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Celebrating Caddy Docs: Pop out project tabs that live on the edge of your mac. 100 Free Codes attached.
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Nova, a Mac assistant that asks before it acts — now in public beta
https://reddit.com/link/1x86x6u/video/ltb6p86m90wh1/player
# Problem
Hi, I’m Christoph. Writing software isn’t my main job. Nova started because I wanted a small assistant on my Mac that I could talk to or type to.
Moving a meeting, setting a reminder, finding a note, drafting an email: none of that is difficult. But each one meant opening another app, and sometimes I’d lose the thread of what I was doing.
I wanted help with those tasks while still seeing exactly what would change.
If I ask Nova to move a meeting, it shows the existing event and the proposed new time on a confirmation card. Nothing happens until I confirm. A draft stays a draft; writing an email doesn’t mean sending it. Questions and searches don’t require that extra confirmation.
The other features grew out of my day too: meeting notes I could ask about later, recording only when everyone involved knows, music or radio without another detour, and access to documents I already keep in Paperless.
It became useful enough to me that I decided to let other people try it. I honestly don’t know yet which parts are useful only to me.
# Comparison
The alternatives I’d compare Nova with are **Siri** and **Raycast**.
Siri is already included with macOS and is an obvious starting point for voice requests. Raycast offers a fast launcher and a large extension library.
Nova’s focus is handling everyday tasks through voice or text while showing proposed changes before executing them. The confirmation card is central to the workflow I wanted. Nova also lets you choose a cloud model provider or run a local model through Ollama.
To avoid confusion about the name: this is a separate app, with no connection to Panic’s Nova code editor.
# Pricing
Nova is in **public beta**, with continuing **0.x releases**, and requires an **Apple Silicon Mac, M1 or newer**.
There is a **seven-day trial with no payment details required**. After the trial, the beta prices are:
* **$3.99 per month**
* **$29 per year**
* **$49 for a lifetime licence**
All three plans include the same features.
After version 1.0, prices for new customers will be **$5/month, $49/year, or $79 lifetime**. Beta subscribers keep their beta price while their subscription remains active. A lifetime licence continues beyond 1.0.
**Model usage is separate from the Nova licence.** You bring your own access to a cloud model provider, with any usage charges billed by that provider, or run a local model through Ollama. Privacy Lock turns off cloud connections while keeping local use available.
[Website](https://nova-assistant.io/) · [Full pricing](https://nova-assistant.io/pricing.html)
# About me and feedback
I’m Christoph Schumann. Here is my [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoph-schumann), and my contact details and links to the legal pages are in the [Impressum](https://nova-assistant.io/impressum.html).
The video shows a few ordinary examples.
If you try Nova in your actual work, I’d appreciate honest feedback. Especially on the confirmation card: does seeing the proposed change feel worth the extra step, or does it get in your way?
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https://reddit.com/link/1x86x6u/video/ltb6p86m90wh1/player
# Problem
Hi, I’m Christoph. Writing software isn’t my main job. Nova started because I wanted a small assistant on my Mac that I could talk to or type to.
Moving a meeting, setting a reminder, finding a note, drafting an email: none of that is difficult. But each one meant opening another app, and sometimes I’d lose the thread of what I was doing.
I wanted help with those tasks while still seeing exactly what would change.
If I ask Nova to move a meeting, it shows the existing event and the proposed new time on a confirmation card. Nothing happens until I confirm. A draft stays a draft; writing an email doesn’t mean sending it. Questions and searches don’t require that extra confirmation.
The other features grew out of my day too: meeting notes I could ask about later, recording only when everyone involved knows, music or radio without another detour, and access to documents I already keep in Paperless.
It became useful enough to me that I decided to let other people try it. I honestly don’t know yet which parts are useful only to me.
# Comparison
The alternatives I’d compare Nova with are **Siri** and **Raycast**.
Siri is already included with macOS and is an obvious starting point for voice requests. Raycast offers a fast launcher and a large extension library.
Nova’s focus is handling everyday tasks through voice or text while showing proposed changes before executing them. The confirmation card is central to the workflow I wanted. Nova also lets you choose a cloud model provider or run a local model through Ollama.
To avoid confusion about the name: this is a separate app, with no connection to Panic’s Nova code editor.
# Pricing
Nova is in **public beta**, with continuing **0.x releases**, and requires an **Apple Silicon Mac, M1 or newer**.
There is a **seven-day trial with no payment details required**. After the trial, the beta prices are:
* **$3.99 per month**
* **$29 per year**
* **$49 for a lifetime licence**
All three plans include the same features.
After version 1.0, prices for new customers will be **$5/month, $49/year, or $79 lifetime**. Beta subscribers keep their beta price while their subscription remains active. A lifetime licence continues beyond 1.0.
**Model usage is separate from the Nova licence.** You bring your own access to a cloud model provider, with any usage charges billed by that provider, or run a local model through Ollama. Privacy Lock turns off cloud connections while keeping local use available.
[Website](https://nova-assistant.io/) · [Full pricing](https://nova-assistant.io/pricing.html)
# About me and feedback
I’m Christoph Schumann. Here is my [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoph-schumann), and my contact details and links to the legal pages are in the [Impressum](https://nova-assistant.io/impressum.html).
The video shows a few ordinary examples.
If you try Nova in your actual work, I’d appreciate honest feedback. Especially on the confirmation card: does seeing the proposed change feel worth the extra step, or does it get in your way?
https://redd.it/1x86x6u
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Help finding the (free) software that was posted yesterday
Yesterday, a dev posted his free software (with a video attached) here on this subreddit (and the Github repo link).
The app let's you use you iPhone as an extension to your Mac as a e.g. media controler, steam deck, trackpad and even create your own.
Didn't save it yesterday, don't remember the name either and now it's nowhere to be found. 😞
Anyone remember the name? Seemed genuinely cool and impressive.
Update & answer:
In case anyone is looking for it as well it is CmdPalm. u/iotabyte solved the puzzle. Thanks!
https://redd.it/1x89gfd
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Yesterday, a dev posted his free software (with a video attached) here on this subreddit (and the Github repo link).
The app let's you use you iPhone as an extension to your Mac as a e.g. media controler, steam deck, trackpad and even create your own.
Didn't save it yesterday, don't remember the name either and now it's nowhere to be found. 😞
Anyone remember the name? Seemed genuinely cool and impressive.
Update & answer:
In case anyone is looking for it as well it is CmdPalm. u/iotabyte solved the puzzle. Thanks!
https://redd.it/1x89gfd
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GitHub
GitHub - rahatsagor/CmdPalm: Use your phone as a trackpad, keyboard and button deck for your Mac
Use your phone as a trackpad, keyboard and button deck for your Mac - rahatsagor/CmdPalm
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[OS] MacTools: a free Mac toolkit with plugins and custom panels
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DrawSimple 1.2 -- The Simple-but-deep image editor your Mac: From Quick Edits to Vector and Paint Layers, Undo history, 30+ Tools/Shapes, WordArt, Full MCP/API support(!) -- Now with SimpleQR CodeTool, 简体和繁体 (full Chinese support), and more!
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Prompt Deck - a native Mac app for your coding agents' prompts, memory files and chat history (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity CLI + 7 more)
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Clacky 2.7: track your site, schedule your posts, record your Mac, and watch a tiny harbour grow as you work
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Free Hindsight: a local-first work timeline for macOS that records tasks, not just app names
I’m the developer behind Hindsight.
Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6806331002
# Problem
I could never answer “What did you do today?” with any real accuracy.
Most app-usage trackers can tell you something like “Chrome: 4 hours,” but that doesn’t really tell you what you did.
Hindsight is built around a different idea: track the work, not just the apps.
A task stays open as you move between apps, so working on the same thing across Xcode, Safari, and Terminal becomes one timeline entry instead of three rows of app names.
Every entry also has the evidence behind it — screenshots, OCR text, and the model’s confidence — so you can see why Hindsight classified something the way it did. You can confirm it, edit it, reclassify it, merge entries, or split them when the timeline gets something wrong.
# What it does
Today view — tracked time, focus, projects, and unaccounted gaps
Activity log — start/end times, durations, and a film-strip timeline
Daily journal & weekly review — exportable as Markdown. All durations and totals come from your actual timeline; AI only writes the descriptions
Ask AI — ask plain-language questions about your own tracked workday
Pomodoro timer — with distraction detection based on your own category settings
# Comparison
Timing, RescueTime
These are primarily app and website trackers. They can tell you how much time you spent in Chrome or Xcode. Hindsight tries to answer the more useful question: what were you actually working on? It also keeps the screenshot evidence behind each timeline entry.
Dayflow
Dayflow is probably the closest comparison, especially in its focus on reconstructing what you actually did rather than simply tracking apps. Hindsight takes a different approach to a few things:
You choose the analysis engine: Apple’s on-device models, a local model through Ollama or LM Studio, or your own cloud endpoint
The review workflow lets you merge, split, and bulk-reclassify entries
Journals and weekly reviews are generated from computed timeline data rather than asking the model to invent durations or totals
# Pricing
Free.
No subscription. No in-app purchases. No account required.
# Privacy
This app reads your screen, so you should be skeptical about it. I designed it with that in mind.
Manual tracking captures nothing and doesn't require any permissions.
Automatic tracking is opt-in and uses only Screen Recording permission. (plus Calendar access only if you turn on the optional calendar context).
It captures screenshots only — no video, no audio, and no streaming.
You choose where analysis happens: Apple’s on-device models, a local model such as Ollama or LM Studio, or your own cloud endpoint using your own API key.
With on-device or local analysis, your screen content never leaves your Mac.
With a cloud endpoint, data goes directly from your Mac to that provider. It never passes through a server of mine — I don't run one.
There is no analytics, telemetry, or crash-reporting SDK.
Password managers and authenticator apps are skipped automatically, and you can exclude additional apps yourself.
Screenshots are automatically deleted after a configurable retention period (7 days by default), with a storage quota.
Delete All Data removes everything, including stored API keys.
Privacy policy: https://static.dhrumilpatel.in/hindsight/privacy-policy.html
Requires macOS 26 or later. Honest caveat: on macOS 26, Apple’s on-device models handle OCR and text reasoning, but describing screenshots needs macOS 27 or a configured model endpoint. For zero network on macOS 26, use a local model through Ollama or LM Studio.
If you try it, I’d genuinely like to hear what works, what doesn’t, and where the timeline gets things wrong. Feedback, bug reports, and feature
I’m the developer behind Hindsight.
Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6806331002
# Problem
I could never answer “What did you do today?” with any real accuracy.
Most app-usage trackers can tell you something like “Chrome: 4 hours,” but that doesn’t really tell you what you did.
Hindsight is built around a different idea: track the work, not just the apps.
A task stays open as you move between apps, so working on the same thing across Xcode, Safari, and Terminal becomes one timeline entry instead of three rows of app names.
Every entry also has the evidence behind it — screenshots, OCR text, and the model’s confidence — so you can see why Hindsight classified something the way it did. You can confirm it, edit it, reclassify it, merge entries, or split them when the timeline gets something wrong.
# What it does
Today view — tracked time, focus, projects, and unaccounted gaps
Activity log — start/end times, durations, and a film-strip timeline
Daily journal & weekly review — exportable as Markdown. All durations and totals come from your actual timeline; AI only writes the descriptions
Ask AI — ask plain-language questions about your own tracked workday
Pomodoro timer — with distraction detection based on your own category settings
# Comparison
Timing, RescueTime
These are primarily app and website trackers. They can tell you how much time you spent in Chrome or Xcode. Hindsight tries to answer the more useful question: what were you actually working on? It also keeps the screenshot evidence behind each timeline entry.
Dayflow
Dayflow is probably the closest comparison, especially in its focus on reconstructing what you actually did rather than simply tracking apps. Hindsight takes a different approach to a few things:
You choose the analysis engine: Apple’s on-device models, a local model through Ollama or LM Studio, or your own cloud endpoint
The review workflow lets you merge, split, and bulk-reclassify entries
Journals and weekly reviews are generated from computed timeline data rather than asking the model to invent durations or totals
# Pricing
Free.
No subscription. No in-app purchases. No account required.
# Privacy
This app reads your screen, so you should be skeptical about it. I designed it with that in mind.
Manual tracking captures nothing and doesn't require any permissions.
Automatic tracking is opt-in and uses only Screen Recording permission. (plus Calendar access only if you turn on the optional calendar context).
It captures screenshots only — no video, no audio, and no streaming.
You choose where analysis happens: Apple’s on-device models, a local model such as Ollama or LM Studio, or your own cloud endpoint using your own API key.
With on-device or local analysis, your screen content never leaves your Mac.
With a cloud endpoint, data goes directly from your Mac to that provider. It never passes through a server of mine — I don't run one.
There is no analytics, telemetry, or crash-reporting SDK.
Password managers and authenticator apps are skipped automatically, and you can exclude additional apps yourself.
Screenshots are automatically deleted after a configurable retention period (7 days by default), with a storage quota.
Delete All Data removes everything, including stored API keys.
Privacy policy: https://static.dhrumilpatel.in/hindsight/privacy-policy.html
Requires macOS 26 or later. Honest caveat: on macOS 26, Apple’s on-device models handle OCR and text reasoning, but describing screenshots needs macOS 27 or a configured model endpoint. For zero network on macOS 26, use a local model through Ollama or LM Studio.
If you try it, I’d genuinely like to hear what works, what doesn’t, and where the timeline gets things wrong. Feedback, bug reports, and feature
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Is some one building paid apps on current AI and Reverse Engineerinh era?(bc im worried 😬)
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i was building an app which is "modern Ubersicht alternative" - "Rainmeter for macOS" like app i was planned make it subscription based at first then stronger AIs came and everyone is selling their app as one time then i planned instead of one time, cheap but yearly purchase, then nowadays i am seeing alot of apps getting open sources and ppl with ai reverse engineering everything then i worried, what do you think?
DISCLAIMER
That's not promote (not even released yet), that's showing what my app can do and asking is it worth to pay!!!
my apps few menubar widgets: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/s/BLVnHoGWbY
and it's sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/Appinapp
Liquid clock widget: https://www.reddit.com/r/Appinapp/s/EdVcLKGgwa
answer to ppl who asks it dont have rainmeter like features:
it has now audio visualizes chunks pass to widget and now playing media apps and almost every control pass to widget features.
app website: https://appinapp.mutawirr.uz
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i was building an app which is "modern Ubersicht alternative" - "Rainmeter for macOS" like app i was planned make it subscription based at first then stronger AIs came and everyone is selling their app as one time then i planned instead of one time, cheap but yearly purchase, then nowadays i am seeing alot of apps getting open sources and ppl with ai reverse engineering everything then i worried, what do you think?
DISCLAIMER
That's not promote (not even released yet), that's showing what my app can do and asking is it worth to pay!!!
my apps few menubar widgets: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/s/BLVnHoGWbY
and it's sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/Appinapp
Liquid clock widget: https://www.reddit.com/r/Appinapp/s/EdVcLKGgwa
answer to ppl who asks it dont have rainmeter like features:
it has now audio visualizes chunks pass to widget and now playing media apps and almost every control pass to widget features.
app website: https://appinapp.mutawirr.uz
https://redd.it/1x8fi6e
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JustFlip: spaced-repetition flashcards that feel native on Mac, with Anki import and iCloud sync to iPhone, iPad and Watch
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