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ghostwriter
ghostwriter
Enjoy a distraction-free writing experience, including a full screen mode and a clean interface. With Markdown, you can write now, and format later. The built-in light and dark themes provide an aesthetic writing experience out of the box. If the these are not enough, you can create your very own! Preview your Markdown document in HTML. With the live preview, you can copy the HTML to paste into your blog, or export to another format. The live preview is optimized for large documents, so you can work carefree without worrying about the application freezing as you type. In addition to displaying a live word count at the bottom of the window, ghostwriter displays even more live statistics in its Document Statistics and Session Statistics sidebar tabs. Easily create image URLs within your Markdown document by dragging and dropping an image from your file system into ghostwriter's editor. -
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Carbo
Creaceed
Carbo is an application for people who love handwriting. Just use your favorite pen and paper as you usually do, without any constraint. Carbo will let you capture, edit, and organize your notes, design sketches, and whiteboard drawings, bringing handwriting into the digital age. Your digital notebook is now available on Mac, along with iPhone & iPad. Built on Mac Catalyst with Optimized for Mac technology (macOS 11 Big Sur), Carbo 2 brings a true Mac experience. Carbo now makes the most of each Apple device: iPhone can be used to capture notes on the go, iPad and Apple Pencil can be used to create notes on the device, and finally, the Mac is used to access, edit, and use these in a productive setup. Carbo introduces a unique pixel-free technology that preserves all the expressiveness of the original drawing. Carbo's hybrid capture and rendering method, halfway between bitmap and vector, allows gorgeous visualization of handwritten contents, especially on Retina displays. -
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Antnotes
Antnotes
Antnotes app is a handy replacement of standard stickies application with more features and customization options. We did our best to retain the simplicity and ease of use but add more complicated features like notes archive, import and export, ability to attach note to specific application or numerous customization options. You can enjoy Antnotes for free with most of it’s basic features you will ever need, however you can also buy the full-featured version. Buying it will also encourage us for future development and improvement of Antnotes. For each note you can change size, placement on screen, background color, text font and color, make it translucent (transparent) or pinned (so it floats atop of all other windows). Note can be rolled-up to the thin stripe so you can see the title which doesn’t take much space on your screen. All standard rich text editing features apply: you can make text bold, italic and underline, insert images and links, drag text and files to the note. -
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Mini Calendar
AntLogic
Configurable menu bar item displays date, time, the day of the week or just an icon with the date. If the Dock icon is enabled, it always displays current date and month. Mini Calendar is a lightweight application, which helps to access monthly calendar quickly and easily. Also, you can enable an always-on-desktop calendar, which is shown above the wallpaper. Configurable menu bar item displays date, time, the day of the week or just an icon with the date. -
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Hashnotes
AntLogic
Hashnotes is a handy notebook with hashtags and mentions, which allows you to create and manage your notes as fast as never before. Within Hashnotes you can keep an unlimited number of notes, organized using the tags. Manage your notes as fast as never before, using hashtags to organize notes. Use color and text formatting tag like #blue, #green, #bold to set the note’s title appearance. Use the search field to quickly look up for a specific note or a tag. Unlimited number of notes, stored in plaintext on your Mac. -
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Todo.txt
Todo.txt
So many power users try dozens of complicated todo list software applications, only to go right back to their trusty todo.txt file. But it's not easy to open todo.txt, make a change, and save it—especially on your touchscreen device and at the command line. Todo.txt apps solve that problem. You're not going to find many checkboxes, drop-downs, reminders, or date pickers here. Todo.txt apps are minimal, todo.txt-focused editors which help you manage your tasks with as few keystrokes and taps possible. Countless productivity apps and sites store your tasks in their own proprietary database and file format. But you can work with your todo.txt file in every text editor ever made, regardless of operating system or vendor. -
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Snippety
Wojciech Kulik
Snippety improves productivity by providing quick access to your snippets. Keep there often used sentences, code fragments, mail templates, test data, or anything you like. Snippety works flawlessly with every text field! Just press ⌘⇧Space, find your snippet, and hit ↩. You can also define your keywords and paste snippets by just typing without even opening the app! Snippets can also simulate keys which is very useful to autofill forms and much more. You can even simulate app-specific shortcuts to automate repetitive tasks. Advanced users can improve snippets by using scripts to automate everyday operations on text. Take advantage of limitless possibilities and integrate Snippety even with translation services or weather forecasts!Starting Price: $10/one time -
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Rewind
Rewind AI
We record anything you’ve seen, said, or heard and make it searchable. For your privacy, we store all of the recordings locally on your Mac. Only you have access to them. Recording data is NEVER sent off your Mac. We do compression and Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) all locally on your Mac. Storing all the recordings locally means compression is very important. We compress raw recording data up to 3,750x times so even with the smallest hard drive you can buy from Apple today, you can store years of recordings. We use native macOS APIs and Optical Character Recognition to analyze everything on your screen. No need to integrate with cloud services like Gmail, Dropbox, or Slack. Rewind starts capturing these apps right away, with no IT required. Rewind can automatically record your meetings, making them easy to search. -
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Mayday
Mayday
Time is the most important thing you have, because it’s the only thing you can’t buy more of. But your old calendar isn’t helping. It makes it too easy for time to be lost, misspent, or stolen. Mayday is a new kind of calendar that uses AI to help you organize, protect, and manage your schedule so you can spend time in more meaningful ways. The more you use Mayday, the smarter it gets. Mayday evaluates your scheduling preferences and patterns to find the Ideal Times for everything you schedule. Forget about managing different time zones, conflicting priorities, and undocumented routines. Mayday manages the complexity of scheduling with others, so you don’t have to. Mayday’s AI algorithms can automatically suggest the best times to schedule meetings based on your team’s True Availability. As more team members use Mayday, scheduling becomes smarter and more helpful, taking into account everyone’s schedules and preferences. -
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Espanso
Espanso
No more copy and pasting, create templates once and let Espanso do the rest for you. Customer support replies, sales pitches, medical reports, you name it. Espanso got you covered. Extend Espanso’s capabilities with packages, or create your owns and share them with the community on the Espanso Hub. For advanced use-cases, you can extend Espanso’s snippets with shell commands or custom scripts. No more copy-pasting from the terminal, inject the output into applications directly. Use forms to handle complex workflows, creating templates that can be reused with ease. You can even forward form values into custom scripts, opening up endless possibilities. Espanso works with most applications, so you can boost your productivity everywhere. -
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Hurd.ai
Hurd.ai
Capture every word of lectures, meetings, and conversations with Hurd.ai. Focus on what’s being said while Hurd.ai takes notes, tags, and summarizes transcripts for you. Focus on being in the moment with Hurd.ai, stay present and attentive to what’s being said without worrying about taking notes or missing key points. Other popular services charge by the minute or have usage limits. Hurd.ai allows unlimited recordings without restriction. Harness the power of AI machine learning technology to convert audio files into searchable text you can highlight, filter, and group. Save time and energy while Hurd.ai automatically titles, tags, and summarizes transcripts for you. Use the inline editing tool to add to your transcript. -
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Story Planner
Story Planner
Plot your stories and organize your writing. Story Planner helps you outline any of your fiction stories and keep your writing projects together. Whether you want to plan a story or only need to write down the first notes of an idea, Story Planner gives you the tools you need to build your novels and screenplays step by step. An intuitive and focused writing experience to enjoy on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. This app is a versatile and intuitive tool that speeds up your writing process, and it works great for different kinds of storytellers. Whether you are a fiction author, screenwriter, aspiring writer, hobbyist writer, creative writing student, or RPG master, this app offers you quick and intuitive story organization. Script and book planning has never been this easy. Get Story Planner today and start writing your best stories!Starting Price: $7.99 once-off -
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1001 Record
Nero AG
1001 Record is a simple and reliable Mac screen recorder that allows you to capture and save screen videos easily. With 1001 Record, you can: - Record important business meetings. - Capture webinars and online calls. - Record game commentary videos. - Create video tutorials for school or college. #Features: - Screen recording in high-quality (720P, 1080P, 2k, and 4k). - Different FPS options (10, 15, 24, 30, 60). - Audio capturing from the microphone. - System sound recording (for macOS 13.0 and above). - The entire screen or selected specific regions recording is possible. - Window recording (for macOS 12.3 and above). - Camera recording. - Simultaneous screen recording and webcam video capturing. - Easy-to-use annotation tools. - Customizable shortcut keys. - No watermarks. - No time limits for screen recording.Starting Price: $14.99/yearly/user -
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Canva Enterprise
Canva
Canva Enterprise is a premium design solution tailored for large organizations seeking to streamline their branding and content creation processes. It offers a collaborative platform where teams can create, edit, and share professional-grade visual content, including presentations, social media posts, and marketing materials, all while maintaining brand consistency. With features like advanced team management, approval workflows, and customizable brand kits, Canva Enterprise empowers teams to work efficiently and creatively without requiring extensive design expertise. It also provides robust integrations with tools like Slack, Google Drive, and Dropbox, along with enterprise-grade security to ensure data protection. This solution is ideal for organizations aiming to scale their design efforts while fostering collaboration and upholding their visual identity. -
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Tritium
Tritium Legal Technologies Limited
Tritium. the Legal IDE, is a desktop word processor built from scratch for transactional lawyers, crafted to streamline legal drafting, review, and redlining workflows. Key Features: Drafting & .docx compatibility: Edit and create Word‑format documents using a clean, lawyer‑centric interface Minimal redlining: Generate lightweight redline comparisons (resulting .docx or clipboard) via Ctrl+Shift+G PDF review: View and annotate PDFs alongside Word docs for seamless review Optional LLM integration: Connect to external or your own proprietary LLM for seamless LLM assistance Real‑time annotation: Instantly highlights defined terms and cross‑references across all open documents Multi‑document library & search: Open a folder containing a matter’s documents with Ctrl+Shift+O, and search across the suite in real time with Ctrl+Shift+F -
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TabCaptain
TabCaptain
TabCaptain is a Safari tab manager for macOS designed to make large numbers of open tabs easier to organize and manage. It provides a dedicated overview of Safari tabs and windows, allowing users to quickly find pages without searching through multiple browser windows. Users can search open tabs by page title or URL, sort and group tabs by website, identify duplicate tabs, and quickly locate tabs that are playing audio. Frequently used pages can be pinned for easier access, while unused tabs can be put to sleep. TabCaptain also includes session management for users who want to save groups of tabs and restore them later. Recently closed tabs, Safari windows, and tab groups can be recovered from within the app, making it easier to return to previous browsing sessions. The app is built specifically for Safari and integrates with the browser rather than replacing it. It is useful for people who regularly work with many Safari tabs, including developers, researchers, students.Starting Price: $5/month -
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Plainscan
Vaavix Technologies
Plainscan is a browser-based document workspace with iOS and Android apps. Its tools convert, merge, split, compress, edit and sign PDFs; convert and resize images; and scan documents or extract text from images with OCR. AI features summarize, translate and answer questions about uploaded documents. The platform also includes templates, question banks and practice exams. Students, professionals, teams and developers can use Plainscan to prepare coursework, manage business files, create resumes and invoices, study for certification exams, or automate document processing. The responsive web service requires no desktop installation, and a REST API lets developers call document, OCR and AI functions from their own applications. A free tier limits daily processing; paid plans and prepaid credits unlock higher usage and additional features.Starting Price: $7.99 -
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Barside
Barside
Barside is a free desktop productivity app that brings together notes, tasks, reading, meetings, community spaces and AI tools. Notes support links, maps, drawings, kanban boards, tables and charts, and can be imported from Notion, Obsidian or Evernote. Checklists appear on a task board with due dates and reminders. Articles and newsletters go into a reading inbox for highlighting. Community and team spaces include chat, polls, shared notes and files. Video meetings include screen sharing and live captions; screen recordings can be added to notes and edited into captioned clips. An AI assistant and scheduled agents use accounts from Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or OpenRouter, and changes can be undone. Barside connects to Claude Code and Cursor through MCP. The app also includes a password vault, clipboard history and system-wide search. Notes are stored locally and work without an account. -
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Workspaces
Apptorium
Workspaces launches all resources (files, folders, websites, etc) for a project you're working on with one click. It gathers all resources in one place, so you don't need to look for them. Create your project once and launch it in seconds anytime. Click Edit button and the editor window appears. Drag and drop your resources or click the + button to add them manually. Keep your mental energy for what matters. Use auto-launch (START button) if you need a particular resource (file, website, folder, email, etc.) each time. Open your document manually if you use it occasionally. Select a workspace and press Start button. Your things will be open at once. It gets you working right away without searching and clicking. As you have everything at hand, keep laser focus on the current project. Not on what’s missing and where to find it. Enjoy a clear view of your workspaces. Explore neatly arranged resources supported by icons and separators. -
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Byword
Byword
Draft a blog post, write that story or complete a school report wherever you are. Use Markdown to format text with easy keyboard shortcuts, subtle syntax highlighting, word counters with live update, and much more. All your documents, on all your devices. With iCloud and Dropbox, you can create documents in Byword on your Mac and access them on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. And vice versa. You can edit them from anywhere, on any device you use. Byword includes complete Markdown support. Preview your documents in app, export to HTML, PDF, rich text, or publish directly to Medium, WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and Evernote. The lack of support for rich text is due to technical limitations and limited development resources. We are evaluating the cost/benefit of investing in rich text support of iOS. Meanwhile, we strongly recommend opting for plain text and markdown format for your documents. Macworld has a great article explaining why opting for plain text today is a good idea. -
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ScreenshotMagic
ScreenshotMagic
ScreenshotMagic is a Mac application designed to help users manage their digital images more efficiently. This tool employs artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically provide descriptive names for your images, making it easier to organize and find them later. With the ability to rename large batches of images in just one click, it streamlines the process of keeping your desktop or folders uncluttered. Users can define their renaming preferences to ensure that the generated names meet their specific needs. ScreenshotMagic is a cost-effective solution as it is available for a one-time payment, providing access to all current and future features without the need for a subscription. -
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PPLIO
PPLIO Technologies
The software provides a comprehensive suite for Smart Time & Productivity Tracking, featuring automated tracking, focus insights, analytics, automated timesheets, and dashboards. It also includes Project & Task Management tools like Kanban/Scrum boards, subtasks, unlimited projects (Premium+), and automated work-item tracking/reporting. The platform extends into Team Wellbeing, Engagement & Culture Intelligence with real-time burnout insights, daily pulse checks, happiness analytics, and attendance tracking. AI-Driven Coaching & Predictive Insights offer an AI Mentor (Premium+), predictive alerts for risks, and smart suggestions for leaders. The system also features strong Security, Compliance & Enterprise Features (SSO, dedicated data stores), extensive Reporting & Dashboards, and Cross-Platform Support across major OS and browsers. -
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TypeFire
TypeFire
TypeFire is a free text expander for macOS. Create snippets, assign short abbreviations, and they auto-expand as you type in any app. Type "zem" and your full email appears instantly. Works system-wide across Safari, Chrome, Mail, Slack, VS Code, Terminal, and every other Mac app. Features include dynamic tokens (date, time, clipboard, cursor positioning), rich text and Markdown snippets, global keyboard shortcuts, a Spotlight-style search launcher, JavaScript and AppleScript automation, clipboard history, iCloud Sync across Macs, and one-click import from TextExpander. Built with Tauri and Rust for native performance. Completely free with no subscription, no limits, and no paid tier. -
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Memoe
Memoe
Memoe is a native macOS assistant for voice-driven computer interaction and task automation. Users can hold a keyboard shortcut in another app and speak a request, type to Moe, or enable the “Hey Moe” wake phrase. Memoe can work with connected mail, messages, and calendars; take meeting notes locally without joining the call; and operate Mac applications. The vendor reports connections to about 1,400 services. Memory is stored as editable plain files on the Mac, and Memoe asks for confirmation before sending content to another person. Speech recognition and voice processing run locally. Responses can use an existing ChatGPT or Claude plan, an API key, or a model running on the Mac. The vendor states that on-Mac features are free. Memoe is in beta and requires an Apple silicon Mac running macOS 15 or later. -
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thinkcell
thinkcell
thinkcell AI Suite is the productivity software professionals trust to build high-stakes business presentations. With over 1.3 million users in 35,000 organizations, thinkcell is the industry standard for creating better business presentations faster. With AI capabilities purpose built for boardrooms, users can generate slides or entire presentations. From editing slides to analyze data, thinkcell AI Suite offers tools for every part of the slide workflow. thinkcell offers 40+ chart types, including waterfalls, Mekkos, and Gantt charts, all with smart automations handling layout, design, and annotations like CAGR lines. With thinkcell's library, users can search and reuse slides from their entire PowerPoint repository or choose from 450+ ready-made professional templates and slide elements to get presentations off the ground faster.Starting Price: $46.54 per month for AI Suite -
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WhiteSmoke
WhiteSmoke
WhiteSmoke Writing Solution. We produce an all-in-one English writing tool that provides grammar, spelling, punctuation and style checks. Our software is activated in a single click from any text application and browser, pointing out potential errors for consideration and offering suggestions for improvement. We believe that users that have little or no experience with WhiteSmoke software can use our solution to quickly begin writing, editing, translating and enhancing their English documents. WhiteSmoke renders you with the highest quality proofreading abilities available, correcting not only simple spelling mistakes like old-fashioned word processors but everything from grammar, word choices and even style mistakes, all without breaking a sweat. Grammar plays an important role in what kind of impression you give.Starting Price: $6.59/month/user -
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Doit.im
Snoworange
The smart way to manage your tasks. Doit.im implements Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology. It is the smartest way to manage your schedule and to-do lists. And it helps you efficiently handle your task, whether you are busy executives, or smart staff. We’ve redesigned the entire user interface to make it simpler and more convenient. The brand new task view of Today and Next Actions make our tasks more focused and organized. Doit.im is a Cross-platform task management tool, which can sync with Phones. Under the guidance of excellent task management principles, Doit.im sort your mind out, to get rid of various pending ideas, and helps you organize tasks and focus on items in hand, so that you can closely track your work and feel easy when faced with bulks of complicated projects. With no pressure but efficiency, you’ll further enjoy your work and get unexpected success.Starting Price: $2 per month -
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Aiseesoft Screen Recorder
Aiseesoft
This screen recording software will help you record any online videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Facebook, TED, and other popular video sites. You can capture your success in game playing to share with friends, or improve your own playing skill by recording your competitors' action. Want to record an important and inspiring lecture? Turn on the camera on your computer, and this recorder will capture the scene and voice forever. This screen recorder software can record and save your webcam videos on your computer. You can go over your Skype or TeamViewer chatting any time you like. Any songs can be recorded, no matter it’s the music stored on your computer, or a song you found on streaming sites, or a from a music radio. You may need a convenient screenshot tool, and this recorder can be a great choice. It will help you take screenshots and save in the format you need, like JPG, PNG or GIF.Starting Price: $25 per pc per month -
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Scribe
Scribe
Scribe is an AI-powered workflow documentation platform that automatically captures and creates step-by-step guides as you work. It eliminates the need for manual screenshots and written instructions by generating clear, visual SOPs in seconds. Teams can easily share or embed guides across tools like chats, wikis, and knowledge bases. Scribe helps ensure work is done correctly with on-screen walkthroughs that are simple to follow. The platform also provides insights into how workflows operate across teams and tools. AI-powered recommendations help optimize processes and reduce inefficiencies. Trusted by millions of users and most Fortune 500 companies, Scribe dramatically reduces documentation and training time. -
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Capto
Global Delight Technologies
Capto is an easy-to-use app that takes capturing, recording, video and image editing to the next level. With an intelligent file manager and quick sharing options, Capto is perfect for teachers, students, creative professionals and anyone in need of a powerful, yet easy-to-use screen capture tool.Starting Price: $17.99
