buffer v3.0: free open-source clipboard manager for mac. image zoom canvas, noise filtering, esc now reverts edits

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I made an app called PrivacyStage: Screen Privacy, and the main thing is you can hide any window from your screen share mid-call

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Best AltTab replacement in 2026?

I'm on an old version of AltTab from before the Pro change, so I've still got all the features, but it lags with a lot of windows open. I think it's time for me to move on.

DockDoor was the main pick in the older threads here, and I've also seen BetterCmdTab and Vorssaint come up, but there's been a wave of new switchers since. What are you guys using now?

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Kanban Pro - MD Project manager

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What’s a small Mac app you use all the time but rarely see mentioned?

Not looking for the usual popular names, more like those random little utilities that do one thing really well and end up becoming part of your daily flow.

Just curious.

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Katami: a home for the neglected parts of your photography workflow

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Flowara 2.4: projects, time tracking, invoicing and Peppol e-invoicing for freelancers Subscription

I built this app, so take that into account.

Problem: Freelancers in Belgium must now send B2B invoices over Peppol. France follows in 2027. Most freelance tools have no Peppol support at all, and the ones that do require a managed cloud service that handles your credentials for you.

Comparison: Harvest and FreshBooks have no Peppol integration. Tools that do offer Peppol are full accounting platforms, not freelance workflow tools. Flowara adds Peppol in a BYOK model: you connect your own Invoro account, your credentials stay yours, Flowara never touches them. Everything else, projects, time tracking, invoicing, stays in a local SQLite database on your Mac with no cloud dependency.

Pricing: Free tier permanent, Peppol included. Pro at €5.99/month or €49.99/year, 30-day trial included.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760207975

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Thaw leading a life of its own

Hi all,

Been a user of Thaw since it was first promoted on here by its dev taking on the challenge of continuing the Ice legacy. I don't know anything about developing, but can imagine that a menu bar manager in particular is extremely difficult to develop due to all dependencies and different edge cases to be accounted for.

In my experience it's always been quite wonky: app icons moving themselves from hidden to unhidden, icons not keeping the place you gave them, etc. Now it's been getting worse over the past weeks for me, and especially when updating to macOS 27 it's become unusable. Icons are flashing all the time on top of the more 'regular' issues.

Anyone with the same experience who may have found a fix? Perhaps the dev could weigh in?

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Introducing Vinaa: a native Mac AI chat app (early launch offer + giveaway 🎁)

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[MAS] Highlight Notes: highlight and note anything you read, with a Safari extension for macOS

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Comparing two photos is easy. What about six? - Just Look! 1.2

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I generated 100,000 fake events to find out why my native Mac calendar stuttered. It wasn't the database.

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Paste vs others

ok so I dont get why people still stick to paste and pay for it. why paste is subscription. PastePal looks exactly the same with more features. I do like paste but I’m trying to understand why people would use it over any other cheaper alternatives? if we put money on the side what makes someone go to PastePal or paste

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Tellie: the Mac voice teleprompter that follows your points, not just your place. (update since July)

Back in July this sub made Tellie the #1 post that day. Thank you. Here's what I've built since.

# Problem

You're recording a video or presenting on Zoom, and you have three jobs at once: look at the lens, remember your points, and watch the clock. A fixed-speed teleprompter adds a fourth job, keeping up with the scroll.

Tellie understands. It matches the words you say against your script, on-device, so it keeps your place when you pause, ad-lib, go back or jump ahead. It lives in the MacBook notch right under the camera (or floats anywhere), and it's invisible to Zoom, screen recorders and screenshots. 40+ languages, all on-device, no account.

Working actors use it, including Sprague Theobald (Law & Order, Only Murders in the Building), who uses Tellie for audition prep.

**New since July: Tellie understands your points, not just your place**

* **Key points.** Think of it as a checklist that listens. Mark the points you have to make. Say one in your own words and Tellie still checks it off, so you know it landed.
* **Time**. Give your script a time budget (or let it figure that out based on your speaking rate) and Tellie lets you know what to cover while there's still room to fit in what matters.
* **Take Coach**. After each take, a short read on what landed and one thing to try next time, completely on-device, nothing leaves your Mac". Optional, one switch.
* **Companion**. Your iPhone or iPad becomes a second screen beside the lens, in a camera rig, or as a remote in your hand.
* **Presenter Magic** (Presenter Mode in July). Present in Keynote and your speaker notes appear in the notch, invisible to your audience and your recording.

**Coming next: Nudge** (in testing for 1.7, not in the download yet)

Nudge started as a request from a working actor: if you go quiet mid-line and Tellie can tell you're stuck, ***it speaks your next words in your ear via your AirPods***. Or squeeze the AirPods stem and you get your line right away. It stops the moment you start talking again, and it only speaks into headphones, so nobody else hears it. Hardware in-ear AirPrompter systems start at $10,995; this uses the AirPods you already have. It will be part of Pro at no extra cost. Hear is a sneak peak:

[Tellie Nudge coming in v1.7](https://preview.redd.it/041komfmxoth1.png?width=1664&format=png&auto=webp&s=fc71c575da62b32237481fb74e8b57f896f2f9e7)

# Comparison

The category moved since July. Back then the line was pacing (scroll when you hear sound) versus tracking (know which word you're on). What I'm working on now goes beyond keeping your place: *helping you cover your points* which makes it great for interviews, sales, teaching, meeting and more. The two I'd compare:

* NotchPrompter (free and open source via GitHub; also sold on the Mac App Store): voice-activated scrolling that starts when you speak and pauses when you stop, hidden from screen sharing and recording. It supports Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. If you want a free voice-activated prompter, it's a genuinely good choice.
* CueNotch ($29.99 lifetime or $7.99/week in the U.S. App Store; free tier is 100-word scripts, three activations a day): it says it "moves the script as you speak" and offers AI rehearsal feedback and a presentation timer. It supports Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

**Where Tellie is ahead**: it credits your points when you say them your way and helps make sure you fit everything in time. It also coaches you after the take, puts the script on your phone or iPad, and pushes text from any app with one shortcut (AI agents can send to it too, through a URL scheme and an MCP server). Coaching isn't unique to Tellie; CueNotch offers it too but Tellie is a tiny 4MB download with zero LLM.

Where they're ahead: both are on the App Store and support Intel Macs (Tellie is Apple Silicon only), and NotchPrompter is free. If I've got either of them wrong, tell me and I'll fix it.

# Pricing

Tellie Free: $0 forever. A full teleprompter (scroll, speed,

keys, any display, Pages, Word, PDF, Markdown and text), invisible to Zoom, auto-updates.

Tellie Pro: $29 once, no subscription. Voice Follow in 40+ languages, key points and timing, Take Coach, Companion and Presenter Magic. Up to 3 Macs, 14-day refund. Every install starts with 10 days of Pro, no card, no sign-up. Nudge joins Pro when it ships later this month.

Download: [https://tellieapp.com](https://tellieapp.com)

**Disclosure** *(per the sub's transparency rules, so you know who's behind this):*

I'm Steve Chazin, a real person with 30 years in tech, including Apple, Cisco and Salesforce. LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/chazin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chazin). I write "AI for the Rest of Us" at stevechazin.com. I worked at Apple for nearly a decade, and Steve Jobs personally asked me to come back. So I tried to make Tellie magical and feel like part of your Mac.

Tellie is made by my company, Skytech; reach me at [steve@skytech.io](mailto:steve@skytech.io).

[Privacy Policy](https://tellieapp.com/privacy) & [Terms](https://tellieapp.com/terms)

Tellie is a notarized direct download with Sparkle updates (not on the App Store because sandboxing would break the send-from-any-app shortcut). Requires Apple Silicon and macOS 14 or later.

I ship updates most weeks, and a lot of what's new came from people who wrote in.

**Feedback** I'd love today: if you're saying your lines (actors, speakers, anyone with a pitch) and you blank mid-line, would you want Nudge to speak the next few words automatically, or only when you squeeze the AirPods stem?

Thanks!

\- Steve

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