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Tameno allows you to set ever-repeating, “tapping” timers. This is perfect for repetitive tasks, like watering your plants for 30 seconds each, or brushing each side of each quadrant of your teeth for 10 seconds, or stretching different parts of your body 15 seconds each, or meditation, or yoga. [insert your use-case here].

Tameno running on an Apple Watch

What’s New In Tameno 1.1?

+ Complications and Widgets for your Apple Watch (requires watchOS 10)

The complications and widgets on your Watch let you easily start your last used interval, or just launch the app.

+ iOS Widgets on your Lock Screen

Pictured above, the circular “Last Used Interval” widget and the “set an interval on-the-fly” widget are displayed in all their glory, on an eye-shattering yellow background!

+ Intervals in the Widget can now be changed more easily

As seen here with the widget on Mac (but it also applies to the iOS widget, of course), you can now change either minutes or seconds, allowing you to much more comfortably set the interval you need.

+ Bug fixes, like properly displaying intervals in the iOS’ app’s Quick Actions menu

Links and Availability

Tameno is a universal one-time purchase on the App Stores, so a single purchase allows you to use the app on your Apple Watches, iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple TVs.
It costs USD 3.99 / EUR 3,99 / GBP 3.99 and is available in English and German. It requires watchOS 9.4, iOS 16.6, iPadOS 16.6, macOS 13.5, and tvOS 16.6.
Complications and Widgets on Apple Watch require watchOS 10. The interactive widget requires macOS 14 and iOS 17.

I hope you’ll enjoy the app and the update!
Should you have any questions or feedback, please don’t hesitate to contact me!

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With Tameno, you set auto-repeating, “tapping” timers – the perfect companion for repetitive tasks.
It’s available for your Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV as a universal binary – always ready, wherever you might need it.

Set up an interval between 2 seconds and 20 minutes, and Tameno lets you know each time it elapses (by tapping you, by sound, or by screen flashing), and then re-sets itself to alert you again.

Posts in this Series

Part IHello, Tameno
Part IITameno on Your Apple Watch
Part IIITameno on Your iPhone and iPad
Part IVTameno on Your Mac
Part VTameno on Your Apple TV

Part I – Hello, Tameno

Tameno is the perfect companion for repetitive tasks.
The following real-life use cases are what made me want an app like this in the first place:

Watering my Hedge Plants

I don’t have any fancy gadgets to water my plants – I do it manually with a hose. And to water them equally, I used to count down in my head from 30 – easily getting distracted by neighbors talking to me, my fiancée telling me something, or the random airplane flying by.
With Tameno on my Apple Watch, I set a self-repeating timer for 30 seconds and start watering. Now, my watch vibrates every 30 seconds, telling me to move on to the next plant. And I can even partake in conversations now!

Doing Stretches

Whenever I feel my back tense up, I like to do some stretches. Before, I’d count in my head while stretching.
With Tameno on my Apple TV or Apple Watch, I can concentrate on the stretch, instead of having to worry about how long to hold it.

Brushing my Teeth

You know how you’re supposed to brush each side of each quadrant of your teeth for 10 seconds (at least, that’s how the math works out judging by my electric toothbrush’s 30-second timer)?
Well, I used to count the 10 seconds in my head, most of the time going too short or too long.
With Tameno on my Apple Watch, I just get buzzed every 10 seconds and I know I’m ready to move on to the next section.

Advancing a Photo Slideshow

I wanted to show my family a couple of photos from a vacation, but for some reason, Apple TV no longer was able to automatically play back what I had prepared, so I had to advance manually.
With Tameno on my Apple Watch, I just set a 7 second timer and we were all good.

The 20-20-20 Rule

There’s this idea that when you’re working in front of a computer display all day long, it’s good for your eyes when every 20 minutes, you take 20 seconds to look 20 meters into the distance.
With Tameno on my Mac or iPad, I set up that timer and don’t have to worry about it anymore.

Up Next

In Part II, we’ll look at how you can use Tameno on your Apple Watch!

Links and Availability

Tameno is a universal one-time purchase on the App Stores, so a single purchase allows you to use the app on your Apple Watches, iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple TVs.
It costs USD 3.99 / EUR 3,99 / GBP 3.99 and is available in English and German. It requires watchOS 9.4, iOS 16.6, iPadOS 16.6, macOS 13.5, and tvOS 16.6.
Complications and Widgets on Apple Watch require watchOS 10. The interactive widget requires macOS 14 and iOS 17.

If you have any feedback, questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact me – I’d love to hear from you.

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ScreenFloat v2.2.1, a free update for existing customers, is now available on the Mac App Store and includes numerous improvements for cutting recordings, automation, and more.

What is ScreenFloat?

ScreenFloat is your Screenshot All-Rounder.
Capture screenshots and recordings that float above other windows, allowing you to reference anything on your screen, anywhere. It’s like Picture-in-Picture, only for screen captures.
It keeps your Desktop clutter-free, as every capture you make is stored in its Shots Browser, where you can manage, organize and find your shots. They’re also synced across your Macs.
Easily copy the non-copyable, as ScreenFloat recognizes text, barcode and faces in your shots, which also allows you to effortlessly redact sensitive parts of your screenshots.
Add non-destructive annotations, redactions and markup, crop, “fold“, resize, or de-retinize your shots, or trim, cut or mute your recordings. Quickly pick colors.
Create shareable and embeddable links for your captures using iCloud, ImageKit.io or Cloudinary.com.
And so much more.

A screenshot is just a screenshot. Until you use ScreenFloat.

Tip: Check out the Get to Know ScreenFloat 2 Blog Post series for a deep-dive into its functionality and what it can do for you.

What’s New in ScreenFloat v2.2.1?

  • When you cut your recordings, you now get more info about the resulting video, where the playhead is, and how long your individual cuts are.
    Also, preview playback has been improved, as well as scrubbing through the recording.
At the top, you now see the duration of the finished recording. At the bottom left, you can see the duration and range of the currently selected cut, and at the bottom right the position of the playhead
  • There’s now an easier way to make new cuts, by holding down X on your keyboard as you play back your recording:
  • Standby Window Capture (macOS 14 or newer required) – grab a screenshot of any window from its green resize button, or from the Capture item in your menu bar.
  • AppleScripts and Shortcuts can now be run on floating shots directly, in addition to the already existing Double-Click Workflow Actions.
Right-click a floating shot to send it off to an AppleScript or Shortcut.
  • The new Permissions overview gives you all the details you need to know about why, how and when ScreenFloat makes use of certain privileges you grant it
  • You’re now able to set a floating shot’s visibility not only to the currently active app, but any currently running app
  • And many more minor improvements and bugfixes, like the Shortcuts app no longer launching right away when setting up a new Double-Click action, or the cutting window remembering its size.

Links and Availability

ScreenFloat is a one-time purchase, exclusively available on the Mac App Store for USD 15.99 / EUR 14,99 / GBP 15.99 , and a free update for existing customers.
A free, 28-day trial is available for download from the website.
It requires macOS 12 Monterey (macOS 14 Sonoma recommended for full functionality)
A (free) iCloud account is required if you want to sync your ScreenFloat library across your Macs.
ScreenFloat is currently localized in English, German, Chinese (Simplified), and Dutch.

ScreenFloat Website + Free Trial
ScreenFloat on the Mac App Store
Eternal Storms Software Productivity Bundle on the Mac App Store (includes ScreenFloat, Yoink for Mac and Transloader at ~25% off)

Get to Know ScreenFloat 2 Blog Post Series
ScreenFloat 2 Usage Tips

Contact & Connect

I hope you enjoy ScreenFloat (and my other apps) : )

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As a sort-of follow up to my post about Apple’s macOS Engineers running out of places to put new permission dialogs in, I had a thought, because, I do have those from time to time.

Here’s what’s up: In macOS, when you want to, for example, create a screenshot app and want it to be able to actually take screenshots, you’ll have to get permission from the user for it. With the upcoming macOS 15 Sequoia, that is going to be upped to two dialogs. One: the initial permission request, and two: a weekly reminder, asking if you want to continue to allow this app to capture your screen.
Here’s where my aforementioned thought comes in: Wouldn’t it be nice if a screenshot app from the Mac App Store was able to, like, take screenshots, right out of the box, without any permission dialogs?
I feel like apps on the Mac App Store should get some perks for being reviewed and vetted by Apple’s App Review.

So here’s my thought, wrapped into a couple of examples, to really drive my point home ad nauseam:
– A developer of a screenshot app that has successfully gone through App Review to be published on the Mac App Store should be able to request a default screen capture entitlement for it, which lets macOS know that no permission dialogs need to be presented, or asked for weekly, at all. It can just take screenshots right after download, because, you know, it’s a screenshot app, and that’s what the user downloaded it for.

– A developer of an audio recording app that has been reviewed by App Review to be released on the Mac App Store should be able to request a default Microphone recording entitlement, so it can record audio right after download, because, you know, it’s an audio recording app, and that’s what the user downloaded it for.

– A developer of an app that uses the user’s current location for core features that has successfully been reviewed by App Review to be released on the Mac App Store should be able to request a default Location entitlement so it can get its work done right after download, because that’s what the user downloaded it for.

Shouldn’t that be sort of the point of App Review?
I kind of understand making apps obtained from outside the Mac App Store jump through permission dialogs (to an extent, I just hate the new weekly permission reminders so much), but I feel like apps obtained from the Mac App Store could appear so much more user-friendly and polished without them, and would definitely make apps obtained from there feel special.

I guess what I’m saying is: Apple, please stop this Tour-de-farce security permission dialog onslaught and give users and developers some credit.

P.S.: I do realize it’s a pipe-dream. With all the ways stuff can be kept from App Review – which has happened time and time again – it’s not a system fit for such an implementation. Which, in turn, draws App Review’s reason for existing into question altogether.

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