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Every Mac utility ranked, in one tier list
The ULTIMATE Mac App Tier List
About this video
Twenty-eight minutes of ranking rather than recommending: a tier list of macOS utilities and productivity apps, argued tier by tier instead of app by app. The format is worth the length because a ranking has to defend its comparisons, which a list of favourites never does. Recorded in February 2024, so the apps being ranked are the ones that mattered that year.
A tier list is a different artefact from a recommendation video, and the difference is the reason this one runs twenty-eight minutes. A list of favourites can be assembled without defending anything; a ranking has to say why one app sits above another, and that comparison is where the information is.
The subject is narrower than the title suggests: macOS utilities and productivity apps, not games or creative tools. That keeps it to the software this site covers, and it means the ranking is a statement about a category rather than about taste in general.
The practical problem with reviewing it is that the description does not name the apps. It links a document listing them in the order they are mentioned, so the contents are only available by watching or by following an external link that could change. That is why this record links no app pages — not because the video is about nothing, but because we cannot establish what it is about from the source we have.
What can be said without watching is the shape: a tier list of this length is closer to a series of short reviews than to a ranking, and the comparisons it makes are the part worth the runtime. If the app you care about is in it, the video will tell you what it is being judged against, which a list of favourites never does.
What it covers
- The format is comparative, so every placement is an argument against the app in the tier above it — which is more information than a ranked list of favourites.
- Twenty-eight minutes for a tier list means roughly a minute per app, so the video is closer to a set of short reviews than to a ranking.
- The description points at a document listing every app in the order it is mentioned rather than naming them, so the contents cannot be checked without watching.
Apps in this video
No app page is linked. The video ranks apps from a document linked in its description rather than naming them in the description itself, so which apps appear in it is not established from the record we have.