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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.

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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.

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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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[OS] Open source Duolingo for language course making - Free

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Is 4-directional Space switching possible with trackpad gestures on macOS?

# Is there any method or app that can enable the touchpad of a MacBook to perform four-finger sliding (not just left and right, but also up and down), allowing for the virtual space switching in four directions?

Because I usually have to swipe left or right twice each time (using four fingers for the swipe)

I prefer to place four commonly used apps in four virtual spaces, and switch between the interfaces by swiping up, down, left, and right.

why always delete my post?

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Built a radial menu app for mac after getting tired of switching context while working

https://redd.it/1vudods
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