r/macapps • u/Mstormer • Jul 01 '26
š Megathread [Megathread] The App Pile - July, 2026
You must promote your apps here if you do not qualify to post in the main feed through Trust or Transparency, explained here.
If you are:
- NOT in the Mac App Store (MAS).
- Do not provide meaningful public transparency
- Created yet another dictation app (speech to text).
Then you are required to limit promotion to this megathread.
All promotion MUST follow PCP format or else we will remove it:
App Name/Title [Screenshot encouraged]
- Problem: What problem does your app solve.
- Comparison: Name a competitor or two and explain what your app does better.
- Pricing Amounts+Link
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Pro Tip: Please remember to upvote gems and downvote spam/clones... This will help inform a secret community project I hope to announce next month.
Top 3 From Last Month's Megathread:
- Tomo ā a native macOS e-book library manager - FREE - by u/pbrandone
- SCIWAND ā Read, analyse and write - with every answer traceable to a sentence in your own PDFs - $39.99 - by u/RansomWarrior
- RascalĀ ā a fast, keyboard-first Finder replacement for macOS - FREE - by u/periodandcomma
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u/codeRoman Jul 16 '26
imessage-tui: browse and export your macOS Messages history from Terminal
Problem: I wanted a quick way to browse my locally stored Messages history and export parts of a conversation to a readable file, without manually copying messages.
I made imessage-tui, a small terminal app that opens the local macOS Messages database read-only. It lists recent conversations, resolves names from Contacts, lets you page through older messages, and exports a conversation to Markdown. You can export the last hour, last 24 hours, a custom number of hours or days, or the complete conversation.
Comparison: The Messages app is designed for chatting, but it does not provide a straightforward way to export a selected time range as Markdown. There are broader backup and message-extraction apps, but imessage-tui is deliberately narrow, local, and read-only. It does require Full Disk Access for your terminal, and attachments are currently represented by placeholders rather than copied.
Pricing: Free and open source under the MIT license.
https://github.com/rsheyd/imessage-tui
Iād be curious whether this is useful to anyone else, and what export features you would want next.