SHINY OBJECT DEPT.

THE MAC APP

A calm Mac home for everything you started.

Shiny Object Dept. is a native macOS app that finds the projects, experiments, and investigations competing for your attention, and shows you what each one needs.

Point it at your projects folder and it does the rest. Nothing to register, nothing to maintain, and nothing written into your repositories.

Shiny Object Dept. for macOS is in formation. Direct download, outside the Mac App Store.

  1. 01

    Finds your projects

    Starts with ~/git and treats every directory as a candidate. No setup, no registration, no opt-in.

  2. 02

    Reads Git and your toolchain

    Branch, changes, and remotes at a glance, plus the Swift, Xcode, Node, and Wrangler pieces inside each repository.

  3. 03

    Tends local Supabase

    See which projects have a local Supabase stack, start or stop it, jump to Studio and Mailpit, and spot port conflicts across projects.

  4. 04

    One click to work

    Open a project in Finder or Terminal, or jump to its GitHub repository.

  5. 05

    Leaves your repositories alone

    Its own metadata lives outside your projects. Discovered projects are observations, never registered records.

  6. 06

    Native to the Mac

    Built with SwiftUI: sidebar, inspector, settings, and keyboard shortcuts you already know.

Platform
macOS 14 or later
Distribution
Direct download, signed and notarized
Status
In formation