Five Mac Apps Worth Checking Out - January 2020

Thursday January 16, 2020 2:16 pm PST by Juli Clover
Apps designed for the Mac often don't receive as much attention as apps designed for iPhones and iPads, so we have a series here at MacRumors that highlights useful and interesting Macs worth checking out.

This month's picks include apps for optimizing your Mac, learning keyboard shortcuts, searching cloud services, and watching streaming video.

Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos.
  • Sensei - ($29/Year) - Sensei is a new Mac app designed for Mac optimization, offering a clean interface and a range of tools for disk cleaning, battery health monitoring, GPU, CPU, and RAM monitoring, temperature monitoring, SSD Trim enabling, uninstalling apps, fan control, file deleting, and more. Sensei costs $29 per year or $59 for a lifetime license, but there is a free trial to test it out.
  • Mouseless ($15) - Mouseless is an app that helps you learn all of the keyboard shortcuts in your favorite apps, offering up short interactive training sessions that teach shortcuts and then reinforce the learning right away. It's a nifty little tool for anyone who wants to become more accustomed to app shortcuts.
  • Clew (Free) - Clew is a search app designed to let you search through all of your connected cloud accounts so you can find exactly what you're looking for and then share it quickly using drag and drop. Clew supports Dropbox, Google Drive, Github, and more.
  • Gooba (Free) - Gooba is a writing app and task manager that combines note taking, writing, and task management, so you can do things like write a document and then set a reminder for when to send it. It offers Markdown support, keyboard shortcuts, and cross platform compatibility so you can use it on a Mac, iPad, or iPhone.
  • Clicker ($5) - Clicker is a set of apps designed for streaming video services that include Netflix, Disney+, YouTube TV, and Hulu, which is the newest app of the bunch. Clicker lets you launch right from the dock and it offers picture-in-picture support, quick video pausing, full screen browsing, touch bar controls, and more. It's a useful app for accessing video services that are normally restricted to the browser on the Mac. All of the apps cost $5, but the Disney+ version is free.
If you have a favorite must-have Mac app that we haven't highlighted yet, let us know in the comments below and we might feature it in a future video. For more of our Mac app picks, make sure to check out our Mac app archives.

Tag: Essential Mac Apps
[ 19 comments ]

Top Rated Comments

(View all)

Avatar
D.T.
6 weeks ago


Oh! got it. Thanks.
Once I saw ($29/Year) in the text, I immediately ignored it. Good to know it has a full license option.


Oh I'm with you, there's something about a recurring "subscription" that rattles me :D
Rating: 8 Votes
Avatar
farewelwilliams
6 weeks ago
A subscription based app? No thanks. I rather pay for one time payment apps even though it might end up costing me more (from paid updates).

EDIT: looks like sensei has a full license option (sorry, i immediately ignored the rest of the text once I saw the subscription price)
Rating: 6 Votes
Avatar
D.T.
6 weeks ago


A subscription based app? No thanks. I rather pay for one time payment apps even though it might end up costing me more (from paid updates).


Are you talking about Sensei? It's available as both as subscription and a one time outright purchase.



Rating: 4 Votes
Avatar
farewelwilliams
6 weeks ago


Are you talking about Sensei? It's available as both as subscription and a one time outright purchase.


Oh! got it. Thanks.
Once I saw ($29/Year) in the text, I immediately ignored it. Good to know it has a full license option.
Rating: 3 Votes
Avatar
SigEp265
6 weeks ago
Clicker ... couldn't one just open multiple browser windows?
Rating: 1 Votes
Avatar
4jasontv
6 weeks ago
The clicker app is the exact opposite of what makes the Apple TV app so wonderful. I want one app that syncs all my content into one search. I don’t care if the new, I don’t know... um, Freaky Friday?, is on Disney, HBO, or Netflix. I care if I have access somewhere across all my subscriptions.
Rating: 1 Votes
Avatar
verpeiler
6 weeks ago
That Sensei app... nice ripoff.
Rating: 1 Votes
Avatar
ScubaCinci
6 weeks ago


A subscription based app? No thanks. I rather pay for one time payment apps even though it might end up costing me more (from paid updates).

EDIT: looks like sensei has a full license option (sorry, i immediately ignored the rest of the text once I saw the subscription price)

Nice that it does have a purchase option. I hate the growing trend of subscription software but unfortunately, it's only going to increase as it is much more of a money maker for the companies selling them.
Rating: 1 Votes

[ Read All Comments ]