Creativefuel Internal · Mac

Creativefuel OS

The company, in one window.

Today, tasks, creators, shoots and the estate, in a native Mac app that opens in under a second and shows you only the work that is yours.

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Requires macOS 13 Ventura or later. Apple Silicon and Intel, both. About 30 MB.

Updates

Install it once.

Creativefuel OS checks for a new version on its own and installs it when you next quit the app. No reinstalling, no chasing a link in WhatsApp, no version of this app that is quietly six weeks behind. You will see a small card when an update is ready, and you decide whether to restart now or later.

First launch

Three steps, once. After this the app takes care of itself.

1

Download and open the DMG

The file lands in Downloads. Double click it and a window opens with the app on the left and an Applications shortcut on the right.

2

Drag it into Applications

Then eject the disk image. This matters: an app run from the mounted DMG cannot update itself, so it would be stuck on this version for good.

3

Open it and sign in

Use your Creativefuel email. What you see is decided by your role, on the server, so your sidebar will not look like everyone else's.

About that Apple warning

You should not see one.

Creativefuel OS is signed with our Apple Developer ID and notarised by Apple, and the ticket is stapled into the download itself. It opens like any other app: double click, no warning, nothing to click through, and it works on a Mac that has never seen it before, even offline.

It is worth knowing why we bother. Up to macOS 14, an app that was not notarised could still be opened by control-clicking it and choosing Open. Since macOS 15 that no longer works. If a build ever went out unnotarised, the only way anybody could open it would be:

  1. Try to open the app and let macOS refuse.
  2. Open System Settings, then Privacy & Security.
  3. Scroll to the message naming the blocked app and click Open Anyway.
  4. Authenticate with Touch ID or your password.
  5. Open the app again and confirm.

That is a five step detour, per person, per machine, every time the app is replaced. Asking a few hundred people to do it is not a distribution plan. Notarising every build is what turns all of the above into something you never read about again.

Requirements

macOS 13 Ventura or later
Apple Silicon and Intel, both. The download is a universal build, so there is only one file to pick.
A Creativefuel email
Sign in is by work address. There is no separate password to remember.
Network
The app reads live data and holds none of it on your Mac. Office wifi or home broadband is fine; it is a few kilobytes a screen.
Microphone, only if you dictate
Booking a shoot by voice asks for the mic once. Everything else works without it, and nothing is recorded unless you are holding the button.