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Octavo: Real Booklet Imposition Without the Pro Print Tax

Veteran Mac developer Amy Worrall of Double and Thrice Ltd. recently released Octavo, a focused macOS app for booklet printing and imposition. If you’ve never dealt with imposition, here’s the short version: it’s the process of arranging individual pages on a larger sheet so that, once printed, folded, cut, and bound, everything lands in the correct order. When you see a press sheet with page 1 next to page 16 and page 2 upside down on the reverse, that’s not chaos. That’s math doing its job. Historically, tools that handle this well have been aimed at print professionals and priced...

March 2nd, 2026

OCR Options in macOS

When you're faced with text that you can't select in the conventional way on your Mac (meaning with the cursor), there are several options. They all work in slightly different ways, and I use the one most appropriate for the task. Live Text RecognitionThe operating system has a feature called Live Text Recognition , an on-device computer vision feature that detects and extracts text from images and video so you can interact with it like normal text. It uses Apple’s Neural Engine to perform optical character recognition; OCR, directly on your Mac. That means you can: • Select and...

February 28th, 2026

Droppy - Updates and New Features

I have tried a variety of notch apps, and I haven't been truly happy with any of them. I am not sure whether the novelty of the interface is the problem, or if it's the design of the apps I've used that bothers me. I recently installed Droppy, an app built entirely with Swift for speed and stability, and I like it more than the other notch apps I've used. I don't say this lightly, but it could be the best $7 you ever spend on software. It isn't overloaded with superfluous features, and the features it does have can...

February 27th, 2026 Mac Apps

MacPilot Tweaks Some Hard to Get To Settings in macOS

On Sale at BundleHunt for $3.99 MacPilot, a customization and utility app from Koingo Software, normally sells for $29.95 but it is currently $3.99 on Bundlehunt. There are similar apps like Onyx and Tinker Tool out there that are free, but for the price I thought I'd take a look. Applications Mac Pilot contains settings for several system apps. Here are just of the few things it can control. • Calendar - change event duration • Disk Utility - modify core storage • Dock - single app mode, enable window previews • Finder - enable "Quit Finder" • Help Viewer...

February 27th, 2026

Trace Helps You Make Informed Disk Management Decisions

Unless you’re seeing severely degraded performance during large writes, or macOS is actively warning you that you’re out of space, you can usually let the system manage storage. It does a solid job. If you do need to step in and make selective deletions, a newer app from Switzerland—Trace—offers genuinely informed assistance. When it was introduced on Reddit, some commenters dismissed it as yet another vibe-coded “optimizer.” That assumption doesn’t hold up. Trace has thorough documentation and a deep feature set. It’s not a one-click wrecking ball, a “system optimizer,” or a fake RAM cleaner. It’s a disk analysis tool...

February 25th, 2026 Mac Apps

Disk Maintenance Mythology

When it comes to disk management, old myths die hard. Many of us remember when hard drives were tiny and expensive. My first PC had a 140 MB drive. I was furious that the WordPerfect executable alone was 12 MB. One app. Twelve megabytes. That felt criminal. Those early experiences left a mark. Even today, people worry about “memory” when they really mean disk space. Years ago, I jokingly told a user she should stop using large fonts because they were filling up her drive. She believed me. That’s the level of mythology we’re still dealing with. The reality: macOS...

February 24th, 2026 Mac Apps

Lingon Pro Now on Sale, Fluent's Last Day at $4.99

I'm a big fan of BundleHunt, the quarterly software sale website. Lingon Pro, app app I've covered several times went on sale today for $4.00. It is also the last day to get Fluent at the sale price of $4.99. Fluent Fluent, by presents a smart panel you interact with directly. That panel can stay persistent or disappear depending on your preference. The experience feels less like firing off commands and more like working alongside an assistant. Fluent is context-aware, supports back-and-forth conversation, and allows chaining actions together into something closer to a workflow than a single command. Fluent also...

February 23rd, 2026 Mac Apps

Desktop Workflow Apps

There are a number of apps that can help you incorporate your Desktop into your workflow in useful ways. You can adapt your desktop to be an information dashboard, a centralized launcher for applications, shortcuts, folder access, and bookmarks, and a space for multiple project-based setups with access to relevant folders, files, and applications. Here’s how it works. Accessing the DesktopAlmost everything I do can be triggered with a hotkey. I use so many hotkeys that I have trouble remembering them all, so I use ExtraBar to keep a handy menu of them that I can access from anywhere if...

February 23rd, 2026 Mac Apps

Small Apps That Remove Friction

I'm currently covering apps on sale at BundleHunt. A lot of these are new to me, and the steep discounts make it a good time to fill gaps in your Applications folder without paying full retail. I've never understood why, given its resources, Apple still leaves obvious friction points in macOS. Take battery levels. Most of us are running Bluetooth keyboards, mice, trackpads, and of course battery-powered laptops. Yet macOS still makes you dig around System Settings to see what's about to die. That feels like a solved problem. Or window management in Mission Control. I use it dozens of...

February 20th, 2026 Mac Apps

Developer Spotlight - Ryan Hanson

Most Mac power users recognize Ryan Hanson's apps, even if they don't know his name. Hanson's portfolio of Mac interface enhancements has earned him a reputation as the editor in chief of the UI improvement cohort. His apps are a staple of how I use my Mac. His most recognizable work is Rectangle/Rectangle Pro, regarded by many as the pinnacle in Mac window management. Rectangle Pro / Rectangle Rectangle Pro is the full-featured window manager powerhouse, and Rectangle is the free open-source version that many Mac users still recommend as a must-install tool for arranging windows quickly. Basic overview: free/OSS...

February 19th, 2026 Mac Apps

A Good Dictation App with a Terrible Name

I'm currently covering apps currently on sale at BundleHunt . Many of these are new to me and taking advantage of steep discounts provides anyone interested a chance to add missing tools to their Applications. The Mac ecosystem is currently awash in vibe-coded throwaway apps, especially in categories like window managers, clipboard managers, and dictation tools. The problem isn't just volume — it's durability. Many of these apps come from inexperienced "developers" who can't realistically maintain or evolve the software long-term. The result is often a quick version 1.0 followed by silence. That said, I'm not going to stop looking....

February 18th, 2026 Mac Apps

Writing Apps: Fluent vs. Rewrite Bar

I’m currently covering apps on sale at BundleHunt. Many of these are new to me, and steep discounts are a good excuse to try tools you might otherwise ignore — or to fill gaps in a workflow you didn’t realize had gaps. First up is Fluent an AI-powered writing assistant that handles translation, grammar, spelling, and style suggestions. The app I’ve been using for the past year for similar tasks is Rewrite Bar. They aren’t clones, but they definitely live in the same neighborhood. Features in Common With Rewrite BarBoth apps are aimed at people who don’t want to keep...

February 16th, 2026 Mac Apps

BundleHunt's First Sale of 2026 Is Live - Lifetime Licenses Only

The first BundleHunt sale of 2026 kicked off today. This round is focused entirely on lifetime licenses - no one-year subscriptions or short-term trials disguised as deals. Update eligibility for major or minor releases still varies by app, so always check the fine print before buying. ⌘ In tech, big names rise fast and disappear just as quickly. When a company sticks around for well over a decade, there's usually a reason. BundleHunt has been doing its thing since 2010, offering a different twist on software bundles: you build your own. That means you're not forced into buying 30 apps...

February 15th, 2026 Mac Apps

Turning AppAdddict into a Fully Searchable Archive with Integrity, Raindrop, and EagleFiler

As an App Addict, I enjoy testing new tools and watching indie developers invent clever ways to get things done. But collecting apps isn't the goal. The real satisfaction comes when those tools solve an actual problem. Here's a recent workflow I built using apps I've reviewed on this blog. The ProblemI spend a fair amount of time in r/MacApps, on Mastodon, and in email threads talking software with other nerds. I've reviewed hundreds of apps, and I'm often asked for links to older posts. Until recently, I had two options: • Run a site-specific search on Kagi • Browse...

February 12th, 2026 Mac Apps

Extra Bar Gets Extra Features

Since I installed Extra Bar on New Year's Eve, I have been systematically going through my automation apps, like Raycast Keyboard Maestro, Better Touch Tool, Hazel, and Apple Shortcuts to organize and consolidate the different ways I use them, since there is now a well thought out menu bar access application that can harness the power of all of them in an effective way. The developers of ExtraBar have been very responsive to feature requests from its user base, and a few recently added features are real game changers, particularly one that came out yesterday which allows you to create...

February 11th, 2026 Mac Apps