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Droppy An update to Droppy by developer Jordy Spruit dropped this weekend. What started as a free notch app has evolved into a paid, but still inexpensive, suite of Mac productivity tools. The licensing recently changed so that Droppy’s one-time payment now gets you a license for two Macs instead of one. The change is retroactive and applies to all users. From now until May 31st, the price is €6.99. After that, it will be €9.99. Both prices include lifetime updates, including major version…

Liqoria The promise: A universal music controller that lives in your Dock and unifies Apple Music, Spotify, browsers, and more with animated artwork, real waveforms, and native Apple design. If Apple were the company that so many people pretend that it is, it would make a music controller lives in your Dock and plays not just Apple Music but also Spotify, Youtube and more with animated artwork, real waveforms, using real native Apple design. The reality though, is that Apple Music is a…

Corel Painter Corel’s Spot on Memory Lane I hadn’t thought about Corel graphics apps in a long time until I saw their flagship app on sale recently. I got my first tech-related job in 1994, when my ability to figure things out in Windows 3.1 earned me a promotion from the manufacturing floor to the quality department at the Westinghouse factory where I worked after getting out of the Army. The tools I worked with felt absurdly expensive at the time: a Pentium PC, a Kodak digital camera, and the…

Substage 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 command, previews its side effects, and runs it with confirmation when needed. Think of it less as an AI assistant and more as a natural language layer between your intent and the Unix tools already built into macOS. The key distinction; the AI’s role ends once the command is generated. After that, real shell tools do the work: sips,…

BundleHunt For bargain hunters, BundleHunt makes the holidays happen four times a year. Many well-known and popular apps have appeared there over the years at prices 70% to 90% below what's the apps typically sell for. This current bundle is no exception The oldest receipt I have for a purchase from them is from 2015. I've purchased over 50 different apps without ever having a bad experience. Here's the current selection. I've posted links to ones I've reviewed in the past. Apps I've Reviewed…

Find Any File 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 bargain hunters out there. One of my favorite apps for over two decades is going on sale for $2. Mac users have a wide range of file search tools, from the built-in Spotlight to professional options like Foxtrot that cost north of $100. The right choice depends on how you actually search. I tend to run the same kinds of queries repeatedly,…

Tolaria Tolaria is a free, open-source desktop app for macOS and Linux built by Luca Rossi, the author of the Refactoring newsletter. Rossi created Tolaria to manage his own collection of 10,000+ notes. That origin story matters. The feature set feels like it grew out of solving real problems for a real workflow; not something assembled by a product manager or stitched together from an AI roadmap. At its core, Tolaria is a very 2026-style Markdown editor; modern, opinionated, and not trying to…

Dockside Most Mac users already rely on drag-and-drop constantly, but macOS never really gave us a good place to stage things temporarily. Finder windows work, but they’re clumsy for quick hand-offs between apps. Dockside turns that gap into a system. It acts like a permanent drop zone beside your Dock where you can park files, preview them, batch them, trigger actions, and move them between apps without juggling Finder windows. Turning Drag and Drop Into a System Just because you want to use a…

Mac Apps I’m looking for feedback on a few apps. I’m looking for the answers to the following questions: Did this app solve a problem you had? If so, what was the issue and the solution. Who do you think is the target audience for the app What’s your favorite feature or biggest aggravation with the app? BookShelves eBook Reader - BookShelves is a modern ebook reader and library manager for macOS and iOS. It supports EPUB, PDF, MOBI, PRC, and Kindle formats with iCloud sync, a customizable…

Tower For years I assumed GitHub was only useful if you were a developer. Turns out it's actually one of the best tools I've found for managing text-heavy Mac workflows. I now use Git repositories to version and back up things like: my 13K-file Obsidian vault (private) ~700 Keyboard Maestro macros (public) Hazel and BetterTouchTool configs (public) writing projects and scripts (private) ~500 Markdown documents with my quotes collection (public) No coding required. I recently switched from…

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. Other times it means applying software to problems that don’t obviously look like “tech problems.” Here are three apps that take a slightly unconventional approach. Xspeak — a meeting companion for people who sometimes struggle to articulate their thoughts in fast-moving conversations. It transcribes discussion in real time and helps you…

AppTela I recently organized my /Applications folder; it contains more than 660 apps. The tool that finally made it manageable is AppTela, a layered, categorized launcher available for $4.99 on the Mac App Store. I tend to keep an app for every contingency. The problem isn’t disk space; it’s remembering the name of the utility you installed last year to solve a problem that only shows up every few months. If you’ve ever had the experience of knowing you have an app for something but not…