Martin Lexow

Let your apps fly—in a pie • Now available on the Mac App Store: apps.apple.com/app/id673978...

I built a music player my 72-year-old mom can actually use. “Music for Seniors” is free, accessible, and live on Product Hunt today. I’d love your feedback → www.producthunt.com/products/mus...

Theine 4 is designed to look insanely great on macOS 27.

Every interaction, memorable.

Your desktop is cluttered with files, some of them confidential, that you’d rather keep out of sight during screen sharing or presentations. #Theine now hides them with a single click.

Theine 4 is here! ☕️ It does what it has done best since 2015 (!): keeping your Mac awake, preventing sleep and the screen saver, for a set amount of time or indefinitely. Rebuilt from the ground up to feel right at home on macOS for the next ten years → apps.apple.com/app/apple-st...

Theine 4 is a rare kind of good, honest software: built independently, with every detail deliberate, from the interface to the animations and sound design. You’ll feel the difference.

Theine 4 ships September 7

Experimenting with reels for my Mac apps. Keep this style or try something else?

App icons with the new Liquid Glass in macOS 27 appear flatter. Is there still hope of giving my app icon for Theine more visual depth without it looking stylistically out of place? 🧐 cc @matthewskiles.com

Apple’s Contacts app has gotten visually noisier with every release. So I built myself a version that isn’t. Anyone else want a calm contacts app?

sweating the details

The smaller the detail, the longer the day.

I too think we need a tapir emoji frankrausch.com/tapir-emoji/

Without Folder Quick Look, there’s no folder quick look

Don’t be square—use pie menus! 😜

This is what UI sounds like when you DIY it instead of hiring a pro like @joshmobley.com

Here’s how to take Voice Notes on your iPhone 🗣️ youtube.com/shorts/vEkhD...

Liquid Glass made UI design louder. I still find joy in the most unobtrusive interactions. They don’t trigger a wow, often nothing articulable at all, but they instill a grounded sense of control and function.

Let’s say the last animation tool I used was #Macromedia Flash, and I’ve been out of the game for 20 years. What’s the modern equivalent I should be looking into in 2026?

First 500 users who use the code EARLYADOPTER can unlock the entire app for free, forever 🤫

Just added to Transcription Pro for Final Cut users: ITT export that drops straight into FCPX, and caption burn-in with custom fonts, sizes, and placement. All fully offline.

Transcription Pro now lets you burn captions directly into any video file 🔥 youtu.be/v_we2tdOe9g

New in Transcription Pro: Take voice notes and watch them transcribe live 🎙️ apps.apple.com/app/id674790...

Now available on the App Store: Music for Seniors 🎶 apps.apple.com/app/id675653...

In noisy times, we need quieter apps. youtu.be/EmjWXmzLZN0

Here’s a preview of my app that rethinks Apple Music through the lens of cognitive accessibility, stripping away complexity to create a focused experience. Designed to give older adults, people who are less familiar with tech, and individuals with cognitive disabilities greater independence.

Music for Seniors is backwards compatible all the way down to iOS 17. So if you’ve passed on your old iPhone to your parents or grandparents (as long as it’s from 2018 or later), the app will work just fine 🤍

Music for Seniors. Launching March 2, 2026. Pre-order today. apps.apple.com/app/id675653...

I genuinely enjoyed using my app Music for Seniors over the past few weeks. Am I an old soul? Maybe. Either way, a slowed-down UI has clear advantages for a broad audience.

I built a music app for my mom. She’s over 70. The Liquid Glass design aesthetic overwhelms her. iOS’s Assistive Access mode is better, but it comes with heavy limitations. Preserving digital autonomy in old age is important. Now she can listen to music independently again.

New app icon. What do you think it might be?

Now available: Preview Markdown files with Folder Quick Look ✨

Kicking off the new year with an update for my very first app, Theine. It turns 11 this year. Its design has held up beautifully across all those macOS versions in between.

Signing off for a tiny year-end break. Never shipped as many products, updates, and new features as I did in 2025. Thank you for being part of my journey! One last shipment, though: stickers! 🙃 I’m sending them out for free. Just email me your address → martin@appahead.studio (while supplies last!)

My zero-friction, multi-source recorder for macOS just got better.

“The whole thing feels ridiculously polished” 🤍 youtu.be/Wvl_pUDc1lI

Fastest way to bring a Mac app to iPhone: Print stickers!

My new transcription app is still flying under the radar, but I’ve been using it for months and I’m a little proud of how nicely it turned out. If you haven’t tried it yet: treat yourself!

I’ve designed a new About window for my apps. It’s a great place to add a little soul to your software.

PolyCapture, my “Record Everything, All At Once” app for #macOS, is about to get a wonderful update: faster performance and a fresh, beautiful icon made for the new App Icon Dark Mode in macOS 26.

My Black Friday deal: No discounts. Just honest, fair pricing — every day of the year. Because well-designed indie apps crafted with love, care, and a lot of late-night debugging require a sustainable income.

New update: Folder Quick Look now has a Grid View!

Stickers, anyone? 👋

New App to rule the Rule of Three → apps.apple.com/app/id674741...

“Looks, feels, and works like a feature that ought to be built into the Finder itself.” — John Gruber 🤍 daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...

Dark or Light — what’s your vibe?

I’ve built a Quick Look extension for #macOS that lets you peek inside folders and archives instantly. It’s out today on the Mac App Store. Go get it — it’s free. apps.apple.com/app/id675311...

On-Device. On Point. On iOS. apps.apple.com/app/id674790...

Do More. Wait Less. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh3e...

New app: Ultra-fast on-device batch transcription. Running macOS 26? Try it on TestFlight — I’d love your feedback! testflight.apple.com/join/eqHe9g46