Vibe-coded Mac apps are arriving fast — here is what gets lost in the process
By Roman Kaplun, Senior Engineering Manager at CleanMyMac by MacPaw
The Mac is having a moment —Apple's most recent earnings showed Mac sales up 6% year-over-year, with Tim Cook acknowledging customer recognition was "happening faster than what we had predicted." At the same time,App Store submissions jumped 84% year-over-year in Q1 2026, with full-year 2025 reaching nearly 600,000 new submissions, the largest annual wave since 2016. Vibe coding tools are widely cited as the driver behind that surge.
The shift is broad.92% of US developers now use AI coding tools daily and63% of vibe coding users are not developers at all. They are designers, marketers, and individuals building tools through natural language prompts.
What is worth examining is what happens when this wave reaches software operating at a deeper level of a user's system. Free, open-source Mac utilities are appearing on GitHub, many positioning...
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