VoodooPad showing signs of life

Posted by mprazoff
Dec 14, 2017 at 07:32 AM

VoodooPad was a much loved Mac and iOS program - a very easy to use personal wiki. It was the product of Gus Mueller of Flying Meat Software and was continuously developed for many years up to version 5.1. In December 2013 Gus sold the program to Plausible Labs, as more and more of his focus shifted to graphics program Acorn - and his home pizza oven ; ). Plausible Labs made small incremental changes, slowly getting to version 5.1.6. Over the last few years promised updates have not appeared.

Today I received an email from Primate Labs, a Canadian company best known for the well-respected benchmarking program Geekbench, announcing that they had taken over development of VoodooPad. They are promising small incremental updates, hopefully beginning by the end of this year, as they become familiar with the code. They hope to get the program moving forward again and are soliciting feedback from users. At this point, all references are to the Mac, rather than iOS version.

If you valued VoodooPad you may want to provide some feedback. VoodooPad was very simple to use, (especially for a wiki) but had an underlying ability to do more than expected. I wish the folks at Primate Labs well.