More Wonderful MacOS Utilities You Might Not Know About

ImageOptim

ImageOptim — better Save for Web

A free app that makes images load faster and take less disk space, without sacrificing quality. Removes private EXIF data from photos and improves compression.

Always compress your image files before uploading them to your website. ImageOptim is a great Mac app that will reduce the file size without affecting the quality of the image.

ImageOptim removes EXIF metadata, such as GPS position and camera’s serial number, so that you can publish images without exposing private information. However, there is an option to keep the metadata if you need it.

Price: free

Latest

https://max.codes/latest/

If you’re using CleanMyMac as I wrote about in article, you’ve already got the ability to update installed apps. Latest is a free tool that can update your installed apps.

Price: free

Rocket

https://matthewpalmer.net/rocket/

Rocket is a Slack-style emoji shortcut app that makes it easier and faster to type emoji. Just start typing an emoji like :thumbsup: (?) and Rocket will help auto-complete it. With Rocket Pro, you can also add gifs, snippets, and symbols to your shortcuts.

Price: free, $10 for Pro

Keystroke Pro

‎Keystroke Pro

‎Show your audience which keys you press! Keystroke Pro provides stunningly elegant keycap visualizations that let your viewers follow along with ease. It’s the perfect tool for screen sharers, meeting hosts, tutorial creators and presenters—anyone who teaches or demonstrates software on a Mac. Ins…

There are a few handy apps for the remote presenter. Keystroke Pro simply shows your keystrokes on your screen, which can be helpful when you’re sharing your screen or recording tutorials. This way, your audience can see exactly which keys you’re clicking.

Price: $11.99

Cursor Pro

‎Cursor Pro

‎Are you a presenter, meeting host, tutorial creator, remote teacher or student? Do you want to be able to more easily see your mouse pointer on that giant iMac screen? Need a handy magnifier to zoom in? Cursor Pro makes finding your pointer and pixels easier than ever and makes sure everyone else f…

Cursor Pro is just one of the apps in the Screen Recording Toolkit bundle. It puts a colored circle around your cursor to make it more visible during a screen-sharing session, presentation, or screen recording.

Price: $7.99

Mirror Magnet

‎Mirror Magnet

‎Mirror Magnet puts a live camera image on your desktop that stays on top of everything else. The app lives in your menu bar. And it’s smart! The video fades out and blurs when you hover it with your mouse cursor, so it never gets in your way. Customize its appearance (shape, border, aspect ratio)…

The last app I’ll mention from the Screen Recording Toolkit bundle is Mirror Magnet. It lets you place your webcam’s live video feed anywhere on your screen, which can be handy for recordings and presentations.

Price: $7.99

Shifty

https://shifty.natethompson.io/en/

Toggle between dark and light mode on your Mac easily with the Shifty app. You can also decide which apps or websites should stay light while your system runs in dark mode.

Price: free

Onyx

Titanium Software | Operating System Utilities for Mac – OnyX

OnyX is a multifunction utility that you can use to verify the startup disk and the structure of its system files; run tasks of cleaning and computer maintenance; configure some hidden parameters of many Apple applications; and more.

OnyX is a handy tool that can be used to verify the structure of system files, run various maintenance and cleaning tasks, configure parameters in Finder, Dock, Safari, and some Apple applications, delete caches, remove certain problematic folders and files, and more.

Price: free

Dozer

https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer

If you’re looking for a free alternative to the popular Bartender app (I wrote about Bartender in this article), try out Dozer. You can quickly re-order or hide app icons appearing in the Mac menu bar.

Price: free

SiteSucker

‎SiteSucker

‎SiteSucker is a Macintosh application that automatically downloads Web sites from the Internet. It does this by asynchronously copying the site’s webpages, images, PDFs, style sheets, and other files to your local hard drive, duplicating the site’s directory structure. SiteSucker can be used to ma…

You can download whole websites, including images and PDF files, and save them to your computer for offline browsing. This is similar to the wget command, but with a graphical user interface.

Price: $4.99

AppCleaner

AppCleaner is a small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps.

If you’re looking for a way to uninstall apps on your Mac and get rid of all the extra files that are left on the disk, then you should check out a free uninstaller. This will automatically remove all the extra files that are left on the disk when you delete an app.

If you want to uninstall and clean your Mac more effectively, CleanMyMac is a great alternative paid app. I wrote about it in this article.

Price: free

HiddenMe

‎HiddenMe

‎Let your desktop breathe! Hide your desktop icons with a single click! As seen:
“HiddenMe Hides all Your Mac Desktop Icons in One Click” – Lifehacker
“a button to hide all the clutter with a single click.” – Business Insider

If your Mac desktop is cluttered with folders and files, you can hide all the icons with a single click or with a keyboard shortcut. This is especially useful if you’re doing a presentation and don’t want people to see all your stuff.

Price: $1.99

Maccy

Maccy – macOS clipboard manager

Clipboard manager for macOS which does one job – keep your copy history at hand. Lightweight. Open source. No fluff.

A clipboard manager that lets you store everything you copy to the clipboard and paste it into other apps with a simple shortcut.

Maccy is open source, so if you want to download and change it, go ahead!

Price: $9.99 on the Apple Store, or from $0+ on Gumroad.

CopyClip

‎CopyClip – Clipboard History

‎CopyClip is the simplest and most efficient clipboard manager for your Mac. Running discreetly from your menu bar, this app stores all that you have copied or cut in the past, allowing you to quickly find that snippet of text you’ve been looking for.

CopyClip is another clipboard manager.

This app is super easy to use and really helpful if you find yourself needing to access things you’ve copied or cut in the past. It runs discreetly from your menu bar and makes it super simple to find whatever you’re looking for.

Price: free

IINA

IINA – The modern media player for macOS

IINA is born to be a modern macOS application, from its framework to the user interface. It adopts the post-Yosemite design language of macOS and keeps up the pace of new technologies like Force Touch, Touch Bar, and Picture-in-Picture.

There’s a new media player on the scene and it’s got some pretty sweet features. If you’re looking for an alternative to VLC, check out this new player that supports gestures and the touch bar on newer Macs.

It’s got a floating window feature and can stream YouTube, which is pretty cool.

Price: free

Unarchiver

‎The Unarchiver

‎The Unarchiver is a small and easy to use program that can unarchive many different kinds of archive files. It will open common formats such as Zip, RAR (including v5), 7-zip, Tar, Gzip and Bzip2. It will also open many older formats, such as StuffIt, DiskDoubler, LZH, ARJ and ARC. It will even ope…

If you’re looking for a powerful and versatile RAR opener for Mac, look no further than The Unarchiver. It’s many times more powerful than the built-in macOS utility and supports a huge variety of archive formats such as ZIP, 7-Zip, tar, gzip, bzip2, and so on.

Price: free

Handbrake

https://handbrake.fr/

Handbrake is a popular tool that can convert videos from one format to another.

You can get started with HandBrake in just a few seconds by choosing a profile that’s optimized for your device. Or, you can choose a universal profile for standard or high-quality conversions. It’s simple, easy, and fast. For those of you who want more choice, you can tweak lots of basic and advanced options to improve your encodes.

Price: free

Disk Inventory X

Disk Inventory X, disk usage utility for Mac OS X

If you’re running low on space on your MacBook, the Disk Inventory app can help you quickly find large files and folders that are taking up space.

This app is similar to the paid DaisyDisk app.

Price: free

Gif Brewry

GIF Brewery by Gfycat

GIF Brewery gives you the power to create and edit GIFs and videos. It’s simple and powerful — download today from the App Store!

It can turn video files and screencasts into GIFs and offers lots of options to adjust your GIF images.

Price: free

Diagrams.net

https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases

This is the best tool for creating diagrams and flowcharts. Microsoft Visio is great, but this is completely free.

Price: free

Encrypto

‎Encrypto: Secure Your Files

‎Encrypto is a free, easy-to-use app that lets you encrypt files with AES-256 encryption and then send them to friends or coworkers. It works on both Mac and Windows, so you can send encrypted files without worrying whether the other person can open it or not. Protect Files with AES-256 Encryption…

Encrypto is a file encryption app that can encrypt files using AES-256 with a password. It’s great for locking files on Mac, or adding password protection to secret files before sharing them with others.

Price: free

F.lux

f.lux

Software to warm up your computer display at night, to match your indoor lighting.

F.lux is a small, free app that changes the color of your Mac’s display to match the time of day and lighting conditions. Just tell it what kind of lighting you have and where you are, and it’ll automatically figure out when to change the color.

Price: free

Get Lyrical

SP – Get Lyrical

Auto-magically add lyrics to songs in iTunes!

If you’re a music lover who loves keeping up with lyrics, then Get Lyrical is the app for you! It automatically scans your iTunes playlists and searches online for lyrics to embed into your music files. This way, you can view the lyrics right in iTunes or even in your music player.

Price: free

Disk Clean Pro

‎Disk Clean Pro

‎**************************************Disk Clean Pro************************************** *****************************Remove hidden clutter from your Mac******************************* Disk Clean Pro is developed by Systweak Software to help you remove junk from your Mac. It cleans your Mac s…

Disk Clean Pro is a user-friendly and reasonably priced tune-up application that assists customers in extending the lifespan of their computer systems. It has specialized modules that may eliminate garbage files as well as hidden unnecessary files, so accelerating the performance of a Mac and reducing reaction times. To keep your machine working smoothly and without any clutter, all it takes is one click!

Disk Clean Pro is a great Mac optimizer with many sophisticated functions. Packed with features like Junk Cleaner, Logs Cleaner, Crash Reports, Partial Downloads uninstaller, Duplicate Finder, and more. Internet Privacy Protector removes browsing history for best-in-class Mac security.

Price: $26.99