your AI worldview by answering a few questions, and see how you compare with others. only takes a few minutes && free & open source && private by default && powered by Jev I think this is a really important question for everyone to be asking themselves, and my hope is that this lil project helps to move our conversations around AI futures in a more balanced, productive direction.

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Hi there! I am one of the developers behind PixyCAD. For those of you who don't know it yet, it’s a CAD app for Mac and iPad built around the sketch-extrude-print workflow and specifically designed for makers and 3D printing. It runs fully on your device and works with Apple Pencil seamlessly. **Problem** Most mainstream CAD tools are either too complex for casual use or too limited for real 3D printing workflows. We've been heads down fixing that, and in the last few months we have shipped lots of new cool features that have been requested by the community: * *Sketch Text*: you can now drop real text directly into your sketch. Pick a font, set the height, and it instantly becomes geometry you can extrude, emboss or cut into your model. Labels, name plates, logos, all in a single step. * *Loft*: select a series of profiles and PixyCAD builds a smooth solid that flows through all of them. Transitions, funnels, adapters and organic shapes that used to be a real pain are now a single operation. * *Swept*: drive a profile along a path and get tubes, handles, frames and curved geometry out the other side. A lot of you asked for this one on our feedback board at [https://feedback.pixycad.com](https://feedback.pixycad.com/), and it's finally here. * *Copy*, Transform, Paste: copy any element and transform it as part of the paste step. Reuse geometry you've already built without rebuilding it from scratch. * *Sidebar* folders by type: your Bodies and Sketches now live in their own co

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Sablate: the subtitle app I built because caption tools wanted my footage on their servers

Every time I needed captions on a video, the tools wanted the file uploaded to their servers first and $20-40 a month after. For a job Whisper and ffmpeg can do on a laptop, that never made sense, and some footage just shouldn't leave the machine. MacWhisper is great at the transcript itself, but styling the captions and burning them into the video still meant a second app, and I work on Windows too. So I built Sablate to do the whole job locally, on both. What it does: drop in a video, get subtitles back, as a file or burned into the picture. * Transcribes on your machine with Whisper, from Fast (tiny) to Best (large-v3), \~100 languages with auto-detect * Translation is a layer on the same timing, so fixing one cue fixes every language. Argos runs offline, DeepL / OpenAI / Claude with your own key * Editor with video, cues and style side by side: drag cues on the timeline to retime, split/merge, find & replace * Custom vocabulary for names Whisper keeps getting wrong * 13 presets, e.g. Classic, Cinema, Hormozi, Karaoke with a word-by-word sweep. The preview uses the same renderer as the export, so what you see is what you get * Export .srt, .vtt, .txt, .ass, a soft-subbed .mkv with every language as a track, or an .mp4 with the captions burned in, optionally reframed to 9:16 or 1:1 * Runs entirely on your machine. Models download once, after that the only call home is a daily license check. Cloud engines are opt-in, with your own key * Windows 10+ and macOS 12+ Free, no acc

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Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?

We all pay for things. Either personal (like Spotify) or at your company (Slack). Out of those, which one would you swap if a better thing was available?

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Kontakt Artwork: I made a Mac app that fixes the blank and stretched cover art in Native Instruments Kontakt (pay what you want)

Developer here. This is a small, single-purpose Mac app and I'm the one who made it. If you use Kontakt 8 for sample libraries, the browser is full of covers that look soft or are just a grey folder. The cause: Kontakt wants a 420x316 tile per library, and when one isn't shipped it stretches a 134x66 thumbnail from an older version to fill the slot. On my Mac that's 74 of 195 libraries. Kontakt Artwork reads your library list from Kontakt's own database, shows which ones are actually missing a tile, finds a picture (search built in) or takes one you drag in, and installs it at the sizes Kontakt reads. There's a layer editor if you want to go further: mirror a picture across the wide banner, lift lettering off a cover, add a name, backdrop or sticky note. It also reorders the library browser, which Kontakt doesn't let you do, and backs everything up to iCloud or Dropbox for a new Mac. Safety: it archives every original before touching it and one button restores them. Never touches samples. Developer ID signed and notarised. macOS 13+, Apple silicon and Intel, Kontakt 8 required. Pay what you want from $3: [https://allgoodfolks.com/kontakt-artwork](https://allgoodfolks.com/kontakt-artwork) Happy to answer anything about how it works.

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MacPulse 1.3 — 6 months in: see which apps actually drain your battery (real watts, not estimates)

Hi everyone, This is my third MacPulse post here (\[previous update\](https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1umds44/macpulse\_update\_3\_months\_later\_your\_mac\_explained/)). Thanks to everyone who tried it and sent feedback. A lot of what's below came straight from those comments and from the GitHub feedback repo. \*\*Problem\*\* Raw system stats don't answer questions. MacPulse is a system monitor built around explaining your Mac instead of just displaying numbers: an Insights Engine that says in plain English what's happening and what to do about it, plus Ask Insights, where you can ask questions about your Mac's history, answered on-device. \*\*New in the last 3 months\*\* The big one is 1.3, which is mostly about power and connectivity: \- \*\*Energy by App.\*\* Which apps used the most energy over the last 24 hours or 7 days, in real watt-hours from the per-app energy counters macOS keeps, not a made-up "energy score". Filter to time on battery to see what actually drains it. Helper processes (Chrome renderers etc.) are grouped under their app. \- \*\*Power flow.\*\* Live watts from the charger, what your Mac is consuming, and whether the battery is charging or discharging. It warns you when a charger can't keep up (plugged in but still draining) and flags low-wattage chargers. \- \*\*Wi-Fi details.\*\* Signal and noise (with SNR), channel, band and width, link rate, Wi-Fi standard, security, router and DNS. \- \*\*Latency monitor.\*\* Current latency, average, ji

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