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Real-Time Monitoring for Your Business, Live on Your Lock Screen

Create blank files, custom file types, templates, whole batches, and reusable folder setups exactly where you are working on macOS.

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| Website | activitysmith.com | createfilesplus.com |
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| Company | 2026 | Startup from the United States · 1 - 9 employees · 2026 |
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In their own words, as submitted to SaaSHub.


Send Push Notifications to your devices for any business or operational event, from new signups and feature adoption to operational failures. Monitor live metrics and long-running processes like deployments and automations with Live Activities
CreateFiles+ adds the file creation workflow macOS should have had all along. Create a new file exactly where you are working, without opening TextEdit, saving-as, using Terminal, or dragging template files around. Use Finder right-click menus where macOS allows them, or fall back to the Finder...
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Meet ActivitySmith: Real-time Backend Progress and Events for You and Your Team
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As answered by people managing ActivitySmith and CreateFiles+.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
Xcode and Swift
ActivitySmith's answer
ActivitySmith offers not only push notifications, but essentially full control over users' lock screen. Live Activities are powerful way to monitor long-running tasks in a real time.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
macOS should have created this feature out of the box but does not exist. Windows users have had this feature for over a decade. I created this to remove that gap for macOS users.
ActivitySmith's answer
ActivitySmith is the stronger choice for internal engineering and operations teams that want more than just notifications. Live Activities, Rich Push Notifications, Lock Screen Widgets, channels, and official SDKs make it a better fit when backend workflows need to stay visible while they run.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
I am not familiar with any competitors doing this today.
ActivitySmith's answer
Developers, DevOps, technical teams, CTOs
CreateFiles+'s answer:
Power Users, Developers, Productivity focused users, students, teachers, creators.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
Its brand new so that is yet to be determined.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
I have struggled with not having this capability in Finder for years and decided I would fix the problem for me and then see if other users would want the same solution.
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