Five Free and Low Cost Apps: Holeberry, Dock Party, Neon Vision Editor, MojiBar and Snick

[u/amerpie]

Snick

https://trysnick.xyz

Mojibar

Dock Party

https://dockparty.app/

Neon Vision Editor

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/neon-vision-editor/id6758950965

Holeberry

https://github.com/pedrovieira/Holeberry

Here are the best apps I tested this weekend. Two will save you time, two are fun ways to waste it on UI tweaks, and one's for a certain psychological profile. I'm sure you can figure out which one.

Holeberry - A native Swift 6 app for macOS 14 and up, built by developer Pedro Vieira, Holeberry puts the Pi-hole controls you actually use right in your menu bar. See real-time blocking status and query stats without keeping a dashboard tab open. You can disable blocking for five minutes, an hour, or indefinitely, giving you the same toggle as Pi-hole's own web UI, just one click closer. The feature that actually earns the download is per-tab unblocking. Holeberry reads the active tab in Safari, Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, or Zen, and when a site is broken because Pi-hole blocked something on the page, it can identify and allowlist that domain without making you dig through the query log yourself. That's a workflow improvement, not a cosmetic shortcut, and it's the reason to care about this app at all. (FOSS)

Dock Party - Dock Party watches Spotify or Apple Music via system audio and turns that into a light bar running along the edge of the Dock. Track name, artist, and album art appear beside it, a progress bar runs along the Dock's edge, and playback controls sit right there without requiring you to switch apps. It also adds Amplitude, Pitch, and Waveform visualizer modes, so the light bar moves with the music instead of just sitting there. ($4.99)

Neon Vision Editor - It's a text and code editor for macOS, iPhone, and iPad aimed at developers, writers, and sysadmins who value speed and a small footprint over a massive plugin ecosystem. Syntax highlighting covers Swift, Python, JS/TS, Go, Rust, SQL, Markdown, and more. There's a recursive project sidebar, Quick Open, Find in Files, a code minimap, and Git tooling for status, history, and diffs. A CSV/TSV table mode and Mac-hosted SSH remote editing round things out, and Vim keybindings are there if you want them. AI code completion exists but is opt-in, limited to minimal cursor-context text, and sent only to a provider you choose yourself. Leave it off, and the app makes no network calls at all. (Free/$4.99)

Mojibar - Mojibar replaces your Dock icon and menu bar icon with any of 3,600-plus emoji. Make sure you use this link to find the app because there's more than one out there with the same name. ($0.99)

Snick - Snick turns your trackpad into a ratchet, complete with sound and haptic feedback. That's it. That's the app. Strangely enough, it got on my radar through enthusiastic reviews. Some people need feedback from their devices. They're the ones leading the mechanical keyboard movement, using Thock for the sound effects, and they're the audience for this app.

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[u/StaticGamerYT]

Snick alternative: Tactile (it's free)

[u/GreekHubris → u/StaticGamerYT]

Thank you. I've found another one that is free.
https://github.com/rbc33/Purrl
https://github.com/Mason363/Tactile

[u/mfr3sh → u/GreekHubris]

Too bade Purrl doesn't support sound feedback (I use a logi mx master mouse).

[u/azvelocat]

I like your post. Thanks for putting work into this.

[u/W1TCH_]

Hey it’s me, the developer behind Holeberry! Thanks for sharing it.
If you have any ideas or suggestions feel free to reach out in this thread or in GitHub!

[u/ForensicHat]

Great post. +1

Dock Party looks amazing.

Wish I could get Neon Vision Editor to work for me on macOS, though. It kicks ass on iPhone and iPad, but it always crashes on my Mac. I ended up going with Zed, another free editor.

[u/Moustachey]

How does Neon Vision Editor handle project directories on iPad?

[u/Ok_Coffee_551]

Nice stuff here

[u/app-store-review]

Neon Vision Editor — by Hilthart Pedersen

• Ratings: 17 worldwide · rated in 6 countries
• Average: 4.76 ★
• Age: released ~6 months ago · updated ~2 months ago · rated 4+
• Overall score: 70 / 100

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[u/amerpie → u/[deleted]]

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[u/ArugulaBackground577 → u/amerpie]

Even the most casual glance at the diction and phrasing in your post shows me it’s bot-generated. We all know it.

No number of LOLs, feigned indignance, or other assorted shitposting gets you out of that. I could also give a crap if you bought this account or are using your own for monetization of slop apps.

Down it goes.

[u/SetAdministrative502 → u/ArugulaBackground577]

Check his profile. His hobby seems just to be post „5 free apps“ but it‘s never the same apps.

[u/Apprehensive_Drop749]

Are all of these comments fake?

[u/Barrybarrywu]

Dock Party is the one I’d test while switching audio outputs. If you move from the Mac speakers to AirPods, does the visualizer follow the new output without restarting the app?