Recently Popular Mac Apps (Issue #10)

July 15, 2023

Welcome to MacBed’s new apps introduction column. Here, we will introduce to you the latest and excellent Mac App. We also hope that you can share with us in the comment section the applications that you are interested in or enjoy using. Here are this week’s recommended new apps. The recommended apps will mainly be free apps.

1.MiaoYan

MiaoYan is a lightweight Markdown app created to help you write great sentences.

Fantastic: Local use, security, syntax highlighting, dark mode, source file saving, international, presentation mode, PPT Mode, single edit mode, export file, internal jump, document auto typesetting, picture upload, LaTeX, Mermaid, PlantUML, Markmap.

Beautiful: Minimalist design style, folder + file list + editor 3 column mode.

Fast: Using Swift5 native development, the performance experience is much better compared to the Web.

Simple: Very light, pure editor input experience, many shortcut keys to help you fast.

MiaoYan is free and open-source on GitHub. If you like it, you can download it from the official website.

2. Draw Things: AI Generation

Introducing Infinite Canvas! You can create image with text prompt, zoom in, fix details, zoom out, generative fill to landscape, and more!

Draw Things is a AI-assisted image generation tool to help you create images you have in mind in minutes rather than days. Master the cast spells and your Mac will draw what you want with a few simple words. Draw Things runs locally on your phone to protect your privacy.

Draw Things is completely free and can be downloaded from the App Store.

3. Screen Studio: Beautiful screen recordings in minutes

Screen Studio is a screen recorder for macOS that makes it easy to create beautiful videos in minutes. It automatically smooths out your mouse movement, zooms in on clicks, applies cinematic motion blur, and adds a beautiful background to your recording. In a matter of minutes, you can create a high-quality promotional video that will engage your audience.

Features:

Smooth cursor movement: Screen Studio automatically smooths out your mouse movement, giving your videos a professional look.
Zoom & follow mouse clicks: Screen Studio can automatically zoom in on clicks, making it easy to show your audience what you’re doing.
Cinematic motion blur: Screen Studio applies cinematic motion blur to all the animations in your video, making them look more smooth and professional.
Wallpaper & window frame: Screen Studio can add a beautiful background to your video, or you can choose to have a window frame around your recording.
Change layout and cursor: Screen Studio lets you change the layout of your video and the cursor, so you can create a video that looks exactly the way you want it to.
Selfie Camera support: Screen Studio can also record your webcam, so you can add yourself to your videos.
Automatic size balancing: Screen Studio automatically balances the size of your recording so that it looks great on any device.

Screen Studio is a paid application, and the reason why it is recommended is that it is very easy to use for people who need to record and share their screens. If you like or need such an application, you can go to the to official website purchase it.

4.Sloth

Sloth is a native Mac app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, pipes, and devices in use by all running processes on your system. This makes it easy to inspect which apps are using which files, etc.

View all open files, directories, IP sockets, devices, Unix domain sockets, and pipes
Filter by name, access mode, volume, type, location, or using regular expressions
Sort by process name, file count, type, process ID, user ID, Carbon PSN, bundle UTI, etc.
View IP socket status, protocol, port and version
View sockets and pipes established between processes
Inspection window with detailed macOS and Unix file/socket/process info
Powerful contextual menu for file operations
In-app authentication to run with root privileges
Very fast, responsive native app written in Objective-C/Cocoa

Sloth is a free and open-source software, and you can download it from this link.

5. Google Bard

Bard is a large language model created by Google AI. After several technical iterations and updates, it is now comparable to ChatGPT. After the latest update, Bard supports more languages. You might want to give it a try.

Go to the Bard website