If you were lucky enough to bag a new Mac for the holidays, you’re probably on the hunt for some awesome new apps to use on it. We’ve rounded up five of the best that we think every Mac owner should be using.
These apps will let you play any video, keep a close eye on precious storage space, extract important data from your iPhone and iPad backups, and more!
VLC
Every Mac ships with a built-in video player called QuickTime, and it’s great … until you try to play a video that QuickTime doesn’t like. When that happens, you’ll need VLC, the do-it-all media player that can handle almost any video or audio file you can throw at it.
VLC is completely free to download and use, and it packs everything you could want in a media player. It also supports subtitles, lets you stream from network links, and does cool things like speeds up or slows down playback. It’s the best video player you can download for nothing!
DaisyDisk
Maybe you don’t need DaisyDisk right now, but you definitely will one day. This awesome app provides detailed information on what’s taking up space on your Mac’s storage drive. It will help you weed out and remove big files you no longer need, freeing up precious storage space.
DaisyDisk can identify every single file on your Mac, so nothing can escape it. For newer Macs with smaller SSDs, it’s an essential tool.
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