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bjango.com @bjango.com · 15/09/2026

Pinwheel’s about window has two amazing new glassy shaders. Top secret tip: If you hold option when choosing “About Pinwheel”, you’ll see the other one.

A screenshot of Pinwheel’s about shaders.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 15/09/2026

Pinwheel can be used to create multi-elevation shadows that can then be exported as CSS or Swift or whatever. Pretty cool, eh?

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 10/09/2026

Here’s our Chaos Line sequencer plugin, being used with a Roto-Control and Volca Nubass. bjango.com/plugin/chaos...

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 04/09/2026

Reality Distortion + Roto-Control, part 1.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 01/09/2026

I don’t know what’s real anymore… Say hi to Reality Distortion, a reality bending resynthesis plugin that turns any sound into a dreamy sea of oscillators. bjango.com/plugin/reali...

A screenshot of the Reality Distortion Audio Unit and VST plugin.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 19/08/2026

Pinwheel 1.11.1 is out with a brand new Liquid Glass tool bar and a bunch of other design tweaks and bug fixes. Enjoy! bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/

A screenshot of the Pinwheel Mac app, showing a table with lots of bright colours.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 06/08/2026

Say hi to Buckets And Decay, a dark, warm, and alive BBD and PT2399 chip based delay, chorus, and flanger plugin. Out now as Audio Unit and VST. bjango.com/plugin/bucke...

A screenshot of the Buckets And Decay plugin.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 26/07/2026

Did you know iStat Menus can show alerts for a wide range of stats-related things? Do you want to know when any disk gets below 20GB of free space? You can do that. Do you want to know when your public IP address changes? You can do that, too.

A screenshot of the iStat Menus rules tab with the text “Show an alert when free space is below 20 GB for any disk” and “Show an alert when public ip address changes”.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 13/07/2026

Get your freak on! Double Freak is a wild dual oscillator synth that tracks the pitch of incoming audio. bjango.com/plugin/doubl...

A screenshot of the Double Freak audio plugin.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 24/06/2026

Pinwheel 1.10.0 is out! It adds the ability to mark items as deprecated with an optional reason. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/

A screenshot of the Pinwheel Mac app, showing an item deprecated with the reason set to “orange is the old orange”.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 28/05/2026

Let the chaos guide you! Chaos Line is a new random performance sequencer plugin. bjango.com/plugin/chaos...

A screenshot of the Chaos Line plugin, showing a random sequence with accents and slides. It looks fun to use.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 07/05/2026

Say hi to Robot Vowels, a unique formant filter plugin that can make any sound sing. Out now as Audio Unit and VST. bjango.com/plugin/robot...

A screenshot of the Robot Vowels plugin.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 26/03/2026

Say hello to MIDI Memories, a plugin to capture MIDI effects as editable regions and detect chords and scales. Out now as a VST and Audio Unit. bjango.com/plugin/midim...

A screenshot of the MIDI Memories plugin, showing the events tab and the chord and scales tab.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 19/02/2026

Say hello to Instant Vibes, the MIDI groove unquantizer plugin. Out now as a VST and Audio Unit. bjango.com/plugin/insta...

A screenshot of the Instant Vibes plugin UI, showing 6 brightly coloured dials and 16 step sliders.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 03/11/2025

Pinwheel 1.8 is out with realtime color proofing. This means you can view and edit with filters to simulate Night Shift, color blindness (Protanopia, Deuteranopia, Tritanopia, Achromatopsia), or see which colors are outside the sRGB color space. All in realtime! bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 29/10/2025

Robot Rocket is now available as a VST plugin! bjango.com/plugin/robot...

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 29/09/2025

Hello, this is Robot Rocket. It vocodes and you can not stop it. bjango.com/plugin/robot...

A screenshot of the Robot Rocket vocoder plugin.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 29/09/2025

We’ve been busy! Over the last couple of weeks, we released Pinwheel 1.7 and 1.7.1, fixing some macOS 26 related bugs, and adding a new Icon Composer app icon. We’ve also been working hard on the next update for iStat Menus.

App icons for iStat Menus, Pinwheel, and Skala.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 25/08/2025

Pinwheel 1.6.1 is out! It fixes some bugs and adds the ability to copy colours in any format and colour space. If you’d like to copy colours in the format that matches their properties, just use “copy”. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/

A screenshot of Pinwheel’s interface, showing the context menu with the “copy color as Display P3” menu open.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 21/07/2025

Pinwheel 1.6 is out! Colour format is now remembered per-colour, which means you can use hex values for sRGB colours and oklch() for Display P3, if you want. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/

A screenshot of Pinwheel 1.6’s UI, showing lots of pretty colours.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 04/06/2025

Pinwheel 1.5.4 is out! It now shows values in the table view. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 08/05/2025

The vocal effects of Daft Punk. Our latest article required a couple of years of research, buying lots of equipment, and countless tests. We hope you like it! bjango.com/articles/daf...

A photo of Daft Punk in Tokyo, standing in front of a skyscraper.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 10/04/2025

Pinwheel 1.5.2 is out. It’s mostly bug fixes, but we’ve also added a big table mode. It’s like the table mode, but bigger! bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/

A screenshot of the Pinwheel Mac app, demonstrating the new big table mode.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 27/03/2025

Pinwheel can create colour gradients and multi-elevation shadows that can be imported into Figma as variables and effect styles. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/

On the left is a screenshot of Pinwheel with a white to green to dark green gradient and a multi-elevation shadow. On the right is the same gradient and shadows as colour variables and effect styles, now inside Figma.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 22/03/2025

Article: Matching drop shadows across CSS, Android, iOS, Figma, and Sketch. bjango.com/articles/mat...

A comparison of three rectangles with shadows. The shadows do not look the same.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 21/03/2025

Pinwheel 1.5 is out! It adds support for shadows, shadow sets, and shadow aliases. This makes it easy to build shadows with varying levels of elevation. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 10/03/2025

✎ Article: Design systems need a colour space. bjango.com/articles/des...

A grid showing all the colours in Tailwind CSS version 4.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 27/02/2025

Pinwheel 1.4.2 is out, with OKLCH and OKLAB support across the entire app! You can now use the CSS oklch() and oklab() formats in the colour picker, when copying values, and as a display format for the grid view. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/

A screenshot of the Pinwheel Mac app, showing the colour picker open with a pink colour displayed in OKLCH format.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 06/02/2025

iStat Menus 7 introduced a simplified sensor list, which helps focus on the important sensors. If you’d like to see them all, switch the sensor display mode to “detailed”.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 29/01/2025

Oh, and the Pinwheel Figma plugin has also been updated. It can now import and export all variable types to and from Design Tokens JSON files. The plugin is free. Tell your friends! www.figma.com/community/pl...

A screenshot of the Pinwheel Figma plugin, surrounnded by brightly coloured icons for numbers, booleans, and strings.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 29/01/2025

Pinwheel 1.3 is out! We’ve added a bunch of features recently, including support for numbers, booleans, and strings. We’re well on our way to become a full featured design system manager. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 07/01/2025

Pinwheel was mentioned in iOS Dev Weekly! Thanks, @daveverwer.com. If you’re even vaguely interested in developing for Apple’s platforms, iOS Dev Weekly is a great read. Highly recommended. iosdevweekly.com

Quote from Dave at iOS Dev Weekly: I meant to link to this new tool from Bjango last year, but I wanted to have a proper go with it first. I managed to spend some time with it and I can say that what might at first glance seem like a straightforward colour management tool is much more than that, especially for developers. Not only can you store versions of your semantically named colours for light/dark and low/high contrast. You can also export Swift code direct from the app with enough customisability that you’ll actually use it. I can’t recommend this enough.

For full disclosure, I received a free licence for review purposes.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 13/12/2024

Say hi to the Pinwheel Figma plugin. It exports colour variables as Design Tokens JSON. We think it might be the first plugin to do this with full support of sRGB and Display P3. Also, it’s free. We hope you like it! www.figma.com/community/pl...

A screenshot of the Pinwheel Figma plugin.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 06/12/2024

Pinwheel 1.1 is out. It now supports high contrast variants of colours (light, light high contrast, dark and dark high contrast) and a way to automatically generate high contrast versions of colours.

A screenshot of the Pinwheel Mac app, with a slider controlling how much contrast is applied to a gradient.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 19/11/2024

Pinwheel does WCAG and APCA contrast testing, and so much more.

A screenshot of Pinwheel's APCA test results. It show 16 tests passed and 2 tests failed.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 19/11/2024

Say hello to Pinwheel, an amazing way to convert colors and create design systems. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/

A screenshot of Pinwheel, a new Mac app by Bjango. The screenshot shows a Pinwheel document, full of bright gradients and the user interface to generate the gradients.

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