Maestral, the open-source, splendidly simple Mac Dropbox client, has been retired. Sam Schott, its sole developer, has moved away from Dropbox himself, so the project is now archived. It still runs for now, but the updates have stopped. (John Gruber has a fond sendoff.)

I wanted to love Maestral. The pitch was exactly right. A small app that syncs a folder to Dropbox and does nothing else, instead of the heavy first-party client that keeps sprouting features I don’t want.

I tried it more than once over the years, hoping this would be the time it clicked. It never quite worked right for me. Something always felt a little off, and I’d drift back to the official Dropbox client, which I’m still running today.