FlowState waits at the edge of your screen. Call it and it opens the editor, the terminal, the repository and the pages a project needs — arranged, and gone again before you have finished thinking.
One keystroke: the editor, the terminal and the project’s pages, arranged.
Rest the pointer against the side of the screen, or press a shortcut you choose. There is no Dock icon and nothing to arrange. It appears when you want it and is gone the moment you look away.
The panel arriving at the screen edge, and leaving again.
Everything a project needs sits in one list — the app, the terminal, the repository, the pages, the files. A switch beside each one says whether it opens with Launch, and a panel reads back exactly what will happen, in the order it will happen.
Setting up a project, with the Launch plan updating as you edit.
Eight palettes or your own colours, with width, spacing, text size, typeface, corners and how see-through the panel is. Every option shows you what it does before you pick it, and a look you like can be saved and handed to someone else.
Appearance Studio, where each option previews itself.
No account, no analytics, no telemetry, no third-party SDKs and no server of any kind. Your projects, paths and preferences are files in your own Application Support folder.
| Accessibility | Optional. Lets FlowState move and resize windows — decline it and everything else still works, it simply stops rearranging anything. |
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| Automation | Optional. Requested only if you ask a workspace link to open in a new Safari or Chrome window on your current desktop. |
| Network | None while FlowState is free. A paid subscription checks its licence against FlowState’s own service about once a month, and sends nothing else — no projects, no paths, no usage. Full detail. |
| Signature | Developer ID, notarized by Apple. Both permissions revocable at any time in System Settings. |
FlowState is in open beta with every feature unlocked, nothing to buy and no card to enter. Here is what it will cost afterwards, so nobody is surprised by it later.
FlowState is one person's work and macOS changes every year. A subscription is what pays for it to keep working on the next version instead of being abandoned, which is what happens to most small Mac utilities eventually.
Seven-day free trial, no card up front. Cancel whenever you like and it keeps working until the period you have paid for ends. Beta testers keep full access for the whole beta, with plenty of warning before anything changes.
That is the only real test. If it has not saved you anything by the third day, tell me — that is far more useful than a compliment.