Today we celebrate the fact that most applications are cross-platform and regardless of the operating system we want to use. However, there are still many tools that, for one reason or another, are exclusive to one of them. In macOS, we continue to find some programs not available on Windows and that for certain uses they are really worth it.
In this article, we review seven of these tools. Obviously, every user is different and there will be those who think it suits them more or less. In my particular case, I recognize that many of them cause me to continue preferring to use a Mac rather than a Windows PC.
Two Apple classics: Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro
These are the most obvious, but still worth mentioning. Final Cut is still one of the best video editors on the market and, despite the many alternatives available on Windows and macOS, it continues to be the right eye of many editors with a Mac. Of course, its price takes it away from ordinary users, since for 349.99 dollars it will only cost to be amortized by professionals.
Something similar happens with Logic Pro for advanced audio editing. Pro Tools is its big rival, but in the Mac domain we continue to find professionals who prefer Apple’s tool, whether for “simple” podcast edits or for advanced song production. Of course, its price is also prohibitive for users who do not make the tool profitable, given that it costs 229.99 dollars.
Final Cut Pro | Download in the App Store
Pro Logic | Download in the App Store
Ulysses, for saving notes, but especially for text editors
I have to admit that for my personal and professional use I am more interested in Notion, but the truth is that Ulysses is the tool of many professional colleagues and many others. It’s because of his Simple interface designed for distraction-free writing and with additional tools to know the readability of a text, the time it will take an average reader to read it or count the number of words and suggest edits.
Although it can serve as a simple document from which you can then extract nothing or extract it by copy and paste, it also offers tools to export to HTML and upload it to a web page. For full use, a subscription is required, which ranges from 5.99 dollars per month to an annual payment of 39.99 dollars (less with student discounts). Ah! And it is also compatible with iPhone and iPad.
Ulysses | Download from the App Store
Keynote, the favorite for creating presentations
We return to another native application, but in this case with much wider views than those of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro. Those that occur more or less frequently presentations for your studies or work, they will know PowerPoint quite well. However, unlike Pages and Numbers, which have more complicated competition with Word and Excel, Keynote seems to be a point above the Microsoft suite.
Obviously, it depends on taste, although beyond my personal preferences, I will say that there are quite a few people I know who prefer the Apple tool because it is much more intuitive and complete. Apart from this, it also supports templates created for PowerPoint. And the best of all is that It’s completely free.
Opening speech | Download from App Store
Setapp, the Netflix of applications
This is not just one application, but several. It’s a alternative app store to the App Store with one particularity: that it is paid. What it actually offers is a monthly subscription for individuals or groups in which you can find dozens of applications of all kinds that require a subscription in themselves, but if they are downloaded from Setapp they are already covered by its subscription.
In this way we find a save money on subscriptions If we use several tools available in Setapp, because just using a few of them can make the Setapp subscription profitable. There we find very specialized applications for specific utilities, but also great known tools like the ‘Clean my Mac’ cleaner, the ‘Spark’ messaging application in its most advanced version or the aforementioned Ulysses.
Setapp | Download from the Setapp website
Boot Camp Assistant brings Windows to Intel Macs
Although it is not a conventional application, since it is more of an installer, what an installer it is. Officially, you can’t install macOS on a Windows PC, but you can can we install windows on a mac. ‘Boot Camp’ is a free and native macOS wizard that allows you to install Microsoft system on a disk partition.
This, yes, Only works with Macs equipped with Intel chips and not in the new generation of M1, M2 and M3. In the latter it is available, but without any functionality, since it does not allow installing the system. However, if you have a Mac that is a few years old, this can be a good way to give it a second life.
Training Camp Assistant | Already installed on your Mac
Backtrack is a time machine for your Mac
The idea that Backtrack was born with is that of power review your past activity on Mac. This, unlike the macOS Time Machine feature that allows you to get already deleted files, it records the computer screen and sound for 1 to 5 hours.
In the current state of affairs, this is ideal for record meetings and other activities, also being able to do it completely privately since no one other than you has access to these recordings, since they are stored locally (not even the creators of Backtrack). This, yes, it is paidfrom 14 dollars per month to 129.99 dollars per year, and can also pay a more advanced package of 39 and 399.99 dollars respectively.
Backtrack | Download from the App Store
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