What's your favorite utility Mac app?

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What's your favorite utility Mac app that you can't live without? :)

Inspired by this tweet from @rrhoover https://twitter.com/rrhoover/status/871050352447115265

Julia Petryk · Accepted Answer

Must-have utility for a Mac user.

Anom B. · Answer

A free alternative to Bartender. But only work for macOS Sierra (10.12 or later).

Sambruce Joseph · Answer

Memory and storage management at its best.

Dmytro Bilkun · Answer

Helps you get rid of unneeded duplicates and similar files thus saving plenty of space. Especially useful if you have a lot of photos.

Serhii Butenko · Answer

A really awesome drive manager for Mac. Clean and manage your external HDD and flash card in one click

Paul Williams · Answer

I use Recall nearly as much as I use the Finder and Alfred... it is my "go to" app to find the bits and pieces I've surfed, browsed, viewed and worked on... it is - like they say on the site - a digital memory...

Charley Ma · Answer

Favorite password manager across all my devices

Mauro Massucatti Netto · Answer

Fantastic App! Plus: The Support Team is the Best!!!

Dimitar Raykov · Answer

To answer my question myself - Numi is more than a beautiful calculator. It does so much more than just calculations - https://numi.io/docs/

Naveed Shah · Answer

Well, this was great but the new OS has Nightshift built-in

Vinh Pham · Answer

Mentioned this in another Ask PH thread yesterday, but it's worth repeating. Alfred is so incredibly useful in my daily workflow that I don't even notice I'm using it half the time. Anything I need to do that I can do with Alfred is just automatic.

Ryan Hoover · Answer

As Dimitar pointed out in the description, Redacted by @soffes is a useful, single-purpose app for censoring photos on your Mac. Here's an example.

Kunal Bhatia · Answer

I've been using Copia nonstop since it was launched on Product Hunt. It has saved me so much time since I started using it. I love the sound it makes when you copy something too!

George Hilton · Answer

Does anyone have recommendations for a memory improvement game? I have extra time on my hands, thanks to Recall, and I don't need to remember where I've browsed; where files are stored; or what my work looked like several revisions ago.

Recall provides *so* much utility while simultaneously disappearing - there isn't any configuration or maintenance necessary. Many products claim to "just work" but nothing comes close to Recall's ability to work out of the box with zero maintance.

Additionally, it provides faster lookup of websites, files, and everything Mac without the setup/organizational investments of bookmarks, folders, or tags! It actually tags all of your digital "stuff" automatically (and intelligently).

It provides smarter & quicker search results than Alfred or LaunchBar (I've used both), but with only the smallest system overhead as the index is stored in the cloud (encrypted in rest and motion no less).

Udara Jay · Answer

The invisible app that saves me a lot of time every day! 
When you're doing dev/design work and have to move around terminals, Photoshop windows, editors, FTP clients and Safari, Spectacle is the smoothest way to put things in place quickly!

Alina Mulova · Answer

My hard drive crashed and everything was lost. My wedding photos, important financial files and my favourite music which I hadn't backed up onto any flash drive were lost! Disk Drill helped me to recover all my files.

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I just use it without thinking. Cmd-Spacebar, type first few characters of an app's name, your pick is highlighted, hit return, opens app. Sounds like a lot but takes seconds.

It does so much more which I need to learn.

Premankan Seal · Answer

Alfred is quite possibly the only application I can't live without. I use it for everything. From opening files and folders, to navigating my drives, to launching applications, to running searches, to the hundreds of workflows I use everyday without so much as thinking about them. The Evernote workflow for instance. Hitting CMD+SPACE followed by ENT to search through my notes is just muscle memory at this point.

John Amadeo · Answer

I use it to resize my windows to just the left/right side of your screen ALL. THE. TIME. Game-changing timesaver.

Eric Pangilinan · Answer

Syncs with my Android!

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As a developer I love this best way to get my browser and code windows sorted out quickly.

Josh Brown · Answer

Most useful & ❤️beautiful iTunes alternative for transferring music, video, books, ringtones to iPhone, iPad.

Eric Pangilinan · Answer

Saves Menu Bar real estate!

Karl Nislow · Answer

Numi caters seamlessly to the chaotic intersectionality of the tech space. It scales with your needs; from simple addition to defining reusable variables, Numi can function at whatever level you need it to. Play with it, read the documentation, and use the dark skin.

Kevin Suttle · Answer

To combat macOS' overly-aggressive sleep settings.

Jesus Gerardo Lopez · Answer

It has become part of my everyday workflow! It not only makes it simple to store all your passwords but also to generate new strong passwords for new sites! Definitely recommended!

Parthiv Patel · Answer

Best way to keep your mac from going to sleep.

Alina Mulova · Answer

Find and remove duplicate files and folders on my drives and cloud storages fast

Charley Ma · Answer

After Alfred, the first app I download for my mac for window management.

Nick Abouzeid · Answer

Snap windows to grids with easy shortcuts. Invaluable if you have a cluttered homescreen like I do.

Dimitar Raykov · Answer

+1 for Spectacle. Great app!

Mohammed Shammout · Answer

Because shortcuts are life.

Eric Pangilinan · Answer

I use this at least 10X a day

Jason Cutler · Answer

CopyLess has the best interface- transparent window, icons showing where the data is from, keyboard shortcuts…

Roshan Gautam · Answer

Nifty little calendar in your menu bar

Charley Ma · Answer

Superpowered search and workflow functionalities, it's almost frustrating when I'm on someone else's computer and they don't have Alfred

Paul Williams · Answer

The only thing better than Alfred, would be a better Alfred... I use Alfred to find files, for math, for starting a web search, to move files, to rename folders... and all from within the Alfred window. Love. Love. Love.

Andrew-David · Answer

Can't even remember what working on my iMac was like before Alfred. Been an Alfred powerpack user for about six years now.

Tom Kinniburgh · Answer

If you want to improve your ability to communicate ideas quickly, check out Skitch screenshots and comments

Vinit Agrawal · Answer

This is lifesaver app, that i would highly recommend for your eyes. Although i use it on my linux machine.

Simon Bromberg · Answer

Never lose copied items again; Totally free, open source, and very lightweight.

Adolfo™ · Answer

Best Time & Task manager for Mac. Now with application and website tracking.

Steven Hambleton · Answer

I love keeping my web apps and browser tabs separate and reducing my memory footprint. Manageyum accomplishes this!

joshua bradley · Answer

I click this little icon in my menu bar to find the right words all the time

Nick Abouzeid · Answer

I can't tell you how useful this is - to be able to scroll back through previous copied sentences words is invaluable.

JobTent · Answer

Welcome to the New World of JobTent Android Application - Jobs, Contents and Questions all at one place for next career move looking for latest jobs and prepare for it at the same point of time through our intelligent curation of contents and questions for the same there and there itself in single application. JobTent will help to study job related contents matching to job description in single application and also look for possible questions/answers on the same topic relevant to that job. This will prepare you in much advance manner for their next career movements. You can also tag your interests and search for your requirements, and JobTent intelligently feeds you nearby jobs, contents, questions on those interests regularly.

Hannah Balkins · Answer

Incorporating technology in my methodology has turned to be an efficient way to start my startup and manage my employees. To do so, I use Taskworld my favorite app.

A project management software like Taskworld can be used as a way to set up processes for effective for delegation and performance tracking to improve transparency and establish a continuous feedback loop within a team.

Create projects – The platform offers tools to simplify complex projects with a visual overview of what’s happening, and to track the progress in real-time, etc…

Manage tasks – One can create and assign tasks, set due dates, search for tasks easily with colored labels or tags, use task lists to organize a team, add comments, view files on the phone, etc…

Evaluation and Reports – Evaluate the work, give you ratings depending on the quality, give your feedback, etc… The ‘Reports’ section provides a report of information for searches like ‘On-time Completion’, ‘Star Rating’ and other metrics. ‘Project Metrics’ provides report about the contribution the colleagues have made to projects. These reports are available for both – the user in the ‘Dashboard’ section, and for their colleagues in the ‘Performance Reports’ section.

Chat with teammates – Talk to your team, share files, pictures, etc and communicate in real-time. Also, one can create public channels to reach out to everyone in the workspace, or can also create a private group.

Security – Taskworld uses SSL technology for security, and with the help of server authentication and data encryption it helps to protect all the data across all sum it up.

Taskworld is available both on :
Apple Store 
Androïd / Google play

Daniel Marcinkowski · Answer

Great content blocker for Safari on Mac and also for iOS

Dmitry Zhuk · Answer

As a PM of this cute tiny app, I`d like to recommend it to you guys. Enjoy!

Jason Cutler · Answer

This both removes shortcomings from and adds so many features to the Open/Save dialog box.

TrippersHub · Answer

I love this app cause it does alot of autocomplete for me

Kaushik Thirthappa · Answer

Same here, i myself have been using it for like 3 years now. It was on sale during christmas and boy do i love it. Select a text and do like a 100 things with it. Worth every single penny.

Eric Pangilinan · Answer

Great time-saver!

I used at least 10X a day

MCG · Answer

Great bookmark manager with tags.

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Braindump your account here. Used my own made up password(s) for the longest time till I lookedup my email on haveibeenpwned. I freaked out and moved everything to 1Password and their generated passwords. Best decision ever.

Sam Dickie · Answer

Gret way to clear unwanted files, searches duplicates, deep clean of previously deleted files and apps with a nice UI. Plus its FREE!

Joid · Answer

Your Mac with Boom and without Boom are two completely different machines. The sound, and especially the power it has, is amazing with Boom!

Robert Granholm · Answer

Quick way to strip all formatting from copied text. Avoid messing up Word docs, emails, Wordpress posts, etc. PlainTextMenu makes living on the internet better.

Daniel Alm · Answer

You might be wasting way more time than you think...
If you want to know how you are actually spending time on your Mac, this is the app to get.

Brody Clemmer · Answer

Atlas Recall is one of the best productivity tools I have used. It saves me so much time as a Senior Product Director - My job is to connect dots, and Recall allows me to find those dots easily and efficiently on all devices, any time.

Ray Hernandez · Answer

When you're operating with 100s of tabs/windows, and 10 different software items open at once...the only way you don't go crazy is with Magnet.  Love this app!

Nick Abouzeid · Answer

Perfect for watching Netflix in the corner of your screen during repetitive/mind-numbing tasks!

Jonathan Cohen · Answer

Remembers snapshots that can automatically trigger based on your monitor setups. (for example, app windows automatically shuffle around in different ways when you attach an external 1920 width monitor vs. a 2560 with monitor). Also supports 3rd and 4th displays.

sivaram · Answer

It remembers all texts that were copied to clipboard made it easy to copy the old ones