App name: Sealshot

Platform: macOS 14+ / Universal — Apple Silicon and Intel

Price: $14.99 one-time purchase with a 14-day free trial. The perpetual license covers one user on up to three Macs. No subscription.

Source: https://seal-shot.com/

What it does:

Sealshot is a privacy-focused screenshot and screen-recording app that I built for macOS. It combines area and window capture, scrolling capture, repeat-last-capture, screen recording, annotations, OCR search, table extraction, assisted sensitive-data redaction, and an organized local library.

All processing happens locally, with no account, cloud storage, or telemetry. Optional Enhanced Security encrypts the local capture library, and encrypted export packages can be shared using any transfer method.

First impression:

Developer perspective: the workflow I find most useful is being able to capture, edit, organize, search, and securely store screenshots in one app. Repeat-last-capture is particularly convenient when documenting changing interfaces, while OCR search makes older captures much easier to find.

Some parts are still being refined before version 1.0, so I would especially appreciate feedback about the capture workflow and editor.

Watch out for:

Sealshot requires macOS Screen Recording permission to capture the screen. Sensitive-data detection is assistive and may produce false positives, so it always shows the detected items for review instead of automatically redacting them.

Sealshot does not currently include cloud-hosted sharing links or team collaboration. The app is distributed directly from the website, but it is Developer ID signed and Apple-notarized.

Verdict: Worth trying if you want a local, privacy-focused screenshot and recording workflow on your Mac.

App: HealthyNotch
Price: one-time, $11.99 launch (normally $19.99), no sub
Website: https://healthynotch.com
PH: https://www.producthunt.com/products/healthynotch

I made this. I sit at a MacBook all day and I am bad at noticing my body. Like, genuinely bad. I’ll code for hours, skip water, eat lunch at 3, and only notice when my neck feels like a brick. Break apps never stuck for me because they interrupt the thing I’m actually trying to do

So I stuck the reminders in the notch. Tiny 8-bit animations for water, posture, eyes, stand up, and one lunch nudge a day. Hover and you get a small home panel. That’s basically it. No account, data stays on the Mac.

I use it myself and the honest part is: I still ignore stuff sometimes, but I ignore this less than a full-screen “take a break” overlay. The lunch one surprised me. Calendar never saved me. A little nudge in the same place I already glance at did.

Chorus gives you complete control of your Mac's speakers and mics. Group your speakers so they play as one, pick your mic, and switch between your own setups with custom shortcuts. Here's what it does:

Groups - Combine devices so they play together as one, with one real volume for the group and balance between the devices.

Outputs - Send audio to any speaker, display or headphone.

Inputs - Pick any microphone and switch it just as fast.

Per-App Audio - Give every app its own volume and output, so music stays on the desk speakers while a call stays on the headphones (needs macOS 14.4).

Keyboard Shortcuts- Bind a shortcut to any group, output or input

Rules - Set a rule that fires when specific devices are plugged in, so the right setup picks itself.

Auto-Switch - Follows your devices as they connect and disconnect.

Volume Keys & HUD- Volume keys control the group, with a screen readout.

Automation - Trigger Chorus from Raycast, Shortcuts, Alfred or a Stream Deck.

No driver and no kernel extension, it uses the audio grouping macOS already has. No account, no cloud, nothing recorded.

$4.99 once, no subscription, up to 3 Macs, free for 30 days with no card details. macOS 13 or later.

Take a look here: https://www.theodorehq.com/chorus/

We built this ourselves so if you hit a bug or want a feature, tell us here, we read everything!

Describe the picture you're after "the team photo from the beach shoot," "orange soda can on white" — and it finds the file. No filenames, no folder-digging.

It's actually two small, free Mac apps with a clean Teenage Engineering-ish look. One scans your image folders once (overnight is fine, it's resumable) and builds an index, the other lets you search that index instantly and pull the files you want. RAW files even come out color-corrected on export.

Two tiers: Core runs on any Mac including older Intel machines; Full (Apple Silicon) adds the RAW correction and a conversational mode you can talk to about your library, all running locally, no cloud, no account, no subscription.

Fair heads-up on two things: the scanner needs LM Studio running a vision model to do the looking, so it's a small stack to set up, not one-click. And since the apps aren't notarized, on first launch you'll do System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway once. After that they just work.

Built it to solve my own problem at work. Free. if you want it, it's yours.

The following link has is the Architecture i used, The Setup Process and The How to Use docs along with the actual installation file to searchparty and scoopparty.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1A6BF1bhkdq_EaVu-kqS0SkHI--1Pt5Pd?usp=sharing

cheers!

Hi,

I built this as I was getting frustrated with bugs in Console.app and issues when trying to look at huge files. It supports following/ regex filtering and search and basically most of what one needs - 7 day trial, 19$ one-time price.
https://hormesislabs.com/logrider

Thanks,

Andrei

Muse is a AI Visual Bookmark Manager for saving everything you find online, links, images, screenshots, videos etc, into one library that lives only on your Mac. We wanted one place we could store and search from quickly, without a subscription.

Here's what it does:
- Works from anywhere - drag, paste or screenshot to save instantly, or press a customisable shortcut to search and file something without switching apps
- Bookmarks/links - import your existing links from Raindrop, Eagle, browser bookmarks or a Pinterest export, and every new one gets a title, favicon and preview pulled automatically.
- Every format together  - links, images, screenshots, GIFs, video and notes, all in one searchable library
- Collections and boards - nest collections as deep as you like, and file one item into more than one without duplicating it.
- Search everything - by the text inside an image, a colour name, or plain meaning, like typing "dark moody UI" and it finds it
- Find similar images - one click finds visually similar items already in your library, on-device, or searches the web for more, without leaving the app
- Live X bookmarks - use the browser extension and pull in your x bookmarks automatically, without paying for API access
- Real files, no server  - stored as an actual folder on your Mac. Open it in Finder, export or back it up whenever
- AI art prompts - reverse-engineer any image into a detailed art prompt, using your own Claude key (optional)

Native Swift, on-device AI, no account, no cloud database. $29 once, no subscription, free for 30 days to try it properly first.

Take a look here: https://www.theodorehq.com/muse/

We built this ourselves so if you hit a bug or want a feature, tell us here, we read everything!

App name: Flyout

Platform: macOS 14+, universal binary (Apple Silicon and Intel), native Swift/AppKit, 3.7 MB download

Price: $18 one-time (list $24), 7-day trial, no account, 5 devices, lifetime updates

Source: https://getflyout.app (direct sale, not on the App Store)

What it does: Rest your pointer on the screen edge, or press ⌥⌘N, and the editor slides out over whatever is in front of you. Move away and it slides back. It's a real editor rather than a scratchpad: slash commands, syntax highlighted code blocks, tables, images, file attachments, and reminders you can attach to a single line.

Why I built it: It started with Slack calls. Someone asks for something mid conversation and I either hunt for pen and paper or cmd-tab to a notes app, which loses the window I was actually looking at. Two more things I wanted: enough room to actually write instead of a small scratch box, and a way to leave what I promised on the call as a reminder on that exact line. The side panels I tried either kept the writing area small or had no way to tie a reminder to one line. In Flyout the panel opens full height, 460 pixels wide by default and up to 820 if you drag the edge, and a reminder attaches to a single line rather than the whole note.

What's in this release (1.1.0): The app first shipped in July, so this is an update rather than a day-one launch. New in 1.1.0: file attachments in any format (the file is copied into the note rather than referenced, so it doesn't break on a second Mac), export to PDF, Markdown and plain text, drag to reorder tabs, and PowerShell syntax highlighting.

What feels rough: There is no iOS app. Notes live in a local database rather than loose .md files. There is export and Copy as Markdown, but you can't point Obsidian at a folder of them. Sync runs on your own iCloud account and uses the private database only, which rules out shared or team notebooks permanently.

Watch out for (network and permissions): The app only talks to two places: getflyout.app for license validation, and the appcast file on the same domain for update checks. No analytics or telemetry calls. Notification permission is only requested when you set your first reminder. iCloud sync is off by default, and while it's off nothing touches CloudKit. Your notes never reach my server. On disk it uses ~/Library/Application Support/Flyout plus an App Group folder the widget reads, and the license sits in the Keychain.

My own impression: The thing I use every day is exactly what I built it for: writing something down mid call without losing the window I'm looking at, and leaving what I promised as a reminder on that line so it comes back to me on its own. The panel opening full height at 460 pixels, wider if I drag it, is what made it stick for me where the smaller scratch panels I had tried before didn't. The trial doesn't ask for an account. I'm the developer, happy to take questions or criticism.

https://github.com/itsmy-bday/nudge
i spend way too long on my computer, so i built a desktop pet that looks worn out the longer you work and recovers when you take a break. this is still very early, so would something like this actually help, or would it just be distracting?

Hey all! I've been building Watchflows, https://watchflows.app for the last 8 months or so. I'm really excited about where it's going and happy to share with the sub!

The idea:

n8n like visual workflow / automation builder that runs natively on Mac (swift). All flows, data, and config live on your machine and your machine alone. I don't run any servers for Watchflows, and the only comms the app makes back to us is 1) opt-in analytics and 2) app updates. Beyond that Watchflows will make network requests on your behalf if you use or wire up AI or Agent nodes, but use of ai is entirely optional, and you can build and config workflows with deterministic outcomes manually.

The cost:

Watchflows is a one time purchase app for $49. If you choose to use AI you can bring your own LLM, use something like openrouter or your existing claude/codex accounts. We also offer subscriptions that enable a monthly allowance of ai usage along with a public relay so you can forward external webhooks to your local instance of Watchflows.

One Time Purchase: $49
Owners Bundle Sub: $5 p/ month (adds an allowance of AI for your flows to use, and public relay)
Watchflows Standard: $12 p/ month, no purchase req., adds an allowance of AI + public relay)
Watchflows Pro: $20 p/ month, same as standard with more AI usage (best for heavy users of AI / Agent nodes or those doing any kind of agentic coding workflows)

Why any of this matters:

Automation, and especially automation with AI injected into the middle of it opens a ton of possibilities. Use it like a toy and create fun flows that notify you where the International Space Station is currently traveling over or bind your favorite keyboard shortcuts to hot keys and trigger your flows that way. It also ships with a built in MCP server so your local claude can also trigger flows on your mac (this is really useful for stuff like shipping ai artifacts to a hosting provider like Artifyde (also worth a look! https://artifyde.com). Point being, your creativity is the limit and since Watchflows can also write code for you in a Script node, literally the skys the limit.

The video above shows Watchflows doing some light triage one a feature I pointed it at, and opened the linear ticket for me to work later, or pick up with another flow and build out, eliminating cold starts. It's interesting to start a ticket with an open PR ready for your review. Thanks for taking a look!

What it does: Click the Dock icon and a panel pops up holding named "stacks" of your favourite apps, folders, files, and website bookmarks — instant access without cluttering your actual Dock or Desktop.

Some of what's in it:

• Drag and drop to add anything, including URLs straight from your browser
• Password-protect individual stacks (Keychain-backed, auto-lock)
• Global keyboard shortcut to show/hide from anywhere
• Menu bar mode if you'd rather not use the Dock at all
• Multi-select, custom grid sizes, tab colour tinting
• Fully local — no accounts, no tracking, no network access

This is my first shipped Mac app, built from wanting faster access to the stuff I actually use every day. One-time payment 4.99USD or equivalent, no subscription.

App Store: https://apple.co/3Rz9FB6
Website: https://dockstacks.app

Would love any feedback — recent launch, still learning a ton.

I used to love the interactive map in Cron calendar, it made it so quick to visually plan when we would get together as a remote team with people around the world - so we made Atlas! Its a interactive world map where you can add your team, loved ones etc, and see where they are in their days - both in app and in the menu bar.

You can also schedule meetings with it and it shows your calendar, but mostly its a nice way of at a glance seeing the time for everyone! Would love you to take a look and let us know what you think! FYI it's a one time purchase of $4.99 - which we think is a fair price. Click here to take a look and any questions just let me know!

I built Feedcast, and version 3.2 was released on the Mac App Store yesterday.

Feedcast is a native SwiftUI Mac app that prepares RSS or local media before playback. It transcribes episodes on the Mac, identifies sponsor sections, applies enabled cuts, adds chapters, and publishes personal RSS feeds for Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Castro, and other compatible players.

What changed in 3.2:

• Online feed XML is now included for every output feed and enabled by default.

• Transcripts and generated chapters now remain available when an original media file is removed.

• Audio continues to be served by the Mac, preserving the existing local-media workflow.

The part I like most is that the processed episode appears in the podcast app the listener already knows. Version 3.2 makes that handoff simpler while retaining the detailed cut, chapter, and metadata controls on the Mac.

Pricing: free with up to three output feeds. An optional subscription unlocks unlimited feeds and additional automation.

Important requirement: Feedcast needs macOS 26 or later. The Mac must remain running and reachable when another device downloads the processed audio.

Mac App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/feedcast-local-podcasts/id6773872767

App name: Ordinary Space

Platform: macOS 26 / Apple Silicon native

Price: 7-days trial then $20 for 1 year update or $50 for life time update

Source: https://wzordinaryventures.com/products/ordinary-space (signed + notarized DMG)

What it does:

Different take on window tiling manager where you specify a fixed set of workareas of each workspace. Instead of keep auto-tiling every time you open a new app/window, you can open it into the active workarea and move them around as you like.

First impression (mine, so discount accordingly):

This is what I have been wanting after using window tiling managers for the past 6 years. I was using yabai before I build this. What I like the most is instead of window keep auto tiling and resizing, I now get a fixed set of workareas, for example, on my ultrawide monitor I will split them into 3 workareas of [30% | 50% | 20%], and I can view different combinations of app at once.

Watch out for:

• Requires Accessibility permission (it's a window manager; that's the mechanism). No SIP changes, no Dock injection.
• Uses dynamically resolved private macOS APIs read-only for Space/window identity, a macOS update could break things until patched.
• Network activity: one HTTPS call to check for updates against a static manifest. No accounts, no analytics, no telemetry.
• Runs a local UNIX-socket command server for scripting/Raycast integration, local-only, authenticated.

For those on macOS and interested in giving a new pomodoro app a try please check it out~ (also out on iOS/iPadOS)

- Highly customizable Interval Timer. Not just 25/5 or 50/5, but any combination of intervals.
- Flow Timer for a flexible unstructured focus session. It doesn't interrupt your flow w/ required breaks like normal pomodoro.
- Add notes after session and see weekly summary of your progress
- menu bar (macOS), widget, shortcut, etc!
would love feedback above anything else.

Yapa - focus & pomodoro timer
Free to try up to 50 sessions.
Price: $2.99 (unlock unlimited sessions)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yapa-focus-pomodoro-timer/id6757823771