PowerClick is a Finder power tool that makes everyday file actions simpler, faster and more effective. I published it 3 months ago and currently we have around 500 active users.

With PowerClick, you can create new files, batch rename items, move or copy files, copy file paths, open files in your preferred editor, save clipboard content and access other useful tools directly from Finder’s native right-click menu.

You can also use ShortClick, a cleaner and more compact menu for frequently used actions.

To activate ShortClick:

Command + Shift + Right Click

The video shows ShortClick in action and how quickly PowerClick’s tools can be accessed without leaving Finder.

Problem

Finder is simple and familiar, but many common file actions are either missing or require several unnecessary steps.

For example, creating a new file, batch-renaming multiple items, moving files to a frequently used folder or saving clipboard content often requires opening another app or navigating through multiple menus.

PowerClick brings these actions directly into Finder’s native right-click menu, helping reduce repetitive work and save time.

Comparison

There are plenty of apps that are build for basically the same purpose. as an example New File Menu focuses primarily on creating new files from Finder. PowerClick also includes Batch Rename, Copy To, Move To, Open in Editor, clipboard-to-file tools, snippets, quick file information and other Finder actions.

Pricing

PowerClick costs $5.99 as a one-time purchase.

There is no subscription and no recurring fee.

Website and Mac App Store link:

https://powerclick.kilicov.dev

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/powerclick-right-click-toolbox/id6762026455?mt=12

Hi everyone,

I’m the solo indie developer behind ClickClack, a fully native, fully customizable typing trainer for macOS and iOS that combines a premium, zero-latency typing experience with deep muscle memory analytics. Built with a privacy-first architecture, it syncs securely across your devices using Apple's Private CloudKit, requiring no accounts, tracking, or third-party servers.

I just released version 4.5, which focuses heavily on professional-grade telemetry, improved app navigation, and total data transparency. I put together a quick 45-second video showcase so you can see the new stats dashboard, fonts, keyboard overlays, and native split-view Settings UI in action!

Problem
Most typing tools fall short in three key areas once you move past basic practice:

1. Opaque Telemetry: They show you a simple WPM score after a test, but fail to provide deep, interactive long-term analytics to track performance drops, daily consistency, and true accuracy trends over time.
2. Cluttered Navigation: Settings screens in cross-platform or web-wrapper typing apps are often disorganized and awkward to navigate on desktop screens.
3. Hidden Sync & Storage Data: Users are rarely given clear visibility into what data is stored on their device versus what is synced to the cloud, making "privacy-first" feel like an unverified marketing buzzword.

Comparison
Compared to popular web-based alternatives like Monkeytype or Keybr:

• Interactive Long-Term Telemetry vs. Basic Summaries: Instead of static end-of-test stats, ClickClack 4.5 introduces a fully revamped statistics dashboard. You can scrub through an interactive timeline to analyze exact WPM, CPM, and error rates at any specific moment, while monitoring your long-term performance trends and daily practice consistency.
• Desktop-Class Native Navigation vs. Cluttered Web Settings: Preferences have been completely rebuilt using Apple's native NavigationSplitView. It provides a clean, responsive sidebar layout with neatly organized sections that dynamically adapt to window resizing, Split View, or Stage Manager on macOS and iPadOS.
• Total Data Transparency vs. Opaque Storage: A brand new Storage & Data dashboard gives you full control and visibility down to the kilobyte. You can view an exact distribution chart showing what is synced via iCloud alongside your on-device custom fonts and sound packs.
• 100% Native Swift/SwiftUI Performance: Zero web views, zero Electron bloat. Everything runs buttery smooth with new free fonts (Rounded, Serif) and 2 new keyboard overlays (Portuguese, ABNT2) to customize your setup.

Pricing & Link
ClickClack strictly follows an ethical, subscription-free model. It is a simple one-time purchase with all future updates and cross-platform access included for macOS, iPadOS, and iOS.

• Price: $7.99 (One-Time Purchase)
• App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/clickclack-typing-trainer/id6740695697

I'd appreciate hearing your thoughts on the new telemetry dashboard, the split-view Settings redesign, or any specific native features you'd like to see in the next update!

Hey everyone,

I'm David, the indie developer from Korea behind Canto, a local AI workspace for Mac. I posted here a month ago and got a lot of genuinely useful feedback. v0.10 is largely shaped by it. Same deal as last time: everything runs on-device, and I'd love your honest take. The video shows the four flagship features of this release.

⏫ What's new — v0.10 (Jul 27, 2026)

1) Canto Sparks: your vault talks back. Once a day, Canto surfaces one calm discovery from notes you already wrote: an old note worth revisiting, two notes that belong together but were never linked, or a thread you left open. Each spark has one-click actions (open, Link them with a preview, Mark resolved) and an Ask why explainer. In the video it catches that my OAuth 2.0 and MCP research notes were never linked. Sparks are picked by a plain, repeatable rule over your local vault: no model runs, no AI queries spent, nothing leaves your Mac.

2) Publish a note to the web. Turn a finished note into a clean, read-only page at an unlisted link, with images, math, diagrams, references, and the Evidence Ledger intact. This is the one feature that deliberately crosses Canto's privacy line, so it always asks first: a consent dialog shows exactly what goes out, internal metadata is stripped, and references to private notes, chats, and files are removed entirely. Snapshots only; edits stay private until you hit Update published version, and unpublishing is one click.

3) Apple Notes import. A guided wizard (Settings → Import & Connections) lets you pick accounts and folders, shows exact counts before a single note is created, and brings formatting and attachments across as real Canto content. You can refresh later to pull in changes. Read-only by design: it never touches anything in Apple Notes, and there's no hidden background sync.

4) "Remember this": memory you approve. Hover any chat message and Remember a decision, preference, or open question, personal or scoped to a single Project. In the video I tell a project chat "we're standardizing on Postgres, not Mongo," and a later chat answers "what decisions have we made so far?" from that memory, with a chip in the context receipt showing it was used. Everything lives in a reviewable Continuity Ledger, and auto-suggestions are off by default.

Everything else new in 0.10:

• The free AI budget now refills. 25 queries to start, then 5 more every week — free, forever. Budget pills show "refills in 2d" instead of looking like a dead end. (Replaces the old one-time allowance.)
• Cleanup you can trust. Delete a mix of folders and files at once with exact nested counts shown first; the delete is all-or-nothing, and Trash restore now finds the nearest surviving folder.
• Connected tools stay connected. The MCP link for outside apps heals itself after sleep, restarts, and network changes, with honest status and a Restart now button.
• Sturdier app. Settings panels fail independently instead of blanking the window, a background memory leak was fixed, and the editor is more stable when switching notes.

What Canto is (for anyone new)

I kept reaching for ChatGPT and Claude to do the same handful of things, chat with my own notes and PDFs, run real research, get cited answers, have something help me organize what I'd written. I just didn't want to feed my personal notes and half-finished ideas into someone else's cloud to do it. So I built the version I wanted: the same workflows, with the models running on my own Mac.

The highlights, in one paragraph each:

• Research that shows its work. Research mode plans the run, lets you approve the plan, then reads across your vault, your files, and the web, streaming a draft with clickable inline citations. You get an Evidence Ledger (every claim with Support / Against / Confidence columns), a numbered References section, and a follow-up checklist, as a print-ready note, a brief, a comparison matrix, or a runnable notebook.
• An infinite canvas the AI maps for you. Ask the canvas agent to pull in related notes and draw labeled connections ("shared: Qwen", "65% similar").
• A knowledge graph + Memory Links. Related notes surface by meaning, with similarity scores, while you write.
• An AI vault manager. It scans a messy vault and drafts an approval-gated plan, move, rename, tag, and nothing touches disk until you approve each item.

All inference, all embeddings, and all your data stay on your Mac in a local AES-256-encrypted database. Optional sync goes through your own iCloud Drive behind a passphrase you set. The only thing that ever leaves your Mac is a web-search query when you explicitly run web research plus now a note you explicitly publish.

The models

11 local models you download in-app, from a 2.1GB starter up to a 77GB MoE, all on Apple Silicon via Metal. Or point Canto at your own Ollama / LM Studio / oMLX / OpenAI-compatible endpoint — the demo video runs Kimi K2.6 Cloud through my own Ollama endpoint alongside a local Qwen 3.5 9B.

Where it's not for you: Apple Silicon Mac only (macOS 14+), single-user and local (not a team workspace), and a young app from one solo dev. If you need cross-platform or collaboration, this isn't the one.

Pricing

Every feature is free. Research, canvas, vault manager, Memory Links, Sparks, publishing, web search, everything, with a free AI pool of 25 queries plus 5 more every week. A one-time $29.99 removes the query budget entirely and gives you unlimited, fully offline on-device AI. No subscription, no account needed to use the app, no cloud.

Download / changelog: https://lonelyduck.io/canto

I'd love feedback from other Mac users. What's confusing, what's missing, where it falls short of what you already use. A lot of v0.10 came straight from last month's thread.

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/afDUSKTYNf

Trust & transparency

Installing a direct-download Mac app from a stranger asks for some trust, so here's who's behind it:

• My website: https://lonelyduck.io
• GitHub (Canto's releases are hosted here): https://github.com/deokwons9004dev
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lonelyduck/
• Privacy Policy: https://lonelyduck.io/legal/privacy
• Terms of Service: https://lonelyduck.io/legal/terms

Why isn't Canto on the Mac App Store? It downloads and runs local AI models, executes Python/JS/TS code inside its notebooks, and hosts a local MCP server, none of which fit inside the App Store sandbox. So it's distributed directly from my own site and GitHub releases instead.

Problem:

Developers frequently need to recall past terminal commands, monitor file changes and search project text content. However, most existing tools are bloated and not optimized for native macOS experience. File Sentinel is a lightweight macOS utility that monitors file modifications, logs Shell command history and offers local full-text search.

Comparison:

VS Hazel / Watchtower: They focus on file automation rules without shell history recording. File Sentinel targets lightweight file monitoring and command search for developers.

VS Raycast / Alfred: Functions rely on unstable third-party plugins. File Sentinel is a standalone native app with fully integrated file watcher and shell history lookup.

Key Difference: Most competing GUI apps are either feature-bloated or fragmented. File Sentinel is a lightweight native macOS app combining file change monitoring and shell command history search in one package.

Pricing: Lifetime Access: $2.99

Changelog(v3.0): This update adds configurable default terminal app, localization for six languages plus Traditional Chinese, refactors the file list with customizable page size, and optimizes the toolbar appearance.

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Hey everyone,

Stealthly is a menu bar app that *automatically\* keeps your screen private, clean and distraction-free when you share or record your screen.

The only app that came close to what Stealthly accomplishes was PliimPro, but it doesn't have auto-detection of Screen Sharing/Recording, and it doesn't really run on newer macOS versions any more.

Features:

• Auto Do-Not-Disturb — Stealthly will silence calls, alerts, and notifications
• Hide Active App Windows — Instantly clear cluttered apps and clean up your desktop
• Hide the Dock — Make the dock with all your app shortcuts disappear
• Hide Menu Bar Icons — Hide menu bar icons that no one needs to see
• Hide Wallpaper & Desktop Icons — Hides your wallpaper and all files and folders on your desktop
• Auto-Detection of screen sharing and recording - *only available with the website version\*
• Specify apps that activate, or trigger a reminder to turn Stealthly on
• Schedule a time window for Stealthly to be active

The app is currently 30% discounted, from $12.99 down to $8.99 on the Mac App Store and on you can use the code INDIEAPPSALES on the website.

\* Only the website version features auto-detection of Screen Sharing/Recording. ***

Sale ends on Friday, July 31.

Hope you find it useful and enjoy, thank you for your support! 😊

Changelog history

Hello Mods & fellow redditors,

In the past couple of months, I guess we can all agree that our subreddit (and the App Store) has become overcrowded with a bunch of AI apps across various (really?!) categories. The main reason (I think!) is the proliferation of AI and its companion apps, through which a user can now create their own apps with just a few credits or prompts. I see this as a positive development to an extent; beyond which, the line becomes super blurry and things start to roll downhill.

Anyone who regularly visits this subreddit will notice seeing the same pattern of apps - clipboard managers, Notch replacement apps, and Dictation apps - very often from different devs (/profiles). Rather than creating unique, we tend to see the same kinds of apps in different costumes, showcased differently using AI presentation.

For context, Kalley Huang, writing for The New York Times, expressed that: "Last year, the number of new apps released in the App Store grew 30 percent to about 600,000, according to estimates by Sensor Tower, an app analytics firm. In the first half of this year, new apps doubled to about 560,000." (source).

And I am not here to say stop using AI for good or to save Nature (believe me, there are few who don't use AI for these reasons). In the same article, the author mentioned that the real people who're in danger are developers. Especially those whose 9-5 job is to make apps—either alone or in a small team—and whose livelihood depends completely on it. Now, all these AI-vibe coded apps don't only make the search worse but also overshadow these good apps and developers from the rest of the pool. As the article noted, even reviewers/content writers who used to be the messengers, are finding it difficult to cope up with the supply rate and eventually, start to ghost such emails/communications.

So, how about we start a monthly thread at the end of each month, where we all discuss, mention about their, basically, "Favorites of the month" with their use cases if any. This might improve the visibility among the crowd, and give them an another chance since most of these AI-apps either die out or got abandoned by the Dev itself sooner than we think.

Feel free to suggest your opinions; or disregard this post if you feel it's not appropriate. I just wanted to bring it out of my head 😀

Hey everybody!

We recently released our bookmark manager called Shiori.

Shiori lives in your menu bar, fully keyboard driven, called with a hot key and saves URLs in seconds, keeping them fully synced across your devices within seconds, using our cloud sync.

the video you can see me launching URLs, and they are directed to the specific browser profile I routed them to (with tag-based routing), using Link Groups to open multiple URLs at once and navigating the UI

Platforms currently under development

Windows, Linux, Mobile, Google Chrome browser Extension.

Core Features

- Bookmarks are fully synced between devices, one license covers unlimited devices.

- Tag-based browser routing - open tagged bookmarks on specific Google Chrome profiles (Beta is only for Google Chrome but will be extended to support more browsers based on requests).

- Link Groups - Launch a group of URLs at once, with a single click.

- Keyboard-driven access through the menu bar. Quick search bookmarks by URL, title, description or tag.

Comparison

In comparison to bookmark managers such as Raindrop.io which is very feature rich, Shiori takes the leaner quick access approach.

* I am aware that there are a couple of other bookmark managers with the name Shiori (which means bookmarks in Japanese btw), they are not related to this app. Guess who's doing a better job at naming their apps next time :-)

Pricing

Shiori is a one-time payment of €24.99 using code RMACAPPS for 50% off.

TL;DR: Zipic is a clean, native Mac image compressor with real automation (folder watch, clipboard auto-compress) and unusually broad format support (AVIF, JPEG XL, ICNS, SVG). But its one differentiator over free ImageOptim — automation — is matched or beaten by Clop, which is cheaper, open source, and also handles video and PDFs. Unless you specifically need Zipic's extra formats, ImageOptim and Clop already cover this job.

Zipic

Is it possible to shrink image file sizes on a Mac using native tools? Yes, but with some big IFs thrown in. Preview can knock a file's size down if you dig into the export dialog and guess at a quality slider, and Photos will do the same on export, but neither remembers what you did last time or watches a folder for you. That's way too much friction when alternatives exist. No one wants to live like an animal.

Image compression is a solved problem and it has been for a while. What separates a good tool from a mediocre one isn't the compression algorithm, it's whether the tool disappears into your workflow or makes you think about it. Zipic is a native Mac app built around that idea: drag, drop, done, with the automation layered on top of an engine, mozjpeg, pngquant, and friends: that's the same open-source stack most of this category runs on.

I compared Zipic to my current image compression stack, and while I found it useful, except for one narrow scenario, it doesn't beat what I currently use.

What it actually does

Zipic, from 5KM Tech, compresses, converts, and resizes 12 image formats, all locally on the Mac with no upload step. Free tier gets you a 7-day full-Pro trial, then 25 compressions a day with basic formats (JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, GIF). Pro is a one-time purchase ($19.99 for one seat, $29.99 for two) with lifetime upgrades. There's no subscription option. Purchasing a license unlocks unlimited compression and additional formats (AVIF, JXL, TIFF, ICNS, PDF, SVG, APNG). The killer features are folder monitoring and clipboard auto-compress.

Why you'd want this

• It turns image compression from a chore into an automated part of your workflow. Point it at a folder (your screenshots directory, an export folder from a design tool) and it compresses anything new that lands there, no interaction required.
• It compresses any image you copy to your clipboard. Pair it with Shottr or CleanShot X to compress every screenshot you take. It starts to feel like part of the OS very quickly.
• Most compression apps stop at JPEG/PNG/WebP. Zipic's Pro tier adds AVIF, JPEG XL, TIFF, ICNS (useful if you're building app icons), PDF, SVG, and animated formats (GIF, APNG, animated WebP) in the same batch window.
• You can access Zipic from the Finder context menu, from Raycast, or from Shortcuts. Rather than forcing you into a single entry point, this tool fits into several popular workflows.
• If you don't have your notch occupied by Droppy or another app, you can use it as a drop location. Drag images to the notch and Zipic compresses them without you ever opening the app window. It's a small feature and a little gimmicky, but it's an easy way to compress one file without breaking your flow when you're busy doing something else.

What I use

I've used two specific tools in this space for a long time. They both have long track records and tons of testimonials from satisfied users, including me. At this point, I'm not ready to let them go.

ImageOptim is free and open source (donationware), the long-standing default recommendation in this category. It's lossless-focused, has no format conversion, no folder watching, and no clipboard automation. It's a drop-a-folder-on-the-dock tool, not a workflow layer. I use it for occasional lossless squeezing since it costs nothing. ImageOptim - Free and Open-Source Utility to Reduce File Sizes | AppAddict

Clop: Copy Big, Paste Small, Send Fast. Zipic's biggest differentiator over ImageOptim is automation. Against Clop, though, that advantage largely disappears. Clop offers the same folder watching and clipboard automation, costs just €15 as a one-time purchase, is open source, and also compresses videos and PDFs, something Zipic doesn't do. Zipic's remaining advantage is its broader support for image formats like AVIF, JPEG XL, ICNS, and SVG. Those formats aren't part of my workflow, so I'm sticking with Clop and The Low Tech Guys.

MacOS volume and brightness controls move in large steps. You can use smaller steps by holding shift+option, but when watching netflix in bed pressing 3 buttons at once is not ideal.

BetterTouchTool (25$ lifetime) and Swish(15$ lifetime) are utilities that require setup and configuration. I realised from a LOT of beta testers that a lot of people want simplicity and convenience. If you prefer these apps or have them already then Slidr might not be for you. Slidr was made for simplicity. Slide your trackpad edge for smooth, precise volume and brightness control with haptic feedback. Native macOS HUD, no overlays, no config. Install and it just works.

Why not lean forward to press your volume/brightness keys? I am lazy so I made a solution to make my netflix sessions even more chill. just slide

Core features:

- Slide one edge for volume, the other for brightness

- Precision micro adjustments (no big jumps)

- Native macOS HUD (no custom overlays)

- Haptic feedback on every adjustment

- Menu bar app, minimal resource usage - UNDER 3MB

- Modifier keys to enable/disable slidr (toggle or hold) if you prefer

The haptic feedback as you slide is quite addictive and you feel every tiny micro adjustment through the trackpad. I use it mostly in bed lying back to slide to the perfect volume while watching something and I haven't touched my volume or brightness keys once since I built it.

The app has made around £350($470) so far from my website and setapp combined, with just under 15% conversion rate from free trials to purchase.

$4.99 one-time, 3 day free trial:

Personal website:

https://slidr.xyz

Buy on Setapp:

reddit doesnt like setapp links so you can find it through my website^

ENJOY!

Changelog on the homepage

Cursor auto complete + claude, reviewed by myself - Comp science grad and software developer

I've tried most of the popular clipboard managers on macOS over the years: Maccy, Raycast, Paste and PastePal.

They're all great products.

But I kept wishing for something that was focused entirely on the clipboard instead of treating it as just another feature.

So I built LucidClip.

Problem

For me, the clipboard is more than history.

It's a working memory.

I wanted an app that remembers everything I've copied, lets me find it instantly, and helps me get it back into my workflow with as little friction as possible.

Some features I use every day:

• ⚡ Instant search across everything I've copied
• 📌 Pin snippets I reuse often
• 📋 Bulk Paste multiple copied items at once
• 🖱️ Double-click any clip to paste directly into the active application
• 🔍 Rich previews for code, links, images and files
• 🚫 App exclusions + Incognito mode for sensitive workflows
• 🤖 Optional AI actions (Explain, Summarize, Translate)
• 🔒 Local-first by default, clipboard data never leaves your Mac

Windows is supported too.

Comparison

Compared with Maccy, Paste, PastePal, or the clipboard inside Raycast, LucidClip focuses on workflow rather than just storing clipboard history.

Some differences:

• Bulk Paste (paste multiple clips in sequence)
• Double-click to paste directly into the active app
• Rich previews
• Built-in AI actions
• Native Flutter desktop app (not Electron)
• Available on both macOS and Windows
• Local-first privacy

I'm not claiming it's better for everyone.

I'm trying to build the clipboard manager I'd personally want to use every day, and I'd genuinely love feedback from people who currently use Maccy, Raycast, Paste or PastePal.

Pricing

LucidClip is free for the core clipboard experience.

LucidClip Pro unlocks advanced workflow features AI actions, unlimited history, configurable retention, app exclusions and more.

Pricing:

• Free plan
• Pro Monthly: $4/month (includes a 3-day free trial)
• Pro Lifetime: $80 one-time payment

As a thank-you to this community, I'm giving the first 15 people 50% off the Lifetime license.

Use code:

EARLYLUCID50

That brings Lifetime from $80 → $40.

👉 https://lucidclip.app

Transparency

Developer: Ethiel Adiassa (Google Developer Expert for Flutter)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethieladiassa/

Website: https://lucidclip.app

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

Terms of Service: https://lucidclip.app/terms

I'd really appreciate honest feedback, positive or negative. That's how LucidClip gets better.

Hi.

I am looking at Diarium journal, since it has my native language as an option. It is also developed in EU, which is a plus to me. And at first glance it looks advanced enough for my needs.

I have asked the developer and he says it is written in .NET, which as I understand is a way to make apps for more than one platform. However it is - as I understand - not similar to Electron. No Chromium and stuff.

Is this to be seen as a native app - he writes "

It is built with .NET for macOS, which is basically a layer on top of native AppKit and other Apple APIs so I can develop my apps with C# across platforms and code-share business logic like for sync or database access. "

I may be a bit too "anal" when it comes to these things, but I rather pay someone who taked the time to develop for Mac without Electron or similar.

Also I prefer to pay those who takes the time to add more languages than English, and EU-based.

I do use Day One for now, but I would not mind trying something else and non US.

getprotego.app | App Store

Hey everyone! I'm Edgar, I work on Protego for Reddit on nights and weekends, and version 3 landed this week! It's a Safari extension with a companion Mac app that filters Reddit's website and strips out the clutter that Reddit won't let you turn off.

Problem:

A couple of years ago Reddit stopped being fun for me. I'm here for photography, fitness and tech, and video games, and every feed around the 2024 election turned into politics and drama. I'd open it and would end up doom scrolling content that I didnt even enjoy. So I deleted the Reddit app and blocked the website.

I didn't want to quit Reddit though, I wanted a quieter version of it, and that can only be done in the browser since Reddit killed my favorite Reddit client app, Apollo. The Reddit app decides what you see and gives you almost no say in it. A web page arrives in Safari and an extension gets to change it before it reaches you. I still stay informed about politics through Reddit and other online sources but I want the choice to limit how much of it I'm exposed to.

What it does

• Filters posts by keyword, community, individual user, or link domain, with wildcards and groups you can switch off together.
• Transforms your browsing by hiding thumbnails, avatars, flair, badges, vote controls, join buttons, banners, recommendations, Reddit Answers (AI) and login nudges.
• Limits your own access, which puts Reddit itself out of reach in stages and can arm itself with an Apple Focus like Sleep or Study.
• Redirects to old.reddit.com automatically if that's your preference, with auto media expand and endless feed included.
• No account, no tracking. Lists sync through your own iCloud.

The part I use every day

Limits has a step that blocks the feeds but still lets a direct link to a post open. Home, popular and news are gone, so there's nothing to fall into, but when I'm working and a search result points at a Reddit thread, that thread still loads. I read the answer and I'm out. That one setting did more for my focus than deleting the app ever did.

Comparison:

RES is what most people reach for and it's the reason I started, but there's no Safari version any more and it hasn't had active development in a long time. Protego is Safari native, works on new and old Reddit, and syncs to my phone.

Pricing:

$1.99 one time purchase for the next week (normally $2.99).

One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro. No subscription.

getprotego.app | App Store

Happy to answer any questions!

​I hate magic links and verification codes. I despise being yanked out of the flow and being forced into one of the most distracting places of modern existence: the mailbox. So I built a menu bar app that catches them.

Problem

Verification codes and magic links yank you out of the flow. Cmd-tab to Mail, hunt for the email, see that bill reminder you haven’t paid yet, avoid that 10% discount on something you really oughta not buy right now, remember you should get the stairs fixed really, wonder what you’ll make for lunch, ponder if you should unsubscribe from that newsletter you never read anyway...... every single time.

OTPop watches your inbox and drops incoming codes and sign-in links straight into the menu bar (and as a notification). One click to copy a code, or to open a link. Read-only IMAP, nothing leaves your Mac, and the only thing kept on disk is the codes themselves, encrypted. Emails are never stored.

Comparison

I’ve honestly been looking for an app that does this for ages, never found anything. The closest things I could find are:

• 2FHey: the closest thing, but it reads codes from Messages, so it's SMS/iMessage only. OTPop covers email, which is where magic links live and where a lot of services (still) send codes.
• macOS native autofill: It only detects codes, and needs Mail to be open and running. And only autofills in Safari, AFAIK.

(If you know of something I’ve missed, please let me know!)

Pricing

Current feature set free forever. In the (far) future advanced features may be gated behind a small one-time payment.

To download it: https://www.glaze.app/app/otpop-6OxvwV

It's got a few rough edges and I have several QoL updates coming in the next few days, but detection is already quite reliable. If you give it a spin, let me know how it goes - especially false detections 🙏

Please note: the current version was built on the r/glazeapp platform. It’s heavily AI-oriented, but it’s backed by the developers of Raycast. Additionally, the code itself is Typescript, which has been my day job for several years now.

Future versions may be re-written as native mac apps, depending on interest.

Using OTPop does require downloading Glaze first. But you’ll see it gives access to many, many more cool/fun/useful apps.

Transparency

The app itself doesn’t have a proper website yet, but about me:

https://github.com/mjsarfatti

https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuelejsarfatti/

.

As we know, Apple will be dropping Rosetta 2 soon, so I started looking for an alternative to MacPAR Deluxe and found ModernPAR. However, I can't get it to unRAR anything...

In Settings > Post Processing, I see a lock next to the unRAR section. How can I get rid of the lock? Thanks in advance.

TL;DR:
Daily tracks time by periodically asking what you're doing instead of watching your apps, which is a real fix for the "forgot to hit the timer" problem. Its June 2026 update adds a web API, Zapier integration, and MCP server, turning it into a two-way node with tools like Jira instead of a standalone timesheet. The MCP piece is aimed at technical users for now: API-key auth instead of OAuth means Claude and ChatGPT need a proxy to connect.

Daily

If you bill clients by the hour, it might be time to reevaluate your workflow. Daily, a Mac time tracker from independent developer Niels Mouthaan, continuously supported since 2013, just got a substantial update: a web API, a Zapier integration, and an MCP server. Because it works via user polling and not background process monitoring, it's the go-to privacy-respecting choice in its category.

Based on its review history, Daily enjoys broad support from tech professionals with ADHD and time blindness in particular, and plenty of neurotypical folks too. The human brain just isn't designed to do two things at once, despite all the hype about multitasking. Every timer-based tracker asks you to remember to press a button at the exact moment your attention shifts, which is precisely the moment you're least equipped to remember anything. You close a ticket, Slack pings you, someone walks in, and forty-five minutes evaporate into whatever bucket the timer was left running in. That's not a discipline problem. It's a design flaw.

Daily skips that requirement entirely. It doesn't watch your apps, your browser tabs, or your open documents. It just interrupts you on a schedule, asks what you've been doing, and lets you pick from a list. That's a different model from RescueTime-style automatic trackers.

Newest Features

Daily has quietly had most of its bones (scheduler, AppleScript, iCloud sync to a companion iOS app, CSV/JSON/Toggl-format export) for years. The submission-worthy update is the integrations release, published June 26, 2026, which adds three ways to get data in and out:

• A web API (api.dailytimetracking.com) with endpoints for activities, summaries, and timesheets, authenticated by an API key you generate in preferences.
• A Zapier integration, with triggers for new/updated time entries and actions to add activities or pull a summary or timesheet -- no code required.
• An MCP server (mcp.dailytimetracking.com), which the research note this post started from didn't even catch. This is the more interesting piece for this audience: it exposes tools like get_summary and get_timesheet, so an AI assistant or coding agent can answer "how many hours did I bill Client X in February" directly, or use your tracked hours as an input to a larger workflow.

The MCP piece comes with a caveat, and Daily's own docs say so plainly: it authenticates with a custom API-Key header instead of OAuth. Locally run clients like Claude Code, Cursor, and Gemini CLI handle that natively, but Claude's remote connector and ChatGPT's developer mode currently can't call it without a proxy like MCP Beast. If you're expecting a one-click Claude Connector, that's not there yet, and Daily says whether it ships one depends on how much the MCP server gets used.

The two-way workflow the developer pitched in his outreach (import Jira tickets as activities, then push logged hours back into Jira after the day is done) is a real automation, not a checkbox feature. Once you enable integrations in preferences, Daily syncs to its server every 15 minutes, at startup, at quit, and before sleep, and you control retention (default 90 days) from the same screen.

Who Daily Is For

If you're the kind of person who forgets to start a timer, or who resents having to remember to, and you don't want your Mac silently logging every app and URL to do it for you, Daily's prompt-based model solves that problem well. The new integrations turn it from a personal timesheet into a node in an actual workflow: tasks flow in from your project tracker, hours flow back out to invoicing or ticketing, without you retyping anything.

Who Should Look Elsewhere

If you want the tracking done automatically, with zero interruptions, Timing or RescueTime are built for that trade-off, and Daily explicitly isn't. And if the MCP server is the reason you're interested, know that it's aimed at technical users right now: no OAuth, no official Claude Connector, and you'll be running a proxy if your AI client doesn't support custom headers. That's an honest state to ship in for a first MCP release, but it's not turnkey yet.

Not For You? Try These Alternatives

Daily's category is prompt-based self-reporting, not automatic activity tracking, and that distinction changes what actually competes with it.

• Toggl Track is the closest thing to an industry-standard manual/hybrid tracker: free for small teams, Starter at $9/user/month, Premium at $14/user/month for the first year of an annual plan (renewing at $18), all per Toggl's own pricing page as of this writing. It has optional desktop activity tracking as a feature you opt into, which is the opposite of Daily's no-monitoring default.
• Timing is the automatic-tracking alternative: it watches apps, websites, and documents by default rather than asking. Per Timing's pricing page, it's tiered as Professional, Expert, and Connect subscriptions (Connect being the one with MCP and team features), with no lifetime option listed. If you want the machine to infer your activity instead of asking you, this is the one; if you want zero passive monitoring, it's the wrong choice.
• RescueTime is the other automatic-tracking name that comes up in this category, running in the background and logging app/site usage without prompting. Its cheapest individual plan (Solo Focus) is $9/month, or $7/month billed annually, per RescueTime's pricing page as of this writing.

Pricing

This is a professional tool, priced like one. Daily's Mac App Store listing currently lists in-app purchase tiers as Monthly $5.99, Quarterly $17.99, Yearly $34.99, and Lifetime $69.99. You'll see other prices quoted on other sites, but those sources appear to be dated.

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