Alan

Maybe it's because my eyes are getting old or maybe it's because the contrast between windows on macOS keeps getting worse. Either way, I built a tiny Mac app last night that draws a...

Maybe it's because my eyes are getting old or maybe it's because the contrast between windows on macOS keeps getting worse. Either way, I built a tiny Mac app last night that draws a border around the active window. I named it "Alan".

In Alan's preferences, you can choose a preferred border width and colors for both light and dark mode.

If you want to hide Alan's icon from the Dock, you can set a hidden preference by running this Terminal command then relaunching the app.


defaults write studio.retina.Alan hideDock -bool true

That's it. That's the app.

You can download a notarized copy of Alan here.

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