Staying on task seems is a real challenge for our screen-bound generation. The Be Focused lets you get things done by breaking up individual tasks among discrete intervals, separated by short breaks. It’s a surprisingly effective way to retain motivation and focus. Create tasks, configure breaks and track your progress throughout the day, week or custom period. Use either your iPhone, iPad or Mac – your devices always stay in sync.

Key features:

• Manage your tasks
• Track your progress throughout the day, week or custom period
• Fast and easy goal tracking

Customize to maximize productivity:

• Work interval duration
• Short break duration
• Long break duration
• Number of intervals between long breaks
• Target number of intervals per day
• Ability to start, pause, or skip work interval
• Auto-start the next timer (option)
• Ability to edit the number of intervals
• Export to a CSV file
• Ability to paste a task list from other applications
• Global hotkeys
• Optional ticking sound
• Custom alarm sound
• Launch at startup option
• Syncs between iPad, iPhone and Mac
• Also available for iPhone and iPad

Status bar menu applications are extremely useful because you have access to their capabilities at all times, without having to disrupt your work, or deal with complicated tools.

Bartender is a small Mac app that takes things even further, by allowing you to use a single menu to contain them all.

Forthright software solution for regaining your status bar space
Unfortunately, in some cases, if you are using a large number of menu apps, your status bar can become cluttered, which means that you will spend more time looking for specific tools.

Moreover, Via the Bartender Preferences window, you can choose to hide certain icons altogether, or to send them to the Bartender menu.

This way, you will gain more space on your status bar, and you can decide to keep only the most frequently used applications. In addition, you can choose to hide the Bartender menu and activate it via a hotkey.

Effortlessly manage your status bar menu icons
To get started, you must open the Bartender Preferences window and navigate to the Menu Items panel. Here you will see a list of all the menu items currently active, but also the system items: via the settings panel, you must decide what to do with the menu bar item.

Furthermore, if the Bartender application detects a modification in any of the contained items, it will display a notification. You have the option to decide how long should the message be displayed.

User friendly solution for organizing your status bar menu items
Bartender offers you the possibility to limit the number of items displayed in your status bar to the ones that you are using frequently. At the same time, you have the option to organize the hidden items in an equally easy to access menu that can be either kept on the status bar as a single icon, or activated with an user defined hotkey.

Put an end to the daily struggle in the Finder! Finder Windows is a floating panel which gives you instant access to the list of open Finder windows at any time. It solves the daily struggle of trying to reach the desired folders among the ever changing mess of open windows. Now you can just glimpse at the list and select the desired window.

Or instantly close the ones you don’t need anymore.

Finder Windows is an ideal tool if you

• use Mac's Finder on a regular basis
• always have several - or tons of - Finder windows open
• don't use Finder tabs (which you find inconvenient or useless for file management)
• keep reaching for the Finder's Windows menu wondering why things can't be easier than that

Now you can always see the list of open folders and reach the desired one instantly. Try it for yourself and see how Finder Windows makes the whole difference in simplifying your Finder operations.

With Myary you can quickly and easily write your own diary, project documentation or chronicle. Myary offers you the freedom to create any type of text collection which shall be stored in chronological order.

FSNotes is a plain-text note manager for macOS, and is modern reinvention of notational velocity (nvALT) on steroids. Our application respects the following open formats: plain/text, Markdown, and RTF, and stores data in the file system. You can view, edit, and copy data in your favourite external editor, and see live results in FSNotes.

Features

• ICloud synchronization
• Keyboard centric
• Global shortcuts (clipboard save / search field)
• Markdown and RTF markup (files stored on disk as plain/text and rich text)
• Markdown preview mode
• Elastic two pane view (vertical and horizontal layout)
• Blazing fast and lightweight
• Open files in finder / works with external editors (changes seamless live sync with UI)
• Pin/unpin important notes in top
• Multi folder storage
• Markdown live highlighting with over 170 languages in code blocks

Blogging is a relaxing hobby for some, while, for others, it represents a steady source of income. Regardless of your blog’s role in your life, writing and publishing content using slow, clumsy web interfaces may not be the best solution, especially when a powerful desktop alternative is available.

MarsEdit allows you to do all your writing from a native Mac app, while also offering an impressive amount of helpful features.

Strong feature lineup and support for a wide range of blogging services
MarsEdit can be used to manage blogs being hosted on WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Tumblr, Movable Type or any other service that supports the MetaWeblog or AtomPub interface.

It is possible to write using HTML, RTF or even Markdown, and the app displays a live preview to show you how the post will look after being published. Moreover, MarsEdit can be integrated with TextMate, WriteRoom, TextWrangler or BBEdit, as well as other text editors that support the ODBEditor suite.

Furthermore, the application allows you to search for content in your iPhoto, Lightroom, Flickr or Aperture libraries, and import images with a single mouse click.

Manage your blog from your desktop and save drafts locally
While you can certainly write blog posts in other editors and format them once you have access to the web service of your choice, this method takes more time and requires quite a bit more work.

With MarsEdit, you can write whenever you want, regardless of the availability of an Internet connection. Your posts are saved as drafts and can be uploaded as soon as you get back online.

Powerful blog editor that has all the right features, but could use a visual update
There is no denying that MarsEdit is a great app for the job it was designed for, but its interface has not changed a great deal for many years. Mind you, it is very easy to manage and has a simple, intuitive layout, but it is starting to show its age.

On the whole, however, MarsEdit is a great tool for any blogger who wants to get their work done more quickly and from any location, as it offers numerous helpful features and allows one to prepare blog posts even when no internet connection is available.

SideNotes keeps you from juggling with windows when searching for notes. The app always appears on top of other windows - you can easily hide it or pull it out from the side of your monitor with one click or with a keyboard shortcut. You can even use just your keyboard to work with your notes. Everything is in its place and you still have place for everything.

With SideNotes you can:

• smoothly pull out your notes from outside your monitor and easily hide them back
• mark notes with colors and group them into folders
• drag and drop pictures directly from your web browser
• save links, code snippets or even colors
• create task lists and mark items done
• create notes directly from the pasteboard
• drop text files or folders
• use 3 text formatting modes: Markdown, Plain Text and Code.

Stay in the zone. Block out everything else.

Muffle eliminates digital noise by intelligently blurring and dimming every window except the one you're working on. Your active window stays crystal clear while the rest of your desktop fades into a soft, unobtrusive blur—giving you the mental space to focus on what matters.

Unlike single-effect dimming tools, Muffle's dual blur-and-dim approach creates a genuinely immersive focus environment that feels natural, not restrictive. Best of all, it's engineered to run whisper-quiet on your Mac, consuming minimal battery and processor power.

Perfect for writers, developers, designers, and anyone who needs to escape the tyranny of open tabs and competing windows.

Why This Works Better

• Leads with the benefit ("stay in the zone") rather than features
• More vivid language ("digital noise," "whisper-quiet," "tyranny of open tabs") that resonates emotionally
• Emphasizes the unique value of the blur + dim combo more compellingly
• Includes a use-case callout so potential users see themselves in it
• Shorter, punchier sentences for better readability
• Creates urgency around focus as a desirable, protected state

Ulysses is your one-stop writing environment for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Its pleasant, focused writing experience, combined with effective document management, seamless sync, and flexible export, make Ulysses the first choice for writers of all kinds.

A Text Production Powerhouse
Ulysses’ markup-based, distraction-free editor lets you focus on your most important task: Write, edit, and write some more. Formatting is kept for later, so you can completely immerse yourself in the text. Ulysses’ uniquely streamlined toolset covers the entire writing process, and its clean and simple interface will boost your productivity. From first to final draft, from prologue to closing chapter – Ulysses keeps you in the flow, so you can get stuff done.

All Your Texts, All the Time
Everything you’ll ever write is stored in Ulysses’ unified library. You can manage projects of all kinds and sizes, be it novels, diaries or study notes – they are always saved, and automatically in sync. And since Ulysses offers feature parity across macOS and iOS, it doesn’t matter where you are or when inspiration hits: All its tools, and all your texts, are always at your fingertips.

Create eBooks, DOCX, PDFs and HTML
Ulysses’ export is flexible enough to cover any writer’s needs: Transform your text into beautiful PDFs, Word documents or eBooks. Or export HTML code, ready to be used anywhere on the web. You can even choose between a variety of pre-made formatting styles for all kinds of purposes, or create your own and share it with other users.

Publish to WordPress, Ghost & Medium
Do you blog? Ulysses’ offers best-in-class publishing to WordPress, Ghost, and Medium. You can post to WordPress and Ghost from right within the app – complete with images, tags, categories etc. Publishing to Medium works just as easy, and all three offer a built-in preview to proof-read before submission.

Numi is a calculator that magically combines calculations with text, and allows you to freely share your computations.

• Numi combines text editor and calculator
• Support plain English. For example, '5 cm plus 1 meter'
• Unit converter: Numi supports currency, length, area, volume, time, temperature, and data size. It automatically convert units if it's needed.
• Configurable hotkey
• Menubar and Dock modes

Dropzone is a menu bar productivity app that keeps your most-used apps, folders, and actions instantly within reach. Launch, navigate, and move files faster with a customizable drag-and-drop grid built for everyday speed.

Dropzone 5 brings a full redesign, with optimizations and full support for macOS Tahoe and Liquid Glass.

What’s new in Dropzone 5

Multi-grid support: Create multiple grids for different workflows—apps, folders, and actions—then switch between them effortlessly.
Drop Bar: Stash files you’ll need later by dropping them onto the Drop Bar in the grid. Files stay there until you’re ready to use them, and with multi-grids you can create separate Drop Bars for organized collections.

Key features

• Tahoe-optimized and redesigned for Liquid Glass
• Custom folder icons with Tahoe’s new icon style (colors, symbols, or emojis)
• Pop-out Drop Bar as a floating, always-on-top shelf for quick drag-and-drop
• Faster app launching and file handling (open, move, and copy)
• TinyURL integration to shorten selected URLs instantly and copy them to your clipboard
• Built-in AirDrop support to send files and folders to nearby Macs
• Imgur uploads for instant shareable links
• Image conversion between formats like PNG, JPEG, TIFF, and more
• One-drop image resizing using preset dimensions
• Pro features (optional): upload to Amazon S3 and SFTP, plus simultaneous tasks, keyboard shortcuts for actions, and progress tracking via an animated menu bar icon
• Add to Grid by dragging apps, folders, or actions directly into the grid area

Use Dropzone to streamline your workflow—everything you need, where you need it.

Things is a task management solution that helps to organize your tasks in an elegant and intuitive way. Things combines powerful features with simplicity through the use of tags and its intelligent filter bar. A Leopard style source list allows for quick and easy focusing. Together with a beautiful user interface, Things aims at the seemingly impossible: making task management both easy and fun.

Our screencast is a great introduction.

• The big picture. A Leopard-style source list lets you easily focus without ever switching view modes or wrapping your head around filter criteria.
• A magical tag bar automatically appears when needed and adapts to the currently displayed list. It lets you drill down even the longest list of To-Dos. Hierarchical tags? We got you covered!
• Teamwork. Things offers convenient collaboration features. Easily delegate tasks to members of your team. (This is work in progress.)
• No columns! Whether it's multiple tags, dates or notes, To-Do items display their information on an as needed basis. No more space wasted by empty or irrelevant column cells!
• Out of your head, out of your way. A quick entry HUD lets you enter any idea the moment it hits you. Never let the thought of an unfinished business distract you again.
• Yours forever. We won't lock you in. Things will use an open XML file format to store your data. (Not yet activated.)
• Things even supports GTD, so if you're familiar and comfortable with GTD concepts, you'll feel right at home.

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.

Set up your break schedule and keep on working

At first launch, you’ll have to set the length of your focus and break periods, which can be customized later. The focus timer will begin, and the app will be sent to the menu bar, where you can check on it and change your settings.

When a break is due, a message will pop up on your screen and cover your desktop. You’ll be prompted to look away and rest your eyes for a bit, but you can also just skip the break if you wish. Optionally, a notification can alert you that a break is coming up to make sure it doesn’t interrupt anything.

Lots of quality-of-life features that make it easier to integrate into your workflow

When the break ends, the app can play a soft chime to let you know, which is useful if you’ve gotten up from your desk.

If you’re idle for more than one minute, the timer will be paused. If idle time exceeds five minutes, the timer is completely reset, and you’ll start a new focus period when you get back to work.

Finally, if you’re in a meeting or call, the app will be paused completely, as you wouldn’t want an important meeting to be interrupted at any point.

It just blends in perfectly and never gets in your way

There are many break reminders out there, and they can all fall into the trap of either being too intrusive or not intrusive enough. I think LookAway toes the like perfectly, as it gives you a gentle nudge when a break is required without actually forcing it on you. It’s also very intuitive, and every aspect of its functionality can be tweaked to your liking.

XMind is the best mind mapping software (also called mind maps or mind maps). This is a great brainstorming tool that saves your company time and energy. Powerful software usually provides many tools that are difficult for new users to understand. For years, the developers of XMind have focused on creating a professional, powerful yet easy-to-use mind mapping software. With XMind for capturing, organizing, and planning, you'll be more productive, while brainstorming and visualization tools will boost your creativity. To get started, you need to select the style of the scheme, you can add the required number of points with this problem, as it were, then you can start adding tasks and each of them can then be edited. Due to the fact that the sketch will be displayed in a tree view, you can very quickly configure all the necessary parameters. In order to highlight the desired task, XMind has a set of all sorts of asterisks, symbols, flags, emoticons and numbers.

XMind is an advanced, yet easy to use mind mapping utility that offers visual support to your ideas, so that you can organize tasks easier or with a team in brainstorming sessions.

• XMind Cloud
  XMind Cloud automatically synchronizes files across Mac/PCs. It's fast, secure, and easy-to-use. You can even view and edit your mind maps online.
• Fresher Look
  XMind 8 has a fresher look and feel. When editing, you can quickly open, close and switch views with just one click. This feature increases your work efficiency and improves your mind mapping experience enormously.
• Slide-based Presentation
  With our new slide-based presentation, creating, presenting and sharing presentation become easier than ever. Mind mapping and presenting are harmoniously integrated in one software now. The Walk Through mode is still available.
• Brainstorming
  With XMind, you can start the individual brainstorming easily and quickly. The Idea Factory records and collects inspirations further and faster. A timer enables you to control the brainstorming session time. You can switch between day mode and night mode.
• Gantt View
  In XMind, you can add, modify and show task info directly in Gantt Chart view, including start/end date, assignee, priority, progress, milestone and task dependency.
• Working with Office/PDF
  Want to capture the sparkles of your mind and organize them in a structured way when preparing for a meeting or report? Luckily, with XMind, all these can be done easily by simple clicks. You can then export your fruit of work to Office/PDF instantly to facilitate your meeting/report.

OmniOutliner 6 Pro - Outline: think, write, do. Create perfect outlines with a powerful, productive app. This is your all-purpose tool for Mac with smart columns, scriptability, custom styles, templates, and more.

• Saved Filters PRO
• Document Stats
• Distraction-Free Mode
• Resource Search
• Touch Bar Support
• Typewriter Mode
• Dark Mode
• Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts Pro
• Slide-In Sidebars Pro
• Multiple-Row Focus Pro
• OPML Mode
• Excel Export Pro
• Column Width Improvements Pro
• Style Preview Pro

Touch Bar
Context-aware support for Apple’s latest MacBook Pro. Get quick access to the most relevant controls.

Password Protection
Encrypt the documents you’d prefer to keep private. OmniOutliner can now encrypt documents with a password.

Smart Columns
Add columns to any document that deserves them. Columns can be used to summarize data—like summing up your monthly budget numbers—or a different type completely, like a multiple choice selection.

Audio Recording
Record audio for posterity while you take notes in outline form. The recording is stored inside the document and can be played back to make sure you got everything right.

Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts
Customize the shortcuts OmniOutliner uses across the board. Used to shortcuts from another app? Set them up in OmniOutliner 5 Pro.

Saved Filters
Not only can you instantly search your document for keywords or checked boxes, but OmniOutliner 5 Pro allows you to save those filters in the sidebar.

Slide-in Inspectors
We’ve drastically improved full-screen mode by adding a preference for automatic hiding of what you don’t need to see. Simply slide your mouse over to the left or right sides of your screen to access the Sidebar or Inspectors.

AppleScript Support
Combine the AppleScript language with OmniOutliner’s wonderfully documented library for serious automation.

Custom Toolbars
Each document is different than the last, so don’t get stuck with using the same toolbar with every document. In Pro, create a document-specific toolbar that gets saved in the file itself.

Until now, managing and interacting with your contacts has been a real frustration. Cardhop's magical parsing engine is incredibly intuitive, letting you search, add, edit, and interact with your contacts using a simple sentence!

FEATURES

• A beautiful and simple menu bar app, designed exclusively for macOS
• Instantly works with your existing macOS contacts, nothing to configure
• Groups: quickly toggle contact groups with a click
• Notes: a convenient and powerful way to add notes to your contacts, helping you to strengthen your relationships
• Recents: quickly interact with your recent contacts
• Birthdays: instantly see upcoming birthdays and easily send a wish on their special day
• iPhone and Bluetooth dialing
• macOS Action Extension
• Dark and light themes
• And much, much more!

POWERFUL ACTIONS

• Quickly interact with your contacts with the following actions: Call, Copy, Directions, Email, FaceTime, FaceTime Audio, Large Type, Message, Skype, Telegram, Twitter, URL, and VoIP
• Simply enter an action or abbreviation (which you'll find in the Help Book by entering "?" or "help") followed by your contact's name and Cardhop will handle the rest
• Even better, some actions are flexible. For example, you can add a subject to an email by entering "email Kent Lunch tomorrow?" and the email including the subject will instantly appear, ready to go!
• Customizable quick actions are also available per contact, allowing for single-click actions

Soulver 3 is a smart notepad with a built-in calculator. It gives instant answers to any calculations it finds in your text. It's a better way to work stuff out than with a traditional calculator, and a more lightweight tool for quick calculations than a spreadsheet.

Math Features

• Instant calculations, no equals required
• Use words alongside numbers, so calculations make sense
• Quick totals of all your lines, and subtotals
• Calendar calculations (June 9 + 3 weeks, 3:35 pm + 6 hours 27 minutes)
• Easy percentages ("$300 - 10%", "30 as a % of 200")
• Unit conversions ("10 kg in pounds, "25 meters in feet")
• 168 live real-world and cryptocurrency rates.
• Line references to build little calculating documents
• Variables & variable autocompleting
• Global variables & custom units

App Features

• Dark mode
• Sidebar for organising your sheets and the ability to make folders
• Headings (#), comments (//) & labels (:)
• Customize your syntax coloring & font
• Automatic number formatting, with spaces around operators and thousand separators
• Number scrubbing (hold shift and hover over a number)
• Deep macOS system integration: Touch Bar support, Quicklook, Calculate anywhere services
• Automation tools: a command-line interface, Alfred workflow, Automator action

Create multiple timer lists for study, work, and workouts.

• No Hidden Costs: No ads or subscriptions.
• Private: No sign-ups or data collection.
• Works Offline: No internet connection needed.

SponsorBlock lets you skip over sponsors, intros, outros, subscription reminders, and other annoying parts of YouTube videos. SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension that let's anyone submit the start and end time's of sponsored segments and other segments of YouTube videos.

Once one person submits this information, everyone else with this extension will skip right over the sponsored segment.

You can also skip over non music sections of music videos.

Mountain Duck is a nifty macOS app that can make it a lot easier to manage your cloud storage accounts and FTP, SFTP or WebDAV servers, as it enables you to mount them as local volumes and transfer files using Finder.

The application is very easy to use and runs in your menu bar, allowing you to quickly connect and disconnect from various storage services.

Mount remote storage servers as standard Finder volumes, for easy browsing and file transfers

• Mountain Duck is especially useful if you need to manage multiple servers or cloud storage services at once, as switching between several interfaces can become confusing and hinder your workflow.
• Once you have added them as bookmarks in Mountain Duck, however, they can be accessed just like any other local volume, so that Finder can be used whenever you want to browse their contents or copy files.

Useful tool that supports numerous popular file transfer protocols

• Mountain Duck does not limit you to a single connection, as you can add as many servers or cloud storage accounts as you wish. It supports FTP, SFTP, WebDav, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and OpenStack Swift.
• Configuring each bookmark is not at all difficult, provided you know the server address and the required username and password.

Unobtrusive menu bar app that is always close by when you need it

• Your bookmarks can be configured and accessed from Mountain Duck’s menu bar icon whenever you want to disconnect from a server, open its volume in Finder or remove it altogether.
• Moreover, the app displays a detailed history of all past connections, and allows you to enable or disable Bonjour notifications.
• Mountain Duck is a handy utility that could prove to be invaluable for users who commonly manage multiple remote storage servers, as it enables you to mount them as local volumes, and browse their contents or transfer files using Finder.