I'm really happy to announce not one, but two new apps I've released this week.

The first is Remaining. Remaining is an iOS app (iPhone and iPad) that helps you answer one simple question: how much do I have left to spend until I get paid, after all my bills come out of my chequing account? This is basically how I've been budgeting for most of my adult life, first with a series of spreadsheets, then with some iOS Shortcuts. But I always knew I wanted to make this an iOS app and never had the time. Now — thanks to Claude Code — I was able to do it! That's not to say that it was easy. There was a LOT of iteration to get this right, a lot of crashes, an App Store rejection, and approximately one billion forms to fill out with Apple. But it's done! And it feels so cool to have it in the App Store.

Remaining is totally free with optional tips to show your appreciation if you like it. You can read more about Remaining over on its dedicated page, or go and download it on the App Store. I hope you'll like it!

The second app is a Mac app — for your Mac apps! I recognize this might be an app with an audience of just one. (I mean, maybe all my apps are if we're being real?) But anyway, the app is called macAppLibrary. It scans your Mac Applications folder and finds all the apps you have, and then organizes them into lists. You get a list of running apps, a list of recently updated apps, and apps by developer, if you're into that.

The really neat part, though, is that you can add descriptions and categories to your apps. So if you're like me, and you can't remember what app you installed or what was that one app that converts images or whatever, you can search macAppLibrary to find it.

The other cool thing about the app is that you don't necessarily need to add all that app information yourself. You can choose to download from the community library of information for the app, and if you enter information about your apps, you can optionally choose to contribute that information to the community, helping others the next time they install. So far it's just information about the (many) apps that I have in the database, but I'm hoping this could turn into a really handy resource for others in the future.

macAppLibrary is free, and open source. You can read more about it and download it over at its page.

As a reminder, I'm putting all of the public apps I've been creating at a dedicated section on coefficiencies if you want to check out some of the other apps I've put together.

Until then, thanks for reading!

— Tom