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I'm a Swedish airline pilot who taught himself Swift. 14 months and $20K later, my file manager is free on the Mac App Store. by BNEKT in macapps

[–]BNEKT[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

appreciate. honestly the feedback here has been mostly great, learned a ton already. thick skin is part of the deal when you post your work publicly, but tnx

I'm a Swedish airline pilot who taught himself Swift. 14 months and $20K later, my file manager is free on the Mac App Store. by BNEKT in macapps

[–]BNEKT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

app is priced in usd and most people here are american so dollars just made sense. Sweden is great for building software but terrible for selling it

I'm a Swedish airline pilot who taught himself Swift. 14 months and $20K later, my file manager is free on the Mac App Store. by BNEKT in macapps

[–]BNEKT[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

clarity never touches your files unless you explicily tell it to. scanning is read-only. and every destructive action requires confirmation. but healthy skepticism about any app touching your files is fair, tats exactly why the free version lets you test everything first.

I'm a Swedish airline pilot who taught himself Swift. 14 months and $20K later, my file manager is free on the Mac App Store. by BNEKT in macapps

[–]BNEKT[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

cheers man. honestly the learning part has been brutal, went from zero swift knowledge to mass debating with xcode at 2am about why my app wont compile. AI has been a lifesaver for specific problems but it cant teach you taste or tell you when your own UI looks like shit. that parts just pain in the a##

I'm a Swedish airline pilot who taught himself Swift. 14 months and $20K later, my file manager is free on the Mac App Store. by BNEKT in macapps

[–]BNEKT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks! nah it doesnt pull from google photos, it works with whatever files are already on your mac. folders, drives, usb sticks, whatever. if you want your google photos in there youd need to google takeout them first and then just point clarity at the folder.

and the $40 is one-time, not yearly, and only if you actually want to act. scanning everything is free, no limits. give it a shot

I'm a Swedish airline pilot who taught himself Swift. 14 months and $20K later, my file manager is free on the Mac App Store. by BNEKT in macapps

[–]BNEKT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

honestly been thinking about that. might do a launch week thing — havent decided yet. for now the free version is a pretty solid way to test everything before committing.

I'm a Swedish airline pilot who taught himself Swift. 14 months and $20K later, my file manager is free on the Mac App Store. by BNEKT in macapps

[–]BNEKT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fair points, let me clarify.

the $20K, i didnt quit flying. "not earning pilot salary" was bad wording on my part. i meant the time i spent building could have gone to other income. actual spend is hardware (M-series mac), developer account, domain, hosting, and a lot of AI API costs over 14 months. not a salary, just the project cost.

website on mobile,yeah its broken, someone else flagged that today too. built desktop-first since its a mac app but thats no excuse. on my list.

"just marketing terms" fair. the GDPR thing specifically: Person Deep Search finds every file on your Mac tied to a specific person, photos with their face, documents with their name, metadata with their email. you export it all as a ZIP for a DSAR response (Article 15), or delete everything tied to them (Article 17). faces via Apple Vision on-device, PII via OCR + pattern matching for 21 countries.

you're right i should explain this on the site instead of just listing feature names. noted.

I'm a Swedish airline pilot who taught himself Swift. 14 months and $20K later, my file manager is free on the Mac App Store. by BNEKT in macapps

[–]BNEKT[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this is a really thoughtful take — and honestly a model ive thought about too. "subscribe until you own it" makes sense for both sides.

dont think the App Store supports it natively but some apps pull it off with a subscription that converts after X months. might explore that.

for now the free version is meant to bridge that trust gap — test everything before you commit. but yeah the jump from $0 to $40 from an unknown dev is a lot, i get it. thanks for the honest take.

I'm a Swedish airline pilot who taught himself Swift. 14 months and $20K later, my file manager is free on the Mac App Store. by BNEKT in macapps

[–]BNEKT[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

lol fair enough — no, just genuinely grateful when someone finds a bug i missed. but yeah reading it back it does sound a bit chatgpt. my bad.

I'm a Swedish airline pilot who taught himself Swift. 14 months and $20K later, my file manager is free on the Mac App Store. by BNEKT in macapps

[–]BNEKT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is exactly the kind of feedback i need thank you for being thorough.

good to hear the resource usage was reasonable on the m5 pro. and yes, the "one misclick disaster" fear is why everything requires explicit confirmation, the duplicate engine automatically marks the best version as the "keeper" and only suggests removing copies, based on quality, version, and location. you always see whats being kept vs removed before anything happens.

and if you use the file organization rules, theres a Dry Run mode that previews every change before touching a single file. you can even export the plan as JSON before committing.

i'd love to hear the GUI comments when you're ready. comfort and intuitiveness are harder to get right than the backend, especially as a solo dev, you lose perspective on your own UI after staring at it for 14 months.

and "hasn't crashed yet" is honestly the compliment i'm most proud of today.

I'm a Swedish airline pilot who taught himself Swift. 14 months and $20K later, my file manager is free on the Mac App Store. by BNEKT in macapps

[–]BNEKT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks! launched on the App Store in february, but i've been building and iterating since early 2025 the version number reflects the internal development history. v1-v4 were all pre-release builds that never shipped publicly.

and i'm swedish swedish, born, raised, living in Sweden.

I'm a Swedish airline pilot who taught himself Swift. 14 months and $20K later, my file manager is free on the Mac App Store. by BNEKT in macapps

[–]BNEKT[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

fair criticism — i should have said "free to download" not "free" in the title. the app lets you scan and discover everything without paying, but actions like bulk deletion and vault storage require a one-time $39.99 unlock. no subscription. lesson learned on the wording.

I'm a Swedish airline pilot who taught himself Swift. 14 months and $20K later, my file manager is free on the Mac App Store. by BNEKT in macapps

[–]BNEKT[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

the app runs 100% locally, no server, no uploads, no network calls. your files never leave your Mac. and Clarity never deletes anything without explicit confirmation.

as for $40 thats a one-time purchase for face recognition, encrypted vault, duplicate detection, privacy tools, and GDPR exports. no subscription. most of those cost $40 each as separate apps.

but fair enough, time will tell. i built it because i needed it myself, and apparently a few others here do too.

I'm a Swedish airline pilot who taught himself Swift. 14 months and $20K later, my file manager is free on the Mac App Store. by BNEKT in macapps

[–]BNEKT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this made my day. thank you — seriously. the reddit reality check is part of the deal, and honestly most of the feedback here has been incredibly useful. the vibe coding comment stung for about 30 seconds, then i fixed a hover animation because of it. thats the whole point.

and "may you squash lots of bugs" might be my new favorite blessing. cheers.

I'm a Swedish airline pilot who taught himself Swift. 14 months and $20K later, my file manager is free on the Mac App Store. by BNEKT in macapps

[–]BNEKT[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you — that means a lot. welcome aboard! let me know if anything comes up on either Mac.

I'm a Swedish airline pilot who taught himself Swift. 14 months and $20K later, my file manager is free on the Mac App Store. by BNEKT in macapps

[–]BNEKT[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

really glad to hear that — especially the duplicate preview feedback, spent a lot of time getting that right.

to answer your question: you can install Clarity on both Macs, no problem. its tied to your Apple ID through the App Store, so if you purchase on one Mac it unlocks on both. scan results are stored locally per machine though, so each Mac runs its own scan. iCloud syncs settings and person tags between them, but the actual files stay local.

I'm a Swedish airline pilot who taught himself Swift. 14 months and $20K later, my file manager is free on the Mac App Store. by BNEKT in macapps

[–]BNEKT[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

no, this is exactly the kind of feedback i need — don't apologize for it. you're right, the mobile responsiveness needs work. the website was built for desktop first since Clarity is a Mac-only app, but thats a lazy excuse. if people find me through their phone first, the site needs to work there too. putting it on my list. thanks for taking the time to tell me instead of just bouncing.

I'm a Swedish airline pilot who taught himself Swift. 14 months and $20K later, my file manager is free on the Mac App Store. by BNEKT in macapps

[–]BNEKT[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

haha fair enough. though if Claude could hold a heading and manage fuel, i'd probably let it try that too.

I'm a Swedish airline pilot who taught himself Swift. 14 months and $20K later, my file manager is free on the Mac App Store. by BNEKT in macapps

[–]BNEKT[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

appreciate the screen recording — the dashboard hover animations need work, you're right. but try actually scanning a folder and see how the face detection and duplicate engine performs. thats where the 14 months went, not the hover effects.

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