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A Good Dictation App with a Terrible Name

I'm currently covering apps currently on sale at BundleHunt . Many of these are new to me and taking advantage of steep discounts provides anyone interested a chance to add missing tools to their Applications. The Mac ecosystem is currently awash in vibe-coded throwaway apps, especially in categories like window managers, clipboard managers, and dictation tools. The problem isn't just volume — it's durability. Many of these apps come from inexperienced "developers" who can't realistically maintain or evolve the software long-term. The result is often a quick version 1.0 followed by silence. That said, I'm not going to stop looking....

February 18th, 2026 Mac Apps

Writing Apps: Fluent vs. Rewrite Bar

I’m currently covering apps on sale at BundleHunt. Many of these are new to me, and steep discounts are a good excuse to try tools you might otherwise ignore — or to fill gaps in a workflow you didn’t realize had gaps. First up is Fluent an AI-powered writing assistant that handles translation, grammar, spelling, and style suggestions. The app I’ve been using for the past year for similar tasks is Rewrite Bar. They aren’t clones, but they definitely live in the same neighborhood. Features in Common With Rewrite BarBoth apps are aimed at people who don’t want to keep...

February 16th, 2026

BundleHunt's First Sale of 2026 Is Live - Lifetime Licenses Only

The first BundleHunt sale of 2026 kicked off today. This round is focused entirely on lifetime licenses - no one-year subscriptions or short-term trials disguised as deals. Update eligibility for major or minor releases still varies by app, so always check the fine print before buying. ⌘ In tech, big names rise fast and disappear just as quickly. When a company sticks around for well over a decade, there's usually a reason. BundleHunt has been doing its thing since 2010, offering a different twist on software bundles: you build your own. That means you're not forced into buying 30 apps...

February 15th, 2026 Mac Apps

Turning AppAdddict into a Fully Searchable Archive with Integrity, Raindrop, and EagleFiler

As an App Addict, I enjoy testing new tools and watching indie developers invent clever ways to get things done. But collecting apps isn't the goal. The real satisfaction comes when those tools solve an actual problem. Here's a recent workflow I built using apps I've reviewed on this blog. The ProblemI spend a fair amount of time in r/MacApps, on Mastodon, and in email threads talking software with other nerds. I've reviewed hundreds of apps, and I'm often asked for links to older posts. Until recently, I had two options: • Run a site-specific search on Kagi • Browse...

February 12th, 2026 Mac Apps

Extra Bar Gets Extra Features

Since I installed Extra Bar on New Year's Eve, I have been systematically going through my automation apps, like Raycast Keyboard Maestro, Better Touch Tool, Hazel, and Apple Shortcuts to organize and consolidate the different ways I use them, since there is now a well thought out menu bar access application that can harness the power of all of them in an effective way. The developers of ExtraBar have been very responsive to feature requests from its user base, and a few recently added features are real game changers, particularly one that came out yesterday which allows you to create...

February 11th, 2026 Mac Apps

Automounter Feels Like it Should Be a Part of macOS

I recently discovered an interesting utility called Automounter over at the always-useful Mac Menu Bar website. As the name suggests, Automounter connects you to network volumes automatically. That's handy for home-lab tinkerers and absolutely essential in many enterprise setups. Automounter supports five protocols: 1. SMB 2. WebDAV 3. AFP 4. FTP (read-only) 5. NFS In my testing, I mounted shares from just about everything I had lying around: a Debian 11 server, a Windows 11 workstation, an Unraid server, another Mac, and two WebDAV cloud services--Koofr and Kdrive. It handled all of them without complaint. Automounter has a set of...

February 11th, 2026 Mac Apps

Stop Making CRON Jobs!

Cron Was Made for Always-On Unix ServersEarly in my career, I used to get annoyed when the old hands would wave away every automation problem with, "Just make a cron job." Cron dates back to the earliest days of Unix. It's simple, dumb, and dependable: once a minute it checks a text file, and if a line in that file matches the current time, it runs the associated command. Like most Unix tools, it works great--once you learn the arcane scheduling syntax. For example: 0 3 * * * /Users/amerpie/scripts/backup.sh To cron, that means: *run this script every day at...

February 8th, 2026 Mac Apps

Raindrop.io Gets a Significant New Feature

I've used the bookmark service Raindrop.io (and its apps for macOS and iOS as well as the Safari extension) the last three years, and it's a subscription I don't hesitate to renew. It has a deep feature set, and today it added something genuinely interesting for Pro users: a beta version of a private LLM assistant called Stella. Stella is designed for people with large, messy bookmark libraries. Instead of manually cleaning and reorganizing, you can just ask for help in plain language. Examples the system already understands: • Organize my unsorted bookmarks into collections • Suggest a better structure...

February 6th, 2026 Mac Apps

One Year Into Switching to an EU Cloud Storage Provider

It's a given that we all need a safe place to store or back up our digital lives--somewhere our data will survive if a laptop gets stolen or a house burns down. Beyond simple protection, there's the everyday convenience of being able to reach your files from any device, anywhere with an internet connection. For most of us, that means choosing a cloud service that fits our needs. The usual suspects are U.S.-based: iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, and plenty of others. In 2025, I decided to rethink that default. For privacy reasons, I wanted to reduce my reliance on U.S.-based...

February 6th, 2026 Mac Apps

Automate Your Homebrew Backups and Easily Reinstall your Mac Apps

The number of Mac apps you can install through the free package manager Homebrew keeps growing by the day. Tools like Cork, Taphouse, and Updatest can even convert apps you originally installed through other methods into versions that Homebrew can manage and update for you. Homebrew also includes a built-in backup feature that creates what it calls a Brewfile--basically a plain-text script listing everything Homebrew has installed on your system. That file can later be used to reinstall your entire app catalog in one shot, which is incredibly useful if you're setting up a new Mac or rebuilding your current one...

February 5th, 2026 Mac Apps

MountMate, the App You Didn't Know You Needed, Gets Updates

One of the things I treasure most about being part of the community that includes independent Mac developers is the opportunity to make feature requests. I never cease to be amazed when an app I use and love gets updated to include an idea I suggested. Yesterday, for the second time, the developer of MountMate (Homie Lab) responded to a feature request within hours. Back in June, he added Intel compatibility, and yesterday he added hotkey support so that MountMate can now be used in automation workflows like Keyboard Maestro, BetterTouchTool, and Apple Shortcuts. Additional new features include: • Dynamic...

February 5th, 2026 Mac Apps

The Prompt I Use to Generate an Obsidian Friendly Log With Backlinks, Tags and Tasks

Every night, shortly before 12:00 AM, an automation I set up on my Mac opens the ChatGPT app and send this prompt: Generate my Obsidian AI Daily Log for the last 24 hours. Requirements: - Sort everything in true chronological order with timestamps. - Use one-line summaries for each discussion. - Structure it as a technical journal, not a chat summary. - Include these sections: 1) Timeline 2) Signals & Insights (what I learned or realized) 3) Friction & Problems (what broke, confused, or slowed things down) 4) Decisions (explicit or implicit choices made) 5)...

February 1st, 2026 Mac Apps

Keyboard Maestro, The App That Makes Everything Better - Tips for the Automation Curious

When Keyboard Maestro went on sale during the Black Friday season last year, I was surprised by the number of people who purchased the app and then found themselves at a loss for use cases. The community forum run by Peter Lewis, the developer, has a good reputation for being helpful, but in my experience it's full of complex solutions to problems I don't have. My intention has never been to use Keyboard Maestro as a software development platform. It's always been about this simple question: how can I turn 10 clicks into 1 click--or better yet, how can I...

January 31st, 2026 Mac Apps

SnapsofApps Has New, Powerful Features

Ryan Dekker, the developer of SnapsOfApps, a robust and full-featured window management app, just released an update that adds a bevy of new features aimed at more complex setups involving multiple monitors and spaces. He tackled thorny problems like managing how macOS identifies identical display models and how using a MacBook in clamshell mode affects window management. In under 10 minutes, I was able to install and configure the app to use two displays and eight spaces, launch a dozen apps with individual windows, and have every single aspect of the setup work correctly the first time from a simple...

January 30th, 2026 Mac Apps

Clawdbot Can Do It

One month after I published this, a reader wrote to say - "I get that Clawdbot is a fascinating agentic AI, but there’s been lots of bad press about it recently. The dev formed Moltbook, a kind of Facebook for AIs, that is using tremendous amounts of energy for nothing. Recently Clawdbot went into GIT and harassed a software maintainer, endangering the entire model of free software by indie devs with lower level gatekeepers to review their code. There are serious concerns about whether this app was created ethically and people who download it should be even more careful than...

January 26th, 2026