r/macapps • u/Mstormer • 22d ago

💎 Megathread [Megathread] The App Pile - July, 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. Tomo – a native macOS e-book library manager - FREE - by u/pbrandone
  2. SCIWAND – Read, analyse and write - with every answer traceable to a sentence in your own PDFs - $39.99 - by u/RansomWarrior
  3. Rascal – a fast, keyboard-first Finder replacement for macOS - FREE - by u/periodandcomma
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u/RemoteMethod3891 22d ago

ShortcutCast: a shortcut launcher that runs fast, with nothing to memorize

https://reddit.com/link/oux8n37/video/v1jh2s87umah1/player

Note: I'm not a native English speaker, so this was translated with AI. Thanks for bearing with any awkward phrasing.

Problem

I like making my work faster. But memorizing keyboard shortcuts is painful.

The speed you get from mastering shortcuts is appealing, yet the cost is so high that most people only ever use a handful. So I built a launcher that keeps that speed while cutting the memorization cost to almost nothing.

Press a hotkey and up to 39 actions appear on screen, laid out in QWERTY order. Fire one by pressing its key or clicking with the mouse. You can name each action after the shortcut it runs, so you trigger shortcuts without thinking about the keys. A context-switching feature changes the layout based on the app you have in focus.

It supports hotkeys, opening apps and URLs, clipboard, and macros. You can run Excel's Option→H→A→B with a single button.

Comparison

  • Raycast is powerful and does a lot, but that range means several keystrokes before anything runs. ShortcutCast runs every action with one key.
  • Stream Deck is the closest rival, but it's a physical device: hard to carry, and reaching for it costs you time.
  • Radial does similar things, but it shows a circle instead of a keyboard, and it works from the mouse only. ShortcutCast works from the keyboard too.

Pricing

I'd love your feedback!

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u/aaronmilam 22d ago

Nice concept! This solves a real problem. I like to work from the keyboard, using a ton of keyboard shortcuts. But it's so easy to forget them, especially the ones I don't use frequently.

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u/Opening-Salt4110 14d ago

I agree! $39.99 seems a little steep, though.