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Twelve Mac apps that fill the gaps macOS leaves

12 INCREDIBLE Mac Apps You Can’t Live Without!

Andrew Ethan ZengRecommendation12:01Jan 22, 2025596K views, read Nov 10, 2026

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Twelve minutes and twelve apps, most of them free, and the list is organised by the gap each one fills: the notch, a day-progress bar in the menu bar, a shortcut cheatsheet, audio enhancement, keeping the Mac awake, a text selection popover, light and dark mode, a launcher, iPhone file access, an office suite and a way to run Windows software. Recorded in January 2025, on Sequoia.

The first chapter is a hardware feature rather than a product: the notch. Three separate apps get folded into that one section — NotchNook, Boring Notch and DropNotch — which is the most useful thing the video does, because it reframes a complaint about the display as a category with options.

From there the list settles into gaps. Day Progress at 1:44 puts a bar in the menu bar showing how much of the working day has passed. Cheat Shortcuts at 2:38 brings up every shortcut the front app supports. Boom 3D at 3:20 enhances audio. Caffeine at 4:02 keeps the machine awake. Each is small enough to describe in under a minute, and the video does exactly that.

Raycast at 7:36 is the exception in both size and kind. It is a launcher, it replaces several of the smaller utilities people install separately, and it gets a full minute — which is still not enough, and the video is honest enough not to pretend otherwise.

The last four are the ones that do real work: iMazing at 8:27 for getting files on and off an iPhone without iTunes, ONLYOFFICE at 9:04 as a document suite, Google Calendar at 9:59 in the menu bar, and CrossOver at 10:46 for running Windows software. That final pair is the argument of the whole list in miniature: macOS does not do these things, and the apps that fix it are not obscure.

What it covers

  • The notch gets a single chapter covering three apps — NotchNook, Boring Notch and DropNotch — which is the video treating a hardware flaw as a category.
  • Raycast at 7:36 is the only launcher in the list and the one entry that replaces several others rather than adding a feature.
  • ONLYOFFICE at 9:04 is the only full application here; everything else is a utility, which is what makes it the odd one out.
  • The sponsor segment at 4:30 is listed in the chapters rather than hidden, and the video resumes with PopClip immediately after.

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