[OS] LittleClean — Open-source macOS cleaner for apps, caches & developer tools
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From the macapps community on Reddit: [OS] LittleClean — Open-source macOS cleaner for apps, caches & developer tools
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Vibe coders these days are trying to make quick money without any actual thought and slapping subscription for apps that have low or not much maintainance
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Snippy Snip: native Mac capture and annotation from a 22-year Windows guy. Free tier forever, Pro is one time, never a subscription.
I'm the developer. First Mac app I've shipped, I'm new to this sub, so here's the transparency stuff the rules ask for, up front.
I'm Dominic DiBernardo. LinkedIn is linkedin.com/in/dominicdibernardo. Email me at hello@snippysnip.com and it lands in my actual inbox. The site has a privacy policy and terms. The app doesn't need an account and collects no telemetry.
Problem
I spent 22 years on Windows and switched to a Mac this year. Almost all of it was better. The one thing I kept reaching for and couldn't find was the Snipping Tool.
macOS gives you Shift-Command-5 and Markup, and for a quick arrow that's honestly enough. It falls apart the second you want more than that. What I wanted was to grab a region, drop an arrow and a highlight on it, black out the thing that shouldn't be in the shot, and have it already sitting on my clipboard by the time I switched windows. The built-in flow leaves you a file on your desktop and a trip through Preview. That's not a workflow. That's homework.
So I built the one I wanted. And the threads in this sub complaining about the same gaps are a big part of why it turned into a real product instead of staying on my laptop.
Comparison
CleanShot X is the one everybody here recommends and it has earned that. It's excellent, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. It's $29 once, and that buys a year of updates with an optional renewal after. Mine includes every update forever, minor and major, no window and no renewal. That's the real difference between us.
Shottr is the other one worth naming. Fast, light, free for personal use, $12 for commercial. Two differences on my side: the free tier has no commercial-use restriction, and Pro does screen recording, which is the thing Shottr users seem to ask for most.
Both CleanShot and Shottr are good software. If one of them already fits how you work, stay put. I wanted a different deal.
Pricing
Free, forever. No trial clock, no email wall, no nag screen:
\- Every capture mode (region, window, full screen)
\- The whole annotation editor: arrows, text, highlighter, numbered and lettered step badges, blur, black-out, crop
\- Auto-copy to the clipboard the instant you capture
\- A session carousel, so shots stop piling up on your desktop
Pro adds screen recording, grab-text OCR, full-page web capture, pinned floating shots, and a capture timer.
Pro is $9.99 one time right now, and it goes to $19 on August 18.
Every update is included forever. No subscription, ever.
And for launch, the first 2,000 Pro licenses are free. No card, no strings, no catch I'm hiding in a footnote. That group also steers what gets built next. In the beta, lettered step badges and the resizable editor window both shipped within a day of a tester asking, and that's how I want to keep working. Claim link: https://snippysnip.com/claim?ref=reddit
macOS 13 or later, universal (Apple Silicon and Intel), 3.1 MB, notarized by Apple, updates through Sparkle. Site: https://snippysnip.com/?ref=reddit
30 second demo: https://youtu.be/nXZLqUVr-o8
https://reddit.com/link/1vmkplb/video/bwpptq4ebzih1/player
Feature requests are welcome and I mean that literally.
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I'm the developer. First Mac app I've shipped, I'm new to this sub, so here's the transparency stuff the rules ask for, up front.
I'm Dominic DiBernardo. LinkedIn is linkedin.com/in/dominicdibernardo. Email me at hello@snippysnip.com and it lands in my actual inbox. The site has a privacy policy and terms. The app doesn't need an account and collects no telemetry.
Problem
I spent 22 years on Windows and switched to a Mac this year. Almost all of it was better. The one thing I kept reaching for and couldn't find was the Snipping Tool.
macOS gives you Shift-Command-5 and Markup, and for a quick arrow that's honestly enough. It falls apart the second you want more than that. What I wanted was to grab a region, drop an arrow and a highlight on it, black out the thing that shouldn't be in the shot, and have it already sitting on my clipboard by the time I switched windows. The built-in flow leaves you a file on your desktop and a trip through Preview. That's not a workflow. That's homework.
So I built the one I wanted. And the threads in this sub complaining about the same gaps are a big part of why it turned into a real product instead of staying on my laptop.
Comparison
CleanShot X is the one everybody here recommends and it has earned that. It's excellent, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. It's $29 once, and that buys a year of updates with an optional renewal after. Mine includes every update forever, minor and major, no window and no renewal. That's the real difference between us.
Shottr is the other one worth naming. Fast, light, free for personal use, $12 for commercial. Two differences on my side: the free tier has no commercial-use restriction, and Pro does screen recording, which is the thing Shottr users seem to ask for most.
Both CleanShot and Shottr are good software. If one of them already fits how you work, stay put. I wanted a different deal.
Pricing
Free, forever. No trial clock, no email wall, no nag screen:
\- Every capture mode (region, window, full screen)
\- The whole annotation editor: arrows, text, highlighter, numbered and lettered step badges, blur, black-out, crop
\- Auto-copy to the clipboard the instant you capture
\- A session carousel, so shots stop piling up on your desktop
Pro adds screen recording, grab-text OCR, full-page web capture, pinned floating shots, and a capture timer.
Pro is $9.99 one time right now, and it goes to $19 on August 18.
Every update is included forever. No subscription, ever.
And for launch, the first 2,000 Pro licenses are free. No card, no strings, no catch I'm hiding in a footnote. That group also steers what gets built next. In the beta, lettered step badges and the resizable editor window both shipped within a day of a tester asking, and that's how I want to keep working. Claim link: https://snippysnip.com/claim?ref=reddit
macOS 13 or later, universal (Apple Silicon and Intel), 3.1 MB, notarized by Apple, updates through Sparkle. Site: https://snippysnip.com/?ref=reddit
30 second demo: https://youtu.be/nXZLqUVr-o8
https://reddit.com/link/1vmkplb/video/bwpptq4ebzih1/player
Feature requests are welcome and I mean that literally.
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Atlas: Write and Collect: A One Month Update and Thank You to Reddit!
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Five Apps That Let You Experience YouTube with No Algorithm - Play, Yattee, Unwatched, FreeTube and GrayJay Desktop (Part 2 in a series)
TL;DR: Play, Yattee and Unwatched all refuse to let YouTube pick your next video; each builds a feed from your subscriptions instead of Google's ranking. Play is free to download with the channel-following features behind Premium at $2.99/month, and it's the only one of the three that isn't locked to a single backend. Yattee runs through public Invidious and Piped instances, which Google has been blocking since 2024. Unwatched pulls from YouTube's own RSS feeds and Data API instead, which should make it sturdier, but needs macOS 15.
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# Play, Yattee and Unwatched Won't Fix YouTube's Algorithm. They Just Won't Ask It.
I wrote last time about paying for YouTube Premium after years of running my own ad-blocking stack. Premium immediately silences ads. That's the extent of its problem-solving. It didn't buy me a say in what shows up next. The recommendation engine is still running, still deciding, still doing the exact job it was built to do: keep me watching something, whether or not that something is what I came for.
That's the part no subscription fixes. The algorithm doesn't check whether you paid before it decides what to put in front of you.
So I went looking for apps that don't ask it in the first place.
# Ranking happens whether you pay or not
YouTube's Home tab, the sidebar, and the autoplay queue are all running the same job: predict what keeps you watching, then show you that. It works whether you're a free user with ads or a Premium subscriber without them. The engine doesn't know or care which one you are. Turning off autoplay helps. Hiding the sidebar helps. Neither one changes what's happening upstream; the feed is still built by ranking, and ranking is still the thing making the decision.
The only way around that is a feed that isn't ranked at all. Something that shows you new uploads from channels you follow, in the order they were posted, and stops there.
The obvious solution has been in front of me for a while.
# Play
I've used Play for over two years and reviewed it previously.
Play started as a save-for-later app. Give it a video URL through the clipboard or Share Sheet and it builds a personal video database that you can organize with tags and other metadata.
That's still useful, but Play has grown into something more interesting.
With Play Premium, you can follow YouTube channels directly. Each channel can have its own filters, so following somebody doesn't have to mean accepting everything they publish. If a creator covers five subjects and you only care about one, Play can filter the incoming videos before they reach you.
That turns subscriptions into something much closer to RSS.
The Channels section becomes a continuously updated timeline of new videos from sources you deliberately selected. There is no recommendation engine sitting between the publisher and you.
The part that makes Play different from Yattee and Unwatched: the in-app player isn't locked to one backend. You can play through Invidious, through Piped, through a custom site you point it at, or straight through YouTube itself. If you go the YouTube route directly, you can hide Shorts. That means Play doesn't live or die by whether a given Invidious instance is up this week; it's a hedge built into the app instead of a single point of failure.
The catch is price.
Play is free to download, but the channel-following features that make it especially useful for this workflow require **Play Premium at $2.99/month, $19.99/year or $99.99 lifetime**.
It's a universal app with iCloud sync, so the same subscriptions follow you from iPhone to Mac to AppleTV.
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# Yattee
Yattee is a free, open source
TL;DR: Play, Yattee and Unwatched all refuse to let YouTube pick your next video; each builds a feed from your subscriptions instead of Google's ranking. Play is free to download with the channel-following features behind Premium at $2.99/month, and it's the only one of the three that isn't locked to a single backend. Yattee runs through public Invidious and Piped instances, which Google has been blocking since 2024. Unwatched pulls from YouTube's own RSS feeds and Data API instead, which should make it sturdier, but needs macOS 15.
* * *
# Play, Yattee and Unwatched Won't Fix YouTube's Algorithm. They Just Won't Ask It.
I wrote last time about paying for YouTube Premium after years of running my own ad-blocking stack. Premium immediately silences ads. That's the extent of its problem-solving. It didn't buy me a say in what shows up next. The recommendation engine is still running, still deciding, still doing the exact job it was built to do: keep me watching something, whether or not that something is what I came for.
That's the part no subscription fixes. The algorithm doesn't check whether you paid before it decides what to put in front of you.
So I went looking for apps that don't ask it in the first place.
# Ranking happens whether you pay or not
YouTube's Home tab, the sidebar, and the autoplay queue are all running the same job: predict what keeps you watching, then show you that. It works whether you're a free user with ads or a Premium subscriber without them. The engine doesn't know or care which one you are. Turning off autoplay helps. Hiding the sidebar helps. Neither one changes what's happening upstream; the feed is still built by ranking, and ranking is still the thing making the decision.
The only way around that is a feed that isn't ranked at all. Something that shows you new uploads from channels you follow, in the order they were posted, and stops there.
The obvious solution has been in front of me for a while.
# Play
I've used Play for over two years and reviewed it previously.
Play started as a save-for-later app. Give it a video URL through the clipboard or Share Sheet and it builds a personal video database that you can organize with tags and other metadata.
That's still useful, but Play has grown into something more interesting.
With Play Premium, you can follow YouTube channels directly. Each channel can have its own filters, so following somebody doesn't have to mean accepting everything they publish. If a creator covers five subjects and you only care about one, Play can filter the incoming videos before they reach you.
That turns subscriptions into something much closer to RSS.
The Channels section becomes a continuously updated timeline of new videos from sources you deliberately selected. There is no recommendation engine sitting between the publisher and you.
The part that makes Play different from Yattee and Unwatched: the in-app player isn't locked to one backend. You can play through Invidious, through Piped, through a custom site you point it at, or straight through YouTube itself. If you go the YouTube route directly, you can hide Shorts. That means Play doesn't live or die by whether a given Invidious instance is up this week; it's a hedge built into the app instead of a single point of failure.
The catch is price.
Play is free to download, but the channel-following features that make it especially useful for this workflow require **Play Premium at $2.99/month, $19.99/year or $99.99 lifetime**.
It's a universal app with iCloud sync, so the same subscriptions follow you from iPhone to Mac to AppleTV.
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# Yattee
Yattee is a free, open source
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