Seedling

Plant a seed and watch it grow.

A tiny, calm macOS app for starting new projects — made for late nights, brain resets, and fresh beginnings. 🌙

_{Notarized by Apple · macOS 26+ · drag to Applications and go}

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Some nights you don't want a dashboard. You just want to start something.

Seedling lives quietly in your menu bar. Summon it — a click, or ⌥⌘S — and a small window fades into the center of your screen: just a seed in the dark, waiting for a name. Type one. Watch a little line-art seedling draw itself and bloom. Your new project is alive.

That's the whole thing. That's the point.

The idea 🌱

Every project starts from the same handful of files — your rules and guidelines. AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, README, TODO, SECURITY… the DNA a project grows from.

In Seedling, those files are your seeds, kept in a folder you call your Root. Name a new project and Seedling plants a fresh copy of them into your Garden — and a new folder is born. Tend your seeds whenever you like; every future project grows from the latest version.

🌰 Root — where your seed files live 🌳 Garden — where new projects grow 🌿 Plant — name a project, and it sprouts, seeded and ready

It never overwrites anything. Re-plant into a patch that already exists and the old files stay untouched.

A small ceremony

1. A seed in the dark — one quiet field: name your project
2. It grows — the line draws itself, then a single breath of light
3. Enter the garden — your new folder opens, and the window fades away

No menus to wade through. No settings page pretending to be a workflow. Just a moment.

Get it

The easy way — download the latest .dmg, open it, and drag Seedling to Applications. It's signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens with no security warnings. (Or browse all releases.)

From source — it's a native macOS app (SwiftUI, built for macOS 26 with Liquid Glass):

open Seedling.xcodeproj   # then ⌘R in Xcode

Either way: look for the leaf 🌿 in your menu bar. On first run it asks where are your seeds? then take me to your garden — after that it's just ⌥⌘S, a name, and grow.

Requires macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later.

Quiet by design

One pastel-sage accent, hairlines, Liquid Glass, no drop shadows — and a single belief: starting a project should feel like a new beginning, not a chore.

For the curious — the technical bits

A focused menu-bar app: no main window, no networking, ~16 small Swift files. Sandboxed with security-scoped bookmarks, a Carbon global hotkey, and a Finder "Seed this folder" service on the side. The growth is pure SwiftUI line-art (no image assets), and the whole flow lives in a centered, key-accepting NSPanel.

• 🛠 Full engineering tour → HANDOFF.md
• 🗺 Plain-language map → PROJECT_GUIDE.md

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_{Made on a late night, for late nights. 🌙🌱}