Ratings and reviews
Substage
•
78 ratings
Jordy van Domselaar
Nov 4, 2025
App version: 0.8.2
Keeps throwing errors, doesn’t finish any command successfully and therefore doesn’t work at all. SetApp won’t let me paste the error, but here’s an AI-generated summary: error: "The limited API is not currently supported in the free-threaded build" error: unknown type name 'PyMutex' error: call to undeclared function '_Py_atomic_load_uint32_relaxed'
Oscar
Oct 2, 2025
App version: 0.8.2
Amazing, I use this almost every day for my files. It’s integrated well and feels like a Mac must-have. It’s not perfect, but no app is.
Response from Developer
Oct 2, 2025
Thanks so much, glad you’re enjoying it! 🥰 just let me know if there’s anything I can do to improve the app for you - [email protected]
Andrew
Sep 1, 2025
App version: 0.7.4
Yeah good. The interface is strange. it hangs around and bugs me. I wish I knew how to use it as its own stand alone terminalesc window and drag my own files into it.
J. Zwaan
Aug 5, 2025
App version: 0.8.0
This app works great, but only select the file(s) you want to change in a local directory with a copy of your files. I really miss a revert changes button in case something goes wrong (happened a few times).
Douglas Spencer
Jul 21, 2025
App version: 0.7.4
I’ve tried multiple requests and none have worked.
Response from Developer
Jul 21, 2025
Sorry to hear that! Feel free to reach out at [email protected] or on my Discord, I’m happy to help!
Geoffrey Smith
Jul 19, 2025
App version: 0.7.4
I used it a few times, but it stopped working suddenly. It’s kind of cool, but I havent had a change to compare it to whats already built into the MacOSc
Chris Gaffney
Jul 13, 2025
App version: 0.7.4
Excellent utility!
Christopher Kerry
Oct 18, 2025
App version: 0.8.2
Decent idea, only thing annoying is the lag when it follows your finder window around.
Pavel Mráček
Sep 28, 2025
App version: 0.8.2
Most of the times, it just told me that the comand will probably fail, just to see that what I wanted it to do has actually happened. I think that the prediction of whether the instruction will succeed or not doesn’t work correctly. Also, when moving the window of Finder, the Substage bar tries to catch up with it, however its movement is very choppy (was on Sonoma as well as now on Tahoe). Last but not least (and I do recognize that this isn’t exactly the fault of the app’s developer), since Setapp limited AI credits to ZERO in case of student accounts, it became unusable to me. What a shame I cannot choose my own API key to a serice where I would pay them just for used tokens, which would definitely be cheaper then the ridiculous ammount that Setapp wants for providing me access to AI.
Response from Developer
Sep 28, 2025
Hi Pavel, yeah the prediction engine is in beta at the moment but I would super appreciate it if you could let me know what specifically didn’t work for you so I can track it down! ([email protected]) Also you’re more than welcome to use your own API keys, this is a feature of the app - take a look in the settings! It’s not necessary to pay for the AI through Setapp either way to use Substage.
Asmat
Aug 28, 2025
App version: 0.8.2
Tolle Idee aber leider wurde sie nicht sauber umgesetzt…
Response from Developer
Aug 29, 2025
Sorry to hear it’s not working perfectly for you! Happy to look into any issues you may have, feel free to ask on Discord or email me at [email protected], I really want to make sure it’s working well for everyone!
chris
Jul 25, 2025
App version: 0.7.4
It’s a good idea in concept, but with the unpredictablity of LLMs today, I wouldn’t trust it with your files—especially if you don’t at least have a Time Machine backup.
Response from Developer
Jul 25, 2025
Glad you like the concept! I totally understand the concern too. The good news is that I’m working hard on a feature that lets you preview the actions that a particular command will take, giving you a lot more confidence that it’s doing the right thing. But you’re absolutely right, it’s important to be careful with running Terminal commands, and you should never do it blindly.
Kenneth
Jul 21, 2025
App version: 0.7.4
Amazing. Didnt know I needed this. Works great.
Dayu
Jul 17, 2025
App version: 0.7.4
Good idea, but it can't handle complex functions at the moment. Other software can also perform the simple functions in the example, and without typing. Looking forward to future development.
OO
Jul 13, 2025
App version: 0.7.4
Good app
Alex Ovs
Oct 9, 2025
App version: 0.8.2
I asked to sort files in my Dowload folder, and it just removed my files somehwere else. Thanks!
Response from Developer
Oct 9, 2025
Sorry to hear it didn’t work well for you! Substage works best when you ask for specific individual tasks, such as converting files or asking for information about them. It’s not really designed for more open ended prompts. You can read a bit more about what Substage is good at and its limitations here: https://selkie.design/substage/#things-to-try Substage also shows a preview of any significant operation it’s about to do before it does it, I strongly recommend checking it carefully. I’m very open to suggestions too, if there’s anything you think I could improve, please do drop me a line! [email protected] Thanks 🙏
Kirill Kholodenko
Sep 6, 2025
App version: 0.8.2
Absolutely stellar! What a great addition to the Setapp collection
Response from Developer
Sep 6, 2025
Thanks so much! 🥰
Dario Monet
Aug 25, 2025
App version: 0.8.2
Bien
Claudio
Jul 22, 2025
App version: 0.7.4
For simple requests (like renaming or converting a single file), it works fairly well, but as soon as you make even a minimal multiple request, it crashes or returns an error. The app idea is great, but some things need to be reviewed because it works very poorly.
Response from Developer
Jul 22, 2025
Thanks for the feedback! I’d love to hear what things you tried that didn’t work, there are a few things I can do to improve specific cases! Feel free to email me [email protected], or ask on my discord
MR
Jul 20, 2025
App version: 0.7.4
Really bad at understand basic prompts.
Xabier Martínez Rolán
Jul 14, 2025
App version: 0.7.4
Complete Trash. I asked it to rename files in a folder and it deleted them. I reinstalled the app just to leave this review. Be careful, it's dangerous.