Tidy
Your Mac tidies itself — and names files by what's inside
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Your Mac tidies itself — and names files by what's inside
131 followers
Tidy keeps Downloads and the Desktop organised on their own, naming files by reading what's inside them with on-device OCR — "Screenshot 14.22.10.png" becomes "invoice-march.png". Scan paper with your iPhone and the file lands in Downloads already named, never touching your camera roll. Search inside scanned PDFs where Spotlight can't. It refuses to invent: every word in a name must exist in the document. Light or dark, five languages. Never deletes, dry-run, undo. $9 once, no subscription.
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Update, 48 hours after launch: everything this thread asked for is shipped — and then some. 🚢
v1.2 is live:
· Dry-run mode — flip it on and Tidy shows its plan ("file → destination") before anything moves, with one-click Apply
· Searchable history — including exactly what went to the Trash, so you can empty it with confidence
· Run-level undo — one click reverts an entire sorting pass
· Automatic updates — this is the last version you'll ever have to download by hand. Tidy keeps itself current from here on.
You asked on Tuesday. It's all live by Thursday. Free update, same $9, still no subscription: tidymacapp.com
Thank you for writing my roadmap — keep it coming.
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Launch day is a wrap — thank you, everyone.
Final tally: #17 of the day, 125 upvotes, and the most trust-focused comment
thread I could have hoped for. You wrote half of the 1.1 roadmap yourselves:
preview/dry-run mode, a reviewable history, folder exclusions, and run-level
undo — all coming.
To everyone who bought Tidy on day one: your Mac is about to get very boring,
in the best way.
And to whoever finds the next edge case: hola@tidymacapp.com. Yesterday
morning proved fixes ship in about an hour. 🧹
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@etiennegarcia Thanks Etienne! That was the original itch — the day I started building Tidy I counted 14 forgotten .dmg files in my Downloads. And the fun part: it doesn't discriminate. Seconds after I installed it for the first time, it ejected and trashed its own installer. It practices what it preaches :)
the screenshots renamed via on-device OCR is such a thoughtful touch. honestly didn't know i needed it until i saw it. love that it only touches new files too, feels safe to leave running.
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@berilyldrtfy2q Thank you! That feature came straight from my own pain: squinting at a wall of "Screenshot 14.22.10.png" thumbnails trying to find one bank receipt. Naming them by what they actually say felt obvious in hindsight — the best tweaks usually do.
And "feels safe to leave running" honestly made my day — that was the entire design brief in five words.
the on-device OCR renaming screenshots based on their actual content is such a clever touch. feels like the kind of small detail that makes you trust the rest of the app to do the right thing.
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@berkevgo Thank you! You can judge a restaurant by its bathroom — small, unseen care predicts the rest. That was the bet with Tidy: an app that touches your files has to earn trust in the smallest details first, because that's where people decide whether to believe the big promises. Really glad the OCR naming carried that weight for you.