I’m the developer of this one. Klipnok Ronin is a small menu-bar app that puts a ronin on your desktop. He treats your open windows as terrain.

What he does

• Walks along window tops and the screen edges.
• Shoots a grappling rope up to windows above him, then rappels up the side.
• Wall-jumps up walls and runs to the edge for a backflip.
• Rides a window when you drag it.
• Throws shuriken and kunai at obstacles.
• Trains when idle: sword kata, iaido quickdraw, whirlwind, jump kick and a few combos.
• Right-click him to send him to camp. He meditates until you left-click him.
• He answers to no master. Now and then he refuses an order AND he sulks when you pick him up.

Download: https://klipnok.com/ronin/

Enjoy!

Who I am

I’m Leo Enin, the developer of Axiom and founder of Nuare Studio Inc. My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leopardsnow

Axiom website: https://aiaxiom.app

Problem

I went from Spotlight to Alfred to Raycast. I liked that keyboard-first way of using my Mac, but I couldn’t find a product that combined the launcher experience I wanted with my own AI models and a powerful AI agent for work. ChatGPT’s harness is not bad, but solving problems on my computer through it is too much. It’s way too bloated, and Claude is way too strict.

I also build things with AI, so I wanted the most capable builder I could access from the keyboard. Something that could work with files and apps, research, write code, create tools, remember context, and keep working toward a goal. And make it right. If I ask for the news, for example, it should make sure the news is properly researched, with the information presented in the right form and supported by credible sources. It should self-improve and be able to build its own skills, tools, and commands for the launcher.

So I built Axiom, mostly for myself, but I’d love it if you used it too.

What Axiom does

It starts with a launcher: search apps and files, calculate, or run a command. Press Enter or Tab, and what you typed goes to the agent. Press Shift-Enter and it'll search that in the browser.

The agent can work with files, supported apps, your screen and the web. It can write code, build reusable tools, create commands, and run automate tasks. You can connect your own AI providers (BYOK) or use local models on supported Macs (a few ways to do that: ollama, LM Studio or download).

The philosophy is simple: you should be able to ask your launcher to build the feature you need, then use it. There's no point to build different commands when everyone is individual: ask your software to build itself and improve - it should be able to do that. I want as little as possible standing between the idea and the working result.

Here’s an example from building Axiom. I needed to hide everything on my desktop to record a video, so I asked it to build a small app that toggles desktop icons. It did. Then I thought it would be more useful as a command inside Axiom. I asked it to add the toggle, and now I have my own command that does the same thing and can be bound to a keyboard shortcut. That’s the thing I wanted: idea, ask, use it, improve it.

Along the way, I also stopped needing several separate utilities. Keeping my Mac awake, dictation, and the file-shelf workflow I used Dropover for now live inside Axiom. It also includes clipboard history with text search inside images, notes, smart snippets and quicklinks.

Comparison

Raycast and Alfred are the obvious launcher comparisons. Both have great ecosystems of extensions and workflows. My reason for building Axiom: software should be adaptable, not predefined. Otherwise there will be Raycast v3 in a couple of years and so on. And it was also to bring my own models and an agent-driven workflow into that same launcher like experience.

For dictation and the file shelf, Wispr Flow and Dropover are examples of dedicated apps whose everyday functions I wanted in one place. Axiom covers those workflows, though I’m not claiming feature-for-feature parity with either. Caffeinate and other apps are just commands as well as other small apps - you can just describe what it needs to do and you have a new command in your launcher.

OpenClaw and Hermes are closer comparisons for the agent. OpenClaw felt too bloated for what I wanted, and I wanted stronger memory than I found in Hermes for my workflow. I’d rather you judge the results in the walkthrough and the app.

Pricing

- Free: the app, your own AI keys, local models on supported Macs (silicon).

- Optional Axiom Plus, US$15/month: (nothing paywalled and will not be) a hosted AI model for work (every day work, except heavy coding), ~600 minutes of cloud speech recognition, cloud voices, and real-time synchronization with up to 10 GB of encrypted sync.

- Optional AI credits: one-time purchases starting at US$5 plus tax. Purchased credits don’t expire.

Paid options are NOT necessary, effectively you can organize the same, it's a convenience only option.

Full pricing: https://www.aiaxiom.app/pricing

Demo

I recorded an eight-minute intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhC-w6C1Lqk showing both the agent and the launcher, but it's just a very brief surface.

TL;DR

Axiom is a free Mac launcher with a powerful AI agent, support for your own models (BYOK), and the ability to build tools and commands you ask for (a concept of self improving software). I built it for my own workflow and wanted to make it accessible to others.

Roadmaps:

- Mobile apps (coming soon)

- Windows support

(request more here: https://www.aiaxiom.app/ideas)

Try Axiom: https://aiaxiom.app

I'm the developer. Analog TV Simulator is on the Mac App Store, and 3.0 is out today.

Problem

Most "retro" filters paint scanlines, blur and noise over a finished picture, so the result looks like a filter rather than an old TV. I wanted the faults to come from the same places they came from on real equipment. I also wanted to simulate as much as possible of the Analog TV era (running magnets across the tube, Pay TV scrambling, messing with the controls of the TV, etc.)

What it does

The app encodes your picture into an analogue signal and decodes it again on your Mac's GPU, through a camera tube, the broadcast standard (NTSC, PAL, SECAM and others), tape, the receiver and a CRT. Colour bleed, dot crawl, tape noise and ghosting come out of that signal path instead of being drawn on. Input can be a camera, a video, a photo or a live capture of part of your screen. Output goes to a file, NDI or Syphon, so it works as a live source in OBS too.

What's new in 3.0

This is the biggest single release ever. It incorporates tons of feedback from earlier posts to this sub and elsewhere. We went out and found even more vintage documentation to make this the highest fidelity signal-domain simulation I'm aware of.

- The picture engine was rebuilt against the published broadcast standards. Every standard is sharper, and PAL no longer shows a fine dot pattern.

- Tape formats each reach their own resolution, and pause and search noise come from a modelled FM tape channel. That's the bar across the paused shot in the video.

- SECAM was rebuilt to the ITU standard.

- Camera tubes are truer: lag now leaves brighter trails behind lights. The night tram in the video is a vidicon.

- Presets sit at the top of the sidebar, and loading one keeps your camera or video playing.

- Fixes: the Screen Capture selection box can be dragged again, a missing Screen Recording permission is now explained, and sound stays in step after pause or fast forward.

Comparison

- ntsc-rs: free, open source and very good. It models the NTSC and VHS chain in the signal domain and runs as a standalone app or a plugin for Premiere, After Effects and Resolve. If you only need NTSC VHS on a video file in your editor, it's a great choice. Analog TV Simulator also covers PAL, SECAM and the other world standards, camera tubes and the CRT itself, and it works live: a camera or part of your screen in, NDI or Syphon out to OBS.

- CRT shaders such as crt-royale: they model the screen (mask, scanlines, glow) on the finished picture. They're fast and great for games, but there's no signal underneath, so nothing changes when you switch standard or tape format.

- Others & Inspiration: The web site acknowledges other related projects that were sources of inspiration. https://analogtv.net/acknowledgements

Pricing

$9.99 one-time for life on the Mac App Store, no subscription, no account, no tracking. All processing performed on your device. Does not need an internet connection at all. NDI output is an optional $9.99 in-app purchase. Needs macOS 14.6 or later. The iPhone/iPad and Apple TV versions are separate apps.

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/analog-tv-simulator/id6761325301

The video is my own footage from Vienna, Budapest and Sydney, run through the app. Happy to answer questions about how any of it works.

Hey r/macapps 👋

I build Vehla, a single Mac app that replaces a lot of small utilities: command palette, clipboard history, window management, screenshots and recording, local AI, a dock, a notch, menu bar tidying and more. Version 9.0 just shipped, and I wanted to share what's new.

The thing I'm proudest of: memory

An "everything app" usually means a heavy one, so I spent this release on that. With everything running, Vehla now idles at around 180–300 MB. I've measured 176 MB on an M1 MacBook Air. and another user measured 131.4 MB on an M5 Macbook pro.

New features

- Doki (out of beta): a replacement dock with islands for apps, folders, stacks and widgets, window previews on hover, and every display supported
- Glide (out of beta): slide along a trackpad edge for volume or brightness, three- or four-finger clicks and swipes for actions, or draw a shape to run anything
- Launchpad is back: the classic full-screen app grid macOS 26 removed. Press Left ⌘ twice.
- Smart Reply: press a shortcut in Mail, Messages or Slack and it drafts a reply from the conversation on screen. It never sends anything itself.
- Teleprompter: follows your voice as you read, and is hidden from screen sharing and recordings
- Zoom & Draw: zoom into and annotate your screen while presenting
- Step-by-step guides from screen recordings: one picture and sentence per click, ready to paste into Notes or Word
- Gemma 4 Vision: local AI that can read your screenshots, fully on-device
- iCloud Sync, free for everyone, and Vehla for iPhone is in TestFlight beta
- Background sounds, AirPods battery and charging in the notch, a camera mirror before meetings, and plenty more

Smaller things people asked for

- Collapsible Settings sidebar, with setting descriptions behind an ⓘ to cut clutter
- Custom theme wallpapers now fill the whole window
- Saying "make a list" while dictating now just makes the list
- QuickGlass no longer pops up when you click the menu bar

Comparison

Vehla isn't trying to replace Alfred, Raycast, Magnet, Dropover, Amphetamine, Hidden Bar, or TextSniper individually.

The goal is to replace the collection.

If you're already using several of those utilities together, Vehla aims to bring much of that functionality into one native application with a consistent interface, while also adding built-in AI, notes, canvas, workflows, and local AI support.

Pricing : $29.99 USD lifetime. 7 day trial. Free updates. No subscription.

Privacy: local AI runs entirely on your Mac. iCloud Sync is end-to-end encrypted in your own private iCloud. Nothing is uploaded without you asking.

Happy to answer questions, and I'd love feedback, especially memory readings on your Mac (Settings › Memory shows a live breakdown).

Website: https://vehla.app/
Download: https://vehla.app/download
Docs: https://vehla.app/docs
Refund Policy: https://vehla.app/refunds.html
iOS Testflight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/G8peDyNY

I made this because when I vibe-code, I sit for hours by my mac without moving.

With Chairtax, you set the interval, and when a break is due, Chairtax covers the screen, and it only disappear back once the webcam has counted your reps.

- You choose the movement: squats, jumping jacks, high knees, overhead reach, side bends or chair stands

- You choose how many reps (5 to 20) and how often (every 15 minutes to every 2 hours)

- Three levels of strictness: a card you can dismiss, a covered screen with a couple of skips a day, or no skips at all

- Counting runs on your Mac with Apple's Vision framework. No account, no analytics, no video saved or sent anywhere

It's $29.99 on the Mac App Store

There's also a direct version on chairtax.app for $29 that comes with a money-back challenge: do 100 reps on 16 of your first 30 days and you get your money back. Apple doesn't allow that kind of refund, so it's only on the direct version.

Happy to answer anything. I'd especially like to hear what would make you actually keep something like this switched on.

I've got 10 App Store promo codes for anyone who'll try it for a week and tell me honestly what they think. Comment and I'll DM you one.

Problem

A lot of text on screen can't be selected. You see it in screenshots, slides in a screen share, scanned PDFs and paused videos. Some of it is also in a language I don't read well. These are the three ways I use the app every day:

• Grab text: press Control-Option-C and drag a box over the text, and it's on my clipboard. Line breaks are kept, so a list pastes as a list
• Translate a selection to English: copy the text and press Control-Option-S. For text I can't select, I press Control-Option-D and drag over it instead. The translation shows up in a small card right next to the text
• Translate subtitles: press Control-Option-P and drag over the subtitle line. A panel beside it shows each new line in English while the video keeps playing

Text recognition and translation both run on your Mac using Apple's own frameworks. There's no account and nothing gets uploaded.

Comparison

Live Text in macOS can copy text from images and paused videos, but only in apps that support it, and it doesn't keep up with subtitles while a video plays. This app works on anything you can see on screen, and a pinned area stays translated as the text changes.

Pricing

Free, with no in-app purchases. Needs macOS 26.4 or later.

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6824170528

Hey r/macapps!

We are excited to announce VirtualProg 2.18, introducing full support for Windows 11 ARM64 virtual machines alongside our existing macOS and Linux guest capabilities.

For those unfamiliar, VirtualProg is a native virtual machine manager for Apple Silicon Macs built directly on Apple’s Virtualization Framework. Version 2.18 brings deep Windows integration, 3D graphics acceleration, and rich guest management across desktop, mobile, and command-line interfaces.

🚀 What's New in VirtualProg 2.18

• Windows 11 ARM64 Support: Run Windows 11 natively alongside macOS with dynamic/fixed disks, automated VirtIO driver installation, and seamless setup.
• DirectX 12 Acceleration: Powered by Apple’s D3DMetal (Game Porting Toolkit) pipeline for 3D graphics performance and DirectX 12 support in Windows guests.
• Auto Resolution & Display: Real-time display resizing and resolution switching matching your Mac monitor.
• Bi-directional Clipboard: Seamless copy and paste of text, images & Files between macOS and Windows via VirtualProg integration.
• Full Virtualization Feature Set: Support for checkpoints, linked clones, live memory ballooning, and USB device passthrough.

Note: The only feature currently not available for Windows (when compared to what is provided in mac/linux) VMs is Serial Ports.

💡 PROBLEM

Traditional virtualization software often restricts VM administration to the host desktop machine while locking multi-device access behind costly annual subscriptions.

VirtualProg resolves this by providing built-in remote management capabilities (via a headless Web Dashboard, iOS app, and Android app) combined with a powerful command-line interface (vpvm (in wen, mac, ios & android). You get full control over your virtual environments whether sitting at your Mac or managing them remotely from a browser or phone.

⚖️ COMPARISON

💰 PRICING & LINKS

• Free Trial: A free trial version can be downloaded directly from the product page at makeprog.com.
• Mac App Store: The full version is available for a one-time purchase of $22.99 USD on the Mac App Store (No subscriptions). Download from AppStore
• Documentation: Check out the VirtualProg Windows Help Guide for detailed setup instructions.

We'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and test results in the comments below!

After updating Mac 27.2 (26B123), can fingerprint recognition be detected when downloading apps from the App Store?

Problem

I copy and paste all day, and I wanted a clipboard manager that lives in the notch, out of the way until I need it. There are notch apps and there are clipboard managers, but I couldn’t find one that did the whole thing. 

So I built CopyPasta. Hover over the notch (or press ⌃⌘C from any app), start typing, and your whole history is right there. Everything it stores is encrypted with AES-256, including the iCloud copy, with the key in your Keychain. Nothing is ever saved unencrypted.

Comparison

The dedicated clipboard managers don't use the notch. Paste is the closest to what I wanted, and its Paste Stack is great, so I built my own version of it. But I also wanted things none of them combined: saving screenshots straight into the history, beautifying them with presets for X, Instagram and LinkedIn so they're ready to share, OCR to search the text inside them, and everything encrypted on disk.

CopyPasta features:

• Opens from the notch, or from anywhere with ⌃⌘C
• Everything encrypted on disk (AES-256), including the iCloud sync
• Passwords, API keys and tokens detected and hidden automatically; Touch ID to reveal after 10 minutes
• Copies marked private by 1Password, Bitwarden or Apple Passwords are never saved
• Paste Stack: copy several things in a row, then paste them back in order
• Multi-copy: select several clips and paste them all at once
• Text, images, screenshots, files, and true vectors (shapes from Photoshop/Affinity stay crisp)
• OCR on every screenshot, so you can search and copy text inside images
• Beautify: turn screenshots into polished images with presets for X, Instagram, LinkedIn and more
• Colors show up as swatches, with a color wheel and matching palettes
• Custom categories where clips are kept forever
• Full keyboard control
• iCloud sync and Apple Intelligence summaries
• Native macOS app (macOS 15+)

Pricing

From $15, one-time. No subscription, lifetime updates. Free 7-day trial with every feature unlocked.

Website: https://usecopypasta.com