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via El Perro Negro (@elperronegro@shmg.online): For 9 months I have been using RapidRaw as part of my RAW image workflow. So much so that Rawtherapee and Lightroom have fallen by the wayside.

RapidRAW is a non-destructive, GPU-accelerated RAW photo editor that ships in about 20 MB — smaller than many of the images it edits. Built with Rust and Tauri by a solo developer, it offers AI masking, presets, batch edits, and optional generative tools that can run locally, via your own ComfyUI server, or in the cloud.

via Assaf 🌴 (@assaf@mas.to): Ephemeral is fine. We used the sleep app for about four months. Our son sleeps through the night now, so we retired it. If the app had taken me months to build, that might sting. Because it took a week, I’m just glad it worked when we needed it.

Adam Waxman picks up Robin Sloan’s “an app can be a home-cooked meal” thread and shows what it looks like in 2026: a sleep tracker built from his consultant’s PDF, a fitness app that sizes his morning smoothie to that day’s run, a marathon plan derived from his actual race data. With AI assistance, software written for an audience of one (or four) is now a weekend project instead of a career.

This rings very true for me.

via naz (@nazhamid@mastodon.social): 2.5 years in the making, and Aphera 1.0 is now live and available to download and trial (no cc required), or purchase (50% off for the next two weeks).

Aphera is a native Apple Silicon RAW photo editor for Mac, built around a from-scratch imaging pipeline, film-inspired color science, and a keyboard-driven workflow that stays responsive even on 100MP files. It’s positioned less as a Lightroom clone and more as a fast, project-based tool for photographers who want a signature look applied with one keystroke. Free 14-day trial, requires macOS 15+.

Daniel Jalkut suggests registering a separate Apple Account for each country you visit regularly, so you can install the region-locked apps that local businesses increasingly require. Bonus tip: grab a travel eSIM with a local phone number so you can actually complete those signups.

LocalSend is an open-source, cross-platform AirDrop alternative that moves files between Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS entirely over your local network. No accounts, no cloud, no trackers — just encrypted transfers at WiFi speed. (Found via a colleague at work.)

via Sander (@bergmeister@mountains.social): This looks excellent for stabilizing those outdoor activities videos. Free and open source.

Gyroflow is an open-source, Rust-based video stabilization tool that uses gyroscope data recorded by action cameras, drones, and mirrorless cameras to smooth footage and level the horizon. It handles lens distortion and rolling shutter correction, supports GPU-accelerated realtime preview, and ships plugins for DaVinci Resolve and Adobe apps — impressive for a free, cross-platform project.

LosslessCut is a video/audio editing tool that cuts and merges media files without re-encoding, preserving full quality while completing operations in seconds instead of hours. Via Accidental Tech Podcast..

via Organic Maps (@organicmaps@fosstodon.org):

• Tap a bus, tram, train, or ferry stop on the map, and Organic Maps highlights the entire transit line, selectable from the list of displayed lines and routes.
• Cleaner bookmark labels and a more legible map
• Finer map regions across Asia.
• .. and many other improvements in the May update:

via Organic Maps (@organicmaps@fosstodon.org)

via Niléane (@nileane@nileane.fr): Attached: 1 image

Unread, long a favorite RSS client on iOS and iPadOS, has finally landed on the Mac with version 4.0 — a fully native AppKit/SwiftUI app that’s fast, customizable, and supports Feedbin and other sync services. Nice to see continued investment in native Mac RSS readers as the open web and fediverse feeds keep growing.

via Natalia Panferova (@natpanferova@mastodon.social): Excited to share that @hishnash and I have just released our new app, Strolly!

Strolly generates fresh looping walking routes near you each day, using on-device pathfinding so your location data never leaves your phone. You can steer it toward areas you like, flag segments to avoid, and get time estimates tuned to walking, jogging, or running — a nice antidote to always taking the same route.

via Ethan Sholly (@shollyethan@fosstodon.org): Today I’m launching a project I’ve been working on for several months - a browsable directory of self-hosted software:

Ethan Sholly of the This Week in Self-Hosted newsletter has published his entire database of self-hosted software projects as a browsable directory. You can filter by tags and by the commercial services they replace, and sort by repo stars, recent development activity, or name — with the whole thing refreshed daily from the database he maintains for the newsletter.

via Federico Viticci :ticciseal: (@viticci@macstories.net): Attached: 1 image

Greg Pierce (of Drafts fame) has released Simple Scan, an iPhone and iPad app that does exactly one thing: scan a document to PDF or image and send it where you want. No cloud accounts, no expense report workflows, no ads — just a couple of options and a big Scan Document button, which is precisely right for those of us who scan a receipt once a month.

via Alexandre Colucci (@timac@mastodon.social): Attached: 1 image

MarkChart is a native Mermaid diagram editor for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with live preview, syntax highlighting, an interactive visual canvas, templates, and Quick Look support for .mmd files. Handy if you write flowcharts, sequence diagrams, or Gantt charts as text and want polished PDF/PNG/SVG exports without a browser-based tool.

A Siri shortcut that captures highlights from whatever you’re listening to in Overcast, transcribes and summarizes the surrounding audio, and syncs the result to Readwise (and from there to Obsidian, Notion, Roam, etc.) or email. “Hey Siri, highlight” is exactly the interaction I want when a good idea goes by while my hands are busy.

Via https://overcast.fm/+QCTSW_xSc/15:55

Ryan Trimble shares a handful of VS Code plugins he’s used so long he forgot they weren’t built-in — Markdown All in One (paste a URL over selected text to make a Markdown link), Better Comments for highlighted TODO/alert annotations, and Peacock for color-coding windows per workspace. Handy if you do a lot of Markdown authoring or juggle many projects at once.

Dan Moren drops Feedly and moves his RSS subscriptions into Reeder’s own iCloud-synced feed list, cutting out the sync service entirely. The bigger point: RSS and OPML remain one of the few places where moving your data between apps and services takes about a minute — a portability standard the rest of the web could learn from.

Terry White chronicles replacing his aging whole-house Bose SoundTouch setup with Sonos, after years of watching a discontinued product line slowly rot — half-baked AirPlay 2 support, speakers dropping offline, and no hope of fixes. A good reminder that with connected hardware, you’re buying the vendor’s software commitment as much as the speakers themselves.

via MacStories (@macstories@macstories.net): Globetrotter: Your Photos and Memories on a World Map https://www.macstories.net/reviews/globetrotter-your-photos-and-memories-on-a-world-map/

Globetrotter is a beautifully-designed iOS app that plots your photo memories on a world map, complete with route visualization for day trips, 3D landmark collection, and year-in-review summaries. As someone who loves both photography and maps, this looks like a compelling way to revisit travel memories.

via Axel Rauschmayer (@rauschma@fosstodon.org): Still frequently impressed by how much mileage MozJPEG compression gets out JPEG images. I’m using it via https://Squoosh.app (a progressive web app).

Squoosh is a browser-based image compression tool that works entirely locally — your images never leave your device. It supports multiple formats and lets you visually compare before and after results. Worth considering as part of a site build workflow for optimizing image assets.

via Retrobatch: Retrobatch turned 2.0!

via Steven Woolgar: @schwa secrets.app

via Kevin Stewart: People are obsessed with Obsidian, the darling of notetaking apps

Holochain | Distributed app framework with P2P networking

via Sean: I found ExactScan to be a much nicer alternative to VueScan. Needed it once Fujitsu finally gave up on the S1500M.

via Harshil Shah: I’m so excited to announce Peak 2!

Casey Liss rejoins the program to discuss his new app Callsheet and to give David and Stephen a tour of the apps and services he uses to manage his media.

via Kevin Stewart: Build a Cross-Platform CLI with Deno in 5 minutes

via smallcircles (Humane Tech Now): Yes, you can ditch #GoogleMaps now. #OrganicMaps is here. Use it while offline and feel good about a #privacy-respecting app that doesn’t suck you dry of your personal information. Based on #OpenStreetMap this app is gonna blow #Google #Maps out of the water (hopefully ;)

via Uwe Schwarz ッ�: @rauschma if you additionally want OCR, take a look at ocrmypdf (installable via brew), it can reduce file size and add OCR-data to make PDFs searchable. Combine that with an Automator-Workflow for a folder and you get a real easy way to compress and OCR all PDFs.

via John Voorhees: Obscura 4 is out with a fantastic update to its design, new features, and a new business model.

via John Voorhees: Söka, an app to build travel bucket lists, is one of the best implementations of an AI feature I’ve seen. Instead of being gimmicky, it helps kick off exploring a new location, providing ideas for places to visit that you might not have thought of.

Via a friend: When it comes to syncing with iOS devices to pull things off them (pics, video, etc), I’ve had very good luck using iMazing.

via Will Bishop: 🚀 Stomp is now available 🚀

via Automadon: Automadon is live in the App Store!

via Mac Power Users podcast: 703: The Portable HomePod Mini Lifestyle: If you are a Mastodon user, you have probably come across the issue where you find a link … but it opens on an instance or a server that maybe you weren’t expecting. If you’re like me and run [an instance] just for yourself, then sometimes those URLs can be a bit messy. Homecoming for Mastodon is a Safari extension that basically just adds a button … it will open a page from another instance in your own.

via Mac Power Users podcast: 703: The Portable HomePod Mini Lifestyle: This is a web-clipper type extension … it does this by basically taking the text and the content of the page and putting it into Markdown document.

via [John Gruber at Daring Fireball]: Terrific update to one of my very favorite iOS apps.

via Chris Messina: 🆕 Something new for you: the power of a spreadsheet but embedded in a notebook-style collaborative document!

via Ben Sandofsky: We just launched a big update to Spectre, our long exposure app which won iPhone App of the Year. We now have 15 and 30 second exposures!

via rands: Bear 2 is an impressive update that gives an elegant application more personality and utility.

via Rebecca Owen: 🚀 Very excited to say that Chronicling has been approved and will be launching on Friday! It’s available for pre-order here:

Like Zola, but for presentations.

Markdown + style = great interactive presentations.

via Halide: Introducing Skylight Forecast — our third app.

If you’re someone who enjoys taking photos but doesn’t enjoy checking a pile of apps to see when the conditions are right, I’d love for you to check out my new app Photo Scout and give your feedback.

Me (on Facebook, now deleted):

Anyone have a favorite (Mac-based) music player for the music already on your laptop?