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...
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Mac Apps
2026
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...
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...
