Corel Painter Is Still Alive and Still Ridiculously Good
Corel’s Spot on Memory LaneI hadn’t thought about Corel graphics apps in a long time until I saw their flagship app on sale recently. I...
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Mac Apps
2026
Substage - A Natural Language Command Line Tool for Finder
Substage is a command bar that attaches beneath your Finder window. Select files, type what you want in plain English, and Substage generates a Terminal...
Find any File for $2: New BundleHunt Sneak Peek
The spring sale for Bundle Hunt doesn't officially open until tomorrow, but I have some inside info on what's coming this time around for the...
Three Creative and Original New Apps
Developers keep finding interesting ways to make our existing tech more useful. Sometimes that means refining how we interact with tools we already rely on....
DoubleMemory Doing Great After a Year
I’m always impressed when an out-of-the-box thinker builds an app unlike anything I’ve seen before. Iterating on proven concepts is fine, but after testing enough...
10 Tiny Mac Workflow Tweaks that Save Me Time Every Day
I spend a lot of time trying to remove small bits of friction from my Mac workflow. macOS is a great system, but out of...
If These Apps Are Missing My Mac Feels Broken
Some small utilities become so embedded in my workflow that they start to feel like part of macOS itself. When I sit down at someone...
Resurf – A Well-Designed (Almost) Everything Box
Resurf is a clever new app, currently in beta, with a lot of potential. This is one of those “I needed an app to do X,...
Octarine: Powerful, Sophisticated and Easy to Use
I’ve been hearing about Octarine for a while. It’s one of those apps that people whose opinions I respect talk about with a certain level of admiration....
Setting Up a New Mac the Easy Way
[M4 Mac Mini]When I bought my last new Mac two years ago, I set it up the way I had been setting up my personal...
Four Indie Mac Utilities That Quietly Improve Your Workflow
Independent developers continue to build some of the most thoughtful utilities on macOS. These are small, focused tools that solve real workflow problems instead of...
Developer Spotlight: The Low-Tech Guys, Maker of Clop, Lunar, rcmd, Pipiri and Crank
It’s always such a pleasure to find out when one of my favorite developers has released a new app. That’s how I felt recently, when...
ScreenFloat is a Different Kind of Screenshot App
I only recently realized that my use of screenshots falls into two very different categories. On one hand, I use screenshots to illustrate blog posts...
A Deep Dive on Rocket Typist
Every text expansion app promises the same core trick: type a short trigger; get a longer block of text. What actually matters is reliability, friction,...
I'm Glad I Revisited Typora
Typora is a long-established Mac Markdown editor that renders as you type; no dual-pane preview, no “toggle to see what it really looks like” mode....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
