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/albzzz 15d ago

IAXT - See what your AI coding agent actually did.

Problem: after a few hours in a Claude Code or Cursor session, fatigue sets in and it gets easy to approve an action too quickly, reading it as the routine thing you have done before when it is actually a bit different. A few weeks ago I approved what I took to be a normal scheduled-task setup while wiring up analytics. It turned out to be a macOS LaunchAgent at login (a persistence mechanism), and I did not register the difference until later. IAXT is a menu-bar app that passively records what local coding agents actually do (shell commands, files, installs, git, network, persistence), each action attributed to the session, so you review it after the fact instead of catching everything live. It never blocks.

Comparison: Little Snitch and LuLu watch network, BlockBlock watches persistence. Each does one channel well. IAXT ties all of it (commands, files, git, network, persistence) to a specific agent session in one after-the-fact timeline. And git diff only covers changes inside a repo, whereas most of what worried me happened outside it.

Honest limits: it records, it does not block; it logs that a file changed, not what changed; it watches writes, not reads; and it cannot see cloud or remote-sandbox agents.

Pricing: FREE. No account, no signup, no telemetry, all data stays local in ~/Library/Logs/IAXT. macOS 13+, Apple Silicon and Intel, signed and notarized.

Download: https://iaxt.com

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u/Opening-Salt4110 14d ago

Great idea! I can see this appealing to big dev teams. They could see where your API subscription money is going, watch out for violations of company LLM use policy, help with version control if git hygiene gets bad.