Pop out workstations that live on the edge of your Mac or Macbook. With desktop pets.
Ask your files. Caddy keeps each class or project in a colorful tab on the edge of your Mac, and answers questions about the files inside. Every answer shows its source: click it and the file opens at that passage.
ASK YOUR FILES
• Ask anything about the files in a Caddy: readings, slides, a syllabus, a long report.
• Summarize, compare and follow up in one conversation.
• Keep an answer in the Caddy's Notebook, with a link back to its source.
• Make study cards from a file and flip through them.
• Powered by Apple Intelligence. Answers are written in Apple's Private Cloud Compute by default, which keeps nothing, with this Mac as the fallback. Turn on Local only in Settings to keep every answer on this Mac. Every answer says where it was written.
• No account and no API key. Nothing goes to the developer.
• Ask comes with Caddy Pro and needs a Mac with Apple silicon, macOS 27 or later, and Apple Intelligence turned on in a supported language and region.
A WORKSTATION ON EVERY EDGE
Caddy puts colorful pill-shaped tabs, called Caddies, on the edges of your screen. Give each class or project its own. Click a tab and its workstation opens:
• A Library of the project's files. They stay where they are on your Mac. Caddy never copies or changes them.
• Readers for PDF, Word, slides, pictures and HTML, side by side.
• A Notebook in every Caddy, with notes that pop out into their own window.
• Find across every file in the Caddy, scanned pages included. Text recognition is free.
Click the tab again and it goes back to the edge. The app you are typing in keeps focus the whole time. Throw a Caddy across the desktop and it lands on another edge. Sixteen colors. Three Caddies are free, forever.
CADDY PRO
• Ask, with study cards and Keep.
• Pets on the desktop: a cat or a dog that sits on your Caddy, naps while you type, and rides along when you move it.
• Every Character: Googly Eyes, Headphones, the Flower and its garden, and the flag of every country.
• Unlimited Caddies and notebooks.
• Send a Copy: the whole Caddy in one file.
The pets and Characters are drawn for Caddy. If you bought Caddy before version 2.0, unlimited Caddies stay yours.
PRIVACY
No account, no analytics, no advertising. Questions, and the passages they need, go only to Apple Intelligence: Apple's model on this Mac, or Apple's Private Cloud Compute, which keeps nothing.
In English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese. Requires macOS 15 or later.
SUBSCRIPTION
Caddy Pro is an auto-renewable subscription with two options: monthly, $3.99 for 1 month, or yearly, $29.99 for 1 year (US prices; your App Store shows the price where you live). Each starts with a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, or when the free trial ends. The subscription renews automatically at the same price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it any time in your App Store account settings. Any unused part of a free trial ends when you buy a subscription.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://caddydocs.com/privacy
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A novel take on file based workflows
Apmazing
Ive only played around with this for a day or so, but it’s a really neat and novel way to approach file management and staying organized in projects. It has a fun atmosphere and was clearly designed by someone who wanted to solve a specific problem: staying organized and focused in multithreaded workflows. It might not be for everyone, but Im betting it’ll be amazing for the people it’s for. Im working on a story board for a new book and Im enjoying it - time will tell if it becomes a mainstay in my workflows. But if nothing else, I can tell its a passion project and is a fresh take on the typical and often unorganized workflow of having several files open at once. Worth the $$$.
Simple and Focused
Haay132
Caddy Docs is a simple Mac app designed to provide a focused and clutter-free environment for working with documents. Its streamlined design is perfect for users seeking a lightweight workspace to read, organize, and manage documents without extra complexity.
Cool app
ABIgail12311
Honestly it is an app I can’t live without Caddy anymore. I am an architect and my ENTIRE screen is covered in caddies. App of the year contender!
Great App!
Rhapsody Veteran
A really cool app.
A Beautiful Evening
• Added: New colors.
• Added: Different look and feel
• Added: German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Portuguese, and French.
• Fixed: Desktop Pets selection and physics
• Fixed: Caddy Workstation File Handling
• Improved: AI / Apple Intelligence Answer Accuracy
• Improved: Desktop Pets physics
Version 4.1
The developer, Blake Morris, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Purchases
User Content
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