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Papermint Studio makes small, private, pay-once apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
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Papermint Studio is an independent studio making small, private, pay-once apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac, and a free Mac tool, Porter. No ads, no tracking, no accounts and no subscriptions. The apps do their work on the device; the one exception is Sketchy, which sends a page description or a chosen photo to an image service to draw it.
Whittle is a private voice-notes app with live transcription, for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
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Whittle writes while you talk: a live transcript, then tidy notes with a title and tags, entirely on your iPhone or iPad. Rewrite a note, ask your notes a question, search every word, and record from anywhere, including Apple Watch.
Live transcript as you speak, on-device
Tap any sentence to hear it, tap a word to fix it
Tidy notes, a title and suggested tags with Apple Intelligence (optional)
Rewrite as an email, a message, meeting minutes, bullet points and more
Ask your notes, answered on-device
Search every word, notebooks and tags
Record from widgets, Control Center, the Action button, Siri and Apple Watch
Import audio, and translate notes on-device
Export to text, Markdown, PDF or a folder, Face ID lock, optional iCloud sync
Keepers is a swipe photo cleaner and organizer for iPhone and iPad.
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The photo cleaner you swipe: sort your library into albums one photo at a time, sweep the junk it finds (old screenshots, blur, receipts, chat clutter), delete near-duplicates and keep the best of every burst. Frees up space, fully on-device.
Swipe through photos to keep, delete or file into albums
Finds old screenshots, blurry shots, receipts and chat clutter
Groups bursts and similar shots and suggests the best one
Free to download; new pages use sparks, in packs from $1.99 that never expire. Sketchy Premium, every premium page and book plus the whole Studio, is $4.99 once. No subscription, no ads.
Sketchy is AI coloring pages for kids on iPhone and iPad.
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Describe anything, or start from a photo, and Sketchy draws it as a children's coloring page in seconds. Make endless mandalas, name pages, ABC and number pages and mazes in the Studio, paint with magic crayons, brushes and stickers, replay colorings as short videos, color 340 ready-made pages and 14 storybook coloring books, or print pages for real crayons.
New in 1.8 (October 2026)
Sketchy 1.8 adds Studio, a new tab of page makers that draw right on the device, without sparks: Mandala Studio for endless mandalas in shapes like hearts, stars and cats; Name Pages, which turns any name into bubble letters with themes from dinosaurs to Christmas; ABC & 123, a learning page for every letter and number with a picture to match, plain school letters and dotted tracing; and Mazes, story mazes from easy to hard with an optional answer key. Anyone can play with them; Sketchy Premium now includes painting, printing and saving from the whole Studio, on top of every premium page and book. Printed pages are sharper too.
Coloring pages from a sentence or a photo
Studio: mandalas, name pages, ABC & 123 and mazes, made on the device
Tap-to-fill crayons with rainbow, stripe, dot and glitter fills
Crayon, marker and pencil brushes, and stickers
340 ready-made pages, a Page of the Day and 14 storybooks
Lumen is a fast photo viewer and RAW editor for folders on the Mac.
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A fast, focused photo viewer and RAW editor for people who keep photos in folders. Opens 25+ formats including every RAW format macOS reads, WebP and JPEG XL. Culls a shoot with one-key picks, rejects and stars (saved as XMP), edits non-destructively with RAW develop, curves, HSL and point colour, masks (subject, sky, any clicked object), healing, auto upright and AI noise reduction, merges HDR brackets, panoramas and focus stacks, cleans up copies, bursts and blurry photos, shows a folder as a trip on a map, picks its highlights, and searches what is in your photos on the Mac.
New in 1.8 (October 2026)
Lumen 1.8 turns the quick edits into a full photo editor, still $9.99 once. RAW develop on Apple's decoder (and its AI RAW decoder on macOS 27); light, white balance, HSL with point colour, colour grading, curves, texture, clarity, dehaze and effects; eleven film looks and your own; masks for the subject, people, sky, depth or any object you click or box, plus gradients, brush and ranges; portrait retouching, healing and cloning with Find dust; crop to any shape with auto upright and lens corrections; AI noise reduction on the Mac; HDR merge, panorama stitching and focus stacking; copy and paste edits, versions, soft proofing and printing, tethered shooting, and export to JPEG XL, WebP, AVIF and more in wide colour, 16-bit or HDR, with watermarks and AI enlargement. Edits are saved beside each photo and never change the original. Lumen now opens every RAW format macOS reads, including CR3, ORF and RW2. Earlier, Lumen 1.7 added quick edits (Auto Enhance plus five sliders, crop and auto-straighten, lossless rotate, remove background, and editing a photo's date, place and keywords), Clean Up for copies, bursts, blurry photos and screenshots with Best Shot keeping the keeper of each burst, Places to see a folder as a trip on a map, Highlights to pick a folder's best photos day by day, On This Day on Lumen Home, four grid layouts, selecting many photos by dragging across them with a selection bar for moving, copying, rotating and rating them together, and export to AVIF or under a chosen file size.
Opens RAW, WebP, JPEG XL, HEIC and 25+ other formats
Pick, reject, star and colour-label with one key; marks saved as XMP that Lightroom and Bridge read
Clean Up finds copies, the weaker shots of each burst, blurry photos and screenshots, never deleting on its own
Places shows a folder as a trip on a map; Highlights picks the best photos of each day
A full non-destructive editor: RAW develop, light, curves, HSL and point colour, colour grading, film looks, masks, healing and dust removal, auto upright, lens corrections and AI noise reduction
Merge HDR brackets, panoramas and focus stacks into 16-bit photos
Export to JPEG, HEIC, AVIF, JPEG XL, WebP, PNG or TIFF in wide colour, 16-bit or HDR, with a watermark or AI enlargement
Remove background, and edit a photo's date, place and keywords
Select many photos by dragging across them, then move, copy, rotate, rate or share them together
Compare two photos side by side with zoom kept in step
Search photos by what is in them, on-device
Batch convert and resize, with optional EXIF and location stripping
PennyBook is a private expense tracker and net worth tracker for iPhone and iPad.
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An expense tracker and a net worth tracker in one private app. Log what you spend in about three seconds, then ask about it in plain words. Ask PennyBook answers questions like "How much did I spend on food last month?" with a chart and the entries behind it, using Apple Intelligence on the device; every figure is worked out from your own entries. Wallets with real balances, income and transfers, Insights for any span (overview, categories and habits), search across your whole history, widgets, and your history imported from another tracker. The net worth tracker holds everything you own and owe: deposits and retirement accounts that grow by their rate, gold at your rate, loans that go down after each EMI, net worth over time with a monthly check-in, and money lent to or borrowed from people with due dates and repayments. Everything stays on the device unless you turn on iCloud sync, which keeps it in your own private iCloud.
New in 1.3 (October 2026)
PennyBook 1.3 gives the net worth tracker a full history. Invest, redeem, buy, sell, deposit or withdraw on any day, with a note, and see what each move left the holding worth; mark something sold or redeemed with what came back, and reopen it later. Loans show what is left, the next EMI and every EMI with its interest, with Prepay, Correct and a debt-free date; card bills and other dues get Pay and Add charges. The People tab shows what is owed to you and what you owe, who is due soon or late, and settles two people who owe each other in a tap. Earlier, 1.2 added a net worth tracker beside the expense tracker: bank balances, deposits, retirement savings, funds and stocks, gold, a home and a car, and loans and card bills, with net worth today and over time. Deposits and retirement accounts grow by their rate, gold follows the rate you set, and loans go down after each EMI. A People tab records money lent or borrowed, with due dates and repayments, and optional local reminders cover the monthly check-in, EMI days and due dates. 1.2 also brings a calmer look, wallets in a drawer, search filters in one place and currency that syncs. Pro now covers both trackers: 100 entries and 10 net worth items free, then $19.99 once. Earlier, 1.1 added Ask PennyBook: ask about your money in plain words, by typing or by voice, such as "How much did I spend on food last month?", "and transport?" or "Did I save money this year?" Answers come with a chart and the entries behind them, and it remembers the conversation. It runs on Apple Intelligence on the device, every figure is worked out by PennyBook from the user's own entries, and nothing is sent anywhere. 1.1 also brings new Insights for any span with overview, categories and habits, a simpler add screen, and a cleaner look throughout. Ask PennyBook is free; PennyBook stays 100 entries free, then $19.99 once.
Net worth tracker: what you own and owe, net worth over time, values that update themselves, loans by EMI, a monthly check-in
Investments with history: invest, redeem, buy and sell on any day, with what each move left it worth
Loans: every EMI with its interest, prepayments, corrections and a debt-free date
Money between people: lent and borrowed, due dates, repayments, settling both ways
Ask PennyBook: questions about your money in plain words or by voice, answered on the device with Apple Intelligence (iOS 26 and later, on devices that support it)
Three-second entry on a plain form; the note can pick the category and fill in the amount
Insights for a week, month, three months, a year or any dates: overview, categories and habits
Expense, income and transfer, with wallet balances
Search every entry by words or amount
Import from Money Lover, Wallet, Spendee, Monefy, Cashew, YNAB and CSV
Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Siri and Shortcuts
Optional iCloud sync; no account and no bank login
Porter is a free Mac app that gives local dev servers .local domains, with HTTPS, tunnels, webhooks, a request inspector and an MCP server for AI agents.
Porter is a free Mac app that gives local dev servers .local domains, with HTTPS, tunnels, webhooks, a request inspector and an MCP server for AI agents.
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Porter gives the servers on your Mac real names: open shop.local instead of localhost:5173, over plain http or trusted https. It finds the dev servers already running, with the tool and project folder behind each, and suggests a local domain from the folder. It forwards requests like a reverse proxy, WebSockets and hot reload included, shows every request in full (headers, bodies, WebSocket messages, replay), and puts up a waiting page while a server is stopped. It can also share a domain or any port through a free, temporary Cloudflare tunnel, and receive webhooks from Stripe or GitHub, check their signatures and forward them to your app. Tunnel and webhook URLs change each time they open. Porter is also an MCP server (run as Porter --mcp, nothing else to install), so AI agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Claude Desktop can manage domains, tunnels and webhooks and read or replay requests. Local domains work only on your Mac and need no admin password.
Local domains like shop.local for any localhost port, with no admin password
Trusted HTTPS for every local domain, from a certificate authority limited to .local domains
Finds running dev servers (Vite, Next.js, Astro, uvicorn and more) and suggests a local domain from the project folder
Reverse proxy with WebSockets, so hot reload keeps working
A request inspector: headers, cookies, bodies (JSON, forms, images), WebSocket messages, replay and copy as cURL
Free temporary tunnels (trycloudflare.com) to a local domain or any port, with an optional key
Webhook endpoints that answer, keep and forward deliveries, with Stripe and GitHub signature checks
An MCP server in the app for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Windsurf and Gemini CLI, with an activity log
A waiting page that reloads by itself while a server is stopped
Local domains work on this Mac only; nothing is announced to the network
Menu bar panel, Open at Login, and updates that install inside the app
Sheaf is an on-device PDF toolkit for the Mac: compress, merge, convert, sign, redact and edit PDFs.
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Every PDF tool you reach for, in one calm Mac app. Sheaf has 21 tools in four groups: compress, merge, split and organize pages; convert PDFs to Word, Excel, text or images, images and web pages to PDF, and make scans searchable; protect, unlock, sign and redact; and edit a PDF's own text, add a watermark or page numbers, crop, compare two versions and repair a damaged file. Add files to the desk once and use them in any tool. Every result is saved as a new file and the originals stay as they are. Everything happens on the Mac: no account, no uploads, no analytics.
Compress with a before and after you can check, merge, split and organize pages
PDF to Word with headings, lists, tables and pictures; PDF to Excel with real cells and numbers
PDF to text or Markdown, PDF to JPG or PNG, and JPG, PNG and HEIC to PDF at full quality
Make Searchable: recognise the text in scans, on the Mac
Save a web page as a PDF with its links kept
Protect with a password (AES-256), unlock a PDF whose password you know
Sign by drawing, typing or using an image of your signature
Redact so the text is truly gone, with suggestions for emails, phone numbers, account numbers, names, dates and addresses
Edit PDF: change the page's own text, find and replace, or add text, pictures, shapes, drawings, highlights, stamps and notes
Watermark, page numbers, crop, compare two versions and repair a damaged PDF
Finder services: Open, Compress, Merge, Make Searchable and Convert Images to PDF with Sheaf
Every result is a new file; nothing is uploaded and no data is collected
Almanac is a Mac activity monitor that shows every process, keeps 90 days of history and shows which app is behind every spike, with sleep and battery history, and Wi-Fi and internet checks.
Almanac is a Mac activity monitor that shows every process, keeps 90 days of history and shows which app is behind every spike, with sleep and battery history, and Wi-Fi and internet checks.
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Almanac shows what your Mac is doing and which app is behind it: CPU, memory, GPU, disk, network, battery, temperatures, fans and power, with every app's helpers grouped under it and ranked by impact. Like Activity Monitor it lists every process and the process tree, with CPU time, threads, idle wake-ups, real memory, disk totals, PID, user, kind and sandbox as columns sorted either way, and an About this Mac page shows the model, chip, battery health, drive health and security settings. Every metric opens on Now, the last few minutes reading by reading with the apps using it at that moment, and it keeps a minute-by-minute record for up to 90 days, so you can see what happened at 3:40 yesterday and which apps were busy then. It shows what's keeping the Mac awake and what woke it each night, follows the battery's health and where the power goes, checks Wi-Fi and (if you turn it on) the internet, runs Apple's speed test, shows data used per app and what's plugged in. It names the macOS services that get stuck, raises an alert when an app keeps a core busy, grows in memory or writes gigabytes, and never quits anything without asking. It lives in the menu bar too, and has an MCP server with setup steps for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and Gemini CLI. Everything stays on the Mac.
New in 1.7 (November 2026)
A tidier sidebar: your licence and an Update button at its foot, the version next to the name, and an Updates tab in Settings. The Coding agents page is gone; if Almanac was Claude Code's status line, your own is put back.
Live CPU per core, memory and pressure, GPU, disk, network, battery, temperatures, fans and power
Every app with its helpers grouped under it, ranked by impact, and macOS services named, not hidden
Every process and the process tree with Activity Monitor's columns (CPU time, threads, idle wake-ups, real memory, disk totals, PID, user, kind, sandbox), sorted by any column
About this Mac: model, chip, memory, storage, battery health, serial, displays, drive health, FileVault, firewall and Gatekeeper
Up to 90 days of minute-by-minute history, with the apps that were busiest at any moment, when the Mac slept, and each app's own 24 hours
Readings checked against Activity Monitor, top and System Settings, kernel_task included
Sleep: what's keeping the Mac awake now, every night's sleep, what woke it, and the last restart
Battery: where the power goes, the charger's wattage, health over 90 days and how fast it's wearing
Network: Wi-Fi signal and channel, an opt-in internet check with drops, Apple's speed test, data used per day and app, and where apps connect
Devices: displays, Thunderbolt and USB devices, the charger, and Bluetooth batteries
Alerts for an app that keeps a core busy, grows in memory, writes or downloads gigabytes, or a Mac that runs hot, each with a limit you choose
One menu bar icon with a panel of everything at once
Quit an app or a process safely, always with a confirmation
A 1200 x 630 share card of your Mac's day
An MCP server for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, off until you turn it on
About 1% of one core when nothing is on screen; everything stays on the Mac
Roost is a Mac window manager that puts every window back when you dock, undock or wake, with one-click arranging and keyboard snapping.
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Roost remembers where every window goes for each set of screens (the MacBook alone, at a home dock, at the office) and puts them back when you dock, undock or wake; after sleep on the same screens, windows go back to how they were before. It remembers each new screen setup the first time it sees it and keeps up as you move windows, so there is nothing to save, with Undo after every restore and a history of earlier layouts. Its screen-setup page draws the MacBook and monitors as they are, with every window like a macOS window: move or resize one there and the real window follows, drag it to a screen's edge for a half or a quarter, and Preview shows the change over the real screens. One key lays a screen's open windows out side by side, in a grid, main + side or cascaded. Shortcuts snap the window in use to halves, thirds and quarters, with a practice window to learn them; Moves fill the screen with it and back (Focus), swap it with the window beside it, or send it to the next display; Automatic parks a monitor's windows when you unplug and brings them back when you plug in, resizes windows that share an edge together, and hides private apps while the screen is shared or recorded; and workspaces open a set of apps and lay them out with one shortcut. Bird's-eye (⌃⌥O) shows every window on every screen, either drawn where it sits or spread as cards per screen, to find one by typing, go there with Return, or drag it to another screen or onto another window's edge. Apps can be set to float, be ignored, or open their new windows at a chosen spot on a chosen screen. Roost's actions are in the Shortcuts app, and an optional MCP server lets AI apps such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor list and move windows when asked. Everything stays on the Mac.
New in 1.3 (October 2026)
Automatic: Park on undock minimises the monitor's windows when you unplug and puts them back when you plug in, Glued neighbours resizes windows that share an edge together, and Safe sharing hides private apps while you share or record your screen (⌃⌥P by hand).
Every window put back when you dock, undock, rearrange screens or wake, for each set of screens
Nothing to save: new screen setups are remembered automatically and keep up as you move windows
Identical monitors told apart by serial number or position
Undo after every restore, and History to go back to any earlier layout
The screen-setup page: MacBook and monitors drawn as they are, windows drawn like macOS windows, moved and resized there with the real ones following
Drop zones for halves, quarters and the whole screen; double-click to fill; arrow keys to nudge
Preview on the real screens of what Restore layout would do
Arrange a screen with one key: side by side, grid, main + side or cascade, with Undo
Keyboard snapping to halves, thirds, quarters, centre and fill, with a practice window
Moves: Focus to fill the screen and back, Swap with the window beside it, Next display, and keys to arrange a whole screen
Automatic: park a monitor's windows on undock, glued neighbours that resize together, and private apps hidden while sharing the screen
Workspaces: a set of apps opened and laid out with one shortcut, per screen setup, and a switcher
App rules to leave an app alone, a setup check, and lost-window rescue
No account, no analytics; everything stays on the Mac
Free for 7 days with every feature; scanning, Storage and Restore stay free after. Then $9.99 once for one Mac, or $19.99 for up to three, with every future update. No subscription.
Winnow is a Mac cleaner that shows where your disk went and sends everything to the Trash first, with one-click Restore.
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Winnow shows where a Mac's disk went as one layered bar, then sorts what it finds into three groups: Clear now (caches, logs, Xcode build data and package caches that come back by themselves), Your call (old device support, idle node_modules, installers, simulators that can't run) and Kept for you (iPhone backups, Docker, local AI models), which are listed but never picked. Every row says in plain words what it is and what happens when it goes. Removing moves files to the Trash with a record of where each one lived, so History restores them in one click for 7 days before Winnow empties its own items. The Apps page uninstalls an app with everything it left, and says why each file matched (bundle ID, signing team, or name only) as Sure or Likely; it also finds what deleted apps left behind. Storage drills through any folder by real size on disk with Get Info, Duplicates finds files that are the same to the last byte (one kept from each set), Places adds external drives and folders with their own Trash and Restore, History shows what grew since an earlier scan, System Data breaks Apple's grey bar into parts, and a menu bar glance shows free space. Developer junk (Xcode, simulators, npm, Yarn, pnpm, Homebrew, Gradle, Cargo, Hugging Face) is handled with each tool's own command where one exists. No RAM freeing, no virus scan, no scare tactics; everything stays on the Mac.
1.3 (November 2026)
A tidier sidebar: your licence and an Update button at its foot, the version next to the name, and General, Licence and Updates tabs in Settings. Buy in the sidebar now works during the trial too.
Where the space went: the whole disk as one layered bar, by Storage settings' own categories
Clear now, Your call, Kept for you: only things that come back by themselves are ticked
Every row says what it is and what happens when it goes
Everything goes to the Trash first; History restores it in one click for 7 days
Uninstall with leftovers, each marked Sure (bundle ID or signing team) or Likely (name only)
Free for 7 days. Then $9.99 once for one Mac, or $19.99 for up to three, with every future update. No subscription. After the trial the journal still opens; dictating needs a licence.
Wren is a Mac dictation app that types what you say where your cursor is, in any app, with speech running on the Mac.
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Wren is dictation for the Mac: hold a key (fn by default, or Right Option, Right Command, ⌥Space or your own), talk, let go, and the words are typed where your cursor is, in any app. A quick tap keeps it listening hands-free until you tap again, and Esc cancels. While you talk, a small paper card opens under your text cursor; with the Live words voice it shows your words as you speak. Speech runs on the Mac with a choice of voices: English (the default, the fastest and most accurate in our tests), Live words (about 30 languages), European (25 European languages), Compact English and Every language (99 languages). On our Mac, the English voice returned a 5-second sentence in about 0.06 seconds. Tidying, on by default for English, removes um and false starts, keeps corrections ("Friday, no wait, Thursday" becomes Thursday), understands "scratch that", "new line" and "new paragraph", writes numbers, times, money, email and web addresses properly, turns three or more items into bullets and lays out mail; Quick uses rules, Smart uses a small language model on the Mac, in four styles from Casual to Formal. In code editors and terminals it only removes what you didn't mean. Words & names teaches the Live words and Every language voices your words, and fixes replace words with every voice. A journal on the Mac keeps everything you said by day, searchable, with a weekly view of words said and typing time saved. It puts your clipboard back after pasting. Audio and text never leave the Mac.
1.1 (November 2026)
A cleaner look: grey backgrounds so the butter yellow stands out, the talk key, licence and an Update button at the foot of the sidebar, Licence and Updates tabs in Settings, and Voices renamed Speech with Listening and Tidying tabs.
Hold a key, talk, let go: the words are typed where your cursor is, in any app
Talk keys: fn, Right Option, Right Command, ⌥Space or your own; a quick tap for hands-free; Esc cancels
A small paper card under your text cursor while you talk, with live words in the Live words voice
Speech models on the Mac: English (default), Live words, European, Compact English and Every language
Up to 99 languages, depending on the voice
Tidying: no um or false starts, corrections kept, scratch that, new line and new paragraph
Numbers, times, money, email and web addresses written properly
Quick (rules, instant) or Smart (a small language model, on the Mac); Casual, Relaxed, Standard and Formal styles
Lists become bullets, mail gets greeting, body and sign-off; code editors and terminals left as said
Words & names for the Live words and Every language voices, and fixes for every voice
A journal of everything you said, searchable, with your week: words said, typing time saved, words a minute, days in a row
Puts your clipboard back after pasting; a menu bar feather with the last thing you said
Paper and Night looks; open at login
No analytics, no tracking; audio and text never leave the Mac
Free to download, with everything for the first 14 days. Writing stays free for good; Unfurl Pro adds the filled-in day, photos in entries, people pages and iCloud sync for $14.99 once, shared with Family Sharing. No subscription.
Unfurl is a private daily journal for iPhone and iPad that fills itself in with your steps, sleep, photos and calendar.
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Unfurl is a daily journal for iPhone and iPad that fills itself in. Write a line or say it with on-device dictation, as a note, a highlight, an idea or a number. Each day also shows what the iPhone already knows: steps, sleep, time in daylight and mindful minutes from Apple Health, the day's photos and the day's calendar events. Mention @people and #tags as you write, and every person gets a page with their moments month by month. Pick a mood for the day from five levels, look back with On This Day, the month calendar and search, add photos to entries, and lock the journal with Face ID. An evening reminder skips the days you already wrote. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, a Control Center control and Siri ("Add to Unfurl") make a line quick to add. Import from Day One, export to Markdown, and sync through your own iCloud if you like. Everything stays on the device; no account.
Write a line or say it, with dictation on the device
Bullets for a note, a highlight, an idea or a number
The filled-in day: steps, sleep, time in daylight and mindful minutes from Apple Health, the day's photos and calendar events (Pro)
@people and #tags in the text; a page for every person with their moments month by month (people pages are Pro)
A mood for each day, from five levels
On This Day, a month calendar and search
Photos in entries (Pro)
Face ID lock
An evening reminder that skips the days you already wrote
Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, a Control Center control and Siri: "Add to Unfurl"
Import from Day One, export to Markdown
Optional iCloud sync to your own private iCloud (Pro)
No account; nothing collected; everything stays on the device
Tacet is a Mac clipboard manager for people who handle keys: search inside screenshots, boards and a paste stack, with API keys, tokens and passwords hushed as you copy them and kept out of shell history.
Mac (macOS 14 Sonoma and later), Apple silicon and Intel
Price
Free for 7 days. Then $9.99 once for one Mac, or $19.99 for up to three, with every future update. No subscription. After the trial the history and the picker still work; hushing secrets needs a licence. 2.0 is a free update for everyone who bought 1.x.
Tacet is a Mac clipboard manager for people who handle keys: search inside screenshots, boards and a paste stack, with API keys, tokens and passwords hushed as you copy them and kept out of shell history.
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Tacet is a clipboard manager for the Mac, made for people who handle keys: every copy kept, the keys kept quiet. Press ⌃⌥V (changeable) in any app to open the copy finder, and the one you pick lands in the app you were in. A slim rail sorts copies into All, Text, Links, Images, Colours, Code, Files and Keys, with counts, and lists your boards; Tab moves through them. Search finds the words inside screenshots and pictures, read on the Mac by Apple's on-device text reader in about 40 ms a picture; from:Safari narrows to one app, and case and accents don't matter. Formatting (rich text and HTML) is kept, and ⇧↩ pastes plain text. Colours written as hex, rgb() or hsl() get a swatch and paste in any of the three forms; code and commands show in a code face. ⌘1 to ⌘9 paste one of the first nine copies. Boards are named collections whose copies never expire (Pinned is always there); a board can be locked with Touch ID, and only a locked board can hold a key. The paste stack pastes marked copies in order (⌘S to mark, Paste in order, then each ⌘V pastes the next; keys never go in the stack). A copy can be edited before pasting (⌘E), several can be joined into one paste, a copy can be dragged into another app, and Space shows a big preview. Keeping copies can be paused for 5 minutes, an hour or until resumed, and chosen apps can be left out entirely. History is a folder on the Mac, every file sealed with AES-256 and its key in the login Keychain; it holds up to 20,000 copies and searches them in a few milliseconds. As you copy, Tacet recognises more than 300 kinds of API keys and tokens (327 patterns from gitleaks and Nosey Parker, plus its own checks for private keys, JWTs, database URLs with passwords, Authorization headers, .env lines and random-looking tokens), and anything copied from a password manager counts as a secret. A secret is hushed: the copy is rewritten with the nspasteboard.org marker, so Raycast, Alfred, Paste, Maccy and Copy 'Em skip it, and it is wiped from the clipboard after 60 seconds (30 s, 2 min or never) if it is still there. A peek at a hushed secret needs Touch ID or the Mac password. A key inside a screenshot is hushed too: the picture stays hidden until Touch ID, other clipboard apps are asked to look away, and it is wiped like a typed key. Overheard shows which background apps read a secret while it was on the clipboard, from macOS's own clipboard log, with a button to change that key at its service (45 services, such as GitHub, Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic and AWS). Pressing ⌘V with a hushed key into Slack, Discord, Messages, Mail, ChatGPT, Claude or other apps you choose asks first. A log, config or command with a key inside can be copied with each key replaced by a placeholder like <STRIPE_SECRET_KEY>. Hushed keys can be kept off Universal Clipboard, wiped after the first paste, and noticed when they are still in use after 30, 90 or 180 days, from a salted fingerprint rather than the key. Token peek reads a JWT's issuer, audience, scopes and time left offline. In Terminals, hooks keep commands with a key out of history for zsh, bash, fish, Nushell, PowerShell and xonsh, and a scan finds keys already in 27 kinds of history files and removes the ones you pick, with a backup and Undo. A kernel sandbox stops Tacet's own process from opening any network connection; a small helper that never sees the clipboard handles licence checks, and Sparkle handles updates. Tacet's windows are invisible to screen sharing and recordings.
New in 2.0 (November 2026)
Tacet 2.0 turns the clipboard history into a full clipboard manager and keeps all the key security. The copy finder gets a rail of kinds (text, links, images, colours, code, files and keys) and boards; search finds the words inside screenshots, read on the Mac, and a key inside a screenshot is hushed too; formatting is kept, with ⇧↩ for plain text; colours paste as hex, rgb() or hsl(); ⌘1 to ⌘9 paste the first nine copies. Boards keep copies for good and can be locked with Touch ID to hold keys. A paste stack pastes marked copies in order. Copies can be edited, joined and dragged out, keeping can be paused, and chosen apps left out. History is now a sealed folder that holds up to 20,000 copies. A free update for everyone who bought 1.x.
Find a copy with ⌃⌥V in any app; the one you pick lands in the app you were in
A rail of kinds (text, links, images, colours, code, files, keys) with counts, and boards
Search finds the words inside screenshots and pictures, read on the Mac; from:Safari narrows to one app
Formatting kept; ⇧↩ pastes plain text; ⌘1 to ⌘9 paste the first nine copies
Colours in hex, rgb() or hsl() with a swatch, pasted in any of the three; code shown in a code face
Boards whose copies never expire, lockable with Touch ID; only a locked board holds a key
Paste stack: mark copies with ⌘S, then each ⌘V pastes the next
Edit a copy before pasting, join several into one paste, drag a copy out, Space for a big preview
Pause keeping copies, and never keep copies from apps you choose
Recognises 300+ kinds of API keys and tokens, plus private keys, JWTs, database URLs with passwords, Authorization headers and .env lines
Anything copied from a password manager counts as a secret
Hushed: other clipboard apps (Raycast, Alfred, Paste, Maccy, Copy 'Em) skip it
Wiped from the clipboard after 60 seconds (30 s, 2 min or never), only if it's still there
Peek at a hushed secret with Touch ID or the Mac password
A key inside a screenshot is hushed too
Overheard: which background apps read a secret, with a button to change the key at its service
Ask before pasting a key into Slack, Discord, Messages, Mail, ChatGPT, Claude and apps you choose
Copy without the keys: each key swapped for a placeholder like <STRIPE_SECRET_KEY>
This Mac only: hushed keys stay off Universal Clipboard; paste once wipes after the first paste
Old keys: a salted fingerprint notices keys still in use after 30, 90 or 180 days
Token peek: a JWT's issuer, audience, scopes and time left, read offline
Terminals: keeps keys out of zsh, bash, fish, Nushell, PowerShell and xonsh history, and sweeps old ones out of 27 kinds of history files, with Undo
No way online: a kernel sandbox stops Tacet's own process from opening a network connection
History in a folder on the Mac, every file sealed with AES-256; up to 20,000 copies
Windows invisible to screen sharing and recordings
Lantern is a Mac network scanner that lists every device on your Wi-Fi and everything each one says about itself, from printer ink levels to your router's public address.
Free for 7 days. Then $9.99 once for one Mac, with every future update. No subscription. After the trial the last scan still opens; scanning again needs a licence.
Lantern is a Mac network scanner that lists every device on your Wi-Fi and everything each one says about itself, from printer ink levels to your router's public address.
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Lantern is a network scanner for the Mac. In a few seconds it finds every device on your network (by ping, a TCP knock on common ports and the Mac's ARP table, so devices that ignore ping still show up) and asks each one what it is, using the ways devices already describe themselves: Bonjour, SSDP and UPnP, NetBIOS, SNMP, IPP and their own info pages. Each device gets a name, a kind (router, printer, TV, streaming box, speaker, phone, computer, camera, plug, hub, storage and more), its maker and model, its IP and hardware address, the network card's maker from the IEEE's list, how fast it answers ping, the services it announces with their details and the open ports among the 44 it checks. Printers report their ink or toner levels in their own colours, pages printed, firmware, serial number, speed and paper. The router reports its model, public address, how long it has been connected, line details and any ports it forwards to the internet over UPnP. A health check looks for double NAT, WPS left on, open or WEP Wi-Fi, a weak signal, a crowded Wi-Fi channel (with a quieter one, when Location is allowed), Telnet, FTP, Remote Desktop and VNC left open, a router answering SNMP with the default password, low ink and printer errors, new devices and devices that don't say what they are. Lantern scans by itself every 5, 15 or 60 minutes and after the Mac wakes, keeps an activity log of devices joining and leaving, and sends notifications for new devices, watched devices and low ink, with a lantern in the menu bar. Each device has a live ping graph and, for computers, Wake on LAN. The device list exports as CSV and the whole network as a PDF report. An MCP server lets Claude, Codex, Cursor and other AI apps read Lantern (seven read-only tools, off until turned on), and four Shortcuts actions scan, list devices, read printer ink and check if a device is online. Everything runs on the Mac with no account: Lantern talks only to devices on your own network, plus Papermint's licence check and Sparkle's update check.
1.1 (October 2026)
Devices are known by their hardware address, so names and history survive a new IP address; What is this? for devices that won't say; device pages in tabs; hide findings you know about; mark new devices as known; sort, wider search, keyboard moves; a network switcher for networks you've scanned before; notifications asked for only when needed.
Finds every device on your network in seconds: ping, a TCP knock and the ARP table, so quiet devices show up too
Names each device from Bonjour, SSDP/UPnP, NetBIOS, SNMP, IPP and reverse DNS, with its kind, maker and model
IP address, hardware address and the network card's maker (from the IEEE's public list); private Wi-Fi addresses are marked
Printers: ink or toner levels in their own colours, pages printed, firmware, serial number, speed, paper and status
Router: model, public address, time connected, line details and ports forwarded to the internet over UPnP
Health check: double NAT, WPS, open or WEP Wi-Fi, weak signal, crowded channel, risky open ports, default-password SNMP, low ink
Activity: devices that joined, left or arrived for the first time, compared scan by scan
Devices known by their hardware address: names, watched devices and history survive a new IP address
What is this?: who made a device's network card, what it answers on, a live answering dot, then a kind and a name
Hide health-check findings you already know about; mark new devices as known
Sort by kind, name, address, last seen or response time; search ports, firmware and services; arrow keys and ⌘F
Look back at other networks Lantern has scanned
Scans by itself every 5, 15 or 60 minutes and after the Mac wakes
Notifications for new devices, watched devices coming and going, and low ink; a lantern in the menu bar
Live ping graph for any device, with best, worst, average and lost
Wake on LAN for computers that support it
Services each device announces with their details, and its open ports with plain names
Your Wi-Fi: signal, noise, channel, band, width, security and standard; This Mac: addresses, DNS and DHCP lease
Export the device list as CSV and the whole network as a PDF report
MCP server for AI apps (seven read-only tools, off by default) and four Shortcuts actions
Runs on the Mac with no account; talks only to devices on your network, plus the licence and update checks
Oriel is a Mac app for screenshots and screen recordings that keeps every capture on the Mac, with markup, a video editor and search across the words inside captures.
Free for 7 days. Then $19.99 once for one Mac, with every future update. No subscription. After the trial the Library still opens; new captures need a licence.
Oriel is a Mac app for screenshots and screen recordings that keeps every capture on the Mac, with markup, a video editor and search across the words inside captures.
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Oriel is a screenshot and screen recording app for the Mac that keeps everything on the Mac. It captures an area (⇧⌘1), a window (⇧⌘2, with its own picker that captures a window even when it's covered), the whole screen, a scrolling page joined as you scroll, or a web page from its address at phone, tablet or desktop width, copies the text on screen (⇧⌘6), and has a self-timer, a pixel ruler and a colour picker, all in one capture bar (⇧⌘7). After each capture a small card waits in the corner to copy, save, pin above all windows, edit or drag into any app, with smart actions for links, code and tables. The editor marks up with arrows, lines, boxes, ovals, a pen, text, numbered steps, highlight, blur, pixelate and solid redaction, and crops; it sets the shot on a background with padding, rounded corners and a shadow, in a MacBook or iPhone frame, at sizes like 16:9 or 1:1, with an optional watermark, and finds and hides emails and keys when you first open a shot. Recording (⇧⌘5) takes a display, a window or an area (with handles, an exact size and a ratio lock) with camera, microphone and system audio on their own tracks, a teleprompter that follows your voice outside the recorded area, and pause, restart and discard. Studio edits the take without touching the original: zoom that follows your clicks, a smooth cursor in several styles, 3D tilt, captions from the words you say, keys pressed on screen, editing the video by striking words in its transcript, removing filler words and long pauses, splits, trims, crop and speed, sizes for 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5, and export to MP4 at 30 or 60 fps or an animated GIF. The Library keeps every capture, reads the text inside each one on the Mac so search finds a word in any screenshot, gives each capture a title, a one-line summary and tags with Apple's on-device model, and opens captures in a full viewer with a filmstrip. An MCP server with 34 tools lets Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other coding agents capture windows and web pages, read the text on screen, find a button, compare two images, mark up a shot, record a short GIF or MP4, and cut and export recordings by their transcript, with private details hidden first; it answers only on the Mac, over a local socket. Oriel has no account and no analytics: it goes online only for Papermint's licence check, Sparkle's update check and the web pages you ask it to capture.
1.1.1 (November 2026)
1.1.1 is a careful pass over the whole app: full web pages stay sharp and scroll in the viewer; web capture is sharp on non-Retina screens and works with localhost and intranet addresses; Discard asks first and Delete moves to the Trash; stop a recording with its key or from the menu bar; better undo in Studio and the editor; plain error messages; and one name for each action. 1.1 brought one capture bar (⇧⌘7) for screenshots and recording; web page capture at phone, tablet, desktop or any width, light or dark; a window picker that captures covered windows; scrolling capture rebuilt to join pages as you scroll; a full viewer with a filmstrip and a player for recordings; titles, summaries and tags from Apple's on-device model, with files named after them; a recording area you can resize, size exactly and lock to a ratio; a new crop; cursor styles and 3D tilt in Studio; MCP tools to edit and export recordings (34 tools); and oriel:// links.
Capture an area, a window, the whole screen or a scrolling page, with a self-timer; copy the text on screen
One capture bar (⇧⌘7) with a Screenshot and Record switch
Capture a web page from its address: whole page or one screen, phone, tablet, desktop or custom width, light or dark
A card after each capture: copy, save, pin above all windows, edit, or drag the file into any app
Smart actions on the card: open a link or QR code, copy code, copy a table as CSV
Backgrounds with padding, corners and shadow; MacBook and iPhone frames; 16:9, 1:1, 4:5 and more; watermark
Emails, API keys, tokens and card numbers found and hidden before you share
Record a display, window or area with camera, mic and system audio on separate tracks
A teleprompter that follows your voice, kept outside the recorded area
Studio: zoom on clicks, smooth cursor, cursor styles, 3D tilt, spoken captions, keys pressed, splits, trims, crop and speed
Edit a recording by its transcript; remove filler words and long pauses in one go
Export MP4 at 30 or 60 fps, or an animated GIF, in 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5
Library: every capture kept, searchable by the words inside it, with titles, summaries and tags made on the Mac
A full viewer with a filmstrip; long web pages scroll; recordings play in their own player
Pixel ruler and colour picker (⌥⌘R)
MCP server for coding agents: capture windows and web pages, read and find text, compare images, mark up, record GIFs and MP4s, cut and export recordings (34 tools)
oriel:// links for launchers and scripts
Private details hidden before an agent sees a capture; the server answers only on this Mac
No account and no analytics; online only for the licence and update checks and web pages you capture
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