Notes from the café
Guides, release notes, and the occasional brew log - everything we're pouring at getapps.cafe.
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Fresh Brews: TickerBar and DemoTrading Join the Menu
A menu bar ticker for live stock and crypto prices, plus a trading simulator that practises on real market data with fake money.
Fresh Brews: RistrettoFit, CheckersCafe, and Portfocino Join the Menu
A calorie-counting fitness app, a proper checkers board, and a net worth tracker join the menu.
Fresh Brews: SteepJournal, BookCafe, and PersonalCRM Join the Menu
Three new apps join the menu: an encrypted diary, a chapter-based book writer, and a quiet keeper for the people you mean to call.
Fresh Brews: Eight New Apps Join the Menu
Eight drinks joined the menu overnight, and the count is only half the story. For the first time since the summer, the Coming Soon shelf is empty: 111 apps, all live.
Fresh Brews: Eleven New Apps Join the Menu
Eleven apps joined the menu in two days - the biggest pour since August 4. QuoteMug, DockerCats, AwakeBean, PDFToWord, and seven more across five shelves.
Fresh Brews: MokaStudio, SiteWrap, and Four More Join the Menu
Six apps joined the menu this week, led by MokaStudio, the video editor we first teased back in July. SiteWrap, PianoTrainer, LearnJapanese, FileSearch, and PrivateMedia round out the batch, plus a few shelf rearrangements.
Fresh Brews: Five New Apps Join the Menu
Five drinks joined the menu in a single day: a whiteboard, a wallpaper puppy, a site auditor, a Markdown writer, and a stretch timer. All membership drinks, all local-first.
Fresh Brews: BlinkBrew, Decoresso, and Emojito Join the Menu
BlinkBrew is new in Cold Brew, Decoresso and Emojito graduate from Coming Soon, and two categories hit full shelves. The café now serves 81 apps.
Fresh Brews: CalCafe, FlightTrack, and TinyPDF Join the Menu
Three new apps joined the menu this week: a calendar that never touches a server, a live 3D view of the world's air traffic, and the third member of the tiny compression family.
8 Menu Bar Apps That Replace 15 Subscriptions
Eight apps on the getapps.cafe menu cover fifteen paid services that live in the menu bar, about $774 a year in subscriptions. Here's the full trade.
11 macOS Keyboard Shortcuts That Replace 5 Paid Apps
Spotlight, Quick Look, Live Text, text replacements, and window tiling: macOS ships shortcuts that replace five categories of paid utilities. Here's what they cover, where they stop, and when a real app earns its keep.
Fresh Brews: FolderRoast, BrewSpin, and BeatCafe Join the Menu
Three brand-new apps join the menu: FolderRoast for folders you can find at a glance, BrewSpin as a desktop record player, and BeatCafe for local stem separation. ScanToDocx also completes Latte's scan family and TripRoute animates the trips you already took.