Anybox replacement with background sync.

My main gripe with Anybox is that saving anything via the share sheet does not automatically sync to iOS or viveversa unless I open the app and then sync itZ

So I’m looking for a replacement that has the same feature set has a great UI and lifetime purchase.

https://redd.it/1vtafbv
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The $1.49 Weekend — Petals, Peek & Spendy on sale through Saturday

Hi! I’m the indie developer behind Petals, Peek, and Spendy.

[https://onessa.app](https://onessa.app)

I’m running a small sale through Saturday, August 22:

* [Petals](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/petals-visual-year-planner/id6775719671) — **$1.49** A visual year planner for macOS that shows all 12 months on one screen. Add calendar events, images, text, stickers, and shapes to create your own visual year.
* [Peek](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/peek-whats-next/id6758136586) Premium — **$1.49** A macOS menu bar app that brings your calendars, reminders, and Things tasks together, with a live countdown to your next event.
* [Spendy](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spendy-expense-tracker-diary/id6443419421) Premium yearly plan — **$1.49/year for new subscribers** A minimal expense tracker for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Quickly log spending, keep notes like a diary, and share a budget with your partner or family through iCloud.

Due to App Store billing settings, the discounted Spendy price will apply to existing subscribers starting Friday, August 21, and will be charged on their next renewal date.

The sale runs through Saturday, August 22. Exact ending times may vary by App Store region.

If you try any of the apps, I’d genuinely appreciate your feedback. Thanks!

https://redd.it/1vtbxhn
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Stowdrop: a fast, private bookmark manager for macOS

https://redd.it/1vtf184
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Quick RSS v2.7 is out! It’s a simple and easy-to-use desktop RSS reader.

https://redd.it/1vtf0i8
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I built a native Mac app that turns local videos into subtitles and Anki cards

https://preview.redd.it/2hxnbjf1rikh1.png?width=1913&format=png&auto=webp&s=6c71f8acc9b937eab105aab5f4b13ea9ef2116e1

I’m the developer of SubSmith, a Mac app that turns local video and audio files into editable, timestamped subtitles.

# The problem

I’m learning languages through videos, anime, lectures, and podcasts, but the workflow becomes awkward when the media is a local file:

There may be no subtitle track available.
Existing subtitles may have mistakes or poor timing.
Browser-based tools are mainly designed around supported streaming sites.
Command-line Whisper tools are useful, but not particularly convenient for watching, editing, and studying.
Creating Anki cards with the original sentence and audio takes several manual steps.

# What SubSmith does

SubSmith processes your local media on your Mac using Whisper

You can:

Generate subtitles from video or audio files
Watch the file with synced, timestamped subtitles
Edit the generated text
Export subtitles as SRT or TXT
Look up words while watching
Send sentence cards, audio, and screenshots to Anki

The main things I’m trying to understand are how accurate the subtitles are across different languages, how fast they generate on different Macs, how much storage and memory the local model uses, and whether this workflow is meaningfully easier than using Whisper or a command-line tool directly.

The basic workflow is:

Import a local file → generate subtitles → review difficult sentences → export useful examples to Anki.

The language-learning workflow is the reason I started building it, but the subtitle generation is useful on its own for lectures, interviews, podcasts, personal videos, and other local media.

# How it compares

There are already some good tools in this space:

Language Reactor is excellent for supported streaming services, but its workflow is less suited to arbitrary local video files.
Subtitle Edit and command-line Whisper tools are powerful, but require more setup or do not provide the same integrated Mac playback and language-learning workflow.

SubSmith is intended for people who want a focused desktop workflow for their own files, with language-learning tools available when they need them.

# Pricing

7-day free trial, no CC required 
$15 yearly subscription or $40 one-time (lifetime license). Use code MacApps30 for 30% off!

# Feedback giveaway

I’m looking for around 10 language learners who regularly study with local video or audio.

I’ll randomly select 10 commenters for a lifetime license. To enter, comment within the first 48 hours with the language you’re learning and what you currently use for subtitles or transcription. I’ll randomly select 10 eligible commenters after 48 hours.

I’m looking for honest feedback on the actual workflow:

How accurate is the transcription for your language?
How long does processing take on your Mac?
Do you already use Language Reactor or another tool?
Is generating subtitles the main problem, or is reviewing and studying them?
Would audio clips and Anki export be useful in your workflow?
What would stop you from using a local desktop app?

To enter, please mention the language you’re learning and what you currently use for video-based study.

# Links

Website: SubSmith
Feedback and Bug Reports: [Support@subsmith.app](mailto:Support@subsmith.app)
Misc: X | LinkedIn

https://redd.it/1vthesc
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[OS] Anarlog - AI meeting notes without a bot joining your calls
https://redd.it/1vtjaz7
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ExtraBar v1.51 - Custom menu bar for mac - Introducing MCP & Workflow Automations

https://redd.it/1vto6rl
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A Momnet of Moom love.

There are buckets of Windows managers at this point, and I've played with a bunch of them, including the built-in ones on Mac OS X, Rectangle, Magnet better touch tool. I would tell you Raycast, but I'm Alfred, down to some heavy workflows.

What prompted today's love?

I had a weird OS X issue after updating a third-party tool on my Mac. Suddenly, MOOM's settings were lost, and a bunch of other stuff was wonky until the reboot.

I wrote the Dev, he responded in under 90 minutes…and I felt ashamed because a reboot fixed it. What can I say? Try turning it off and on again.

Thanks Rob. Thanks for your devotion to great OSX tools and thanks for helping.

So I felt obligated to give a little love in return.

I want to give you a couple of things that I do with MOOM that you might not be doing or you may not know that it can do.

I still feel (like Alfred) that I haven't explored half of what the software does.

1. I have a bunch of pre-built resize options, particularly 1080, 720, 1440, and 2160. Those are precise professional video window sizes. I'm a professional consultant in post-production. I run our editors and a bunch of other subreddits, and it's crazy powerful for me to have a window at exactly the size I need for a screen record. All of these are slaved to streamdeck buttons.
2. I didn't realize until about a month or two ago, despite owning MOOM for years, that it had a really unique ability while hovering: to move or resize the window that the mouse is on top of.

https://preview.redd.it/oxiflcwsvjkh1.png?width=1774&format=png&auto=webp&s=99efc0417bbdb607b88cd797545fb319a5874920

In my system, Control and Option allow me to move any window effortlessly, regardless of whether it's in front or behind, around the screen. When I add the Command key to that, it allows me to dynamically use my mouse to make a given window larger or smaller based on how I'm dragging.

3. I have it set up to adjust certain apps or certain groups of apps and put all the windows in a particular place. I love Ecamm. I know you might be using OBS, but Ecamm does a bunch of things and does it very, very well. Unfortunately, it has a palette overload, and there are too many palettes in too many places. I hid every other application and told MOOM to memorize where all the palettes are.

WAY TOO MANY PALETTES

When I need it, I just trigger it from the dropdown menu.

I also have the same thing for a generalized use and setup where I need Fantastical. I have a screen share on my second screen and an activity monitor on a third. It just understands that I want those in that spot.

Same with my screen recording layout. I use a tool called SideMirror. I record on my MBP screen (set to 1080), but that's off to my left - my main UHD screen that has my Insta360 camera (and I'm running it with ecamm), means that I'm looking in the wrong place. But Sidemirror displays my MacbookPro screen right under my webcam - in a "PIP" type window.

Zoom. I'm right now playing around with Zoom because Zoom has a real pain-in-the-butt problem when you do a screen share: there's no memorization of window positions. Again, it's something I intend to return to.

4. Finally, I'm experimenting with chaining a couple of items (size, next screen, position) to push a given window all the way to the extreme of one monitor pair, one monitor group, or all the way off to the other.

https://redd.it/1vtndah
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Todoist remembers the task. We built the part that remembers where you left off.

https://redd.it/1vtopfp
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[MAS] SessionDock, my all-in-one companion for DAW projects, now has two-way Mac/iPhone sync

Hey r/macapps,

I posted SessionDock here a few months ago and wanted to share a pretty big update. Two-way sync between the Mac and iPhone apps is now live.

For anyone who hasn’t seen it, I built SessionDock as basically a Swiss Army knife for managing music production projects.

# The problem:

If you produce music long enough, you eventually end up with DAW projects, mixdowns, exports, different versions and notes scattered across a bunch of folders.

I wanted one place where I could see everything I’m working on without digging through Finder or opening projects just to figure out what was what.

A big part of SessionDock is automatically figuring out which mixdowns belong to which DAW projects. It watches your folders and uses matching algorithms to associate your exported audio with the correct projects.

So if you have:

My Song.logicx

and later export:

My Song Mix 3.wav

SessionDock can figure out that they belong together and keep them associated without you manually linking everything.

# What SessionDock does:

* Automatically discovers DAW projects
* Watches your project folders for changes
* Automatically matches mixdowns and exports to their projects
* Manages projects from different DAWs in one library
* Previews mixdowns without opening your DAW
* Shows waveforms for your exports
* Adds timestamped notes directly to waveforms
* Adds notes to projects
* Organizes projects with tags and collections
* Searches and filters your library
* Tracks different sessions, versions and exports
* Supports custom DAWs
* Syncs your library to iPhone

It supports Logic Pro, Ableton Live, FL Studio, Pro Tools, Reaper, Cubase, Bitwig, Reason and more.

# What’s new:

The biggest addition in this update is two-way sync between Mac and iPhone.

You can now create, edit and delete session notes and waveform notes from either device and the changes sync automatically.

One of my favorite uses for this is listening to a mix when I’m away from my Mac. I can pull it up on my iPhone, add timestamped notes directly to the waveform, and those notes are waiting for me when I’m back at my Mac.

I’m working on expanding two-way sync to tags, collections and more project metadata next.

# Comparison:

The closest alternatives are really Finder combined with the project management built into apps like Logic Pro and Ableton Live.

Those are fine for managing files inside an individual DAW, but SessionDock sits above the DAWs and gives you one library for everything.

The main difference is that SessionDock can watch for projects and exports across different DAWs, automatically associate mixdowns with the projects they came from, let you preview and annotate them, and make that information available on your iPhone.

It’s not meant to replace your DAW. It’s meant to handle all the stuff around it.

# Pricing:

The core version of SessionDock is free.

Lifetime Pro is a $39 one-time purchase. No subscription.

[https://sessiondock.com](https://sessiondock.com)

Mac App Store:

[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sessiondock/id6753728022](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sessiondock/id6753728022)

I’m the solo developer behind SessionDock, so I’d love to hear what other producers think or what parts of managing projects outside your DAW you wish were easier.

https://redd.it/1vtmhxw
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[OS] FolderForge: open-source folder customization with presets and smart styling

https://redd.it/1vtyx14
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Kyvenza: run macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon without touching a config file. $49 one-time.

I made this, so weigh everything below accordingly.

Problem:

I needed a clean macOS install to reproduce a bug that only showed up on a fresh system. Ninety minutes later I had four tabs open about disk image formats and still no VM. That's the whole origin story. VM tooling on Apple Silicon splits into CLI tools that assume you enjoy configuring things, and commercial suites that want to be a platform. I wanted the boring middle, something that treats a VM the way Finder treats a folder.

Kyvenza is a native Swift app on Apple's Virtualization framework. No QEMU, no emulation layer, no CLI it's quietly shelling out to, zero third-party dependencies. You fill in a form and get a VM. macOS guests and Linux ARM, with Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and Alpine fetched and verified for you, or point it at any other ARM64 ISO yourself. Clone, snapshot, import and export. Pause a running VM and pick it up later, or force power off when a guest stops answering. Rosetta shared into Linux guests so x86-64 binaries still run. Shared folders. A diagnostics panel for when virtualization does what virtualization does.

Comparison:

The honest way to sort this is by what you actually want to run.

If you want Windows, VMware Fusion is free now for personal and commercial use, and it runs Windows 11 ARM. That beats me, and it beats Parallels on price. I can't run Windows at all: Apple's Virtualization framework can't boot Windows on ARM. That's a framework limit rather than a hardware one, and it's not a roadmap item I'm being coy about. Go get Fusion.

If you want a macOS guest, Fusion is out entirely. Broadcom's own docs say the Arm variants of macOS aren't supported in a Fusion VM. So on Apple Silicon the field is Parallels, UTM, the CLI tools, and me. That's the case I built this for, and it's where one-click snapshot and clone earns its money, because testing against a clean system means rolling back constantly.

Parallels is more mature than I am and does both Windows and macOS guests. It sells a perpetual Standard licence alongside the subscriptions, but that one is current-version-only, same shape as mine and more expensive. Pro is subscription.

UTM is free, more flexible, and does x86 emulation through QEMU, which I don't do at all. If you already have a UTM setup you like, stay. I'm not going to beat free on flexibility. What's different here is that snapshot and clone are one click instead of a disk image chore, and sharing Rosetta into a Linux guest is a toggle instead of a mount you look up every time.

Tart, lume and the other CLI tools beat me if you're scripting CI. This is for when you want a window, not a pipeline. And if Docker already solves your problem, keep using Docker, this isn't a container replacement.

Two limits worth knowing before you download rather than after. Apple Silicon only, macOS 14 or later, no Intel Macs. And Apple's own license caps you at two macOS guests per host, which no app on this list can change.

Pricing:

$49 one time, not a subscription. Twelve months of updates, then a perpetual fallback license, so when the update window closes the app keeps working. 7-day trial, no card, because virtualization performance depends far too much on your specific hardware for me to ask anyone to take it on faith.

Link: https://kyvenza.com

Also on the Mac App Store. The direct download is a signed and notarized DMG.

One bit of history since someone always finds it: versions before 1.1 bundled lume (MIT, by the trycua folks). Since 1.2 it runs on its own engine, but the credit is still in the app's Open Source Notices, because that project is what got this off the ground.

I'll be in the comments, including for the "why would I pay for this" ones.

https://redd.it/1vu4nvz
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Skein: a native Mac notes app with a graph that is actually useful. Free, 9 MB, no account, no plugins.

https://redd.it/1vu76d4
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