Your Mac can now handle
repetitive work for you.
No code required.
Auto-name your screenshots. Sort your downloads. Summarize PDFs while you sleep. Everything you’d reach for Hazel, Shortcuts, or AppleScript to do — no code required.
One-time purchase or Setapp membership · macOS 14+ · 14-day free trial · 2,000 free Sparks to try AI · What's new
Real flows, as they look in the app.
Nodes for the things a Mac actually does.
Triggers watch folders, hotkeys, the clipboard and the clock. Actions reach into the apps you already use. Every node is a drag away.
Triggers
Apple
AI
Files
Conditions and transformers
Emitters and integrations
If you’ve outgrown Shortcuts, Hazel, or a Zapier bill.
Watchflows is what you reach for when the chore has more than one step, a decision in the middle, or a file on your Mac.
| Watchflows | Shortcuts | Hazel | Keyboard Maestro | Zapier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visual canvas with branches | Yes | Block list | No | Macro list | Yes |
| AI nodes, any provider | Yes, 10 providers | Apple Intelligence only | No | No | Paid add-on |
| Watches folders, clipboard, apps, hotkeys, schedules | All of them | Some | Folders only | Yes | Cloud events only |
| Files never leave your Mac | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Builds the flow from a sentence | Yes | No | No | No | Copilot |
| Price | $49 once | Free | $42 once | $36 once | Subscription |
Competitor details as of October 2026. Watchflows vs Hazel, in full
What the internet is saying.
Setapp members, one Reddit thread and Product Hunt, wired the way Watchflows would wire them.
“This is a LIFE CHANGING app. For decades I have wanted to grab monthly statement PDFs automatically… Within 4hrs I had it all working… AI Local + WATCHFLOW on a MacBOOK is insane… Rock solid.”
“I bow down to the genius of this developer! AMAZING APP! Really intuitive and the GUI is second to none in terms of usability. A+++ dev work!!”
“This is seriously impressive.”
“Beautiful app that reminds me of Yahoo Pipes.”
“I’m a heavy user of KM and automate a lot of things on my computer. Really interested to see how this compares.”
“the pause and ask nodes stand out here sometimes u want the boring parts automated and the final choice left to a person”
“congrats on the launch. It does look impressive.”
One price. Own it.
Pay once and keep every v1 update. Try the whole app free for 14 days first. No account, no card.
Prefer a subscription? Get it on Setapp.Watchflows is part of Setapp, one membership for hundreds of Mac apps. Setapp AI built in.- Every node, every provider, every v1 update
- 2,000 Sparks to try Watchflows AI
- Licence key by email, verified offline
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later
From Field Notes
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