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The studio

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Tinto Labs is an independent software studio in Ibagué, Colombia, building native Mac apps.

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Tinto Labs is an independent software studio based in Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia. It is the trading name of Jairo Alejandro Pinto Garzón, an independent developer. The studio makes four native macOS apps — Tempo, MiniTray, Pulso and Arcadoro — written in Swift, with English and Spanish interfaces, sold as one-time purchases. They are sold separately or as a bundle, and support is answered by the person who writes the code.

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Tinto Labs is an independent software studio based in Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia. It is the trading name of Jairo Alejandro Pinto Garzón, an independent software developer who builds the apps, runs the website and answers the support mail.

The catalogue is four native macOS apps: Tempo, for annotated screenshots; MiniTray, a temporary shelf for files in transit; Pulso, a panel showing the state of your Mac; and Arcadoro, a task list with a focus timer and an arcade game you pay for with the time you've worked. Each does one job. All four are written in Swift, ship as universal binaries for Apple Silicon and Intel, and speak English and Spanish.

The commercial model is the same across all four: pay once, the licence never expires, and it covers up to three Macs. No subscription, no user account, no email needed to try them. The apps do their work on the user's Mac: captures, tasks, readings and history stay on the local disk. Crash reports are anonymous and can be switched off under Settings › Privacy in each app. Sales are handled by Lemon Squeezy as reseller and Merchant of Record.

Tempo

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Tempo takes a screenshot, lets you mark what matters, and drags straight into an AI chat.

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Tempo is a macOS screenshot tool built around one workflow: capture, point at what matters, drag the image into ChatGPT, Claude, Slack, an email or anything else that takes images. The capture arrives as a floating thumbnail that sits on top without stealing focus until you use it, and it lands on the clipboard at the same time.

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Explaining something to a language model nearly always starts with a screenshot. Tempo was built for that exact trip: capture, annotate, drop.

Grab a region with ⌥⇧⌘S or the whole screen with ⌥⇧⌘F, from any app; both shortcuts can be reassigned in Settings. The capture shows up as a floating thumbnail in the corner, above everything else and without taking focus. From there you drag it into a chat, an email or a folder, or paste it with ⌘V. The editor has an arrow (A), rectangle (R), ellipse (O), text (T), pencil (P), blur for redacting (B), numbered markers (C) and a crop tool (K), and each tool shows its key on its own button. Leave several captures open and they stack into a deck with a counter: drag the deck and all of them go, ⌥↑ and ⌥↓ step through them, and you can copy the whole set as one stacked image or save them as separate files.

Tempo connects to no AI service. It gets the image ready and you decide where it goes. Captures, annotations and recent history live only on your Mac; the history can be emptied or switched off in Settings › General, and it clears itself after the number of days you set. On first launch macOS asks for Screen Recording, which is all Tempo needs in order to capture — it never asks for Accessibility. It requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

MiniTray

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MiniTray is a temporary shelf that appears when you shake the pointer mid-drag.

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MiniTray is a macOS menu bar app for the moment you're moving files between windows, desktops and apps. Start dragging, shake the pointer, and a small tray appears beside it. Drop files, folders or images in, go wherever you need, then pull everything out. The tray copies nothing: it only holds references in memory.

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A file gets stranded exactly when you need to change window, desktop or app in the middle of a drag. MiniTray fills that gap: a temporary shelf that turns up where the pointer is and goes away when it's no longer needed.

Start dragging in Finder or any other app and, without letting go, shake the pointer — three quick changes of direction. The tray appears beside it, always within the screen. It takes as many files, folders and images as you want, from wherever they came. Then drag the whole stack out, or open the grid and pick only what you need; anything left behind keeps the tray open. Collapsed it measures 236 × 236 points and never grows, however much you add: you see the preview and a capsule with the count. Its menu opens an item in another app, reveals it in Finder, previews it with Quick Look, or sends it via AirDrop, Mail, Messages and any other share extension you have installed. Settings adjust how sensitive the shake is, turn on a global shortcut for opening an empty tray, and turn on a tray that appears after each screenshot with the image already in it, for anything from 1 to 10 seconds; those last two start switched off.

MiniTray holds references in memory and nothing else. Closing the tray never moves or deletes anything, and the actual move is done by Finder when you drop the files, honouring ⌥ to copy and ⌘ to move. The contents disappear when you close the tray or quit the app. macOS asks for Input Monitoring so the app can notice the shake during a drag: it watches pointer movement, never reads the keyboard, and cannot alter the events it sees. It lives in the menu bar with no Dock icon. It requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

Pulso

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Pulso shows your Mac's vital signs — CPU, memory, disk, network, battery and thermal state — from the menu bar.

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Pulso is a macOS menu bar panel that puts the state of your Mac on a single screen: CPU, memory pressure, disk, network, battery and thermal state, plus the five processes using the most right now. You can pause, resume or quit one of your own processes from the same panel. The readings and the process list never leave your Mac.

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When a Mac slows down, the question is what's doing it. Pulso puts the answer one click away in the menu bar.

The panel gathers CPU, memory pressure, disk, network, battery and thermal state. The numbers sit at the top, the five heaviest processes underneath. Each figure comes from the system source that owns it: memory pressure is read from kern.memorystatus_vm_pressure_level and swap from VM_SWAPUSAGE, not inferred from a RAM percentage. Click the memory card and Pulso explains what those figures mean. From the panel you can pause, resume or quit one of your own processes; quitting is requested the normal way, as the Quit menu does, so the app can save your work first. It opens from the menu bar icon or with ⌃⌘M, stays out of the Dock, and can start when you log in.

The readings and the process list stay on your Mac. Pulso uploads nothing and needs no account. It asks for no Accessibility permission and installs no launch agent of its own. It requires macOS 26 Tahoe or later; earlier versions of macOS are not supported. It builds as a universal binary for Apple Silicon and Intel.

Arcadoro

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Arcadoro is a task list with a focus timer, and an arcade game you pay for with the time you've worked.

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Arcadoro is a macOS menu bar app that puts a short task list, a focus timer and an arcade game in one place. Focused time turns into credits, and credits are the only way into Nova Pop, the arcade game that comes with it. The game isn't given away — it's earned. Tasks, history, credits and scores are stored only on your Mac.

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Arcadoro starts from a simple idea: the reward comes after the work, not before it. The to-do list and the timer share one window, so you pick a task and the focus block runs against it.

Sessions run as a stopwatch or as a Pomodoro, with whatever session and break lengths suit you. The timer detaches from the panel and floats over whatever you're doing, showing the current task, the time, pause and finish, a pin to keep it above other windows, and what the block will pay. The rates are in plain sight: a Pomodoro pays 1 credit per 10 minutes of the block plus a 1-credit bonus — 25 minutes earns 3 — a stopwatch pays 1 per 10 minutes up to 12, and finishing a task that got at least 5 minutes of focus adds 1 more. A round of Nova Pop costs 3 credits, so a standard Pomodoro buys exactly one: 45 seconds a round, three kinds of target — two score, the third costs you points and breaks your combo — a multiplier for consecutive hits, and a high score to beat. No focused time, no game.

Everything works offline and without an account: tasks, focus history, credits and games are stored only on your Mac, in the app's support folder. Quit with a session running and it comes back paused, because time with the app closed doesn't count as focus. It asks for no special permissions, lives in the menu bar with no Dock icon, and can start when you log in. Arcadoro used to be called Foco Arcade; the first time it opens it brings over the tasks, credits, games and settings from that version. It requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later.

Pricing and licensing

A free 14-day trial of the complete app. No card, no account, no email.

One payment, yours for good. The licence never expires and there is no subscription.

• One key covers up to 3 Macs, and a Mac can be released to free the slot for another.
• The bundle key works in all four apps.
• 14-day refund, for any reason. It is issued by Lemon Squeezy, which acts as reseller and Merchant of Record and handles each country's tax.
• The apps never talk to Lemon Squeezy directly: activation goes through our own server, which issues signed entitlements, and the app rejects any entitlement that has been altered or belongs to another Mac.

Requirements

All four build as universal binaries for Apple Silicon and Intel, and install by dragging them to Applications. The interface is English and Spanish, picked by macOS from the user's language.

MiniTray, Pulso and Arcadoro live in the menu bar and stay out of the Dock. Tempo is driven from the menu bar too.

Graphics and video

You may use any of these files in a piece about Tinto Labs without asking.

• App icons: Tempo · MiniTray · Pulso · Arcadoro (512 px PNG; 256 px also available).
• Studio logo: SVG · 512 px PNG.
• Screenshots: the ones on this site, full resolution, as PNG, in /img/shots/. Files ending in -en are in English.
• Video: Tempo · MiniTray · Pulso · Nova Pop (silent MP4, each with a .jpg poster).

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Contact

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Studio: Tinto Labs, trading name of Jairo Alejandro Pinto Garzón. Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia.