Summer and WWDC arrive together this year, and Hello Weather is ready for both. It’s one of the most beloved indie weather apps around, and right now it’s half off, which makes it a great time to give it a try as your daily driver.

Hello Weather has always been known for its simple, friendly, and readable design. The information you care about most, including the current conditions, hourly forecast, and outlook for the days ahead, is always close by, where and when you need them.

It provides instant access to current conditions, the hourly forecast, and the forecast for the days ahead all live on a single screen, so the info you actually care about is right in front of you without having to scroll through clutter or hunt for what you want.

But beneath that simplicity lies an amazing amount of depth. There are a dozen data points, each with a dedicated deep-dive and beautiful charts for the UV Index, Air Quality, Humidity, Wind, Feels Like Temperature, Moon Phase, and more. Extended hourly forecasts make it easy to time an afternoon hike, figure out when the rain will clear, or decide whether Saturday’s barbecue is a go.

Another great touch is that you can choose your own weather data source. Hello Weather supports more than a dozen providers, including Apple Weather, AccuWeather, Foreca, and The Weather Company. Stick with whichever is most accurate for your area, or swap between them to compare.

Hello Weather is loaded with all the latest Apple technologies you expect, too: proactive notifications that fire only when something’s worth knowing, a smooth real-time radar for when conditions change fast, and a great Apple Watch app with rich complications. The flexible widgets are a great way to freshen up your Home Screen, and you can customize themes, icons, and layouts to make the app your own.

The app also respects your privacy. It doesn’t collect user-identifiable data, has no ads, and won’t sell your information. Made by a small independent team, it’s been serving millions of forecasts to happy customers around the world for over a decade, and it’s a regular App of the Day in the App Store.

To celebrate WWDC week, Hello Weather is 50% off: use code WWDC to get half off your first year. Download free, start a 7-day trial, and make it your go-to app for the summer and beyond.

Our thanks to Hello Weather for supporting MacStories’ WWDC coverage this week.

Mindspace is a journal for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac that pulls everything you’d normally find scattered across multiple apps into a single scrollable timeline. The app pulls your writing, photos and videos, voice notes, mood and habit trackers, locations, and tasks together to tell your story. You can even add drawings if you have an iPad and Apple Pencil.

Privacy sits at the core of Mindspace. Entries are stored locally on your device, and iCloud sync uses Apple’s encryption — end-to-end if you have Advanced Data Protection turned on. Nothing is routed through Mindspace’s servers, or anyone else’s for that matter, and a full JSON export is always a tap away in Settings.

The app makes thoughtful use of Apple platform features. A freeform Apple Pencil canvas supports the full palette of available tools, making it a natural place to sketch a diagram, draft a letter, or map out a thought. The Apple Intelligence features run entirely on-device, too. There’s a writing suggestion when you open a blank entry, automatic theme tagging, and a custom journaling prompt for every intention you set. Plus, voice notes recorded inside an entry are transcribed locally using iOS 26’s SpeechAnalyzer, and Apple Health auto-fills steps, heart rate, weight, water, distance, and calories burned into your trackers the moment you open your Today page. There are also Quick Entry, Tasks, and Tracker widgets that make adding and viewing what you track simple.

Visit Mindspace to learn more and download the app. MacStories readers get 50% off their first year automatically at checkout. There’s no code required.

Our thanks to Mindspace for sponsoring MacStories this week.

BetterTouchTool has long been one of the Mac’s most versatile customization tools, offering deep control over trackpad and mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, Stream Deck buttons, Floating Menus, window actions, Apple Shortcuts, and more.

The latest version adds a powerful new Spotlight-like Launcher that brings many parts of your Mac and BTT together in one fast interface. Open it with e.g. a hotkey, gesture, mouse button, or Stream Deck button, then launch apps, run Shortcuts, search and browse files, switch windows, use clipboard history, create reminders or calendar events, control Apple TV, and run BTT actions. The Launcher also handles complex calculations and unit conversions directly in the search field, powered by the excellent Soulver.app.

Your own BTT triggers can appear there too, so personal automations sit alongside apps, files, Shortcuts, and system actions.

One of the Launcher’s most powerful features is native Swift plugin support. Plugins can add rows, commands, nested results, and rich custom interfaces inside the Launcher window, making it possible to build mini apps for BTT: dashboards, device controllers, API clients, automation panels, and more. BetterTouchTool’s built-in [email protected] assistants can even create custom Launcher plugins from a prompt, making advanced customization more approachable for Mac power users.

Since BetterTouchTool’s last sponsored MacStories post, input-device support has expanded too. Native Logitech mouse and keyboard support makes many Logitech devices directly configurable in BTT without extra software, including special keys and remappable buttons. Normal mouse support has gained scroll modifiers, e.g. for smooth scrolling, drag gestures, and trackpad-like interactions such as fluid space switching and zooming, while Magic Trackpad and Magic Mouse users continue to get new options for deep gesture customization.

Try BetterTouchTool free for 45 days at folivora.ai. MacStories readers can use MACSTORIESBTT2026 for 20% off a license.

Dropzone is a menu bar productivity tool that gives you a faster way to move, copy, and share files, launch apps, and trigger all sorts of time-saving drag-and-drop actions without breaking your flow.

The newly released Dropzone 5 is a substantial update and has been redesigned for macOS Tahoe with a cleaner interface, smoother animations and support for Liquid Glass.

The update also adds several workflow-focused improvements. Multiple grids make it easy to separate actions by project or context, deeper grid customization gives you more control over categories, columns, and layout, and folder-based actions can now display the custom icons and colors you’ve assigned in Finder, which makes it easier to identify your folders in Dropzone at a glance.

If you like to automate from the command line, Dropzone 5 includes a powerful command line tool for Terminal integration, too. You can run actions, manage files in Drop Bar, and switch between grids via the command line tool, making Dropzone 5 a better fit for scripted workflows than ever before.

Dropzone 5 is available as a free download from Aptonic, with a Pro upgrade available that adds more advanced features.

For a limited time, the Pro upgrade is available at a 30% discount with the coupon code LAUNCH.

Visit Aptonic’s website to learn more and download Dropzone 5.

Our thanks to Dropzone 5 for sponsoring MacStories this week.

If better Mac audio is on your list of resolutions for 2026, the folks at Rogue Amoeba have you covered with SoundSource, their essential audio control app.

SoundSource provides audio control so useful, it ought to be built in to MacOS. Get instant access to your Mac’s audio settings right from the menu bar, with powerful per-app volume and routing control, and the ability to apply effects to any app’s audio.

The newly released SoundSource 6 is a major upgrade, with dozens of enhancements. Updates include supercharged AirPlay support, output groups to send audio to multiple devices at once, Quick Configs that save your entire audio configuration, and a powerful new Audio Devices window that gives deep control over device settings.

But why just read about it, when you can try it out? Download SoundSource’s fully functional free trial with just one click. You’ll be up and running in under a minute.

When you’re ready, you can purchase a license with a special discount just for MacStories readers. Save 20% with code MACSTORIESNEWYEAR26 in their store. Act fast, since this deal expires on Valentine’s Day. If you love audio on your Mac, you’ll love making it better with SoundSource.

Our thanks to Rogue Amoeba for sponsoring MacStories this week.

Copilot Money, the only personal finance app to win an Apple Editor’s Choice award, now gives you a seamless, cross-device way to manage your money across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Web.

With Copilot’s beautifully designed interface and powerful financial insights, you can see your spending, budgets, investments, and net worth all in one place. Everything syncs automatically across devices, so whether you’re at your desk or on the go, you always have an up-to-date picture of your finances.

Copilot is built to help you go deeper without feeling overwhelmed. Transactions are intelligently categorized, trends surface automatically, and insights are presented in a way that feels intuitive and confidence-building, not stressful.

Whether you’re tracking monthly spending, planning ahead, or working toward long-term goals, Copilot’s unified dashboard helps you feel clear, calm, and in control of your money.

Copilot Money is offering MacStories readers an extended two-month free trial with code MACSTORIES. Plus, for one more week, you can save 26% on your first year through the link below.

? Visit Copilot Money to explore the app and start your extended free trial today. Offer available to new users only, exclusively through this link.

Our thanks to Copilot Money for sponsoring MacStories this week.

WinterFest 2025: The Festival of Artisanal Software is back with a fantastic new collection of carefully crafted software for writing, research, and thinking.

Innovative software often comes from small teams, crafted with imagination and a vision of a better way to work. There are no bundles, games, or prices that are too good to be true: just fresh software with fantastic support at great, sustainable prices.

Software artisans from around the globe have come together for this time-limited sale to bring you innovative apps to assist you with everyday work. This incredible catalog of productivity software includes:

• Avalanche: Photo catalog migration
• BBEdit: Power tool for text
• Bookends: The reference manager you’ve been looking for
• Cotypist: Type as fast as you can think (Free Beta)
• DEVONagent Pro: Your smart (re)search assistant
• DEVONthink 4: Manage documents the smart way
• Easy Data Transform: Merge, clean, and reformat data without coding
• FindMySnap: Your private photo search engine
• Hookmark: Using links beats searching
• HoudahGeo: Know where every photo and video was taken
• HoudahSpot: Powerful file search
• HyperPlan: Flexible visual planner
• ImageFramer Pro: Add creative borders and frames to photos
• MailMaven: Take control of your email
• Panorama X: Collect, organize, and understand your data
• Peakto: Innovative AI-driven media asset manager
• Scapple: Quickly capture and connect ideas
• Scrivener: Your complete writing studio
• Thinking With Tinderbox: The definitive ebook
• Tinderbox: Visualize and organize your ideas and plans
• Tinderbox 101: Learn to unleash your knowledge and insights
• Trickster: Your recently used files, at your fingertips
• Yojimbo: Your effortless, reliable information organizer

These amazing deals don’t come around often, so act today to start 2025 off with the best software available from this terrific group of developers.

Visit the WinterFest website to learn more about these amazing deals.

Our thanks to Winterfest for sponsoring MacStories this week.

Today, Copilot Money — the Apple Editor’s Choice money app — is expanding beyond iPhone, iPad, and Mac with the launch of its new web app, available now. This release brings Copilot’s beautiful, clean interface and powerful financial insights to any browser, with native-quality performance built right into the web experience. And with seamless syncing across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and now the web, it’s easier than ever to get a consistent, clear picture of your money wherever you are.

Their apps have earned accolades for a reason: they bring all your spending, budgets, investments, and net worth into one organized place, with a thoughtful design that helps you dive into the details without losing the big picture. This is how a modern budgeting app should feel — calm, intuitive, and built to give you confidence, not anxiety.

With Copilot Money, every account connects to a single dashboard, transactions are intelligently categorized, and insights surface automatically to help you stay on track without maintaining spreadsheets or jumping between apps. Whether you’re planning your month, analyzing trends, or working toward long-term goals, Copilot Money’s cross-device experience now makes financial clarity available anywhere you need it.

To celebrate the web launch, Copilot Money is offering MacStories readers two months free with code MACSTORIES. And for a limited time, when you sign up on their website, you’ll also get 26% off your first year.

? Visit their website to explore Copilot Money on the web and start your free trial today.

This offer is available to new users only and exclusively through this link.

Our thanks to Copilot Money for sponsoring MacStories this week.