Macarte is LIVE in the Mac App Store!

Yes, you read that right, folks; after a long road here, Macarte is now on general-release - available to you - the world at large.

Macarte is ready for macOS Monterey, and is native on Apple Silicon based Macs - so all you lucky people enjoying your M1, M1 Pro or M1 Max speed-demon Macs can run Macarte knowing it's not causing any extra resource usage through Rosetta 2.

I've not been able to test on any of the new MacBook Pros with the notch in the display - but Macarte follows macOS standards, and there's no reason to think it won't work as expected, so I don't foresee any problems there.

So please, without further ado, please go out and get Macarte from the Mac App Store and enjoy yet another way of switching apps yourself 🙂.

Road to Release - Website work & macOS Monterey Release Candidate Testing!

So, as we continue to approach to Macarte's release, the work on the MVP of the website continues.

Also, last night I've updated my macOS Monterey Beta install to the RC (Release Candidate) which came out yesterday. Interestingly it refers to itself as "macOS Monterey 12.0.1" - perhaps because it includes changes for supporting the new MacBook Pros? I guess we'll see if they ship with a different point-number.

I've not had a chance to test Macarte on it yet, but I had tested with the last Beta version (and various ones before that, from the first Beta), and not found any issues... so I'm hopeful everything will still be well with the Monterey-RC. Time will tell!

UPDATE: Later same day:

So, I tried Macarte quickly with the Monterey RC and all seems fine. Monterey seems to have resolved some glitches with running on Big Sur - one of which I have a work-around for which is enacted on Big Sur, and one of which was to do with some icons being scaled to certain sizes had some random black pixels appearing - all resolved in Monterey. This seems to be my experience with Monterey generally as it has been developed - it's like a fixer/polish release for Big Sur. So - worth the upgrade, if your Mac can take it, I'd say.