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If You Use a Mac and Value Your Sanity, You Need These 7 Free Apps

Aditya Darekar
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11 min readMar 14, 2025

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When it comes to my Mac, I am a man of culture. I think five times before installing any utility app on my Mac because macOS, unlike iOS or iPadOS, is much more mature and can do a lot of the basic stuff and even some advanced stuff if you know how to tap those (sometimes hidden) settings. So you would just be wasting your precious Mac storage on many of these “productivity” or “utility” apps that macOS can do by itself.

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Since the last time I wrote about my favorite Mac apps two years ago, macOS has come a long way and integrated some of those functions within macOS. That’s a big win for Mac users! But when you have a powerful machine like the Mac, your expectations always exceed beyond the basics. And soon enough, those will drive you insane if you don’t find a solution.

This story is exactly about those apps. I want to share with you seven absolutely Free Mac apps that solve different problems created or ignored by macOS for years. They might be able to finally bring back some…

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Aditya Darekar
Aditya Darekar

Written by Aditya Darekar

23 | IT Graduate | Tech Enthusiast | I love to write about Apple Tech and how I use it for leading a healthier, happier and productive life ⌚️💻📱