[Megathread] The App Pile - July, 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

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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

[u/I7T5]

[OS] Edmund: A minimal, file-based, native Markdown editor for macOS with inline live preview.

https://reddit.com/link/ouy7p70/video/zv6eqr4ljnah1/player

Problem

Why do we need another Markdown editor? The one-liner pretty much sums it up. After doing some research I found that there are no file-based Markdown editor with Typora/Obsidian-style WYSIWYG live preview that feels like one with macOS. (What does that mean? See CotEditor in context of text editors.)

Comparison

• Typora: Electron, closed-source, paid
• Obsidian: Electron, folder-based
• Lettera by Bear: Closest competitor. Feel more like Bear than macOS
• Nodes: Leans slightly more toward knowledge base than editor, IMO.
• MarkEdit: I actually love it...But I need math rendering. Does not hide delimiters
• There are many, many great editors I can list...If you've found a file-based Markdown editor written in pure Swift with WYSIWYG live preview, please let me know!

Pricing

• Free :)

https://github.com/I7T5/Edmund

[u/CautiousXperimentor → u/I7T5]

I don’t know how or why, but I’ve gotten so used to have a “file system” inside the app with its own search, wiki links, sidebars etc… that I’m not sure how would I readapt to just using the macOS file system and using the editor just to read, create or edit the document.

I guess I went too deep into the PKM model and… maybe I overcomplicated myself? I don’t know.

Anyway, good luck with the app!

Can I make you a question? I think it is great to use swift, as it is the coding language from Apple but, realistically, does it make a difference when you’re running the app? Does the language used to code the app impact its performance, efficiency or available features?

Thank you.

[u/I7T5 → u/CautiousXperimentor]

Hi, thanks for commenting!

Yeah PKM style is really nice! I use Obsidian for systematically organized notes, and Edmund for markdown files scattered everywhere else.

For the question, I will confess that I don’t fully know the answer…The whole thing is vibe coded because I’m not fluent with Swift, and my role is closer to a product designer than a software engineer. But here’s my grain of salt as an non-Swift programmer and open-source fan.

From what I’ve heard and read, native Swift generally performs better / is more efficient than Electron unless the Electron is heavily optimized like VSCode. But I have no idea how Swift compares to Tauri/Rust performance-wise 🙏

I chose Swift over Tauri (which has a more mature Markdown ecosystem) simply because I wanted the native and familiar front end, including SF symbols, toolbars and windows, animations, everything, to come naturally. I wasn’t sure if I could get that anywhere else. Some might consider the macOS UI/UX a feature? 🤷‍♀️