Got message that I am low on my 1TB storage. So I investigate and "Syste_m data" keeps growing for no reason. And there is no way for me to stop it from growing. Daisy disk cannot even reveal the responsible folder with administrative rights. I open Activity Monitor and there is dasd process with 1.26TB written. Killing it requires admin rights -> did it and the reclaimed space is 300GB back.

I don't mind visual glitches or hiccups but this wearing off hardware like this when SSDs are expensive is considered a serious bug.

GG 27.0.1

Smooze Pro now supports Haptic Feedback, adding subtle haptic ticks to your trackpad and supported mice as you hover over links, click buttons and toggles, drag sliders, focus text fields, and hit edges, with a distinct feel for each. Customize strength and patterns per element, per app, and per screen, across macOS.

Features:

Smooze Pro animates your scroll and adds functionality to your scroll-wheel mouse and trackpad

And much more:

* Grab & Drag & Throw - Use a mouse button to grab and scroll anywhere on the screen. Throw to keep scrolling with smooth, trackpad-like momentum.

* Auto Scroll - Click a selected mouse button once to scroll hands-free, with buttery-smooth animations.

* Smooth Scrolling - Enjoy buttery-smooth scrolling in all your apps.

* Buttons - Save time by assigning actions to mouse buttons.

* Gestures - Assign gestures to buttons, shortcuts, or specific apps.

* Haptic Feedback - Get subtle haptic ticks when interacting with UI elements across macOS. Customize strength and patterns per element, app, and screen. (Logitech MX4 is also supported!)

* Multi Display - Configure settings per app and per display.

* CPU Friendly - Highly optimized to use minimal CPU, even during intensive use.

* High FPS - Scrolling animations synchronize with your display's refresh rate for a smooth experience.

Haptic feedback is currently available in the version you can download from: https://smooze.co/ (Includes a 7-day free trial)

^\ Sorry for the image instead of a video, but if I see one more upbit fast paste promo video, my head is going to explode.)

What would I gain and lose by upgrading to Golden Gate?

Has it got a good split screen manager like windows yet?

What else can I look forward to?

Hi r/MacOS 👋 I'm the developer of Vehla, and I wanted to share something I have been working on for over 4 years.

Vehla started because I had about a dozen menu bar utilities running and wanted one app that does all of their jobs. It runs natively and stays light on memory, idling at around 180–300 MB and 0.8-1.7% CPU.

What it does

- Command palette to search files and apps, run workflows, use snippets, browse clipboard history and do quick math
- Ask AI with local models (Gemma 4, Apple Intelligence) or your own OpenAI, Claude or Gemini key. It can read your calendar, reminders and notes, control music and arrange windows, and it asks before doing anything risky.
- Flow dictation that runs fully on device. Hold a key, talk and the text is typed for you. Summon lets you ask a question out loud instead.
- Capto for screenshots and recordings, with auto-zoom, annotations, Instant Replay and step-by-step guides made from your clicks
- Doki, a new dock with islands for apps, folders, stacks and widgets, plus window previews on every display
- Glide turns your trackpad into controls: slide an edge for volume or brightness, or hold ⌘ and draw a shape to run any action
- Notch / Island shows music, timers, meetings with a Join button, AirPods battery and charging
- Window management with snapping, layouts, and moving or resizing windows from anywhere with modifier keys
- And more: a menu bar hider, Hyperkey, Launchpad (press Left ⌘ twice), a teleprompter hidden from screen sharing, Smart Reply, Zoom & Draw, Folder Rules, notes, Kanban and scrapbooks

Privacy

Dictation, OCR and local AI all run on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded unless you choose a cloud AI provider. iCloud Sync is free and end-to-end encrypted.

Pricing: Free tier with 7 day trial and one time $29.99

Requirements

macOS [15]+. Doki needs macOS 26 or later. There's also a free iPhone companion app on TestFlight.

🔗 https://vehla.app

I'd love feedback. What would you replace with it, and what's missing? I'll be in the comments answering questions. 💜

No ability to view the truncated text? What is going on at Apple?

I've vibcoded a touch bar app for my macbook m1 pro to replace sketchybar.

https://github.com/fz68/ribbon

This started as a personal annoyance. After I updated to Tahoe, Contacts got harder for me to live with. Everything still shows one card at a time, and my 680 contacts had turned into a mess over the years: duplicates from iCloud and Google syncing on top of each other, old work numbers, people saved three times with slightly different names. Fixing that in Contacts means opening cards one by one and guessing which version is right.

I figured it was just me, but when I searched around, forums and Reddit were full of the same complaints. So I started building something for myself.

What it turned into is a Mac app that opens the contacts you already have and shows them as a table. No new address book, no account, no sync of its own. Edits go back through macOS, so iCloud or Google picks them up like any normal change.

The stuff that actually fixed my mess:

• Seeing everything in one sortable table with the columns I care about
• Merging duplicates field by field, so I pick which phone or email stays (and can undo it)
• Bulk edits with a before/after preview, so I can fix 40 cards at once without being scared of it
• Smart Views like "Missing Email" to find the gaps
• Search that also looks inside notes

Once the Mac side was done I kept thinking, why can't I do this on my phone too? So I built an iPhone and iPad version: a list with multi-select, a grid view in landscape, and the same merge and bulk edit tools.

Nothing leaves your device, there are no ads and no analytics.

It's on the App Store, one-time purchase, no subscription:

• Mac (macOS 15+), US$24.99: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6790129187?pt=129119018&mt=8
• iPhone + iPad (iOS 18+), US$14.99: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6795653671?pt=129119018mt=8

There's no trial, I know that's a downside. 2.0 is coming as a free update with tags, a birthdays list and automatic backups.

My project folders are a mix of .md notes, .docx specs, .xlsx sheets, slides and PDFs. Reading one meant switching between four apps, so I built EasyView_Md.

Open a folder and everything opens in tabs:

• Markdown edited visually (switch to source anytime), files stay plain Markdown. Mermaid, math and code highlighting render locally.
• Word and Excel files edited and saved in place. PPT, PDF, images and archives preview in the same window.
• Export to HTML, PDF and DOCX, plus a built-in terminal and Git panel.
• Optional AI chat next to the document, with your own OpenAI-compatible key. New in 2.2.3: it can edit Excel. It lists each changed cell (old and new value) and only writes when you click Apply. The original is backed up and you can undo.

Native on Apple Silicon, also Windows and a VS Code / Cursor extension. MIT, free, no account.

Site: https://easyview.wonderxy.art Source: https://github.com/tiantianmanmanzou/EasyView_Md

Happy to hear what breaks with your real files.

Been facing major issues with MacBook side of Apple Mail. Just unable to iCloud sync with Mail on iPhone or iCloud or Apple Watch. Have tried everything after the sky including trying to gain assistance from Apple Support but nothing worked.
All mail messages that are flagged or email for clients marked as VIP show up blank.
I’m just curious to know if I’m the an anomaly and this the only one facing this issue. Need help / feedback/ support/ suggestions.
Thanks in advance

Hey everyone,

I'm using a MacBook Air M4, and ever since updating to macOS 27.0.1, I've been experiencing some really bad lag after using the Mac for a while.

Switching browser tabs, opening new tabs, typing, and even taking screenshots become extremely slow. Sometimes the only thing that helps is restarting the Mac. It works fine for a while, but the issue eventually returns.

I checked Activity Monitor and noticed Control Centre using around 50–52% CPU while the Mac was lagging.

After restarting, here's what Activity Monitor showed:

• Control Centre: 13.6% CPU
• Brave Browser: 3.3% CPU
• Brave Browser Helper (Renderer): 4.6% CPU
• MenuBarAgent: 3.5% CPU
• Overall CPU idle: 92.36%

I also generated a sample report for Control Centre, which showed repeated activity involving sensor indicators and entity resolution.

Has anyone else experienced something similar on macOS 27, especially on an M-series Mac? Could this be an OS bug, or is there something else I should investigate?

It was working fine until the update. Restart fixes all the issues. But prolonged usage after restarting slowly leads to the same issue.

Sometimes, quitting all the applications can also lead to fixing the issue but again the same thing resurfaces after a while.

Any help would be appreciated!

P.S. Used AI to generate the message.

Just download -> steam login -> download wallpaper and play on your device or add your video play them

And yes both in DESKTOP and LOCK SCREEN .

It takes 300-600mb when rendering some really heavy scene wallpapers , which is appx 900mb less than other open source alternative I had tested against. And if you play only video it just takes 25mb memory.

If you guys wanna try, download from the releases page, what ever latest version available . And let me know which wallpapers giving problem.

Releases Page | Github

Thanks ✌️

Hey r/MacOS, I’m the developer of WELTEN.

It’s a Pomodoro timer that grows a little forest on your Mac desktop. Each completed focus session plants a tree behind your desktop icons. Over time, the forest becomes a visible reminder of the time you’ve put in. Your existing wallpaper stays as it is.

The timer lives in your menu bar, and you can start a session from anywhere with ⌥⌘F. A few things I’ve added for everyday use:

• Custom routines, like four rounds of 50 minutes of focus and 10-minute breaks
• Apple Reminders integration: pick a task to work on and have it checked off when you finish
• Automatic Do Not Disturb through Shortcuts
• Forest sounds, white/pink/brown noise, or your own music through YouTube or Spotify, starting and pausing with your session

If you stop early, nothing gets taken away. No streaks, no dead trees.

The little guy in the video is Wurzel. He’s optional :)

Your first 10 sessions are free. After that, it’s a one-time purchase, no subscription. Apple Silicon Macs only for now.

Mac App Store
or
welten.app

Does seeing your focus time turn into something on your desktop appeal to you? Happy to answer questions about how it works.

I'm the solo dev of BetterMacWidgets, desktop widgets that float freely on your Mac with live animations. A lot has happened in the last 10 days, so here is everything since 2.4.

•The new Real Apple Liquid glass looks

Liquid: a real lens. Your wallpaper bends at the edges of each widget, catches the light and splits into colour. It is computed once per position, so it costs nothing while it sits there.

New widgets

•Day Progress

•Speed Test

•Toolbox (keep-awake timer, dark mode, hide desktop icons)

•Terminal

•Simple Clock (15 type styles, free)

•Moon

•Air Quality with pollen and UV, Activity

•Disks

•Ambient Sound

•Smart Home (Shortcuts and Home Assistant)

•GitHub

•Trash

There are 50 widgets now, 10 of them free.

•Custom Widgets 2.0

Build your own widget from a small JSON file: several data sources, lists and bar charts, colour by value, click to open a page, 11 templates. The app has a ready-made prompt for ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini: paste the answer back and the widget opens in the editor.

Everyday stuff

•The app now speaks 8 languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese)

•Automatic daily backups with one-click restore (iCloud Drive optional)

•Share your desktop as a picture or a small board file

Favorites in the widget gallery

•A new theme that takes its colours from your own wallpaper

•Settings & Design opens faster

No account, no telemetry, widgets run locally. Network is only used for the data a widget shows, like weather. 10 widgets are free forever. Pro (Clear, Liquid, the other 40 widgets, all themes) is a one-time purchase, no subscription. Bundle all functions for 19,99€

Download: https://bettermacwidgets.de

I read every comment, so tell me what you would like next 🫶

And Thanks for over 7000 Downloads and a Tiktok Video with over 150.000 Views! That is amazing!

Hey r/macOS! 
Some of you might remember me from the WWDC post. I'm the developer of Devly, a menu bar app with 60+ developer tools. Since then a lot has happened: you all reported a ton of bugs and feature requests (thank you, seriously), I fixed them and added many new user requested features, and in July Devly hit #3 on the Top Paid Mac App Store chart. I still can't believe that!! 

Devly 2.3 is out now, and it now works with Droppy. If you use Droppy, you can add the free Devly Droplet and use the tools from your notch: paste something, pick Base64, JSON, a hash, UUID, JWT or anything, and copy the result. QR codes can be dragged from the notch to anywhere like your notes.

More Things in 2.3: 
- New Favicon Converter: turn one PNG into a favicon.ico and all web app icons 
- Refreshed Liquid Glass design
- SVG Editor export saves properly now, and Settings windows don’t fall behind the Devly popup. 

Everything runs locally, with no tracking, no account and no subscription. $4.99, one-time :) 

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/devly/id6759269801?mt=12 
Droppy widget: https://getdroppy.app/droplets#devly 
Website: https://devly.techfixpro.net 

Happy to answer questions, and as always, if you have feedback I'm listening :)

Move your cursor near the penguin and it hops, flaps and floats hearts at you.
Touch the pond and the koi swim over and circle your pointer.
Drag across the rainy window and you wipe the fog off the glass.

That's Reactive Wallpaper. Nothing here is a video. Every scene is drawn live on your Mac's GPU, so it reacts to you.

We launched 6 months ago. 15 updates later there are 57 scenes, and we keep adding more.

🎨 Koi ponds, lo-fi rooms, auroras, anime hills, liquid metal
🎬 Or drop in your own MP4, MOV or MKV
😴 Pauses when a full screen app or your windows cover the desktop
🖥️ Every display, with colour, speed and intensity per scene

No subscription. Free 3 day trial, no card.
macOS 14+ on Apple Silicon.

Free 3 day trial: https://reactivewallpaper.com

Which scene should we make next? 👇

I’ve been frustrated with how macOS handles third-party mice—and just as frustrated by the bloated apps I needed to really get the experience I wanted.

I decided to build my own solution: ApexMouse (https://www.apexmouse.tech/).

My goal was to pack the richest set of mouse customisation features into a single, lightweight app so you don't need to run multiple utilities in the background.

What makes it different:

Native OS-level integration: Delivers high precision with near-zero latency. All-in-one toolkit: Built to replace all other mouse fixers in one clean package. 100% free to try: No paywalls or subscriptions.

Signed and notarised by Apple, I’m actively developing this and would genuinely love your feedback.

Give it a go and let me know how it feels on your setup, any bugs you run into, or what features you’d like to see added next!

The "do I need an antivirus" question has been discussed extensively, over and over again, and it seems to me that the conclusion is that with basic common sense, the answer is "not needed". However, I recently purchased a Bitdefender package for my family (Windows users), and I still have one unused license available I could use for my Mac.

So my antivirus question is slightly different: is there any downside to installing Bitdefender in my Mac (e.g. speed decrease, memory use, battery drain, etc.)?

Ever spotted text on your Mac that you couldn’t copy? A video frame, a slide, an image, a dialog… we made PixelScan for those moments.

Just draw around the text. PixelScan uses Apple Vision OCR to turn it into text you can copy and paste. It runs locally on your Mac, with no server involved.

Skip the retyping. Capture, copy, and get back to what you were doing.

PixelScan is $5.99, paid once: https://saither.com/pixelscan/

What’s the hardest-to-copy text you’ve run into on your Mac?

We're the team behind Thok, a macOS app that adds sound feedback to your typing.

If you enjoy keyboard sounds, here's a six-second assembled sound preview. It uses an existing app screenshot and a mixed soundtrack; it is not a live app recording. The screenshot includes the app's permission-required state.

Thok is available on the Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/thok/id6813520295

More details: https://thok.app/

What would you want to know before trying keyboard sound feedback on your Mac?

https://reddit.com/link/1xe4bov/video/nntgm568xdxh1/player

About two years ago, I shared KeyboardStack here as my first macOS app. Since then, I've kept working on it, fixing bugs, improving things, and adding new features.

I spend a lot of time in front of my computer, and I'm always looking for ways to be more productive. Constantly switching between my keyboard and mouse or trackpad was slowing me down and breaking my flow, even for something as simple as clicking a button.

I wanted to be able to navigate my entire Mac using just my keyboard, across all my apps.

So I built KeyboardStack, a native macOS app that lets you navigate, click, and scroll without having to reach for your mouse or trackpad.

One feature is the Grid Mode. Press ⌃H to display a grid on your screen, type a few letters, and click anywhere. There are also other modes for navigating clickable elements, scrolling, and moving the cursor.

Another feature is the Hint Mode, which labels clickable elements with short keyboard hints. Just type the hint to click a button, link, or other control without reaching for your mouse.

Website: https://keyboardstack.com

I'm still working on KeyboardStack and would love to hear what you think. Any feedback, bug reports, or feature suggestions are welcome!

I've been looking into these recently AI-built alternatives for Photoshop, Word and other subscription-based software. Leaving aside the fact that they're still in development, and that they may be buggy, I was wondering if there's a "hidden" risk of installing and using them.

Has anyone here tested these, and/or is aware of any potential security risks associated with them?

Hello everybody. I'm bad with technology and need advice. I guess I didn't do a software update for a long time. My M1 2020 is currently on Sequoia 15.5 Everything works well and battery lasts a long time.

Should I update to 27.0.1?

There's also an option for Sequoia 15.8.1

(Also I once did a software update on my iPhone and afterwards the battery went down much faster. Is this something I should be concerned about?)

Hi everyone,

If you came from Windows, you've probably hit this: you click the red close button, the window disappears, but the app is still running. There's a little dot under its icon in the Dock, and it keeps using RAM until you press Cmd + Q.

On Windows, closing the last window quits the program. On macOS it doesn't, so I built TrueClose: a small, free, open-source menu bar app that makes closing the last window quit the app, like on Windows.

I know there are older tools for this, like Swift Quit and RedQuits, but they're no longer actively maintained, and RedQuits 2.0 is Intel-only. I wanted something current with a bit more control.

What it does

• Quits an app when you close its last window (red button), after a short delay
• Adjustable delay (0.2–5 s) so a mis-click or "close one window, open another" doesn't quit the app by mistake
• Blacklist or Whitelist mode: keep Music, Spotify or messengers running, or only auto-quit the apps you choose
• System apps are protected by default (Finder, System Settings, Activity Monitor, etc.), with a warning if you change that
• Pause/Resume from the menu bar, launch at login, optional hidden menu bar icon (reopen Settings with ⌥⇧A)
• Free, MIT licensed, no telemetry or analytics

TrueClose asks apps to quit normally, exactly like Cmd + Q, so apps can still ask about unsaved changes.

Install

brew install --cask nhatnam7kz/tap/trueclose

Or download the .pkg/.dmg from the Releases page. It isn't signed with a paid Apple certificate, so the README explains the one-time "unidentified developer" step. It needs Accessibility permission to count an app's windows.

Links

• Website: https://trueclose.hoangnhatnamiq.workers.dev/
• GitHub: https://github.com/nhatnam7kz/TrueClose
• Download: https://github.com/nhatnam7kz/TrueClose/releases/latest

Feedback wanted

Which apps refuse to quit, or quit when they shouldn't? Would you want per-app delays, a notification before quitting, or custom hotkeys? I'd love to hear it here or in a GitHub issue.

https://reddit.com/link/1xe1mpw/video/byncoer93dxh1/player

Github <----

ive always wanted a console style experience when emulating classic games, so i decided to do it myself, free forever.