#transcript #youtube #mac #macos #open-source #snazzy-labs > Creator-uploaded English captions (not auto-generated), paragraphed into ~30 s chunks by `ytkx`. Each bold timestamp links to that moment in the video. Distilled notes live in [[Open Source Mac Apps 2026]]. Source: Snazzy Labs — [Open Source Is Beating Paid Mac Apps](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aea2DUX4fsQ) (2026-10-02, 32:30) --- **[0:00](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=0)** The Mac app scene is crazy right now, because  on the one hand, it seems like we are doubling our output of garbo AI slop every single day.  But on the other hand, there has been a genuine influx of great free, open-source software from  genuinely good developers that are empowered by this new era of agentic coding. And today  I want to show you some of those Mac apps, some of the ones I've been loving lately. Most of  them are open source, and all of them are free. Buddy, if you are still using the built-in Archive  Utility within macOS, what are you even doing with your life? Because for one, it is very slow  with larger archives. That was fast because **[0:35](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=35)** it was—well, it was a one-kilobyte zip file. But  if you have one that's several dozen gigabytes, it takes a while to uncompress. Secondly, it just  doesn't support a bunch of formats. .7z files, .rar files. It's like, what? Never seen  those before. It's annoying. And so a third-party industry of unarchivers  has been around for many, many years. The Unarchiver, a famous one. Keka is another.  But my newest and most favorite is MacPacker. Now, it does things that many of these other  apps do. So I can browse within a zip file and check out what's inside it without  actually unarchiving it. And I can even extract files from within a zip file. So I'm  gonna select this notes file and summary here, **[1:11](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=71)** and I'm gonna drag them out, and check it out.  It has been unarchived, but the rest of the archive has not been touched. This is great  when you only need a couple of things inside of a zip file that is multiple gigabytes, but  that's not new. That's not unique to MacPacker. One thing that is pretty cool is  I can go into Extras, and uh-oh, there's another zip file in here. It's nested  inside a zip. No big deal. I just click it, open it up. I can grab this thing, drag it out,  and there you go. I got it from inside a zip, inside a zip. It's Inception levels of  zip, but it gets even cooler. I can, from just my regular Finder without opening the app,  press the space bar. It takes over Quick Look, **[1:48](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=108)** and I can click a file and I can say Extract  Selected. I select the destination, the desktop, and there you go. I have extracted just that  file without even having to open the app. But this is the coolest thing that I think  this app can do that I just have not seen anywhere else. Let's open this thing  once again, and I am going to go into my screenshots here. I'm going to drag this  screenshot over, and check this out. I was able to drag this file inside of this screenshot. So I  can quit this app. I'm just going to delete these, and then check this out. I'm going to come  in here and I am going to open with Archive Utility. No special magic. And there it is. The  screenshot is inside of this nested archive folder **[2:29](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=149)** that was already compressed when I added  the file. What the frick? That's awesome. If there is but one app you download  from this video, let it be this one. It is called—I actually, I don't know. I've  been calling it Vorssaint. It is a free, open-source menu grab bag. None of the things  that this app does are unique, but they are all centrally located in a single handsome app, and  they are all quickly accessible via the menu bar. This first tab replaces caffeinate and Amphetamine  by preventing your Mac from going to sleep. I can toggle it on or off simply, or I can also put  it under certain conditions. So, don't let my Mac go to sleep for four hours. Actually, I need  another hour, and now it'll be five hours. Oh, **[3:05](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=185)** also, I need you to wiggle the cursor so  that the screensaver doesn't come on. And oh, it's a MacBook Pro, so let me close the  lid without the machine turning off. See what I mean? Pretty cool. But this is just  the first tab. Let's go to the second one. This page gives you per-app control over  volume and device output. Amazing. So I have one app that's always a little bit  quiet. I just turn that specific app up. And if I want to change the output to a  different pair of speakers or headphones, I can do that. That's not just for  outputs, but that's also for inputs. I can send specific microphones to specific apps  and otherwise. It is so freaking amazing. Love it. **[3:43](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=223)** Next. This is just a hardware utilization  page. It's nice, but it shows us that, yeah, here's our temperature on our CPU and GPU. Here's  our usage. You can see what apps are consuming the most resources. It's better than having to  open htop or Activity Monitor. And it's a quick, easy way to kind of figure stuff out for both  your CPU, GPU, and of course your memory. Next is a network page, similar. It gives us  our local IP quickly at a glance. It tells us, you know, our current throughput. I  can run a network test to see, hey, how's our internet speed going? And it  runs in the background pretty quickly, and then it lets us know. You can, of  course, change what network test you do, **[4:20](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=260)** what service you're using. I've got 1.3  gigabits per second down and 500 up. Okay, not great. But I'm not wired into Ethernet.  That's over a Ubiquiti AirWire, so not shabby. Then we have a disk tab. This can show us  not just current disk usage and live activity of our current read and write speeds, but it  also tells us lifetime data. I've written 233 terabytes to, or read from, this device since  I've owned it. Pretty crazy. And you can also do this for external drives. You can see their  storage. If it is an SSD—which this one's not, this is an SD card—you can get TRIM information.  You can also, and this is super, super handy, **[4:56](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=296)** force eject it if Finder doesn't want  to give it up, but you don't want to just yank it. So it can safely force eject  and do all the other things. That's great. And then this last tab, it tells you your  power. So I'm pulling 28 watts from the wall—30. Not too bad for an M4 Mac mini—M4  Pro Mac mini. This is more handy if you have a MacBook Pro, because you can get battery  data and health and all that stuff. But if you thought that that was just all this app  can do, you would be wrong, because I have shown you eight of—are you ready for this?—73 features.  73 features. Yeah, it's pretty insane. This thing supports clipboard history and Dock behaviors and  file cleanup and so much more. Port management **[5:40](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=340)** and notes. Like, oh my goodness, it is insane how  powerful this thing is. There's even a new feature that I haven't honestly played around with all  that much that lets you put stuff in your Dynamic Island on your MacBook Pro. And so, yeah, you  can get calendar information and lyrics and media controls. This is an app that you can just lose  hours in. And you should, because it's one app that acts like 100 apps. And it's open source, and  it's freaking free. Are you kidding me? Vorssaint! All right. Next app. Actually, you know, I  really care about you. You mean a lot to me, and I appreciate you as a subscriber. And if you're  not subscribed, that's okay. You can start today. **[6:22](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=382)** All too often, we're not looking into the camera  on our Zoom calls to express human emotion. We're looking down at our notes on our screen,  and that doesn't seem genuine to go, Greg, you're the best manager I've ever had. Thank you.  We'll see you on Tuesday. We know Greg sucks, right? But we have to pretend that he doesn't  suck. And by doing that, by looking through the camera, he can feel real. We'll get that  promotion that we need, unlike Austin Evans. That's where Textream comes in. It is  a voice teleprompter for your notch, which puts your notes right up near  your camera. So whatever you got to say, it's right up there. And it supports voice  tracking. So you can say, it is such a miraculous **[6:58](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=418)** thing that we are all connected via a series of  tubes that go under the ocean, under the ground, under the floor. See, this is better. It also  supports, of course, non-microphone input, and so you can just scroll like a regular,  regular script. And so, Austin Evans, look, man, it's been a tough time this year.  The gift bag videos, they're great, but they've overstayed their welcome a little bit. Ken  is just so talented, and he thinks that he can run the company instead. So we're going to have to  let you go. Enjoy your time with Unbox Therapy. To be very clear, I love Austin, and he is  much better than Unbox Therapy. To be clear, **[7:41](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=461)** I do not love Lew. Okay. All right. Okay. Where  was I at? Oh, yeah. I kind of overshowed my hand. One of the things that it supports is paginated  scripts. And so you can come in here and you can just jump through the different sections, which  is super, super great. Additionally—this is really handy as well—you can come in here and you can  just import straight-up PowerPoint notes. So I dragged a PowerPoint file in, and this has got a  notes page. And so there you go. Just imports all the kind of presenter notes. And there you go. You  have your presenter notes ready to go when you're **[8:16](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=496)** doing your slideshow, and you can look at the  camera. It's great. It's free. It's open source. And one of the things I really like about it is  it just works with text files. So it doesn't have some built-in database. You just use the files  that are already on your machine. Pretty cool. All of the apps I've shown you thus  far are great at their one little job, but the reality is our computing lives aren't that  simple, as more and more of our information is being spread across more services on the web. And  closing that gap is exactly what today's sponsor, Make, and its AI builder, Maia, are  for. Let me show you what I mean. Copland Supply is my Shopify merch store where  I sell a lot of cool stuff, and many awesome people order multiple things at once. But that  means checking the stock and packing it into the **[8:53](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=533)** right box, because depending on what you select,  you've got to go into one of many different box sizes. Now, Shopify's shipping label system gives  me the best rates and it's nicely integrated into the software, but it sucks at choosing the right  box automatically. And you cannot set up rules, so I have had to manually review and select  which box by hand for every single order. I've done this literally 3,500 times in the  last, like, 10 months. I spent hours on this. So, I described the problem to Maia in plain  English. She asked me which box to use for which grouping of items, and after I told  her, she devised her own plan and laid it out on Make's visual canvas. In addition to  seeing the steps, she wrote plain JavaScript **[9:30](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=570)** over using an agent, so it wasn't a black  box. I could see what she was going to do, and anything that Maia doesn't recognize gets  flagged instead of guessed. Now, new orders just show up in Shopify already tagged with their  box, and the weird ones come straight to me. And this is just one example. I had  Maia take on a few other jobs too, like drafting support replies for me to approve  with customers' orders already pulled up, syncing my Apple Reminders to Google Tasks so  my AI agents can access them, and reminding me before a return window closes to go to Whole  Foods—all by just describing what I wanted. This is just a slice of what Maia  by Make can do. It is incredibly **[10:04](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=604)** powerful. And if you're still babysitting  any process like this that's repetitious, you're losing time and money. So build  your own version today with Maia by Make. If you're like me and you ever need to create  repetitive file structures, this next app is a godsend. Welcome to our server. This is our  Archive Projects, Published Projects 2025. So these are all of the videos that we published  in 2025. And at first glance, it's pretty organized. We've got our date titles, we've got an  underscore, and then the video topic, if not the video title, because we usually choose titles  when we publish. And then if we go into this actual directory, we'll see that we have assets  and audio, and everything's pretty neatly sorted. **[10:39](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=639)** The reality, though, is, if you look—there you  go—Expots. We spell folders wrong. Sometimes we're missing folders and we have to add them later. It  was kind of a mess before we started using Prefab. Prefab is the app that does everything for us now.  And I will give you an example of our Apple video project workflow. So anytime that we have a video  project related to Apple, we come in here and we push Create, and it says, where do you wanna save  it? And we are going to save it to this temporary folder called Starter Files. And sure, let's call  it Apple 2027, okay? Now you'll see that it has automatically created not just a folder with  the formatting that we want from our server, **[11:16](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=676)** but it's also automatically created all of the  directories within, and not just the directories, but links to all of our assets and everything  else. So this is an Apple video. We link our Apple archive. This is our directory of everything  that Apple has ever published that we can find, all the way from 1977—sometimes not, 1976—to now.  So we come in here, and hey, bada boom, bada bing. And so we've got keynotes, we've got asset images  and everything else. It's all done, ready to go. And it's super easy to build these things out,  because there are other apps like this, but they are not simple. Why this is easy is because I can  just come in here and say Import Folder. And what **[11:53](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=713)** I can do is import a test folder and then say  import the folders and files, or the folders only. I'm gonna say import folder and the files.  And it has imported five folders and two files. So basically, it just takes an example folder that  you have that's already built up just like you want, and it copies it. And so I can come in here,  and it's automatically gonna create the date. It's gonna ask us for the topic once I establish  the placeholder. So I'm gonna say, let's add a placeholder, and we will say, what vid about,  bruh, okay? And then it's going to automatically create the other directories and also modify  these files. And that's where this thing gets really powerful. So I can come in here. I can push  Create, and I'm going to say Create Here. And then **[12:31](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=751)** we will find that once we say, what's this video  about, bro? We'll say big, big beans. All right. Now there's a folder called Big Beans. And sure,  like we did before, we've got the actual folders, but check this out. If I open up this Markdown  file, it says Big Beans, created on this date. And then if I come down to footage, it's automatically  populated our shot list categorizer. This is so handy because you can modify actual folders and  files every single time you create a new project. So if you have anything that's supposed  to be consistent, use Prefab. It's free. Now, our next app is without a doubt the most  well-known on the list, but I still think it's **[13:07](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=787)** criminally underrated. And while its source  is GPLv3, it is freemium. Having said that, I didn't know that till I made this video,  because I've never paid for it. I've never been asked to pay for it. The free version  is great. It's called Clop. And in short, it allows you to optimize and convert any file  that you Command-C copy to your clipboard. You get a PDF, an image, a video, whatever. Now, you  can have it—and I think the default behavior is for it to convert directly on copy, which I  think is insane. So I hit Command-C to copy, and then I hit Control-Shift-C to actually  do the shrinking. And sure enough, if you look down here in the bottom right, our  pizza.png has converted from 1.9 megabytes to **[13:43](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=823)** 542 kilobytes. Still a PNG. And if I open the  file side by side, you'll see, sure enough, yeah, they're the same resolution. It hasn't  downscaled it any. Color space is the same. Now, there is an alpha channel on the original, and so  what I think is going to happen is the optimized version will be more saturated. Yes, it is. I  actually think it looks a little more appetizing, but that's not too bad of a change for quite  literally one quarter of the file size. Now, this floating thing stays down  here because you can say, oh crap, I didn't actually want a PNG, I wanted a JPEG,  and it'll create a JPEG. And if you go, oh, no, no, no, it's 154 kilobytes, I need it to be  under, like, you know, something even less. **[14:20](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=860)** 154 is pretty insane. Like 149. There you go.  Now it's made it 98. And sure enough, yeah, that doesn't look quite as good, but it did it.  This drop zone is really, really, really powerful. You can also restore it, and you can find the  file, and you can copy it and do whatever. This app is so powerful. I honestly don't even  know what to show you next. But let me come into here. I'm going to go to Settings, and then  I am going to open up Pipelines. Pipelines, just to give you a sample of what this thing  can do. Here are the video pipeline samples. You can change the resolution. You can change the  codec. You can add a watermark. You can change the audio levels. Like, you can do everything,  and it's all automated, happening in the **[14:57](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=897)** background. This is not a video editor. It just  does this anytime you copy something. It's nuts. So let me create a new image pipeline, and I  am going to cheat and use one that I wrote a little bit earlier, but it's all variables-based.  And so if you come in here, you'll actually see that it's pretty simple. And so if we look at it  logistically, we're gonna copy to—here's the path. So I wanna move it to a folder, and I want it to  embody this file naming scheme. And then I say, okay, once you've done that, once you've moved  the file or copied it, I want you to crop the long edge to 1600 pixels. Then once you've done  that, I want you to convert it from whatever format it is to WebP. There you go. That's all  you have to do. It's pretty simple. Now I can **[15:35](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=935)** choose to show or hide the floating window.  And so I'm gonna say, let's hide it. Let's do it all in the background. And now I'm gonna come  over to Preset Zones. Oh, I've gotta name this, now that I think about it. What is it called?  Let's call it Big Boy, okay? So now I'm gonna come into Preset Zones. And when I go over to  Image, I'm gonna add a new preset called Big Boy. And now when I grab my file—I've got a big  3.5-megabyte Apple Watch here—I'm going to hold the file. I'm gonna drag it down to the little  floating tab. And you'll see that I can hold down the Option key and then open up—or Control  key, rather—and open up Big Boy. When I drop it **[16:14](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=974)** on Big Boy, it'll seem like nothing happened. But  actually it did, because if I go back a directory and go to Working Files, which is where I told  it I wanted it, not only did it move the original file, but it also created the little teeny-tiny  WebP version as well. Pretty freaking cool. Now, again, like I mentioned,  this is really complicated, but what's great is it exposes an MCP. So  you don't have to learn all the syntax and, you know, kind of weird oddities of this app. You  just tell Claude or ChatGPT what you want done, and the AI agents will set it  up for you. It's frigging slick. Mole is a $20 app for Mac that you don't  actually need, because you can install and run **[16:50](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1010)** Mole entirely through the open-source command-line  interface, and without crappy syntax that you have to learn to push you into buying the GUI version.  No, no, you open up Terminal once installed, you type mo, and boom, you are off to the  races with a really nice interface. Now, while it does have some neato things like a system  dashboard, which is handy if you don't want to use htop or Activity Monitor or something like that,  as well as Touch ID support for sudo commands, which is pretty nice, it's really designed to do  three, maybe four things super well. And those things are: free up your disk space, uninstall all  apps completely, optimize your entire system from both memory and startup items and caching and  services, and analyze your actual disk usage, **[17:30](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1050)** which is really, really great. I'll demo  this one super fast. You come in here and you go down to Analyze, and then it shows  you your actual real time—and you can see it's measuring my library. It's measuring  your real-time size on your disk so you can find out what files are tricky. And then you just  select the item you want, and it does its thing. Now, you'll say, but Quinn, there's already a  lot of apps that do this. There's AppCleaner and Pearcleaner for uninstallation. There's CleanMyMac  and DaisyDisk for disk. I'm telling you, listen to me. None of them are as thorough  as Mole. Now, Mole is pretty slow and it's kind of dated, but it just works. And you  will be—just let it run all three things, and you will be shocked at how much disk  space you get back and how much faster your **[18:11](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1091)** Mac feels. It's amazing. It's free. It's  Mole. I mean, I feel like I'm a hacker. macUSB is the free, open-source app that makes  bootable USB installers, kind of like Rufus, but for the Mac. So I can select and open up  this CachyOS Linux ISO. I can press Analyze, and sure enough, it'll say, hey, you know  what? This looks like an Arch Linux-based ISO. And it is. If I want to be really sure, I  can calculate the checksum and make sure that the MD5 hash matches the source from where I  downloaded it. Great. Okay. So that's cool. Then I can come in here. I select my USB drive.  I push Continue. And then I push Start. And it **[18:48](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1128)** formats my disk. It gets everything ready.  And it makes that bootable version of Linux. Now, you might say, Quinn, you don't need an app  for this. This is achievable via Terminal with dd, or even within Disk Utility. Let me tell you,  no, it ain't. macOS in particular has become a steaming pile of dog crap about making bootable  volumes in the last few years, especially so with macOS installers. But no longer, because  check this out. I push the Download button, and I can download and install and provision  macOS to be bootable from a USB drive, which, again, you should be able to do from Terminal.  But I'm telling you, time and time again, **[19:26](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1166)** especially in the last few years, it has  gotten so incredibly difficult. There are threads out the wazoo about how to do this.  This guy's just like, yep, let's put it in an app. And if you want a beta version, because  you want to have a bootable volume that you can, you know, jump into and not mess up your  main kind of volume that's on your system, you can do that. You download it, you flash  it to the drive, and you are ready to go. It's freaking awesome. It's just amazing  for trying betas and everything else. But that's not all it can do. If I push Close, and  then I quit—because I think it doesn't like once you have an ISO selected—bring this window back  over here, and then I push Start. Now I can go to Tools and say Write Raw Image to Drive. So if I  want to write a raw ISO or a DMG or an IMG file, **[20:06](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1206)** I can do that. And it doesn't analyze the  context. It just does what it's supposed to do, which Disk Utility does, but this is so clean and  it's so fast, by the way. Way faster than Disk Utility. The last thing you can do that's pretty  frigging sweet—it is very Rufus-esque—you can write bootable volumes onto hard drives and  external SSDs. That might sound trivial, but it's not. Try writing macOS to a hard drive.  You will not be able to do it. It's great on USB volumes, but it's just such a nightmare. That's  why Rufus on Windows is famous—because you can just plug in whatever the frick you want. Same  now with macUSB on macOS. It's amazing. It is Rufus for macOS in every way and every shape  and form and term. And wow, I just—it's great. **[20:45](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1245)** I cannot name the number of voice-to-text  apps that have got to be out there. It's probably in the millions. I'm joking, but all  of these apps, they're using the same models under the sheets. They're using NVIDIA  Parakeet. They're using OpenAI Whisper, whatever. All they're doing is adding their own  wrapper on top. It's kind of like baby's first vibe-coded app. Everybody seems to have made  one. It's like the first thing. But Handy is one that I really like. It's entirely free. It's  multi-platform. It uses on-device models. And, well, let me show you how that works. I can come  into the Models page and I can choose whatever I want. I like the small, kind of 700-megabyte  NVIDIA Parakeet. It's super fast. It's pretty accurate. But more importantly, it doesn't  suck up a bunch of memory, which is great. **[21:23](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1283)** And then it's got a bunch of other  features that are pretty cool. So I can come in here and set my hotkey. I've done  all three option keys down at the bottom—or modifier keys—and then the space bar. So I  can say, if I select all of these at one time, I can start to dictate. You can notice down  at the bottom that it is showing me real-time transcription, which is pretty cool. So it's  doing it on the fly. It's adding punctuation and grammar as I go. And then when I let go, it  pastes the text. So that's pretty great. It works well. It didn't even add a period, because it  knows that that's not the end of a real sentence. **[21:58](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1318)** But this thing does a few things that other voice  dictation apps don't tend to do very well. For one, it keeps a rolling history. You can choose  how many you want to keep. I have it set to five, but I can push play and hear my actual  recording. I can copy it. I can move it. I can send it to an AI agent, which is really,  really great. And then if I come into Advanced, there are so many features. You can choose how  your overlay is set up. You can choose custom words if it gets stuff wrong all the time.  You can have it auto-delete your recordings, like I just mentioned. And then you can do  experimental post-processing. So this is what's **[22:34](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1354)** pretty cool. If I come into Post-Process and I  scroll up, you'll see that I'm using ChatGPT. I'm using GPT-5.6 Luna. It's cheap. It works pretty  well. It works really great with text. But you can even use an Apple Intelligence on-device  model if you wanted to. It's completely free. And so what I can do is, if I add another modifier  key—so I'm going to do Shift—and then say, okay, so this is another demonstration of how I am doing  voice to text. But I can be a lot more precise—a lot less precise, rather—in the way that I convey  my text. I can use ums and uhs, and it will snip all of that out. But more importantly, I can say  things like this. Make a list: go to the store, **[23:20](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1400)** get hamburger meat, remortgage house because  bought hamburger meat, make hamburgers. And with a couple of seconds of processing—because,  again, this is now going to the cloud, it's not on device—hey, check it out. It actually  made a formatted list, which is great. And it actually left the ums and uhs in there because  they were relevant and pertinent to the sentence that I was creating. So it's pretty smart. You're  using real nice models. And it did add an em dash, but that's one of the things that's great.  You can come in here into the prompt and say, do not add em dashes. Don't do that. You can  define exactly what the output text is to be. And that's one of the reasons that I really  like Handy. It's clean. It's fast. It's simple. **[24:00](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1440)** Oh, the last thing I really like about it: the  model—there's a setting in here somewhere. Yes, you can unload the model after a certain period  of time. And so you can unload it and reload it as soon as you want. But that's nice, because  these models are several hundred megabytes and they're always sitting in RAM. Sometimes they're,  like, over a gigabyte if you're using a nicer, like, V3 Turbo Whisper model. And this  just pulls it out of memory so that you can have those resources reallocated as soon  as you need. And there is a slight delay in loading it back in. But what's great is  that you can start recording and the app begins to listen to what you're saying while  it's loading the model into memory. And then **[24:36](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1476)** it just catches up really quickly. It's great.  It's called Handy. It's free. Just go get it. This is probably the most anti-AI,  old-school app on our entire list, but boy, it sure is amazing. It is an open-source  folder rules app called Forel. You pick a folder, and then you stack up conditions and actions.  So ifs and thens, where if a file meets these qualifications, then do this thing to those files.  There's no AI, but that doesn't mean that it's dumb. It matches pretty sophisticated stuff. So  if I come in here, this is for contracts. If the PDF contains the content Snazzy Labs Media LLC,  then that qualifies it to be a file that will be **[25:14](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1514)** acted upon. But let's say I say, you know what,  this is actually not a PDF. This is a JPEG. So now it uses OCR to identify if Snazzy Labs Media  LLC is present in the JPEG anywhere. So it's using advanced modern technology. It's just not AI. And  what's great is building workflows is super easy. So I think the best way to illustrate  how cool this can be is to just do it. First of all, we need to select a folder  that's going to be watched. And for this demo, we'll call it Screenshot Inbox. I work with  a lot of screenshots. And macOS screenshots are kind of bizarre. They put a timestamp that  has, like, periods in them. And a lot of apps, especially ones designed for Windows, like  Premiere, they don't deal nicely with macOS **[25:52](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1552)** screenshots. They want, like, a clean file  name with no spaces and all that random crap. So I like to clean up the screenshots anyway. So  I'm going to come in here and select a new rule. And I will call this Screenshotty. Okay. And I  will say, hey, match all of these conditions. What are those conditions? Well, the condition  will be if the extension contains the value PNG, then act upon this file. Now, I could add  more. I could exclude. I can do whatever I want. But I'm just going to say PNG files only,  because that's what my screenshots always are. And then I select my actions. So I'm going to  say, hey, why don't we rename this to video dash, **[26:31](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1591)** and then I can put a variable, its original  name, and then a period, and then the extension variable. So .png, or whatever I define it to  be. Great. Okay. And now let's just, for fun, add another one. Let's say—let's add a tag, and  we'll call the tag B-roll. So now it'll be tagged in Finder, and I can easily search it. And let's  go a bit further and have a colored label. So my B-roll is always blue. We'll make it blue.  And then let's say I want to move them out of this folder, because this is designed  to be the inbox. You can have it not be, but let's say I want an inbox. And then I want a  destination folder. So I can come in here and say, once you're done with all that, move it  to a new folder. And then I choose what **[27:11](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1631)** that folder is. So let's say Ready for Edit.  Okay. And then I save. And then I turn it on. And now check it out. If I open up Finder,  I have three windows. I have my screenshot inbox down here—that's where files are going to  be acted upon—and Ready for Edit, which is files going to be moved. So if I come into Starter  Files, I have four different file types. I have a JPEG—or three different file types—a JPEG,  a TXT file, and then two PNG captures, which means these two are the only ones that should be  acted upon. So if I drag them all into the inbox, check it out. They immediately disappear  and move over to Ready for Edit. They've **[27:46](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1666)** been renamed. They have clean file names. They've  got the labels. They've got the B-roll tags. Wow, this is pretty darn cool. What's great about this  app is that it is super simple and easy to set up. And while you can use a browser control through AI  to do this automatically, I think this is one of those apps that just works, rather than asking an  agent to go out and say, hey, mess with a bunch of files on my computer. You just set these up. They  always work. They're super simple. Boom. Forel. So I had to turn on the old MacBook Air. I  hope you can see it. I left my MacBook Pro at home where I have this installed, but this  is nuts. I'm going to select a few files here **[28:21](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1701)** in my Recents folder. I'm going to tap the  side of my computer. I've now copied those items. I go to the desktop. I'm going to double  tap. I've now pasted those files to my desktop. You know what? I'm kind of in the mood for  some music. What about a screenshot, eh? Yeah, this thing is called MacTap. It uses the  motion sensor. Your computer actually has an IMU with an accelerometer and a gyroscope inside  your laptop that allows you to perform actions based on where you tap on the computer. Now,  there are a bunch of apps that do this. Knock, **[28:58](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1738)** I believe, is the original, from probably a  couple of years ago, but I really like MacTap because it's fully free. It's open source,  and it allows you to tap both sides of the computer. I find this to be a little bit spotty  when you're on, like, super resonant surfaces. But what's great about it is you can come in  here and you can tune it. And so if you tend to use it on the same types of desks or on your  lap or wherever, you come in and you say, okay, you know what? I want to use gestures on  both sides rather than just on one side. And then you come in here, you set your  sensitivity. I put this down at the minimum. Otherwise, I find you have, like, some misfires.  If you turn the sensitivity up, you can tap it, **[29:32](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1772)** like, barely touch it, and it'll work. Otherwise,  I got to give a kind of a pretty firm tap, but I like it that way anyway. And then  you come down into the sensor position, and you can do tests here. So I tap once, and  there you go. So I had to tap it pretty hard, and you can see where that threshold is. Once I hit  793 hertz of magnitude, it fires. Is it useful? Yeah, actually, because you can set up gestures  basically any way you want. The default is copy, paste, undo on one side and play, screenshot, and  lock screen on the other. But what's great is you can come in here and modify from a huge list,  and you can even program your own beyond that, **[30:08](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1808)** which is really great. And you can change them  per app. So in specific apps, they perform one function, and in other apps, they perform others.  And if you shake your arm too aggressively, it might accidentally take a screenshot. But  are you kidding me? It's freaking amazing. Everybody knows intuitively that leaning  down to stare at your laptop screen for hours on end is not good for your shoulders or  your neck. And if you're over the age of 30, you know it from experience. I have tried  a number of posture correction apps, and I find all of them to be pretty bad, because  they try to stick to something so rigid that it's uncomfortable from the rigidity. I don't want  something to yell at me when I'm in the middle **[30:43](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1843)** of my work. I want something to just analyze  what I'm doing passively, and then at the end, show me that data so that I can go, my  shoulder kind of hurts on this side. Oh, it's because I was leaning to that  side for several hours yesterday. And that's what Headjust does. It uses the  camera to calibrate the system. And then once it's calibrated, it turns the camera off, and it  just uses your AirPods' gyroscopic data. And you can see here that I am looking at the camera,  and I have a flow score of 100. That means I'm pretty well calibrated. I'm looking where  I ought to be. If I start to lean forward or tilt my head forward—either or. So I can  lean forward, gyroscope. I can tilt my head **[31:19](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1879)** down. It's going to start to drift away from  100. Same deal, back. If I shift my shoulders, that score is going to drop slightly. If I tilt  my head, that score is going to drop slightly. And what I can do is start a session. And over the  period of however long I choose to keep this on, it will analyze the exact movements of my head.  And it'll tell me, hey, you've been in the exact same spot for four minutes. You probably shouldn't  do that when you're, like, locked in. It'll also say, hey, for 15 minutes, we analyzed your  data, and it looks like you're leaning to the right side. It gives you rich, useful data  rather than rigid routines and structure. It's not the perfect app. It's a little bit buggy.  It can drift. And if you have another device steal **[31:58](https://youtu.be/Aea2DUX4fsQ?t=1918)** your AirPods away, well, it stops working,  and it struggles to resume. But I found it to be really good to kind of just, like, let you  know where you're at. And then once you improve, you just get rid of it. It's not meant to  stay there forever. It's free for today, and next week, when you fix your posture,  well, just move on. It's pretty cool. And so, just like that, in a mere five  hours—had some production difficulties—those are my favorite Mac apps as of late. Let  me know in the comments down below what yours are, but thank you so much for  watching, and as always, stay snazzy.