What's happening
Two Mac apps leave development status today and enter public beta: FlowVisual for consultants who don't want to draw processes in PowerPoint anymore, and Screenrig for anyone who needs screen recordings without the desktop mess.
Both are available on TestFlight. Both are free of in-app purchases during the beta. Both — like everything we ship — stay on your Mac.
FlowVisual — Processes you can defend in front of the CFO
Process consulting suffers from two opposite problems: either the models are too vague ("that ticket takes somewhere between 20 and 40 minutes, depends") or they pretend to be more precise than they are ("€307.42 per case"). Both lose the moment the CFO pushes back.
FlowVisual attaches provenance to every number:
- →Estimated (gut feel, industry default)
- →Calculated (aggregated from sub-processes, derived from simulation)
- →Measured (pulled from ticketing, time tracking, accounting)
A back-of-the-napkin sketch becomes a defensible model over time. The simulation runs discrete-event simulation with Monte Carlo on the same model — bottlenecks and utilization show up on the process itself, not as a graveyard of numbers in a sidebar.
Screenrig — Recording without the desktop mess
Recording a tutorial comes with a ritual: clear desktop icons, close private tabs, mute Slack, remove that one PDF from the dock. Screenrig does that with one click — Presentation Mode hides private apps, blanks the desktop, collapses the menu bar.
On top of that: built-in teleprompter, cursor highlight, webcam overlay, annotation tools. Screen sharing in Zoom, Teams, or Meet is detected automatically.
Recordings stay on your Mac. No upload, no cloud account, no dashboard we get to look at.
Why public beta and not straight to the App Store
We want the apps tested by real people first — especially the presentation and calibration flows. If you want in:
Feedback goes to contact@balane.tech or directly via TestFlight feedback.
What's next
FlowVisual is working on the calibration view with a node list and target/actual delta, sorted by sensitivity. Screenrig 1.1 gets Re-Record in Another Language and optional AI voice dubbing via shipglobal.dev.
Until then: test it, report it, break it. That's what a beta is for.
