**The Ultimate Mac Accessories and Apps Review**

For those who don't want to pay an ongoing subscription, there's a simple way to access a mute button with a shortcut in your touch bar. This feature is perfect for when you just want this functionality without breaking the bank. However, it does have one kind of cool extra feature that I'd like to mention briefly - if you mute yourself and then put in some AirPods, it's smart enough to detect those and keep you muted even though there's a new mic source.

Clocky is the next step that I want to talk to you guys about. This app solves the pain of keeping track of your hours worked on tasks for freelance designers like myself. Keeping track of your hours can be a real pain, so Clocky automatically tracks your tasks for you using actions and triggers that you can set up in advance. For instance, when you start working in Photoshop or Sketch, it automatically starts tracking your time - no need to click the button that started or click the button that ended work. This solves all the hassle of forgetting to track your time and messing up your client's bill.

For those who want a comprehensive Mac menu bar directory, I've got some good news. There's a collection of over 200 menu bar tabs for your Mac, which is more than what I'll be featuring on this series. So, I figured I might as well just give you the source. Someone rounded everything up and put all these different menu bar apps into collections, so it's nice and sorted and organized. If you want to find some audio apps or battery apps or calendar apps or display apps or productivity apps, you get the picture - it's all nice and organized and super easy to find.

However, I should actually mention the name of this directory, which is Mac Menu Bar. I'll link it up down in the description for those who want to explore more menu bar apps.

**Productivity App Review: Clocky**

Clocky is an app that can help your computer be more productive and earn some extra money for you when you're not being productive on it. When you're not using your computer, it can use its excess CPU and GPU power to mine cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, so you can still get something out of your machine even when you're not actively using it.

This app is called Honey Miner, and what it does is a way for your computer to use its excess resources to mine crypto currency like Bitcoin. This means that when you're done being productive with your computer, you can let it work all night to earn some extra Bitcoin, which can be a nice little vacation fund or even enough to buy an Apple product or some accessories.

**CleanMyMac X: A Must-Have for Mac Users**

For those who want to keep their Mac running smoothly and efficiently, CleanMyMac X is a must-have app. This tool replaces dozens of optimization tools with one sleek interface that provides a Mac OS cleaner, performance monitor, malware remover, and more. By removing unnecessary files, outdated caches, and broken downloads, you can free up gigabytes on your Mac in just a short period of time.

Additionally, CleanMyMac X optimizes your Mac's performance by freeing up RAM, running maintenance scripts, and managing login items. With this app, you can keep your Mac running at its best and protect your privacy fully.

**The Benefits of Honey Miner**

Honey Miner is an anonymous and encrypted way for your computer to use its excess CPU and GPU power to mine cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. This means that when you're not using your computer, it can still be working hard to earn some extra money for you.

While you won't get rich off of this app, it's a nice little side hustle that can earn you enough to treat yourself to something nice - like a new Apple product or some accessories. And the best part is that it's completely anonymous and encrypted, so you don't have to worry about your personal info being compromised.

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Don't forget to check out the links in the description below for more information on these apps and tools. Thanks for watching, and I'll catch you guys in the next video!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday's video is brought to you by Mac paw and CleanMyMac X which cleans tons of junk making your computer run faster hey it's Kris and welcome to another episode of unbelievably useful this is a Mac ABS episode with a focus on productivity this is gonna be a good one I promise there's a couple things in here that are some of the coolest things I've ever featured yet in this series now in case you don't catch something like the name of something don't know how to spell it or whatever I'm gonna link up everything down below so make sure to go check out the description at some point while you're watching and also I'm gonna include some timestamps because I realized that not every app is going to apply to every person so make sure to go check those out down in the description too so you can tune in to exactly what interests you alright we're gonna jump right in the first thing that I want to mention is something called swish now this is cool I think this might be possibly my favorite thing I've ever featured ever on this series of Mac apps videos what is it well I've mentioned several different things that could help you manage your windows on your Mac and you know some of them have been pretty decent I've liked some some are better than others this is the king of them all this one this windows management utility puts everything else to shame because it's so innovative simple easy and almost fun to use switch calls itself the missing gesture layer for Mac OS and this is brilliant so how it works is you can control apps and windows using your Mac's trackpad or your magic mouse with swipe pinch tap and hold gestures so for instance hovering over the toolbar of an app that you want to minimize and just swiping down with two fingers will minimize it and then if you want to maximize it you can go to that apps icon in your dock and do a two finger swipe up and it's maximized even cooler is that you can snap windows all over the place in a 2x2 grid or a 2x3 grid so do you want to have to take up half the screen well two fingers swipe left or right want to maximize a window that's just a simple swipe up well option double tap that toolbar and I love how you can even send a minimized app to take up half the screen by swiping on it it's in the dock it's in the dock and then you swipe on that icon in the dock and it whoosh is over and takes up the right or left or the screen it's so cool this app can do a lot there's no way I'm gonna sit here telling you all about it but these gestures are awesome they're intuitive I've really enjoyed using them and I can definitely tell you this can speed up your workflow by a significant amount now it does cost a couple of bucks but there is a free trial and I would highly recommend everybody watching this to at least try that free trial and just see how it works for you I think you're gonna love it I'm really excited about it swish alright the next thing that I want to tell you about is remove dot BG for the Mac here's something else that just blows me away in terms of how much time it can save me and just how well it works so I don't care who you are if you're a youtuber and you're making thumbnails or if you're just a business person and you need a good profile picture or avatar shot or whatever for LinkedIn or maybe you have an online store and you show a bunch of products and you need to cut out the background whatever you do you're going to need to at some point remove the background from some of your photos and ooh do I got an app for you so remove that BG will remove the background from any image for you automatically in just five seconds with just one click it's super clean it works really really well and it works really good on hair surprisingly good so you could just upload an image to remove that BG the website and do everything you need to there or you could download the Photoshop plug-in and that works really cool too or if you're a Mac user you can just grab the mac app which is basically a folder that you can open and drag and drop stuff into for batch processing of background removal I love this like seriously if I got ten photos over here and I want to remove the background from all of them maybe one is a face and one is a car and they're all separate things it doesn't matter I can just highlight all those drag them on over into this folder drop and click one button and it will remove the background of all of them now seriously I highly recommend this app for how well it works and how easy it is to use but I will say it's a little bit pricey so you can get a subscription if you know you're gonna use this a lot maybe you work at an agency or you're kind of a freelancer or you have an online shop like I mentioned if you're gonna use it a lot maybe subscription makes sense but I've just kind of been using it on the pay-as-you-go model so for like nine bucks you can do 10 photos for instance that's not too bad I mean there is a free account but the output photos that it gives you the final product are so small that they basically know it's not usable so you kind of have to upgrade to get the good stuff let me tell you next about one switch which is a really simple app that lives in your menu bar on your Mac that just conveniently places a bunch of different settings that you might want to access at any given time in one really convenient helpful place so if you want to hide the desktop icons one switch if you want to toggle dark mode really quick one switch let's say you want to force your Mac to stay awake or connect your ear pods really quickly and yeah I've covered a bunch of different ways to do that in previous episodes I know or toggle Do Not Disturb or the screen saver or true tone or night shift all of that stuff is here in one switch one switch is five dollars but look here's what's really cool if you pay for this you're getting something beyond just the app you're helping to fund continued development if you go on the website you can see what's coming up in the product pipeline and I noticed that in autumn I think is coming the option to add your own custom switches like put whatever you want in one switch that is gonna be very very useful now here's something that I think just about everybody who has a job is going to like it's an app called crisp and what it does is get rid of background sounds and noises in your meetings and phone calls when you're on your Mac like I've never been one to like go to Starbucks for instance and just sit there and have a meeting because it seems like it's just too loud and it wouldn't be nice for the people that are on the other end of the line I feel like much less it'd be hard for me to hear right especially I see people using like ear pods without the noise canceling whatever this app is perfect for these people that go there and have these meetings and Starbucks because with the flip of a switch you can get rid of all the ambient noise that might be bothering and distracting the people that you're meeting with so if there's a barking dog in the back yap yap yap you can just flip a switch and that dog is muted simple easy but what's really cool is that if you want to mute the background sounds of the person or people that you're talking to that's an option as well which means no more meeting with somebody who's like tune away at an apple or something crunchy you don't have to listen to those crunches and chews anymore if you don't want to choose not to hear the chew so this works with slack and it works with join me and Skype and Google Hangouts and lots more basically everything that you're ever gonna want to use now there's a free tier so you can get in there and check this out see if it actually works if it's right for you and there's also a premium tier that's $10 a month so if it's something that you're really gonna want to use a lot maybe you're a remote worker that's not too bad now I also want to talk about a different option called muta five which is kind of along the same lines as the last step but what it does is give you a really simple way to mute your microphone now this is just a five dollar one-time charge and that's all it actually does mute your mic it doesn't work with AI or anything fancy like that it's just a simple easy way to access a mute button with a shortcut in your touch bar because maybe you don't want to pay an ongoing subscription you just want this a one-time fee well this is for you it does have one kind of cool extra feature that I do just want to mention really briefly and that's if you mute yourself maybe the mic on your Mac and then you put in some air pods it's smart enough to detect those and keep you muted even though there's a new mic source clockey is the next step that I want to talk to you guys about and this is spelled with a bunch of K's not the way that you would think make sure to check out the description if you're confused because it's all linked up down there don't forget I don't want these comments like why don't you put it all on the screen up is down in the description go check it out I don't know if you guys know this I used to be a freelance designer for a short period of time in my life and keeping track of your hours of when you worked on stuff it's like a pain in the butt so clockey solves this by automatically tracking your tasks for you this is a big breakthrough and the way that it does that is using actions and triggers that you can set up for the stuff that you're gonna do so for instance when you start working in Photoshop or sketch or whatever it is there's several different things that work with this it automatically starts tracking your time you don't have to do it yourself you don't have to click the button that you started or click the button that you end it and whoops you forgot and it messes up your client building or whatever this solves all of that ok this next thing I saved here towards the end because it's kind of the mother lode and it's not actually an app itself but instead it's a directory of over 200 menu bar tabs for your Mac which is more than I'm ever gonna feature on this series so I figured I might as well just give you this source you can go somebody rounded everything up put all these different menu bar apps into collections so it's nice and sorted and organized so if you want to find some audio apps or some battery apps or some calendar apps or display apps or productivity you get the picture it's all nice and organized and super easy to find well I guess I should actually mention the name it's called Mac menu bar and I'll link it up down in the description in just a second I'm gonna let you guys know about an app that can help your computer be more productive and earn some extra money for you when you're not being productive on it but first a quick word from today's sponsor CleanMyMac X replaces dozens of optimization tools with one sleek interface it provides a Mac OS cleaner a performance monitor a malware remover and more and unless you get rid of junk like unneeded files or outdated caches or broken downloads logs or other clutter that frees up gigabytes in just a short period of time you can also optimize your Mac's performance by freeing up RAM running maintenance scripts and managing login items why can't all apps look this good seriously this thing looks really nice so protect your privacy fully remove unwanted abs and lots more download CleanMyMac ex today using the link down in the description alright you crazy people that actually stick around to the end of YouTube videos this last app here is just for you this is something called honey miner and what it is is a way for your computer to use its excess CPU and GPU power to mine crypto currency like Bitcoin when you're not using it so when you're actually done being productive your computer can still be productive for you so when you're done with work what you could do is fire up honey miner and let it work all night for instance which can earn you some extra Bitcoin because you're not using the CPU and GPU at 12:00 at night right it's anonymous it's encrypted and no you're not gonna get rich but maybe over the course of a year you could earn like enough for a nice little vacation or a getaway or something or a new Apple product or some Apple accessories from my sliced Apple comm for instance either way something I found very interesting that's definitely worth a look well hey that's it for this video thanks for watching don't forget everything is linked up in the description you can follow at daily tech spell daily tek k on instagram and twitter i've got tons of awesome content coming up related to all the betas I've only put my iPad OS early review out so far I got iOS I got TV OS I got carplay lots more watch watch OS 6 I think it's all coming out so make sure you subscribe catch you guys in the next video latertoday's video is brought to you by Mac paw and CleanMyMac X which cleans tons of junk making your computer run faster hey it's Kris and welcome to another episode of unbelievably useful this is a Mac ABS episode with a focus on productivity this is gonna be a good one I promise there's a couple things in here that are some of the coolest things I've ever featured yet in this series now in case you don't catch something like the name of something don't know how to spell it or whatever I'm gonna link up everything down below so make sure to go check out the description at some point while you're watching and also I'm gonna include some timestamps because I realized that not every app is going to apply to every person so make sure to go check those out down in the description too so you can tune in to exactly what interests you alright we're gonna jump right in the first thing that I want to mention is something called swish now this is cool I think this might be possibly my favorite thing I've ever featured ever on this series of Mac apps videos what is it well I've mentioned several different things that could help you manage your windows on your Mac and you know some of them have been pretty decent I've liked some some are better than others this is the king of them all this one this windows management utility puts everything else to shame because it's so innovative simple easy and almost fun to use switch calls itself the missing gesture layer for Mac OS and this is brilliant so how it works is you can control apps and windows using your Mac's trackpad or your magic mouse with swipe pinch tap and hold gestures so for instance hovering over the toolbar of an app that you want to minimize and just swiping down with two fingers will minimize it and then if you want to maximize it you can go to that apps icon in your dock and do a two finger swipe up and it's maximized even cooler is that you can snap windows all over the place in a 2x2 grid or a 2x3 grid so do you want to have to take up half the screen well two fingers swipe left or right want to maximize a window that's just a simple swipe up well option double tap that toolbar and I love how you can even send a minimized app to take up half the screen by swiping on it it's in the dock it's in the dock and then you swipe on that icon in the dock and it whoosh is over and takes up the right or left or the screen it's so cool this app can do a lot there's no way I'm gonna sit here telling you all about it but these gestures are awesome they're intuitive I've really enjoyed using them and I can definitely tell you this can speed up your workflow by a significant amount now it does cost a couple of bucks but there is a free trial and I would highly recommend everybody watching this to at least try that free trial and just see how it works for you I think you're gonna love it I'm really excited about it swish alright the next thing that I want to tell you about is remove dot BG for the Mac here's something else that just blows me away in terms of how much time it can save me and just how well it works so I don't care who you are if you're a youtuber and you're making thumbnails or if you're just a business person and you need a good profile picture or avatar shot or whatever for LinkedIn or maybe you have an online store and you show a bunch of products and you need to cut out the background whatever you do you're going to need to at some point remove the background from some of your photos and ooh do I got an app for you so remove that BG will remove the background from any image for you automatically in just five seconds with just one click it's super clean it works really really well and it works really good on hair surprisingly good so you could just upload an image to remove that BG the website and do everything you need to there or you could download the Photoshop plug-in and that works really cool too or if you're a Mac user you can just grab the mac app which is basically a folder that you can open and drag and drop stuff into for batch processing of background removal I love this like seriously if I got ten photos over here and I want to remove the background from all of them maybe one is a face and one is a car and they're all separate things it doesn't matter I can just highlight all those drag them on over into this folder drop and click one button and it will remove the background of all of them now seriously I highly recommend this app for how well it works and how easy it is to use but I will say it's a little bit pricey so you can get a subscription if you know you're gonna use this a lot maybe you work at an agency or you're kind of a freelancer or you have an online shop like I mentioned if you're gonna use it a lot maybe subscription makes sense but I've just kind of been using it on the pay-as-you-go model so for like nine bucks you can do 10 photos for instance that's not too bad I mean there is a free account but the output photos that it gives you the final product are so small that they basically know it's not usable so you kind of have to upgrade to get the good stuff let me tell you next about one switch which is a really simple app that lives in your menu bar on your Mac that just conveniently places a bunch of different settings that you might want to access at any given time in one really convenient helpful place so if you want to hide the desktop icons one switch if you want to toggle dark mode really quick one switch let's say you want to force your Mac to stay awake or connect your ear pods really quickly and yeah I've covered a bunch of different ways to do that in previous episodes I know or toggle Do Not Disturb or the screen saver or true tone or night shift all of that stuff is here in one switch one switch is five dollars but look here's what's really cool if you pay for this you're getting something beyond just the app you're helping to fund continued development if you go on the website you can see what's coming up in the product pipeline and I noticed that in autumn I think is coming the option to add your own custom switches like put whatever you want in one switch that is gonna be very very useful now here's something that I think just about everybody who has a job is going to like it's an app called crisp and what it does is get rid of background sounds and noises in your meetings and phone calls when you're on your Mac like I've never been one to like go to Starbucks for instance and just sit there and have a meeting because it seems like it's just too loud and it wouldn't be nice for the people that are on the other end of the line I feel like much less it'd be hard for me to hear right especially I see people using like ear pods without the noise canceling whatever this app is perfect for these people that go there and have these meetings and Starbucks because with the flip of a switch you can get rid of all the ambient noise that might be bothering and distracting the people that you're meeting with so if there's a barking dog in the back yap yap yap you can just flip a switch and that dog is muted simple easy but what's really cool is that if you want to mute the background sounds of the person or people that you're talking to that's an option as well which means no more meeting with somebody who's like tune away at an apple or something crunchy you don't have to listen to those crunches and chews anymore if you don't want to choose not to hear the chew so this works with slack and it works with join me and Skype and Google Hangouts and lots more basically everything that you're ever gonna want to use now there's a free tier so you can get in there and check this out see if it actually works if it's right for you and there's also a premium tier that's $10 a month so if it's something that you're really gonna want to use a lot maybe you're a remote worker that's not too bad now I also want to talk about a different option called muta five which is kind of along the same lines as the last step but what it does is give you a really simple way to mute your microphone now this is just a five dollar one-time charge and that's all it actually does mute your mic it doesn't work with AI or anything fancy like that it's just a simple easy way to access a mute button with a shortcut in your touch bar because maybe you don't want to pay an ongoing subscription you just want this a one-time fee well this is for you it does have one kind of cool extra feature that I do just want to mention really briefly and that's if you mute yourself maybe the mic on your Mac and then you put in some air pods it's smart enough to detect those and keep you muted even though there's a new mic source clockey is the next step that I want to talk to you guys about and this is spelled with a bunch of K's not the way that you would think make sure to check out the description if you're confused because it's all linked up down there don't forget I don't want these comments like why don't you put it all on the screen up is down in the description go check it out I don't know if you guys know this I used to be a freelance designer for a short period of time in my life and keeping track of your hours of when you worked on stuff it's like a pain in the butt so clockey solves this by automatically tracking your tasks for you this is a big breakthrough and the way that it does that is using actions and triggers that you can set up for the stuff that you're gonna do so for instance when you start working in Photoshop or sketch or whatever it is there's several different things that work with this it automatically starts tracking your time you don't have to do it yourself you don't have to click the button that you started or click the button that you end it and whoops you forgot and it messes up your client building or whatever this solves all of that ok this next thing I saved here towards the end because it's kind of the mother lode and it's not actually an app itself but instead it's a directory of over 200 menu bar tabs for your Mac which is more than I'm ever gonna feature on this series so I figured I might as well just give you this source you can go somebody rounded everything up put all these different menu bar apps into collections so it's nice and sorted and organized so if you want to find some audio apps or some battery apps or some calendar apps or display apps or productivity you get the picture it's all nice and organized and super easy to find well I guess I should actually mention the name it's called Mac menu bar and I'll link it up down in the description in just a second I'm gonna let you guys know about an app that can help your computer be more productive and earn some extra money for you when you're not being productive on it but first a quick word from today's sponsor CleanMyMac X replaces dozens of optimization tools with one sleek interface it provides a Mac OS cleaner a performance monitor a malware remover and more and unless you get rid of junk like unneeded files or outdated caches or broken downloads logs or other clutter that frees up gigabytes in just a short period of time you can also optimize your Mac's performance by freeing up RAM running maintenance scripts and managing login items why can't all apps look this good seriously this thing looks really nice so protect your privacy fully remove unwanted abs and lots more download CleanMyMac ex today using the link down in the description alright you crazy people that actually stick around to the end of YouTube videos this last app here is just for you this is something called honey miner and what it is is a way for your computer to use its excess CPU and GPU power to mine crypto currency like Bitcoin when you're not using it so when you're actually done being productive your computer can still be productive for you so when you're done with work what you could do is fire up honey miner and let it work all night for instance which can earn you some extra Bitcoin because you're not using the CPU and GPU at 12:00 at night right it's anonymous it's encrypted and no you're not gonna get rich but maybe over the course of a year you could earn like enough for a nice little vacation or a getaway or something or a new Apple product or some Apple accessories from my sliced Apple comm for instance either way something I found very interesting that's definitely worth a look well hey that's it for this video thanks for watching don't forget everything is linked up in the description you can follow at daily tech spell daily tek k on instagram and twitter i've got tons of awesome content coming up related to all the betas I've only put my iPad OS early review out so far I got iOS I got TV OS I got carplay lots more watch watch OS 6 I think it's all coming out so make sure you subscribe catch you guys in the next video later\n"