Fresh Brews: Eleven New Apps Join the Menu

Eleven drinks joined the menu in the two days since the last Fresh Brews post. That's the biggest pour since the August 4 expansion, and it happened with almost no announcement: no teasers, no Coming Soon board, just eleven app pages going live. The café now serves 103 apps.

Pour Over fills up

Pour Over picked up five of the eleven. The shelf now holds sixteen live apps, and most of the new ones are the kind of quiet desktop furniture you stop noticing after a week, in the best way.

QuoteMug puts a single quote on your wallpaper and swaps it every hour. The library ships inside the app: more than 1,400 lines from 89 writers, roughly two months of hourly quotes before one repeats. It keeps everything it has ever fetched too, so the card keeps turning over on a plane or on a machine that has never touched the internet. Skip a quote you don't like and the choice sticks for the hour. Star one and it lands in a saved list you can copy from or clear. The whole thing is a card with no title bar and no frame, and you drag it by the quote itself.

ClockCortado is a flip clock that actually flips. Each digit is a card hinged across the middle, and only the cards that changed turn over, so at 09:59 the minutes roll while the hour sits still. There's a round dial with a sweeping second hand if you prefer. It sits on the wallpaper with nothing behind it, fades down to barely visible, and can be made click-through so it behaves like part of the desk.

FrameArabica turns a photo folder into a picture frame on your desktop. Point it at the folder nobody ever opens and the photos start showing up while you work, one at a time. Four frame styles, from a bare rounded photo to a warm gallery mat or wood. It notices new pictures dropped into the folder, reads HEIC, WebP, GIF and the rest, and you can hang as many frames as you like: one for the family, one for the trip, one for work.

MoodCup is a mood journal with one ritual: pick one of five moods and the day is recorded. No save button, no form. Every logged day becomes a coloured square in a full-year grid, so a rough fortnight or a good run is something you see, not something you have to remember. Streaks count back from yesterday, so logging late at night doesn't wipe out five weeks. Export the whole journal to CSV whenever you want.

AlarmMoka gives you as many named alarms as your week needs, each with its own time and repeat days, plus countdown timers that run side by side. The next alarm or the shortest timer sits in the menu bar. It rings until you answer it, survives restarts with everything still armed, and records alarms that came due while the machine was asleep instead of blasting them at you two hours late.

Americano takes self-care

Americano added two trackers.

HabitTamp makes every habit a row and every day a dot. Click the dot, the day is done. Missed days stay clickable, so a busy week never costs you the record. The year view turns twelve months into a single picture, and the numbers that matter, current streak, longest streak, completion rate, sit right there. Export to JSON and import on another machine, or fold two files together.

PosturePerk sends timed nudges to sit up, stretch, rest your eyes, or drink water. Each nudge is a short guided routine with a little figure that draws the movement, so you can copy it without reading a word. Nineteen prompts across four kinds of break, cycling so you never get the same reminder twice running. Snooze for five minutes when you're mid-thought. Taken, skipped and snoozed are counted separately, so skipping a break doesn't quietly count as taking one.

Affogato gets a second companion

The personalise shelf already had a puppy and a record player. Now it has a cactus and a cat.

DesktopCactus grows on your wallpaper over a hundred days, stepping up a visible size every ten. The flower bud arrives on day 50 and opens across the remaining fifty into a wide bloom. It wants water about every twelve days, and that's the only thing it asks. Click it and it wobbles. It never stops growing, so a fortnight away costs you nothing.

DockerCats is a small 3D cat that lives on the ledge above your Dock. It walks, stretches, washes a paw, curls up for a nap, and pads across the screen to see what you're doing when you switch apps. Ten breeds, from Orange Tabby to Tortoiseshell. It's completely click-through, so it never gets in the way, and you can switch off the talking if you'd rather it just sat there.

One each for Espresso and Latte

AwakeBean is a coffee bean in the menu bar that keeps your Mac awake. One click holds off sleep, click again and everything goes back to normal. Timers end by themselves, from 15 minutes to five hours, or you can pick the apps that should keep the machine running while they're open: a render, a build, a long download. Choose whether the display stays on too.

PDFToWord turns a PDF back into a Word document you can actually edit: real paragraphs with wrapped lines joined, headings that come out as Word headings, bullets, indents, alignment and pictures in the right places. Pick the pages you want, convert a whole folder, bind the results into one file. A scanned PDF gets a straight answer instead of an empty document, and nothing ever leaves your Mac.

The waitlist is down to one

Eleven drinks in two days, and VectorStudio is still the only app on the waitlist. It's been steeping in Mocha since July, outliving every other Coming Soon card that ever shared the board with it. When it ships, the waitlist will be empty for the first time since the café opened.

Every app in this post is included in the membership, alongside the other 92 on the menu. If you're not a member yet, the first week is free. Start your 7-day free trial.