Delicious Monster is a software company based in

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, that sells the

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software program '' Delicious Library''. Its founders are Wil Shipley, one of the three co-founders of

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, and

Mike Matas Michael Matas (born March 23, 1986) is an American user interface designer and icon artist. He has previously worked at The Omni Group doing interface and graphic design work. Matas co-founded Delicious Monster. In 2005 he went to work for App ...

, who worked as an interface designer at The Omni Group. Matas left Delicious Monster in 2005 to work for

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, but left the company in July 2009 to found Push Pop Press. The company's name is based on the name of a plant that grows in the rainforests of tropical America,

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. It is colloquially known as the ''Swiss cheese plant''. Wil Shipley joined

in 2021 and published
blog post
indicating that Delicious Library will not be further developed beyond keeping the software runnable on newer versions of

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Products

Delicious Library

In November 2004, Delicious Monster released Delicious Library as a

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-only media

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application and generated $250,000 worth of sales. The software went on to win several

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, including Best Mac OS X User Experience and runner-up Best Product New to Mac OS X in 2005 and Best Mac OS X Leopard Application in 2007. It is currently available as version 3. Until November 2024, Delicious Library was available through the officia
website
and in the

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. It was taken down because the APIs used by the app were retired.

References

External links

*{{Official website, https://www.delicious-monster.com
Wired slideshow of Delicious MonsterReview of Delicious Library
Software companies based in Seattle Macintosh software companies Apple Design Awards recipients