Why I Use So Many (27) Mac Utilities

There are many Mac utilities and apps to enhance your macOS experience. And I found that I use a lot of utilities in my day-to-day life with a MacBook. I wanted to share those utilities with you today and hopefully, you'll find some useful utilities to install on your own Mac.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 BetterSnapTool // Rectangle
0:24 Dropzone // Yoink
1:01 Bartender // Vanilla
1:22 Maccy
1:47 KeyCastr
2:08 Middle
2:44 Sip
3:08 Disk Drill, Karabiner & VLC
3:38 Alfred
4:00 Mouse Utilities
4:32 Swish
5:02 Shottr
5:31 ImageOptim
5:55 OneSwitch
6:23 BetterTouchTool
6:42 Mission Control Plus
7:05 MonitorControl
7:26 How to find more Mac apps

[@ShanerTheGrey]

That background music is stressing me out for some reason.

[@bogxd]

I'm sorry xd

[@ShanerTheGrey]

@@bogxd 🤪

[@makkapacca]

Yeah its annoying drone sounds like something has a flat battery

[@sunsneeze]

just got my first mac after using windows for more than 10 years and your vids help me get used to this new os (which i didnt like that much at first to be honest). i also like the form factor and overall vibe of your videos! keep it up! :))

[@bogxd]

Ayee thank you

[@tctahsin4941]

those mouse assistants for non mac mice are lifesavers 👍

[@bogxd]

Yeap, they really are

[@yosolonopuedo]

Subscribed! Your channel is a 💎 for us moving from Windows to Mac!

[@bogxd]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@clarsen1010]

this channel is underrated af... keep it up

[@bogxd]

Ayee thank you for this comment

[@albertromiel]

Ditto 🤓

[@notionsplus8708]

I like the style of your videos. Insightful but compact!

[@bogxd]

Glad you like them! Thanks for watching

[@scindermplusskincare1318]

Omg thank you - didn’t even know you could do any of those 🙂 bog you are awesome , more people have to see these,

[@bogxd]

Happy to help! Thanks for watching

[@vadabie3719]

Useful, thank you.

[@bogxd]

Thank you for watching

[@Samurai9901]

This was helpful, the monitor control especially came in handy for me as I have a Mac mini and having to change the brightness from the monitor is not the most convenient.

[@bogxd]

Ayee I'm glad it was helpful, thanks for watching

[@cbm80amiga]

Mac Mouse Fix fixes mouse and adds support for additional buttons too, so probably it is enough to fix all mouse issues without other apps. Instead of VLC use IINA which is even better and supports HDR videos which look beautiful on MBP14/16

[@edenbendheim]

I love better touch tool. Not only gives me great control of my touchpad, but also allows remapping for basically everything, and also has great functionality for touchbar and notch bar. The community is also great and very active for when you are first figuring out the tool, and also has as lot of cool modifications you can get. It replaces a lot of the useful tools here with it. (They also have a one time purchase lifetime support :D)

[@captide]

I actually love your videos so much I really hope you grow

[@bogxd]

Ayee goddamn, thanks!

[@kel_]

so niceee

[@bogxd]

Cheers!

[@techpro6274]

you can move menu bar icons when you hold command and drag

[@angelopetrelli1083]

Very nice, very nice indeed. Cheers mate & see you in your next video,...⭐👍⭐👍⭐👍⭐👍⭐👍⭐👍⭐

[@bogxd]

Ayee, cheers! 👍

[@thepoweroftheweed2215]

I'd love to see a video on your browser Extensions too!

[@bogxd]

Well sir its your lucky day. I have 4 of them I think (I use all the KZbin ones and some from the other 3 videos): 1. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o16oapJ5hLV_d7s 2. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rn7LfKyBptpoh9k 3. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lV7NY32Xibp1epI 4. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2mpdoB8ZZl_ppo Thanks for watching btw

[@thepoweroftheweed2215]

@@bogxd Thanks, keep it up ;)

[@busybee2148]

you missed one utility its name is MOS which enable super smooth scaling with mouse and can adjest smoothness in each app

[@bogxd]

Ahh yes I found that one out just after making this video xd

[@pallzoltan]

Swish does so much more, it's my fave .)

[@TheAwEsOmERaGhAv]

My fav KZbin channel. Are you on any other social media

[@bogxd]

Aye thank you

[@cevex3895]

where do i download disk drill from

[@sadiriy]

Why this video has so few likes? There are so many amazing apps that I really was searching for so looong... hands down

[@bogxd]

Ayeee thanks for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@TheUniqueTopazYT]

Epic

[@bogxd]

🙇‍♂❤

[@urdarkside1]

what is the name of the mac utility that maps the pause/play key permanently to Spotify/Apple Music?

[@oso3557]

Oh lol, you even explained all of them haha (related to a different comment) I still recommend to replace MouseFix, Rectangle, Karabiner and Middle with BetterTouchTool. Also IINA is definitely better than VLC in almost every way. Pls still read the other comment These are not many utility apps btw 😆 You got a lot of redundancy in there

[@makkapacca]

Three finger middle click already in macosx?

[@channelforfun7222]

Raycast?

[@grubsch]

so WHY was "other storage" so huge?!

[@bogxd]

Turns out was some weird bug because of OneDrive and having multiple users

[@luisquintana5043]

Shottr doesnt show this little preview for me like for you. It shows the editore straight away. How did you enable the preview?

[@bogxd]

Preferences -> after area crop show -> thumbnail

[@luisquintana5043]

@@bogxd Thanks so it only does it after area crop and not after full screen or window shots? thats the only functionality i miss from the MacOS screenshot tool

[@bogxd]

@@luisquintana5043 Yeah tha's only for not full screen screenhots. I rarely take full screen ones so that usually pops up everytime for me :D

[@RafaRadwan]

If only Apple would do their version of PowerToys and collect one of the most valuable productivity boost for power users like Microsoft did...

[@Ethen_B]

@bogxd How did you make the bartender show the apps below the menu bar? I am looking online, but cannot find out how to do it. I'm looking to achieve the same functionality, are there are any alternatives which do the same thing for free? (i don't have bartender, but might get it if this is an exclusive feature.) Thanks for the help!

[@Ethen_B]

Just read that the feature is called "Bartender Bar" Know of any other apps which do the same thing? I use hidden bar currently. (doesn't do this)

[@bogxd]

I'm not sure if there's another app that shows them below the menu bar but there's one called Vanilla which is a free alternative you could try.

[@SteeveSpeed]

I don't know if I have a setting wrong, but the majority of the App listed are not showing when I search for them on the AppStore. I have already look at my search filter and privacy thing and everything is suposed to be ok...

[@bogxd]

Most of them are third party apps and cannot be downloaded through the app store

[@SteeveSpeed]

@@bogxd thx for quick reply mate 🫡

[@djxcel23]

Im looking for a text app where you can send out mass text to multiple people but everyone is not in a text group.

[@bogxd]

Hmmm, sry I don't think I know such an app

[@xiaoyu88]

I find it horrible that for the most basic stuff in windows you either need an app that costs $10 or 17 keyboard "shortcut"

[@mimiagel]

Bro, change the music. It's making the back of my head itchy

[@mokanin8894]

Wtf is that background music? Are you trying to put us under hypnosis or something?

[@bogxd]

Yes.