Appendage: Rename files instantly using keyboard shortcuts. No clicking around, no app switching, no drag and drop.

https://redd.it/1x3yz0q
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I built Snapset to stop rearranging my Mac windows every time I switch displays

https://redd.it/1x3uh31
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App's I am not uninstalling number 12

As happens every month, my Mac became a hive of activity while I installed, tested and removed countless apps. These are the ones that replaced old favourites or earned a permanent spot on my already overloaded Mac.

# Rectangle Pro

Rectangle Pro isn’t new, and I’ve tried the free version a few times. I just hadn’t realised that the feature I needed was in the Pro edition.

For years, I used Stay to make sure my windows opened at the same size each time. Constantly resizing them is a small but persistent annoyance, especially when I’m working across multiple displays. I just wanted my apps to remember the window sizes I prefer.

Rectangle was first developed when macOS’s window management was still playing catch-up. Window snapping is useful, but it has limited appeal on a 13-inch MacBook screen. Rectangle Pro lets me resize any window instantly with a keyboard shortcut.

Even Canary Mail is no longer a problem. When replying to emails, a frustratingly small window is now resized once and never touched again. There’s also a shortcut to restore the whole layout if anything gets out of sync.

# DiskPress

DiskPress is the first of two impressive apps released in quick succession by developer Ighor July.

It frees up disk space without deleting the files you want to keep. You might wonder how that differs from making a compressed archive, but this is where DiskPress gets clever.

With traditional compression, you often delete the original files and replace them with an obscurely named archive, then have to remember what’s inside. DiskPress compresses files and reduces duplicated storage while leaving everything where it is. Your files still open normally, but take up less space. As far as I can tell, nothing changes except the amount of free storage on your drive.

# App Archiver

Ighor’s second app is for people who enjoy trying new software.

App Archiver stores apps you aren’t using right now but might want to reinstall later. It makes it easy to try replacements without keeping a spreadsheet or taking screenshots in case you decide to go back to an older app.

I’m particularly fond of Dock apps, and my next review may still be a month away, so App Archiver makes it much easier to experiment in the meantime.

# Polar Browser

When reviewing apps, I think it’s useful to know which categories to leave alone. Some markets are already crowded with similar products, and some reviewers know them far better than I do.

I usually steer clear of browsers, voice-to-text tools (I use Soniox), and Launchpad replacements (I use LaunchOS). But Polar Browser impressed me enough to reconsider. I even switched to a cheaper ChatGPT plan so I could put the savings towards Polar Browser credits.

Polar looks and feels like Chrome, and supports the Chrome extensions I use regularly. Behind that familiar interface is an agentic browser that can handle a surprisingly wide range of tasks.

If Claude is going through credits too quickly, or you find ChatGPT limited in what it can do, Polar Browser might be worth a try. The developers suggested setting the effort slider to Low and letting it work. That made tasks that would normally use a lot of tokens much more affordable.

I know AI isn’t everyone’s favourite development. Still, tasks that used to take me hours can now be done with a few instructions. After I give the initial approval, Polar gets to work and only occasionally asks me to confirm something.

If you’re looking for an agentic browser, or just want an alternative to Chrome, Polar Browser may be worth checking out.

https://redd.it/1x4niyt
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[OS] Crumbs - A tiny native app that saves selected text from any app or website

https://redd.it/1x4qdzh
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Atheria: Live Wallpaper [Update] Advanced Flame Editor, 409 variations, German and Japanese localization. (Quiet while you Work and Flame Journey demo in the video)

https://redd.it/1x4qoec
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Lapser Studio - Beautiful timelapse screen recordings effortlessly

https://redd.it/1x4s5ef
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Pocket Screen 2.0 is out: Keep up to 4 Mac windows visible while you work

https://redd.it/1x4qorc
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MacCam: The native camera app made for Mac

https://redd.it/1x4vjd7
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I missed crumpling up a finished to-do and throwing it in the bin, so I built CrushPaper (free)

https://redd.it/1x4vxsh
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If I want to do email automation - like when a monthly excel file or statement comes, download it to a specific folder what app can I do this with?

I want to automate some workflows, like when I get a credit card statement, or excel file in an email, it automatically downloads it to a specific folder.

How can I do automate this? Do I need to use python or something? I have Alfred, bettertouchtool always on. Is this anything to do with Automator or apple scripts?

https://redd.it/1x4xsh5
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Univocal — bilingual-friendly read-aloud and dictation for Mac

https://redd.it/1x502kh
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I made an app to control your Mac and iPhone from your apple watch

https://redd.it/1x50bhn
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ZenOCR 2.1: I promised batch mode, so my offline Mac OCR now has a queue (PDFs, tables, LaTeX, handwriting)

https://redd.it/1x52sc7
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bytemail 1.0: native Mac email where your mail never touches my servers, with one MCP for every inbox

https://reddit.com/link/1x52r49/video/eqqwdzi0r9vh1/player

Hi r/macapps! I'm Serg, the developer of bytemail. It's a native Mac email app written in Swift and SwiftUI, and 1.0 is out. The video shows it in action.

Problem Every mail app I tried was either a web page in a wrapper, or it ran my mail through the developer's servers to power its "smart" features. And now that I use Claude and Codex every day, I wanted them to help with my email too, without handing my inbox to yet another cloud service. bytemail connects your Mac straight to Gmail, iCloud, Outlook, Yahoo, Fastmail, Proton (through Bridge) or any IMAP server. Search, rules, categories and summaries all run on your Mac. I don't have a server that can see your mail, and you don't need a bytemail account.

What it does:

Conversations read like Messages: each thread is a chat of bubbles, with quoted history and repeated signatures tucked away, so you only see what's new. Prefer the classic layout? Switch it per account.
One unified inbox for all your accounts
Copy sign-in codes straight from the notification
Phishing and look-alike domain warnings
Undo Send, Snooze, Send Later and "remind me if no reply"
Tracking pixels stripped from every message, plus one-click unsubscribe
Rules, smart categories (Primary / Updates / Promos), dark mode and Liquid Glass on macOS 26
Keyboard shortcut sets from Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail or Superhuman, or make your own
Search covers the mail on your Mac and older mail still on the server
Accounts and settings sync between your Macs through your own iCloud, not through me
Thread summaries and suggested replies that learn your writing style: on-device with Apple Intelligence on macOS 26, or with your own Claude, OpenAI or OpenRouter key, or a local model in LM Studio or Ollama

New: one MCP for every inbox Turn on bytemail MCP in Settings > AI, pick which accounts to share, and connect Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, LM Studio or any other app that speaks MCP. Claude Desktop is one click. The others get a command or a config snippet to copy. Then just ask: "find last month's invoices across all my accounts", "draft replies to the customer emails I haven't answered", "archive this week's newsletters". It can search and read mail, find attachments and contacts, write drafts with files attached, create folders, and archive, move, flag, snooze or mute.

The guardrails:

It's off until you turn it on, and it only sees the accounts you pick
It runs on your Mac and talks to your AI app directly. Nothing goes through my servers (your AI app's provider still sees what you ask it to read, so pick one you trust, or use a local model)
Sending, new rules, unsubscribing and blocking a sender ask you in bytemail first. So does anything touching more than 25 conversations
AI apps can't delete mail, and never see Spam, Trash, one-time codes or password reset links
Drafts an AI writes are tagged "Drafted by" that app, and Settings > AI > Activity lets you undo anything it did

Comparison The two apps I get compared with most are Spark and Mimestream. Spark is free to start and packed with features, but its push notifications, team features and AI work by keeping access to your accounts on Readdle's servers. bytemail does all of that on your Mac, so no copy of your account access sits on anyone else's server, including mine. Mimestream is a great native app, but it's built for Gmail, so your iCloud or work Outlook account has to live somewhere else. bytemail feels just as native and puts every provider in one inbox, with the chat-style conversation view on top. And with the MCP, the AI app you already use can work across all of those accounts at once, not just one Gmail.

Pricing

7-day free trial with every feature, MCP included
$3.99/month or $39.90/year
Or a $49 one-time lifetime license (launch price, then $99)
One license covers 5 devices, and the iPhone app (in App Store review now)

bytemail 1.0: native Mac email where your mail never touches my servers, with one MCP for every inbox

https://reddit.com/link/1x52r49/video/eqqwdzi0r9vh1/player

Hi r/macapps! I'm Serg, the developer of bytemail. It's a native Mac email app written in Swift and SwiftUI, and 1.0 is out. The video shows it in action.

**Problem** Every mail app I tried was either a web page in a wrapper, or it ran my mail through the developer's servers to power its "smart" features. And now that I use Claude and Codex every day, I wanted them to help with my email too, without handing my inbox to yet another cloud service. bytemail connects your Mac straight to Gmail, iCloud, Outlook, Yahoo, Fastmail, Proton (through Bridge) or any IMAP server. Search, rules, categories and summaries all run on your Mac. I don't have a server that can see your mail, and you don't need a bytemail account.

What it does:

* Conversations read like Messages: each thread is a chat of bubbles, with quoted history and repeated signatures tucked away, so you only see what's new. Prefer the classic layout? Switch it per account.
* One unified inbox for all your accounts
* Copy sign-in codes straight from the notification
* Phishing and look-alike domain warnings
* Undo Send, Snooze, Send Later and "remind me if no reply"
* Tracking pixels stripped from every message, plus one-click unsubscribe
* Rules, smart categories (Primary / Updates / Promos), dark mode and Liquid Glass on macOS 26
* Keyboard shortcut sets from Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail or Superhuman, or make your own
* Search covers the mail on your Mac and older mail still on the server
* Accounts and settings sync between your Macs through your own iCloud, not through me
* Thread summaries and suggested replies that learn your writing style: on-device with Apple Intelligence on macOS 26, or with your own Claude, OpenAI or OpenRouter key, or a local model in LM Studio or Ollama

**New: one MCP for every inbox** Turn on bytemail MCP in Settings > AI, pick which accounts to share, and connect Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, LM Studio or any other app that speaks MCP. Claude Desktop is one click. The others get a command or a config snippet to copy. Then just ask: "find last month's invoices across all my accounts", "draft replies to the customer emails I haven't answered", "archive this week's newsletters". It can search and read mail, find attachments and contacts, write drafts with files attached, create folders, and archive, move, flag, snooze or mute.

The guardrails:

* It's off until you turn it on, and it only sees the accounts you pick
* It runs on your Mac and talks to your AI app directly. Nothing goes through my servers (your AI app's provider still sees what you ask it to read, so pick one you trust, or use a local model)
* Sending, new rules, unsubscribing and blocking a sender ask you in bytemail first. So does anything touching more than 25 conversations
* AI apps can't delete mail, and never see Spam, Trash, one-time codes or password reset links
* Drafts an AI writes are tagged "Drafted by" that app, and Settings > AI > Activity lets you undo anything it did

**Comparison** The two apps I get compared with most are Spark and Mimestream. Spark is free to start and packed with features, but its push notifications, team features and AI work by keeping access to your accounts on Readdle's servers. bytemail does all of that on your Mac, so no copy of your account access sits on anyone else's server, including mine. Mimestream is a great native app, but it's built for Gmail, so your iCloud or work Outlook account has to live somewhere else. bytemail feels just as native and puts every provider in one inbox, with the chat-style conversation view on top. And with the MCP, the AI app you already use can work across all of those accounts at once, not just one Gmail.

**Pricing**

* 7-day free trial with every feature, MCP included
* $3.99/month or $39.90/year
* Or a $49 one-time lifetime license (launch price, then $99)
* One license covers 5 devices, and the iPhone app (in App Store review now)