Keeping an eye on your Mac's hardware and resource usage is helpful, but there is no accessible way to do so without third-party utilities.
Stats is an open-source app designed to help you monitor temperature, voltage, power draw, battery level, as well as general resource usage, from the menu bar. It is fully configurable, unobtrusive, and quite easy to use.
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.
Whisper Transcription converts audio files into text using the Whisper machine learning model for speech recognition and transcription — making it easy to transcribe meetings, lectures, and other recordings.
WhatCable Pro is a deep USB-C diagnostics tool designed specifically for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 14+. While the free version identifies basic cable capabilities, the Pro tier offers advanced, real-time troubleshooting directly from IOKit data—requiring no extra software or root access.
Folder Preview provides a Quick Look extension for previewing content in the Finder.
Before you start, you need to enable the Quick Look extension in the system settings.
WiFi Explorer Pro takes the code base of WiFi Explorer, and adds a set of features that makes it the right tool for WLAN and IT professionals. You can use WiFi Explorer Pro for preliminary assessments, to help design and validate wireless networks installations, as well as to identify channel conflicts, overlapping, poor signal quality and other issues that may be affecting the connectivity or performance of your home, office or enterprise wireless network.
Sensei is an app that spans both software and hardware, including many more features than other apps in the Mac optimization category. It includes features for cleaning your disk, uninstalling apps, analyzing battery and disk health, monitoring CPU/GPU/RAM statistics, optimizing boot startup speeds and much more.
4K YouTube to MP3 was specifically created to extract audio from YouTube, Vimeo or Facebook and save it in MP3, M4A, OGG. No annoying and complicated settings to deal with, just a clean, friendly and functional interface. Downloading is simple and straightforward: just copy the link from your browser and click 'Paste Url'. Done!
The popular and award-winning bookmark manager now available in 64-bit version for the latest macOS with support for Retina displays, Auto Save and Versions.
Easily add gestures to macOS
Multitouch lets you tie a custom action to a specific magic trackpad or magic mouse gesture. For example, a three finger click can execute a paste. Improve your workflow by executing keyboard shortcuts, controlling your browser's tabs, performing a middle mouse click, and much more.
Finder could definitely use some improvements when it comes to moving files from one location to another, as it's not uncommon to find yourself juggling several windows just to keep items from different folders close at hand.
Dropover was designed to help with this, and much more. It's a fairly simple app that allows you to create "shelves" where you can place files, folders, images, and even text. These can then be moved to other locations with drag and drop, or just uploaded or shared with others.
VueScan is a scanning program that works with most high-quality flatbed and film scanners to produce scans that have excellent color fidelity and color balance. VueScan is easy to use, and has advanced features for restoring faded colors, batch scanning and other features used by professional photographers.
Scherlokk is a lightning fast file search utility build for precise and reliable search of every file which meets the search criteria. Music, pictures, bookmarks, documents, etc can be found quickly and easily. Search can be made on any kind of build in volume, portable volume (pendrives, memory cards, USB drives), network drive (AFP, SMB, FTP), etc.
Find and Remove Duplicate Files and Folders.
Clone Fighter is a powerful and efficient tool designed to help you quickly find and eliminate duplicate files and folders on your Mac. Free up valuable disk space, keep your storage organized, and improve system performance with just a few clicks.
Working on multiple devices is a quite common practice that calls for a reliable synchronizing solution to make sure you always have access to the latest version of a document. Syncovery is a fairly easy to use backup and sync tool designed to streamline the procedure.