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Best free Mac games
The transition to Apple Silicon has thrown the Mac games scene into flux, but there are still some great free games available for Mac users
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Lasso review: Rassle control of your Mac's Finder windows
Quickly and efficiently size and reset window dimensions.
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Best web design software for Mac
Five web-design software packages for Mac that make it easy to build your own website.
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MacGPT is the next must-have tool for your menu bar
This simple utility puts the ChatGPT interface in the toolbar.
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ClamXAV review: Basic antivirus protection for an annual price
ClamXAV for Mac offers solid antivirus protection, but lacks advanced features.
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Best video calling software for Mac
Meeting on your Mac? We've checked out the best video-conferencing software you can use on a Mac (and iPhone and iPad). Here are our favorites.
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AVG AntiVirus for Mac review: Basic but solid protection for free
AVG AntiVirus for Mac offers free protection that covers just the basics. It's a good free option.
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TG Pro review
Apple has dozens of thermometers and fan tachometers that TG Pro exposes for monitoring and warnings.
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Mac Gems: Paste review
The Paste app provides easy access to days, months, or an infinite well of what you’ve ever put on the clipboard.
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Moom review
Quick, precise window resizing paired with snapshots of your app window layouts offer both precision and recall.
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Retrobatch review: Easy-made process workflows for image processing
Retrobatch and Retrobatch Pro remove all the effort for any imaging task that needs automation, including rules-based outcomes.
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Clario Antivirus 1.5 for Mac review
Clario offers full antivirus protection with ad blocking, VPN, and data breach monitoring.
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iPhone (2007) review: A game-changer years in the making
Although the iPhone is not without a few quirks, it makes good on the hype that surrounded it.
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Lingon X review
While its main purpose is scheduling, Lingon X provides valuable insight and control over startup and recurring events on your Mac.
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PopClip review: Supercharge your ability to select and paste text on your Mac
Any selection or text field gains customizable actions with PopClip installed.
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QR Factory review: One-stop shop for making custom QR codes
With QR codes now everywhere, QR Factory provides a way to create the most popular formats as one-off images or mass output.
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Best Mac word processor
Here are ten of our favourite Mac word processing apps, including great alternatives to Word and Pages, and some free options.
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Best email app for Macs
Apple's Mail app is great, but sometimes we need something a little more… feature rich. Here are some of the best alternative email clients for Mac.
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In Your Face review
Sometimes you need a full-screen reminder to avoid missing the start of an appointment–or forgetting about it altogether.
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TextSniper review: Extracts the text of anything you see on your Mac
This straightforward app provides top-notch text recognition plus barcode and QR code scanning.
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Mac Gems: Reflector 4
Turn to Reflector for more than the bare necessities built into macOS Monterey.
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Best free iPhone games 2022
These are the 40 best free iPhone games that won't cost you a penny (and aren't crammed with adverts and IAPs).
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Mac Gems: Squash review
Squash affordably streamlines processing, compressing, and watermarking batches of images with the quality of high-end tools.
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Logic Pro10.7 review
Logic Pro goes from strength to strength. Version 10.7 fixes bugs and allows for creating Spatial Audio mixes.
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Best music software for Mac
We've rounded up the best audio recording software for Mac, whether you are in a studio or at home these apps are worth a listen.
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GarageBand for Mac 10.4.6 Review
Wondering if GarageBand for Mac is any good? Apple's music studio is an easy recommendation for musicians and podcasters alike.
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Best MOBA games for Mac
These are our favourite MOBA games for Mac including DOTA, Heroes of the Storm, and League of Legends.
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Best Mac Action Games
These are our favourite Mac action games including Batman:Arkam City, Bioshock, Call of Duty, and Tomb Raider.
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Games like The Sims – Simulation games for Mac
These are our favourite Mac simulation games including, obviously, The Sims, but also Minecraft, great options from Lego and more.
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Best puzzle games for Mac
Exercise your brain with these puzzle games for Mac. Our favourites include Machinarium and World of Goo.
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Best sport games to play on Mac
Want to play sports games on your Mac? You can. Try these golf, football, skateboarding and other sporty games.
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Best adventure games for Mac
These are our favourite Mac adventure games including Banner Saga, Life is Strange, Mad Max and Secret Of Monkey Island.
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Best strategy games for Mac
These are our favourite Mac strategy games including Civilization, Company of Heroes, Warhammer and more.
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Best Mac racing games
These are our favourite Mac racing games including Dirt Rally, F1, FlatOut, and many more.
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Best roleplaying games for Mac
These RPGs are our favourite roleplaying games for Mac, from Baldur's Gate and Diablo to Elder Scrolls and Final Fantasy.
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Best platform games for Mac
These are our favourite Mac platform games, while Sonic and Mario might be absent there are some fun platform games on the Mac.
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Best Mac card games
These are the best card games for Mac that we've played, including Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, Heathstone, and Minion Masters.
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Best free iPad games 2022
We round up the very best free iPad games. They're brilliantly fun to play, and don't hassle you with demands for money.
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Ninox for Mac review
Modern in appearance and simplicity, just about anyone can use the surprisingly full-featured Ninox for Mac database app. It also interfaces directly with Ninox's online service.
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AirBuddy review
Manage and automate connections among audio and Bluetooth devices while easily checking their battery levels.
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Digital Performer 11 review
Digital Performer is a vastly capable digital audio workstation that offers unique organization abilities for soundtracks and other large-scale projects. It also takes a deep dive to plumb its capabilities and quirks to reap the rewards.
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Mac Gems: Clocker
This menu bar app could be vital to those who work routinely with people across multiple time zones.
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Yoink review: Mac Gems
Use Yoink to drag, collect, and distribute all the miscellaneous files, images, text selections, and other bits and pieces that are part of your digital workflow.
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CleanShot X review: Make perfect, precise Mac screenshots and screen recordings
The ease and power of CleanShot X should thrill anyone with a frequent need to document macOS and Mac apps.
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StopTheMadness review
This deceptively simple extension that overrides websites’ attempts to lock out browser features works with Safari and other browsers in macOS. It also blocks embedded link tracking.
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Best Mac cleaner apps
We’ve done some research to find out which apps are the best for cleaning up the files and folders that have accumulated on your Mac’s storage.
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Mac gems: Keka review
Keka is the one-stop shop for all formats designed to hold one or more files, encrypted or otherwise, whole or in pieces.
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