Your Ultimate Guide to macOS Software

Strata Mac Cleaner maps disk usage and helps remove caches, app leftovers, duplicates and unused local AI models. You can review items before moving them to the Trash and restore them while they remain there.

MacScapes combines live wallpapers with matching desktop widgets, folder icons and optional ambient sound. Save scene, palette, widget and sound settings as “vibes” that switch by schedule, sunrise, sunset or power source.

PatchRig FX Workstation creates playable, editable effects rigs from sound descriptions, song-tone traits, or imported recordings. Audition rigs with built-in performances or live input, then adjust pedals, amps, and audio-processing blocks.

PulseTiles snaps Mac windows into halves, thirds and quarters using Command-drag zones, keyboard shortcuts or a searchable launcher. It supports multiple displays and saved window arrangements.

Smoothie enhances low-quality video clips with upscaling to 4K and smoother motion at up to 120 frames per second. It supports Macs with Apple silicon.

Luma Music plays your own music files offline, including FLAC and ALAC. It reads directly from your Mac’s music folders without copying files, with a menu bar player and search accessible from other apps.

PulseShot captures screenshots and screen recordings, with editable markup and a video timeline. On supported Macs, you can point at an area and speak instructions to create arrows, boxes and labels using on-device AI.

Haptiker turns your trackpad edges into controls for volume, display brightness and keyboard backlight, with optional app switching along the bottom edge. Haptic ticks confirm level changes.

Flowdeck is a Mac workspace for building iOS and macOS apps with coding agents. It keeps parallel sessions in separate Git worktrees and simulators, with tools for building, testing, checking app behavior, and reviewing changes.

NosyPup uses your Mac’s camera to detect people and send a photo and 14-second video through your own Telegram bot. Detection runs on the Mac, and you can monitor the whole camera view or a selected area.

Bamboo Player plays IPTV streams, local videos, and files from SMB network shares using sources you provide. On Mac, it also supports downloads for offline viewing and recording live streams.

Aureon turns spoken or typed requests into new notes, tasks, reminders, and calendar events in connected apps. It also cleans up dictated text, produces writing in another language, and offers actions for selected text.