All set for macOS Golden Gate!

Mic Drop & Turnip: fully ready for macOS Golden Gate! 🌁

Mute your mic with your AirPods: welcome to Mic Drop 3.0!

You asked, we delivered: Mic Drop can now mute your microphone by pressing your AirPods! ✨

Our apps are ready for macOS Tahoe

Mic Drop and Turnip are all set for macOS Tahoe! (Be sure to update Mic Drop to 2.2 if you haven’t already.)

Mute your mic in any app—from your Stream Deck!

If you’ve ever wanted a physical mute button for your desk, or a way to show your current mute status on a device that isn’t your Mac, you’re going to dig our new Stream Deck plugin.

Coming soon to a Turnip near you: improved FreshBooks syncing, a revamped tagging system

We’re working on some improvements to Turnip! Coming very soon: better account syncronisation for FreshBooks users (and everyone else), and a much clearer tagging system.

Mic Drop: the beloved mic muting Mac app, better than ever

Mic Drop 2.0 is out today, packed with tons of new features, better performance, and everything else you’ve asked for.

Coming soon: Mic Drop 2.0

Mic Drop 2.0 is coming next week, exclusively on the Mac App Store. Here’s everything you need to know.

Turnip: More settings for tracking your time in macOS!

Turnip 1.4 is out today, and we think you’ll love it. We’ve added a bunch of new customisation features for how timers work (time rounding, idle notifications, etc.). Also new: you can edit FreshBooks and FreeAgent tags directly in Turnip—no more switching to a web browser!

Coming soon: Softer inputs in Turnip

Just got our first support request for Turnip!

Announcing Turnip, our new timer app

If you’re a freelancer, contractor, or business owner looking to track time to your accounting system with an elegant app: we have good news for you!

Now we’re cooking with gas: hamburger menus in the kitchen

What I learnt about design when I couldn’t turn on a lightbulb; or, how a cooker hood nearly drove me to distraction.

How we fixed the mic on macOS Monterey

When a bug in macOS meant Mic Drop stopped working with Bluetooth headphones, we needed to come up with a fix. The solution was far stranger than we expected.

Let’s not go back to normal

Everyone’s talking about going back to normal. But is normal the right goal? We have a rare opportunity to redesign our lives. What could we be doing better?

A watched employee never boils

Employers are warming up to the idea of remote working, but not everyone is quite ready to trust their employees fully. Instead of resorting to privacy-invading software, it's time to update how we think about our productivity.

How to mute a mic in six months

It turns out that there's a lot more to simplicity than there seems—and audio, in particular, is especially complex.

What we've learned from our first foray into macOS app development, from a (mostly) technical perspective.

The Remote Meeting Etiquette Guide

With the coronavirus pandemic ongoing, it looks like remote working may be here to stay—which means lots and lots of Zoom meetings. Since video calling is our new normal, it’s time we had an etiquette guide for our post-COVID world.

Spoiler alert: keep your trousers on and mute your mic.

Say hello to Mic Drop!

Mic Drop is a little app for your Mac that makes it super easy to mute (and unmute!) your mic, using a global shortcut or a menu bar control. It's also our very first app, so please forgive us if we use too many exclamation points.

Making ethics the beating heart(s) of our business

Saying you're all about ethics is one thing, but actually quantifying it and holding yourself accountable is another thing entirely. Let's get specific about what "ethical business practices" actually means.

Hello! We're Octopus Think.

Let's talk about design. And technology. And cephalopods, because we can't always be that serious.