Vu Nguyen
Indie developer. I build Mac apps and write about focused work.
I'm an independent software developer working on macOS. I build the apps myself, support them myself, and write everything published on this blog.
Most of what I write about here is time tracking, focus, and the software people reach for when a workday stops feeling like it adds up. That is not an abstract interest — it is the problem I built Chronoid to solve, and I use my own tools daily on the same Mac I use for client work.
What I build
An automatic time tracker for macOS. It logs the apps, sites, and documents you actually use so you can see where the day went, without starting or stopping a timer.
A macOS screen recorder for polished product demos, with 3D device framing and smooth motion.
How this blog reviews software
This site recommends products, and one of them is mine. That is a conflict of interest, so here is the standard I hold the writing to.
- Apps are run on a real Mac
- Tools that get recommended here are installed and used on macOS, not summarized from their own marketing pages. Where an app was not tested first-hand, the writeup says so.
- Pricing is checked against the vendor
- Prices and free-plan limits are read off the vendor’s own pricing page and dated in the article. Software pricing moves constantly, so a figure without a date is not worth much.
- Updates are dated, not silently patched
- When a post is revised, the revision date is shown on the page and published in its structured data. You can tell how fresh a recommendation is before you act on it.
- Chronoid is disclosed, not hidden
- Chronoid appears in roundups on this site, and it is my product. It is labelled as mine wherever it appears, and the writeups say plainly what it does badly as well as what it does well.
- Claims get a source or get cut
- Statistics need a primary source readers can follow. Numbers that cannot be traced back to real research do not belong in a buying guide, however good they sound.
Corrections and contact
If something here is out of date, mispriced, or plain wrong, tell me and I will fix it and date the correction. The fastest route is @vunguyendev.