Nino Chavez / Apps

Local-first software

Built for my own work.
Then made available.

Each of these started because a job I do regularly had no tool that owned it, and the workarounds were costing hours. They are small, they do one thing, and they stop where judgment starts.

They run on your machine. Your files stay where they are, nothing uploads on its own, and no account is required to use them.

Cutting Board

For video creators shooting events

The prep station between your camera and your editor. It turns a camera card into an ordered review queue — screen, sort, trim, and label the day's video before any of it reaches a timeline.

  • Reads a card or folder; source files are never modified
  • Proposes a starting order; you make every Keep, Highlight, and Reject call
  • Hands your choices to Premiere, Resolve, or Final Cut
Download for macOS Apple silicon · signed & notarized · AGPL-3.0

Yawn

For anyone who sits through meetings

A private meeting notepad for your Mac. It records a consented meeting, gives you somewhere to write what matters while it happens, and keeps the transcript beside your notes for when you need to check a detail.

  • Stored on this Mac — no account, no meeting bot, no automatic sharing
  • Your notes stay yours, saved separately from the transcript rather than presented as generated claims
  • It does not join calls, read your calendar, or turn a conversation into tasks
Download Yawn 0.4.0 · Apple silicon · macOS

What these have in common

Local by default. The work happens on your machine. Nothing is uploaded, published, or shared unless you do it deliberately.

They point; you decide. Analysis narrows what deserves your attention. It does not decide what is good, and it does not act on your behalf.

Built from real use. Each one exists because I hit the problem repeatedly in my own work, not because the category looked interesting.