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DevMate recently asked 679 Mac developers about their experiences selling inside and outside Apple’s App Store. The results of the survey are enlightening, and of special interest to anyone currently

Update: Karabiner elements can once again do the Hyper Key modification on its own, see my post A Hyper Key with Karabiner Elements, full instructions .

I was a beta tester for TableFlip , an app for editing Markdown (MultiMarkdown) tables painlessly, and I’ve been waiting excitedly to talk about it for quite some time.

We’re seeing more and more Mac apps switching to subscription-based models. It reminds me of premium channels on my Apple TV: I cut my cable a long time ago, and was happy to have the option to add

Welcome to 2017, I hope you had a pleasant ending to a horrible, awful, very bad year. 2016 was an interesting year for me 1 . That said, my love of apps hasn’t diminished.

Welcome to round two of this year’s top picks from my own workflow! The last one was for productivity apps, and this one focuses on creative apps, encompassing audio, video, design, brainstorming,

Welcome to part 3 of my “Favorite Apps of 2016” series. This installment focuses on Mac utilities and developer tools. If you’re not a power user or a coder, there will probably be fewer apps of

Pi Fest starts today! It’s a software sale event geared toward researchers, scientists, and students. Developers from around the world have teamed up for this 10-day promotion. These are all high-

I’ve just updated the SearchLink macOS Service to fix a recent issue with plain text not being run through a default search. Version 2.2.5 is up, please contact me if you have any issues.

Yesterday I posted excitedly about full Hyper key functionality being available in macOS 10.12+. I included a snippet of a config file that has apparently led to some confusion, so I’m elaborating

Let’s address the headline first. This post is about the tags on files that Apple started supporting in Mavericks. Up until iOS 11, they didn’t work on iOS devices, so they eventually became “Finder

You may or may not recall my Sidecar jacket for Simplify , the macOS controller for Spotify and iTunes (and others). Sidecar is my “Minimalist Yet Huge” version, and I still use it every day.

Last month John Gruber mentioned a widespread complaint about Safari’s lack of favicons in tabs. I agree. So did Daniel Alm (developer of Timing ), so he put together a helper app to do it.

Another year, another new operating system, another update to the Mail Vacuuming script that I first posted in 2012 . It’s an AppleScript that performs the simple task of optimizing the database that

Flexibits just released their new Mac contact management app, Cardhop . I’ve been beta testing this app for a bit and it immediately became as much a part of my workflow as Fantastical (not

Last week I started having issues on High Sierra that I couldn’t resolve. Hours spent in Activity Monitor, Console, and surfing StackExchange sites led me to no further clues. The primary issue was

Back in 2014 I created a little app that generates custom PopClip extensions. It broke on 10.13, so I’m updating it for the latest OS.

Unclutter has been around for a while now, and it’s just as intriguing to me as it was when it was released. It’s a utility that combines clipboard history, interim file management, and a notepad all

I’ve been editing podcasts in Logic for a few years, but have only recently learned a few tips that made me realize I’ve essentially been doing it wrong the whole time. I’m sure Logic veterans will

After posting about App Santa 2017 , Daniel Alm (developer of Timing ) let me know about 12★Apps , a sale on apps from indie developers in the European Union.

Can you feel the nervous excitement? It’s that time of year again. You know, time for Brett’s Yearly Top Apps Lists . Here’s the first list of apps I loved using in 2017, starting on iOS. You’d

As usual, I’ve found myself unable to write up the complete 2017 macOS list in any reasonable timeframe, so I’m once again splitting it into parts. This year’s categories will be “Working,” “

For many of us, creating is the same as working , but I’ll make a distinction for the sake of categorization.

Welcome to my favorite part of the roundups: nerd stuff. Don’t worry, there’s cool stuff for everyone here, and I saved the real hardcore nerd stuff for the bottom for the truly adventurous.

OmniOutliner 3 for iOS is out and it’s a big update. See the bottom of the post for a chance to win a Pro license.

I first wrote about Deckset back in 2014 . Since then I’ve continued to love it as an alternative to Keynote, using it whenever I can for presentations. At CMD-D last summer, I hadn’t expected to be

Curio 12 is out today with a metric ton of new features, and a few that make it an especially exciting update for me. I’ve been testing the beta for just a couple weeks now, but have found plenty of

Marked 2.5.11 has (finally) been birthed, available via automatic update for the direct version , Mac App Store update , and on Setapp . This is a big release, and has been in development for over a

You probably know that I’m a big fan of keyboard shortcuts. I try to learn them all and rarely click a button or pull down a menu. There’s one area where I had a big question I had to pose to Twitter

The latest book from Luc P. Beaudoin is out: Cognitive Productivity with macOS: 7 Principles for Getting Smarter with Knowledge, available on Leanpub , the iBookstore and Amazon .