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Rogue Amoeba audio apps sale thru November

Mac audio users, Rogue Amoeba is having one of their rare app sales, announced via their customer email newsletter. For November (the 11th month of the year), there is a discount of $11 off any purchase from Rogue's store, via discount code PUMPKINSPICE. Here is their store:

Rogue Amoeba | The Rogue Amoeba Store

I'm a user of several RA apps, and consider them to be great apps from a solid developer that has offered good support to users for many years. The two apps I use the most are Audio Hijack (for capturing app and external audio; I esp. like its scheduled capture feature), and Fission (for lossless editing of compressed audio files, like MP3s). Highly recommended.

Worth noting is that macOS Tahoe's v. 26 shipped with audio bugs that impacted some RA apps and apps from other audio devs. The newsletter notes that Apple fixed the main bugs in v26.1, and RA's latest updates make their apps compatible with Tahoe, as long as one upgrades to 26.1.

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Animated/dynamic wallpaper app that has the default wallpapers

Hey y'all,

I'm looking for an animated wallpaper app for my macbook. I like the default wallpapers (specifically the tea gardens one), so what I'm looking for is an app that basically keeps the default wallpaper's animation on even when you've logged in.

I'm also interested in dynamic (as in changes depending on the time of day), high quality wallpapers app with a nature's aesthetic like the default ones. I'd appreciate some help with finding this stuff :)

Thanks!

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Griddle - now free forever

Hi Reddit, the last time I did a giveaway and it was well received, I was excited, I launched my first Mac app. Some of you supported and paid for the full version.

I still use griddle everyday, it is easily the best tiling manager (for me at least). And I want to just give this to everyone for free.

Thanks for making this fun.

Price: $0

https://getgriddle.app/




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Cloud Gaming (Open for Tester)

Cloud gaming is here 🚀
You can now play AAA games straight from the cloud — no high-end PC needed.

We’re opening Storm for early testers ⚡️

Available on Mac, Windows, & Linux.
Join the community and get early access 👇
🎮 Discord: https://discord.gg/PNbZZ597

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All of the New Apps = Hard Drive Chaos

BLUF - You need a plan to clean your mac hard drive. A plan, not necessarily an app. That plan is up to you, your technical competence and your time.

The new era of app "development" requires that everyone who uses more than built-in apps to have a plan for MacOS cleaning. The amount of trash being littered throughout the hard drive by vibe-coded, or new to software development, apps is only going to get worse.

Convention is no longer being followed. Many of the new apps just put files in random places across the hard drive and standard cleaners might not find them.

Some store their permanent preferences and data inside of cache locations.
Others store logs in /Users/Shared or /Documents.
Some store in multiple directories inside of \~/Library.
Most don’t come with an uninstall noscript.
Some create background tasks and install extensions with no cleanup noscript.
Add in local AI models and large data files: you’ve got a recipe for running out of disk space and it won’t be obvious why.
New self-hosted advocacy has people installing docker containers, tapping brew sources and trying all sorts of solutions without consideration to the cleanup repercussions.

The main cleaner apps won't account for these types of mistakes because they assume proper locations for storage that conform to proper developer locations.

I wrote a blog article about this for those interested: “Why Everyone Needs a Cleaning Plan for MacOS Computers”.

If you aren’t interested, pick your plan, your app, your process….but you actually need one.

https://www.trashpandamacos.com/blog

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I built a native Safari power-tool for Mac (that you also get on iOS) to block trackers, force redirects, and fix annoying sites. It's live on Product Hunt today! (50%+ off over the weekend)
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In Search Of App Capable Of Advanced Indexing, Organization, Search and Meta Data For Image Files

A little background: I am a designer (mostly/sometimes). I've been doing this for a while and thus have utilized several computers/drives over the years. I am in the process of transferring files to a new system right now and in moving some unused stuff to my cloud storage, I started looking through some other previously-archived drives/directories and had a few moments of "oh that's where that ended up - that might have come in handy for XXX". I'm talking about image files of every sort... stock photos, sketches, mockups, web interfaces, icons, etc, etc... of various image file formats, including the editable ones like .ai and .psd. it seems that back in my younger years, I was not quite as organized as I like to think I am today so there is stuff EVERYWHERE.

What I would love would be to have a tool that can go through and index all of the various image files in all these archives (let's just say for the sake of keeping it simple, that they are all scattered about 1 gigantic external SSD accessible directly from the workstation on which this tool would be running), use AI to to figure out what kind of image it is (illustration, photograph, UI, etc) and add some other meta info like a denoscription, keywords/tags that then allows the files to be found via a search within this tool.

I've seen a few things out there that kind of come close but nothing that hits the nail right on the head for my level of clutter and lack or organization, or even good file names for that matter. Being able to include PSDs and AIs (and EPSs, PDFs and maybe even some OBJs and/or BLENDs) AND being able to auto-assign at least some keywords are pretty important.

Obviously, the free-er the better, but a tool of this magnitude would surely be worth paying for a license for me.

Any suggestions for something that comes close?

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Need help naming my app. It's digital garden, personal space app where you can capture all things your like and care about.
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Inside the mind of a Dev — why do you make what you make?

As a daily visitor to this subreddit, I see many devs posting about their new apps, workflows every day here. I have also seen some devs working on improving OSS by adding features to make it much better.

On the other hand, I’ve seen a flood of similar apps - pomodoro timers, Todo manager, dock apps - often with just minor tweaks or fresh UI layers on top of already great originals. This sometimes makes the App Store feel a bit clogged and unbalanced, where genuinely good apps risk getting buried among dozens of near-copies

So I’m curious:

👉 What makes you to create something new, instead of working on available app when available?

👉 Would you rather work on your own app idea, or contribute to improving existing ones (if the project genuinely excites you)?

Would love to hear your thoughts! Hope this post sits well within the community rules :)


@Mods, I’m unsure of right flair to use, so please change it if necessary

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Keyboard shortcut to 'love' an Apple Music Song, after 3.5 years

The app Looking Glass - Music Remote in the Mac App Store is a menu bar app that allows you to control or skip music etc.

If you're in the menu bar, you can hit "Cmd L" but if you're in something else it doesn't work. There's a submenu in the settings that allows you to record a custom keyboard shortcut, so I set mine to Ctrl Opt Cmd L and it works from anywhere.

I previously tried doing this through Apple's system settings and that never worked. I tried a few specific methods.

This is all I wanted from Apple Music ever.

I'm not dumb, but I might be, and I just wish this functionality was native already haha.

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Anyone here tried Refbox for keeping visual notes or refs on screen?

I came across of Refbox app and it looks interesting
From what i get it lets you keep images or notes floating over other apps, basically like a small workspace for refs and reminders

Anyone here has tried it for real work?
Does it feel smooth or get buggy?
Im trying to find something light that helps keep visual stuff in view without switching windows all the time

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BETA I made a posture reminder menu bar app

https://preview.redd.it/gxoqs2fil50g1.png?width=2296&format=png&auto=webp&s=f6116c11c91029399f0c496e5a4b11c63bf9be0b

https://preview.redd.it/5c012ohql50g1.png?width=1838&format=png&auto=webp&s=104a1071693dfa8c7b6382dc41d969bbc14dad4b

I always end up slouching in front of my laptop so I made a posture reminder app that shows me how I look every 20 minutes.


You can customize the interval and see some nice stats on how often you were straight v. straightened up, etc.


TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/Gtp7HEvd

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Does Betterdsipaly natively change DDC?

DOes betterdisplay natively change DDC, as in same as clicking the monitor's buttons to adjust brightness, contrast, etc? Also, if I can change brightness and volume with betterdisplay, I have DDC right? Idk what monitor model exactly, but I know it's an acer nitro VG something.

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Is there any way to get always on top clock for MacOS Mojave?

I want to see the clock while other apps are full screen. Is there any way to do it on MacOS Mojave?

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My MacBook Setup - What else should I do or change or remove?

My Mac setup



Hardware

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M3 Max MacBook Pro 48GB ram 1TB SDD with macOS 26.0

CalDigit TS4 docking station

SAMSUNG T7 Portable SSD, 2TB External SSD connected to TS4

Synology DS423+ NAS





Apps

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1Password - password manager and 2FA key manager

Active Backup for Google Workspace - Synology NAS app to back up my Google Workspace account files to my NAS

Aldente - helps prolong your battery's life

Alt-Tab, MissionControl+, WINS - allow you to manage and position your apps on screen

Amphetamine - prevents the mac from going into sleep mode

Arq - remote backup "just in case”

AutoMounter - to ensure that our NAS folders are mounted at startup

BackBlaze - another remote backup “just in case”

Barbee- an app that allows you to manage the ever-growing number of menubar app icons

BrewMate - handy UI for discovering, installing, deleting, and updating homebrew apps

Brightintosh - makes my macbook pro screen brighter

CarbonCopyCloner - makes scheduled backups to an external SSD or HDD

Caffeine - to provide a second layer of protection to make sure that my Mac does not go into sleep mode

Chrome - my primary browser - because that is what almost all of my clients and their customers use

CleanMyMac - all  in one system cleaner and tune up

Dato - menubar quick look at your calendar

HyperBackup - Synology NAS app to back up my Time Machine backup files from my NAS to an attached SSD

iGlasses - allows (some) control over the built in MacBook camera for Zoom

LanguageTool for desktop - grammar, spell checker, and style guide

Little Snitch - firewall

MalwareBytes - Malware protection

Parachute Backup - backs up your icloud data to a storage location somewhere else like an SSD or a NAS

PopClip - a huge timesaver, provides quick access to many functions when you select text on screen

Proton VPN (I only use it when I actually need to use a VPN though)

QSpacePro - an improvement over Finder, multiple finder panes

Raycast - a replacement for spotlight search that allows an amazing array of tools and ai assistance

RealVNC - for remote access from my other devices

Shottr - Much better for screenshots, especially annotating them 

Stealthly - automatically sets Do Not Disturb whenever your camera is in us, such as with zoom and facetime, to prevent messages from popping up in the top right corner of your screen

Sublime Text Editor

Supercharge - control over various parts of macos to make things work better

TimeMachine - built in mac app to backup your mac 









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