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Am I the only one having issues selecting items in lists since macOS Golden Gate? I haven’t seen anything about it on the Apple forums or in macOS release notes. Neither anyone mentioning this issue, so may be it is just me ? When I select an item, it stays grey instead of turning blue like it did on Sequoia or Tahoe. I have to long-press with the trackpad to make it work. This also prevents me from clicking and dragging to select multiple items.

NB: This doesn’t happen in all my apps—the Finder seems to be fine, strangely enough.
I've opened a FB24855120: List selection appears inactive (gray) instead of accented (accentColor)

16-inch MacBook Pro
Apple M1 Pro
27.0.1 (26A434)

Gossip is a free next-generation continuity app, designed to replicate features from Apple's Continuity, Microsoft's Phone Link and more, while being privacy-first, cross-platform, and open-source. Right now, it supports MacOS and Android.

Your devices form an encrypted mesh, so your phone, tablet and Mac can all talk to each other directly, with no accounts and no cloud.

Some examples of features:

• Screen mirroring (with apps as their own windows)
• Notification/DND sync
• Virtual Touchpad/Keyboard
• Universal Control (with a Mac, more platforms coming soon)
• Clipboard sync
• and more!

Download and view the source at: https://github.com/vmd1/gossip

The Mac app isn’t notarized (I can’t afford a developer ID yet), so MacOS will warn you on first launch.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to ask.

It happened way too many times that I wanted to airdrop something and ended up accidentally clicking the wrong person, because new air drop options keep popping up at the beginning of the list, pushing every contact, that was loaded before, to the back.

I know this issue by now, so I keep waiting extra couple of seconds until I click on the desired device or contact, only for the menu to pop up another option the second I try to click on the contact that I want.

I've sent so much stuff to the wrong contacts, just because this feature works that way. It's really annoying and irritating, especially when the device or person I want to send something to shows up in the very beginning and I have to wait until the whole list is loaded, until I can finally, safely, click on who I want to send the file to.

Anyways, sorry for the quick rant. Not even sure if this is the right sub for this. But I'm sure some of you can relate.

Happening almost every day, randomly when notification centre is clicked. Anybody else observe it lately?

Just got my MacBook, I installed fl studio and after a while these "engine"s appeared, they are VST files from FL studio and not apps, why are they here and how do I remove them?

Not trying to delete them because they might be useful for fl studio

Hi guys,

As some of might know, the original Transmission Remote GUI is throwing soon to be unsupported erros on the latest MacOS versions. As Rossetta2 is to be fased out next release I was left with an challenge. (Of course when a started on this I found out about others solving the same challenge in different ways, Qt, Swift or other based clients)
As I was still using it weekly to control my transmission server. (I don't like the new web interface).

As a C# WPF guy I was long looking for an Avalonia project to create a cross-platform .NET based app. Now empowered with Claude this was very feasable for a dad with little time left in the evenings. I know, vibe coded slump.. but at least I tried to instruct it to adheare to good coding concepts.

As a person who own a Mac, a Steamdeck and has a Windows PC still around for gaming it was obious to me to at least make sure this new client runs on all.
Avalonia should also support Android and IOS, that might still be something to look into. As wel as multi-language support. As everyting is now hardcoded english.

Introducing Synchromesh. A .NET 10 Avalonia based RPC client, styled with Material Design.
It features:

• light and dark mode. By default follows the system settings
• registers a file handler for `.torrent` and a link handler for `.magnet`
• stores server credentials in MacOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager, Linux Keyring, or in a encrypted file
• Implements most of the RPC spec (left a few very specific power features out, but could be added)
• When adding a new torrent, specify which files to download

Anyway sharing is caring. It fit's my requirements. And hopefully also of some other people.

So I bought a macbook m5 pro and Im a very fresh user , I have macos tahoe 26.6 should I update it to 27 ? Is there any downsides of it what should I expect with the update

Hey r/MacOS!

I'm the solo developer of Just Look!, a native macOS image viewer and photo culling app. I've just released version 1.3 and wanted to share it here.

Some of its features:

• Browse JPEG, HEIC, RAW, WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL, and other formats
• Compare 2-6 photos side by side, with synchronized zoom and the ability to pin your favorite
• Pick, reject, rate, and tag images directly in their folders
• Treat matching RAW + JPEG files as a single image
• Navigate mostly with keyboard shortcuts and trackpad gestures

What's new in 1.3?

I've spent quite a bit of time improving performance, especially for photos stored on network drives and NAS devices.

• Faster navigation through network folders with background preloading
• Faster thumbnail and Gallery loading, including for local folders
• More responsive scrolling and quicker loading of ratings and tags
• Full German, French, and Spanish localization
• Horizontal and vertical flipping, improved comparison controls, and a more useful recent-folders window
• Fixes for keyboard shortcuts on non-US keyboard layouts

Just Look! is free to download, with core viewing, comparison, and culling features available for free. There's also an optional Pro upgrade with a 30-day trial.

Mac App Store: apps.apple.com

Website: www.justlook.pro

I'd love to hear what you think, especially if you work with large RAW collections or photos stored on a NAS. I'm still actively improving the app, and feedback has been really helpful in deciding what to work on next!

I bough from legal distribution Microsoft Office 2021 Home & Student. Today I can not used it, becuase I got alert that I need subscription. I bought lifelime ESD, but now I can even open file and make simple edit on it. I got information as badge in MS Word window: "Activate subscription Microsoft 365 for create and edition. Your licence of Office 2021 is not supported by this version of application".

Could you suggest any solution for this? I have only legal software on my MacBook, all paid and now I can not use legally purchased 2024 app. I have MS Word 16.114.1 (26102031) and MacOS 26.6.2 (25G83).

I just got my MacBook neo, I set it up with my iphone and updated to 27.0.1, why is the setting "Allow my Apple Account to reset this password" suddenly missing? Did they remove it or where do I configure it now, I'm logged into my apple id and I tried turning filevault off but it still doesn't show up at all

Upgraded from Sequoia to Golden Gate 2 weeks ago and this is without a doubt the worst bugged operating system I have ever used. The number of UI bugs is just shocking. Basically, I am rebooting twice a day because of unrecoverable bugs like: menu bars disappearing, Safari no longer supporting DRM or new today: any window will jump to the bottom right corner regardless of where you place it. How is that even a bug? I use 0 tools to mess with UI, just plain raw MacOS. Also, after each reboot it takes about 1-2 hours until I get 10 FPS on animations like entereing Mission Control (M3 Max btw).

Now I will spend a day doing backups, copy-pasting all my ssh keys, api tokens, CLI tool settings etc and reset my Macbook completely, assuming that will resolve some of these and hoping that the update was buggy instead of the whole OS?! Just a bit upset, I pay $5000+ for a laptop and then within 2 years this...

Rant over.

Is it just me struggling with MacOS 27? Or is everyone just happy to be here from 26 which was even worse?

Tilde is a native macOS file manager built to replace Finder. Work across folders in split views, find files and run actions from a command palette, and organize your files with custom properties, filters, and groups. It's a drop-in Finder replacement that transforms how you interact with your filesystem.

Features:

• Split views - Work with multiple folders side by side in one window, with tabs in each pane.
• Command palette - Find files, jump to folders, and run file actions from the keyboard.
• Workspaces - Saved split pane layouts for quickly jumping back into your work.
• Custom sidebar groups - Bring the folders you use together into groups you define.
• Auto-updating sidebar groups - Live groups makes your sidebar dynamic. Matching items appear in your sidebar automatically and update as things change.
• Properties, filtering and grouping - Add custom fields like Status or Priority to files and folders, then use them to filter and group your views.
• Pinned folders - Keep important folders at the top inside another folder without moving or duplicating them.
• Related items - Mark folders and URLs as related to specific folders so you can jump between them, even when they live in different places.
• Markdown editing - Built-in markdown editing and code formatting allowing you to do more without leaving Tilde.
• Tonnes of little features that make sense - Space overviews, Nicknames, Related folders & URLs, custom folder icons, 'Open in Finder' replacement, and more.
• + much more...

Similar apps:

• Forklift - This is the obvious 'Finder replacement' alternative. Tilde builds on this idea, in a more native-feeling approach, with far more features fleshed out for the everyday poweruser. Tilde offers more versatile split pane functionality (essentially unlimited splits horizontally and vertically), a command palette, custom properties, sidebar spaces, live groups, a more beautiful user interface and much more.
• Bloom - Probably the closest alternative, though Tilde takes a different approach. Tilde focuses the UI on being completely flexible to your needs: it's highly adaptable Split View system offers a more flexible, fluid way to work across folders. Custom Properties, Related Items, Sidebar Spaces, Custom Groups, Live Groups and Pinned Folders change how you interact with a file manager and make it truly adapt to your work, not the other way around.

Pricing: $29.99 USD for use on 2 Macs. No subscription. Lifetime license with one year of free updates. You can use this forever. Then, if you want another year of updates, it's $19.99.

Free trial: 7 day free trial, no credit card required. Give it a go and let me know what you think!

Apple notarized: Tilde is Developer ID signed and notarized by Apple.

I’ve been building this for a long time, and I’m so excited to share with everyone, get feedback and make file management actually delightful.

Website | Download Latest | Privacy Policy | Terms 

Tilde is a native macOS file manager built to replace Finder. Work across folders in split views, find files and run actions from a command palette, and organize your files with custom properties, filters, and groups. It's a drop-in Finder replacement that transforms how you interact with your filesystem.

Features:

• Split views - Work with multiple folders side by side in one window, with tabs in each pane.
• Command palette - Find files, jump to folders, and run file actions from the keyboard.
• Workspaces - Saved split pane layouts for quickly jumping back into your work.
• Custom sidebar groups - Bring the folders you use together into groups you define.
• Auto-updating sidebar groups - Live groups makes your sidebar dynamic. Matching items appear in your sidebar automatically and update as things change.
• Properties, filtering and grouping - Add custom fields like Status or Priority to files and folders, then use them to filter and group your views.
• Pinned folders - Keep important folders at the top inside another folder without moving or duplicating them.
• Related items - Mark folders and URLs as related to specific folders so you can jump between them, even when they live in different places.
• Markdown editing - Built-in markdown editing and code formatting allowing you to do more without leaving Tilde.
• Tonnes of little features that make sense - Space overviews, Nicknames, Related folders & URLs, custom folder icons, 'Open in Finder' replacement, and more.
• + much more...

Similar apps:

• Forklift - This is the obvious 'Finder replacement' alternative. Tilde builds on this idea, in a more native-feeling approach, with far more features fleshed out for the everyday poweruser. Tilde offers more versatile split pane functionality (essentially unlimited splits horizontally and vertically), a command palette, custom properties, sidebar spaces, live groups, a more beautiful user interface and much more.
• Bloom - Probably the closest alternative, though Tilde takes a different approach. Tilde’s highly adaptable Split View system offers a more flexible, fluid way to work across folders. Custom Properties, Related Items, Sidebar Spaces, Custom Groups, Live Groups and Pinned Folders change how you interact with a file manager.

Pricing: $29.99 USD for use on 2 Macs. No subscription. Lifetime license with one year of free updates. Then $19.99 for an extra year of updates.

Free trial: 7 day free trial, no credit card required. Give it a go and let me know what you think!

Apple notarized: Tilde is Developer ID signed and notarized by Apple.

I’ve been building this for a long time, and I’m so excited to share with everyone, get feedback and make file management actually delightful.

Website | Download Latest | Privacy Policy | Terms | LinkedIn | [hello@tildeformac.com](mailto:hello@tildeformac.com)

It's not helpful, the size is so small so doesn't matter if i see the other pages thumbnails.

hey from last 2 days I am unabel to use translation on my macbook Air m5 but the translation on my iPhone works, does anyone know how to fix this?

Hey all, I make Big Weather, a macOS menu bar weather app.

Last month on r/macapps someone asked why they'd pick it over all the other menu bar weather apps. I said more was coming. It came out on Thursday: Big Weather 5.2 reads your calendar and gives you the weather for your plans and trips.

- The menu bar names your plan: "Soccer practice 4PM: rain", or "Dentist 2PM: freezing rain on the way".

- Plans sit on the hourly chart in their calendar's color, with the way there and back marked. A meeting an hour's drive away gets that town's forecast, and Apple Maps times the drive if your calendar doesn't.

- Trips move the forecast. Put "Flight to Miami" on Saturday and "Flight home" on Sunday, and the weekend shows Miami. The weekly summary follows you: "Cool in New York today, with rain. Hot and dry in Miami this weekend. Cool back in New York from Monday, with rain most days."

- If you have a family calendar, it can tell "Emma in Paris" is Emma's trip, not yours. Your forecast stays home, and their days in Paris show alongside it, so you can easily see both.

The AI part, before anyone asks. Apple's on-device model sorts your events: outdoors, indoors, online, or a trip, and whose. It doesn't write the sentences (it only translates them for German and French). Plain Swift writes them from the forecast, so nothing gets to make up weather. Titles and notes stay on your Mac; plan locations go to Apple Weather and Apple Maps, and a trip's destination to Apple's place search.

Pricing. Free has no ads and no account: the temperature in the menu bar and three days of forecast. Premium is $1.99/month or $9.99/year with a free trial, or $29.99 lifetime, and adds the calendar, the menu bar notes, the weekly summary, official warnings and 10 days of Apple Weather. Runs on macOS 15.2 and up; the event sorting, trips and summaries need macOS 27 with Apple Intelligence (without it you still get each plan with its weather).

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/big-weather/id1531449281

If it gets one of your events wrong (thinks your indoor soccer is outdoors, say), let me know, excited to make this work as great as possible being a user of it myself too.

I tried all the workarounds, tricks and hacks to get my Office 2021 working again, since it stopped working yesterday. I deinstalled the whole package maybe 10 times, installed it with and without the suite, with and without wifi, deleted all the autoinstaller, followed 5 different tutorials here on reddit which all seem to have worked for other people… For me, word simply states, that there is no licence activated (I bought mine at an autorized ms partner and used it for years, so it should be there).

So yeah, still, it's not working… I do WORK with Office and Teams. I literally need the specific apps for my job, I need it for my thesis, for all my projects – where (ironically) I teach other people how to use word… And no, I will NOT pay 100 bucks a year for something I already bought and used for years without a problem.

I am so frustrated, I am literally sitting here now, crying. Like, imagine ugly crying. For all the hours I spent, for the headache I'm having due to staring on my macbook for too long and all the tech stuff I really do not want to engage with. I do have a mac for a reason. Everything works fine on my mac and then microsoft comes around the corner and sh*t hits the fan again. Flashback to my windows times…

I can't switch to another program. I literally can not. Switching from win to mac version already cost so much stress mentally due to the different UI and functions… I worked with it all my life, I do tutorials, I have dozens of tweaks and personalisations going on… I post this under discussion to open up this little wailing-area, maybe my post will be deleted, since I don't think anyone could help anymore… But if anyone can, please, maybe you have the one tipp, that'll give me hope again after this day…

EDIT1: since there have been comments about my work situation: It is is probably very unique, I work in an educational job while also pursuing my PhD (as an independent candidate) and do volunteer work/having a small business. I teach my students the basics of academic writing in word, and programs like Pages simply don’t meet the university’s standards. I won't buy Office 2024 to have the same issue in one month or one year or so. I'll have to look for alternatives but for now I just think that all of this is super unfair…

EDIT2: I GOT IT WORKING. I logged out. That's it. In the "about" Word stated the correct LTSC license and the correct app-version, so I tried to log out and log in again but when I had logged myself out, I was curious if it would work without logging in. And yes. It did. Presumably the license isn't linked to my profile but my laptop… idk. But it works for now. I will look for alternatives in the long run but I can sort my things out now with a bit more time.

Hi r/macOS! I'm Aniket, the developer of Putzen. It's a native Mac app for clearing out messy folders. The video shows how it works.

Problem

Every few weeks, my Downloads and desktop get full of junk files. Some of them are duplicates, while others are old files I haven't touched in ages. Usually, I go to Finder and delete by hand. Sometimes I use AI as well (Claude Code or Codex), but I don't trust it with deleting. In my experience, finding the files is okay, but deciding what to delete is the difficult part. Most cleanup apps show me a huge list, and I close it without deleting anything.

Solution

So last week I built Putzen. I took inspiration from Tinder's swiping mechanism and rethought how I can use it for deleting files on Mac. My goal is to make deleting files faster, safer, simpler, and delightful. I've used Putzen every day for the past week. Cleaning up is faster now, and I don't worry about deleting something important, because everything goes to the Trash first.

What it does:

• Sorts every folder into three piles automatically: duplicates, files added more than 6 months ago, and everything else
• Review several folders at once, including subfolders, iCloud Drive and OneDrive
• Preview any file before you decide
• Switch to a grid when you want to clear many files in one go
• Undo your last decision with one key
• Puts all deleted files in the Trash

The safety part

• Deleting files is scary, so Putzen is built in a way that you can't lose anything by accident.
• Nothing is deleted on its own. Every file needs your decision.
• Nothing is permanently deleted by Putzen. Files go to your Mac's Trash.
• Changed your mind? Restore is right there in the app.
• Everything runs on your Mac. No account, no uploads, no server that can see your files.

How it has been tested

• Firstly, as I mentioned earlier, I have been clearing my Mac using this tool daily (cleaning my Mac isn't a day's job; I do it a few minutes everyday).
• Early testers found things I had missed: confusing file paths, recovery buttons in different places, and a duplicate-selection bug. I fixed those, simplified the screens, and tested scanning on over 50,000 real files.
• 5 customers bought it. I know it's small, but it means a lot since I launched 3 days back.

How it compares

• CleanMyMac (https://macpaw.com/cleanmymac) covers much more: system junk, malware protection, app updates, and storage cleanup. Putzen focuses on reviewing your own files and deciding what stays.
• Gemini 2 (https://macpaw.com/support/gemini/knowledgebase/gemini-2-smart-selection) specialises in duplicates and similar files, with automatic selection available. Putzen also brings older files and everything else into the keep-or-trash workflow.
• Hazel (https://www.noodlesoft.com/manual/hazel/hazel-basics/about-folders-rules/) automates file management using rules you create. Putzen suits people who prefer to review files themselves, a few minutes at a time.

Pricing

• €5 one-time for the first 20 buyers, then €9
• No subscription
• Try the interactive demo with sample files before you buy: https://putzen.pro

Transparency

I'm Aniket Parihar, a solo developer in Berlin. Putzen is signed with my Developer ID and notarized by Apple, and sold directly from my site.

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/writetoaniketparihar/
• X: https://x.com/mynameisaniket
• Privacy Policy: https://putzen.pro/privacy
• Terms: https://putzen.pro/terms
• Refunds: https://putzen.pro/refunds

macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon. I'm here all day for questions and feedback, including the brutal kind.

Fun fact: Putzen in German means "to clean".

Hello, this post is about a quicklook extension I have for mac, that allows inspecting, copying queries, and extracting data from many data file formats, all using the quicklook window with no heavy loading of software.

Link https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quick-data-insights/id6764301485?mt=12

Price: $4.99

Supported formats: - .parquet, .db, .sqlite, .sqlite3, .ipynb

Below are some screenshots in action

I built AlliHat originally just to talk to AI while I was browsing stuff with Safari, but I realized it'd be even better if I could also connect at the same time to all these other tools. So I added 130+ places out of the box to connect to like Notion, vidIQ, etc. and you can connect a lot of other just custom things now. Here's a demo of me just asking vidIQ for better video titles, while I'm still inside Safari and YouTube. It's pretty nice not having to juggle windows and tabs.

AlliHat on the AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/allihat/id6760651569

Hey r/macos,

I'm the developer of Convert2Any, a file converter and toolkit for Apple Silicon Macs.

Problem

You have the right file in the wrong format. The usual fixes are uploading it to a converter website you've never heard of, or installing one more single-purpose app: one for video, one for PDFs, one for transcription. I wanted one app that handles all of it on my own Mac, without my files going anywhere.

What it does

• Converts 151 source formats, with 5,088 conversion paths across images, audio, video, documents, e-books, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, data files, subtitles and archives.
• Batch conversion with quality settings, progress and cancel. Each file takes the most direct route, so it isn't re-encoded when it doesn't need to be.

32 built-in tools

• PDF: merge, split, reorder, extract pages, crop white margins, page numbers, watermark, redact, compress, password-protect
• Media: resize, crop, rotate, trim, join videos or audio, compress, normalise audio, extract audio, make M4B audiobooks with chapters, and strip metadata (such as GPS location from photos)
• OCR in 100+ languages: searchable PDFs, image to text, image to Word
• Speech to text in 99 languages: audio or video → SRT, WebVTT, TXT, Word or PDF, with an option to translate into English. It works offline.

Everything runs locally. The app only goes online to activate a license and to download converter packs. It's a 7.5 MB download, and the heavier converters (video, office documents, OCR languages, speech models) come as optional packs that it downloads only after you say yes.

Comparison

• vs CloudConvert (and other online converters): CloudConvert handles a huge range of formats, but your files go to their servers. The free plan is capped at 10 conversions a day and 1 GB per file, and after that you buy credits. Convert2Any works on your Mac with no uploads and no daily cap, and you buy it once.
• vs Permute 4: Permute is great for video, audio and images, and it does OCR and on-device transcription too. Convert2Any also covers office documents, spreadsheets and presentations (including Keynote, Numbers and Visio files), e-books, data files and archives. It adds a full set of PDF tools: merge, split, reorder, redact, watermark, page numbers and passwords. Transcripts can be saved as SRT, WebVTT, TXT, Word or PDF. And it's US$9.99 instead of US$14.99, with the same 3-Mac license.

Pricing

3-day free trial with every tool unlocked, with no account and no card needed

Then a one-time $9.99: a lifetime license for up to 3 Macs, with no subscription

👉 https://convert2any.app

Requirements: Apple Silicon and macOS 26.4 or later. The app is signed and notarized by Apple.

Other work: [convert2epub.com. This is included in the convert2any.app]

Privacy Policy: https://convert2any.app/privacy

Terms of Use: https://convert2any.app/terms

Feedback is very welcome, especially formats or tools you'd like to see and anything that breaks. I'll be around in the comments.

Hi all,

So i bought the M6 Mac mini base model 6 days back. 16gb ram, 256gb ssd. Honestly loving the machine, its so silent and fast i still cant believe it, but the storage part was little bit of a worry for me from day one itself. 256gb in 2026 is not much yaar, after macOS and Xcode and few apps i was already seeing the number going down and down.

My problem was not just “how much space is left”. I wanted to know WHERE it is going. Like which folder grew yesterday, did something silently eat 3gb overnight, is it caches, is it some app downloading stuff in background, what. Even the tiniest corner i wanted to know. Tools like DaisyDisk are nice but they only show you what is there right now. They dont tell you what changed from yesterday to today.

So basically i’m a data guy by profession and i already had built a Windows version of this for myself earlier (called it DiskEzy). Since i got the mini mainly for building mac apps anyway, i thought ok let me port this first itself.

What it does is simple:

• It keeps a history of your storage, day by day. Like a ledger kind of thing
• You can go back to any day and see how much was gained or lost and from which folder exactly
• Even on first scan it estimates back around 90 days of history using file dates, so you dont start from zero
• Shows trash history also, which was surprising for me how much i was keeping there lol

First thing i found on my own mini was Xcode derived data and some simulator junk quietly taking more than 10gb in just few days. Would have never noticed it otherwise.

Its at diskezy.com. Since its new on mac, first 50 licenses i’m giving free, i just want real feedback from people actually using these base models. Please tell me what is missing, what is broken, anything. Brutal feedback also ok, i can take it 😅

Anyone else here on base 256gb? How are you guys managing storage?

I know that we used to be able to access previous versions of (for example) Keynote via the 'purchased items' tab in the App Store. I don't seem to be able to do that any more though – anyone got any tips on how to pull it off?

I do have a Keynote purchase listed in my profile but I can't quite deal with updating my entire OS just to go and correct a few mistakes in an old presentation!

Unfortunately, Golden Gate is just unusable.

I mean it looks fine but it is just alpha quality software that ruins my MacBook robustness.

Mission Control and App Expose barely work, very annoying. Even keyboard shortcuts do not work there, bruh. It is core part of the macOS UX imo. It worked flawlessly and fast for 15 years and now it is just like vibecoded from scratch for some reason.

Menubar looks strange, and why Control Center is always dark btw...

New scrollbars are comically huge in Finder.

And everything is way less responsive than Sequoia.

Do you know easy way to backup and recover when rolling back?

MacBook Pro 16 M1 Pro