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....
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Mac Apps
2026
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...
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....
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...
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...
7 Mac utilities I'd fight to keep, and what I actually use them for (not another 'best apps' list)
TL;DR: PopClip, Raycast, BetterTouchTool, Keyboard Maestro, Apple Shortcuts, Supercharge, and ExtraBar; concrete daily uses for each, not feature dumps. For people already comfortable on macOS...
CurrentKey, Removing Mac Friction Points with Space Naming and ScreenTime Info You Can Actually Use
Here are two Mac friction points: • It's been 16 years since Mission Control was released, and "Desktop 3" is still "Desktop 3." Apple's API...
Mac Tools Consolidates Your Utility Bloat — With One Catch
Apple, in its infinite wisdom, buries a great many popular system controls three layers deep in Settings, or worse, leaves them accessible only via the...
Viraam Made Me Admit I Was Wrong About Break Reminders
I've resisted the whole category of apps that nag you about breaks, posture, hydration, and eyestrain. Being told what to do by my computer felt...
The World Needs More $5 Apps Like NanoClip
NanoClip is a menu-bar app combining clipboard history, text-expansion snippets, and clipboard automation "flows." Free/demo tier; Pro is $9.99 one-time ($5 with code EARLYBIRD through...
Allihat: Good App, Hard Sell
Reviewing software has become a minefield. Post something positive and somebody decides you must be the developer in disguise. Review a paid app and a...
Developer Spotlight - WidgetWorx
I spend a lot of time watching the free-software sites, and for a couple of years now one name keeps earning a click: WidgetWorx. There...
The Best eBook Readers: Readest vs. Bookshelves
TL;DR: Apple Books is a storefront that happens to read ebooks. If you own your library, the real choice is between two apps. Readest is...
Variations on a Theme: Five Recent Cmd+Tab Interpretations
Apple's Cmd+Tab has real blind spots. It works on apps, not windows. It doesn't know about Spaces. It has no search, fuzzy or otherwise. Several...
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...
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...
