What’s Coming Up Next? Tomato Software Introducing Quick Sub Mobile for iOS

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iPad Quick Sub Mobile

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – I’m not so sure if the rainy season is over. In most cases, it ends in the mid to late July. This year, it still rains.

All right. I don’t remember the last time I released an iPad-only app. You may have guessed it, but it is Quick Sub 2 that has been made available for iPad users. No, it’s not available for iPhone users. And this release is called Quick Sub Mobile.

Quick Sub Mobile is a direct conversion of an existing desktop application called Quick Sub 2. I developed the initial version of Quick Sub in Cocoa so that I could show the Apple Reviewer quickly how the software title that I submit to them works with some comments without paying a dime to an unknown developer. It has accomplished its purpose, and I used it till a few months ago (Spring, 2026). But it had a major limitation: The user was not able to rescale the Timeline view. So I developed Quick Sub 2 and Quick Sub Mobile from a scratch in SwiftUI to overcome to this aspect of inconvenience.

The main objective of Quick Sub Mobile is to let the user add text layers to the movie screen. Quick Sub 2 and Quick Sub Mobile goes beyond this initial objective and supports four different layer types: Text, Circle, Rectangle, and SF Symbol. If you are not familiar with SF Symbols, let me tell you that they come from a desktop application freely distributed by Apple, Inc.

Just like the desktop version, Quick Sub Mobile supports undo/redo stacks. You can just tap the orange Undo button when an “oops” happens or tap the Redo button to redo the last change. In the mobile version, you can also save progress so that you can restart next time at the point where you ended last time. The app will list all existing projects on the startup screen, so you can either select a new video clip to start a new project or open an existing project file.

Lastly, let me tell you that porting Quick Sub 2 to iOS was not easy at all. I ran into a lot of trouble when trying to open an existing project.   Continue reading →

What’s Coming Up Next? Tomato Software Introducing Ten Miles for iOS

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iPhone Ten Miles

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – Jogging isn’t really my favorite outdoor exercise. In fact, I don’t quite enjoy it. But I run pretty much every day unless it rains. I sometimes wonder, though, how many kilometers I run on my usual route? That’s how I ended up developing this iOS app. This new release is called Ten Miles.

Ten Miles is an iPhone-only app that lets you keep track of the elapsed time and the distance you run while jogging or walking. You can create different route groups so that you can compare the current elapsed time and distance with the average numbers for the selected group. The app also lets you get the current weather conditions. Additionally, Ten Miles saves each exercise record so that you can review your past history and recreate the route you have taken on the map if necessary.

While you are running or walking, Ten Miles lets you make a distance mark announcement at 2 kilometers, 4 kilometers, 6 kilometers, 8 kilometers, 10 kilometers, and 20 kilometers. Of course, you can choose at which distance you want a distance mark announcement. You can also have a distance mark announcement in terms of miles. When you hit a distance mark, you will receive a voice announcement along with the inline view and a device vibration.   Continue reading →

What’s Coming Up Next? Tomato Software Introducing Mock Craft for macOS

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Mac application Mock Craft

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – It was just three days ago that I released the last software title. Well, I cannot think of a better thing to do than to release a new product at the end of the month. It may sound shocking to some of you, but I only spent two full days or less to develop this desktop application. This new software release is called Mock Craft.

It’s good to know that Apple, Inc. provides us with resources that we can use to advertise software. There are bezel images that you can use at their web site. Yet, it’s not so easy to use some of them because iPhone X models have a horizontal, ellipse-shaped hollow area to contain the camera lens. Mock Craft lets you easily create matadata images by combining one of these bezel assets and your screenshot from a device or a simulator for iOS. It’s not just iOS device bezel assets that this application supports. You can also use desktop bezel images of iMac 24-inch models, MacBook Air Models, MacBook Pro models and MacBook New models to create your marketing images.   Continue reading →

What’s Coming Up Next? Tomato Software Introducing Orphan Guard 2 for macOS

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Mac application Orphan Guard 2

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – It’s been raining almost all day. But I managed to go grocery-shopping this morning. I wanted to go jogging since I was unable to yesterday. But when I got out after coming back home from grocery-shopping, it was too late.

Well, well, well… I have an old desktop application project that I abandoned last May. I was pretty much ready to send it to Mac App Store. But I changed my mind in the last minute because I didn’t like the application icon. I didn’t like the application name, either. But I’m back with this application. This new release is called Orphan Guard 2.

Yeah, I had a desktop application titled Local Strings several years ago. Orphan Guard 2 is a sequel. Orphan Guard 2 lets you scan your Xcode project to see if there are view files (NSViewController, UIViewController, SwiftUI’s View) referring to non-existing local keys in the Localizable.strings file. But that’s not all it does. When you forget to end each line with the semicolon in the Localizable.strings, Xcode will give you a compiler error. But it won’t tell you which line gives you trouble. If you have thousands of lines in the Localizable.strings file, basically, it is impossible to find the line causing the compiler error. But it is possible for Orphan Guard 2 to find lines that can cause compiler errors.   Continue reading →

What’s Coming Up Next? Tomato Software Introducing Quick Sub 2 – Subtitle Movie for macOS

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Mac application Quick Sub 2

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – We get a sunny day every once in a while, although the rainy season isn’t over. This is the season when we see hydrangeas here and there. They are quite beautiful, especially the purple ones.

Mac application Quick Sub 2

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   Mac application Quick Sub 2

Señor Tomato

Well, I’m ready to annouce a new macOS software title. This new release is called Quick Sub 2. Right, it’s an upgraded version of Quick Sub.

What’s New?

  1. It’s developed with the SwiftUI framework from a scratch.
  2. The application now allows you to create rectangle-type subtitle objects.
  3. You can rescale subtitle objects between 0.1x and 10x in the timeline view at the bottom.
  4. You can move a subtitle object in the timeline view left and right to change the corresponding start time.
  5. You can position a subtitle object right over the movie screen with your mouse pointer.
  6. You can rotate the selected subtitle object.
  7. The application now supports undo and redo stacks.

The objective of Quick Sub 2 remains the same. Quick Sub 2 lets you add a group of subtitle objects over a video clip (.MOV, .MP4) you select. You now have two different subtitle objects: Text and Rectangle. If you select the text type, you have total control over its font family, text size, text color, text alignment, and pitch height. Quick Sub 2 separates the text part from its container so that you can set the margin between them. You also have control over the container background color, corner radius, and angle.

An oops happens along the way. So Quick Sub 2 now supports the undo manager, allowing you to undo and redo changes in most actions. If you want to apply the same size (width and height) of the selected text-type subtitle object to others, you are just one menu command selection away.

When you finish working on subtitle objects, simply click on the export toolbar button. Quick Sub 2 will show progress while writing a final movie file to disk. If necessary, click on the Abort button to stop the export process.

If you have dozens of subtitle objects, it will be impossible to replicate the same line of progress once you quit the application. Fortunately, Quick Sub 2 lets you save progress with a file type of its own (qsub2). Just double-click on a file of this type or drag and drop a file onto the application icon in the Dock to replicate progress.   Continue reading →