SuperNudge · free beta · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel

Two minutes from now, your screen is on your side.

The focus companion that notices you drifted and offers a hand back — never an alarm, never a block, never shame. Free while in beta.

hosted on GitHub Releases · free · bring your own AI key
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Read me first —

This beta is unsigned. Apple charges $99/year to make the "unidentified developer" warning go away, and I'd rather ship to you first and pay that tax once we've earned it together. The install takes two extra clicks — the steps below walk you through them. One person built this; the code never phones home.


The install, ADHD-proofed —

Three steps. No step four.

  1. Open the download, drag to Applications

    Open SuperNudge.dmg and drag the app into the Applications folder. Close the window. That part's done forever.

  2. Tell macOS you meant to do this

    Open the app once — macOS will decline politely. Then: System SettingsPrivacy & Security → scroll down → "Open Anyway." Confirm. (On macOS 13–14, right-click the app → Open → Open also works.)

  3. Grant Screen Recording when asked

    Screen awareness is how it catches drift. What happens to those pixels is documented below — short version: downscaled, classified, never stored.

macOS says the app "is damaged"? — the 10-second fix
xattr -cr /Applications/Supernudge.app

Paste that into Terminal and press return. It removes the quarantine flag macOS adds to downloads — nothing else.


What happens to your data —

Private by architecture, not by promise.

Screen captures
Downscaled and sent only to the AI provider you configure, only during a focus session. No screenshot or recording history is ever kept.
Analytics & tasks
Stored locally on your Mac, in your user folder. Nothing syncs anywhere unless you connect it.
AI provider
Bring your own key — Anthropic, OpenAI-compatible, Gemini, or Mimo. Your key lives in the macOS Keychain.
Email
Optional. Connects over OAuth; passwords are never seen or stored.
This developer
Receives nothing. The app has no telemetry in the beta. If that changes it will be opt-in and announced.