Why I build my own apps

Every app I have built started the same way: I hit a problem, went looking for something to solve it, and could not find anything I actually wanted to look at every day.

The search always comes first

I am not trying to reinvent things for the sake of it. When something annoys me I go looking, and most of the time I find a tool that works and I use it. That is the end of it.

The trouble starts when the tool works but feels wrong. A window that will not stay where I put it. A setting buried three menus deep. Something that does its job while quietly making the Mac feel less like a Mac.

If I have to fight an app to use it, I will stop using it. Every time.

Then I build the small version

So I build the smallest thing that solves my own problem. Not a product, not a business — just the version I wanted to download in the first place.

• It has to do one thing
• It has to look like it belongs on macOS
• It has to stay out of the way when I am not using it

Most of these never leave my own machine. The ones that survive a few months of real daily use are the ones that end up here.

What that means for you

Everything on this site is something I use myself, most days. That is the only filter. If I stop using an app, I will tell you rather than quietly leaving it to rot.

That is also why the apps are small and the prices are one-time. I am not building a platform. I am sharing the tools I made for myself.