While I hardly ever used the old Launchpad, I can understand why longtime users would find macOS Tahoe’s changes frustrating—suddenly having to rethink how you launch and organize apps is never easy.

If the transition to the Spotlight-style Launchpad feels too disruptive, LaunchOS is an appealing alternative. The goal is simple: recreate the classic launcher as closely as possible. And in practice, it really does—right down to the familiar look. The interface is nearly identical, with the only obvious difference being a settings button near the search field. You navigate by swiping or scrolling, and you can filter apps by name.

Metadatics is a powerful and advanced audio metadata editor. It supports batch editing of most common audio file types including MP3, M4A, AIFF, WAV, FLAC, APE, OGG, WMA, and more. Lookup metadata from online sources, rename files based on metadata, or manipulate metadata using one of the many built in functions. Metadatics provides all you need to edit metadata with ease and flexibility.

CleanMyMac X is an user friendly Mac app that comes with a stylish design and helps you detect the junk files, but also user and system cache / log files, broken preferences or login items, apps that have universal binaries (you can remove the executable that is not suitable for your architecture), language files (you can keep only the one you actually employ).

MouseBoost Pro integrates more than 30 kinds of small tools, and the operation way is very simple, as long as you click the right mouse button, you can activate all kinds of functions you want, so that your work efficiency is greatly improved.

Easy New File is a finder extension which adds some functions in right click menu in the Finder.

ProFind is advanced file search app for macOS.

With powerful features and great performance, ProFind delivers advanced file search for macOS. And with support for natural language queries, application launching, hidden location searches, scripting and more.

When you move macOS applications to the Trash, unfortunately, there might be resources files related to the installation that remain where they are, thus cluttering your storage space unnecessarily.

WatsGo Transfer: One-Click Transfer Between Android & iPhone

Easily move your WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business data between Android and iOS with a fast one-click transfer. Move messages, photos, videos, contacts, and more—without the hassle of complicated setup.

WiFi Signal is a system menu bar application that provides easy access to your Wi-Fi connection details (name, channel, transmit rate, signal strength, noise, etc.), monitors the signal quality of your wireless network, and can find and recommend alternative channels for your network thus avoiding signal overlapping and channel conflicts that can result in connectivity issues and performance degradation.

PhotoSweeper helps quickly and efficiently eliminate similar or duplicate photos. It works with photos from iPhoto, Aperture and Adobe Lightroom libraries as well as photos from your Mac.

Renaming a large number of files can prove to be time consuming without the proper tools: A Better Finder Rename is a Mac app that comes with batch processing capabilities and offers you the possibility to apply various renaming templates.

Since A Better Finder Rename comes with a real time Preview feature, you will be able to view the final results before actually performing the renaming: this way you can easily avoid any issues.

The Dynamic Island has proven quite popular with iPhone users, but the feature hasn’t made its way to macOS yet, if Apple even plans to do so. It’s a great way to provide notifications and house controls, all built around the camera cutout.

Alcove tries to bring this feature to your Mac in the same way that Apple would, if they decided to do it. It works pretty much the same way as the iOS version, with most of its features.

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.

The Performance Index 64 app is designed to compare your Mac with other macOS devices and evaluate performance and efficiency of different configurations.

Keep It is for writing notes, keeping web links and documents, and finding them again. Available on Mac, and as a separate app for iPhone and iPad, Keep It is the destination for all those things you want to put somewhere, confident you will find them again later.