Metronome is live, and Notes is in review
Two updates to share. Metronome by SheepiesLab is live on the App Store, and Notes by SheepiesLab — our first macOS app — has just been submitted for review.
Metronome
Metronome started as a personal frustration. Most metronome apps give you a single ticking pulse. That's fine for a lot of practice, but the moment you're working on something that layers rhythms — a polyrhythm, a groove that sits across two feels at once — a single track stops being enough. You end up counting one rhythm in your head while the app handles another, which defeats the point.
Metronome by SheepiesLab lets you run multiple independent tracks simultaneously, each with its own tempo, time signature, and accent pattern. It's available now for £3.99 — a one-time purchase, no subscription.
The source code is on GitLab under the AGPL-3.0 licence.
Notes
Notes is something a little different for us. It's our first macOS app, and it does something that's hard to describe without seeing it: the window is transparent. You can see through the background to whatever is on your screen beneath it, adjust how opaque it is, and it stays floating above everything else while you work.
The use case is straightforward. You're reading something — a brief, a tutorial, a reference document — and you need to write something down without losing your place. Switching apps breaks the flow. A floating note that lives on top of what you're looking at doesn't.
It supports rich text formatting (font family, size, colour, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough), multiple notes in a sidebar, and an adjustable background colour and opacity. Everything is stored locally using SwiftData. No account, no cloud, no network requests.
Notes has been submitted to the Mac App Store and is waiting for Apple's review. When it's approved it will be available for £4.99. The source code is already on GitLab under the AGPL-3.0 licence if you want to look ahead of the release.
What's next
The Clean App Initiative now has three apps — two live and one in review. We're continuing to build things that scratch specific itches, on both iOS and macOS. If you have an idea for something that fits the brief, or feedback on what's already out there, reach out at benng@sheepieslab.com.