Day One Is Popular for a Reason
The journaling app, Day One by Bloom Built Software, a subsidiary of Automattic, has been downloaded 15 million times and it has 200,000 five-star reviews....
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Universal Apps
2024
Making a Case for Microsoft Edge
When I started a new job a couple of years ago doing end user IT support at a small, private university, I was assigned a...
Sequel Entertainment Database
The media database space, for TV and movies is a tough space to compete in. With longtime favorites like Sofa Time, ReelGood, IMDB and JustWatch...
Text Shot
I do love a good single purpose app. Like most sentient human beings in the 21st century, I need to express myself on social media...
iA Writer
iA writer a markdown/plain text editor designed especially for writing and document creation. It isn't a text editor in the fashion of VS Code or...
The Many Apps of Sindre Sorhus
Whether you know who Sindre Sorhus is or not you still may be using one of his many popular and mostly free apps. Sindre is...
Enhance Apple Shortcuts with These Apps
When I leave work on the days my wife works from a home, I just press an icon on my phone that sends her a...
Things You Can Do with Obsidian
Obsidian is a pretty well know app, especially among the more technically inclined crowd. At its core, Obsidian is a free note taking app that...
Play: Save Videos, Watch Later
There are lots of places to find YouTube videos aside from the website itself. You see links on social media, in texts from friends in...
AnyList for Recipes, Shopping and More
Mac users are blessed with several very good recipe collection apps, including AnyList, Paprika and Mela, all of which allow you to clip recipes you...
File Finding Apps
Mac users have several choices when it comes to file finding apps ranging from the built in Spotlight utility up to professional grade tools like...
Why Haven't You Installed Keka Yet?
If you're going to get into the software and file downloading game, you're going to end up seeing some strange compressed files. Although macOS had...
Just Press Record
According to my notes, I bought the audio recording and transcription app, Just Press Record nine years ago. It's had a place on my Mac,...
Lockdown Privacy Desktop
Most knowledgeable Mac users run multiple layers of protection on their devices from custom DNS configurations, custom firewalls, VPNs and ad blocking software in their...
MusicBox : Read-It-Later for Music
We all have our ways of discovering new music, friends, blogs, magazines - but what do you do when you hear about a new tune...
Omnivore, a Free Open-Source Read It Later App
When you're reading on the web and you're short of time and want to save an article to read later or you want to save...
Zavala - Free, Open-Source Outliner for Mac, iPhone, iPad
If you use an outliner to plan, sketch out ideas or help you write and you don't need the bells and whistles required for heavy...
MusicHarbor - The New Release Finder
If you are an Apple Music subscriber, you know it's not the best at letting you know about upcoming new releases. If you are really...
Blip - Free Cross Platform File Transfers
When you need to share a file with someone, or maybe get a file from you home computer to your work computer, you have a...
My Favorite AI App is an Apple Shortcut
When I have a question I want to run by a LLM, my first stop isn't my paid Raycast subscription with AI. It isn't even...
Listy - A Private List Manager
It's refreshing to download an app that has the capability of collecting personal data - but doesn't. Listy, a private list manager is an app...
Streaks: The Classic Habit Tracker
Practically everyone has a need for a habit tracker. Streaks strikes just the right balance between ease of use and richness of features. An Apple...
Scrap Paper
Scrap Paper is the ultimate scratch pad for macOS and iOS. On the Mac it lives in the menu bar and can be brought to...
Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots
Before Elon Musk ruined Twitter, in part by eliminating third-party apps, I was a big fan of Tweetbot. After the Twitter-pocalypse, I stayed away from...
Clipboard Fusion - The Windows to iPhone Solution
If you are all in on the Apple ecosystem, you have plenty of choices for clipboard managers with iOS companions to simplify sharing between your...
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