m3ekLocal-first
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It runs on your machine, so you install it

That is the point rather than an inconvenience. Your product profile, your drafts and the threads you open stay in one file on your computer. Nothing about them is stored on our side.

macOS

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Requires macOS 12 or later. No Python to install. SHA-256 checking…
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Windows

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The build scripts and installer are written; the package needs a Windows machine to produce, because PyInstaller cannot cross-compile.
Windows 10 or later, 64-bit.
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The first time you open it, macOS will stop you

"Apple could not verify m3ek is free of malware"

You will see that sentence, and it does not mean what it sounds like. Apple shows it for any application that has not been through their notarisation service, and notarisation requires a paid Apple developer account. We do not have one. It is a statement about our paperwork, not about the file you downloaded, and the checksum above is there so you can verify the file yourself.

It takes four steps, once. After that the app opens on a double-click like anything else.

  1. Drag m3ek into your Applications folder.
  2. Double-click it. The warning appears. Click Done.
  3. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security and scroll to the bottom. There is a line saying m3ek was blocked, with an Open Anyway button.
  4. Click it, unlock with Touch ID or your password, then click Open Anyway once more when macOS asks again. The app starts.

Two things people get stuck on: the button is at the bottom of that settings page, below everything else, and macOS asks a second time after you unlock. Neither means it failed.

On macOS 14 and earlier there is a shortcut instead: right-click the app and choose Open. Apple removed it in macOS 15, which is why the route above goes through System Settings.

This step is about a certificate, not about the app. If we ever buy a developer account, it disappears and nothing else changes.

What happens after that

  1. It opens your browserThe workbench is a page served from your own machine at 127.0.0.1. A small window stays open so you can see it running and quit it.
  2. You sign in with your emailA six-digit code, no password to store. The account is what your plan attaches to.
  3. You describe what you are sellingA GitHub link, a website, or one sentence. Every other module reads from that, so it is worth correcting if the model gets a field wrong.

What it does on your computer

Reads Public Reddit content, and each community's own posted rules. A thread is always shown with a link back to its page on Reddit.
Writes One file, here: ~/Library/Application Support/m3ek
Never does Post, vote, message, or create an account on Reddit. There is no endpoint for it.
Uninstall Drag the app to the Trash. Delete the folder above if you also want the data gone.

Windows behaves the same way, with data in %APPDATA%\m3ek and an installer that goes to your user folder rather than Program Files, so it never asks for administrator rights.