Fantastic Cheap Mac Apps!

Quinn shows you several of his favorite paid (and one free!) utilities for Mac.

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0:00 - I Got the Rona
0:30 - Batteries
1:28 - Reeder
2:40 - Grand Perspective
4:48 - Radio Silence
6:39 - Paletro
9:07 - Menuwhere
10:27 - PDF Squeezer
12:10 - Yoink!
13:19 - Dropzone
14:40 - Rocket Typist
16:43 - Gestimer

We've talked about the best free Mac apps on this channel many times before. Open source apps are the bomb, but the simple truth is that sometimes the best things in life aren't free. In this video, I talk about my favorite paid Mac apps, what they do, and why you might want to download them to improve your productivity and efficiency using macOS!

[goyban]

It's kind of fun to see a 18 minutes video took 1 hour and 20 minutes just to shoot !!!
Nice apps man btw, you are so good at these videos and really like them these are top level and I always recommend them to people.

[zacharyhansen]

I rewatched this to remember some of the utilities Quinn mentioned and noticed the clock. It is so interesting to see how little time had passed for him to record this. Everything also appears to be in chronological order. Shot in order. Impressive haha

[emmgeevideo]

I work for a company and they pay me a salary. I use the money to support a family, maintain my house, etc. I wouldn't work for free. I've never understood why people expect free software. If I find a product that provides value, I expect to pay for it. I'll use free software and happy when it's available. But I don't begrudge paying.

[joshuaoehler]

FYI - MacOS text replacement works in Word - I use it on a regular basis - but only when I switch to an alternative language keyboard (in my case, Japanese). That seems to enable the context dropdown which you need to see and confirm the replacement.

I know . . . not a great work-around for most people, but it makes sense in my workflow.

[TDDPhoto]

Always love these, I switched to Mac last summer and you've been a true help with these videos. There's always one or more apps that I will continue using.

(Sidenote the audio was really quiet this video)

[TalesOfWar]

The text replacement thing works in anything that uses Apple's text box API's, things like Office use their own rather than the one built in to the OS, so if the developer uses the recommended API's and other elements they get these kind of things for free so to speak. Kind of how apps using the MacOS recommended chrome IU API's were automatically upscaled to Retina 2x when they updated it, without having to change the app itself. The same happened with text when using the above default recommended text API's.

[phantomsmithy]

When I was a Genius for Apple I used to direct customers to download Grand Perspective during our appointments and show them how to manage their data. They LOVED it!

[transatlantc]

Alfred and/or Raycast do have snippets for similar text expansion workflows if you’re curious and don’t want another standalone app

[Pugboy]

I personally find DaisyDisk to be much more intuitive than Grand Perspective even though it costs a little bit more. Might be easier for casual users as well!

[smokysauce]

with the batteries app, if you have a macbook with a touchbar, holding control from within any applicaiton will show the battery icons on the touchbar

[dvessel]

About that command palette. You don’t need a third-party app for that. The keyboard shortcut for the help menu will find all menu items and that includes all of your Safari history. The only thing it can’t access is the Apple menu.

[guypittard]

Spending 90% of my waking hours designing on iMac your application tips have increased my speed MASSIVELY. So so good for Adobe app usage! Thank you

[Sebbz]

Reeder is absolutely game changing for iOS. Thank you for for the video! I might need to buy the Mac version as well

[tcultech]

Really helpful—thanks a ton for taking the time to do it—especially with being under the weather! (Fun fact, in case you ever wondered: Imgur is pronounced "image-er.")

[chippermaggee]

Hey Quinn, just want to say that your app top-tips are brilliant. Thanks to you, I have installed a few apps that have been so helpful that I couldn't live without them. Cheers, mate!

[ihajo]

I am getting these apps, very useful, thanks for the video
1:28 - Reeder
2:40 - Grand Perspective
9:07 - Menuwhere

[iJones]

Hope you feel better soon!

Always appreciate your humor and info

[JacksMacintosh]

Been looking for an app like GrandPerspective ever since Disk Inventory X got disappeared (I think in the great 32-bit app genocide), awesome to finally have one again!
Also more generally, I love these kinds of videos. Brings me back to a time in YouTube that I miss. I'm talking case reviews, app reviews/suggestions/lists, random phone accessories (who remembers the Just|Mobile AluPen Pro? I've still got mine)

[Kelson]

6:40 isn't there an Alfred workflow for something like this though?

8:58 --- Nevermind he mentioned it -- But since I know you're an Alfred user Quinn I don't know why you'd use a dedicated app for something that can be had from within Alfred.

[andrewd]

Apps like Grand perspective on Mac, WinDirStat on windows, and DiskUsage on Android are such life savers! Nothing comes close to that functionality