Tap the Mac.Here comes the slipper.

Mannaggia lives in your menu bar. Tap or slap your MacBook and an Italian grandparent scolds you out loud, with subtitles and a wagging finger. Keep going and the moka boils over.

Join the waitlist Coming soon for Mac. $19.99, or $14.99 each when you buy two or more for the family.

Each tap costs 15 patience. Watch the moka.

Piano, disgraziato! Ho una certa età!
Easy, you wretch! I'm not young anymore!

Nonno Gennaro from Napoli, wagging his finger, as he looks in the app — **Nonno Gennaro**Napoli

La ciabatta, the plaid slipper, landing with a PAF

23 relatives 99 barzellette 9 occasions 9:16 clips 0 accounts

I.AntipastoHow it works

Tap. Patience.
Ciabatta.

Tap or slap the MacBook

Mannaggia feels the knock through the frame. Your Nonno or Nonna pops up on screen, wags a finger and tells you off out loud, with subtitles underneath.

Real app subtitle: Piano, disgraziato! Ho una certa età! with the English line underneath

The moka keeps score

Patience is a moka pot that starts at 100. Every tap costs 15 and turns up the flame. Leave the poor Mac alone and it refills by itself, empty to full in about ten minutes.

Calm
Warming
Bubbling
Overflow

Real app window: Pazienza e Ciabatta, the moka patience meter at 28 out of 100

At zero, la ciabatta

The moka boils over and a full-screen slipper comes flying at you. PAF. Then the patience comes back to 35 and everyone calms down. For now.

Real app subtitle: Adesso basta! Arriva la ciabatta! That's it! Here comes the slipper!

And the lid. Open or close it and the hinge creaks like an old door, which costs a little patience too. Close it and they say goodbye.

II.Il piatto forteThe signature move

PAF!

Every family has a slipper story

Ours flies across the whole screen, spins, grows toward you and lands with a PAF. Clicks pass straight through it, so it never gets in the way of your work. You can switch the flying slipper off in Settings, and with Reduce Motion on, a still card appears instead.

1 · Enter
2 · Spin
3 · Grow
4 · PAF!
5 · Fall

Real frames from the app, full screen on a MacBook.

III.PrimoI parenti

23 relatives. Pick who sits at the head of the table

Twenty grandparents, aunts and uncles from all over Italy, each speaking standard Italian with the accent of home. Three more moved overseas long ago and mix in English. They are all on the fridge, like family should be.

7Nord

4Centro

9Sud e Isole

3Oltremare

Real app window: Parenti e accenti, a map of Italy with numbered regions and the diaspora relatives — The real Parenti window. Tap a region to meet who lives there.

Dall'Italia North to south

PiemonteNonno CarloTorino
LombardiaNonno AmbrogioMilano
LiguriaZio NandoGenova
VenetoNonno BeppeVenezia
FriuliNonna Elda
TrentinoNonno LuigiTrento
EmiliaNonna IoleBologna
ToscanaNonno PieroFirenze
UmbriaNonna FrancaPerugia
MarcheZio PeppeAncona
LazioNonna RosaRoma
AbruzzoNonno VincenzoChieti
MoliseZia ConcettaCampobasso
CampaniaNonno GennaroNapoli
PugliaNonna LuciaBari
SalentoZio UccioLecce
BasilicataNonno RoccoMatera
CalabriaZio Tonino
SiciliaZia CarmelaPalermo
SardegnaNonna Giovanna

Oltremare Posta aerea

AU
Via aerea Nonna Connie Melbourne, Italo-Australian
Ahia! I'm old, I bruise like a bacchiard fig! Ouch! I'm old, I bruise like a backyard fig!
US
Via aerea Zio Sal Brooklyn, Italo-American
Gently, the lid! I got the sciatica and the agita! Gently, the lid! I've got sciatica and stress!
CA
Via aerea Nonno Vince Toronto, Italo-Canadian
Basta! You want the ciabatta, eh? Here, take it! Enough! You want the slipper, eh? Here, take it! Says eh. A lot.

Names, cities and faces as they appear in the app, each relative with their own look. Lines shown are real lines from the app.

IV.SecondoRegistra il tuo Nonno

Ricetta di famigliaServes the whole family

Record your Nonno

Some voices are worth keeping. Sit down with your own grandparent, record a few lines together, and every line in Mannaggia plays back in their voice.

Ingredienti Ingredients

Your Nonno or Nonna1, in a good mood
A quiet moment togetherAs long as it takes
Their spoken consentIn their own voice
Short lines, read calmly20
A MacYours. Nothing leaves it.

Procedimento Method

They read one sentence out loud: I, Nonno Vincenzo, consent to my voice being used in Mannaggia. It is kept with their name and the date. Without it, nothing else opens.
They read twenty short lines, at their own pace.
You hear a preview. Then every scolding, joke and Sunday lunch call comes out in their voice.

The voice model is downloaded once, the first time you use this. After that everything runs on your Mac. You can delete the voice and the consent whenever you like.

Their voice, their permission, on your Mac.

Real app: a recorded family voice, Nonno Vincenzo, shown among the relatives

Real app: Record your Nonno, step one, the spoken consent sentence

Step one in the real app, and the family voice waiting with the other relatives.

V.ContornoJokes and clips

99 Barzellette, told the old way

Press "Tell me a joke" and your relative tells one of 99 Italian jokes, with the English underneath. Pierino included.

Dottore, dottore, ho perso la memoria! Da quando? Da quando cosa?

Doctor, doctor, I've lost my memory! Since when? Since when what?

Real app window: Barzellette, a list of jokes with Italian and English text

Zio Uccio from Lecce winking after a joke

Send it to the cousins

Share the last scolding, or a joke, as a vertical 9:16 clip made for TikTok and Reels.

Real app: the Condividi clip 9:16 button in its idle, preparing and retry states

Clean Pulito

"Oh! Sono un computer, non un tamburo!"

Oh! I'm a computer, not a drum!

Mild Di casa

"Porca miseria! Sono fragile, capito?"

Damn it! I'm fragile, understand?

Spicy Piccante

Exactly what you think.

The full repertoire. Not for the kids' table.

VI.FruttaOccasion lines

They know what day it is

Nine moments when your relative speaks up without a single tap. Pick one on the clock.

Sunday lunch

È domenica! Spegni tutto, si mangia insieme.

It's Sunday! Switch everything off, we eat together.

They speak up at most once every 90 seconds, never while you are on a call, and never with the lid closed.

VII.DolceThe small print, kept sweet

Stays in the family

AccountNone. Open it and go.
UploadsNone. Everything runs on your Mac.
MicrophoneUsed only for Record your Nonno.
WaitlistIf you join, we keep your email to tell you when Mannaggia is on sale, using our email service. Nothing else. Full privacy policy.
One downloadOnly the optional voice model for Record your Nonno, downloaded once: about 2 GB, or 3.1 GB on Macs with 16 GB of memory or more.
LanguageInterface in Italian or English. The relatives speak Italian, the three overseas mix in English, and English subtitles are available.

What you need

macOSmacOS 14 or newer.
Taps and lidA MacBook with Apple Silicon.
Desktop MacsNo taps, but jokes, occasion lines, clips and Record your Nonno all work.
Where it livesYour menu bar.

VIII.CaffèSave a seat

Pull up a chair

Price

One copyFor you, or for the one who taps too hard$19.99
Two or moreOne for you, the rest for the family$14.99each

Buying for the family? The extra copies arrive as gift codes you can send to the cousins, the zie and the brother overseas. Prices in US dollars.

Not on sale yet.

Mannaggia is coming soon for Mac. Leave your email and we will tell you when the moka is on. That is the only email you will get.

IX.AmmazzacaffèQuestions

Ma che domande?

Does it really throw a slipper at me?

On screen, yes. When the moka boils over, a full-screen slipper flies at you and lands with a PAF. Clicks pass through it and your Mac is fine. Your pride, less so. You can switch it off, and with Reduce Motion on, a still card appears instead.

Does it work on my iMac or Mac mini?

Taps and the lid need a MacBook with Apple Silicon. On desktop Macs taps are unavailable, but jokes, occasion lines, clips and Record your Nonno all work.

Do all the relatives sound the same?

No. Each regional relative speaks standard Italian with the accent of home, so a Roman nonna sounds Roman and a Sicilian zia sounds Sicilian. Nonna Connie in Melbourne, Zio Sal in Brooklyn and Nonno Vince in Toronto mix in English.

I don't speak Italian. Will I understand?

Yes. The interface can be in English, and English subtitles are available for every line.

Is there swearing?

Only if you want it. Pick Clean, Mild or Spicy.

What happens to my grandparent's recording?

It stays on your Mac, together with their spoken consent, their name and the date. Nothing is uploaded. The voice model is downloaded once, then everything runs locally, and you can delete the voice and the consent at any time.

Do I need an account?

No. The app needs no account, so you open it from the menu bar and go. The launch waitlist is optional.

How much does it cost?

One copy is $19.99 (US dollars). Buying for the family? Two or more copies are $14.99 each, and the extra copies arrive as gift codes to send to your relatives. It is not on sale yet, so join the waitlist and you'll hear when it is.