[featured] curate: update featured apps for 2026-04-03 #85
Description
Featured Apps Update — 2026-04-03
Rotates 2 apps out and brings in 2 fresh picks, while retaining 2 strong performers.
New featured lineup
| App | Store | Headline | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallnetic | Wallnetic | STAFF PICK | GPU-accelerated live video wallpapers for macOS — polished icon, 2 screenshots, rich description |
| Claude Board | Claude Board | DEV ESSENTIAL | Kanban dashboard for Claude Code — 10 screenshots, detailed long description |
| Macabolic (new) | DodoApps | HIDDEN GEM | Beautiful yt-dlp GUI — 4 screenshots, clean icon, 254 stars but underexposed |
| paus (new) | Mustafa Demiray | RISING STAR | Impulse-purchase mindfulness app — 5 screenshots, compelling concept, 0 stars hidden gem |
Rotation
- Rotated out:
radioheavy-avalon,secretdrop - Retained:
wallnetic,claude-board - Added:
macabolic,paus
All 4 entries have a real icon, screenshots, and a rich longDescription. All come from different _store values. All headlines are unique.
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Note: This was originally intended as a pull request, but PR creation failed. The changes have been pushed to the branch curate-featured-2026-04-03-73b401919ac91c6e.
Original error: Validation Failed: {"resource":"Label","code":"unprocessable","field":"data","message":"Could not resolve to a node with the global id of 'PR_kwDORlZtm87P0tRB'."}
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From 5714eca21a15891af4336078d1b064fd6ed1a903 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: GitHub Copilot <copilot@github.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2026 15:34:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] curate: update featured apps for 2026-04-03
- Rotate in macabolic (DodoApps) and paus (Mustafa Demiray) as new picks
- Retain wallnetic and claude-board as strong performers
- All 4 entries have icon, screenshots, and rich longDescription
- Stores represented: Wallnetic, Claude Board, DodoApps, Mustafa Demiray
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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featured.json | 30 +++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/featured.json b/featured.json
index 95ae0c1..df2cea2 100644
--- a/featured.json
+++ b/featured.json
@@ -1,26 +1,26 @@
[
{
"id": "wallnetic",
- "headline": "MUST TRY",
- "title": "Your desktop, alive and in motion.",
- "subtitle": "Wallnetic brings GPU-accelerated live video wallpapers to macOS with per-display settings, smart battery management, and a curated library. Windows had Wallpaper Engine — now Mac users finally have their match."
+ "headline": "STAFF PICK",
+ "title": "Turn your Mac into a living canvas.",
+ "subtitle": "Wallnetic brings GPU-accelerated live video wallpapers to macOS — with per-display settings, smart battery management, and a curated library. Finally, a Wallpaper Engine worthy of your Mac."
},
{
- "id": "radioheavy-avalon",
- "headline": "EDITOR'S PICK",
- "title": "Design AI prompts like a visual artist.",
- "subtitle": "Avalon is a privacy-first visual IDE for AI image workflows — build structured prompts in a tree editor, reverse-engineer uploaded images, browse community examples, and generate with fal.ai. Everything stays local, nothing leaves your machine."
+ "id": "claude-board",
+ "headline": "DEV ESSENTIAL",
+ "title": "Command your AI coding sessions visually.",
+ "subtitle": "Claude Board is a Kanban-style dashboard
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