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 Distinct from the 07-07 cluster angles (built-around-one-idea, carry-with-a-trick, desktop-in-hand, kitchen-in-costume, open-a-tab, what-the-mac-hides) and the 07-08 "nothing slips past" — no theme reused.
 Uncovered finds: recall-work-session-memory and picview-image-viewer (deliberately held for this run's reviews). Genuine tail left for the ~07-12 weekly catch or a future themed bundle: chiptune-radio and isthistechdead (web toys — recently covered by the 07-07 "open a tab"), worse-on-purpose-ledger (consumer-skeptic ledger — no honest 3+ cluster this run), kaset (YouTube client — no clean theme this run), hamilton-khaki-field-mechanical-250 (a single watch — the 07-06 "three arguments on the wrist" was the watch home), uco-stormproof-match-kit and claymore-3face-mini-area-light (an EDC/outdoors pair — too few for a bundle), and london-notebook-writing (a text-only quote — belongs in a quotes bundle or the weekly catch). Not padded into a bundle to force coverage, per the skill.
 ## 2026-07-10 — capture run
 Sources scanned: 59 total — 10 `fetch: skip`, ~19 cadence-skipped (weekly/monthly/as-needed sources all freshly swept in the 07-07 full run, still inside their windows), and 30 actively scanned (all daily feeds + the ongoing shops/sources). Of the 30 active: 10 productive, ~18 empty/all-dup, 2 rate-limited (r/shortcuts, r/BuyItForLife — old.reddit 429). Same day-after-sweep profile as 07-08/07-09. Window: since the 2026-07-09 capture run. Fanned out 6 scanner subagents (source clusters) → central dedup/bar/shortlist → 2 verification subagents (physical Amazon/heroes + software shipping/screenshots).
 Productive sources: r/macapps, Hacker News — Show HN, Cool Tools, This Is Why I'm Broke, Kottke.org, AFAR, The Outbound Collective, Open Culture, r/dadjokes, icanhazdadjoke.
 Captured finds:
 - widgetscreen — WidgetScreen — source: r/macapps
 - mojave-paint — Mojave Paint — source: r/macapps
 - nanoclip — NanoClip — source: r/macapps
 - debloat-slack — Debloat Slack — source: Hacker News — Show HN
 - randofont — randoFont — source: Hacker News — Show HN
 - maptap — MapTap — source: Kottke.org
 - lectrofan-alpha-noise-machine — LectroFan Alpha — source: Cool Tools
 - do-your-whisky-whiskey-making-kit — DO Your Whisky Making Kit — source: This Is Why I'm Broke
 - quentin-blake-centre-illustration — Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration — source: AFAR
 - grand-view-park-turtle-hill — Grand View Park (Turtle Hill) — source: The Outbound Collective
 - odyssey-1911-film — The 1911 Odyssey — source: Open Culture
 - joke-ronaldo-not-messi — Not Messi — source: r/dadjokes
 - joke-magician-without-a-tres — Without a Tres — source: r/dadjokes
 - joke-ribeye-winning-argument — Rare It Is — source: r/dadjokes
 - joke-plethora-eulogy — Plethora — source: r/dadjokes
 - joke-fonzie-chick-fil-a — Chick-Fil-Eyyy — source: icanhazdadjoke
 Shortlist (9, ranked):
 1. widgetscreen — Tahoe-glass widgets on the almost-untouched Mac lock screen, with a scrubbable Now Playing control and no Screen Recording permission; genuinely new surface, real 2000px screenshot [review candidate]
 2. quentin-blake-centre-illustration — Britain's first illustration museum in a restored Victorian waterworks, named for the Roald Dahl illustrator; specific, delightful, strong AFAR hero [review candidate]
 3. lectrofan-alpha-noise-machine — 4oz rechargeable non-looping travel noise machine; physical variety, clean 1946px maker photo, Amazon link
 4. debloat-slack — open-source injector that live-strips Slackbot/huddles/AI-upsells from the native Mac Slack app; real annoyance-killer story, before/after hero
 5. mojave-paint — a light Mac paint app that smuggles in a full Photoshop-style layer-styles panel; clear single virtue, real UI screenshot
 6. maptap — free daily GeoGuessr-style game played by tapping a 3D globe; delightful low-stakes web toy
 7. do-your-whisky-whiskey-making-kit — botanicals + wood chips that "age" a cheap bottle in ~3 days; hands-on gift, Amazon link
 8. odyssey-1911-film — the first-ever film of Homer's Odyssey (1911), surviving and free to watch; culture/artifact variety
 9. grand-view-park-turtle-hill — a hidden SF Sunset District sunset hilltop with 360° views and no Twin Peaks crowd; travel variety
 Not shortlisted (captured, lower priority): nanoclip (clipboard category saturated after the 07-08 Reclips review and the smartclipboard/paste-switch captures, though its on-device OCR/upscale/transform "flows" are a real distinction) and randofont (delightful but niche, and heroless — its client-rendered SPA exposes no screenshot/og:image), plus the five dad jokes. A healthier spread than 07-08/07-09 — only 3 of the 9 shortlisted are Mac apps; the rest are a web game, two physical goods, two travel destinations, and a film artifact.
 Heroes: 11 of 16 finds carry a hero (all 5 jokes are text-only by design). Only heroless non-joke find: randofont (randofont.alesh.com is a bare React/Vite shell with no og:image or static screenshot). widgetscreen's 3502px/11MB source PNG was downscaled to 2000px. maptap's hero is a portrait iOS App Store screenshot (its own homepage og:image is just a text banner). All heroes clear the ≥400px bar with no marketing-overlay text.
 Amazon links added: 2 — lectrofan-alpha-noise-machine → B086RMXN61 (Adaptive Sound Technologies LectroFan Alpha; verified against the maker's own product photo, canonical /dp form), do-your-whisky-whiskey-making-kit → B07ZG5GJL1 (Do Your Gin Inc.'s "DO Your Whisky" kit; TIWIB's outbound link resolves straight to this ASIN, cross-confirmed via Craftly's identical product image).
 Dedup / dropped-on-the-bar notes: dropped as already-captured — WhatCable and DockPops (both re-surfaced this run via Six Colors / r/macapps but were captured back in May 2026), Logitech Mobi Fold mouse, Vasco V4 translator, McIntosh MA2375, Tasks.txt (taskstxt), iPhone-as-dumb-phone, macOS Golden Gate 27 wallpapers, Hopper/Psycho house, ancient-Egypt painter's palette, Whitcomb & Shaftesbury washable jacket (a review follow-up post of the jacket captured 07-07). Dropped on the bar: GUOER K2 cooler/warmer bag (verified as an unshipped Kickstarter, ~Sept 2026 ETA — fails the no-speculative rule); The Amble One (a ~$25K street-legal golf cart — aspirational display piece, shipping status unclear, same call as the McIntosh amp); TNF Hot Shot Tote and Sony RX10 V (ordinary mass-market gear, no distinctive hook); Fluent (generic native "AI assistant" — dictation is already covered by enviouswispr/typewhisper); FormGrid (a form-builder SaaS whose only hook is retro skins); LastShelf (somber death-planning utility, off the delight brief); a Cool Tools "what's in my now" roundup's generic multi-cable/dog-harness/Altra items; TIWIB's headache shower-steamers and Shiba-Inu car decal (generic dropship); The Awesomer's Tacray whistle (2025-dated photo, likely an old repost; EDC whistle already covered). Culture/travel drops: New Sweden (a history essay, not a visitable place), AFAR's "what to see in Malta" (overlaps the 07-09 st-johns-co-cathedral-malta capture) and its Indianapolis White River guide (generic city-guide). Atlas Obscura's newest item (07-07 Hastings Kool-Aid museum) predates the window and was already captured. MoMA's "new" grid is unchanged since 07-07 (all deduped; newest genuine product is the 07-01 Jellycat/LEGO drop, below the bar). Kikkerland's feed hasn't changed since March — its passable novelties (croissant bath rug, dachshund trinket tray, sombrero citrus squeezer, capybara planter, etc.) are evergreen catalog stock already passed over in prior sweeps, not re-captured. StyleForum's RSS is currently drowning in SHEIN/Temu discount-code spam; A.Word.A.Day carried a word-only entry (no quotable "Thought for Today") today.
 Source maintenance: none. Watch (not yet actionable): r/shortcuts returned old.reddit 429 for the 3rd consecutive run (07-08/09/10) and r/BuyItForLife for the 2nd (07-09/10) — but this is transient rate-limiting, not a hard block: the sibling subs r/macapps and r/dadjokes fetched clean on the identical old.reddit endpoint this same run. No OAuth creds are present (`REDDIT_CLIENT_ID`/`SECRET` both unset) and there is no alternate feed to switch a rate-limited RSS feed to, so no sources.json change — the real fix is adding Reddit OAuth credentials (operator action). Snow Peak's news feed is still stale (newest 2026-05-16, ~8 weeks) but is an ongoing manual-review source with live content — held again, a demotion candidate if it stays flat.
 New source nominees: 0 — today's finds were individual indie apps, one museum, one SF viewpoint, cultural artifacts, and jokes; no new curated feed or source-of-sources surfaced. (Note: candidate-sources.md's unvetted backlog is now well past 10 nominees, last additions 07-07 — flagged for the operator to vet.)
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 name: "Debloat Slack"
 subtitle: "Live-strip Slackbot, huddles, and AI upsells out of the Mac Slack app"
 date: 2026-07-10
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://github.com/benri-ai/slack-debloat"
 linkText: "github.com"
 source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
 topics: [macos-apps, tools]
 tags: [slack, mac, open-source, declutter]
 description: "An open-source macOS injector that launches the native Slack app with a debugging hook and live-pushes your own CSS/JS into every window, re-applying within a second — with a toggle catalog for hiding Slackbot, the huddle button, and AI upsell banners."
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 Debloat Slack is a small open-source injector that launches the native Mac Slack app with a debugging hook and pushes your own CSS and JS into every window, re-applying within a second whenever you save a change. It ships a config of toggles for the usual irritations — the Slackbot DM, the huddle button, the AI upsell banners — and leaves a hatch for hand-written rules for anything else. It's a power-user fix (macOS, Node 22+, Slack already installed), but it's the rare one that reaches into a native app you otherwise can't theme at all.
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 name: "DO Your Whisky Making Kit"
 subtitle: "Botanicals and wood chips that 'age' a cheap bottle in days"
 date: 2026-07-10
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://us.craftly.com/products/do-your-whisky-whiskey-making-kit-ocu"
 linkText: "craftly.com"
 amazonLink: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZG5GJL1"
 source: "This Is Why I'm Broke"
 topics: [gifts]
 tags: [whiskey, diy, gift, kit]
 description: "A make-your-own-whiskey kit: two glass steeping bottles plus a dozen vials of wood chips and botanicals that flavor and rapidly 'age' an ordinary bottle of spirit in about three days."
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 This kit pairs two glass steeping bottles with a dozen vials of wood chips and botanicals, so you can flavor and rapidly "age" an ordinary bottle of spirit in about three days instead of years in a barrel. Each vial pushes the base whiskey a different direction — smoke, oak, spice — which makes it a tasting experiment more than a one-shot recipe. It's a hands-on gift for the person who likes making the thing as much as drinking it.
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 name: "Grand View Park (Turtle Hill)"
 subtitle: "A hidden Sunset District hilltop with 360° views and no Twin Peaks crowd"
 date: 2026-07-10
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://www.theoutbound.com/san-francisco/chillin/catch-a-sunset-at-grand-view-park-turtle-hill"
 linkText: "theoutbound.com"
 source: "The Outbound Collective"
 topics: [travel]
 tags: [san-francisco, sunset, viewpoint, hike]
 description: "A small grassy hilltop in San Francisco's Sunset District, nicknamed Turtle Hill for its shape, with 360-degree views and a fraction of the crowds at Twin Peaks."
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 Locals call Grand View Park "Turtle Hill" for the rounded green shell it makes above San Francisco's Sunset District, reached by a short climb up a mosaic tiled stairway. From the sandy top you get a genuine 360-degree sweep — Golden Gate to downtown to the Pacific — without the tour buses that clog nearby Twin Peaks. It's the kind of viewpoint that stays a neighborhood secret precisely because it takes five minutes of stairs to earn.
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 name: "Chick-Fil-Eyyy"
 date: 2026-07-10
 link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/j/fonzie-lunch"
 linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com"
 source: "icanhazdadjoke"
 topics: [dad-jokes]
 tags: [pun, pop-culture]
 description: "A dad joke from icanhazdadjoke: where Fonzie goes for lunch — Chick-Fil-Eyyy."
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 Where does Fonzie like to go for lunch? Chick-Fil-Eyyyyyyyy. Say it out loud and the Happy Days catchphrase and the chicken chain turn out to have been the same syllable all along.
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 name: "Without a Tres"
 date: 2026-07-10
 link: "https://old.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/1usbw75/a_mexican_magician_tells_his_audience_that_for/"
 linkText: "reddit.com"
 source: "r/dadjokes"
 topics: [dad-jokes]
 tags: [pun, wordplay, bilingual]
 description: "A dad joke from r/dadjokes about a Mexican magician who vanishes 'without a tres.'"
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 A Mexican magician tells the crowd he'll disappear on the count of three. "¡Uno! ¡Dos!" — and poof, he's gone, without a tres. The gag needs both languages at once: he vanished before "tres," so he left without a trace.
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 name: "Plethora"
 date: 2026-07-10
 link: "https://old.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/1uroak1/a_man_asked_a_widow_if_he_could_say_a_word_at_her/"
 linkText: "reddit.com"
 source: "r/dadjokes"
 topics: [dad-jokes]
 tags: [wordplay, vocabulary]
 description: "A dad joke from r/dadjokes: a man's one-word funeral eulogy, 'plethora,' means a lot."
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 A man asks a widow if he may say a word at her husband's funeral. She says of course. He stands, says "Plethora," and sits back down. "Thank you," she says, "that means a lot." The entire joke rides on the dictionary definition of the one word he picked.
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 name: "Rare It Is"
 date: 2026-07-10
 link: "https://old.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/1us9c6e/a_couple_goes_to_a_steakhouse_for_dinner/"
 linkText: "reddit.com"
 source: "r/dadjokes"
 topics: [dad-jokes]
 tags: [pun, wordplay, marriage]
 description: "A dad joke from r/dadjokes: a husband orders his steak done 'like winning an argument with my wife' — rare."
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 At the steakhouse the server asks how the husband wants his ribeye. "Like winning an argument with my wife." "Rare it is." Two setups fold into one word — the odds of the win and the doneness of the steak both come out rare.
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 name: "Not Messi"
 date: 2026-07-10
 link: "https://old.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/1urjjpz/why_doesnt_ronaldo_ever_have_to_clean_his_room/"
 linkText: "reddit.com"
 source: "r/dadjokes"
 topics: [dad-jokes]
 tags: [pun, wordplay, football]
 description: "A dad joke from r/dadjokes: why Ronaldo never has to clean his room — because he's not Messi."
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 Why doesn't Ronaldo ever have to clean his room? Because he's not Messi. A one-word pun that only lands if you follow your footballers — "Messi" the surname and "messy" the state of the room turn out to be the same sound.
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 name: "LectroFan Alpha"
 subtitle: "A 4-ounce rechargeable noise machine with non-looping sounds"
 date: 2026-07-10
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://www.lectrofan.com/products/lectrofan-alpha"
 linkText: "lectrofan.com"
 amazonLink: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086RMXN61"
 source: "Cool Tools"
 topics: [tools, gifts]
 tags: [travel, sleep, white-noise, edc]
 description: "A clip-on, rechargeable travel white-noise machine that weighs four ounces, runs 24+ hours per USB charge, and generates non-looping fan, pink/brown-noise, ocean, and heartbeat sounds."
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 The LectroFan Alpha is a clip-on white-noise machine that weighs four ounces and runs more than a day on a USB charge, so it lives in a carry-on instead of on a nightstand. Its fan, pink- and brown-noise, ocean, and heartbeat tones are generated rather than looped, so there's no repeating seam to notice once you're trying to fall asleep in a strange hotel. Cool Tools flags it as the travel version of the noise machine a lot of people already keep at home.
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 name: "MapTap"
 subtitle: "A daily GeoGuessr-style game played by tapping a 3D globe"
 date: 2026-07-10
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://maptap.gg"
 linkText: "maptap.gg"
 source: "Kottke.org"
 topics: [general-delight]
 tags: [geography, game, web-toy, globe]
 description: "A free daily geography game on a spinnable 3D globe: it names a place and you tap where it is, five scored rounds a day, plus practice modes for continents, countries, and capitals."
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 MapTap is a free daily geography game built on a spinnable 3D globe: it names a place — "tap anywhere inside Pakistan" — and gives you five scored rounds a day, with practice modes for continents, countries, and capitals. It's the quick, low-stakes cousin of GeoGuessr, closer to Wordle's one-and-done rhythm than a marathon. It plays in the browser, with an iOS companion for when it sticks.
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 name: "Mojave Paint"
 subtitle: "A lightweight Mac paint app with real Photoshop-style layer styles"
 date: 2026-07-10
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://mojavepaint.app"
 linkText: "mojavepaint.app"
 source: "r/macapps"
 topics: [macos-apps]
 tags: [mac, painting, image-editing, layers]
 description: "A small native macOS painting and image editor with a proper layer-styles panel — color and gradient overlays, drop shadows, outlines, and outer glow applied non-destructively per layer — for a one-time $9.99."
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 Mojave Paint is a small native painting and image editor that carries one feature you usually have to buy Photoshop for: a proper layer-styles panel, with color and gradient overlays, drop shadows, outlines, and outer glow applied non-destructively per layer. It keeps the rest deliberately light — layers, a magic-wand selection, folders — so it opens instantly for a quick edit rather than booting a whole creative suite. It's a $9.99 Mac App Store one-time purchase, not a subscription.
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 name: "NanoClip"
 subtitle: "Clipboard history that can OCR, upscale, and transform what you copied"
 date: 2026-07-10
 link: "https://www.getnano.dev/clip"
 linkText: "getnano.dev"
 source: "r/macapps"
 topics: [macos-apps]
 tags: [mac, clipboard, snippets, ocr]
 description: "A local-first Mac clipboard manager combining history and snippet expansion with 'flows' that transform whatever you copied — OCR text out of an image, upscale it, rewrite it — processed on-device by default. Free with a one-time $5 Pro unlock."
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 NanoClip bundles clipboard history and snippet expansion with "flows" — actions that transform whatever you just copied, from OCRing text out of an image to upscaling it or rewriting it, processed on-device by default. That transform layer is what separates it from the pile of Mac clipboard managers: copy something, run a flow, without ever leaving the clipboard. The base app is free, with a one-time $5 Pro unlock for unlimited history and iCloud sync rather than the usual subscription.
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 name: "The 1911 Odyssey"
 subtitle: "The first film adaptation of Homer's epic — a surviving Italian silent, free to watch"
 date: 2026-07-10
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/watch-the-first-spectacular-film-adaptation-of-the-odyssey-1911.html"
 linkText: "openculture.com"
 source: "Open Culture"
 topics: [general-delight]
 tags: [film-history, silent-film, homer, odyssey]
 description: "L'Odissea (1911), the first-ever film adaptation of Homer's Odyssey — an Italian silent famous for its ambitious early special effects — surviving and free to watch."
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 Made in 1911, L'Odissea was the first time anyone put Homer's Odyssey on a screen, and it went big: hand-tinted color, a blinded Cyclops, ships and sea-monsters conjured with the era's most ambitious practical effects. That it survives at all is the delight — you can watch a 115-year-old attempt to film the sirens and the return to Ithaca, free, in about forty minutes. Open Culture's post embeds the whole thing with context on how it was made.
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 name: "Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration"
 subtitle: "Britain's first illustration museum, in a converted Victorian waterworks"
 date: 2026-07-10
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://www.afar.com/magazine/quentin-blake-centre-for-illustration-opens-in-london"
 linkText: "afar.com"
 source: "AFAR"
 topics: [travel]
 tags: [london, museum, illustration, quentin-blake]
 description: "The UK's first museum dedicated to illustration, named for Quentin Blake and housed in the historic New River Head waterworks in Islington, London."
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 Britain's first museum devoted entirely to illustration has opened in London, named for Quentin Blake — the pen behind Roald Dahl's Matilda and the BFG — and set inside the New River Head, a restored Victorian waterworks near Islington. Beyond a permanent home for Blake's own work, it's built as a working centre for the whole art form, with changing exhibitions and studios rather than a single-artist shrine. For anyone who grew up inside those scratchy, generous ink lines, it's a specific reason to cross London.
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 name: "randoFont"
 subtitle: "Shuffle through Google Fonts one delightful specimen at a time"
 date: 2026-07-10
 link: "https://randofont.alesh.com"
 linkText: "randofont.alesh.com"
 source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
 topics: [tools]
 tags: [fonts, typography, web-tool, google-fonts]
 description: "A single-purpose web toy that pulls from the live Google Fonts library and shows you one typeface at a time on a sample sentence, with a button straight to its Google Fonts page — a slot machine for font discovery."
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 randoFont pulls from the live Google Fonts library and shows you one typeface at a time on a sample sentence, with a button straight to its Google Fonts page — a slot machine for anyone who keeps defaulting to the same three fonts. It's a single-purpose web toy: hit shuffle, react, keep or reroll. No account, no install, just a fast way to stumble into a face you'd never have thought to search for.
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 name: "WidgetScreen"
 subtitle: "Glass widgets — and Now Playing controls — on the Mac lock screen"
 date: 2026-07-10
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://widgetscreen.app"
 linkText: "widgetscreen.app"
 source: "r/macapps"
 topics: [macos-apps]
 tags: [mac, widgets, lock-screen, now-playing]
 description: "A macOS app that places Tahoe-style frosted-glass widgets — clock, weather, calendar, system, and a scrubable Now Playing control — directly on the lock screen, with no Screen Recording permission or account."
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 WidgetScreen puts weather, clock, calendar, and system widgets in Tahoe's frosted-glass style directly on the macOS lock screen — a surface Apple otherwise leaves almost entirely blank. The standout is a Now Playing widget you can actually scrub and adjust the volume on without unlocking, and it does this asking for no Screen Recording permission and no account. Core widgets and custom layouts are free on macOS 15+; a one-time Premium unlock adds a devices widget and time-synced lyrics.