Using Apple’s MacOS is as easy as pie—but it can be a little half-baked. Sweeten your setup with a few of these third-party programs.
AS FAR AS operating systems go, macOS for Apple computers is stable and efficient, but sometimes it feels annoyingly incomplete. Apple doesn’t often listen to its customers, stubbornly refusing to add simple features that would make the platform even easier to use. Stock Apple apps often lack a lot of the functionality we expect in other programs. From what Apple’s shown us in its preview of Monterey, the next major MacOS update, some omissions won’t disappear anytime soon.
Thankfully, there are downloadable programs that can solve these problems. I’ve collected a handful of the best Mac apps that help me almost every day. Some are for niche uses, but others fix gaps in vanilla MacOS. Many of these apps aren’t free, but most have free trials you can check out while you decide whether or not to buy. It’s also common for them to sync with companion apps on your iPhone. Check out the below list and give them a try. These MacOS apps might just make your life a little easier.
Yes, you can use Split View on MacOS to view two applications side by side, but it’s nowhere near as intuitive as it is on Microsoft’s Windows, where you can simply drag a window to a corner and have it snap into place. This app is worth the $3 if you don’t want to mess with resizing window borders constantly. Magnet is another good option that costs the same.
If you’ve ever had to keep wiggling a finger on the trackpad during a movie or YouTube video to stop the screen from going to sleep over and over (or maybe during a particularly long download), you’ll appreciate an app that lets you keep the screen on for certain tasks. It even works with external displays. Sure, you can keep going into your system preferences to change the screensaver and hard disk shutdown settings, but that can get tiresome quickly.
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