Fresh Brews: FolderRoast, BrewSpin, and BeatCafe Join the Menu

Five apps joined the menu this week: three that are completely new and two that finally left the waitlist. The café now serves 75 apps across seven categories, and Frappe has a new name steeping.

FolderRoast: folders you can find at a glance

FolderRoast gives your folders a colour and a symbol, so you can spot the right one without reading a single label. It lives in Espresso alongside the other quick utilities.

The icon library has 125 designs drawn on one grid with one stroke, from design and media to data, finance, games, work and life. Every icon comes in sixteen tints, from graphite to sky to coral, which works out to 2000 folder icons from one library. Drop folders onto the window or pick them with the file dialog, then hit Apply. Finder or Explorer updates immediately.

Batch apply styles a whole project tree in one pass instead of folder by folder. And every change is reversible: "Reset to default" puts the plain system look back. It uploads nothing and runs nothing in the background. It's for anyone whose Desktop is thirty identical blue folders.

BrewSpin: a record player for whatever is playing

BrewSpin turns whatever you're listening to into a record spinning on your desktop. The album art becomes the label, the tonearm tracks its way through the song, and a new record drops every time you change track.

It picks up Apple Music and Spotify automatically, and whichever is playing wins. Start a song and the platter starts turning; pause and the record slows to a stop with the arm still down, the way a real one does. You can pick black, clear, red, white, or a picture disc, choose between three sizes, and even take the tonearm off if you only want the record turning.

Desktop mode drops the deck behind your windows and icons and lets it run as living wallpaper. There's also a mode that turns the cover art into your actual desktop picture, and your own wallpaper comes back the moment you switch it off. BrewSpin lives in the menu bar, opens at login if you want it to, and asks for a single permission to read your player. It never signs in to your music, never collects listening history, and has no server in the middle.

BeatCafe: vocals and instrumental, separated on your Mac

BeatCafe splits any song into clean stems, vocals and instrumental, entirely on your machine. This is the task people usually hand to a random online site that quietly uploads their tracks to a server. BeatCafe runs the model on-device: after a one-time model download, your audio never leaves the computer.

The separation uses Apple CoreML with GPU acceleration, roughly four times realtime on Apple Silicon, with automatic CPU fallback. You get separate WAV files, live progress with an ETA, a cancel button that works any time, and built-in A/B players to preview each stem inline. There's a history of past separations, and the working data stays in your own Application Support folder.

It's the karaoke track you can keep, the a cappella a remixer actually wants to sample, and a way to isolate a part for transcription. For anyone with private or unreleased tracks, it's the difference between keeping the file and trusting a website with it.

ScanToDocx: the Latte scan family is complete

ScanToDocx turns a photo of a document into a Word file you can edit. Point your phone at a page, drop the picture on the window, and a .docx appears beside it with the text as real paragraphs, not a picture of a page.

The page is detected as a four-cornered shape wherever it sits in the frame, the perspective is unwarped, and the lighting is evened out before the text is recognised. It reads more than thirty languages, and naming one sets the document's proofing language so Word stops underlining every word as a spelling mistake. Drop twenty photos of one contract and they combine into a single document, each page starting on a new sheet. Finished documents open in DocCafe in one click.

Nothing is uploaded. The recognition runs through Apple's Vision framework on your Mac, and every result is written as a new file beside the original, which is never touched. That makes it the last missing piece of Latte's scan family: ScanStraightener squares up page photos, ScanToPDF binds them into searchable PDFs, and now ScanToDocx hands you back editable text. All three are live, all offline. ScanToPDF landed last week in the MoneyCoffee roundup, and this launch closes the arc.

TripRoute: the trip video you wished you had filmed

TripRoute turns a trip you have already taken into the video you wish you had filmed. Type in the places you went, say how you got between them, and a camera flies the whole route across a 3D globe, arcs drawn as they are travelled and each stop named as you arrive.

Every leg travels the way you did: plane, train, car, boat, or on foot, each with its own marker and its own share of the pacing. The camera pulls back for a long leg, eases in on arrival, and holds at each stop just long enough for the name to land. Pick a shape tall for Reels and Stories, square for a feed, wide for anywhere else, and the preview changes with it. The export is a real render, not a screen recording, so it comes out smooth even on a machine that cannot play the preview smoothly.

Your trips are files you own. Save a route wherever you keep things, reopen it months later, adjust one stop, and export again. There's no library holding them hostage, and the result is an ordinary MP4 you can post anywhere.

Emojito is coming to Frappe

Frappe also has a new name on the waitlist. Emojito will search every emoji, sticker, and GIF, and copy with one keystroke. It joins VectorStudio in Mocha as the two drinks still steeping.

Every drink on the menu is included in a Solo Cup or Family Roast plan, and the 7-day free trial needs no credit card. The menu is at 75 apps and counting. See the plans.