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Apps

Small apps I've made because I wanted them to exist. Free to download. Each one is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without a warning: open the disk image and drag the app into Applications. Where there's an iPhone and iPad version too, it's a TestFlight beta — open the link on the device, install Apple's TestFlight app if you haven't got it, and it'll take you from there.

Doctor

A Markdown reader and editor — the thing you double-click a .md file into. Tabs in one window, a rendered view and a source view that are both editable, proper printing and PDF export, and a one-key hand-off into Obsidian.

Two fixes to how preview draws blocks. A code block’s panel now sits snugly around the code, instead of carrying an empty strip where the ``` fences were, and an indented block ends where it should rather than running on down the page. Horizontal rules (---) stay on their own line instead of drifting into the heading above. Tables, new in 1.2, are still drawn as real tables.

Download for macOSDoctor-1.2.1.dmg · 1.3M Get it for iPhone and iPadTestFlight beta · free · needs the TestFlight app

Feed Me, Seymour!

A native RSS reader. Articles are drawn as real typography and real media rather than a web view, with a read-aloud mode that follows along word by word.

Subscribing to a site now happens where you are. Share a page and Feed Me, Seymour! goes and finds the feed behind it, shows you which one, and takes the subscription on in the share sheet itself — one tap, no app to open. On the Mac, sharing a page opens the app with the address already filled in, and so does pressing the plus button when a link is on your clipboard.

Download for macOSFeedMeSeymour-1.8.dmg · 5.4M Get it for iPhone and iPadTestFlight beta · free · needs the TestFlight app

Sidetable

A read-only reading app for PDFs, Markdown, text and web pages. Documents are drawn as real typography rather than a web view, with a read-aloud mode, a share sheet that sends anything to it, and iCloud keeping every device in step.

Download for macOSSidetable-1.0.dmg · 3.2M Get it for iPhone and iPadTestFlight beta · free · needs the TestFlight app

Roundabout

A menu-bar app that remembers your actual working contexts — not just which app you were using, but which Terminal tab, which Safari tab, which specific window — and jumps straight back into one with a single Option-Tab, the way Cmd-Tab jumps back to your last app. Each context can carry a one-line summary of what you’re actually doing there, generated free and on-device via Apple Intelligence.

Download for macOSRoundabout-1.4.0.dmg · 688K

TaskBook

A simple checklist app, because there aren't enough already. Truly, most to-do apps have gotten too bloated and I wanted something that was simple and syncs across devices.

Download for macOSTaskBook-1.1.0.dmg · 3.8M Get it for iPhone and iPadTestFlight beta · free · needs the TestFlight app

Vers

A simple composing tool for poets.

On the Mac, selecting text from right to left no longer flips you onto a new page. Page turns now only answer a deliberate two-finger swipe, and a swipe never adds a page — use the arrow for that.

Download for macOSVers-0.1.1.dmg · 2.9M Get it for iPhone and iPadTestFlight beta · free · needs the TestFlight app

Quiet

Helps a classroom keep its own volume down. The screen listens to the room and shows it as a slow, swirling color — calm violets when it’s quiet, warming toward red as it gets loud — and every few quiet minutes a feather drifts down for the class to keep. Collect enough and they burst into a cloud of feathers.

Download for macOSQuiet-1.0.dmg · 2.3M

Release archive

Every build published here, newest first. Only the current version of each app is available above.

DateAppBuildSize
2026-11-03QuietQuiet-1.0.dmg2.3M
2026-10-25VersVers-0.1.1.dmg2.9M
2026-10-11VersVers-0.1.0.dmg2.9M
2026-10-07TaskBookTaskBook-1.1.0.dmg3.8M
2026-10-05TaskBookTaskBook-1.0.1.dmg4.9M
2026-10-04TaskBookTaskBook-1.0.dmg4.8M
2026-09-30RoundaboutRoundabout-1.4.0.dmg688K
2026-09-26SidetableSidetable-1.0.dmg3.1M
2026-09-24Feed Me, Seymour!FeedMeSeymour-1.8.dmg5.4M
2026-09-24Feed Me, Seymour!FeedMeSeymour-1.7.dmg5.2M
2026-09-23Feed Me, Seymour!FeedMeSeymour-1.6.dmg5.2M
2026-09-23Feed Me, Seymour!FeedMeSeymour-1.5.dmg5.2M
2026-09-23Feed Me, Seymour!FeedMeSeymour-1.4.dmg5.2M
2026-09-23Feed Me, Seymour!FeedMeSeymour-1.3.dmg5.2M
2026-09-23DoctorDoctor-1.2.1.dmg1.3M
2026-09-22Feed Me, Seymour!FeedMeSeymour-1.2.dmg5.2M
2026-09-22Feed Me, Seymour!FeedMeSeymour-1.1.dmg5.2M
2026-09-22Feed Me, Seymour!FeedMeSeymour-1.0.dmg5.2M
2026-09-22DoctorDoctor-1.2.dmg1.3M
2026-09-21DoctorDoctor-1.1.dmg1.2M
2026-09-21DoctorDoctor-1.0.dmg1.3M