Five Mac Apps Worth Checking Out - August 2020

**Discover Five Must-Try Mac Apps for August 2020**

Welcome back to another episode where we explore some incredible Mac apps that you shouldn't miss. This month, we’ve rounded up five utilities and tools that are simple yet incredibly useful. Whether you’re a content creator, a student, or just someone looking to enhance your computing experience, these apps are sure to make your life easier. Let’s dive in!

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### **1. Mackdroid: Seamless Data Transfer Between Mac and Android**

If you own both a Mac and an Android phone, Mackdroid is an app you need to try. This simple yet effective tool allows you to transfer data effortlessly between your Mac and Android device. Whether it’s photos, videos, or other files, Mackdroid makes the process seamless.

Here’s how it works: Plug your Android device into your Mac, and you can either choose "File Transfer" to move data from your phone to your computer or enable USB debugging in your phone's settings to get into ADB mode. This latter option gives you the ability to transfer content from your Mac to your phone, a feature that’s not commonly found in other apps.

The only downside is that Mackdroid requires a subscription, but at $20 per year, it’s pretty affordable. If you’re someone who misses AirDrop functionality on Android and often needs to move photos or videos between devices, this app is a game-changer.

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### **2. Poolside: A Retro-Inspired Music Player**

Poolside is the perfect app for music lovers who want a refreshing way to discover new tunes. This retro-inspired music player brings back the feel of old-school Mac design with its simplistic and summery interface. Whether you’re relaxing by the pool or working on your computer, Poolside’s curated playlists are designed to match the vibe.

The app offers several channels or genres to choose from, and you can skip tracks or save them easily. What’s more, clicking on an artist’s name or song title takes you directly to their SoundCloud page—a nice touch for discovering new music. You can even customize the pastel color of the player through its settings.

Best of all, Poolside is completely free to download and offers a fresh take on retro design while keeping things light and fun.

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### **3. Tech Sniper: Capture Unselectable Text with Ease**

Tech Sniper is an app that’s as simple as it sounds—helping you capture unselectable text from presentations, videos, images, or screencasts and converting it into editable text. This feature is especially useful for students or professionals who need to transcribe information quickly.

For example, if you’re attending a remote class and text appears on the screen that you need to write down, Tech Sniper allows you to select the area just like taking a screenshot. The text is then automatically copied to your clipboard, ready to be pasted into any document. While there might be minor formatting issues, they’re easy to fix.

Tech Sniper’s simplicity and efficiency make it an indispensable tool for anyone who needs to work with text frequently. And at just $5, it’s a steal.

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### **4. Tuck: Organize Your Windows with Keyboard Commands**

Tuck is designed to help you manage your app windows more efficiently. Instead of cluttering your screen with open applications, Tuck allows you to tuck away windows into specific portions of your screen using simple keyboard commands. To access the hidden window again, just hover your mouse over the tucked location.

The best part? Once you move your mouse back over the area, the app will automatically hide itself until you’re ready to use it again. This makes it an excellent tool for decluttering your workspace while keeping everything easily accessible when needed.

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### **5. Panolicious: Custom Panels for Quick Access**

Panolicious is another fantastic app designed to reduce clutter and improve productivity. It lets you create custom panels that house your frequently used files, apps, or folders. You can adjust the size, location, and contents of each panel as per your needs.

Once created, these panels remain visible on your screen for quick access. The app’s simplicity is its biggest strength—there are no complicated settings to worry about. Just create, customize, and use! And the best part? Panolicious is completely free and available in the Mac App Store.

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### **Sponsored by MotionVFX: Enhance Your Content Creation**

Before we wrap up, we’d like to introduce you to our sponsor, MotionVFX—a game-changer for content creators. If you’ve ever wondered how we create those stunning animations and transitions in our videos, it’s all thanks to their incredible plugins.

With hundreds of templates available, MotionVFX makes adding professional-grade effects to your videos as easy as dragging and dropping them into Final Cut Pro. Whether you’re working on lower-thirds or transitions, MotionVFX has everything you need to take your content to the next level.

For those looking for a starting point, we recommend checking out their M-Lowers and M-Transition Mega Packs—some of the best tools around for adding that unique touch to your videos.

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We hope you found these apps as useful as we did. If you’ve already tried any of them or have favorites of your own, feel free to share in the comments below! And don’t forget to subscribe and hit the bell icon to catch our next video. Thanks for watching, and see you soon!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis video is sponsored by motionvfx it's yet again that time where we show you five mac apps for the month of august 2020 that we think you should check out before we get started be sure to subscribe and hit the bell to get notifications whenever we share a video this month we have some pretty simple but also incredibly useful utilities to talk about and one that i'm loving right now is mackdroid i'm not sure how many of you out there own a mac and an android phone but i'd imagine there's a lot of you who could possibly use this very simple yet effective tool to transfer data to and from your mac with your android phone the process is simple simply plug in your device to your mac and either select file transfer if you want to just transfer data from your phone to your mac like photos or videos or you can head into settings and turn on usb debugging in order to get your device into adb mode this will allow many other possibilities but most importantly it gives you the ability to transfer content from your mac to your phone and not just from your phone to your mac the only downside is is that it is a subscription-based app but it does come in at a pretty reasonable 20 a year so if you're like me and you miss airdrop every time you use android and just need to get some photos or videos from your device to your mac this is honestly the best way that i've come across so far this next app might take you back a bit with its look and feel but it's pretty cool way to discover new music and it's called poolside poolside is the super summery feeling music player for your mac that's inspired by the old mac days with its simplistic and retro design the music that's curated is fantastic and is definitely perfect for this time of year you can choose between a few different channels or genres of music skip and save tracks and if you click on the name of the artist or song title you'll automatically be transported to that artist's soundcloud page which is a nice touch there's a settings tab that lets you adjust which pastel color the music player will appear in and all in all it's just a really simple cool app that's free to download and offers up some new music with an old retro look and feel to it this next app is actually pretty incredible and it's called tech sniper tech sniper is an app that can quickly capture unselectable text from things like presentations trainings screencasts videos pictures etc it will then convert that text into editable text and that's really it it sounds simple because it is simple so for a real world example a lot of you out there might be doing some remote online learning for this school year and if some text on screen comes up that you have to write down or type up you no longer need to do all of that just head into your menu bar or use the keyboard shortcut to activate text sniper and then just like how you would select an area for a screenshot you select the text on the screen with the same tool and it's automatically copied to your clipboard feel free to paste that text into any document there might be some small formatting issues depending on what you're selecting but it's all really easy to fix and in my opinion it's still a lot faster than having to type everything out so give it a shot it's only five dollars next up is an app called tuck and i know we've worked with a lot of window management resizing positioning apps like this one before but this is a little bit different tuck lives in your menu bar with a few simple keyboard commands which can allow users to easily send app windows to any portion of your screen and it tucks it away you can easily access the window again by hovering your mouse over the area in which the app was tucked into and if you hover back over again it will automatically hide that app or tuck it away again this will remain the case until you physically click and drag that window out of its tucked location it's a pretty easy way to hide all of the apps when you don't need them and even easier to quickly access them when you do our last app is called panolicious which much like tuck is designed to help you reduce clutter but also give you access to files or apps via custom panels the app is really simple there are a few customization options for each panel when you initially create them but that's really it you can adjust the size and location for each panel as well as what apps files etc are located inside of each panel then to toggle visibility you can just select that option in the menu bar but other than that that panel will just sit in its location for quick access to those apps or files that you might need at any time and it's completely free and available in the app store so feel free to give it a shot now before we end today's video i do want to give you more information about today's sponsor motion vfx if you haven't heard of motionvfx yet and you're a content creator well buckle up because your life is about to get a lot easier you might have seen some fancy animations or graphics popping up throughout most of our videos and as much as i would like to say i created those beautiful transitions or animations myself well i really didn't work smarter not harder with over hundreds of different plugins and templates from motion vfx they are hands down the best resource for final cut pro 10 and motion plugins and templates installing a plugin is as easy as one click from the motion vfx menu bar app and customizing these plugins all takes place directly inside of final cut pro just drag and drop your effect or transition into your timeline and edit that from the inspector window it's that easy if you want a recommendation on what plugins to check out i would start with the m lowers and m transition mega packs these are some of the best transitions and lower third graphics around and there are so many of them hence the name megapax that you can choose from to add to your videos and take it to the next level and add that unique look and feel honestly i use these plugins every day and they are a huge tool for helping me create content faster and easier for more information about motion vfx and the bundles that we recommended you can click the link in the description down below this has been dan with mac rumors thanks so much for watching and i hope to see you around in the next video youthis video is sponsored by motionvfx it's yet again that time where we show you five mac apps for the month of august 2020 that we think you should check out before we get started be sure to subscribe and hit the bell to get notifications whenever we share a video this month we have some pretty simple but also incredibly useful utilities to talk about and one that i'm loving right now is mackdroid i'm not sure how many of you out there own a mac and an android phone but i'd imagine there's a lot of you who could possibly use this very simple yet effective tool to transfer data to and from your mac with your android phone the process is simple simply plug in your device to your mac and either select file transfer if you want to just transfer data from your phone to your mac like photos or videos or you can head into settings and turn on usb debugging in order to get your device into adb mode this will allow many other possibilities but most importantly it gives you the ability to transfer content from your mac to your phone and not just from your phone to your mac the only downside is is that it is a subscription-based app but it does come in at a pretty reasonable 20 a year so if you're like me and you miss airdrop every time you use android and just need to get some photos or videos from your device to your mac this is honestly the best way that i've come across so far this next app might take you back a bit with its look and feel but it's pretty cool way to discover new music and it's called poolside poolside is the super summery feeling music player for your mac that's inspired by the old mac days with its simplistic and retro design the music that's curated is fantastic and is definitely perfect for this time of year you can choose between a few different channels or genres of music skip and save tracks and if you click on the name of the artist or song title you'll automatically be transported to that artist's soundcloud page which is a nice touch there's a settings tab that lets you adjust which pastel color the music player will appear in and all in all it's just a really simple cool app that's free to download and offers up some new music with an old retro look and feel to it this next app is actually pretty incredible and it's called tech sniper tech sniper is an app that can quickly capture unselectable text from things like presentations trainings screencasts videos pictures etc it will then convert that text into editable text and that's really it it sounds simple because it is simple so for a real world example a lot of you out there might be doing some remote online learning for this school year and if some text on screen comes up that you have to write down or type up you no longer need to do all of that just head into your menu bar or use the keyboard shortcut to activate text sniper and then just like how you would select an area for a screenshot you select the text on the screen with the same tool and it's automatically copied to your clipboard feel free to paste that text into any document there might be some small formatting issues depending on what you're selecting but it's all really easy to fix and in my opinion it's still a lot faster than having to type everything out so give it a shot it's only five dollars next up is an app called tuck and i know we've worked with a lot of window management resizing positioning apps like this one before but this is a little bit different tuck lives in your menu bar with a few simple keyboard commands which can allow users to easily send app windows to any portion of your screen and it tucks it away you can easily access the window again by hovering your mouse over the area in which the app was tucked into and if you hover back over again it will automatically hide that app or tuck it away again this will remain the case until you physically click and drag that window out of its tucked location it's a pretty easy way to hide all of the apps when you don't need them and even easier to quickly access them when you do our last app is called panolicious which much like tuck is designed to help you reduce clutter but also give you access to files or apps via custom panels the app is really simple there are a few customization options for each panel when you initially create them but that's really it you can adjust the size and location for each panel as well as what apps files etc are located inside of each panel then to toggle visibility you can just select that option in the menu bar but other than that that panel will just sit in its location for quick access to those apps or files that you might need at any time and it's completely free and available in the app store so feel free to give it a shot now before we end today's video i do want to give you more information about today's sponsor motion vfx if you haven't heard of motionvfx yet and you're a content creator well buckle up because your life is about to get a lot easier you might have seen some fancy animations or graphics popping up throughout most of our videos and as much as i would like to say i created those beautiful transitions or animations myself well i really didn't work smarter not harder with over hundreds of different plugins and templates from motion vfx they are hands down the best resource for final cut pro 10 and motion plugins and templates installing a plugin is as easy as one click from the motion vfx menu bar app and customizing these plugins all takes place directly inside of final cut pro just drag and drop your effect or transition into your timeline and edit that from the inspector window it's that easy if you want a recommendation on what plugins to check out i would start with the m lowers and m transition mega packs these are some of the best transitions and lower third graphics around and there are so many of them hence the name megapax that you can choose from to add to your videos and take it to the next level and add that unique look and feel honestly i use these plugins every day and they are a huge tool for helping me create content faster and easier for more information about motion vfx and the bundles that we recommended you can click the link in the description down below this has been dan with mac rumors thanks so much for watching and i hope to see you around in the next video you\n"