11 macOS apps everyone should have

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Most useful tools for Mac users.

Free software for Mac

1. Spark

A smart email client that will make working with mail more convenient. With a minimalist design, advanced sorting and powerful search, organizing your inbox has never been easier. Plus, Spark has quick replies, delayed message sending, and tons of customization options.

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2. IINA

A functional open source media player designed to replace the popular but outdated VLC. IINA features a modern Apple-style design and supports all macOS features such as Force Touch gestures and Picture-in-Picture. The player can play all popular media file formats locally and via stream, understands chapter markup and has a ton of useful settings.

3. The Unarchiver

A powerful free archiver with support for all possible archive formats, including the most exotic ones.

The Unarchiver allows you to quickly and without unnecessary problems unpack any archive, understands and automatically recognizes all popular encodings, and also knows how to delete compressed files after successful extraction.

4. Bear

Bear's minimalistic text editor can be used for both writing texts and taking personal or work notes. The application supports Markdown markup, various list options and has conveniently implemented formatting with the ability to export finished documents to RTF, DOCX and other formats. A tagging system is used to organize your notes, and all notes are automatically synced to the mobile version of Bear.

5. Spectacle

Spectacle will come in handy for those who often work with several applications at the same time, and especially for owners of Macs with a small display diagonal. The utility will allow you to quickly resize application windows by distributing screen space between them using hotkeys.

6. Amphetamine

A functional tool for flexible configuration of how your Mac goes to sleep. It is enough to set a time or trigger, for example, launch a certain application, and Amphetamine will not allow the computer to fall asleep. In the settings, there are many options for displaying and behavior of the utility.

Paid software for Mac

1. CleanMyMac 3

A versatile digital garbage cleaner that takes up precious disk space and slows down your system. With CleanMyMac, you can clean your computer of unnecessary temporary files, software cache, unused app localizations and other system junk in no time.

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2. Pixelmator

An advanced graphic editor with a great design, not inferior in terms of the capabilities of Photoshop. It features a more user-friendly interface that allows you to easily do complex things. Pixelmator boasts a rich set of retouching tools, many effects and easy-to-use controls.

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3. Bartender 3

A useful utility for organizing icons in the menu bar. Bartender makes it easy to get rid of the clutter and clutter of icons when there are too many. The application will allow you to flexibly customize their display for various events, completely hide and collapse into a separate area that will be displayed on click.

4. Paste 2

A useful application that extends the meager capabilities of the standard macOS clipboard. Paste integrates seamlessly with the system and allows you to store an unlimited history of copied items. With a keyboard shortcut, you can invoke a pop-up menu and instantly paste text, image, file and any other content that was copied earlier.

5. Tuxera

A utility that everyone who has to use Windows with macOS will appreciate. Tuxera adds support for writing to disks with the NTFS file system, which is used in Windows, which is not available by default on the Mac. With Tuxera, you can read and write data, as well as check disks and fix errors found.