val / #Apps

https://beatforfree.com/board.html

Beat is a free Mac app for filmmakers. This site is a real Beat board — scroll to travel it.

https://brettterpstra.com/2026/08/31/web-excursions-for-august-31st-2026/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+brettterpstra

An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

https://apps.shakingthehabitual.com/traverse/

Traverse is a macOS outliner with a focused Writer view, flexible outlines, column browsing, attributes, filtering and portable OPML files.

https://www.pastreads.com/

Manage and review your book & web highlights from Kindle, Apple Books, and Kobo with PastReads. Upload, organize, and receive daily reminders for your reading insights.

https://basaltformac.com/

Eighteen PDF tools in one native Mac window: merge, split, compress, OCR, Bates numbering, forms, signing, compare, and redaction that destroys content and proves it. Offline. $29 once.

https://brettterpstra.com/2026/07/04/web-excursions-for-july-4th-2026/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+brettterpstra

An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/

Use Bike to think, write, organize. Make lists, take notes, create documents. Bike's an unusually fast writing app designed for your Mac.

https://relay.fm/mpu/843

Brett Terpstra and Christopher Gamblée-Wallendjack introduce Bear & Glass, their human-focused Mac automation consultancy. Brett shares his ultimate keyboard-driven workflow, previews Marked 3 and BlogBook. Then the gang geeks out on keyboard utilities.

https://relay.fm/mpu/854

Lesser-known Mac apps that deserve way more attention: from AI typing assistants, to hacky Stream Decks, note-taking apps, helpful utilities, and beautiful desktop enhancements.

https://wooshy.app/

search and click.

https://superkey.app/

Simple and powerful keyboard enhancement on macOS

https://brettterpstra.com/2026/05/23/web-excursions-for-may-23rd-2026/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+brettterpstra

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