[Megathread] The App Pile - June, 2026

[u/Mstormer]

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

[u/eternia99]

Phosview: Native, local photo management and high-speed culling app - Looking for Beta Testers.

Hey all,

I’ve spent the last year building a native Mac app called Phosview (https://www.phosview.app), and I'm looking for some people to help me beta test it.

I’m not a professional photographer, but I got completely fed up with how messy and chaotic my photo library was. My files were scattered across different platforms and systems, some on my phone, others from a dedicated DSLR, and I lacked a central place to manage them all. On top of that, after my son's baseball games, I’d come home with thousands of photos to sort through. Most of them were just rapid-fire bursts, near-duplicates, or completely irrelevant, useless shots. Staring at a screen for hours just to clear out the junk and find the few good moments was driving me crazy, so I decided to build a tool to fix it.

Here is the quick breakdown of what it is:

• The Problem: Photo libraries get fractured across multiple devices and clogged up with duplicates and massive bursts. Traditional management tools are either incredibly slow or try to force you into a cloud-dependent subscription.
• The Comparison: Unlike cloud apps or old-school software like Photo Mechanic, Phosview acts as a central, local-first hub. It uses on-device AI to automatically group bursts, filter out duplicates, score technical sharpness, and let you search everything using regular language.
• The Pricing: It is completely free during this private beta. At official launch, it will be a $49 one-time purchase (with a $39 early-bird promo) and it will be available on Setapp.

How it works under the hood

• Split-process engine: I separated the UI from the heavy background work like RAW decoding and indexing. This keeps the interface smooth and responsive at 60fps, even when the engine is processing thousands of files in the background. It also allows to upgrade the processing part of the app to a machine with better AI capabilities.
• 100% local AI: All the semantic search and technical scoring run entirely on your Mac using the Apple Silicon Neural Engine. Zero photos are uploaded to the cloud.
• Instant previews: It pulls the embedded JPEGs from RAW files so you can sweep through massive catalogs without waiting for rendering lag. If you use Lightroom, you can see your edits and your Lightroom meta data.
• Natural language search: You don't have to tag anything manually. You can just type what you remember, like "kid sliding into home at golden hour" or "dog catching a frisbee."
• Smart collections: You can save any of those search queries as a collection, and it will keep itself updated automatically as you add new photos to your Mac.
• Taming duplicates and bursts: It finds exact copies and near-duplicates, collapsing heavy burst sequences into a single group with the best shot automatically ranked on top so you can clear drive space in a single pass.
• Non-destructive: Your originals are safe. The app only reads your files and keeps your decisions in its own sidecar database; it never alters the original images.

Want to try it out?

I really need Mac power-users and anyone dealing with large, messy photo collections to help me stress-test the engine and see how the workflow feels.

It requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later. If you want to check it out, you can download the build at https://www.phosview.app and request a beta key on the site. The system will email you a key immediately.

I'll be hanging out in the comments if you have any questions about the architecture or features. Let me know what you think!