When working on your Mac, you may easily spend a portion of your time on simple tasks that could add up to take a significant amount of your time. With the right type of tools, you can stay productive and focus on tasks that are more important rather than spending time on routine work.
Luckily, the App Store is filled with tons of great apps and tools that will help improve your productivity. If you take advantage of the right apps, you can get more work done in less time.
Check out these 10 apps for Mac that could boost your productivity and help you finish your tasks more efficiently.
Alfred
If you’re the type of person who favors keyboard shortcuts over using a mouse, then Alfred is an app that you should check out. With it, you can use hotkeys and keywords to quickly launch apps and files, use the clipboard history to find any text, image or file you copied earlier as well as create your own workflow for repetitive tasks by binding together hotkeys, keywords and actions.
- Comes in both free and paid versions
Dropbox
Dropbox is a popular app that needs no introduction. With it, you can store your photos, files, documents or anything else in the cloud and access it virtually from anywhere with any device. Share links to your files and folders and receive comments from peers or collaborate with your team using shared folders with this amazing app.
- Free for personal use and up to 2.5GB storage
Evernote
Evernote allows you to take notes on the go as well as create checklists and to-do lists. Notes could be of any format including text, photo, video, PDF, web clippings etc. and they will be automatically synced across all the connected devices so that you can access them from anywhere with any device.
- Comes with Free, Plus and Premium plans
Fantastical 2
The stock Calendar app in Mac may be good for simple tasks such as keeping tab on upcoming appointments or scheduling a new event but what if you wanted more advanced features? Check out Fantastical 2, a popular calendar app for Mac that you won’t be able to live without.
With Fantastical 2, you can use natural language to quickly create events and reminders, set time and geofence alerts for your reminders, create, edit and view your upcoming events and reminders from the Menu Bar and much more.
- 21 day free trial. $39.99 for full license
Hazel
Hazel keeps track of the folders you tell it to and automatically organizes their files based on the conditions that you’ve specified. It can move around files based on the name, date, type and the site it came from and keep your folders and desktop free from clutter.
Hazel can do much more than this. It watches your Trash and deletes files that are too old to save storage. It can also process your files by tagging and archiving them, automatically rename the ones you want and sort them into subfolders.
- Free trial
- Premium license starts from $32
IFTTT
If there’s one thing that I’ll recommend for automating tasks of third-party apps & services then it will definitely be IFTTT. It is a web service that allows you to create conditional statements called “recipes” for your favorite apps and services. These recipes will be executed automatically whenever the specified conditions are met. Imagine receiving reminders an hour before your appointment or having all your new Facebook photos saved to Dropbox automatically.
- Free
Keyboard Maestro
Keyboard Maestro is a powerful automation tool that allows you to perform a series of actions on your computer, called macros, with a specific trigger. You can bind macros to a hot key, keyword, timer and many other triggers.
- Free for 30 days. $36 for a full-time license.
Slack
Slack is a cross-platform team communication tool that plugs into all your favorite services such as Twitter and Dropbox and allows you to instantly communicate with team members, share files, documents and images, install third-party plugins for additional features and many more.
- Free
Wunderlist
Want to get your stuffs done without forgetting? Wunderlist is the best way to keep track of all your to-dos in one place. You can create multiple to-do lists and organize them into separate folders, set a due date and reminder for each to-do item, share your to-do lists with others and much more.
Wunderlist is the ultimate tool for managing your to-do lists and sharing it with your partner.
- Free
1Password
Setting a secure and unique password for each of your accounts is important but who wants to go through the hassle of remembering them? Check out 1Password, an extremely useful password management app that is responsible for generating strong passwords as well as storing them in a secure vault.
Whenever you’re on a login page and want to access your account, you can simply launch 1Password and input the credentials with the press of a button. This eliminates the need of entering usernames and passwords manually or remembering them. What’s best about 1Password is that it syncs across all your devices so you can access your passwords from anywhere.
- $64.99
These are some of the best Mac apps that could help you improve your productivity and focus more on the important tasks. If you’re using any other productivity that should have made it to the list then make sure to share it with us in the comments below.
