Recently Popular Mac Apps (Issue #4)

April 6, 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.

1.Mochi Diffusion

Mochi Diffusion, Run Stable Diffusion on Mac natively

This app uses Apple’s Core ML Stable Diffusion implementation to achieve maximum performance and speed on Apple Silicon based Macs while reducing memory requirements. It also runs on Intel based Macs too.

Features

Extremely fast and memory efficient (~150MB with Neural Engine)
Runs well on all Apple Silicon Macs by fully utilizing Neural Engine
Generate images locally and completely offline
Generate images based on an existing image (commonly known as Image2Image)
Generated images are saved with prompt info inside EXIF metadata (view in Finder’s Get Info window)
Convert generated images to high resolution (using RealESRGAN)
Autosave & restore images
Use custom Stable Diffusion Core ML models
No worries about pickled models
macOS native app using SwiftUI

Download Link

2.cursor

To put it bluntly, the hottest concept right now is AI, and the various constantly emerging applications on how to use AI are helping ordinary people to enter the AI era more quickly.

Cursor is an editor made for programming with AI. It’s early days, but right now Cursor can help you with a few things…

Write: Generate 10-100 lines of code with an AI that’s smarter than Copilot
Diff: Ask the AI to edit a block of code, see only proposed changes
Chat: ChatGPT-style interface that understands your current file
And more: ask to fix lint errors, generate tests/comments on hover, etc.

3.Bing Wallpaper for Mac

Recently, Microsoft brought Bing Wallpaper to Mac users. If you like Bing’s wallpapers, you can try this small app.

Bing Wallpaper also includes Bing search, weather, and Top Stories.

4.SigmaOS Browser

SigmaOS is the first browser made for work, designed to make YOU faster and better. 🗂️ Workspaces to organize your pages and web-apps 💤 Snooze pages to keep your mind clear ✂️ Split screen to multitask like a pro.

Excellent web browsers are emerging constantly, like the recently popular Arc or the AI-enhanced Microsoft Edge. Everyone can try them out and decide which one is more user-friendly. Arc Browser is currently in the testing phase. You can try using this invitation link to use it in advance.