Surprisingly useful apps for the Mac (and iOS).

PhotoPop

Your whole Photos library in the menu bar — browse albums, drag photos in and out of any app, and search for subjects and text. On-device. Free trial.

TopSecret

Black out sensitive text and faces in images and PDFs — by hand or auto-detected — and export a copy where the hidden data is truly gone. On-device. Free trial.

FilePop

A fast, native file browser that lives in your menu bar. One keystroke and go.

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PastePlop

Your clipboard, but a grid. Hit ⌘⇧V, see everything you've ever copied, file the keepers into categories.

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KeyStruck

Names every keyboard shortcut you fire — and lists every shortcut the app has bound when you double-tap ⌘.

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DeskMop

Stage a spotless desktop for screenshots: set the resolution, hide the icons and wallpaper, tidy the menu bar, place your window — then put it all back.

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DateDrop

Insert a perfectly formatted date — with time zones — into any app with a single hotkey.

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StyleBop

A visual CSS editor. Browse your stylesheets as a live node diagram, edit properties, write code.

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HotShot

Capture a screen, window, or region and mark it up — or record one, then trim it and zoom in.

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InSpec

Click any element, edit live with real visual editors, and walk away with the CSS rules ready to paste back.

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CrossHair

A fullscreen crosshair on one shortcut, a circular pixel loupe on another. Tiny, sandboxed, and quiet the rest of the time.

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MoveMatic

A native macOS animation tool for product UI motion. Visibility spans with stacked intro/outro effects, pulses, multi-scene storytelling, and a timeline that ripples the way designers iterate.

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ChopShop

The missing audio + video editor for Mac and iPad. Open a clip, chop it, ship it. No project to set up, no render queue, no two-day tutorial.

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ShowRunner

Smooth demos and tutorials on the Mac. Lay out the clicks once and it performs the whole walkthrough — flawlessly, every time.

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TalkProp

A teleprompter for the Mac. Set a comfortable speed, scroll-wheel scrub through your script, flip to a one-line ticker.

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NoteLess

A hotkey-driven scratch pad for fleeting thoughts. One cream card, bound. Pin it or it ages out in seven days. Syncs across Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

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MarkWell

A bookmark manager that syncs across Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Save links from the share sheet, organize with tags, find them later.

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PicPile

Pile images into a styled grid or frame each on its own, add titles and captions, and export sharp PNGs.

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TextBuddy

A plain-text editor with a sidebar of one-click fixes: case, lines, whitespace, punctuation, find & replace, and filler text.

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ImageBuddy

Trim to the artwork, key out the background, add a sticker outline, pad, resize, and vectorize — over a live preview.

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ListenUp

Records your Mac's system audio — not the mic — then trims it on a waveform with one-click silence stripping.

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RoboShop

Makes QR codes for links, Wi‑Fi, contacts and five more — styled how you like, with your logo in the middle, exported as real vector.

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