App: Minos Maze Maker
Developer: Eduard Schwan
Genres: Games, Puzzle, Education

Minos Maze Maker is a powerful maze generator that makes beautifully shaped and customized mazes and their solutions.  You can print the mazes or export them into your newsletters, puzzle-books, school handouts, or web pages.  Make them sweet and easy, or make them diabolically difficult.  With Minos Maze Maker, you will be creating unique professional-looking mazes right away.
There is a free "Lite" version of the software (fully functional, with fewer features).  There is also an in-app paid upgrade to a "Pro" version which offers the following extra publishing features:
 * Batch-automation, letting you instantly and automatically generate up to 50 mazes at a time, great for publishing maze books.
 * Mazes can grow up to 80x80 cells.
 * User-defined-shape designer, letting you create any maze shape you want. Your shapes can be quickly exported/imported by other Pro users.
 * New alpha-numeric shapes (in serif or sans-serif font).
 * New export option for text info file.

FEATURES:
* Quickly create one, or dozens, or hundreds of wildly unique mazes.
* Choose from many built-in maze shapes: Square, Rectangles, Circle, Plus-sign, Square-hole, Donut, Heart, Bow-tie, Diamond, X, Pinwheel, UL-Wedge, LL-Wedge, UR-Wedge, LR-Wedge, Checkers, Crescent, Right-Arrow, Left-Arrow, Up-Arrow, Down-Arrow, Up-Triangle, Down-Triangle, Cross, Onion, 4-Clover, Square-Peg, Round-Peg, Mushroom, Oval-Easy, Oval-Up, Trapezoid, Pentagon, Hexagon, Octagon, 4-star, 5-star, 6-star, Chevron-Up, Chevron-Down, Chevron-Left, Chevron-Right, Rainbow-Up, Rainbow-Down.  The Pro upgrade adds alpha-numeric shapes and your own user-designed shapes.
* Create mazes ranging in size from 5x5 up to 50x50 cells.  The Pro  upgrade increases that to 80x80.
* You are not stuck with boring old square cells... you can choose mazes to be built with square, hexagon, delta/triangle, or "octo-grid" cells.
* Draw normal walled mazes, or draw mazes with lines along all the inner paths.
* Easily choose the maze difficulty.  Simply move a slider from "very easy" mazes to "very hard" mazes without worrying about all the details of how it works.
* No need for any extra commercial licensing, your generated puzzles are yours to distribute and sell.
* Maze-Phrase! You can add a word or phrase, and it will be laid along the solution path, with decoy letters along the wrong (dead-end) paths.
* Customize the cell wall colors and thicknesses, and even make them wiggly for that hand-drawn look.
* Turn on "Progress Animation" to watch the maze get built, step by step.
* Easy printing of the maze and/or solution right to your printer.
* Export high-quality images of your mazes and solution keys for layout/publishing in your own books, newsletters, social media/web/blog, classroom handouts, games, or CNC/laser-cutter machines.  Supports PDF, PNG, JPEG, SVG, and POV-Ray file formats.
* Save a "snapshot" your custom layout settings so you can instantly build many mazes with the same "look".
* Mazes will always be built with only one guaranteed solution, no islands here!
* Work without a net... You can run Minos Maze Maker anywhere... you never need an internet connection to create, save, and print your mazes.
* Supports Dark Mode and Full-Screen mode.
* Save your maze documents and share them with other Minos Maze Maker users, or open them again later to edit them to create whole new mazes.
* Includes a comprehensive built-in 40 page User Guide, containing tutorials and tips and describing every option, getting you up-to-speed right away.  Advanced features are explained, helping you create high-quality and uniquely personalized mazes.

(The name "Minos Maze Maker" hints at the the story of the ancient Greek king Minos who hid his Minotaur monster away in a labyrinth.)

Release notes:
-Bumped minimum supported Mac OS version to 10.14 (Mojave), and native support for Apple Silicon Macs.
-Pro Upgrade - There is an in-app upgrade option to the “Pro” version, which immediately gives you:
 * Batch-automation, letting you instantly and automatically generate up to 50 mazes at a time, great for publishing maze books.
 * Mazes can grow up to 80x80 dimensions.
 * User-defined-shape designer, letting you create any maze shape you want. Your shapes can be quickly exported/imported by other Pro users.
 * New alpha-numeric shapes (in serif or sans-serif font).
 * New export option for text info file.
-Finally added mini icons for each shape in the puzzle shape drop-down menu, for quick visual identification (Thanks Marina & others)
-Maze building is faster, and searches deeper/harder for good maze solutions.
-Export has a major UI update, now there is a single EXPORT menu item, which brings up a window for you to choose the export directory and if you want to export the answer file at the same time.
-Added "Arrows" back in as a new Start/End style (Thanks Marina.)
-Added Rainbow-Up and Rainbow-down shapes (for Elli)
-Added the iso-Triangle (Delta) cell shape style (thanks for the nudge, Nick & Lisa!)
-You can choose to show the MazePhrase answers "Sparse" as before, and now "Dimmed" which fills all the other letters into the answer maze but as light gray.
-Added ability to turn OFF the outer wall openings on Start/End areas (Thanks Marina.)
-You can now choose a letter for the “Start” and "End" markers.  Note that the character can be Unicode in any language/alphabet, even emoji (Thanks Marina.)
-Added (?) button at lower right of main window for instant access to the user guide.
-Added EXPORT button down next to PRINT button (Thanks Marina and others)
-MazePhrase font size setting is now used for both maze and answer display, and the "Solution Path Size" no longer independently affects the answer font size.
-Major changes to Maze-Phrase "exact-fit" solver, now works much harder to find a solution when "Exact Fit" is on.
-Added a "Set all colors to B&W" option to App menu, for easy global change for printed publications (Thanks Marina!)
-Export has a "Reveal Directory in Finder" button, which will open the directory you have chosen, so you can easily access it from the Finder later.
-Maze title text font size will auto-shrink as the text gets longer, to reduce problems with verbose paragraph text as a title.  Works on the Preview and on the printed pages.
-The Application "Preferences" menu item is now renamed (per Apple's change in MacOS 13) to "Settings".
-New option in Settings dialog for displaying animated maze-building progress.
-You can now choose your own font for the Start/End Marker letters.
-SVG Export now uses a sans-serif font for Start/Finish letters, and a different serif font for any MazePhrase letters. (Thanks Nick)
-Cell Shape popup  menu now has the common/technical shape names listed, and the names are consistent with the Stats display now. (e.g., Sigma, Delta...).
-Added a WARNING dialog when opening older maze documents, since they will not re-build the same path with this new engine.
-Added "Contact Author" help menu item that sends me an e-mail.
-The Main and Layout tabs you selected when you quit the app will be remembered and popped back to when you run it again.
-BugFix: POV-Ray MazePhrase letters are now properly aligned.
-BugFix: SVG Export can now properly handle punctuation (&, ", ', etc.) in the MazePhrase letters.  (thanks Nick!)
-BugFix: Fixed the Bounding Box of SVG export so that very wiggly outer walls no longer get cut off (Thanks Sue!)
-BugFix: MazePhrase (non-exact-fit) more closely tracks the DIFFICULTY setting, so higher difficulties now make longer MazePhrase solutions.
...and more!