The ULTIMATE Mac App Tier List

[@bogxd]

I got an email from Apple saying that scrolling back up to SMASH the like button adds an extra hour to your battery life

[@brawlrob0]

it really worked :)

[@TruthLord1]

nice offer but the battery already lasts like 10 hours on the M1 Pro 16" Macbook Pro...

[@samuelfresneda7771]

What cursor package are you using ? I really liked the one you were using but can’t find it. Do you have a link to find it ?? Thank you.

[@anthonypratico8698]

Fair enough

[@user-pl6th6qk2c]

like that's ever gonna happen (Just a joke)

[@Stella7902]

Putting homebrew in B tier should be a war crime, it is honestly probably the best thing for us programmers

[@AbnerFreitas]

Amen brother

[@maxschwarz9973]

Absolutely

[@TheosTechTips]

AMEN!!!!!!!! I can't program on a Mac without Homebrew. It just makes it SO MUCH BETTER for dependencies and packages!

[@mrmicrotus]

I Agree

[@dotnetapp]

even for not programmers.

[@LautaroLosio]

Apps that Raycast can replace: - Alfred - Rectangle - Maccy - Calculator - Keeping You Awake - Espanso I was also kinda stubborn to use Raycast. But it just makes sense. It can basically replace many other apps you're using and more. Control spotify, run brew commands, run shell commands, set up a timer, the list goes on. I only use the free features since most of the paid ones are AI related, and those things I manage myself with apis. But even the pricing model makes sense. You pay them for more features. They provide said features, and the developers of app-replacing extensions get a cut. It's kind of like that Setapp approach of being an app aggregator, but it's not even apps, just extensions.

[@jack_2612]

Raycast being free is a cheat code imo. Ever since I've started using it it's just been so consistently efficient I think I couldn't use my MacBook without it. The fact you can set up shortcuts for the extensions commands is also so convenient because those shortcuts are triggered no matter what you're doing

[@LautaroLosio]

@Blue_N3on by that measure we shouldn't even be watching this video

[@destructodisk9074]

@@LautaroLosio Not necessarily. There are better ways to watch KZbin that don’t allow Google to make you the product.

[@uuuuuusssseeerrrrrrr]

this

[@zkrtl-denis]

too laggy, Alfred is better imo

[@mble]

Pirating Adobe products is more ethical, than subscribing to them - change my mind

[@inqzz]

i loved the reference he made lmao

[@cryptoafc7655]

just tell me where to do it.

[@JoshFKDigital]

​@@cryptoafc7655there is a subreddit for it, can't remember it but when I find it I'll message back

[@JoshFKDigital]

​@@cryptoafc7655r/AdobeZii

[@YashKnowsBest]

@@cryptoafc7655 if you need to ask where it aint for you

[@triccks6184]

As a Windows user who has never used a Mac, I watched this video till the end. IDK if that's a calling for something. Edit: Now have a Mac, and now looking back on this video for suggestions on what to download lmao.

[@saqibshafin]

lol, I came here after I got access to a MacBook Pro, exactly a month ago!

[@MadMaxBLD]

Same here

[@h16nning]

Yes but Raycast is absolute S tier for me personally

[@sridharhisaria]

YUP

[@CrushedAsian255]

is it free

[@filintodelgado]

Extensions makes it so much better. I only play my Spotify songs and playlist using it now.

[@leolasdf]

@@CrushedAsian255 Everything other than AI and cross-device sync is free, and the free version feels the same (no ads, reminders whatsoever) so yes I consider it completely free

[@HearMeLearn]

@@CrushedAsian255 I just installed it and almost every feature is free and there's no ads so pretty much

[@neuropcs5879]

I love these types of videos so much. Your editing is phenomenal too. Have you thought about making a similar video, but for Chrome extensions? I think that would be a great idea.

[@martinb9208]

Not having Brew on Mac is like not having “apt” or “yum” on Linux!

[@kayglifts]

so good to hear that you finally got a sponsor

[@MTech12990]

he had other sponsers like the battery sponsor I forgot the name but I purchased the battery

[@khoonibilla]

and a very good one, al dente is a fantastic app, even the free version is good enough.

[@ivanmeen742]

Seeing Raycast being placed in C tier instantly makes me consider this tier list as D tier

[@seansull]

seeing an app like cleanshot get instantly denied from S tier because it has a subscription... then premire pro and photoshop get S tier even though they have a subscription.... lol make it make sense

[@LilJoe3]

Seeing him put fcp or DaVinci in c tier because he doesn’t use it, then immediately putting audacity in s tier but doesn’t use it made me consider this a d tier before he even got to raycast

[@HearMeLearn]

that, davinci resolve, and using utorrent instead of qbittorrent basically throws the whole list out the window

[@luuk0101]

But you can sync Obsidian between your Apple devices using iCloud Drive 👀 It’s not as good as the official sync option, it’s a solid 8/10

[@samuelfresneda7771]

What is the difference between the add on and iCloud sync??

[@luuk0101]

@@samuelfresneda7771 if you mean the official Obsidian Sync vs iCloud Drive, then the main difference are basically: 1. the way the files sync (by using iCloud, you’re limited to the way iCloud Drive syncs - only on WiFi and also open yourself up to a potential of file overrides - by modifying the same file on your Mac and iPhone at the same without an internet connection) 2. the speed of synchronisation could be slower (but that hasn’t been an issue for me personally) 3. you have more granular control of what actually syncs by using the Obsidian sync ;) (There’s an added bonus - you’ll support the devs) Hope this helps!

[@FUHADEm]

You can use syncthing

[@RobertMcGovernTarasis]

Syncing via git works well

[@mish2k]

or github or similiar

[@z52ontop]

14:15 f6 (the moon icon) turns on your focus mode, helpful to quickly toggle do not disturb

[@spzi_]

the whisky app is absolutely s tier and almost nobody knows about it

[@wakotrako]

real

[@empplayz]

real

[@benjaoliva3383]

real

[@badrzouhir4880]

real

[@DaRealTriTi]

real

[@JimiPinkZeppelin]

Hey man, just discovered your channel. This is without a doubt the best mac app video I've seen, thanks a lot!

[@dmtr404]

i don't really need to see those videos cuz I already know like 99% of those apps, but your sense of humour and edits give me joy every time. THANKS! :) p.s.: dato is an amazing calendar app for the menu bar

[@amirtorhan2762]

Been on Mac for a little over a year, and it's kind of crazy how many great "power user" apps there are for Mac OS. I miss a lot of them when I work on a Windows machine. I'm surprised about the lack of apps like this, and customizability available on Windows considering the much bigger user base.

[@amirtorhan2762]

​@radi-travisscottypebeatSure, but there are still limitations on Windows that these Mac apps give you. I believe I could have been more productive on Windows if they were available on there.

[@ZombieLincoln666]

Yeah macOS apps tend to be consistently better. Maybe because there is less hardware developers have to target

[@julius.2003]

Arc is S tier IMO.

[@Drraghavsethi]

Ya Arc is great, Raycast is great

[@mario_luis_dev]

😂😂 S Tier on draining your battery and eating up your RAM. Seriously, aesthetics-wise it looks incredible, but that’s about where the compliments end. It’s resource-hungry, and the scrolling being locked to 60Hz while in Safari you can take full advantage of those 120Hz in ProMotion screens is just the last nail in the coffin. D Tier for sure.

[@quentinlemaitre2998]

Arc is overrated af

[@unfunnyasf457]

Bro has never seen Google Chrome RAM Usage 💀🙏

[@Animitedubs]

Agreed most practical features and efficient in performance. (so far I ever used.)

[@5cG001]

0:51 this is the best intro that all youtubers should use 😂

[@jiminettes]

This is such a great, useful video, thank you so much!!! You've earned that sub! Also, a tiny suggestion would be to have the name of the app/thing you're talking about pop up when you're talking about it, it's sometimes hard to know which app you're talking about otherwise

[@D4N1LO]

7:16 Bro your videos are comedy gold 😂 They are so informative and easy to follow, but then you throw in a joke like that and I'm all for it 😭🙏

[@JoseLuRu]

Keyboard Maestro deservers a honorable mention For me it is a must-have app, I use it everyday and almost everytime to control macros and it includes a Clipboard history as well and I know it has more features

[@fairphoneuser9009]

Oh my! Your sponsor was the first useful ad I ever saw on KZbin, as I was looking for such an app since I started using a Mac!

[@Hamzathebhatti]

Thanks for this brilliant list. The clock app link doesn't work tho. can you share that?

[@bogxd]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! It's the default clock app already pre-installed on every Mac, I believe there's no link from where you can download it.

[@stefan_gordik]

You are the only channel I found that actually makes interesting and helpful tech vids. I fucking hate the common advice whenever I am looking for something to improve my PC experience, like when I search for ways to make my Mac slightly quicker and they tell me to close unnecessary apps to save RAM or something like that💀

[@ibrokhim13]

What is the ERROR app you didn't review it

[@destructodisk9074]

Garry’s Mod? 😂

[@treytrey5790]

4:16 Just for this Im subscribing😂

[@CoolBoy76628]

and here we go seeing calculator left alone crying in D tier

[@stewartl5109]

Hey bro thx for some interesting pointers and apps!! However why don’t you do an updated video as a lot of updates… in Mac OS Sequoia 15.1 Calc should be now S , record S etc etc 😀

[@CristianBilu-q4n]

Replaced Alfred with Raycast, never looked back.

[@OfficialAnekito]

Thank You, it helped me so much to finally set up my laptop

[@MarekIwaszkiewiczMusic]

DaVinci Resolve is a game changer. Along the line it will save you time and money. S Tier

[@sebastianozorro2138]

Just intended to ring the bell, then I noticed your channel already is. I love your medium sized bits of recommendations so much and your work made it so much easier for me when Ive switched from 30 years of Windows. Thanks! ♥ One follow-up question: At 11:00 you mention the app Middle Click. Does it work when clicking on a KZbin preview link in SafarI? I am way too deep into BTT customisation, so I don't wanna try anything that could mess up my settings haha

[@bogxd]

Ayee cheers! Sadly it doesn't work when you click on the KZbin preview and that screws with my muscle memory very much

[@sebastianozorro2138]

@@bogxd Yikes, alright. It’s the same issue with BetterTouchTool… though I could make it work in 90% of the time (which still screws one’s muscle memory). Thanks again for your great and humorous content!

[@h44k4]

Transmission is a better torrent client for Mac

[@ZombieLincoln666]

It’s a bit simple

[@m_filho]

@@ZombieLincoln666 qBittorrent is the best choice

[@ceopaludetto]

Arc browser and raycast really changed how I use macOS personally speaking

[@dasfaultierdeslebens9134]

I found some new Apps :) great job!

[@nick_848]

I didn't know like any 3rd party Mac apps before this vid, so I'm glad I watched! Informative and kept my attention with the little jokes and fast pace. Though I have to say, a lot of these can already be done by built-in macOS features, or at least close enough. I'm definitely going to look more into BetterDisplay because I use a 1440p monitor with my MacBook sometimes and it'd be great to have a crisper image.

[@maxlight9258]

my replacements for some of this apps: 1 Maccy: PasteNow. Same thing, but more powerful. 2 Alfred: Raycast. It may not be more powerful, but it's more beautiful. 3 Cleanshot: iScreen Shoter. Less functions, but one killer feature. what is happening on the screen stops immediately after a shortcut is pressed. 4 Numi: Soulver 3. Same thing, but more powerful. 5 Yoink: more convenient alternative (imho)

[@duanpham6487]

Raycast is more and more powerful 🤣

[@lcarv20]

Nice vid, btw I don’t use anymore obsidian but you can sync notes if you save them on iCloud

[@AniruddhModi-y2x]

I've been waiting for so long for this vid.......

[@Enderamen]

Is that sarcastic?

[@AniruddhModi-y2x]

no @@Enderamen

[@kreasu]

Great list and up to date really great video thank you!

[@martinb9208]

Brew in the B tier? Are you daft??? A tier if you want FireFox and other software. It is essential!

[@WBPCS]

Exactly. I stopped the video and started looking for this comment once I saw him putting Homebrew in B tier lol

[@linassapnagis2174]

I love your small reviews in big way ❤😊

[@aayushjaiswal3781]

Amazing video.. It was just so much fun to watch I'm surprised

[@tom_henniger]

5:55 you can use sync over icloud, i do that with the free 5gb of icloud that you get

[@bomcabedal]

I'm not sure that the Pages-Word comparison comes out fair here. Sure, MS Word is more powerful, but a lot of that power is used in niche implementations that most people won't ever use. How often do you need to do a mail merge, for instance? When I compare core experience, Pages comes out a LOT better than MS Word does. The issue, of course, is that Word is the industry standard, so working with Pages almost always involves a conversion if you're collaborating. But it's pretty stellar at that.

[@iliaghp]

it was absolutely amazing, thanks for your great review!

[@GlobeSync1]

Life saver, thank you so much

[@truncuporkatal3071]

5:59 I guess you did know that you CAN sync your obsidian free by using your existing iCloud storage across your apple devices. It is possible.

[@stoicfreediver]

Yep!

[@ZombieLincoln666]

It doesn’t work well

[@punko9031]

16:59 - Drinking beer on the job indeed ;)

[@SebastianLN]

My alternatives: Notes → Bear Notes Yoink → Dropover Maccy → Raycast Rectangle → Raycast AltTab → Raycast ImageOptim → Raycast Zip/Color picker → Raycast Paletro → Raycast Espanso → Raycast

[@MindfulProgramming]

Which Raycast command/extension do you use instead of ImageOptim?

[@olearydj]

I don't think you understood the assignment. This would be much more useful if you focused on your favorite apps in every class. Anything you said "I don't really use this" it should not be included.

[@sumeetfly]

It's a "Funny" video

[@mbk0mbk]

That what make it interesting, his videos revolve around experience , sharing such experience and growing , always emphasis on what's important in that scenario and so on while showing all other options.

[@ilija.8548]

There was no assignment. He himself wrote the rules for the video, not you.

[@franky0226]

It is a tier list.

[@untitled3923]

just found your content, so useful especially betterdisplay i was gonna buy a $70 dongle for my MacBook air so that i could at least not smell the pixels on my gaming monitor...thank you Bog🙏🙏

[@gabrielsemipro]

7:04 i hated that accidental slip clipped lol 😂

[@Cre4tor.]

18:47 I love this detail hahahha

[@itssuhaibalrumi]

6:08 actually you can , i think its a bug or something but thank God they didn’t fix it, all u have to do is create the vault from the iphone and save in icloud ( haven’t tried w/other clouds ) and that’s it , u can open it in any other apple device and sync everything

[@osamanashwan]

You should release a part 2 sometime soon now that sequoia has been released. Or maybe after they announce next year’s macOS

[@Magic-3154]

Could you do RayCast vs Alfred (current alfred user might switch to raycast)

[@sashimifr]

Are you aware that screen recording is an OS feature in sonoma ?... command + shift + 5 enables you to record the entire screen or a portion. No need for an app to do any screenshotting or screen recording (so quicktime is irrelevant too...)

[@benjaoliva3383]

Bro this is pure gold. Maybe some ppl disagree with tier list but the apps shown ? Sheez

[@bogxd]

Cheers!

[@ttrsgod9902]

Great vid❤ New Subscriber gained🎉

[@bogxd]

Cheers!

[@abogans9366]

i use windows and linux and still enjoyed your video.

[@remadisson]

bro, i love your videos

[@bogxd]

Cheers!

[@ShashaankBabu]

I noticed you mentioned obsidian doesn't sync with your mac for free - there is a workaround for this. You can create your vault on icloud and boom you've got free sync now since you can open vault from your preferred location.

[@VishalPatel-yu9yc]

6:17 "what you call that?" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@IshiCow]

I love these videos :)

[@eddu4361]

Come on! Photoshop in S tier?! Serious? This devaluates this video. You probably live under a rock since a while.

[@nibodhdaware]

You can do use raycast for window management too tho

[@dotnetapp]

5:24 isn't this built in alfred? Why a separate app? I use Raycast btw.

[@Chikowski101]

while watching your video I tried using the middle click on the current browser tab since this was the only tab where the video was playing it quit the browser now i know that things work by default on windows unlike mac

[@numicago]

Alfred remembers the operation too. You just tap up and it shows you the previous operations.

[@CorkyBallasdancewithme]

August 2024, great video.Thanks for sharing....

[@bogxd]

Cheers!

[@beneficialhistory]

Good luck run adblocker on chrome

[@kasadu928]

I'm the same with browsers. Always a feature or two missing from whichever is used. Currently back to Edge after it got support for iCloud keychain :D

[@therealrordongamsay]

very satisfying video tbh

[@cedricogross]

The default calculator app is actually not bad, on the menu bar you can set some settings end even convert units or save the calculations as bill

[@Shmepple]

You don't need AlDente anymore; your MacBook will automatically keep the battery at 80% if it realizes you keep it plugged in all the time. And you can also click "charge to full now".

[@keef_khan]

Good video but you forgot about two important apps: Sleeve (music widget) and Pandan (discrete session timer)

[@ImSkye]

Doesn't Aldente do a weekly full discharge, which hurts it more than the default clamshell battery management?

[@MTech12990]

WHYYY WHEN I AM IN SCHOOL BUT STILL NEW VIDEO DROPPEEEDD!!

[@AbdullahYazbahar]

What is the quick screen capture application at 20:21? you did really fast

[@bogxd]

That's the default screenshot tool, try command + shift + 4 for it to activate.

[@AbdullahYazbahar]

oh thanks. i'll use a mac soon. really excited. 10 year windows guy here. But can i ask is there a better shortcut just like "printscreen" key in windows or should i just use karabiner elements?@@bogxd

[@DalsPhotography-Daniela]

Mac user since 1999, and FF user (charged with privacy apps) for the last 10 years, Safari is great and quick but not as safe. The vid is a good one. PS I can't live without my photo -video editors lol

[@chitrakshbhatia]

I have one question. Based on your recommendation in a different video I got a Keychron M3 for my Mac. First, I just customized it with the Keychron Engine, but now I find that you were using linear mouse along with that mouse, so my question is, did you even touch Keychron Engine or do you only use linear mouse?

[@wasabi333]

Quicktime doesn't record desktop audio, does it?

[@plastiquemonk]

"every extension i need is available on chrome" is this still the case with manifest V3?

[@yourlocalavocado2.99]

you gotta make a video about brave

[@Clickificationist]

As a developer, Homebrew in B tier made me cry

[@BlueSky_fur]

You can sync obsidian notes with iCloud, that’s how I do it :D there’s a great community plugin for it

[@JohnMaverick-w7c]

That's interesting, I was thinking of using a private repo on Github to store all my notes. (Still stuck to Notion but I want to switch to Obsidian lol)

[@wampisu1240]

if clean my mac x is included what tier will it be?

[@YusefdoesEducation]

try the browser Vivaldi (the linux of browsers)

[@uzaykasifi4500]

We all know that this is mentioned in the sponser😅 8:56

[@ar3568row]

You can sync obsidian with iphone for free, just needs a little bit of setting up work with either git or icloud

[@ar3568row]

And obsidian is like 100 times better than apple notes, would definitely switch them

[@ryan18462]

Alfred would be insane with rounded corners

[@unfunnyasf457]

I think UTM should replace Parellels, because it is free, and it might include more VMs to try

[@AppleArmy]

which theme do you use for mousek?

[@Azn_Bran]

I use obsidian on both iPhone and my Mac and sync them for free by moving my library into iCloud and syncing across both devices.

[@NotDimpsy]

The thumbnail for sure brought me here.

[@Mikaminei]

ALDENTE MAMAMIA THEY SPONSORED YOU

[@karacalardanbiri]

5:39 that’s completely true 😂

[@sasukegre]

If you are a professional who uses way to many tabs open and you manage tons of information every day, Arc would be an easy S tier for you

[@numicago]

Alfred has also clipboard history support.