Category · 8 apps
Media
Screen recording, video downloads, file conversion, e-books, comics and game streaming on the Mac, tried by hand and honestly reviewed.
calibre
Organise, convert and read your whole e-book library.
“Ugly, sprawling and unbeatable. It converts between every e-book format, fixes messy metadata and sends books to your reader, and it costs nothing.”
Open source
Cap
Record your screen and share a link in seconds.
“An open-source Loom alternative whose recordings look polished without an editing pass.”
Open sourceDownie
Download videos from YouTube and 1,000+ other sites.
“Bookmarking a video isn’t the same as keeping it. Downie builds you an offline library of your own, from almost any site, in one click.”
Pay onceItsytv
Control your Apple TV from the Mac menu bar.
“Typing a search into an Apple TV with a real keyboard is worth the download on its own.”
Open sourceMenu barMoises
Split any song into stems and play along.
“Mute the guitar and play it yourself. Moises pulls any song apart into vocals, drums, bass and the rest, and it sounds cleaner than the others we tried.”
Free + Pro
Panels
A DRM-free comic reader that syncs your library.
“The comic reader that treats your files with respect. Beautiful reading modes, manga support, and a library that follows you from Mac to iPad.”
Free + Pro
Permute
Drop in any video, audio or image and convert it.
“Drop in almost any video, audio or image and get back the format you need, without learning a single setting.”
Pay once
PXPlay
Play your PlayStation games on your Mac, from anywhere.
“Smoother and far more capable than Sony’s own Remote Play, and one licence covers Mac, Windows and Linux.”
Pay once