Discover These Must-Have Apps For iOS and macOS
A few absolutely must-have apps for iOS and macOS for you to check out and enjoy.
Photos Takeout:
A powerful app to export and backup your Mac and iCloud Photos libraries in folders on your Mac, external drive or cloud storage service. Saves folders by Years, Months, Dates and Albums. Preserves organization, metadata and formats. Much more flexible than Apple Photos’ export feature.
Photos Takeout website Mac App Store page
SnipTag:
Essential tool if you are scanning a lot of photographs with a photo scanner or digital camera. It lets you batch-crop hundreds of scans with one click, saving you hours (even days) of work. You can also use it to batch-edit metadata e.g. Date Created, File Name, Description, Location, Keywords etc.
SnipTag website Mac App Store page
Snip:
Lightweight app to batch-crop hundreds of scanned pictures with one click. Uses the same two cropping engines as SnipTag but excludes the metadata editor.
Pic Scanner Gold:
The best mobile photo scanner app for iOS. Scan and auto-crop multiple photos or an entire album page at a time. Edit, enhance, and add captions. Create albums, calendars, greeting cards and slideshows. Backup to iCloud. One-time price: no subscription or third party cloud fees.
Pic Scanner Gold website iOS App Store Page
Pic Scanner:
This app was introduced in 2013 and is still updated regularly. This was the world’s first mobile app for scanning multiple photos with one click. It won praise from the BBC, Cult of Mac, iPad Advisor and many others. Now it’s the lite version of our more feature-rich app, Pic Scanner Gold.
Pic Scanner website iOS App Store page
PhotoSort:
Apple Photos can sort by file name and date, but not by file size – so what do you do if your iCloud storage is full and you need to offload or delete the largest items in your Photos library? Use PhotoSort, of course! This elegant app helps you manage storage from within the Photos app itself.
PhotoSort website Mac App Store page
In addition to these photos-related must-have apps, here’s a game app to recharge those grey cells:
Joggle – Word Puzzle:
An original, mildly cerebral word game inspired by crossword puzzles Quick and Cryptic. Play whenever you have a minute to spare – or an hour. Choose from four degrees of difficulty. Thousands of puzzles. Free. Our first game, available for both iOS and Android.
Joggle on iOS App Store Joggle on Google Play Store
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