PageTatin is a desktop flatplan application for magazine and publication teams. It runs locally on your machine – macOS and Windows available now – with a one-time payment and no subscription. Plan your issue page by page: mark editorial vs. advertising, track page counts, export to PDF, share projects with other PageTatin users. Available in five languages (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish).
New feature Groundwork for a native file format: PageTatin now has the code in place to read and write its own native file format. .json remains available as a separate export format for backwards compatibility.
Enhancement The app binary is now named PageTatin (previously App), so it shows up clearly in Activity Monitor, Task Manager, and other system reporting tools, and is easier for IT teams to identify and manage.
Enhancement License tab: you can now give each activated device a name, making your machines easy to tell apart. This helps when you need support to free up a device slot for a machine you can no longer deactivate yourself one that was damaged, lost, stolen, or sold, or where the operating system was reinstalled after the drive was wiped.
Enhancement Better handling when adding thumbnail images from a multi-page .pdf while cover pages are selected.
Enhancement Hold Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows) and click a category or status to open Settings for editing it.
Enhancement You can now export the page and ad statistics on their own, without the rest of the flatplan.
Enhancement .pdf thumbnails that contain crop marks are now shown automatically at the cropped size.
New feature: Page and ad statistics: see a detailed breakdown of your category and advertisement assignments.
Enhancement: Bulk-edit page notes: select several pages and edit their notes at once through an overlay leave it empty to clear the notes, or type a note to replace them.
Enhancement: Thumbnail import for multi-page PDFs: unlock locked pages during thumbnail placement with an optional checkbox, so they receive thumbnails along with the rest.
Enhancement: Bigger type size in the PDF export for pages with many thumbnails, keeping the text legible.
Bug fix: Fixed a vertical misalignment of the categories in the first row.
Bug fix macOS only: resolved a sidebar UI glitch (pill scaling) when switching from a page selection to the idle UI state.
Bug fix Windows only: File Open Project now works as expected.
Bug fix Windows only: added the missing code-signing credentials, so Windows now shows a verified publisher (PageTatin) instead of an unknown one.
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Six years ago I made an InDesign flatplan template and put it on Gumroad with no marketing. 141 people in 27 countries found it anyway. The limiting factors of the InDesign template and the ideas I had to make it better were channeled into a proper desktop application this spring.
I’m René, the creator of PageTatin and this is my first product hunt. The app runs locally on your machine and costs a one-time payment, including 12 months of updates and bug fixes. Built with Tauri + Rust + React, using Claude Code as my development partner. Ed25519-signed license files mean the “runs locally” promise is technically true, not just a tagline.
The name is derived from Tarte Tatin – a French classic – because a flatplan is a structured, layered arrangement of pages. Hopefully, like a good dessert, PageTatin brings a little joy to the process of planning your publications. Happy to answer anything about the build, the publishing workflow, or the features I always wanted in a tool like this.
PH exclusive: use code PRODUCTHUNT49 for $49 on the Freelancer license (valid for one week).
Six years ago I made an InDesign flatplan template and put it on Gumroad with no marketing. 141 people in 27 countries found it anyway. The limiting factors of the InDesign template and the ideas I had to make it better were channeled into a proper desktop application this spring.
I’m René, the creator of PageTatin and this is my first product hunt. The app runs locally on your machine and costs a one-time payment, including 12 months of updates and bug fixes. Built with Tauri + Rust + React, using Claude Code as my development partner. Ed25519-signed license files mean the “runs locally” promise is technically true, not just a tagline.
The name is derived from Tarte Tatin – a French classic – because a flatplan is a structured, layered arrangement of pages. Hopefully, like a good dessert, PageTatin brings a little joy to the process of planning your publications.
Happy to answer anything about the build, the publishing workflow, or the features I always wanted in a tool like this.
PH exclusive: use code PRODUCTHUNT49 for $49 on the Freelancer license (valid for one week).