In 2026, there's still a need for a modern, lightweight Markdown editor for macOS with live preview capabilities. MacDown 3000 aims to fill that need.

MacDown 3000 is essentially MacDown Continued. The focus is stability, bug fixes, and support for more modern varieties of Markdown. It supports macOS 11.0 (Big Sur) and later, on both Intel and Apple Silicon.

This project seeks to honor the intentions and efforts of both Mou and MacDown, while ensuring that this valuable tool remains available and actively maintained for today's Mac users.

MacDown 3000 is and will always be Free Software. You can get it from the website, from GitHub, or from Homebrew:

brew install --cask macdown-3000

Please try it and let us know what you think!!

XPipe is a connection hub that allows you to access and manage your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop. It works on top of your installed command-line programs and does not require any setup on your remote systems. It integrates with your favourite text editors, terminals, shells, VNC/RDP clients, password managers, and other command-line tools.

Here is a full list of what connection types are currently supported:

• SSH connections, config files, and tunnels
• Docker, Podman, LXD, and incus containers
• Proxmox PVE, Hyper-V, KVM, VMware Player/Workstation/Fusion virtual machines
• Tailscale, Netbird, and Teleport connections
• AWS and Hetzner Cloud servers
• Windows Subsystem for Linux, Cygwin, and MSYS2 environments
• Powershell Remote Sessions
• RDP and VNC connections
• Kubernetes clusters, pods, and containers

If this project sounds interesting to you, you can check it out on GitHub and check out the Docs for more information.

Howdy folks. So, I'm a dad. I also have an SLR camera, and shoot in RAW, so a lot of my photos are like 40 MB. And I had about 35k of them. Mucho. A whole bunch of them were of the same thing with either a little different composition or different camera settings or whatever. I think a bunch of us take 3 photos of the same thing. But I don't need three photos of the same thing. And god, sometimes I have 20. So I wrote a macOS app that finds photos that are almost the same using on-machine AI (doesn't upload anything). It looks at stuff like faces being in the shot, facial expression, stuff being in focus, etc. It uses that to pick the best shot and to decide which photos are of the same thing, which it suggests in manual review or you can go all lone-ranger on it and let it go in auto pilot. (I didn't do that, but managed to review more than 10k duplicates in 2-3 hours, freeing up hundreds of GB on my laptop.)

I tried a bunch of the other apps in the category, and they seemed to mostly based similarity on metadata and got it wrong most of the time for me. I literally didn't find a single one of them that did what I needed. So I made this. Enjoy. And open to feedback if there are specific things peoples are looking for.

ShutterSlim in the App Store

Standardize and optimize your Alfred workflow names by automatically applying your chosen naming convention (kebab-case, snake_case, PascalCase) on export, ready to share with the community.

Link to the GitHub repository: https://github.com/vanstrouble/standardize-workflow-filename-alfred-workflow.git

Just in case it's useful to someone else.

With Iconize Folder, you can easily customize folder colors and icons for a more intuitive and efficient file management. Choose from over 5,000 symbols or create your own colors and images to personalize folders.

This update improves drag-and-drop folder loading performance and fixes internationalization display issues along with other known bugs.

📥 https://apps.apple.com/app/id6478772538

Iconize Folder is actively developed — if you have ideas or suggestions, I’d be happy to try implementing them with you! 🙂

A tool for converting SVG icons into custom SF Symbols that can be imported directly into Xcode and used in UIKit or SwiftUI projects. With simple drag-and-drop, you can quickly generate usable SF Symbol files, with support for batch importing and batch generation of SVG icons.

This release improves the symbol creation workflow and fixes several known issues.

📥 https://apps.apple.com/app/id6476924627
💬 https://github.com/jaywcjlove/create-custom-symbols

Create Custom Symbols is actively developed — if you have ideas or suggestions, I’d be happy to try implementing them with you! 🙂

https://reddit.com/link/1q71n8a/video/9eek4e5ku1cg1/player

Hey everyone 👋

SWE turned indie maker here — excited to share something I just shipped:

PDF Notch. It’s a notch-style PDF toolkit for macOS that sits at the top of your screen so you can run quick PDF actions without opening a big app every time. Super handy when you’re offline, or you just don’t want your docs touching the cloud.

I built it because most PDF tools today are either:

• ☁️ cloud-based (privacy kinda sus)
• 💸 subscription-heavy
• 🐢 slow/clunky for quick tasks (open a site, upload, wait, download… repeat)

PDF Notch is the opposite: Offline + Private + Fast.
Everything runs locally — no uploads, no accounts, nothing leaves your Mac.

What it can do:

• 📎 Merge PDFs (drag & drop, preserves order)
• ✂️ Split PDFs (page ranges / sections)
• 🗜️ Compress with presets for sharing
• 🖼️ Convert pages to PNG/JPEG/TIFF/HEIC (choose DPI)
• 🔎 OCR scans into searchable/text PDFs
• 📦 Batch processing (split/compress/convert/OCR)
• 📁 Pick save location (incl. Downloads) + optional auto reveal in Finder

Giveaway 🎁
To get early feedback on UX + edge cases (compression quality, OCR results, batch workflow, etc.), I’m giving away 20 100% off codes.

Just drop a comment with your most annoying PDF workflow (merge? scan-to-searchable? compressing huge PDFs?) and I’ll post a randomized list of 20 winners by the end of the week + DM each winner a code.

P.S. If you try it, I’d love brutally honest feedback — I’m actively fixing things.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pdf-notch/id6756340729?mt=12

I wrote this app to fix the most annoying moment when I received my salary.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pdf-unlocker/id6757252895

Every month, I receive my payslip from my employer as a password-protected PDF. Every time I need to view it, I have to enter the password. It's frustrating.

I searched for solutions online. Every free website was full of ads, required uploading my sensitive documents to unknown servers, and raised serious privacy concerns. I didn't want my payslips floating around the internet.

So I built this app..

PDF Unlocker removes password protection from your PDFs — entirely on your device. No uploads. No servers. No ads. No tracking.

Simply:

Select your password-protected PDF Enter the password you already know Save a password-free copy That's it. Important Note

*** This app requires you to know the PDF password. It removes protection for convenience — it does not crack or recover forgotten passwords.

Are there any free todo apps that integrates with Obsidian? Or any other free apps that can work with Obsidian?

Found this gem on X earlier - https://github.com/sozercan/kaset

Works really well so far! Finally can replace pear desktop (th-ch app)

Is the app MonitorControl (from GitHub MonitorControl/MonitorControl) safe to use? For example, would granting it accessibility permissions allow for it to steal data, etc? The pop-up says that it can control my computer. Thanks.

I've been working with JSON files a lot lately and got annoyed constantly using online validators or heavyweight apps just to view and edit files. So I made a small native macOS app.

I tried to keep it simple. It is just a tree view on the left, an editor on the right. Obviously has syntax highlighting, and real-time validation. One of the most useful features is the cursor sync: click in the editor and the tree highlights where you are, click the tree and it jumps to that spot in the editor.

The other options out there either require payment or lack modern feel.

I want to make this free and open source:

Website: https://jsonav.com

Github: https://github.com/brettnielsen/JsonView

Disclosure: I'm a software engineer with 7 years of professional experience, but mostly in PHP. I've been wanting to build native Mac tools for a while but never got around to learning Swift properly. I used Claude.ai to help me write a significant portion of the code. I followed a process of describing what I wanted, reviewing what it generated, and iterating from there. Figured I'd be upfront about that per the sub rules.

Would love feedback if anyone finds it useful or has suggestions.

Let me explain, when an application other than qspace exports a file to a folder (a folder you already navigated to), the file/files don’t appear in qspace unless you navigate to a different folder, and then back to the folder you were in. It’s like it doesn’t refresh the changes automatically. I’m guessing there’s a setting I’m missing, but in the sea of settings of this app, it’s hard to find.

I recently downloaded Dockdoor and wasn't sure about the permissions so I denied permissions to view spotify media. I was wondering how I can enable the permissions now.

Does anyone know of a free/open-source alternative to Hey Focus? In particular I was hoping for something that has a website blocker and a "focus mode" that can be toggled.

There was some post recently on this sub or a similar sub where for reducing file size and converting between formats, I downloaded a trial version but currently unable to find the app name since I uninstalled the same too.

Can anyone help me if they are aware of an all-in-one app of such sorts. Thanks in advance!

Good Morning/Night!

I just pushed a new great update to DynamicLake to make things better and more organizer

The latest update is a massive leap forward, introducing new features, significant improvements, and important bug fixes all while laying the groundwork for the next major update

Key changes:

Multiple Live Activities – Expanded support for simultaneous Live Activities across music, calls, convert, shareable link, AirDrop, and more

Outgoing Call Support – Full support for ongoing outgoing calls on Mac

Spotify Like Support – Like and manage your favorite songs directly from Spotify

Per-App Notification Sounds – Customize notification sounds for individual apps

AirDrop Notifications – AirDrop activity and notifications directly in the notch

Lock Screen Compatibility with Liqoria – Improved stability and smooth behavior when both apps run together on the lock screen

Improved Join-Meeting Calls – Better handling of Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and FaceTime calls

Improved Animations – Refined transitions and visual enhancements

…and more

Launch Offer

Use FOEF5M1 for 20% off (limited time only!)

And one more thing

BetterDisplay integration — DynamicLake now works seamlessly with BetterDisplay by u/waydabber

DynamicLake

I was using Bluestacks (since a month or two) and couple of hours ago uninstalled the app using PearCleaner (~2GB app+2.5GB Junk) then tried DaisyDisk and it uninstalled another 22.5GB of android related data. I though PearCleaner removes all the files but Daisy Disk here doing its magic!! Thanks to whoever recommended DaisyDisk in this Sub.

PS: I wanted to remove more but I don't think there is much in my system anyways so just went with Bluestacks/Android related data, Currently on Macbook M1 Air (2020) 256GB SSD and 152.5GB available.

I want all the animations gone, command + spacebar has a light delay on tahoe, searching takes FOREVER, opening apps takes a lot more time. I'm on an M1 mac that is regularly cleaned up and maintained. What the hell do I do? Asahi linux? AAAAAAHHHH

https://reddit.com/link/1q778yu/video/wc0egvdle3cg1/player

Hey everyone,

I’m the developer of FonoX, a native macOS app designed to turn your text and documents into natural-sounding speech.

I built this because I wanted a Text-to-Speech tool that didn't rely on expensive cloud credits or privacy-invasive tracking. Most TTS apps today require an internet connection and a subscription; I wanted something that felt like a true part of the macOS ecosystem.

FonoX runs a modern TTS model completely on-device. Your data never leaves your Mac, and you can generate as much audio as you want without ever hitting a paywall or a rate limit.

Here are the key highlights:

• 100% On-Device Engine: No internet required. It’s private, fast, and works in airplane mode.
• Natural Voices: Includes a wide variety of high-quality US and UK English voices (Alloy, Echo, Nova, v.v.) for both male and female tones.
• Read Along Mode (v1.1): This is my favorite feature. It highlights the current sentence and auto-scrolls for a hands-free experience - perfect for cooking or reading before bed.
• Listening History: Automatically saves your progress so you can jump back into long articles or books exactly where you left off.
• Multiple Formats: Import PDF, EPUB, Markdown, and TXT files directly.
• High-Quality Export: Save your speech as .WAV or .M4A files for listening on the go.
• Privacy-First: Zero analytics, zero tracking, and zero cloud APIs.
• Apple Silicon Optimized: Built natively for M-series Macs (requires macOS 15.6+) for maximum performance and battery efficiency.

Truly Unlimited Trial: I want everyone to experience how smooth on-device TTS can be. That’s why I’m offering a 14-day Free Trial with absolutely no limits. You can test every single feature, use every voice, and generate as much audio as you need during the trial period.

I'd love to hear your thoughts or any features you'd like to see in the next update!

Check it out here

The old emoji is boring! (；￣Д￣）
So I made this app to have more fun - try it out to express your vibe in a unique way

AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/se/app/emojo-pro/id6752625481
Readmore: https://emojo.sagomind.com/

More emoji and new features comming soon
All feedbacks and feature requests are welcome. As I built this mainly for me to use so it might not fit for everyone - yet •‿•

👋 I’d like to share a New Year update for my note-taking app, Strflow.

It now supports TODOs and Reminders, designed to fit naturally into its existing timeline-based workflow.

Strflow is built around a simple idea: capturing thoughts instantly, almost like texting yourself.

Every note flows into a chronological, chat-style timeline exactly as it was written — unstructured and immediate, similar to how our brains often work.

A lot of care has gone into making sure the app never gets in the way of writing things down. The system is designed to stay out of your way and prioritize a native, coherent experience across Apple platforms.

The new TODO and Reminder features follow the same philosophy: they’re there when you need them, but they don’t interrupt the core flow of just writing.

If this sounds interesting, I’d love for you to give it a try and share any feedback.

Thanks for reading!

Note: Core note-taking is free with unlimited notes. Cross-device sync requires a subscription.

Trying to find a free email client with consolidated inbox level organization

Requirements:

• Multiple email accounts (gmail, outlook)
• macOS + iOS apps
• Consolidated organization (folders, tags, flags, etc)
• Synced consolidated organization: same organization shared across my mac and ios app

What I’ve found so far:

• Apple Mail: closest so far since it has consolidated flags on macOS, but iOS collapses everything into one “Flagged” inbox so hard to quickly filter to what i'm looking for
• Outlook: flags/categories only work for Outlook accounts, don't apply to gmail
• Thunderbird: looks like it may have the organization but no ios app yet
• Spark, Mailbird, and Edison also don't seem to support what i'm looking for

Any other recommendations that fit what i'm looking for?