Users Seeking Innovative Software Solutions

“first mac app, rejected twice by app review before it finally went live. the dumbest bug: i set the sandbox entitlements for camera/mic/location to false instead of just omitting them. apple rejects false values outright, and the provisioning profile mismatch made the kernel kill the binary at exec (Killed: 9). the second rejection was worse - the app opened and showed a black screen. turns out a sandboxed wkwebview silently needs com.apple.security.network.client even for fully offline local fi”

“Platform macOS What problem would this solve? First, I want to say how much I enjoy Task Manager TMOG. It’s a wonderful application! I’d like to suggest a new feature: a headless, menu bar–only mode that launches automatically at login. Ideally, this would allow Task Manager TMOG to: Launch in the background without opening its main window. Immediately display its monitoring information in the macOS menu bar. Continue running as a lightweight background application. Open the full application int”

“Problem or Motivation When several things play audio at once, such as Spotify, a YouTube Music tab, a video in another browser and IINA or VLC, the Play/Pause key controls only whichever app macOS picks. There’s no quick way to choose which one to pause. Proposed Solution A small popup that lists everything currently making sound (apps and browser tabs) and lets me pause or resume one with a keyboard shortcut. Proposed behavior Pressing the Play/Pause key (or a configurable shortcut) opens a com”

“I’ll look into it and change the way it works [re: I built a macOS audio utility that lets you play through multiple devices at once]”

“Hey! Is there any dedicated channel to share feedback or ask questions? I picked up Glassline and am loving it so far, but I did hit a few snags along the way and I'm not sure if I'm just being a dummy or if others have been encountering these as well. Amazing work, though, I love it immensely!”

“This is just an amazing SDR app for Mac Users. I just love the layout and an aquarium too. This is a piece of artwork. Anyhow, please forgive me if I haven't figured out how to do this, but I see no options for directly connecting a cw key, mic, audio to/from the radio itself. This would be a great addition to this app for Anan and Hermes Lite Plus users.”

“Why not? Edit: It's like people forgot what a "side project" is. Not everything needs to be a tool.”

“I work on speech at Oruk, so the documented short gap after ten seconds of silence caught my eye. Would you consider an option to keep call apps' routes alive during long pauses, then measure the power cost against missing the next word?”

“Firefox Audio Session Evidence macOS identified Firefox as an active CoreAudio client. The system reported: text AudioApp.isRecording: false Firefox had an audio session open but was not recording from the microphone. Additional CoreAudio messages reported no active device input streams, confirming that the session was not using an audio input device. Silent Audio Output CoreAudio diagnostics repeatedly measured silence in the active output pipeline: text rms: -120 dB The stream was effectively”

“I built Notification Probe, a small free macOS menu bar app for one very specific annoyance: repeated ‘Disk Not Ejected Properly’ notifications. It watches Notification Center and dismisses only those alerts, including grouped ones, without moving the mouse or clearing unrelated notifications. It can run only in the menu bar, hide its Dock icon, start monitoring automatically, and launch at login. I have tested a universal build on my own Mac and would like feedback from a few more people. If yo”

“When you idle, it just keeps playing music from a set list off the SD card. Option to turn off the display after 15 seconds to conserve power. You can hop right back in any time and play the game seamlessly. Open source on my github soon. I'll update this post when it's ready, probably in a few days at most. submitted by /u/CommunityFan89 [link] [comments]”

“Appreciate the feedback, and no, Apple's really strict about CarPlay, afaik they don't give you as finer controls over ui elements or functionality due to safety reasons. Although that would've be sick to scratch on your dashboard.”

“Meet Audiout! Every single year, I would tell myself, just wait, just wait. Apple will let me multiselect audio out on my mac any time now. Years later theyve shown no indication that's coming any time soon. Whenever I'm having people over, I want to play and control music from multiple speakers set up around the house. I have a bunch of different airplay setups and Bluetooth speakers but they always had to be playing different audio even though in my head there was no reason it had to b”

“Yeah fair point. I actually just installed Golden Gate to test the new Siri on my Mac. I feel like a Rocky offers a few extra features I know MacOS and Siri won't offer and if talking about voice assistant I think the real competitor is codex voice from openai, especially with computer use. The clipboard history, screenshot with voice context, windows layouts via voice are all the little features most people don't think of until they use it and I think that makes a difference, at least f”

Betterswitch lets you quickly switch between individual windows instead of just apps, using a clean native interface that feels at home on macOS. It also includes Workspaces, so you can group apps…

“I keep getting burned by my own ears. One bad stream, one loud game session, and suddenly everything sounds muffled for days. So I built PermadB, a system tray tool that runs permanently in the background and enforces safe listening levels across all your apps, games, and videos. It uses WASAPI CoreAudio to intercept audio at the system level, so it works everywhere without you having to manually adjust volume in each program. You set your comfort ceiling once, and it stays there no matter what”

“Glad it makes others happy as well, enjoy and let me know if you find anything that doesn’t work well or feel right.”

AudioBooth or Absorb. Pick whichever UI you prefer.

“Now where is the music tab on top that actually gives me good music? submitted by /u/Trick-Purpose-1190 [link] [comments]”

“MacMicTimer is a menubar app that records the active minutes of mic activity. Useful for people who are on calls and needs to log call duration. Also just to see if microphone was active when you were not aware. ONLY WORKS ON MAC RIGHTNOW. submitted by /u/sickonpuss [link] [comments]”

“This feels like table stakes for a web based music client. Cumbersome to have to mouse over to the button at the bottom when you need to quickly pause. I'd be ok if this were opt in, also, if you're hesitant about making it the default.”

“Is anyone else having issues with Tot on the macOS Golden Gate betas? Mine has been glitching out and hasn't seen an update in a while, so I finally gave up and built my own version. It's a native AppKit menu-bar app called BetterTot. It has the same 7 quick text pads, but it's 100% open-source. I kept it super lightweight—no accounts, no analytics, just a fast local scratchpad with some crash recovery built in so you don't lose your clipboard dumps. Right now, I’m working on add”

“Haptiroll is ready to test: a native macOS menu-bar app that maps scroll velocity to responsive sound and compatible trackpad haptics. • Sound and haptics work independently • No Accessibility permission • Settings stay locally on the Mac • Compatible trackpad hardware is required for haptics TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/tye6euxS Demo: https://haptiroll.kolotovalexander.tech/ I’m looking for feedback on latency, hardware compatibility, and whether the effects remain comfortable”

“Shipped a small but satisfying update to AudioRouterNow today. What it does: Free, GPL-3.0 menu bar app for macOS that routes your system audio to multiple outputs at once, speakers + headphones simultaneously, no kernel extension, no restart. What's new in v3.4.3: The menu now stays open while you toggle outputs. Before, it snapped shut after every click; you had to reopen it each time. Now it's an NSPopover that stays put. Existing users get this automatically after updating (one-time”

“Hi everyone, I’m an AI & DS graduate, and I want to build technology that actually solves real problems instead of creating projects just for the sake of it. So I’d love to hear from people from all walks of life. What’s something you struggle with regularly? Is there a task that’s repetitive, frustrating, or takes up too much of your time? Have you ever thought, “There should be an app or software for this”? It could be related to your job, studies, business, home, travel, healthcare, shopp”

“I'm tired of taking time to shower. So much to do! Run the water, soap up, clean the hair, dry off. Clean the shower, clean the shower door. There should be a pill you can take that instantly kills all the bacteria that makes you dirty and stinky while not touching good bacteria. Or some kind of laser you walk through that cleans all over. C'mon this is 2026, what are doing having to shower to clean ourselves? At the very least we need a human form of car wash. Just sit still and a machi”

“Walk around and see the world through Studio Ghibli view. Maybe Apple Vision Pro app? Alpine Lake, Studio Ghibli styled submitted by /u/Leonardo-Da-Vibeci [link] [comments]”

“what if there is a TV, the TV has only media apps; Netflix, Prime Video, YouTube, nothing else. no Appstore, no Browser, and it's specialized to one thing; either YouTube (or similar app streaming) or being a dish tv, and the remote is not wireless, it literally has wires, so it can work for a lot of time, the remote doesn't have any weird buttons, has zero latency + no AAs need, no planned obsolescences, focuses mostly on video quality resolution colors like that only, uses C/C++ optimi”