site: review — Tintd 2 (graduate from find)

Fact-check against tintd.app and the App Store surfaced a version split: the direct download is the real Tintd 2 (macOS 14+, one-time $9.99+), while the Mac App Store listing is still the older v1.3.4 (macOS 13+, subscription option) — Apple's review queue hasn't caught up yet.
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@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ source: "Brett Terpstra"
 topics: [macos-apps, productivity]
 tags: [finder, organization, utility]
 description: "A Mac app that runs in the background and automatically applies folder colors and icons based on each folder's name — turning a naming convention into a visual one."
+promotedTo: tintd-automatic-folder-tinting
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 Tintd 2 runs in the background and applies folder colors and icons automatically based on each folder's name, so a naming convention becomes a visual one with no manual tagging. Everything called "Invoices" takes one color, "Screenshots" another, and new folders inherit the rule the moment you create them. Set the patterns once and Finder stays legible on its own.
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+name: "Tintd 2"
+subtitle: "Folders that color themselves by name"
+date: 2026-07-12
+category: files
+topics: [macos-apps, productivity]
+tags: [finder, organization, utility, macos, icons]
+link: "https://www.tintd.app"
+linkText: "tintd.app"
+description: "A Mac utility that reads each folder's name and auto-assigns a matching color and icon from a library of 11,000+, with a background watcher for new folders, bulk editing, emoji and custom-image icons, and one-click revert. Direct download, macOS 14+, one-time from $9.99."
+source: "Brett Terpstra"
+fromFind: tintd-automatic-folder-tinting
+---
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+import { Image } from 'astro:assets';
+import hero from './hero.webp';
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+<Image src={hero} alt="A plain blue macOS folder turning into a green folder with a bar-chart icon — Tintd's own before/after illustration of automatic folder tinting." />
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+*The whole pitch in one image: same folder, same location, now color- and icon-coded by what it's named.*
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+> Tintd 2 watches your Mac in the background and, the moment a folder is named "Invoices" or "Screenshots," gives it a matching color and icon pulled from a library of 11,000+ — turning a naming convention you already follow into a visual one you don't have to maintain.
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+The find had the core mechanic right: Tintd's Folder Watcher runs quietly and applies its rules the instant a folder is created or renamed, so a consistent naming habit — "Invoices," "Screenshots," "Receipts" — starts painting itself across Finder and the Desktop with zero manual tagging. It's a small trick that pays off in exactly the moment it's needed: scanning a cluttered folder view at a glance instead of reading every label.
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+What the find left out is how much further Tintd 2 goes past the automatic case. Any folder can be recolored or re-iconed by hand from a library north of 11,000 icons and emoji, custom images can be imported as icons directly, and bulk editing applies a look to a whole batch of folders at once rather than one at a time — useful for retrofitting an existing mess instead of only tinting what's created going forward. A one-click revert restores macOS's default folder icon if a rule ever guesses wrong, and everything happens through a right-click context menu already built into Finder. It's also all local: icon and color matching runs on-device, nothing is uploaded.
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+One thing worth untangling before buying: Tintd 2 is a relaunch, and the storefronts haven't caught up with each other. The direct download from tintd.app is the actual Tintd 2 (build 2.0.0), needs macOS 14 or later, and sells as a single "pay once, access forever" purchase starting at $9.99, no subscription. The listing currently live on the Mac App Store is still the older Tintd — version 1.3.4, macOS 13.0+, priced as a $0.99/month subscription or a $19.99 one-time unlock — and Apple's review queue hadn't caught up to the v2 build as of this writing. For the app the find is actually describing, the tintd.app download is the one to get.
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+It comes from indie developer @jbbbeau (shipping as Oniri Inc.), who launched Tintd 2 on Product Hunt on May 28, 2026, describing it as "the vision I had for Tintd all along." For anyone whose Finder sidebar is a wall of identical blue folders, it's a genuinely low-effort fix — set the naming habit once, and the color-coding keeps itself current.