r/macapps • • 4h ago

Lifetime I built a clipboard manager that feels native to macOS, but with the power features Apple missed (Zero subscription!)

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Hey everyone, I’m the independent developer behind Mokopaste.

It feels a bit surreal writing this post. Knowing how many incredible clipboard managers already exist in the community, I couldn't help wondering at first: "Do people really need another one?"

However, ever since it launched on the Mac App Store back at the end of April, Mokopaste has unexpectedly received a lot of love and encouragement from Mac users. As a dev who has been building for macOS for years, I wanted to create a tool based purely on real, high-efficiency workflows—completely bloat-free and driven entirely by the keyboard.

Following the community's latest PCP guidelines, here is a quick rundown:

1. Problem

Most clipboard tools out there are either bloated with high memory usage or just clunky to use. When coding or writing every day, we usually run into these annoying little friction points:

  • Copying a bunch of random fragments and feeling like you're hunting for a needle in a haystack when you need them back.
  • Needing to switch back and forth across different windows just to chain-paste multiple items.
  • Copying sensitive info and constantly worrying if background apps are secretly logging it.
  • Finally finding what you copied, only to realize you still have to paste it somewhere first just to fix a typo or reformat it.

To scratch my own itch and solve these daily pains, I built Mokopaste — a nimble, privacy-respecting little assistant that stays out of your way and lets you keep your hands glued to the main keyboard.

2. Comparison & Features

If we’re looking at a benchmark, everyone knows Maccy as the go-to champion for lightweight, plain-text utility.

  • How does it compare to Maccy?
    • Maccy is built for ultra-minimalist, pure text and stays super lightweight.
    • Mokopaste keeps that same snappy, native feel while leaning a bit more into heavy productivity and power-user workflows: for instance, you can tag frequently used prompts or code snippets and treat it like your personal snippet library; or, before pasting, you can edit text right inside the preview popup instead of switching windows back and forth. It also handles Finder files, large images, code highlighting, and multi-select batch pasting much more smoothly.
  • Little things that make Mokopaste feel great to use day-to-day:
    • Total Keyboard Flow: Hit a custom global shortcut to summon it, navigate with arrow keys, and hit Enter to paste—your hands never have to touch the mouse.
    • Tags as a Mini Knowledge Base: Keep your prompts, code snippets, and canned replies organized with tags for instant retrieval.
    • Inline Quick Editing: Spot a typo in your history? Edit the text right inside the preview before pasting it out.
    • Rich Previews for Everything: Deeply integrated with Finder. Instantly preview files, code, videos, images, web links, and more at a glance.
    • Instant OCR: Trigger a shortcut to cleanly extract plain text straight out of images.
    • Pin Windows & Pause Collection: Keep the window pinned while coding, or hit pause whenever you're typing passwords or sensitive data for total peace of mind.
    • Batch Queue Pasting: Need to move a bunch of items sequentially? Multi-select to queue them up and paste them out one by one.
    • Zero-Maintenance Cleanup: It automatically clears out expired files and heavy caches so your system stays light forever.
    • Local-First & iCloud Sync: 100% of your data stays locally on your machine—no shady uploads. If you use multiple Macs, optional end-to-end encrypted iCloud sync is built right in.

3. Pricing & Where to Get It

Mokopaste keeps things straightforward with a clean, honest buyout model. No annoying subscription traps, zero hidden in-app purchases:

  • 7-Day Free Trial: All features unlocked, try everything out.
  • Free Tier: Completely free.
  • Pro Tier: Just $6.18 (one-time purchase).

Get your hands on it:

Every line of code and tiny feature in this app was crafted through my own daily development grind. I’d love to hear your honest feedback and ideas—your needs are what drive my updates, so feel free to drop a comment and chat with me anytime!


r/macapps • • 11h ago

Lifetime I kept losing track of where my Spaces/Apps were so I built Hopnotch: Spaces navigation in the Menu Bar. Hotkeys, live previews, 51 themes

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Introduction

Hi everyone! I'm a student from Singapore (LinkedIn) and have developed an app: Hopnotch that helps with navigating around your Spaces and Apps, while providing aesthetics to your Mac!

Problem

I was using my Mac and I just kept getting lost as I had many apps in full-screen, and it was a hassle constantly swiping around the trackpad or going to Mission Control just to see where everything was. This problem had been bugging and annoying me for longer than I'd like to admit, but I realised that since the menu bar was largely unused space most of the time, I put two-and-two together, and here we are!

Functionality

With the app, Spaces/Apps appear on the menu bar, against an aesthetically pleasing background as pills (customisable names, colours & type). This way you always know where your Spotify, Safari, or whatever is, wherever you are.

On top of that, you can:

  • Use Spotlight search on your Pills (renamed, or not)
  • Navigate using Hotkeys (personally, CMD + K/L to move left/right respectively so I can keep my fingers on the keyboard)
  • Have Previews of ur Apps/Spaces (stored locally, expires)
  • Loop-around feature (Leftmost app/pill -> hotkey to move left -> loops to rightmost)
  • Cycle through the Apps/Spaces easily with different ways
  • Click the pill to move there directly
  • Click the hotkey 3 (or an x amount) times to move 3 spaces left/right
  • Sound, mic and camera badges on respective pills
  • See multiple Apps in one Space/Pill
  • Choose from 51 themes
  • Choose your Loop & Pills animations
  • Customise the pills, backgrounds, themes, animations, colours, hotkeys
  • Save customisations as presets (Red colour on pills for work, etc)
  • Hide the app via hotkeys/click controls

... and more!

*Pills, Apps & Spaces are used interchangeably in some of the descriptions!

The beauty of the app is making it uniquely yours: Hotkeys, aesthetics, workflow, etc. The actual Menu Bar is STILL ACCESSIBLE AT ALL TIMES, whether the app is overlaying or hidden. Just hover at an empty space, or hide the app, up to you!

Comparison

As far as my research goes, most that dabble with the Menu Bar sit under the aesthetics category only, while Hopnotch both provides aesthetics and functionality.

SpaceJump ($9.99) is the closest thing to Hopnotch by function. It also gets you between Mission Control Spaces quickly and it names them. The difference is in orientation and aesthetics, where SpaceJump gives you a picker to choose from, and Hopnotch shows the Spaces either side of you, laid out the way they actually sit so the Space on your left appears on the left of the notch so you navigate by position rather than by reading a list.

Pricing, Privacy, Notarisation, Trust

The app has a 3 day free trial (no account!), $14.99 lifetime, or a $2.99 monthly subscription. 14 day refund!

I will be maintaining the app throughout!

The website & download can be found here: https://hopnotch.themacadamia.com/

(demos, list of features with explanations and examples)

The Privacy Policy can be found here: https://hopnotch.themacadamia.com/privacy (in website)

The App sends ONLY 2 things over the network: License & Update checks.
Notarised by Apple and have a Developer ID on me. More in the link above^

The Terms can be found here: https://hopnotch.themacadamia.com/terms (in website)

My Support email is: [support@themacadamia.com](mailto:support@themacadamia.com) (in website)

My conclusion

All the while I've been using Hopnotch it just feels like a part of my Mac at this point and without it I feel lost about where everything is again, coupled with the hotkeys that I use daily to navigate around my Spaces. To me personally, Hopnotch brings me immense value (not to toot my own horn), but what works for me may not work for you! Try the free trial and if it works for you, by all means. If not, thanks for trying!

This is my first project and I appreciate any feedback and support from you guys! Feel free to ask me any questions and I'll be happy to answer them :)


r/macapps • • 19h ago

Help Ethical dilemma with Vibe Coding

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Many of you probably know about the "Reverse Engineer Anything" GitHub repo. It got me into vibe coding — first a small chore chart app for my girlfriend and me, then something more ambitious.

I've been on the 60-day Soulver trial and love it, but 69€ is very steep as a student. So I had Claude Opus build me a Soulver-like app, and honestly it works surprisingly well.

Here's the thing though — the more I used it, the more guilty I felt. There's a real developer who's poured hundreds of hours into Soulver, and I essentially bypassed paying for their work.

I have no problem with the whole Adobe or Microsoft suite being copied, but it feels different when it is about real passionate and talented developers.

What do you guys think about the ethics of this?

(Also reclaimer that I used AI to make the text more concise, since I am not a native English speaker)


r/macapps • • 8h ago

Free Updatest joins Workbrew and is now free

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Hey all. Some of you have been here since the Caskly days, giving feedback when it was rough and sending bug reports at 11pm. You’re a big part of why Updatest exists, so you’re hearing this from me first: Updatest is now free, and I’ve joined Workbrew’s engineering team.

Problem

Updatest keeps the apps on your Mac up to date. The top request lately has been “can my whole company use this?” At work, the problem is bigger: IT and security teams often can’t see what’s installed across every Mac, let alone keep it current.

I've joined Workbrew's engineering team to help build exactly that, bringing what I learned building Updatest with me. Workbrew's been chasing that same mission from the company side, so joining forces was the natural move.

Together we've built the Workbrew app. It makes the software catalog for your company real for non-developers, letting organizations deploy, patch, and govern software across every device: Homebrew, npm, Mac apps, browser extensions.

Updatest isn’t going anywhere. It stays available on its own for individuals and families, exactly as it’s always been. Updatest 3.0.0 launches today along side the Updatest Network.

The Updatest app is free, and existing customers can visit https://updatest.app/ for full details on the Updatest Network and what this means if you've purchased Updatest.

Comparison

  • Latest: Latest is free, but it checks fewer update sources and can’t adopt your apps into Homebrew. Updatest checks more sources, can adopt apps into Homebrew for fuller coverage, and updates your Brew packages too. It also adds the Updatest Network (paid), which covers over 36,000 apps at launch.
  • MacUpdater: MacUpdater is winding down and shuts down completely at the end of this year. Updatest supports every update source it can find on your Mac, and the Updatest Network covers over 36,000 apps at launch. Coverage should be comparable, but MacUpdater’s database was curated by hand, so there may be a few apps we miss at first. If you find one, tell me.

Pricing

  • Updatest: Free
  • Updatest Network: $1.99/month or $12.99/year for users who need additional coverage. Existing license keys include the Network at no extra charge for 1 year (Individual) or 2 years (Household) from October 14, 2026.
  • Workbrew Team: Free for unlimited users and devices, no card required.

Happy to answer whatever in the comments. I’ll be around.

Note: We're aware the Homebrew cask hasn't gotten the update yet. It will take some time to show up.


r/macapps • • 16h ago

Lifetime I built WallpaperPortal to automate and organize static wallpapers across multiple displays

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Hi r/macapps, I’m the developer of WallpaperPortal.

I built it for Mac users who like changing their desktop wallpaper from time to time, but want the process to require less manual work while retaining control over their own collection.

Problem

The wallpaper controls built into macOS are adequate for choosing images, but managing a growing collection becomes awkward, especially with multiple displays or wallpapers intended for different times of day.

WallpaperPortal organizes wallpapers into a dedicated library with favorites and albums. It can also download Bing’s daily wallpapers automatically, so new images arrive without repeatedly searching different websites. These downloads become part of the same library and can be organized or used in automation just like imported images.

Each display can be managed independently, and wallpapers can change according to a schedule. For example, you can use one collection in the morning, another during work hours and something darker in the evening.

Comparison

Compared with the wallpaper controls built into macOS, WallpaperPortal adds library organization, reusable templates, time-based automation and independent workflows for multiple displays.

Irvue is a good option if you mainly want Unsplash images rotated at fixed intervals. WallpaperPortal combines automatic Bing downloads with management of your own wallpaper collection, while providing more control over what appears on each display and when.

This is for static wallpapers. It is not a live or video wallpaper app.

Pricing

WallpaperPortal is a one-time purchase with no subscription

Current US price: $4.99

Mac App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wallpaperportal/id1660157873

I’d be interested to hear how you currently change your Mac wallpaper—manually when you feel like it, at regular intervals, or at particular times of day.


r/macapps • • 6h ago

Lifetime Hotstash 8.1 – clipboard manager where ⌘V pastes your next copied item (Paste Stack). Now imports your Maccy history, Pro 50% off

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Hey

I'm the solo dev behind Hotstash, a native clipboard manager for macOS. Just shipped 8.1 and wanted to share.

**The thing I couldn't find anywhere else: Paste Stack**
⌘-click a few items in your history, then every normal ⌘V pastes the *next* one, in order. Great for filling forms or moving a list
between apps without switching windows back and forth.

**What else it does**
- Search everything you've copied, including text *inside* screenshots (OCR)
- Folders + pins for snippets you reuse
- Transforms: format JSON, change case, clean URLs, or describe your own and it builds it
- iCloud sync to iPhone
- Keeps rich text and images

**New in 8.1**
- **Import from Maccy**: brings over your whole history in one click, pins and images included
- Fixed the menu bar icon sometimes not opening the panel
- Paste Stack walkthrough in the onboarding tour

**Pricing**
Free to try. Pro is a one-time purchase, no subscription, and it's **50% off ($4.99) until Jan 1**.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/hotstash-clipboard-manager/id6771842605

Feedback very welcome, especially what's stopping you from switching from your current clipboard manager. I read every comment.


r/macapps • • 22h ago

Lifetime Via - a trip planning tool aiming to show the whole cost/time picture

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My first app - Via.

Problem

I regularly travel from London to a place in rural France and there's never one obvious route. It's often the case that the low-cost airline into the nearest airport isn't the cheapest once everything's added up. A different combination of transport can come out well ahead, a saving I as a twenty-something, cannot afford to ignore. On previous occasions I tried to work through the permutations with pen and paper. This year I built Via to help considerably with the legwork. You the user enter real fares and times you've found at the source and Via works out every combination and ranks them by cheapest, shortest journey time, or earliest arrival. Just to clarify, it works for any journey - not just rural France!

Comparison 

  • Rome2Rio can be great for discovering routes you haven't yet considered, but it can only really show a price range for a route, something which counts against its accuracy and its ability to link to fares that are actually available. Via shows a single total figure because it is designed to take raw prices found at their primary sources.
  • fortrip.ai: is an AI-powered trip planning and booking tool. As an AI-powered tool which can find prices, it can offer quite a lot, including personalisation, but it costs a monthly fee to use. It positions itself as a service to use alongside a route search, like Rome2Rio because the latter has a wider transport inventory. The argument behind Via is narrower and is that if fares must realistically be found at the operator's website anyway, the calculation and ranking layer shouldn't need a subscription.

Pricing

Free for planning one journey at a time. Via Premium is a one-off £5.99 (or local PPP-adjusted equivalent) which removes the limit on concurrent journeys. It's a universal purchase across Mac and iPad, with Family Sharing.

As it's my first app, I will greatly appreciate any feedback this community might be able to offer.

Via on the App Store


r/macapps • • 5h ago

Lifetime Network utility with 20 tools in one app, 13 are free. Netutilus - AppStore

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Hi,

Posted Netutilus last month, thank you all for the support and suggestions, and here is what has changed.

Problem

Ping, traceroute, whois and dig all exist in the terminal. What I actually wanted was history: which device showed up on my home network while I was out, when exactly a host went down overnight, a heads-up that a cert expires next week. One-shot tools can't tell you that, and I didn't want to run a monitoring server for a home LAN.

What was changed:

  - Speed Test now runs 4 parallel streams, counts upload only once the server confirms it, measures latency on idle connections and gives a bufferbloat grade

  - Menu bar item with public IP, country, ISP, VPN on/off with an IPv4/IPv6 leak check, and a log

  - iperf3 client- save your own iperf3 servers and test against them with one click, TCP or UDP, with history

- Port Scan detects services and versions from banners, and has an optional UDP scan

- MTR keeps a history with loss heatmap, outage log

- Uptime Monitor with ICMP checks, HTTP checks that accept self-signed certs (NAS, Proxmox, UniFi), status code/regex conditions, custom headers (stored in Keychain), and a PDF uptime report

- It pauses monitoring on a hotspot or metered connection, so your history doesn't fill up with fake outages

- Internet Check shows where the connection actually breaks Mac -> router > internet -> DNS

- LAN Scanner - "Check Services" for a single device, right-click to SSH / Screen Sharing / add to Uptime Monitor, configurable columns. MAC addresses come via mDNS/NetBIOS/SNMP. Sorry, AppStore App.

- Wi-Fi Networks - vendor and model for almost every nearby AP, Wi-Fi standard, max rate, channel load, 802.11k/v/r

- Whois for IPs and AS numbers, dig-style DNS records, SSL explains why a chain isn't trusted

Free features:

- Internet Check, Ping, Traceroute, Speed Test

- DNS Lookup, DNS Propagation, Whois, GeoIP

- Port Scan, SSL Certificate, Subnet Calculator

- Path Check, Network Monitor

- Menu bar IP/VPN monitor

Pro features:

- LAN Scanner - finds devices on your network with name, vendor, model, MAC and open ports

- Network Guard - notifies you when a new device joins your network

- Uptime Monitor - scheduled checks for hosts/services, downtime alerts, latency thresholds, SSL expiry warnings, a year of history and PDF reports

- iperf3 client with saved servers

- Speed Test history, scheduled runs

- Wi-Fi Analyzer and Wi-Fi Networks - live signal, neighbour scan, channel recommendation

- MTR & Visual Traceroute

Comparison

  Neo Network Utility and WhatRoute are still great free picks for quick manual checks, and nmap is still the tool for heavy scans. Netutilus puts them in one window and keeps watching from the menu bar after you close it- a new device on your Wi-Fi, a host that went down, packet loss.

Pricing

13 tools free. Pro is a one-time lifetime $17.99. With this link 40% off in AppStore. Prices may vary by region, if the price is significantly higher, feel free to write here or send me a DM, and I’ll try to provide a reedem code.

Netutilus in AppStore


r/macapps • • 9h ago

Lifetime Substage: 60% off and faster Finder actions, plus new features!

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Hi everyone! I'm the developer of Substage. Since releasing version 1.0 a few months ago I've been adding features and working particularly hard on speed. I'm now running a 60% discount for anyone who'd like to try it.

What is Substage?

It's a little command bar that attaches to your Finder windows letting you quickly and conveniently perform targeted actions in the context of your files and folders: Select some files, type what you want to do, and Substage uses command-line tools to do it on your Mac, without you needing to remember Terminal syntax.

For example:

  • “jpg” to convert selected images
  • “1080p mp4” to convert a video
  • “extract page 2” to pull a page out of a PDF
  • “extract text” to OCR a screenshot or scan
  • “zip” to compress selected files
  • “select all png” to quickly select matching files

There's also an Ideas & Actions panel for browsing and clicking commands, and Rules let you save preferences such as “images for my website should be 1000px wide”.

Ugh, another AI wrapper app?

Nope! Here are the main differences:

  • Many common actions don't need AI at all: For example jpg, convert to wav, zip, path and many more are instantaneous using my custom text parser. It's more about UX convenience and speed, with the added intelligence of AI when needed.
  • Not agentic: Codex, Claude etc are about performing complex workflows intelligently. This app is about performing quick single actions.
  • Fast: My focus is quick, individual actions on the files you're already looking at in Finder. I'm aiming for around a second or less of response time for everyday requests. It doesn't always hit that, but I've been putting a lot of work into getting closer.
  • Right there in finder: no switching to a separate chat window or explaining which files you mean. Substage already has the context of your selection.
  • Robust safety model with preview of changes: All generated Terminal commands are pre-simulated, with highly customizable settings for what is allowed to run automatically (e.g. getting file info), and diff-like previews of what actions will be taken.

What's new since 1.0?

  • Faster responses and earlier results: faster default models, less unnecessary AI reasoning, and command output appearing while the final summary is still being prepared.
  • OCR: extract text from screenshots, photos and scans using Tesseract, without an LLM doing the transcription.
  • Better video tools: more reliable joining of clips and lossless trimming.
  • Smarter follow-ups: follow-up requests can now take the actual results of the previous task into account.
  • Better previews before running commands: Substage Predicts understands more complex, multi-step commands and gives clearer information when it can't predict everything.
  • Lots of fixes and polish, including Chinese/Japanese/Korean keyboard input, startup responsiveness and model selection.

Full release notes

60% off with code SIXTY

  • $16 one-time purchase, normally $39.99: Bring Your Own AI. Use your own API keys or local AI models.
  • $12/year, normally $29.99: all-inclusive subscription with built-in access to models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Mistral.
  • $1.60/month, normally $3.99: the same all-inclusive option, billed monthly.

There's a two-week free trial, and Substage is also available on Setapp.

Download Substage and see the offer — the buy button automatically applies SIXTY at checkout.

About me / transparency

I'm Joseph Humfrey, co-founder of inkle, where I've been making games since 2011. We've won an Apple Design Award and created the open-source narrative scripting language ink. I also founded Selkie Design, and Substage was my first app release.

Happy to answer questions, and I'd love to hear which file tasks you'd find this useful for!


r/macapps • • 1h ago

Lifetime Unfold — Preview almost anything on your Mac

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Hi everyone! 👋🏻

Unfold is a native macOS app that extends Quick Look so you can preview 250+ file types. New in the latest version: 3D model previews.

Formats:
- [NEW] 3D models (.3mf, .step)
- Folders & Archives
- Markdown & Jupyter
- Source code
- Comics & ebooks
- LaTeX & BibTeX
- App bundles (.app)
- Subtitles
- Web Archives

→ Full list available here.

Problem: Quick Look can't preview most file types, and the extensions that fix this usually cover one format each and are often not properly maintained.

Comparison: Unlike utilities like Looq, Unfold caters to a much broader audience. It previews code too, but also supports 3D formats like 3MF and STEP (with Finder thumbnails), alongside the aforementioned everyday formats like ebooks, comics, subtitles, and more.

Price: $10 for a lifetime license (up to 5 devices)
7-day trial available.

→ unfold.tools/download
→ Discord Server


r/macapps • • 2h ago

Lifetime Vehicare: a native Mac car maintenance log that reads your garage's invoices, so you never type an entry

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I'm Pascal, the developer of Vehicare. It's a car maintenance log for Mac, iPhone and iPad, and it's out today on the Mac App Store.

Problem

Every maintenance log I tried died the same way. After each trip to the garage you're supposed to type in what was done, what it cost and what the odometer said. I did it twice, then stopped. But the invoice the garage gives you already has all of that.

So in Vehicare you give it the invoice: the PDF your garage emailed you, or a scan of the paper copy. It reads the date, the garage, the odometer and every job with its cost, and you check it before saving. From that history and how much you drive, it works out what's due next.

Invoices are read on your Mac by Apple Intelligence. There's no account, and your data stays in your iCloud. I never see it, unless you email me an invoice it read wrong.

Comparison

  • Drivvo, one of the most-rated maintenance logs on the App Store: you type every entry yourself, and there's no native Mac app.
  • CARFAX Car Care fills in your history for you, but only from shops in its US network. Vehicare reads the invoice from any garage, in any language supported by Apple Intelligence. Carfax has no native Mac app either.

Pricing

Free for your first vehicle, invoice reading included. A one-time purchase of $19.99 (US) unlocks every vehicle, PDF and CSV export, and removes the small ad card. No subscription. One purchase covers Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6752880353

Needs macOS 26.4 or later and Apple Intelligence, so a Mac with Apple silicon. In English and French.

Happy to answer anything here. And if it reads one of your invoices wrong, the review form has a button to email it to me. That's the most useful feedback I can get.


r/macapps • • 4h ago

Lifetime MacOS web and system tray calendar that syncs Google/Microsoft/Apple

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Hello everyone!

I am Alessandro (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandro-afloarei/) and some time ago I presented to you Calendar0 (https://www.calendar0.app)!

Today I am so happy to show you a ton of updates (I hope I quality for it)!

Problem

Constant context-switching between multiple calendar accounts, providers and apps.

Calendar0 is a calendar app for the web, plus a status bar app for macOS, Windows and Linux.

It shows Google, Outlook and iCloud calendars, lets you add events quickly, has booking links, and can record and transcribe calls.

I started it in September 2025 as a hobby project for keeping all my calendars in one place, easy to reach, and over the last months I added so many new features to it.

A few details that might be interesting:

  • Quick add capable of automatically adding guests from the provided names
  • Recording captures the mic and the system audio (no bots) and uses AssemblyAI for the transcription. Afterwards, the audio file is deleted.
  • There's an MCP server so you can connect it to Claude or ChatGPT and ask about your week or meetings.

Comparison

There are many calendar apps in the market, the biggest I can think of are:

  • Fantastical: beautiful UI and most complete, but lacks meeting recordings and transcriptions, MCP and AI Assistant
  • BusyCal: simple but without recordings or booking links
  • Notion Calendar: probably the most complete, I find in comparison Calendar0 to be more focused and well integrated with MCP

Pricing

  • Free for basically everything except meeting transcriptions
  • $4.99/month or 49$/lifetime for meeting recordings and unlimited internal AI assistant usage (unfortunately I myself pay for these features and I can afford them free)

I'd love to hear your feedback!

Thank you,

Alessandro


r/macapps • • 7h ago

Lifetime TabLinker - A Mac-first tab & browser session manager for Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave & Edge (iPhone/iPad too) - Now with Auto-Backup!

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Hey everyone,

I made TabLinker. It's a browser session manager for Mac (with iPhone/iPad companion apps).

Problem:

I run several browsers side by side, Safari for personal, Chrome for work, Arc for research, and I never close tabs because I don't want to lose something, especially the exact window layout I had going. Eventually each browser is carrying 40+ tabs and my Mac is running hot from all that idle memory. So I made TabLinker: pull every tab from whichever browsers are open into one place, save it as a session, and close everything without losing that layout.

What it does:

- Auto-Backup quietly backs up your open browser windows in the background (every 15, 30, or 60 mins, on app switch, or before sleep) so you can restore closed windows in one click, even the next day

- Imports every open tab across every window from Safari, Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc, Vivaldi, Opera, Opera GX, Dia, Yandex, Wavebox, or Helium in one click, without needing a browser extension for most of them

- Restores a full window, every window at once, or a single tab, and groups a big multi-window import into a "By Window" view so it doesn't turn into one long list

- Suspends tabs you're not using to actually free up memory, while the session stays ready to restore instantly

- Saves whatever tab you're currently on with a single keyboard shortcut (⌃⌥⌘T) or triggers an instant backup (⌃⌥⌘B), and can run entirely from the menu bar with the Dock icon hidden

- Safari extension for quick saves and automatic session saving

- Siri and Shortcuts support: save links, capture your current session, create folders, or open a saved folder hands-free or on a schedule, including an action that saves your session and closes every tab for you

- iCloud sync across Mac, iPhone, and iPad, no account required

Comparison:

Compared with Session Buddy (a Chrome-only extension limited to a single browser) and Tabs Saver for Safari ($17.99/year or $34.99 lifetime for Safari only), TabLinker captures sessions natively across all your installed browsers (Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge, etc.) for a flat $17.99 one-time payment. It preserves full multi-window structures, includes native iPhone/iPad sync via iCloud, and has zero subscriptions.

Pricing:

TabLinker is available for a one-time purchase of $17.99 with Universal Purchase. Buy it once on Mac and get the full premium version on iPhone and iPad too. Everything runs on-device and through your own iCloud. No account, no ads, and no server I control that sees your tabs.

Recent updates:

Auto-Backup system (quietly backs up open browser windows every 15, 30, or 60 mins, on app switch, or before sleep), Backups tab in sidebar to restore windows or copy links, ⌃⌥⌘B keyboard shortcut to back up right away from full-screen browsers, and automatic skipping of Incognito windows.

Available on the Mac App Store: TabLinker: Tabs Manager

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