CremaStudio: pro photo editing (layers, masks, RAW) without a Creative Cloud subscription

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Need User feedback on Fluent

Fluent app is currently on sale (25% OFF Indieappsale) and I am planning to buy a personal license (+ Trickster)

Can any of the current users share your feedbacks/experiences about it?

Edit: Below is the price in EUR/DOLLAR after discount!

Prices after discount

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DNSShift: manage your Cloudflare domains and DNS from a native Mac app, no subscription

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Bibliome Library: a native macOS PDF librarian with fully on-device AI, no cloud

Hey r/MacApps, wanted to share something I built after getting fed up with my own mess of PDFs.

I had thousands of them scattered across folders, papers, manuals, contracts, receipts with zero structure and no real way to search inside them. Spotlight could guess at filenames, but it had no idea what was actually written on any given page. Bibliome is my answer to that: a native macOS app that reads, organizes, and lets you talk to your PDF library, entirely on your own machine.

What it does:

Bibliome scans a folder of PDFs and automatically sorts them by what they actually are, like a research paper, a manual, an invoice, without you touching a tag or writing a rule. It learns the categories from your own collection instead of forcing a fixed taxonomy on it.

The centerpiece is Ask Your Library: type a plain-English question like "what's the warranty on my espresso machine," and Bibliome finds the right document and jumps you straight to the page that answers it. That's backed by semantic search across the full text of your library, not just filenames or keywords.

There's also a redaction tool for stripping names, addresses, and other PII out of a document before you send it, and a free iOS/iPadOS companion so you can browse and search the same library from your phone, synced through your own iCloud account, never a third-party server.

All of the AI in Bibliome, including categorization, semantic search, and Ask Your Library, runs locally, either through Apple's on-device model or a bundled Llama 3.1 model (Built with Llama). The Mac app has no network entitlement in its sandbox, so there's no cloud call it could make even if it wanted to.

Problem: 

Most Mac PDF tools either want you to do the organizing yourself (folders, tags, rules) or hand your documents to a cloud service to get any real intelligence out of them. I wanted something that did the organizing for me, without my documents ever leaving my Mac.

I understand this app is not for everyone! It's solving a specific problem that exists, which is that there aren't offline PDF librarian apps with real on-device AI built in. It requires an AI model, but not everyone wants to send their data to even a trusted partner, think lawyers, and others who have confidentiality agreements that cannot be breached under any circumstances, even a leak by a frontier company.

Comparison:

\- vs DEVONthink ($99-199): far more powerful as a general-purpose information manager, but it asks you to build out your own database and rules. Bibliome does the categorizing for you.

\- vs EagleFiler ($69.99): a great filing cabinet, but still manual filing. Bibliome reads and sorts the documents itself.

\- vs Zotero/Mendeley: built specifically for academic citations, not a manual or a receipt.

\- vs PDFgear (free): also has AI features, but they run through the cloud. Bibliome's stay entirely on-device.



I got a nice writeup here:

https://www.scoringnotes.com/news/from-chaos-to-clarity-bibliome-library-files-your-hoard-of-pdfs/



Pricing: $29.99 one time for the Mac app. The iOS/iPadOS companion is free.

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bibliome-library/id6786826590?mt=12

iOS App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bibliome/id6782099149

This is a new app for me, so if you try it and hit something rough, I'd genuinely like to hear about it, and if it's useful, a review on the App Store goes a long way for something this small.

The faster on-device answers (the new Fast mode) need macOS 26 (Tahoe) or iOS 26 with Apple Intelligence turned on. The app itself runs fine on older versions using the bundled model either

way.

https://preview.redd.it/u9we9t5l1ggh1.png?width=2880&format=png&auto=webp&s=37f6f8cf511a2c1dc899a76a2d9469e7c3d9137c

Changelist: 

I just sent the latest build in for review, so it should be available shortly. Changes include clear guidance on how to use the app, as I understand the settings need to be addressed 1st, this will be in the next version. I also added a button to switch from Fast to Detailed for "Ask My Library" (on board Apple Intelligence vs Llama).



AI: 

Bibliome's on-device AI (categorization, semantic search, Ask Your Library) is real and central to what it does. It runs on Apple's on-device model when available, or a bundled Llama 3.1 model (Built with Llama) otherwise, no cloud calls, ever.

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[OS] MagHue - pick when the MagSafe LED turns green - Free, entirely open source

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Videoer v2.3 is out! An app that supports batch video conversion.

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[OS] viewio - Fully native screen recorded with auto zoom support

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I made Organice, a Finder utility for the file chores I loathe

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Using Orbit to manage the Google accounts I didn't ask for
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I made a small free utility for new windows opening on the wrong display

Problem

I'm not sure whether I'm the only person who finds this annoying, but with two displays, new windows often appeared on the other screen instead of the one I was working on.

I built SpawnHere to fix that one specific problem. It is a small menu-bar app that moves a regular new window to the display where the mouse pointer is. It leaves dialogs, sheets, palettes, full-screen windows, and system UI alone.

Comparison

Rectangle and Moom are much broader window managers. SpawnHere is not meant to replace them. For this particular job, there are no layouts or shortcuts to manage: leave the pointer on the intended display and create the window.

Pricing

Free, with no paid tier or subscription: https://www.kindler-dev.de/apps/spawnhere/

About the developer

It requires macOS 14 and Accessibility permission. The download is signed and notarized by Apple. I am the developer, Björn Kindler, and would be interested to hear whether this problem bothered anyone else.

Developer and contact: https://www.kindler-dev.de/

Privacy Policy: https://www.kindler-dev.de/privacy-policy/

Terms of Use: https://www.kindler-dev.de/terms-of-use/

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