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Free & open sourceFor Mac

Your reading list, printed as a magazine.

Galley turns the links you save into beautifully set editions — a cover, a contents page, two columns, numbered pages — ready for the printer on your desk.

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Version 0.3.0 · macOS 15 or later · Signed & notarized by Apple

The Galley window: editions in the sidebar, the articles of “Print & Type”, and its magazine cover in the preview
How it works

From saved link to printed page

No account, no subscription, nothing in the cloud. Galley does everything on your Mac.

1

Save what you want to read

Choose Share → Galley in Safari or any app, paste a link with ⌘V, or drop it on the window. Galley fetches the article and its photos.

2

Gather it into editions

Make an edition for the weekend, for a topic, or for a trip. Reorder stories, pick the cover story, leave out the parts you don’t need.

3

Print it and read it

Galley sets the whole edition like a magazine in a couple of seconds. Print it at home on A4 or Letter, staple it, and read it away from the screen.

Made for paper

Pages worth printing

Real typesetting, not a web page sent to the printer.

Page 1: the cover of edition No. 12, “Print & Type”
Page 2: the contents page, listing four stories with their page numbers
Page 3: the opening page of the lead story, Letterpress printing
Page 4: the story continues in two columns with photographs
Page 5: the story continues with a photograph of a hand press
A cover every timeThe lead story’s photo — or, if nothing has one, an openly licensed photo found to match the edition.
A contents page that’s rightPage numbers are filled in after layout, so they always match the printed pages.
Two balanced columnsSource Serif and Inter, drop caps, captions, running heads, and columns that even out at the end of each story.
Features

Small touches that add up

Share from anywhere

A Share extension for Safari, Chrome and any app with a Share menu — plus a galley:// link for Shortcuts.

Leave out what you don’t need

Double-click an article to see exactly what Galley found, then click any paragraph or picture to drop it from the printout.

Two columns or one

A proper two-column magazine layout, or a single generous column if you prefer. Headlines and photos stay big.

A4 or US Letter

Sized for the printer you have, with margins home printers can actually print. Colour, greyscale, or text only.

Private by design

No account and no server. Articles are fetched and kept on your Mac, and editions are laid out right there.

Latin and Cyrillic type

The bundled typefaces cover English, European languages and Cyrillic scripts, with proper hyphenation.

Why paper

Read slowly, away from the screen

Galley was inspired by services that post you a printed magazine of your saved articles each month. It brings the same idea home: anywhere you have a printer, you can have your own magazine.

Keep one edition for the week, another for a long flight, and a third for the topic you’re digging into. Print whichever one is ready.

An article about Johannes Gutenberg laid out in two columns A two-column page about letterpress printing
Open source

Free, open, and yours to change

Galley is MIT-licensed and built in the open. Read the code, report a bug, or design a theme of your own — themes are plain CSS.

Star on GitHub Release notes
  • AppSwiftUI and SwiftData
  • ReadingWebKit and Mozilla Readability
  • LayoutPaged.js, composed into columns
  • TypeSource Serif 4 and Inter
  • CoversOpenverse, on-device Vision
Changelog

What’s new

Every version of Galley, newest first.

  1. 0.3.0

    Make the magazine your own.

    • A short setup on first launch: name your magazine and, if you like, put your name on the cover.
    • Your name prints under the masthead, like a subscriber’s copy, in place of the story count. Change it or clear it in Settings → General.
    • Longer magazine names are set smaller so they stay on one line.

  2. 0.2.1

    A new icon and a small extraction fix.

    • New app icon: two editions on the table.
    • Articles show the name readers know (“Wikipedia”) instead of a publisher’s legal name (“Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.”).

  3. 0.2.0

    The first signed and notarised build, ready to download.

    • Editions you make yourself (⌘N), by topic or by week, and rename right in the sidebar. Move articles between editions and mark an edition printed.
    • Two-column magazine layout, with columns that even out on each article’s last page, plus a cover, a contents page and page numbers.
    • Share → Galley from Safari, Chrome or any app with a Share menu, and galley://add links for Shortcuts.
    • Article editor: double-click an article and click any paragraph or picture to leave it out of the printout.
    • A cover every time: the lead story’s photo, an openly licensed photo from Openverse matched to the edition’s name, or one of your own. Covers skip lead images that are mostly text.
    • Much faster: an edition lays out in a second or two, and articles arrive in about three.

  4. 0.1

    The first version, published as source code.

    • Turns links into articles with WebKit and Mozilla’s Readability, and saves each one with its photos on your Mac.
    • Lays out editions with a cover, contents and numbered pages, as a PDF for A4 or US Letter.
    • The Classic theme, set in Source Serif 4 and Inter, for Latin and Cyrillic text.
    • An in-app browser for signing in to sites you subscribe to.

Make your first edition tonight.

Free for macOS 15 and later. Drag it to Applications, paste a link, press Print.

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