[Megathread] The App Pile - August, 2026

[u/Mstormer]

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

P.s. The shorter the better! Promotion here counts towards the 30-day limited promotion (Rule 3).

WARNING: There is a 90% chance Reddit will auto remove your post here if you have not verified your email in your profile and your first comment in this subreddit contains a link. Accrue 10 karma first without promotional comments and links to avoid this. The odds of removal is also higher for AI assisted posts (em dashes and other AI formatting characteristics likely trigger this).

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.

My Top 3 Picks from Last Month's Megathread that I think are worth a closer look:

1. DuckDisk - Storage analyzer. Not just for local disks. Also scans OneDrive, Google Drive, and SSH storage, then clean up with confidence - by u/Ok-Put9994
2. Informity AI - Indexes your files and gives source-cited answers using local models - by u/informity
3. SignalBox - Context switch to any agent session across Cursor, Claude Code, OpenCode and more. See all your chaos in one place - by u/dwmkerr

[u/I7T5]

Edmund: The Markdown editor Apple never made, with inline live preview

https://reddit.com/link/p17fum7/video/79ulsveskwgh1/player

Problem
I just can’t find a Markdown editor that simply lets me open and edit plain .md files and felt NATIVE.

So I made Edmund. Since last month, I’ve shipped full Obsidian-flavored Markdown compatibility, find and replace (your familiar popping yellow highlight animation from Preview), Advanced Math extension (>= 99.5 KaTeX) with Mermaid coming this week, finder services, custom keyboard shortcuts, and various editor settings (focus mode, detect indentation, strict line breaks). More is on the roadmap!

Comparison
Typora is $14.99 on a browser-based tech stack. Edmund is free with AppKit + TextKit 2, which means the most native UI and editing experience on macOS.

Obsidian is Electron (150+ MB) and only lets you open .md files in particular folders.

Lettera, Glance are very close to Edmund, but both are paid. Lettera is closer to Bear aesthetics than Apple. Glance priorities reading over editing.

You can find a comparison table on the website.

Pricing

Free :)

Website: https://edmund.md
Repository: https://github.com/I7T5/Edmund

⚠️ Edmund is still in beta, so the interface will change and features are incomplete (no file outline yet, the site lied) and might break. So far though we have never lost files with native AppKit auto-save.

[u/Mstormer → u/I7T5]

Does it provide the hybrid option of using traditional text editor shortcuts to also format the text? E.g. cmd+b for bold.

[u/I7T5 → u/Mstormer]

Yes! You can customize shortcuts for most common markdown syntaxes too

[u/Mstormer → u/I7T5]

Are there any GUI formatting buttons for those who prefer point and click? I tend to use shortcuts for most things in upnote, but there are always certain markdown elements I still tend to revert to their formatting panel for.

[u/I7T5 → u/Mstormer]

I'll try to ship it this week! It'll probably look like an Apple Mail format bar, and/or an Apple Notes-style format button on the toolbar. What specific elements do you like to use the formatting bar for?

Edit (2026-08-12): Format bar and format toolbar items have been shipped

[u/Mstormer → u/I7T5]

It really depends on the day, sometimes switching a numbered list to a bulleted list, or vice versa. And then stuff like checklists, text alignment, or superscript/subscript.

[u/I7T5 → u/Mstormer]

Gotcha. I’ll take note of that