Kicking off a new series at Creativerly, highlighting simple, lightweight, and tiny macOS utility apps that simply work.

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This post marks the beginning of a series highlighting tiny macOS utility apps that enhance productivity. It covers three apps: PixelSnap, for precise on-screen measurements; CleanShot, a feature-rich screenshot utility; and Paletro, which consolidates keyboard shortcuts across apps into a single command palette. These apps streamline workflows and integrate seamlessly into various design and development tasks.

Tiny macOS utility apps I love - Part 1

I enjoyed this post! Installed PixelSnap because of this. Did you ever tried Raycast in the past?

That’s really cool, definitely looking into Paletro. I’d add Rectangle to the list as I think it’s the most used app on my mac

Great apps! and noticed Raycast when you launched PixelSnap 👏😍 I use the hotkey <code>⌥M</code> to open the “Search Menu Items” command in Raycast, it exposes all the menu items in a searchable list.

Didn’t know about paletro, installing right now. Thanks!

PixelSnap: Neat.
CleanShot: I use built-in mac tools for this + Gifox. I’ll try this out to see if it’s a good replacement.
Paletro: Trying this out now.