Modern approach to automation on macOS

Hey all, I'm Greg, the developer of Watchflows. I'm excited to launch today on Product Hunt, and more excited to get some great feedback. Watchflows is an n8n style automation app for macOS. At almost a year old Watchflows should behave like a mature and trusted app on your mac. It's powerful, meant to set and forget, runs in the background when triggering events occur and run whatever logic you've set up.

You can fully configure every flow manually, or attach your own LLM (local, claude, codex, api key or use ours via Watchflows Subscription) and let Flow Builder build your flows for you. That same LLM setup can also power the AI or Agent nodes for deeper coding or classification work. Need a script to accomplish something specific, no issue, Flow Builder will write it for you. Some nodes will also pause flow execution to collect information from you (via a form node, palette picker, or AI chat interface Watchflows provides.)

I believe Watchflows is the best automation app on MacOS right now, not in tenure or seniority, those are earned and have incumbents, but for modern automation, Watchflows offers a clean UX, powerful automation engine written natively in Swift for the best performance on your Mac.

We launched on Setapp this week also, and are excited to share the launch here. Watchflows is available via:

• Direct download at https://watchflows.app 14 day trial / 2K Free Sparks (ai credits) / $49 one time purchase ($10 off offer on the product hunt launch)

• Subscribe for monthly app access, refilling monthly allowance of Sparks (ai credits) and access to Watchflows Relay (public webhook infra).

• Setapp as part of the normal Setapp subscription

We know there are a lot of apps on here competing for your attention, and I'm grateful for yours. Thanks for taking a look, and don't forget to like the product launch, download the app and take full advantage of the two week trial and free 2K spark credits! 🙏

Thanks

Greg Goforth