13 Mac Apps I CAN’T Go a Day Without!

Here are 13 of the best Mac Apps for productivity that I can't live without in 2024.

I've used hundreds of Mac apps through the years and now in 2024, I only use a select few. Here are 13 of my favorite must-have Mac applications for productivity, improving my life, and making my workflow more efficient. I use these on my Mac Studio and MacBook Pro. Enjoy!

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*Chapters:*
0:00 This app helps reduce eye strain, peacefully
0:58 Use AI to organize your files
2:13 Make Finder more efficient when moving files
3:30 Check on yourself
4:06 I save TONS of space with this compressor tool (and a bonus feature)
5:33 Clean up the menu bar
6:01 Avoid spam texts and emails
7:19 I ditched QuickTime Player for this
7:57 The most important app on the list (for me). Time management done right
9:30 Alfred - the most well-known app here. Supercharged Finder
12:45 My favorite Clipboard Manager
13:35 This makes screenshots beautiful
14:48 Send Rocket emojis easily
15:24 Great tool for finding color codes
16:00 Did you find one?

Video Producer & Editor: Brandon Butch
Video Sponsor: Incogni
Thumbnail: Sami D (inspiration from MacVince)

[Andru]

This is a great list right here - not the same apps you see in these videos again and again. I found several that I’m downloading!

[BLTDFRNT]

Try Raycast instead of Alfred, I can't even compare the two given how mind blowing Raycast is, it's unreal

[User]

Sparkle looks like something Apple should be shipping as part of MacOS!

[Johan_]

I love watching Brandon Butch videos and mac app videos…fire combo!! 🔥 can you make this a monthly/yearly series of cool iPhone/Mac apps you find?

[Theboredsheep]

As much as I enjoy finally seeing Ice getting the attention it deserves (over things like bartender) you really undersold its capabilities, from a second menubar for macbooks with notches to changing the appearance of the bar, there are so many more features !
Great vid btw :)

[adrnn]

the editing on this video is just amazing fr

[DanKapil]

this is honestly the first time a mac app video has had consistently great applications, well done!

[colin-nekritz]

Finally, some MacOS content! 🙌 started to zone out from this channel due to all the iOS tripe.

[realslushy]

amazing video, paid for a lot of these apps after watching because they've helped me so much in my workflow

[Butterscotch_]

LookAway should be a default feature on every OS.

[whistlerbrad]

Well done Brandon, these are some really good ones! 👏

[dean-fx]

Clop was an insta-buy. Thank you for showing this off! Great tool to have in my pocket (well...not necessarily my pocket, but you know what I mean...)

[ReviewswBryz]

The Apple-like UI editing in this video was exceptional!

[hiatusxhiatus]

wow, I've seen a lot of these types of videos and only this one has had actual useful apps, I downloaded 5

[nemesis]

Actual useful video, not video just to make a video, thx man

[acontext]

LookAway is absolutely phenomenal and I've been looking for something like this! I've had eye surgery and fight constant eye strain and dehydration when using a screen at laptop distances (which is a lot of my work—I tend not to have a full desk setup available). Thank you for surfacing this great application!

[LucioDaou]

Thank you so much for the tip on Ice. Simply amazing and straight to the point.

[manuelben]

For the clipboard manager, Alfred and also window manager I consolidated all that with Raycast

[IT-Cowboy]

🔥Yep, had to try. Love this. Great video!

[toan.]

THAT'S CRAZY I JUST GOT A MACBOOK PRO TODAY