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There is a new player in the category of apps that includes Yoink, Dropover and Dropshelf. Dockside, from Hachipoo Apps is a shelf utility that uses the space on either side of your dock (if you position it on the bottom of your monitor). For those of use who position our docks on the left or right sides of the screen, Dockside places a couple of landing places at the bottom of the display, hidden until you need them.

Dockside creates a shelf for your Downloads folder and the default location you have designated for screenshots. In addition, you specify a file location of your choosing for files you drag into Dockside. Once files are placed on a Dockside shelf, there are a variety of Finder actions you can take:

• Open
• Open with
• Share
• Get info
• Show in Finder
• Copy Path name
• Rename
• Copy
• Copy to...
• Move to...
• Move to trash

Additionally, depending on the type of object on the shelf, you can:

• Compress
• Remove image metadata
• Extract text from images
• Optimize image size (if you have Clop installed

Other features include the ability to create a quick note with your default text editor on the shelf and the ability to paste content onto a shelf. Any item placed on a shelf that has Quicklook capability is viewable via that mechanism. Dockside also maintains a recent files history in its interface.

Dockside is an Apple notarized app that can operate offline since it has no external server connection and collects no data on users. There is a two-week free trial and the app can be purchased for $5.99 on the developer’s website.

If you are a writer or just like words, the chances are you find Apple’s built-in Dictionary app a little lacking. There are websites that offer advanced functionality, but you have to be online to use them. There are a few free tools that can help you out.

Nisus Thesaurus

From the developers of Nisus writer, this free thesaurus app, integrates with Apple's services menu to allow use in just about any application where you can enter text. Just highlight the word, "and choose Nisus Thesaurus from the Services menu. When you select a word in Nisus Thesaurus, the synonyms for that word will be shown right next to it in the Word Browser. Go from "sky" to "cumulonimbus" in just a few clicks."

Megawords

For crossword puzzle fans, poets and songwriters, Megawords from developer Frank O'Dwyer is a powerful stand alone app available in the Mac App Store. It's features include:

• rhyme search (works offline)
• wildcard search (crossword solver mode, works offline)
• dictionary lookup of word meanings (multiple dictionaries, online only)
• thesaurus lookup (online only)
• search SOWPODS or TWL or both (Scrabble dictionaries)

Esse

Esse from Ameba Labs offers 61 different text manipulations across eight different categories, similar to Word Service from Devon Technologies or the paid app, Text Workflow. You can do things like:

• All sorts of case changes (ALL CAPS, lowercase, CaMeL, snake_case, etc.)
• Word counts (including unique word counts and text statistics)
• Encoding
• Add/remove/convert line breaks
• Fix/convert quotes
• Extract dates, addresses, dates, emails, phone numbers
• JSON tools
• Line removal options
• Strip non-alpha-numeric characters

There is also an iOS version.

I bought Mail Archiver X by Moth Software at a discount from Bundlehunt a few months back and didn’t have to pay the full $49.95 they charge on their website. My intention was to keep a regularly updated archive of my 19-year-old Gmail account containing 155K messages. I also wanted to retrieve a Yahoo account that I use solely for newsletters.

I knew beforehand that it’s extremely easy to use Google Takeout to download an archive of your email in the universally recognized mbox format because I’ve done it several times. My Gmail archive weighs in at about 8GBs. You don’t get a lot of choices when you request the archive, though. You get it all from the beginning of time. I wanted one to import into Eagle Filer so that I could have offline access to all the receipts, registration information and other things I’d received via email since 2005. Google Takeout did the trick.

With Mail Archiver X you can filter the emails you choose to archive, a feature I wanted. Unfortunately, despite supposedly being able to add files to an archive and cumulatively grow it over time, I was never able to get that function to work. Either the program insisted on downloading an entire archive each time it ran, taking hours, or it only downloaded files since the last time I ran it, but in a new file, so that I could not search my entire account at one time. Their tech support answered my emails, but not with helpful information. The company is not in the US and the person who answered my email did not appear to a native English speaker. At present, support is no longer free. They have a $70 fee.

The other thing about the app I don’t care for is its size. It’s over half a GB. That’s just the program, not the archives it creates. I would never recommend this program to anyone.

One of my favorite parts of using a Mac is making use of all the automation apps, including the built in ones, Automator and Shortcuts. My productivity would be severely hampered without:

• Apps to Enhance Apple Shortcuts
• Clop for image processing
• Hazel for file management
• Keyboard Maestro for all kinds of stuff ( I have 800 macros)
• Better Touch Tool for Magic Trackpad and more

All of those are paid apps though. If you want a free app (donation ware) to explore the possibilities of automation, try downloading Task Til Dawn by developer Oliver Matuschin. It's an app with a GUI, not a command line. You can trigger actions via events on your computer, or you can schedule them. The program will run from a thumb drive if you need to perform the same task on all the computers in a lab or an office. Tasks are saved as files and can be shared among workstations. Samples include:

• Automatically connect network drives at login
• Automatically print all documents placed in a certain folder
• Automatically copy images when a certain external drive (including thumb drives) is connected
• Open or quit applications on a schedule (I use scheduling to launch a program that syncs my Obsidian vault at 3am, one that ejects my backup drive before I wake up so I can just unplug it and to move screenshots and image files from my daily work to a storage location when I am done for the day)
• Turn off automatic Time Machine backups and run them on a schedule
• Empty the trash on a schedule
• Take screenshots at scheduled intervals
• Display a dialog box (useful for public computers to pass info to users)
• Automate the opening of URLs

There are dozens of other tasks, and they can all be strung together to create a practically endless amount of tasks. As a bonus for cross-platform users. Compatible tasks can be shared between Macs and Windows machines with little alteration. The Windows download is also free.

For years, I kept a text editor open on my computer at all times and when I needed a scratchpad, I would switch to it and type or paste whatever I needed. Then Raycast came along with it’s floating notes feature, which is nice. It can be summoned with a hot key. Then I found Scrap Paper, which can also be called with a hotkey, syncs between computers and has an iOS version. You can hide the icon in the menu bar if you just want to use the hotkey. Furthermore, you can have the text window stay on top of all other windows, which is a feature I want. Finally, I saw Scratchpad on r/MacApps and I thought I’d give it a try. It has everything Scrap Paper has, but can also be launched from the dock. It adds

• Automatically creating clickable links from pasted URLS
• Control over font selection
• Text size adjustment
• Line spacing
• Smart quotes
• Smart Dashes
• Translucent background

Because it's text, you get access to the writing tools, spelling and grammar, substitutions, speech and the Mac Services menu. One awesome feature is the ability to use Quicklook on a link, which opens a small window with a live view of the web page, similar to the Little Arc feature in the Arc browser.

Scratchpad offers scripting and shortcuts support. You can enter text onto Scratchpad from any app that can open a URL.

There is a fully functional free trial of the macOS app available here. The only limitation is a reminder to buy the app every 12 hours, and no automatic updates. All data and settings carry over if you buy it on the App Store.

Scratchpad is available in the Mac App Store for $5. It’s by well-known Indy developer Sindre Sorhus.

A free app by a developer who goes by INCHMAN1900 on Gumroad can provide an easy way to manage images if it fits your workflow. His small app, FASA (Forget About Save As), lets you copy images from any source to your clipboard and then paste them as files in the Finder. You can use this procedure to quickly export files from the Photos app, skipping the dialog boxes you normally get. It even works on screenshots that you copy to the clipboard. The programs preferences let you choose between jpg and png for your preferred file type. You can start or stop the app at any time and you can choose programs to exclude from using the service if you have that need.

If you own a copy of Clop, it also has this ability. You can also do it using the Finder replacement, Qspace.

(Note - There are other things in this world called FASA. This is not affiliated with them. The dev and I both know this 😉)

I had a real-world task today that was perfect for AI, except all the tools I tried kept quitting halfway through. I had a list of over 100 URLs that I needed to convert into a Chrome bookmark file for an import I was trying to do. This involves going out on the internet to get the title of each page and formatting an HTML link, complete with the correct header and footer.

I tried:

• Google Gemini Pro
• ChatGPT Web Interface
• Typing Mind

All three of these would generate between 40–50 lines of code and then quit. The last app I tried was Elephas. I used a very simple prompt, "You are a web developer. You create web pages based on descriptions given to you." The reason Elephas succeeded where others failed was because of the choices it offers in AI models and the limits on them. It allows you to choose between:

• OpenAI (15 different choices)
• Groq
• Claude (7 different choices)
• Custom (local)
• Gemini (four different choices)

I selected gpt-4-turbo and was able to set the context tokens to a max of 100,000. It took a while to generate the file, but it finally did it in a usable format.

Elephas has a variety of pricing plans for both subscriptions, starting at 8.99amonthforlimitedusageupto249 for a lifetime plan with unlimited tokens. I use the version that is available through Setapp with my own API keys for OpenAI and Gemini, for which the charges are negligible.

Another interesting feature of Elephas is its ability to scan folders of documents on your local machine and incorporate that knowledge into its answers. I have an Obsidian vault with 7K notes that it uses, as well as a 1GB directory of PDF files on various topics. It can also do all the standard things we’ve come to expect from AI apps:

• Generate ideas
• Summarization
• Write articles (don't do this, it's lazy)
• Answer questions
• Reply to emails

There is also an iOS version of Elephas.

With the deprecation of the classic uBlock Origin as blocker by Google Chrome in favor of a less powerful Light version and the ever-increasing need for security, Mac users have the option of downloading the NextDNS configuration app from the Mac App Store and setting up a free account with the enhanced DNS server. If you aren’t into acronyms, DNS stands for dynamic name service and it is what translates IP addresses into the URLs we use to name websites. You can use a special DNS service to block malware, ads, trackers and other unwanted traffic from ever reaching your computer by using one.

NextDNS is free for up to 300,000 queries a month and you can use the same account on multiple computers, mobile devices and your router. It works on Macs and PCs, iPhones and Android devices - on anything that allows you to enter your own network settings. If you have a large household and need a paid account, it is just $1.99 a month.

Technically speaking, you don’t even have to use the app .NextDNS can automatically generate a profile for you to use on your Mac and mobile devices and if you have the right kind of router, you can set it up without having to make ANY modifications to your computer.

 NextDNS Features

• Ads and Trackers - currently blocking 119,372 addresses
• Block domains known to distribute malware, launch phishing attacks and host command-and-control servers using a blend of the most reputable threat intelligence feeds — all updated in real-time.
• Block malware and phishing domains using Google Safe Browsing — a technology that examines billions of URLs per day looking for unsafe websites. Unlike the version embedded in some browsers, this does not associate your public IP address to threats and does not allow bypassing the block.
• Prevent the unauthorized use of your devices to mine cryptocurrency.
• Block domains that impersonate other domains by abusing the large character set made available with the arrival of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) — e.g. replacing the Latin letter "e" with the Cyrillic letter "е".
• Block domains registered by malicious actors that target users who incorrectly type a website address into their browser — e.g. gooogle.com instead of google.com.
• Block Parked Domains
• Block any Top Level Domain
• Block Newly Registered Websites
• Block CSAM
• Optional Parental controls for YouTube, Safe Search, Time-based rules, specific apps, websites and games

Sign up here

I posted yesterday about an app I’d tested called StartupManager that helps control the login items on your Mac by reordering them, starting them hidden and introducing delays. One thing it doesn’t do is control items that launch in the background.

Today I found an app that does a good job with that aspect of app management. Coincidentally, it’s also called Startup Manager, but it’s a totally different app by a different developer, Systweak Software (Shrishail Rana). Where it shines is in telling you all the apps that you have installed that have background processes, even if they are disabled. In the system settings for macOS, some background processes are identified by the name of the developer rather than the name of the app, making it confusing to sort out what you are trying to control. Startup Manager identifies all the processes using the name of the associated app.

The recently updated app (September 2024) provides information on browser extensions, Kernel extensions, Launch items, Library inserts, Login items, and Spotlight importers. In the login items, launch items and browser plugins categories you can enable/disable each item, delete it, get information about it and see where it’s located in the Finder.

By default, Apple’s applications are not shown, but you can toggle them on if desired.

Startup manager is free and can ve downloaded in the Mac App Store.

macOS doesn’t make it easy to manage your startup options anymore. The app, Startup Manager, by developer Arie van Boxel brings back some of the options that have been removed and adds quite a few more. If you use Startup Manager, you can once again choose the order in which apps launch, and you can have them hidden on launch as well.

Other features include:

• Temporarily disable a startup item without removing it from the list
• Use different sets of startup apps which you can choose at login
• Backup/restore login sets
• Stop/Start all or a single Login Item with the push of a button (you can also use the contextual menu)
• Set a delay between any items during login
• Add any process, such as login helpers inside application packages
• Skip items that need network access when there’s no network available
• Mount network drives
• Apple native, written in Swift
• Import/Export items to/from System Settings

Startup Manager doesn't have any control over items that macOS launches in the background.

In all my time using a Mac, I’ve never found more uses for a single app as I have for the note taking app, Obsidian. With a robust selection of over 1900 plugins, Obsidian can be configured to import and manipulate data from a great many sources. It can even be used for publishing. Using the Dataview plugin makes it function like a database. It stays open at all times on both my Macs. There are a great many resources to help you master it, including on Reddit, Discord, the developer’s website, YouTube and numerous blogs.

Here are 77 use cases

1. A scratchpad for temporary text snippets
2. Published blog posts
3. Bookmarks via Raindrop.io
4. People you work with (co-workers)
5. Customers/Clients
6. A record of your daily appointments
7. Weather reports
8. Restaurants where you've eaten
9. Recipes
10. Watched YouTube videos
11. Watched movies
12. Watched TV shows
13. Music you've listened to
14. Games you've played/bought
15. Apps you want to buy
16. Receipts via email
17. Apps you own
18. Analytics reports from your web site or blog
19. Registration info for software you've purchased
20. A record of interactions with your family members who live separately
21. Random photos
22. Saved blog posts from writers you like
23. Phone numbers and contact information
24. An outline of your online security plan (DNS, VPN, Firewall, Ad Blocker, Password Manager), just don't include passwords in plain text%
25. Copies of your insurance cards
26. Lyrics to your favorite songs
27. Profile pictures to use on web sites
28. A list of numbers to call if you lose your wallet/purse
29. Podcasts you want to subscribe to
30. Books you've read/want to read
31. Vacation plans
32. Your favorite memes
33. Copies of vital documents like birth certificates, marriage licenses etc.
34. A copy of your resume
35. Your current and past goals
36. A copy of your will
37. A copy of your healthcare power of attorney
38. The random poem you've written
39. Cue sheets for long bicycle rides
40. Jokes you want to remember
41. A list of things you love
42. A record of completed tasks from your task manager
43. Your favorite quotes
44. Transcripts of your Q&As with ChatGPT or Google Gemini
45. Saved emails
46. Notes from training you've attended
47. The encryption key for Bitlocker or File Vault
48. A brag document for your job
49. Technical "How to" documents for computer related tasks
50. Genealogy info
51. Wifi passwords
52. Imported web pages from your read it later service
53. RSS feeds from your favorite blogs
54. Software manuals
55. Appliance manuals
56. Default settings for your computer
57. A record of your Amazon purchases
58. End of the year "Best of" articles to check out on books, TV, podcasts, movies, articles
59. Screenshots of social media posts you like
60. Purchasing wish list
61. Templates for various dataview queries
62. Terminal or Powershell commands too complicated to remember
63. How to write in Markdown
64. Search tips, syntax and operators for your favorite search engine or AI
65. API Keys for various web services
66. Templates for your Obsidian plugins
67. Templater snippets
68. All the topics in your quotes collection
69. Drafts blog posts
70. A history of your social media posts
71. A "To Watch" list for YouTube and television
72. A daily gratitude list
73. A record of new things you've learned
74. Alarm codes for your relative's houses
75. A dataview query for notes created today
76. A dataview query for notes modified today
77. Waypoint Folder Notes for your important folders of notes

If you want to test out betas without endangering your primary machine or if or if your a developer looking to test backwards compatibility with previous versions of macOS with your app or even if you just want a safe way to test software you want to try before adding it to your daily driver, take a look at Virtual Buddy, by developer Guilherme Rambo, a GitHub release with 5.1K stars. It also runs several Linux distros if you have a need for that.

You can choose a Mac release (including betas) from a long list ranging from macOS 13.3 all the way to macOS 15.1 RC1. If you have a URL for another IPSW or an IPSW you have already downloaded, you can use them as well.

If you want to install a beta of a version higher than what you are running on your host computer, all you need to do is download the latest device support package from Apple which you can sometimes download from their website but cal always get if you install the latest Xcode beta.

The developer lists these features:

• Ability to boot any version of macOS 12 or macOS 13, including betas
• Ability to boot some ARM-based Linux distros (tested with Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Desktop)
• Built-in installation wizard
  • Select from a collection of restore images available on Apple's servers
  • Install the latest stable version of macOS
  • Local restore image IPSW file
  • Custom restore image URL
  • Install a Linux distro from a local .iso file
  • Select from a collection of Linux distros
  • Install Linux from URL

• Boot into recovery mode (in order to disable SIP, for example)
• Networking and file sharing support
• Clipboard sharing
• Customize virtual machine hardware configuration
• Save and restore macOS virtual machine state

Download from GitHub.

One of the most useful features of Finder replacements like PathFinder or Qspace Pro is the enhanced right-click menus they offer with features like cut, copy and paste for files and the ability to create different types of new files among others. Not everyone wants to replace Finder though for various reasons like security and system overhead. Luckily, there is a handy utility, MouseBoost, from developer gmshrek that adds numerous features to the right-click menu in Finder itself.

Features

• Create new file - add any file type you want
• Commonly used directories - I added Downloads and Screenshots
• Commonly used apps
• Commonly used scripts - supports shell and AppleScripts
• Show/Hide Files
• Lock/Unlock Files
• Color picking - copy Hex or RGB
• Cut-paste, move, and copy files
• Add files to encrypted archive
• Open Terminal or iTerm 2 at location
• Change Folder Icon
• Resize or convert image
• Remove item from disk (as opposed to sending it to the Trash)

You can save your settings in iCloud and import them on other computers. MouseBoost may also be called from a hotkey. Any element you choose not to use can be toggled off so as not to clutter your interface. You can also fold any element into a unified MouseBoost submenu.

There is a built-in 21 day free trial. The app can be purchased via IAP for $5.99 It is available in the Mac App Store.

The default Mac controls for audio aren’t that great if you have multiple sound outputs, laptop speakers, Bluetooth earbuds or external speakers in a docking setup. Rogue Amoeba’s SoundSource is an example of what granular control should look like.

A menu bar app that can be summoned with a hotkey or turned into a floating window, SoundSource offers machine wide controls for Output, Input, and Sound Effects settings for all system devices with a slider for each one’s volume control. There is also a button for a feature called Magic Boost which does a great job of enhancing sound quality, particularly on a MacBook’s speakers. A drop-down menu provides you with a choice of the default output.

This same functionality can be controlled on a per-app basis. You can set Apple Music to always play on your external speakers with Magic Boost enabled, while having system sound effects played at a quieter level on your MacBook speakers. Should you need to switch to a Teams Meeting or a Zoom call, the system will automatically switch to your earbuds when you open the corresponding app.

SoundSource has 17 different Shortcuts actions. You can use Shortcuts to create custom sound settings for different situations by controlling sources and volume levels with the apps choose to open.

Other features include:

• 10-band audio equalizer
• Volume keys for devices that don't support the native keys (like HDMI and display port audio)
• Headphone EQ
• Magic boost has been upgraded from previous versions
• Menu bar meters for output device, input device, open/active apps

There is a free trial at the developer's website. The upgrade price is $19 and the purchase price is $39.

By default, the built-in macOS backup utility, Time Machine, makes a new snapshot on your designated backup disk once an hour. This can be problematic during your work day if you need the full system resources of your computer, but it has decided to start copying a bunch of files to your backup. The venerable utility, Time Machine Editor, a free app by developer Thomas Clement is the solution to this problem. To use TME, you first need to go into Time Machine options in System Settings and set your backups to “Manually.” Download and install TME from the developers’s website or through Homebrew.

brew install --cask timemachineeditor

Once installed, you can choose any of several options to schedule Time Machine backups. On my work iMac, I chose to stop the backups between 8am and 5pm when I am using the computer but to continue hourly backups after that. To be on the safe side, TME allows you to create local disk snapshots during the time you are not writing to your backup disk. They are very fast to make, and provide additional restoration points. Since they are local, they do not protect against a disk crash but can be useful if the machine goes away from the backup disk for a while.

I’ve used this utility for more than a decade, and it’s never let me down.

Sharing sensitive data via email or cloud services is risky without using encryption. Advanced users can use Disk Utility or a compression app like Keka to make a disk image or ZIP file with a password but an easier solution and one with a few more features is Encrypto from MacPaw.

Encrypto takes any file or folder and secures it with 256-bit AES encryption. Instead of relaying the password in a separate email or phone call, you can create a password hint with the app that only the recipient would know. You can send the encrypted file via email, Messages, Airdrop, cloud sharing, a USB drive or any method you choose. You can also use Encrypto to create encrypted archives on your own computer for an extra layer of protection if you want to.

Encrypto is a free app, available in the Mac App Store.

I am a firm believer in establishing a backup routine with multiple failsafes. I’ve managed to hold on to some of my data for over 25 years as a result. Yep, I still have the MP3 files I downloaded from Napster in the 90s. I run a Time Machine backup and I make regular SuperDuper full disk clones. For offsite data storage, I recently discovered Duplicati, a free, open-source backup program that uses encryption to securely store your data on various cloud services, local drives, or remote servers. It offers flexible scheduling, versioning, and incremental backups for reliable data protection.

The free plan covers up to five computers. I downloaded and installed the client. It launches a web interface that walks you through setting up you first backup. To test it, I elected to create a backup of my Obsidian vault using my free Dropbox account as the file storage destination. I elected to back the files up every 24 hours and it has been running every day at exactly the time I selected. 

Duplicati also works with Google Drive, One Drive and Box as well as Azure Blob and Amazon S3. It works with Windows machines too, in case you want to add one of those to your free account. Be default is uses AES-256 encryption standard, but you can choose PGP encryption as an option.

The free plan includes:

• Monitor backups from anywhere
• Secure credential storage (planned)
• Insights dashboard
• Monitor up to 5 machines
• View the last 200 backups
• 1 year monitoring retention
• Community support

Most AI tools on the market these days fall into one of two categories:

• Writing assistants that correct spelling and grammar or do other text manipulation
• Basic question answering or search engine type functions

ClicKnow by independent developer aike9m studio doesn't do either of those things. It also doesn't require a monthly fee or the use of your own API key. What ClicKnow does is act on text you select to perform a variety of functions. It is compatible with PopClip in that you can have apps running at the same time and get full functionality from both of them.

ClicKnow Features

• Translates selected text into the language of your choice (select language in settings)
• Summarize big blocks of selected text, very useful when researching
• Spell check (can be turned on/off in settings)
• Tracks flight numbers
• Pops up a calendar when a time string is selected, allowing you to add it to Google or Apple Calendars
• Calculates the result of a math formula
• Explain selected programming code in plain language

All the actions take place as popups in the app you are working in. There is no switching between apps to get your results. You can copy data right from the ClicKnow interface. If you are working in a multilingual document or even a social media app with an international flavor, the multi-language support is awesome. The ability to get any text explained, whether it is complex scientific terms or the latest Internet slang, is better than any dictionary app.

ClicKnow comes with a free trial. A single license is good for two Macs. The one-time cost is $12. You can download it from the developer’s website.

Kiano, a free app from the Visual Computing Group, provides a unique way to view and search your photo library. On my M3 iMac, it analyzed 22K images in about two and half minutes. It then displayed a grid of all the photos grouped together by similarity to one another. For example, all the landscape images I had showing broad expanses of sky were together, as were the man, many dual selfies of my wife and i. You can choose to have the sorting weighted towards color or towards content. Clicking on an image opens it within the program, where you can make your search even more granular by it having it find all the images that are similar to the one you have selected. From that interface, you can also:

• See creation and modification dates
• See the album (if any) the image is in
• View a history of the images you've examined
• Move to the next or previous photo in the album
• View a slideshow
• Add the photo to an existing or new album
• Delete the photo
• Share the photo via the Mac share sheet

You can download Kiano from the Mac App Store. There is also a version of the app for iOS.

If you have a large monitor and have the need to share your screen with others, you can experience issues when they can’t match your resolution. The free app, Deskpad, creates a virtual display within an application window that you can easily share with others. Launching Deskpad is equivalent to plugging in an additional monitor. You can use the display settings in System Settings to change the resolution and wallpaper, as well as any other monitor specific setting you have access to. Whenever you move your cursor to the virtual display, the color of the window title changes to blue, so you will know it is active.

You can download the latest version from Github or use Homebrew.

brew install deskpad.

The current version is 1.3.2, released in October 2024.