Fluid is developed by Todd Ditchendorf.

Once upon a time, Todd worked for a well-known Fruit Company based in Cupertino as Dashboard Engineer, developing Dashboard and Dashboard Widgets for Mac OS X Leopard.

FAQ

• Is Fluid Free? Yep, the basic version of Fluid is totally free… go ahead, try it out!. For $5 you can purchase a Fluid License which unlocks the following features:

  1. Pin Fluid Apps to the MacOS Status Bar. (Fluid App Menu → Pin to Status Bar…)
  2. Use Userscripts or Userstyles in your Fluid Apps. (Window → Userscripts)
  3. Use Full Screen mode in your Fluid Apps. (View → Enter Full Screen)

• Is Fluid available for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or earlier? No. Fluid runs on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or later only.

• Is Fluid available for PowerPC Macs? No. Fluid runs on Intel Macs only.

• Is Fluid available for Macs with 32-bit processors? No. Fluid runs 64-bit only.

• Can I somehow redistribute Fluid Apps I create with Fluid to friends/coworkers? I'd prefer you didn't do that. Tell your friends about Fluid, and let them try it out for themselves!

Credits

Fluid was originally inspired by Mozilla Prism and Adobe Air.

Fluid owes its existence to several open source projects listed below.

• Apple's WebKit
• IconFamily by Troy Stephens, Thomas Schnitzer, David Remahl, Nathan Day, Ben Haller, Sven Janssen, Peter Hosey, Conor Dearden, and Elliot Glaysher
• Sparkle Update Framework by Andy Matuschak
• MD5 C tools by L. Peter Deutsch
• NSData+AES by Robert C. Nix