NaturalMouse – Separate scroll directions for trackpad and mouse on macOS. Auto-switches when you plug in.
macOS app I built to fix one tiny but genuinely annoying problem: scroll direction fights between your trackpad and external mouse.
The problem it solves:
macOS has a single global scroll direction setting. Natural scrolling feels right on a trackpad it mimics how your phone works, and content follows your fingers. But on an external mouse, that same setting feels completely backwards to most people.
So you're stuck. Either your trackpad feels wrong, or your mouse does. And every time you switch devices, the frustration is there.
The "fix" most people use: go to System Settings → Mouse → toggle Scroll Direction. Every. Single. Time.
Comparison:
You can manually flip the scroll setting each time you plug in or unplug a mouse. Takes about 10 seconds, but it breaks your flow, and you'll forget half the time.
Some people use Scroll Reverser or Mos. Both are solid apps. NaturalMouse is narrower in scope it does exactly one thing, with no config screen to navigate.
There's no "set it up" step. Grant Accessibility permission, launch it, done.
How it works:
It uses a system-wide CGEventTap approach to intercept scroll events before they reach any app. Each event is tagged by macOS as coming from either a trackpad (continuous) or a mouse (discrete). NaturalMouse only inverts the mouse events the trackpad is untouched.
IOKit watches for device connect/disconnect. Plug in a mouse: scroll flips within a second. Unplug it: flips back. No polling. No manual action.
What it doesn't do:
No Dock icon
No onboarding flow
No settings screen
0% CPU at idle, under 1ms per scroll event when active
Pause/resume from the menu bar if you ever need it. Launch at login. That's the whole app.
Pricing: $4.99 lifetime — use code NATURAL50 for 50% off.
NaturalMouse
AI Disclaimer: Code completion used during development. There are no AI features in the app.
https://redd.it/1t7djjz
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macOS app I built to fix one tiny but genuinely annoying problem: scroll direction fights between your trackpad and external mouse.
The problem it solves:
macOS has a single global scroll direction setting. Natural scrolling feels right on a trackpad it mimics how your phone works, and content follows your fingers. But on an external mouse, that same setting feels completely backwards to most people.
So you're stuck. Either your trackpad feels wrong, or your mouse does. And every time you switch devices, the frustration is there.
The "fix" most people use: go to System Settings → Mouse → toggle Scroll Direction. Every. Single. Time.
Comparison:
You can manually flip the scroll setting each time you plug in or unplug a mouse. Takes about 10 seconds, but it breaks your flow, and you'll forget half the time.
Some people use Scroll Reverser or Mos. Both are solid apps. NaturalMouse is narrower in scope it does exactly one thing, with no config screen to navigate.
There's no "set it up" step. Grant Accessibility permission, launch it, done.
How it works:
It uses a system-wide CGEventTap approach to intercept scroll events before they reach any app. Each event is tagged by macOS as coming from either a trackpad (continuous) or a mouse (discrete). NaturalMouse only inverts the mouse events the trackpad is untouched.
IOKit watches for device connect/disconnect. Plug in a mouse: scroll flips within a second. Unplug it: flips back. No polling. No manual action.
What it doesn't do:
No Dock icon
No onboarding flow
No settings screen
0% CPU at idle, under 1ms per scroll event when active
Pause/resume from the menu bar if you ever need it. Launch at login. That's the whole app.
Pricing: $4.99 lifetime — use code NATURAL50 for 50% off.
NaturalMouse
AI Disclaimer: Code completion used during development. There are no AI features in the app.
https://redd.it/1t7djjz
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Clipbeam: A fully private AI knowledge management system
[Clipbeam](https://preview.redd.it/qnnv0fkh5yzg1.jpg?width=1807&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a9cb1e44f6641c031ab6b2ccfed4dbaadfbd9a8)
**The problem my app solves**: Information is scattered across different apps, files, web pages, etc. People on average spend 2 hours a week searching for information they know they have saved somewhere, but have to scroll through / search across different apps to retrieve it. Clipbeam is a central repository that can capture information across notes, files, web pages, YouTube videos, screenshots, voice notes and more. It is powered by a local AI agent that automatically organizes all this information and offers semantic search and an AI assistant that can answer detailed questions about any information captured across all media. Consider it a truly **personal** AI assistant, that you train on whatever data you want it to base its answers on.
**My app is better than apps like** Notion or Google Keep because it was built from the ground up to be fully **private**. The AI model and chat assistant runs entirely on your device and even works when you don't have an internet connection. It is fully media agnostic, so doesn't just understand 'notes', but also images, web links, videos and voice memos. It combines the functionality of an AI chat app with the functionality of a full-fledged knowledge library, with items automatically categorized by topics and media type. There is a universal keyboard shortcut **Command ⌘ + C + B** that captures anything you select across macOS.
**Other features include:**
* **Voice recognition and voice chat:** You can dictate notes, clip voice notes and use voice chat with the AI assistant.
* **Sync folders:** Clipbeam can automatically watch a folder on your hard drive. If you watch your Obsidian vault or a folder in your iCloud Drive, whatever is synced to this folder is automatically added to your knowledge vault.
* **Sync bookmarks:** Clipbeam can watch your Safari bookmarks, so anything you bookmark on either your phone or Mac is automatically added to your knowledge library.
[Clipbeam](https://clipbeam.com)
**Pricing:**
1. **Free** on a single device
2. Backup your vault and sync items across devices for:
$49.99 **lifetime** license OR $2.99 per month / $29.99 per year.
**AI Disclaimer:** This post was entirely written by the developer. No AI was used to generate or edit this post. This app was **not** vibe-coded. Clipbeam is offered by [RDC Media Ltd](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08592072), a company based in the United Kingdom. See [privacy policy](https://clipbeam.com/privacy-notice.html) and [terms](https://clipbeam.com/license.html).
[LinkedIn ](https://www.linkedin.com/company/108281614/)
[Download Clipbeam](https://clipbeam.com)
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[Clipbeam](https://preview.redd.it/qnnv0fkh5yzg1.jpg?width=1807&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a9cb1e44f6641c031ab6b2ccfed4dbaadfbd9a8)
**The problem my app solves**: Information is scattered across different apps, files, web pages, etc. People on average spend 2 hours a week searching for information they know they have saved somewhere, but have to scroll through / search across different apps to retrieve it. Clipbeam is a central repository that can capture information across notes, files, web pages, YouTube videos, screenshots, voice notes and more. It is powered by a local AI agent that automatically organizes all this information and offers semantic search and an AI assistant that can answer detailed questions about any information captured across all media. Consider it a truly **personal** AI assistant, that you train on whatever data you want it to base its answers on.
**My app is better than apps like** Notion or Google Keep because it was built from the ground up to be fully **private**. The AI model and chat assistant runs entirely on your device and even works when you don't have an internet connection. It is fully media agnostic, so doesn't just understand 'notes', but also images, web links, videos and voice memos. It combines the functionality of an AI chat app with the functionality of a full-fledged knowledge library, with items automatically categorized by topics and media type. There is a universal keyboard shortcut **Command ⌘ + C + B** that captures anything you select across macOS.
**Other features include:**
* **Voice recognition and voice chat:** You can dictate notes, clip voice notes and use voice chat with the AI assistant.
* **Sync folders:** Clipbeam can automatically watch a folder on your hard drive. If you watch your Obsidian vault or a folder in your iCloud Drive, whatever is synced to this folder is automatically added to your knowledge vault.
* **Sync bookmarks:** Clipbeam can watch your Safari bookmarks, so anything you bookmark on either your phone or Mac is automatically added to your knowledge library.
[Clipbeam](https://clipbeam.com)
**Pricing:**
1. **Free** on a single device
2. Backup your vault and sync items across devices for:
$49.99 **lifetime** license OR $2.99 per month / $29.99 per year.
**AI Disclaimer:** This post was entirely written by the developer. No AI was used to generate or edit this post. This app was **not** vibe-coded. Clipbeam is offered by [RDC Media Ltd](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08592072), a company based in the United Kingdom. See [privacy policy](https://clipbeam.com/privacy-notice.html) and [terms](https://clipbeam.com/license.html).
[LinkedIn ](https://www.linkedin.com/company/108281614/)
[Download Clipbeam](https://clipbeam.com)
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Castly: simple Mac screen recording with webcam, mic, and local saving
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AskMeety - Meeting notes that never leave your Mac, now with eyes. 100% private and 100% yours.
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NaiveChat: Raycast AI Chat alternative for extreme efficiency
Meet NaïveChat, a hotkey-driven AI chat app, built for:
\- extreme efficiency,
\- intense models/prompts engineering.
NaiveChat with minimal UI
# The Beginning
The story goes like this: You love an app, it's the best in class, but you still feel unsatisfied in some aspects. Eventually, you decide to build a better version. Now you become a rival to the app you once loved.
That’s Raycast for me (the AI chat, not the launcher). The more I love it, the more those problems start to drive me insane. It’s like being haunted by what it could be.
# The Problems
Dark Mode. White text on black background, that's harsh. Especially when I open Raycast or Twitter in the night. It needs to be solved.
Hotkey. Change model, tune prompts, regenerate, these are high frequency operations when you do prompt engineering. Doing these in Raycast AI is painfully slow, although it's an app famous for its hotkey launcher.
Branched chat. Most AI chat apps make a copy of the original conversation, mess history with duplicated items. This way, I think is WRONG. Wrong model for conversation exploration. Conversations are not duplicated chats, they are mind maps.
# Introducing NaïveChat
Hotkey driven: - Cover all high frequency operations, designed with seamless workflows in mind. - Follows conventions, like H/J/K/L in map navigation, ctrl+up/down for list selection. - Intuitive defaults and customizable.
Branch Map: the mind map of conversation, you may navigate and switch active branch in it.
Screenshot & sharing: capture full conversation or mobile view, for sharing purpose.
Minimal UI: minimal means barely nothing on the UI. Most features hidden behind hotkeys. And there's a Zen mode to push it to the extreme.
Workflows with NaïveChat:
Switch model (⌘L), retry generation (⌘R). Because models vary in different jobs, even prompts:
Edit system prompt (⌘L), save (⌘S), retry. Fine-tuning system prompt in NaïveChat feels like a chef smile.
Explore different directions, iterations, have them organized in whole. AFAIK, no other chat app make it a mind map (⌘J) like NaïveChat. Iteration on image generation feels even better than ChatGPT app.
Give it a try, I'm sure you won't regret. Let me know what you think.
https://naivechat.com
# Pricing
Free during beta.
There will be redeem code for all beta tester, thanks you guys!
# About Me
I'm a developer doing open source for over 10 years, I created badgen.net (serving 10M badges per month, sponsored by Vercel, Sentry), npmjs.dev, eloc.app . I've been cooking NaiveChat for 2 years, in a slow peace, but high bars.
https://redd.it/1t7rn1b
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Meet NaïveChat, a hotkey-driven AI chat app, built for:
\- extreme efficiency,
\- intense models/prompts engineering.
NaiveChat with minimal UI
# The Beginning
The story goes like this: You love an app, it's the best in class, but you still feel unsatisfied in some aspects. Eventually, you decide to build a better version. Now you become a rival to the app you once loved.
That’s Raycast for me (the AI chat, not the launcher). The more I love it, the more those problems start to drive me insane. It’s like being haunted by what it could be.
# The Problems
Dark Mode. White text on black background, that's harsh. Especially when I open Raycast or Twitter in the night. It needs to be solved.
Hotkey. Change model, tune prompts, regenerate, these are high frequency operations when you do prompt engineering. Doing these in Raycast AI is painfully slow, although it's an app famous for its hotkey launcher.
Branched chat. Most AI chat apps make a copy of the original conversation, mess history with duplicated items. This way, I think is WRONG. Wrong model for conversation exploration. Conversations are not duplicated chats, they are mind maps.
# Introducing NaïveChat
Hotkey driven: - Cover all high frequency operations, designed with seamless workflows in mind. - Follows conventions, like H/J/K/L in map navigation, ctrl+up/down for list selection. - Intuitive defaults and customizable.
Branch Map: the mind map of conversation, you may navigate and switch active branch in it.
Screenshot & sharing: capture full conversation or mobile view, for sharing purpose.
Minimal UI: minimal means barely nothing on the UI. Most features hidden behind hotkeys. And there's a Zen mode to push it to the extreme.
Workflows with NaïveChat:
Switch model (⌘L), retry generation (⌘R). Because models vary in different jobs, even prompts:
Edit system prompt (⌘L), save (⌘S), retry. Fine-tuning system prompt in NaïveChat feels like a chef smile.
Explore different directions, iterations, have them organized in whole. AFAIK, no other chat app make it a mind map (⌘J) like NaïveChat. Iteration on image generation feels even better than ChatGPT app.
Give it a try, I'm sure you won't regret. Let me know what you think.
https://naivechat.com
# Pricing
Free during beta.
There will be redeem code for all beta tester, thanks you guys!
# About Me
I'm a developer doing open source for over 10 years, I created badgen.net (serving 10M badges per month, sponsored by Vercel, Sentry), npmjs.dev, eloc.app . I've been cooking NaiveChat for 2 years, in a slow peace, but high bars.
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[macOS] Canto v0.7.0 — URL-aware agent, adaptive memory, and a cleaner timeline
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If you could recommend only ONE MacOS app to someone?
Hi! I always find so many great apps because of your posts. Thanks! So, I've wanted to ask this for a long time.
If you have to choose just ONE MacOS app to recommend, what would it be? For me... it's really hard to choose, but maybe PopClip?
It's a famous app, but let me explain. When you select text, a small popup appears. You can copy, change uppercase/lowercase, or send the text to other apps like Notes or a translator. I write a lot for my work, so I can't live without it! Please tell me your favorite apps, everyone in this sub!
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Hi! I always find so many great apps because of your posts. Thanks! So, I've wanted to ask this for a long time.
If you have to choose just ONE MacOS app to recommend, what would it be? For me... it's really hard to choose, but maybe PopClip?
It's a famous app, but let me explain. When you select text, a small popup appears. You can copy, change uppercase/lowercase, or send the text to other apps like Notes or a translator. I write a lot for my work, so I can't live without it! Please tell me your favorite apps, everyone in this sub!
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[OS] OpenASO — automate ASO research to get more App Store downloads
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Zenteek - A modern library-focused music player for macOS collectors and DAC users
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