8 Powerful Mac Apps That Just Make Sense.

0:00 All right, let's just start with an app I wish I had years ago. A free video converter app. Super fast, clean, and works locally without an internet connection on your Mac. No ads or annoying watermarks. Sure, if you're a professional video editor, this app isn't for you. But if you're just another chill guy who needs to convert a video now and then, you might want to download this app for free on the App Store. One down, seven to go of eight simple apps that just make sense. Most on this list are free. Some are a small one-time purchase, but none will charge you with a monthly subscription fee. And yeah, we'll get to that. You know how in the Finder you can hit space to quick look any file, right? Well, try that on a folder and yeah, not much happens.

0:48 That's why folder preview is a no-brainer. It's a tiny app you set up once and then forget it's even there. But it adds quick look to folders so we can instantly see what's inside even from spotlight search. Oh, and it works with zip files, too, so we can safely peek before we unzip the whole file. You can download photo preview on the app store. It's a onetime purchase of $2. Recent is a file launcher that shows every single file you've opened weeks into the past. It sorts files by app, so it's perfect if you lost track of where you saved something. You can toggle it anytime with a keyboard shortcut. And it's completely free to download from the developers website. Oh, and let's not forget about reminders menu bar, a free and open source app that does

1:35 exactly what it says on the tin. It pins your reminders app right up into the menu bar. You can quick add new reminders, and if you type a date or time, the app automatically sets that as the alert. Super handy and totally free to download on Jitub. honestly feels like it should be baked into Mac OS. Just like the app Umbra, it lets you set a different wallpaper for light and dark mode and then switches them automatically. Plus, it can also simply darken your wallpaper in well, dark mode, so it doesn't totally blind you when you're working late at night. Umbra also lets you browse and pull highquality wallpapers for free from Unsplash right inside the app. And the best part, it's pay what you want on the

2:20 developer website. Now, this is where things start getting a bit nerdy. With the open-source app, we can take menu bar customization to a whole new level. Let's rapid fire. For starters, for a clean look, you can make your menu bar icons only show up when you hover your mouse over them. But then there's the fun stuff. add spacing between icons, tint the menu bar, add a border, a drop shadow, or even split the whole thing into two tubes. Well, to further emphasize that beautiful notch, I guess. And speaking of which, what's actually useful is the icebar. Sounds more like a vape than an app feature, but it fixes the problem that if your menu bar gets too full, Mac OS just hides your icons. With the ice bar, we get a second menu

3:07 bar tube right below with much more space. Ice is open source and pay what you want on the developers website. Okay, we literally take things up a notch in a sec. But before, let's quickly do one simple app I use all the time. Gifsky lets us turn any video into a GIF. Now, hear me out. GIFs are more useful than most people think. I use them all the time in presentations. It's a simple way to add some animations without dealing with clunky video playback. And of course, they also work great in social media posts, emates, basically anywhere a video would be overkill. And yep, GIFsky is totally free on the app store. Now, I've been waiting to show you this one for a long time, but I wanted to properly test it first. Media Mate makes your Mac

3:54 instantly look 10 times more futuristic. It replaces those big, clunky volume and brightness pop-ups with clean, minimal sliders, and you can even choose the iOS or Vision OS style. Plus, you can also turn them into a dynamic island copy. And honestly, this looks more Apple than Apple. And speaking of the notch, move your cursor up there and you get now playing controls for any app. The animations are super smooth and everything's fully customizable. Mediaate is a onetime purchase of $6.99 on the developers website. Now, a control center on steroids and a super useful Apple Notes extension with /comands are just two of the nine Mac apps you discover in this video next.

4:40 All right, I was you there. Thank you so much for watching and have an amazing day.