We’re pleased to announce that our latest submissions of Galleried for Mac and iOS have been approved! These updates include the following:

Add sites to Galleried

1. The much requested ability to add your own sites to Galleried. Word to your mother! Read the three easy ways you can now do this here.


2. All high-res screenshots all the time! We’ve taken it upon ourselves to take our own screenshots of every site featured (rather than depend on feeds from design galleries). We’re serving these via Amazon’s CloudFront CDN, meaning that although the images are now higher-res and bigger files, they should still load pretty quick.


3. Better syncing. This is mostly under the hood, but you should see better syncing between your iOS devices and your Mac.


4. Running totals. We’ve added running tallies to your favorites and each of your “Collections” to give you a better visual of how many sites each folder contains.

We’ve also added a FAQs/Extras page to give you more details into functionality/questions you may not have known.

We really appreciate all the feedback, both love and criticism, that we’ve gotten to this point. We definitely see Galleried as a product we want to continue developing/polishing/hugging and already have more in mind for the future releases. But for now, I really need to get to bed.

Launch it!

The Mac App Store opens tomorrow. It’s gonna be pretty pretty cool, right? Who knows. Regardless of its coolness, we’re excited to pre-announce two new apps for Mac that will be in the store on day 1: Launch it! and a desktop version of Galleried.

Launch it! is a menubar app that let’s you create keyboard shortcuts to launch or activate your most used apps. This is something I wrote shortly after we formed rocket but never thought to productize. While brainstorming ideas for the new Mac App Store I explained and showed Dave what Launch it! was all about and he bought in. We cleaned it up and submitted for review. It will be available for $4.99 in the store tomorrow. If you’d like to test a trial version of Launch it!, send us an email to launchit-trial@madebyrocket.com. The trial restricts the number of shortcuts you can have.

Galleried for Mac

Galleried for Mac is just like Galleried for iOS, except on the Mac. But also lets you organize sites into collections. The idea is: you browse sites using Galleried for iOS while you’re out and about, then you come back to your desktop and review them in more detail and organize them for later. Galleried syncs your favorites between your devices and your Macs using Dropbox. Syncing requires iOS version 1.2, which is currently “In Review”. We’re hoping it’s available soon. Galleried for Mac will be $9.99 and will be available tomorrow. Galleried for iOS will remain free.

Regarding our other Mac apps, rooSwitch and Concentrate: rooSwitch will be in the store for $18.99 on day 1. As for Concentrate, it was rejected for asking for admin privileges (which was needed to block websites, a pretty key feature). We’ve worked around this in an update and it’s currently “In Review” again. We’re hoping it gets into the store within the first week. Both rooSwitch and Concentrate will continue to be sold through store.madebyrocket.com.

That’s all for now. You’re my best friend!