Hey everyone!

I’m Shubi, a full-time software engineer from Canada and an indie developer in my spare time. Building Mac apps has become my hobby (and honestly, my way of unwinding after work).

Over the last few years I found myself installing more and more utilities.

• One app for launching apps.
• One for clipboard history.
• One for OCR.
• One for AI.
• One for temporary file shelves.
• One for keeping the Mac awake.
• One for hiding menu bar icons.
• One for window management.
• One for notes.
• One for reminders.
• One for canvas
• One for dictation
• One for TTS

They’re all fantastic apps individually, but together they duplicate shortcuts, consume memory, and make macOS feel surprisingly fragmented.

So instead of building yet another utility, I wanted to build something that could replace the collection.

That’s how Vehla started.

What is Vehla?

Vehla is a native macOS command center that combines many of the utilities I use every day into one application with a consistent interface.

Instead of switching between a dozen apps, everything is available from one global shortcut.

Some of the biggest features include:

Universal Command Palette

• Launch apps, files, folders and URLs
• Search clipboard history
• Search browser history, bookmarks, contacts and calendars
• Run Apple Shortcuts
• Execute terminal commands
• Window management
• Homebrew package management
• Native macOS actions
• Timers, calculator, conversions and much more

AI (Local or Cloud)

• Rewrite text
• Summarize
• Translate
• Explain
• Generate code
• Draft emails
• Generate shell commands
• Ask questions about screenshots, selected text, notes, webpages and files

You can run everything using local models on Apple Silicon or bring your own OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, OpenRouter, Ollama, DeepSeek or other providers.

QuickGlass

Select text anywhere and Vehla instantly appears.

Rewrite, summarize, translate, fix grammar, explain, copy, or perform custom AI actions without leaving the app you’re already using.

Flow

Private dictation that works anywhere.

Hold Fn, speak, release.

Supports Apple Speech, Apple Speech Analyzer, NVIDIA Parakeet, Whisper, Nemotron and more.

Clipboard Manager

The clipboard manager has grown into one of my favorite parts of Vehla.

It includes:

• searchable clipboard history
• OCR on copied images
• QR detection
• rich link previews
• pinned clips
• clip stacks
• folders
• tags
• per-app privacy rules

It also has deep integration with AwesomeCopy, so if you’re already using AwesomeCopy you can keep it as your clipboard watcher while Vehla automatically syncs your clipboard history in the background.

Vehla Island

A Dynamic Island / Notch-inspired utility that includes:

• music controls
• clipboard tools
• voice notes
• timers
• upcoming meetings
• system activity
• quick AI
• recent links

Notes & Canvas

• Native markdown notes
• AI-powered editing
• Fast search
• Infinite canvas for brainstorming, diagrams and planning

Plugin Store

One of the biggest additions in Vehla 8.

You can install extensions written in:

• TypeScript
• Native Swift

Extensions run in isolated processes with permissions, secure secrets, publisher verification and rich native UI.

The SDK is fully open source if anyone wants to build for it.

Deep Integrations

Vehla now integrates deeply with my other apps as well.

Lekh AI Pro integrates directly with Vehla, making it easy to access your local AI workflows without switching applications.

AwesomeCopy has deep integration with Vehla. If you’re already using AwesomeCopy as your clipboard manager, you don’t have to choose one or the other. AwesomeCopy can continue monitoring your clipboard while Vehla automatically syncs its history in the background, giving you access to AI actions, search, OCR, clip stacks, and everything else Vehla’s clipboard system offers.

Built for macOS

One thing that’s really important to me is making Vehla feel like a Mac app instead of a website wrapped in Electron.

It’s written natively for macOS and focuses heavily on:

• keyboard-first workflows
• Apple Silicon performance
• local-first AI where possible
• privacy
• no telemetry
• one-time purchase (no subscription)

Download

Website: https://vehla.app
Download: https://vehla.app/download
Documentation: https://vehla.app/docs
Extension SDK: https://github.com/ibuhs/vehla-extensions

Vehla definitely isn’t “finished.” I ship updates almost every week, and a surprising number of features have come directly from Reddit feedback.

If you try it, I’d genuinely love to hear:

• what’s useful,
• what’s missing,
• and what would make you replace one more utility with it.

Thanks for reading!

I'm the solo dev. I've been building Hotstash, a menu-bar clipboard manager for macOS, and just shipped a big 4.0 update. Would love

honest feedback — good or brutal.

The basics

- 📋 Clipboard history — automatically keeps everything you copy: text, links, code, images. Unlimited and instantly searchable.

- ⌨️ Fast access — global hotkey opens your history anywhere; ⌘1–⌘9 to paste any item by position; multi-paste to combine several clips into one

paste (inline or on new lines). All shortcuts are rebindable.

- 📌 Pin & reorder the clips you reuse.

The part I'm most excited about

- 🧩 Transforms — reshape text before you paste: UPPERCASE, lowercase, slugify, format/minify JSON, Base64/URL encode, JWT decode, trim whitespace,

strip HTML, extract URLs, word count, wrap in quotes/brackets… plus image ops (resize, grayscale, rotate, flip, PNG/WebP).

- 🛒 Transforms Marketplace — build your own transforms (small JavaScript for text, a visual step pipeline for images), test them live, and share

them. Install ones other people made. It's the "make it yours" layer.

Other 4.0 stuff

- ☁️ iCloud sync — history + installed transforms follow you across all your Macs. No account needed, just iCloud. Everything stays in your private

iCloud — nothing on my servers.

- 🔒 Privacy-first — copies from password managers (concealed content) are never captured.

- 📱Mobile app — in order to paste with transformers on the mobile and get all mac features here not just the sync

Honest disclosure: it's a paid app (one-time, with a free trial 30 days, no subscription). Marketplace sign-in is optional and only for publishing/rating.

What I'm asking:

1. Try it and tell me what's missing or annoying — I genuinely want the criticism.
2. If you like it, an honest App Store review would help a tiny indie app a lot. 🙏

🎁 Giveaway: I've got 20 Pro codes to hand out.

App Store → https://apps.apple.com/eg/app/hotstash/id6771842605?mt=12

or search "Hotstash clipboard"

Thanks for reading 🙏

So i was trying to swich from dia (i hate chromium) and didnt ind any good web kit browsers that do not have a ton of chrome all over them. so i made Point.

The idea is that there is nothing between you and the web. All websites are full screen and the only thing you see. When you need controls, sidebar appers above content and goes away when you browse. It is still a little rough arounf the edges, but its so good, i daily drive it now. I would really apresiate any feedback, feat reqwest or anything (if feature is cool, i would implement it in a we days). Try it out, its nice.

here is the website for downloads https://baculinivan-web.github.io/point-browser-landing/ (its still not really adpyed for mobile tho) and heres the github https://github.com/baculinivan-web/Point

PS. i am disgraphic, sorry for the spelling

Hey everyone!

I always wished Google Lens worked anywhere on Windows instead of only inside Chrome, so I ended up building it myself.

LensAnywhere lets you select any region of your screen and instantly search it with Google Lens.

A few things about it:

- Lightweight with very low RAM usage.

- Doesn't store your screenshots anywhere. They're only sent to Google Lens for the search.

- Launches on Windows startup (Optional)

- Can be opened using Hotkey which is configurable. Just like windows native snipping tool.

- Free and open source.

GitHub:

https://github.com/utkarsh05kul/LensAnywhere-Desktop

If you just want to try it, you can download the Windows ".exe" from the Releases section.

One thing I'd really appreciate help with: I've only been able to test it on my own Windows PC, so I'd love to know how it works on other systems. If you run into any bugs, have feature ideas, or notice something that could be improved, please let me know in the comments or open an issue on GitHub.

And if you find it useful, I'd really appreciate a GitHub star. Thanks!

GitHub Repository link

Edit : Some antiviruses or malware scanners may flag the downloaded file as malicious or threat. Please ignore that warning. Some scanners do this for all the apps and softwares built in Python.

The file is completely safe and malware free. The source code of the program is available on the attached GitHub Repository. You can check the complete code their, and you will not find any malicious activity.

Top scanners like Kaspersky or Microsoft are not flagging the file as malicious. It's clean.

After getting tired of the default Chrome new tab page, I decided to build my own.

I ended up creating Rocket Tabs — a new tab extension focused on being clean, fast, and actually useful.

It includes:

* Visual speed dial with automatic website previews

* Sync across all devices using your Google account

* Countdown timer

* Animated backgrounds

* Light, dark, and system themes

* Smooth drag-and-drop organization for tabs and groups

* Multi-language support

I've been using it as my daily new tab page for a while, and recently decided to release it. Curious what people think and what features you'd add.

I wanted to leave a note on a folder and on a PDF I keep reopening. Stickies just sit on the desktop pointing at nothing.

So Tack [ https://github.com/elvisperlika/tack.git ] pins a note to whatever window is focused. The note follows the window when it moves, stays inside its bounds, and pops back up when you come back to that folder, document or tab.

It's a small project but I love it, I hope Tack will be useful for you :)
In case you have any suggestions to make it better I'll be happy to listen to you!

How it works?

- A note on a Finder folder is saved as a hidden `.tack.json` *inside the folder*, so it travels when you move or copy the folder, and syncs if the folder syncs.

- In Chrome, Safari and Arc a note can stick to the tabs. In Terminal it sticks to the tty, because tab titles change every time a command runs.

- Everything else is keyed to the window's document or title via the Accessibility API.

- Notes style markdown as you type (bold, headings, checkboxes you can actually click). Markers dim instead of disappearing, so what's saved is exactly what you typed.

- Frosted glass card, resizable, small color palette.

It's plain AppKit, zero dependencies, no dock icon. Needs macOS 13+ and the Xcode command line tools.

Fair warning on permissions, since this sub cares: it asks for Accessibility (to know which window is focused and follow it) and Automation for Finder and Terminal (to ask which folder or tty is in front). There is no network code anywhere, and the source is short enough to actually read before granting anything.

AeroBar puts back Aero glass look, Start Menu, live window tabs, pinned app launcher, and all sitting at the bottom of your screen exactly where you expect it.
https://adityaonx.github.io/AeroBar/

Features:

Quick Switch between App Windows

Start Menu

Quick Launch Pinned Apps

Tab's Context menu

Customization & Advance Settings