Changelog
What’s changed in each app. Entries marked “in development” are in the source code but not yet in a public build.
Softset Bar Coming soon
No public build yet.
In development: Scroll to reveal, spacers, and menu bar colour
- Swipe down on the menu bar to reveal hidden icons, or click an empty part of it (optional, uses Accessibility).
- App menus move aside when revealed icons would land under them beside the notch.
- Spacers, text labels, and SF Symbol or emoji items to group your icons.
- Tint the menu bar with a colour or gradient, and choose tighter icon spacing.
In development: Rebuilt for macOS 27 Golden Gate
- Hiding works with macOS 27's single-window menu bar, using only public status item APIs sized to each connected display.
- Keyboard shortcut to reveal hidden icons, and a menu bar item search (optional, uses Accessibility).
- Profiles, and new rule conditions: charging, specific displays, network (Wi-Fi, wired, offline), and days of the week.
- Safe recovery: hold ⇧ while Softset Bar starts to show every icon and pause rules.
- Import and export of settings, rules, and profiles.
Softset Type Coming soon
No public build yet.
In development: Per-app groups, undo, reminders, and iCloud Drive
- Groups can expand only in chosen apps, or everywhere except chosen apps.
- Press Delete straight after an expansion to get the abbreviation back.
- Optional reminders when you type out a snippet's text by hand.
- Keep your snippet library in iCloud Drive or any synced folder; changes from other Macs load within seconds.
In development: A bigger, faster snippet library
- Formatted snippets (bold, italics, links), favourites, and a global snippet search panel.
- Optional fields, value transforms, and case-matching abbreviations.
- Usage counts and estimated time saved, stored only in your snippet file.
- Imports from Espanso and Raycast, plus daily backups you can restore.
- A typing fallback for apps that ignore paste.
Softset Clip Coming soon
No public build yet.
In development: Plain text, paste stack, and search inside images
- Paste as plain text with ⇧↩.
- A paste stack: copy several things, then paste them in order.
- Edit an item before pasting it with ⌘E.
- Search filters such as is:link, is:image, and from:safari, and on-device text recognition for copied images.
In development: First complete build
- Searchable history of text, links, images, and files, opened with ⇧⌘V.
- Pins, ⌘1 to ⌘9 for the first results, and paste straight into the app in use (optional).
- Skips concealed and temporary items such as passwords, with app exclusions and pause.
- History limits from 100 to 5,000 items, or by age.
Softset Tile Coming soon
No public build yet.
In development: Saved layouts, moving with keys held, and more sizes
- Save where every app's windows are and restore them with a click or shortcut, optionally when a set of displays connects.
- Hold ⌃⌥ and drag to move a window, or right-drag to resize it.
- Fourths, three fourths, sixths, centred half, and centred two thirds.
- A list of apps for Tile to leave alone.
In development: First complete build
- Shortcuts for halves, quarters, thirds, two thirds, maximise, centre, and resizing.
- Repeat a half to cycle through two thirds and one third; restore a window to where it was.
- Drag a window to a screen edge or corner, with an outline showing where it will go.
- Adjustable gaps, your own shortcuts, and moving windows between displays.
Softset Shot Coming soon
No public build yet.
In development: Screen recording, more tools, and backgrounds
- Record an area or a window to MP4, with optional Mac sound, and save it as a GIF.
- New tools: line, ellipse, pencil, blur, and spotlight, and every mark can be selected, moved, resized, and recoloured.
- Backgrounds with padding and rounded corners for sharing screenshots.
- A self-timer, Capture Previous Area, and a history of recent captures.
In development: First complete build
- Capture an area, a window, or a whole display from a frozen snapshot of the screen.
- Copy the text in any area with on-device text recognition.
- Annotate with arrows, boxes, highlighter, text, pixelate, numbered steps, and crop.
- A thumbnail after each capture to copy, save, annotate, pin, or drag into another app.
Softset Time Coming soon
No public build yet.
In development: Add events in plain English
- Type an event such as “Lunch tomorrow at 1pm for 45 min” and check the preview before adding it.
- Choose which calendars to show and where new events go, and hide declined invitations.
- ⌃⌥J joins the current or next call.
- A second time zone beside the clock in the menu bar.
In development: First complete build
- A menu bar clock with your own format, and a month calendar under it.
- The day's events with Join buttons for 16 video call services.
- A reminder before calls, and an optional next-meeting countdown in the menu bar.
- World clocks with a slider to see times elsewhere.
Softset Pulse Early access
No public build yet.
In development: Alerts, menu bar graphs, and accessory batteries
- Notifications for critical memory pressure, low disk space, low battery, and heat, each optional.
- Small live graphs in the menu bar.
- Battery levels for Bluetooth keyboards, mice, and trackpads that report them.
In development: First working build in development
- System engine for CPU, memory pressure, swap, disk, network, battery, and thermal state.
- Apps view with helper processes grouped under their app.
- Developer view: listening ports, runtimes, project folders, and idle servers.
- “Why is my Mac slow?” explanations built from rules.
Softset Notch Early access
No public build yet.
In development: Charging banner, AirDrop, and Mirror
- A banner with the charge level when you plug in.
- AirDrop files straight from the shelf.
- A Mirror tab to check your camera before a call; nothing is recorded.
In development: First working build in development
- Notch panel with a simulated notch on Macs and displays without one.
- Now Playing, Shelf, Clipboard, Timers, Calendar, and System modules.
- Event banners, with a softset-notch:// link for scripts and coding tools.
- Optional read-only Stripe sales alerts, with the key kept in the Keychain.