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  1. N

    Sharing a series of free macOS (14+) mini productivity apps

    Hi 👋 I’ve been building with Claude some macOS mini productivity apps to improve my own workflows as a designer/developer I figured why not share them with the community. I'm basing each in a different letter, maybe someday I'll have the whole alphabet: 1. Achico - File Compressor 📦 —...
  2. Sachin Suthar

    iPhone QuirkPlus: Your Day Planner

    Daily Planner is like a digital calendar. From reminders to managing your workflow on the go, planners can manage your personal checklists such as Birthdays, Anniversaries, grocery lists, and doctor appointments, as well as work-related checklists, meetings, deadlines etc. This will give you a...
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    Does macOS 15.1 make Siri useful?

    For the past several years, I have never used Siri on the Mac. I have turned off the icon in the menu bar and just never use it. However, with the new voice and updated AI features, I am curious if this is enough for people to use Siri on the Mac again? Personally, I might give it a try but I...
  4. Jeehut

    Universal Introducing "FocusBeats: Pomodoro + Music" for Vision/Mac/iPhone/iPad

    Available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision! You like to work with background music? And you want to improve your productivity with the Pomodoro (25m / 5m) technique? Then my new app is what you've been waiting for: FocusBeats provides selected themes for music like movie soundtracks or...
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    • apple music focus game of thrones harry potter pokemon pomodoro productivity soundtrack timer
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    • Forum: iOS Apps and Apple Arcade
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    Vimo Rebinder - Supercharge your keyboard

    Hello MacRumors community, I am delighted to introduce Vimo Rebinder, the app I developed for simplify the shortcuts. About Vimo Rebinder: Expand Shortcuts: Shortcuts are gifts from developers! Access a world of shortcuts more easily with the rebinding system. Simplify Keystrokes...
  6. finito

    Finito - use AI in any Mac app

    Hello folks, my name is Mike Antonic, previously I was the lead developer of PaintCode (www.paintcodeapp.com) and Drama (www.drama.app). I developed a new native app for Mac called Finito: https://www.finito.ai/ It can help you improve your writing, correct grammar, answer questions, generate...
    • finito
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    • app artificial intelligence assistant native productivity siri writing
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    • Forum: Mac Apps
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    Looking for an app (or Word feature) to create fill in forms

    Hi everyone, I’ve been tasked at work to create a word template or look for an app that allows users to fill in information on the form and auto populate. I’m hoping that makes sense. I do know that Word has some auto populate features and other form functions, but I’m specifically looking for...
  8. T

    I created an app that launches your apps in the window layout you want

    I’ve tried most of the layout management (yabai, amethyst, rectangle, moom, later) and focus apps (heyfocus, selfcontrol) but none of them were comprehensive + worked the way I wanted. I tried making the app I wanted for myself but was curious if other people would find it useful too. I’ve put...
    • tommyle_e
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    • app launcher productivity website blocker window management
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  9. moxadventu

    ShowMeYourHotKeys - Show all app menu items hotkeys

    Hi everyone, ShowMeYourHotKeys is a macOS application I worked for the last months. This app shows the frontmost app's menu items shortcuts. Here's what it looks like: ShowMeYourHotKeys features are: Two way to show the hotkeys window "Stay on top" window,by quickly press 3 times a...
  10. R

    "Baked in" Apple Apps or Third-Party Alternatives for Productivity?

    Hey everyone, I've been somewhat agonizing for a few weeks now about maximizing my personal productivity and the big question on my mind is should I use the Apple Stock Apps (Calendar, Notes, Reminders, etc.) or should I use theoretically more robust Third-Party Alternatives (replace Calendar...
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    Other Will there ever be Apple Pencil support for iPhone?!

    Hi there, While I personally don’t believe that it will ever happen, I think Apple should add Apple Pencil support to -at least!- the Pro models of iPhone. Especially considering Samsung added it to its major flagship, the galaxy series. The iPhone is capable of it and quick notes is just a...
    • svrf
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    • apple pencil iphone pro models productivity
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: iPhone
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    Integrate reminders and Calendar so I can see due dates?

    So, life is more complicated now, and I need to be better organized. A frustration I'm experiencing is coordinating reminder due dates and calendar events. Setting due dates is fine, and while it would be nice to see my calendar view right there while setting the due date, it's not such a big...
    • fortfive
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    • calendar app productivity reminders app
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    • Forum: Mac Apps
  13. ZuriWeb

    ZuriWeb: Menu Bar Web Browser for multitasking

    Hey everyone, i created a mini-browser that you can access quickly from your menu bar for multitasking. I made this initially so that i could follow along tutorials on Youtube without having to constantly switch between app windows. The current version supports macOS 10.15 and above. App...
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    • internet browser mac menu bar app menu bar menu bar app multitasking productivity productivity app safari web browser
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  14. Xolp

    Best website and app blocker now supports M1 (heyfocus.com)

    Hello, Just letting you know that the best website and app blocker (in my opinion) now supports m1. https://heyfocus.com/changelog/ What do you personally look for in website and app blockers? Do you know a better alternative or do you agree that heyfocus is the best? I would love to see...
    • Xolp
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    • app blocking block productivity tracking website blocking
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    • Forum: Mac Apps
  15. jchap

    macOS Big Sur: improving our productivity, or feeding us frills and eye candy?

    I'm currently on macOS Catalina, and have been reviewing the new features that Apple touts for macOS Big Sur. I'm seriously wondering: does Big Sur offer any significant improvements to productivity? Any noteworthy and truly helpful improvements to the user experience? Is the UI really that much...
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    Is it Possible to Create Different Workspaces

    Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to create different workspaces on a macbook I have different clients, and each one requires a different gsuite login, different folders, notes, programs, etc. Different desktops doesn't do the trick (I usually use a couple for each client) I tried...
    • ahhhyeah
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    • macbook pro productivity workspace
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: macOS
  17. yellow8

    Zacc - Automatic expense tracking from imported PDFs' content (!)

    Zacc - Automatic expense tracking from PDF documents content Meet Zacc, the first intelligent expenses tracker. Simply Drag & Drop your PDF invoices, and Zacc automatically creates the related expenses for you! The values are extracted from the PDF content! It took me a huge amount of work for...
    • yellow8
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    • expense management expense tracking mac money productivity
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  18. Tanin Na Nakorn

    Native programmable tooltip that can be used with any Mac OS app

    Hello MacRumors, Tip (or its full name, Universal Tip) is a programmable tooltip that can be used with any Mac OS app. You can select the text and hit the shortcuts to activate the tooltip with useful info. "Useful info" is programmed by YOU using your fav programming language. For me, who...
  19. lightLauncher

    Lightweight Launcher-Launch files and web URLs from the menu bar!

    Hi all, thanks for taking time to read this post! Lightweight Launcher is a very simple application that opens a number of preset files and web URLs directly from the menu bar. Features: What it does: -Launches files, apps, and websites with a single click! -Have up to ten collections...
  20. bvirlet

    Universal Genius Scan 5.2 now with OCR

    Hi everyone, I'm the developer of Genius Scan for iOS. We just released Genius Scan 5.2 last week. This version now includes Text Recognition (OCR) as part of Genius Scan+ ! With OCR, Genius Scan not only produces image versions of scanned documents, but also extracts the text from the...
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