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Channel
@macappfreaks
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
336subscribers
+9 since we began measuring on 9 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001576770264 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @macappfreaks |
| Created | Between 1 August 2021 and 28 February 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 9 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 6 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 6 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/macappfreaks |
Technology — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 22 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 98% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Oct 2026, 05:56 | 336 | +1 |
| 25 Sept 2026, 23:17 | 335 | +2 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 17:55 | 333 | -3 |
| 2 Sept 2026, 08:06 | 336 | +3 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 14:47 | 333 | +4 |
| 17 Aug 2026, 17:54 | 329 | +2 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 03:21 | 327 | no change |
| 9 Aug 2026, 18:48 | 327 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 7 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 9 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Spotica Menu v6 is now available on the App Store https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1vjws1h Submitted August 9, 2026 at 08:07PM by runstop on r/macapps via https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1vjws1h/spotica_menu_v6_is_now_available_on_the_app_store/?utm_source=iftttAn @AppleStyleOfficial project
Spotica Menu v6 is available on the App Store https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1vjwkbc Submitted August 9, 2026 at 07:59PM by runstop on r/macapps via https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1vjwkbc/spotica_menu_v6_is_available_on_the_app_store/?utm_source=iftttAn @AppleStyleOfficial project
I made a small menu bar app that keeps my keyboard backlight off on a schedule https://github.com/gabriele-rizzo/Nocturne Submitted August 9, 2026 at 03:23PM by rizzogbr on r/nativemacapps via https://www.reddit.com/r/nativemacapps/comments/1vjpsx6/i_made_a_small_menu_bar_app_that_keeps_my/?utm_source=iftttAn @AppleStyleOfficial project
Resurf is now fully native: I rewrote the whole Mac app, and it now has iPhone and iPad apps with iCloud sync. Still local-first https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1vjob1n Submitted August 9, 2026 at 02:12PM by Hungry_Spite3574 on r/macapps via https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1vjob1n/resurf_is_now_fully_native_i_rewrote_the_whole/?utm_source=iftttAn @AppleStyleOfficial project
"Just right click and open" stopped working two macOS versions ago see this in nearly every thread here where someone posts an app thats not in the store. it hasnt been true since sequoia.apple removed the control click open bypass in macOS 15. it does nothing now. the real path is System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll to the bottom, the blocked app is sitting under Security with an Open Anyway button. click i…
Autoshelf Has an MCP Server You Probably Don't Need and The Rule Engine Is Weak - A Review https://preview.redd.it/d00udd0gdbih1.jpg?width=1265&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7638f94d255eaf234386cfadd7cd4835645356e6TL;DR: AutoShelf ($19.99 one-time) ships an embedded MCP server that works, but do you actually need that? An AI model can write a launchd LaunchAgent and a shell script once and it runs forever, no app, no daemo…
Can we get "Finder Alternatives" added to the App Comparison spreadsheets? I've played around with Bloom and Forklift and have currently settled on Q-Space Pro. But I'd love to see a proper app comparison of everything that's out there. Submitted August 9, 2026 at 06:01AM by plazman30 on r/macapps via https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1vjfq9b/can_we_get_finder_alternatives_added_to_the_app/?utm_source=iftttA…
Modoki – switch Dock layouts automatically with macOS Focus modes https://v.redd.it/b3k82blrf6ih1 Submitted August 8, 2026 at 06:28PM by gusarking on r/macapps via https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1vj0bwp/modoki_switch_dock_layouts_automatically_with/?utm_source=iftttAn @AppleStyleOfficial project
[OS] OpenASO — AI-powered App Store research to help your app get discovered https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1vixrwi Submitted August 8, 2026 at 04:42PM by hubelro on r/macapps via https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1vixrwi/os_openaso_aipowered_app_store_research_to_help/?utm_source=iftttAn @AppleStyleOfficial project
Thaw Alternative I’m looking for a menu bar app that doesn’t relaunch all my apps every time Indo a resolution change. Thaw is too overly complicated for me.Any advice? Submitted August 8, 2026 at 07:29AM by WarioPi on r/macapps via https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1vinh98/thaw_alternative/?utm_source=iftttAn @AppleStyleOfficial project
Calends: merge multiple Apple calendars into one you can share (even work calendars that block third-party apps) Disclosure: I'm the developer.Problem: My calendars are scattered across accounts: two Exchange work calendars, personal iCloud, family. There was no way to hand my wife (or colleagues) a single calendar showing my real availability. Worse, my employer only allows approved software to connect to Exchange, …
7 Photoshop Alternatives for Mac in 2026: Free, Pro, and AI picks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6NCZ_Ol-N0
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @macappfreaks. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 6 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“MacAppFreaks: Mac Apps News / Deals / Beta / Reviews and more on Telegram by AppleStyle AS [MacOS / Software / Apple]” (@macappfreaks), 336 subscribers as measured 6 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/macappfreaks.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.