The Joy Truepath blog

How to actually get things done on a Mac.

Hands-on guides and straight comparisons for Mac screen recording, PDF, documents, and animation. Written by the people who make the apps, so the advice is specific instead of generic.

Local-first · Privacy

Why our Mac apps never talk to a server

The apps run entirely on your Mac — no cloud, no account, no telemetry. What that means in practice, and how to verify it instead of taking it on faith: we open-sourced the engines.

4 July 2026
AI · PDF · MCP

Let your AI agent read and process PDFs locally on your Mac

TruePath PDF ships an npx-installable MCP server, so Claude, Cursor, or Codex can read, search, split, and merge PDFs on your Mac — without uploading a single page.

4 July 2026
AI · Office · MCP

Edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with Claude on your Mac

TruePath Office ships an open-source MCP server, so Claude, Cursor, or Codex can read and edit your .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx files — and evaluate formulas — entirely on your Mac. Nothing uploaded.

4 July 2026
Migration · Office

What actually happens when you cancel Microsoft 365 on a Mac

The honest version: your files were never the subscription's to keep, what you genuinely give up (OneDrive, co-authoring), and who should think twice before switching.

30 June 2026
AI · Recorder · MCP

Control your Mac screen recorder from an AI agent

TruePath Recorder ships with an MCP server, so Claude, Cursor, or Codex can start and stop recordings and hand back the file path — all local, opt-in, and token-protected.

30 June 2026
How-to · Recorder

How to record a software tutorial on a Mac

The setup that makes re-recording cheap: a region that stays put across takes, a countdown instead of a warm-up, on-screen keystrokes, and HEVC files that upload fast.

30 June 2026