what clipboard manager are you using right now in 2026?

I’m building one and spending a ton of time on performance right now. especially animations, keyboard shortcuts and making everything feel instant.

what do you like most about the one you’re using?

https://redd.it/1wv8rak
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I think I ran some malware on my laptop

I’m not very tech savvy so please bear with me. I wanted to install pear helper and fell for the fake website and ran the fake git hub code that is available there. I got a pop up asking for my admin password and for some reason I decided to stop then and there and research and I realized I was falling for some scam. So I didn’t put in my password. My question is my laptop compromised and passwords compromised? I was suggested to delete everything and download an older Time Machine back up but I don’t have any. I have many accounts and information that’s on my laptop and don’t remember but I do need them but I don’t know all the exact usernames and so on. My os is Ventura and the website is accessed is the pearhelper.com does anyone know if by not giving it my admnin password I avoided getting my data and passwords stolen or if it still ran and got that info regardless. Please help!

https://redd.it/1wvdq1m
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What’s a Mac app you keep running all day without actively using?

Not an app you open to complete a specific task, but something that quietly stays in the background or sits on your desktop all day.

For me, those apps tend to be more useful than the ones with dozens of features. Curious what everyone else keeps open.

https://redd.it/1wvml5m
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Free Mac Apps!!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Aea2DUX4fsQ&ra=m

https://redd.it/1wvnod8
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QuickCMD: Your most used commands, one click away in the menu bar.

https://redd.it/1wvq9wg
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I made a Mac app that turns your screen into a webcam feed, so you can hide windows from it mid-call
https://redd.it/1wvsh3b
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[OS] The author of Silo made a novel writing app

https://redd.it/1wvspj5
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Why the Lack of a Strong, OSS, Mail App?

The past couple of years, we've seen an immense improvement in the performance of LLMs, which has made it easier than ever to develop software. This subreddit is proof of that. Every day, there is a new clipboard manager, dictation app, or ChatGPT wrapper.


My question is: why do we never see any new mail apps? I have tried dozens of mail apps over the years, and I have not found one good app that's free, open source, has a good UI, good UX, and just works. I don't even need any groundbreaking features or anything. I just want something that looks nice, is fast, is nice to use, and can be used as a daily driver.


You might mention Thunderbird, but it's very clunky/bloated, not native, looks horrible, and is very complicated.

You might also mention Mailspring, but the UI is also very outdated. It is fast, but my email is something I look at every day and I want to feel good when reading it.


Is there any mail app that actually checks all of these boxes that I'm missing?

https://redd.it/1wvvphk
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Tinycast: My experience reporting a bug to the developer

I’ve recently replaced Raycast with Tinycast, a very RAM-efficient, vibe-coded Raycast-clone. I’ve come across a bug regarding the hyperkey feature (it randomly stops working) so I reported it on github.com/abue-ammar/tinycast/issues

The next day the topic was closed with a comment from the developer, saying he has never experienced the bug himself, bragging that the app has 50k users and that nobody else had reported the issue. I congratulated him for the app and stated that it has already replaced Raycast for me, which took up to 800 MB of RAM.

However, I kept experiencing the issue (happened again just a few minutes ago). Another user also commented that he had the same bug. I’ve received an email notification about this comment. The next day, the comment was deleted by the repository owner.

After experiencing the bug multiple times today, I’ve commented again, asking if the dev needed logs or what else I could do. I’ve attached a screenshot of the comment by the other user, proving that the issue is not unique. Then the whole issue was deleted. Apparently I’ve hurt the ego of a guy who cloned Raycast

https://redd.it/1wvx9n5
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Alfred 6 announcement

# First Alfred 6 Sneak Peek: Alfred UI

Alfred 6 is full of new features and improvements, starting with Alfred UI.

Workflows have gained superpowers with a new, fully macOS native UI toolkit to efficiently craft impressive but lightweight experiences within Alfred

https://www.alfredapp.com/v6/

https://redd.it/1wvy53v
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Pricing and viability of indie apps post-AI
https://redd.it/1wvyd4s
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Relaunching Relinq - an app that instantly converts music links between streaming platforms, now also available as an iOS app

https://redd.it/1ww063c
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The macos launcher scene is cooked

So I just saw the tinycast dev post in this subreddit and I feel like finding a:
\- native
\- open source
\- comparable to raycast in terms of feature parity

Launcher has become impossible. The closest is getting 2/3 in the above requirements.

While tinycast does satisfy all 3, the dev seems to be egoistic and idk if I want to support that.

I myself have my own launcher but it’s not very comparable in terms of feature parity so I’ve stopped maintaining it.

However, the options I know off:
\- Tuna (closed source)
\- Supercmd v2 (closed source)
\- Vicinae (not native UI)
\- remaintain rustcast / my own launcher - not native UI
\- Raycast (not native or open source anymore)
\- thunderstorm (part of droppy) - closed source? (i’m not sure if it is, but it lacks feature parity rn)
\- Look (is native UI, doesn’t look like native UI)
\- Spotlight (lacks features)

And there’s like a gazillion other launchers and basically all of them are vibecoded, which I’m not against, but if it has extensions, I would like security and idk how secure AI written code is, but from what I’ve heard.. it’s not very secure.

And yes while forking tinycast is always an option, I don’t think it’s right to do that. It doesn’t sit right with me to use the code of someone who’s not responding to bug reports correctly, and it’s probably just going to lead to more and more issues over time.

If someone is willing to make an open source launcher with swiftUI, I wouldn’t mind paying for it atp.. at max freemium it.

https://redd.it/1ww3cd2
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[OS] In case you're looking for a simple & native app to open your .md files on Mac
https://trylightmark.com/

https://redd.it/1wvzdk0
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Phosphor: a menu bar screen utility suite with a feature that eases the flash when you switch from a dark app to a bright one

https://redd.it/1ww8cdh
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Tinycast Contributing experience

https://redd.it/1wwbnmt
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Q Space Pro now have Sync browsing (currently in Beta)

https://redd.it/1wwdkrx
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Have I found my macupdater replacement? maybe!

I tried latest for a while and I did not see it completely replacing macupdater for me. then floodtide (https://bhopstudio.com/floodtide) came around and I decided to give it a spin and I have been with it since the beta and I run it in parallel to macupdater and its now almost catching all that macupdater does for me.

I use it mostly to know which apps have updates ready and for some apps I let the floodtide app do the update and it has worked well.


I believe this might be my permanent replacement for macupdater and I suggest more people try it out and let Raffi the dev know about missing apps. He is working quite hard (daily updates) to cover everything smoothly. Raffi is extremely responsive as well. You can even report apps not covered through the UI.


I am not affiliated with Raffi, but I did get a promo code from him as an academic in India (due to pricing concerns). That has not influenced my sharing this post. I have been doing this for many other apps - only when they actually meet my needs!!

https://redd.it/1wwf61a
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