RegexPilot: Regular Expressions for Regular People (and no AI hallucinations)
RegexPilot by developer Kristof Polleunis, is an app designed to protect you and your work from the hallucinations and miscalculations AI can inject into the...
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Mac Apps
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ProcessSpy After a Year
Activity Monitor is one of those apps you open when something is wrong and then quietly resent. It tells you a process called java is eating a...
SmoothCSV: Finally, a CSV Editor That Doesn't Guess
If you've ever had to search for "how to make Excel quit removing leading zeroes," I have an app for you. SmoothCSV won't turn some...
SupaSidebar Boosts Privacy and Productivity
Most technically oriented people who value privacy do so because privacy is, and should be, a human right, not because they have something to hide....
Cache Out - A Privacy Focused Free Tool For Multiple Browsers
Cache Out, a free new single-purpose utility from veteran Mac developer Jim Mitchell, fits right into an app category that is severely underrepresented - utilities...
Why I Replaced Jettison with Ejectify after 15 Years
In trying to be open-minded, I recently agreed to try Ejectify, an app that performs a task for which I already had a solution: to automatically...
Marked 3 Is the Markdown Companion a Lot of Mac Writers Have Been Waiting For
Brett Terpstra has released Marked 3, and this is not just a routine update. It’s one of those releases that makes you stop and think about...
Airspace: A Polished Fix for a macOS Friction Point
Airspace, an app I downloaded today, has a lot going for it. It removes a classic Apple friction point by letting you name your virtual...
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...
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...
