Unlike a lot of apps, Notational Velocity has an option to both sync with Simplenote, and store notes as plain text files. I'm a writer, and Notational Velocity makes it really easy to create, find, and sync my notes. There are a lot of mail clients and browser shells to turn Gmail into a desktop app, but I've never found a good desktop client for Inbox until WMail. I use Google Inbox instead of vanilla Gmail. The app publisher also makes a tool called 4K Stogram for downloading photos from Instagram, and 4K YouTube to MP3 that does what it says on the tin. Maybe this is a niche thing, I'm not sure, but I frequently find myself wanting to download a YouTube video, and 4K Video Downloader makes it really easy. For more advanced GIF creation I use GIFBrewery, but for quick-and-dirty stuff GIPHY CAPTURE is a real treasure. This is the most straightforward way to make GIFs from video clips or whatever is happening on your screen. We've also listed our favorite games for iOS and Android from this year. Check out our other picks for iPhones, Android phones, PCs, and Macs. We've rounded up our favorite and most-used apps and utilities for the technology we use every day.
Here are a few apps I use to get the job done. I have a PC for games, but nothing beats a Mac yet for the modern media professional. So you got a new Mac, huh? Lucky! I've been using a Mac as my primary computer on and off for about 20 years.
