McKinley: The SF Symbols Editor Apple Never Built
The Apple-created graphics that appear on your folders are called SF Symbols. There are thousands of them, and they're designed to stay legible in multiple...
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2026
Five Free Apps With No Telemetry & No Accounts That Do One Thing Well: TetherShot, Folder Forge, Image Fuel, doktor, and Kompakt
TL;DR: Five free, mostly open-source, no-telemetry Mac utilities from this week's testing: docktor (dock widgets + hover previews), Kompakt (drag-and-drop image/video compression), TetherShot (live iPhone...
Five Free and Low Cost Apps: Holeberry, Dock Party, Neon Vision Editor, MojiBar and Snick
Here are the best apps I tested this weekend. Two will save you time, two are fun ways to waste it on UI tweaks, and...
AppAddict Records 1,000,000th View
When I wrote and published my first software review in 2024, I had no idea I'd still be going strong after 500+ reviews. Thank you...
Five Unique Free Apps
Here are five free Mac applications you've most likely never come across. A project template/scaffolding automator, a local music player, resize batch images, a posture app that takes Advantage of the AirPods motion sensors, plus a financial calculator for cash flow simulation. • Prefab - Capture a folder structure as a reusable "blueprint," add variable placeholders to names and contents, then deploy it anywhere via the...
Five Free Alternative to Paid Apps
Are you paying for an ad blocker, folder automation, notes & PKM and image editing ? You don't have to. • wBlock - a next-generation...
Lore: A Free App for YouTubeVideo Downloading, also Builds YouTube Playlists Without Signing In
TL;DR: Lore is a free Mac app that follows YouTube channels over plain RSS, no algorithm, no Google account, then archives what you keep as...
The Extension Aided Method of Ignoring thee YouTube Algorithm
TL;DR: Control Panel for YouTube, UnTrap, and DeArrow all quiet YouTube down without making you leave the account, the browser, or the ecosystem behind. That's...
How to Experience YouTube With No Algorithm
TL;DR: Play, Yattee and Unwatched all refuse to let YouTube pick your next video; each builds a feed from your subscriptions instead of Google's ranking....
YouTube Premium kills the ads but doesn't solve the real problem. Here's the stack I use to do that.
TL;DR: Paid for YouTube Premium after years of DIY ad-blocking. Ads are gone; the algorithm, the clutter, and the impermanence aren't. Building a stack of small...
Caption Snap: Meeting Transcriptions With No Bot, No Model to Download, No Data Transferred and No Drain on Your CPU - Free Trial, One Time, $9.99
TL;DR: CaptionSnap is a $9.99 one-time menu bar app that saves your Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet transcripts by reading the live captions the meeting...
Autoshelf Has an MCP Server You Probably Don't Need and The Rule Engine Is Weak - A Review
TL;DR: AutoShelf ($19.99 one-time) ships an embedded MCP server that works, but do you actually need that? An AI model can write a launchd LaunchAgent...
The Apps I Use So Apple Can't Take Everything
TL;DR: Part two of the Apple Account series. Backup apps that pull your iCloud data down to storage you control, email providers that speak IMAP/CalDAV/CardDAV...
All Your Eggs in One Basket, The Apple Disaster Scenario
TL;DR: Mac power users vet apps carefully and then hand their entire digital life to Apple without a second thought. Apple can close your account...
When You Need a Mac, But All You Have is a Phone - The Verdict on Four Free Alternatives to Leaving Work Undone
TL;DR: Four free iPhone apps that handle jobs you would normally do on your Mac: API Bot for testing endpoints, View Source Vibe for inspecting...
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TextSniper, MacPilot, Unite Pro, PDF Squeezer and Video Paw on Sale from Their Devs Until Friday for %75+ Off
You have a chance this week (ending August 7th) to pick up five apps at the lowest prices I've seen them listed for. Sale Details....
RAD Weather for macOS Shows You Where the Forecasts Disagree
TL;DR: RAD Weather pulls forecasts from four services and shows you where they disagree instead of averaging the disagreement away. Free, with RAD Ultra at...
Using Orbit to manage the Google accounts I didn't want
TL;DR: Orbit runs each of your Google accounts in its own isolated WebKit session inside one native Mac window, for $89 one time instead of...
Blankie, A Free and Open Source Ambient Sound Mixer is a Breath of Fresh Air, Right in Your Ear
TL;DR: Blankie is a free, open-source ambient sound mixer for Mac, iPhone, iPad and CarPlay; no ads, IAPs, or subscriptions. 24 mixable sounds, saved presets, custom...
RetroMac is a Free Time Machine for Your Computer
Mac users tend to be nostalgic about the hardware and software they used in their earliest exposure to tech. That doesn't mean anyone wants to...
Quick Look Showdown: Peek, Looq, and Unfold
Quick Look extensions have evolved over time. Once the category seemed to be made up of legacy junk: kernel-adjacent hacks that broke every time Apple...
Zipic Is Good. I'm Still Not Switching From Clop.
Is it possible to shrink image file sizes on a Mac using native tools? Yes, but with some big IFs thrown in. Preview can knock...
Daily Skips the Timer Problem Entirely — Now It Talks to Your Other Apps Too
If you bill clients by the hour, it might be time to reevaluate your workflow. Daily, a Mac time tracker from independent developer Niels Mouthaan,...
Imagin Raw: a 4.3MB, free, open-source Bridge alternative for culling RAW files
TL;DR Imagin Raw is a free, open-source Mac app (4.3 MB) for culling and rating RAW photos — no import, no library, folders stay where...
Iris, The Mac Photo App for People Who Don't Trust iCloud With 80,000 Photos
TL;DR: Iris is a Mac photo viewer that indexes photos where they already live (folder, external drive, or your existing Apple Photos library) instead of...
