Remember the first time you took a big ol’ bite out of that shiny new Apple? With that MacBook or iMac, whether Mac Mini or Mac Pro, you were bathed in the time-honored Apple startup chime and greeted by a slick, intuitive operating system. Inevitably you noticed that not all the homegrown software Apple decided to include in macOS was tasty. Not that one (or five) bad apples here spoil the whole bunch, but you may as well pick out the bad ones, throw them away, and find yourself some third-party alternatives that taste sweeter.
We love macOS itself for its out-of-the-box stability that requires less tinkering than Windows and Linux, so don’t ditch the machine. Just take a look instead at these third-party applications to upgrade your macOS experience. Some are for niche uses, but others fix gaps in vanilla macOS. Many of these apps aren’t free, but most have free trials you can check…
