Five Mac Apps Worth a Look – September 2019

Applications designed for the Mac do not often get as much attention as apps designed for iPhones and iPads. So we have a series here: MacRumeurs designed to highlight useful and interesting Mac apps that are worth the detour.

This month's choices include apps to rearrange your dock, discover new music, create GIFs, annotate and manage screen captures, and more.

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• Plug (Free) – Plug is a macOS reader for The Hype Machine, a website designed to help you discover interesting new music. The Hype Machine features content from emerging artists put forward by various websites on the internet, which can give a good mix of cool music. You can choose to see what's popular, see the remixes, see what your friends are listening to, etc.
• Active dock ($ 19.99) – Active Dock is a dock replacement application for Mac that offers features you do not get with the standard dock. You can group documents and applications to switch more quickly between what is open and hover over an application on the dock to see all open windows. You can access options such as system preferences and frequently viewed documents. You also have many customization options to change the appearance of the dock, icons, and so on. Active Dock costs $ 19.99, but there is a free trial.
• GIFSKI (Free) – GIFSKI is a fun little app designed to let you create custom GIFs from video clips. Just drag and drop a video file into the application, adjust the start and end points, and you have a GIF. The application supports multiple video formats, its interface is simple and its use is simple.
• In your face ($ 1.99) – In Your Face is a notification application that occupies the entire screen, so if there is something you really must remember to do, it is the application to use. The application is located in the menu bar and interrupts what you do when it is time to organize an important meeting. This is a good idea if you usually ignore reminders and calendar events without paying attention because you can not miss the In Your Face pop-ups.
• Xnip (Free) – Xnip is a screen capture and annotation application that adds some impossible features with Apple's built-in screen capture tools. You can capture a full-screen screen capture in an application such as Safari where all content may not be visible, and you can capture multiple windows together. A color selection tool lets you choose a pixel color to capture. There is an option to measure objects on the screen, as well as other tools such as blur and annotation in stages. Removing watermarks from screenshots requires a subscription of $ 4.99 per year.

If you have a favorite Mac app that we have not highlighted yet, please let us know in the comments, and we'll be able to show it in an upcoming video. For more choices of our Mac applications, be sure to check out our Mac application archives.