The native macOS volume and brightness HUDs are unnecessarily bulky, and they cannot be disabled easily. There’s also no way to customize them to make them less obtrusive.

That’s where MediaMate can help. It replaces the default HUDs with smaller, iOS-inspired designs, which can be further customized and moved around on your desktop. The app brings a stylish Now Playing HUD that’s visible on your desktop and lockscreen, with optional playback controls.

The capabilities of recording equipment and media playback devices increase every year, and with them the demand for higher quality content from viewers. But that can you do about that old 720p video recorded years ago, that is now hopelessly outdated?

One option is to use a video upscaler like Topaz Video AI. It can increase the resolution of low-quality videos, as well as repair various issues, without making the result blurry or stripping away important details. It is designed to be usable by anyone, with an intuitive feature set and helpful presets.

For photographers, images editors are pretty much essential nowadays if you want to get the most out of your photos. However, if you’re not particularly adept with this kind of software, you’re going to be at a clear disadvantage.

Spending hours in front of a computer monitor every day can take its toll on your eyes, which aren’t really built for it. Taking regular breaks is recommended, but it’s also something you easily forget when you’re concentrating on your work or having fun.

LookAway is a break reminder similar to many others, but it’s a bit more approachable, customizable, and easier to live with. It allows you more flexibility when it comes to taking your breaks, and it even gives you a heads-up so you can finish anything important.

Edit and organize your photos with the app that’s optimized for desktop. Lightroom Classic gives you powerful one-click tools and advanced controls to make your photos look amazing. Easily organize all your photos on your desktop, and share in a variety of ways.

Transfer is a reliable and fully RFC-compliant TFTP server application. The perfect alternative to the built-in TFTP server on your Mac. It's got everything you expect: real-time updates of current transfers in progress, support for broadcast requests, transfer history and basic root directory access control and file management. A feature rich TFTP server with a simple and modern user interface.

Trickster (was Blast) is a productivity booster application that places all recently used files at user's fingertips, providing him with a fast and easy access to them.

Oracle VM VirtualBox is an open source and cross-platform virtualization utility that makes it possible to extend your computer's capabilities so that it can be used to run a large number of operating systems (inside multiple virtual machines), using the same hardware you use for your daily tasks.

ScreenFlow is powerful, easy-to-use screencasting software for the Mac. With ScreenFlow you can record the contents of your entire monitor while also capturing your video camera, microphone and your computer audio. The easy-to-use editing interface lets you creatively edit your video, and add additional images, text, music and transitions for a truly professional-looking video. The finished result is a QuickTime or Windows Media movie, ready for publishing to your Web site or blog or directly to YouTube or Vimeo. Use ScreenFlow to create high-quality software demos, tutorials, app previews, training, presentations and more.

Microsoft Excel spreadsheet app lets you create, view, edit and share your files with others quickly and easily. It also lets you view and edit workbooks attached to email messages. Work in accounting, auditing, finance or other fields, with anyone, anywhere, with confidence. With Excel, your Office moves with you and can implement the most complex formulas, with amazing features.

Microsoft Word app lets you create, edit, view and share your files with others quickly and easily. It also lets you view and edit Office docs attached to emails. With Word, your Office moves with you. Whether you are a blogger, writer, journalist, columnist, student or a project manager working on documentation, it’s as handy as you want it to be

Microsoft Outlook brings your email, calendar, contacts together in one place so you can work efficiently. Office integration lets you share attachments from OneDrive, access contacts and view LinkedIn profiles.

Microsoft PowerPoint app gives you access to the familiar tool you already know. Quickly create, edit, view, present or share presentations quickly and easily from anywhere. Need to access your most recently used PowerPoint files quickly while on the go? PowerPoint provides a quick view of your recent files for easy access on any of your devices. Worried about multiple file versions when you work on PowerPoint mobile? Syncing is seamless across devices. Work with anyone and present to anyone, anywhere, with confidence. With PowerPoint, your Office moves with you.

ExactScan Enterprise is the professional scan solution for a paperless office on the Mac. ExactScan comes with over 400 drivers for professional document scanners from Avision, Canon DR-series, Fujitsu fi-series, Kodak, Oki, Panasonic, Visioneer and Xerox, which otherwise do not come with a Mac driver. Additionally it allows to use any other scanner with TWAIN or ImageCapture driver.

ExactScan Pro is a popular, easy-to-use macOS scanning software that utilizes built-in drivers for over 200 document scanners, including devices from Avision, Kodak, Oki, Visioneer, and Xerox.