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macOS App Cleaner: Uninstall an App and Every Leftover File

9 min read

macOS App Cleaner: Uninstall an App and Every Leftover File

Uninstalling a Mac app properly is a sequence, not a drag: quit its processes, delete the files that carry its bundle identifier, empty the Trash, and verify that no background item restarts it.

Conceptual Swarm genealogy illustration showing archival portrait cards connected by family relationships, not an application screenshot.

4 min readGenealogy

Swarm: An Open-Source Family Tree That Stays on Your Mac

Swarm brings people, relationships, photos and sources into a native macOS workspace, with GEDCOM 5.5.1 exchange and PDF export—without a cloud account.

How to Install Homebrew on macOS and Set Up Your First Tool

7 min read

How to Install Homebrew on macOS and Set Up Your First Tool

To install Homebrew on macOS you run one shell command, add one line to your shell profile, and use brew install for every tool after that.

Jev Voice macOS menu-bar voice control cover with microphone app icon, typed decision pipeline, and a voice command example.

8 min readMenu Bar

Jev Voice: Control Your Mac by Voice Without Letting the Model Run the Show

Jev Voice turns spoken commands into bounded macOS actions: on-device speech recognition, typed Jev decisions, deterministic slot extraction, and a verification loop for Accessibility work.

DuoUpdater's native macOS menu-bar update list beside its cat icon and channel-aware app rows.

10 min readMenu Bar

DuoUpdater: A Native macOS App Updater That Respects Every Channel

DuoUpdater scans the apps on your Mac, follows each app's own Sparkle, App Store, Homebrew, GitHub or vendor channel, verifies replacements, and keeps a rollback path.

The Orivio TV logo over a dark neon gradient for a native Apple TV media player.

6 min readtvOS

Orivio TV: A Native SwiftUI Media Player for Apple TV

Orivio TV is a GPLv3 native SwiftUI media player for Apple TV, combining the Stremio addon ecosystem with dual-engine playback and an Infuse-style Siri Remote experience.

Holder card vault showing a card list and protected card details on iPhone.

8 min readiOS

Holder: A Private, Offline Card Vault for iPhone and Mac

Holder keeps payment cards, ID cards, membership cards and other sensitive card details in a private vault with on-device scanning, Keychain storage and optional iCloud Keychain sync.

An iPhone fitness command center connecting training, nutrition, sleep and body composition with a privacy shield.

8 min readiOS

FitMe: A Privacy-First Fitness Command Center for iPhone

FitMe brings training, nutrition, recovery and body composition into one iPhone command center, with local rules, privacy-preserving cohort AI and an explicit source-build workflow.

VibeBuddy's Mac task dashboard with agent statuses and an approval panel.

6 min readiOS

VibeBuddy: Keep AI Coding Agents Moving from Mac, iPhone and Apple Watch

VibeBuddy is a native Mac, iPhone and Apple Watch companion for following AI coding agents, reviewing supported requests, checking quotas and keeping the Mac at the center of the workflow.