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1.What ReelPile is
A native macOS desktop app. Three layers inside: a Tauri (Rust) shell, a local Node server bound to 127.0.0.1 only (port 5181 by default; if it is taken the app picks a free one and remembers it),…
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2.Getting material in
Four ways in, all feeding one pipeline:
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3.The card
Top to bottom:
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4.The canvas
Dragging. Grab a card, put it anywhere. If you drop it more than halfway onto another card, the app spirals it out to the nearest clear spot by itself, so cards never end up stacked.
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5.Playback
A Playing videos dropdown in the toolbar (repeated in the ⋯ menu): Off · Hover · 4 · 8 · 16 · All.
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6.Boards and nested folders
A rail on the left.
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7.Search
Two identical fields, one in the rail and one in the toolbar, both Search title, author, track….
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8.Music recognition
This is real Shazam. Not a lookalike, not a guess from the title.
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9.The full-screen player
Clicking a card opens it.
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10.Text notes
A tool dock at the bottom left holds exactly two tools: Select / move and T (Text).
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11.Getting a file back out
Up to three buttons on the card, repeated in the player.
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12.Sending a board to a client
The share button in the toolbar, or Share… in the ⋯ menu.
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13.Where your data lives
The path is shown in Settings under Data. ⚠️ It is plain text: there is no "reveal in Finder" button and no way to change the folder from inside the app.
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14.Instagram sign-in
Settings → Account → Log in to Instagram.
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15.Settings
Opened only by the ⚙ button in the toolbar.
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16.Updates
Two independent layers.
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17.Platform, price, licences
macOS 10.15 (Catalina) and later, on Apple Silicon.
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18.What ReelPile does not do
An honest list, so nothing here is a surprise after you buy.
Prefer it in one piece? The whole manual as plain text. Something here wrong, or something missing? Tell us — the manual is corrected against the app, not the other way round.