Creative & media

TL;DR: Iris is a Mac photo viewer that indexes photos where they already exist (folder, external drive, or your existing Apple Photos library) instead of importing them into a managed database. It does on-device face recognition, OCR/speech search, and a real map (Photo Trails) that plots every geotagged photo so you can browse by location. No cloud, no account, no subscription; one-time purchase, 14-day trial. It's

I built and released a Mac app I always wanted to exist: Glassboard let's you draw over anything on your Mac, across every app and every screen, Khan-academy style! Problem: Want to highlight something you're presenting? Need to doodle something quickly? Hold a keybind and draw over anything on your Mac. Release and it fades away. That's all! Well, except colors, shapes, a radial menu switcher and keybinds galore. Bu

I make music in Ableton and got fed up with its fixed shortcuts, so I built Trigger. There is nothing else out there like it. It lets you map any key or MIDI note to any Live command. You can chain a few commands into a single keypress, and it only fires while Ableton is in focus, so it never interferes with the rest of your Mac. It lives in the menu bar and stays out of the way. A few things it does: Map any key or

Hey r/macapps! I’m part of the team behind Beat One, and we’ve just launched our first version. We built it for people who want a more approachable way to start making music on Mac without jumping straight into a full-scale DAW. Problem: Sometimes you just want to turn an idea into a track without spending hours learning a complex workflow or setting everything up first. Comparison: Compared with full-scale DAWs like

Hear Your Mix on Your Phone Hi all, my name is Ryan and I've been developing music-related apps and plug-ins since 2017. I just released Mix Stream, an app for Mac and iOS that makes it easy for producers and creators to audition their mixes on an iPhone speaker. It's just a $5 USD one-time purchase right now and you get a Menu bar app for macOS and a iOS receiver. It routes your system audio to your iPhone over Wi-f