Black Ink 3, the next version of Red Sweater’s app for crossword connoisseurs, is coming soon for both iOS and Mac. A preview beta is now available with one of the most anticipated features: iCloud Sync. Now you can start solving a puzzle on your Mac in the morning, put a little time in during the day on your phone, and finish up on your iPad that evening. Everything syncs seamlessly through your existing Apple account.
Category: Sponsor
Mardo⇢
My thanks to Mardo for sponsoring the site this week. It is the best Markdown viewer ever made. Press Space on a Markdown file and watch it render beautifully, live, right in Quick Look.
Sponsor: Mardo, the Best Markdown Viewer Ever Made⇢
Do you read Markdown on your Mac? Plans, notes, READMEs, the files your AI writes for you all day? Then why not make every one of them a pleasure to read? Mardo is the best Markdown viewer ever made. Select any Markdown file in the Finder, press Space, and Quick Look shows it beautifully rendered — tables, code, diagrams, math, and all.
Then watch it come alive. Leave that preview open while Claude Code, Codex, or any other app rewrites the file, and every change arrives in real time, right there in Quick Look, without moving you from the line you were reading. And when a file gets enormous, Mardo doesn’t flinch. It opens a 50 GB Markdown file in about an eighth of a second and lets you jump anywhere in it instantly.
SoundSource⇢
My thanks to Rogue Amoeba for sponsoring the site this week. Their app SoundSource adds powerful audio controls to your Mac that you’ll be glad to have. Save 20% with code 512SOUND.
Sponsor: SoundSource, Sound Control So Good It Ought to Be Built In⇢
The audio experts at Rogue Amoeba are back to sponsor 512 Pixels. Their app SoundSource adds powerful audio controls to your Mac that you’ll be glad to have.
It starts with volume controls for each and every app on your Mac, all in one place: your menu bar. Turn down noisy websites without affecting your music, or boost a quiet video call past the usual maximum.
SoundSource does much more than just volume, though. Use it to send any app’s audio to a different device, so your music plays through your desk speakers while your calls stay in your headphones. Built-in effects like Magic Boost and Headphone EQ bring better sound to the tiniest speakers and your favorite headphones, and experts can even use it to apply powerful Audio Unit plugins to any app.
Mojave Paint⇢
My thanks to Mojave Paint for sponsoring 512 Pixels. Development is moving quickly on Mojave Paint; during this week’s sponsorship they added true Clipping Masks.
Sponsor: Mojave Paint⇢
Mojave Paint for Mac is a love letter to image editing programs of the past — a time before generative AI, infinitely customizable tool palettes, and online-required subscription access.
With familiar layer-based rendering and powerful typography tools, Mojave Paint works equally well for design or photography. Use masks on any filter or adjustment to get the right look on a photo, or make the best-looking flyer for a lost cat your neighborhood telephone pole has ever seen.
NAS Reborn⇢
My thanks to NAS Reborn for sponsoring the site this week. It turns an iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, or anything newer into a network drive for the Finder, the Files app and even Windows Explorer. Check out the TestFlight beta for iPhone, iPad and Mac at nasreborn.com.
Sponsor: NAS Reborn, from the Maker of Working Copy⇢
In a kitchen drawer, between a key that fitted no door and a knot of charging cables, lay an iPhone 6s. It had once been the newest phone in the house, and it had taken more pictures of the cat than anyone would ever look at. Then one Christmas a bigger phone arrived, the old one went into the drawer “for now,” and for now lasted nine years. “We are retired, you and I,” said the key. “I am resting,” said the iPhone.
Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube Ad Blocker for Safari⇢
Do you want to block all YouTube ads in Safari on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac?
Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you.
As an efficient, high-performance, native Safari ad blocker, Magic Lasso blocks all intrusive ads, trackers, and annoyances, delivering a faster, cleaner, and more secure web browsing experience.
Magic Lasso Adblock is easy to set up, doubles the speed at which Safari loads, and also blocks all YouTube ads; including all:
Sponsor: Audio Hijack from Rogue Amoeba⇢
The audio experts at Rogue Amoeba are back to sponsor 512 Pixels this holiday season with Audio Hijack, their powerful app for recording any audio on your Mac.
Audio Hijack’s tagline is short and sweet: Record any audio. With it, you can save audio from any app, any device, or even from your entire system. Record podcasts, capture streaming audio, archive audio calls, or grab sounds from games and videos. If it makes sound on your Mac, Audio Hijack can record it.
Sponsor: Coherence X5⇢
For years, turning websites into Mac apps has meant compromise - clunky wrappers, slow Electron windows, or limited Safari shortcuts.
Coherence X5 takes a different approach. It’s the first tool to use Chrome’s full power to build isolated, beautiful Mac apps that feel truly native.
With the new Liquid Glass design in macOS 26, Coherence looks right at home. Smooth transparency, adaptive color, and a refreshed creation flow make building apps fast, intuitive, and deeply Mac-like.