Loshadki Apps

Betas: OpenIn 4.3, ShellHistory 3.1, RegExp 2.3, CheckCraft 1.2 and ImmersiShare 2.0

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Since WWDC 2025, I have been busy working on updates for all our apps, including redesigns for new looks in iOS, macOS, iPadOS, and visionOS 2.6. I will go into detail here for OpenIn, and briefly mention new features in other apps, as they are easier to discover.

P.S. I do post on Mastodon under @outcoldman about some new features that I implement.

OpenIn 4.3

TestFlight

Minimum requirement now is macOS 15.1.
For the MAS version (TestFlight), a lot of features require OpenIn Helper 4.3, and the app is not compatible with previous versions of OpenIn Helper. Make sure to download the latest beta of OpenIn Helper.

Redesign and new app icons

I have made significant design changes, making the app a bit easier to work with and more intuitive for new users, including tips showing where to find information.

Better support for Browser Profiles

Safari Profiles support for all locales, not only English.
Automatic discovery for Safari/Chromium/Firefox profiles. No need to type anymore. Press refresh, set the profile. That’s it.
Support for Firefox profiles. The latest version of Firefox finally fixed how we can launch profiles from the command line. No more issues.
Support for Edge in Private mode.
I have added support for many other Chromium browsers, though not all of them may work.

Browser Extensions

Safari Web Extension is bundled, and Chrome and Firefox extensions are bundled for now. I will publish the extensions to Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons. You can easily enable Safari Web Extension in Safari Preferences. For Chromium and Firefox browsers, if you have them in the list of the apps for the HTTP handler in OpenIn, just open the app configuration, and at the bottom you will see a button to get the extension. Unpack it somewhere. And use browser settings to load the extension from the unpacked folder. In Firefox you can do it by navigating to about:debugging, in Chrome you can do it by navigating to chrome://extensions.
Browser extensions have settings where you can configure all links to be rewritten so they are sent to OpenIn. So if you try to open https://myworksite.com in Personal Browser/Profile, it will be sent to OpenIn, where you can setup a rule to always open this domain in Work Browser/Profile. This can be customized with key modifiers as well.
You can quickly send current tab to OpenIn with Toolbar Icon. Or you can send one of the links with Context Menu “Open in OpenIn”.
Safari Web Extension uses native messaging with the app, I will add it later to Chrome and Firefox.

Customizations

Custom icons for apps. You can customize the look of selected apps, set a custom icon, or generate one with Image Playground.
Allows setting custom key bindings for the app selection dialog. Instead of 1,2,3 you can set your own keys, like z,x,c.
OpenIn supports the openin:// scheme. You can send to OpenIn something like openin://open?url=YOUR_URL

Developers

Ability to add zsh scripts as targeted apps. This opens up many possibilities - with running zsh commands, you can implement your own version of how to launch Chromium profiles, or anything else, like publishing the link to some special place, or even invoking Shortcuts. You can access the environment variables to know more about how the link was sent to OpenIn, including OPENIN_KEY_MODIFIERS_COMMAND=1, and similar. I will publish the documentation later.
Added script for handlers that can be executed before any rule. This is useful to remove all the tracking query parameters in URLs before executing any rules, so you don’t need to duplicate the logic of removing those parameters in the rules. I have added an example as well that will remove all the tracking parameters. Just click Edit and use the example.

Other features

Added fn key condition for the rules. Not only Cmd, Shift, Control, but also now Fn can be used in rules.
Added invoked from browser extension condition for the rules.
Supports wildcards * in shortened URLs, in case you want to add something like *.sendgrid.com

RegExp 2.3

TestFlight

MacInspector.app - Beta - Find what is taking space on your Mac

Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This is a project that I have been working on for the last 2 years. And finally I am getting somewhere.

With MacInspector I am trying to build a unique tool that can be used for several use cases:

Explore a file system, and quickly find all the files and folders that are taking a lot of space (similar to DaisyDisk).
You should be able to navigate through a file system and see which folders are taking a lot of space.
As a developer, quickly review extended attributes of files and folders (similar to the xattr command). You can navigate to /Applications and check extended attributes written by the App Store, or select an Info.plist file and see the content of the file in an easily readable table.

And there are more features I want to implement:

RenameNinja.app - Rename tool for files made for developers

Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Recently I had to rename maybe 20–30 files where I had to extract some fields from the file name, and then modify the numbers, like add 2000 to the number from the file, and change a few things in the file names. I gave a few apps a try, but I was not happy with how they were designed. A lot of buttons, a lot of options, a lot of configurations - it felt like the time I would spend learning how to use those apps would be similar to just writing a bash script in the end.

Hey DeepSeek, can you reduce junk in my inbox?

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

TL;DR: I built a macOS Mail.app extension that can use DeepSeek R1 model (or any other LLM) to filter emails and mark them as junk. It is a freemium application, that you can download here, currently offer 100% discount for the first 1000 users.

In the last year or so, I have noticed a significant increase in the number of cold sales emails I receive. Officially, they are not spam, but they are annoying. My guess is that the significant number of those emails I receive is because of co-founding a few LLCs in the last few years. I am not sure how they get my email address, but I am sure that I don’t want to see them in my inbox. All of those “hire engineers”, “try our product”, “use our payroll service” and so on.

Loshadki Store - 60% off and free unlimited trial

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We are happy to announce that we are running a 60% off sale for ShellHistory and OpenIn in the Loshadki Store and on the App Store.

Use code C3MZGWOA to get a discount on OpenIn and ShellHistory applications on the Loshadki Store. The code is valid until the end of January 2025.

Ah yes, and we have a store now. You can purchase OpenIn and ShellHistory applications directly from the store and get the latest updates. We made both OpenIn and ShellHistory available for macOS to be downloadable directly from our website. You can download a free trial version of the applications and decide to purchase the license from our store instead of purchasing and downloading the versions from the App Store.

Vision OS - ImmersiShare

Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

While I am waiting for WWDC 2024, to see what else I can add to the existing applications, or to get a new idea for a productivity app, I am working on a new project called ImmersiShare for visionOS.

ImmersiShare allows you to share your spatial videos with other people. The app already has close to 100 short videos, from Alaska to Indonesia. The most popular videos:

Big Thunder Railroad in Disney
Madonna concert
Adele Concert
Apple Park
Ferrari 458

Links:

OpenIn 4.1

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Safari Profiles! Woo-hoo! I have been using macOS Sonoma since Developer Beta 1. And I am one hundred percent free from Chromium-based browsers. Sorry, no judgment here. If you love Arc, Chrome, Edge, or Brave browsers, OpenIn will continue to support them. I don’t use a lot of extensions, so Safari has always served me well.

Since Developer Beta 1, I have been working on supporting Safari Profiles with OpenIn. It was not easy, but I feel like I finally have something to share with you. Please read this post, and at the end you can find a link to TestFlight to try OpenIn 4.1 with Safari Profiles support.

ImageGeneratorML - Beta

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Image generator ML

I have released a fun project on TestFlight. An app that allows you to generate images with Machine Learning using the Stable Diffusion Model.

Pencil sketch of bear head with paw

Download it at Image Generator ML

OpenIn 4.0.5 - Script logs

Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

OpenIn 4.0.5 has been submitted for review in App Store and SetApp. Hope you will get it tomorrow!

Bug fixes always take priority. There were a few reported right after I released 4.0.4:

Bug: Console.log does not work anymore in the Script Editor
Bug: Newly added Source Apps might not have effect on the Rules
Bug: Scroll does not work in script editor

While fixing the console.log issue, I also implemented something nicer for being able to see the actual input and output of the Script Executor in action.

OpenIn 4.0.4

Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A small but big update is here for OpenIn 4. It includes some bug fixes and a few features I want to share with you! OpenIn 4.0.4 has already been published on the App Store and SetApp. The App Store still has a 50% off deal (as part of Cyber Monday) for OpenIn and other applications we provide.

App Selection Icons Size

Some users got used to the size of the icons and app selection menu in OpenIn 3, so they wanted to have back the ability to see the apps in the same size. Now you can configure the size of the app icons.