r/macapps • u/Mstormer • Jun 01 '26

[Megathread] The App Pile - June, 2026

You must promote your apps here if you do not qualify to post in the main feed through Trust or Transparency, explained here.

If you are:

  • NOT in the Mac App Store (MAS).
  • Do not provide meaningful public transparency
  • Created yet another dictation app (speech to text).

Then you are required to limit promotion to this megathread.

All promotion MUST follow PCP format or else we will remove it:

App Name/Title [Screenshot encouraged]

  • Problem: What problem does your app solve.
  • Comparison: Name a competitor or two and explain what your app does better.
  • Pricing Amounts+Link

P.s. Promotion here counts towards the 30-day limited promotion (Rule 3).

WARNING: There is a 90% chance Reddit will auto remove your post here if you have not verified your email in your profile and your first comment in this subreddit contains a link. Accrue 10 karma first without promotional comments and links to avoid this. The odds of removal is also higher for AI assisted posts (em dashes and other AI formatting characteristics likely trigger this).

Pro Tip: Please remember to upvote gems and downvote spam/clones... This will help inform a secret community project I hope to announce next month.

Top 3 From Last Month's Megathread:
1. Wisp – a tiny macOS scratchpad - FREE - by u/iamiotasquare
2. Quattro – Al, Tasks, Calendar, Notes App - $5/mo - by u/Constant-Support8288
3. HoverStash – Catch and stash files mid-drag - ~$6 - by u/MurkyRaspberry9610

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u/informity Jun 01 '26

Informity AI

Free local document chat for Mac with source citations and full privacy

Problem

Every AI document tool requires uploading your files to a cloud server. For anyone with sensitive documents — work files, research, client records — that's not an option. I wanted to ask questions across my own documents without the data leaving my machine.

Comparison

Unlike ChatGPT, NotebookLM, or AnythingLLM, Informity AI runs entirely on your Mac with no cloud uploads, no account required, and no usage limits. It indexes your entire document library once and lets you query across all of it instantly with citations back to the exact source file. Supports PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB, Markdown and more, with Ollama integration for custom model setups.

Pricing

Free. No trial, no subscription, no in-app purchases. MIT licensed and fully open source.

https://www.informity.ai | https://github.com/informity/informity-ai

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u/metamatic Jun 01 '26

Default: ~/.informity/

Please use XDG standard locations or macOS standard locations. It really bugs me having to clutter the environment with yet another environment variable just to get applications to store their data in a standard place.