Every Mac how-to we’ve written, in one place.
203 short, focused walk-throughs across our eight apps. Each one opens with the user’s problem, gives the native macOS path, and then shows the faster way our app handles it.
Fresh Tidy & Find
- Find recent screenshots on your Mac quickly
- How to access your Mac clipboard history
- Recover a file you just deleted from Downloads on Mac
- See all your recent downloads in one place on Mac
- Set a global hotkey to open Fresh on Mac
- View desktop files without minimising every window
6 tips
Perch Clipboard Manager
- How to see your Mac clipboard history
- Paste as plain text on Mac (no formatting carried over)
- Paste images from your clipboard history on Mac
- Pin frequently-used text snippets on Mac
- Recover something you copied earlier on macOS
- Search your clipboard history by keyword on Mac
- Stop your password manager from filling your clipboard history
7 tips
Scratch Markdown Notes
- Convert a markdown note to formatted text on Mac
- Find an old note in Scratch quickly
- Open a markdown scratchpad on Mac with a keystroke
- Take quick notes on Mac without committing to a notes app
- Use a Mac scratchpad as a daily journal
- Where Scratch saves your notes on Mac
6 tips
Dupe Find Duplicates
- A no-bullshit guide to cleaning up your Mac's disk
- After merging two folders on Mac, find the duplicates that got created
- Apple Photos Duplicates album — what it catches and what it misses
- Bulk delete old downloads on Mac (without losing receipts)
- Choosing a Mac cleaner: what to look for, what to avoid
- Clean up duplicate Mac screenshots
- Clean up duplicate photos from old iPhone backups on Mac
- Clean up duplicate songs in your Mac Music library
- Clean up leftover files from uninstalled apps on Mac
- Clean up your Mac without buying a cleaner app
- Cleaning up an old external drive on Mac
- Cleaning up your Mac Applications folder
- Consolidate scattered photo folders on a Mac
- Delete duplicate music files on Mac
- Duplicate files filling up Time Machine — what to do
- Duplicates left over from a Time Machine restore on Mac
- Find duplicate documents on Mac
- Find duplicate files in your Downloads folder on Mac
- Find duplicate files in your Dropbox folder on Mac
- Find duplicate files in your iCloud Drive on Mac
- Find duplicate files on an external drive on Mac
- Find duplicate files on Mac without third-party software (and why it's painful)
- Find duplicate folders on Mac (not just files)
- Find duplicate MP3 files on Mac
- Find duplicate PDFs on Mac
- Find duplicate photos imported from iPhoto on Mac
- Find duplicate photos in your Lightroom library on Mac
- Find duplicate photos on Mac
- Find duplicates synced from Google Drive on Mac
- Find large files on Mac (Finder, Terminal, and faster ways)
- Find old files on Mac that you can probably delete
- Find out what's taking up space on your Mac
- Find similar (but not identical) files on Mac
- Free up disk space on Mac by removing duplicates
- How to delete duplicate files on Mac (safely)
- How to empty Trash on Mac (and the safer alternative)
- How to find duplicate files on Mac (safely)
- How to free up storage on Mac (a real, ordered checklist)
- How to safely delete files on Mac (so you can get them back)
- Is it safe to delete duplicate files on Mac?
- Mac hard drive cleanup — the modern checklist
- Mac running out of space — the 8 things to check first
- Mac says disk is full — what to delete (and what not to)
- Mac Trash won't empty — fixes that actually work
- Mac's built-in Storage Management — what it does and what it misses
- Migrated from an old Mac and ended up with duplicates
- Recover deleted files on Mac
- Restore a duplicate you deleted by accident
- Scan just one folder for duplicates on Mac
- Spot duplicate Word and Pages files on Mac
- Stop getting the 'low disk space' warning on Mac
- What is 'Other' storage on Mac and how to clean it
- When duplicate photos have different filenames
- Where does your Mac store cache, and is it safe to delete?
- Why does my Mac's storage keep filling up so fast?
- Why is System storage so big on Mac?
- Your Mac Photos library is too big — here's how to trim it
57 tips
Beacon System Monitor
- A modern Mac resource monitor (vs Activity Monitor)
- Better alternatives to Activity Monitor on Mac
- Check live network bandwidth on Mac
- Check Mac fan RPM
- Check Mac fan speed and temperature without Activity Monitor
- Check Mac uptime — and why it matters
- Comparing Mac system monitors (iStat, MenuMeters, Beacon, etc.)
- Find the process using the most CPU on Mac
- Find the process using the most RAM on Mac
- Find what's slowing your Mac down right now
- Find which app is using your internet on Mac
- Find your Mac's battery cycle count and health
- Get a clearer picture of Mac power use
- How to check your Mac's SSD write speed
- How to keep an eye on your Mac's system health
- How to kill a runaway process on Mac
- Is your Apple Silicon Mac thermal-throttling?
- Keep an eye on your Mac from your iPhone
- M1, M2, M3 fan noise — what's normal, what's not
- Mac drops to low battery quickly — what's consuming it
- Mac frozen with the spinning beachball — what to do
- Mac is slow to start up — find what's launching
- Mac overheating — what to actually fix
- Mac performance monitoring — the practical setup
- Mac running hot — what's actually happening?
- Mac slow after a macOS update — quick fixes
- Mac suddenly slow — a 5-minute fix checklist
- Mac temperature monitoring from the command line
- Mac too slow with many browser tabs — what to do
- MacBook Air getting hot — what's going on
- MacBook Pro fan always on — diagnose it
- Monitor disk I/O on Mac
- Monitor RAM usage on macOS
- Monitor VPN bandwidth on Mac
- Monitor your Mac's temperature in real time
- Put live Mac stats in your menubar
- Put your Wi-Fi speed in the Mac menubar
- Read Mac memory pressure like a pro
- See CPU usage in your Mac menubar
- See network usage per process on Mac
- See which processes are using the most CPU on Mac
- Show a CPU graph in the Mac menubar
- Show network speed in your Mac menubar
- Something is using too much CPU on my Mac — how to find it
- Take a 'system snapshot' of your Mac when reporting a bug
- The Mac system monitor I actually run all day
- Track GPU usage on a Mac with Apple Silicon
- Track total internet usage on Mac
- Track your Mac's CPU usage over time
- Watch GPU usage on a Mac in real time
- Watch which app is hogging the most resources right now
- Watch your Apple Silicon Mac's live power draw
- What is memory pressure on Mac (and how to lower it)
- Why is my Mac battery draining so fast?
- Why is my Mac slow? A diagnostic checklist
- Your Mac is using swap — should you worry?
- Your Mac's fan is loud — here's what to check first
57 tips
Melt Compress, Resize & Convert
- A TinyPNG alternative that runs on your Mac (offline)
- AVIF on Mac — opening and converting AVIF images
- Batch resize images on Mac
- Change an image's file format on Mac
- Compress a JPEG on Mac without Photoshop
- Compress a Mac screenshot before sharing it
- Compress a PNG without losing image quality (Mac)
- Compress an image for email on Mac (under 25 MB / 10 MB)
- Compress an image from the command line on Mac (sips + ImageMagick + pngquant)
- Compress an image on Mac without visible quality loss
- Compress an image right from Finder on Mac
- Convert a BMP to PNG on Mac
- Convert a folder of HEIC photos to JPG on Mac
- Convert a TIFF to JPG on Mac
- Convert an animated GIF to JPG (or PNG) on Mac
- Convert an image to PDF on Mac
- Convert an image to WebP on Mac
- Convert Canon CR2 raw photos to JPG on Mac
- Convert PNG to SVG on Mac (and when not to)
- Convert RAW photos to JPG on Mac
- HEIC not supported by an app — convert it on your Mac
- HEIC vs JPG on Mac — which should you use?
- How to batch compress a folder of photos on Mac
- How to compress a PNG on Mac
- How to convert a HEIC photo to JPG on Mac
- How to convert images from PNG to JPEG in bulk on Mac
- How to open, view, and convert WebP files on Mac
- How to reduce JPEG file size on Mac without losing quality
- How to resize an image on Mac without using Preview
- How to send a photo without EXIF on Mac
- How to strip EXIF metadata from a photo on Mac
- ImageOptim vs Melt on Mac — which should you use?
- iPhone photos won't open on Windows? Convert to JPG on your Mac
- JPG vs JPEG on Mac — is there a difference?
- Keep photo quality when sending from Mac to WhatsApp
- Lossless PNG compression on Mac
- Make a photo less than 5 MB on Mac
- Make an image file size smaller on Mac
- Optimise photos for a website on Mac
- Photo too big to upload on Mac? Try this
- Photoshop export too large? Use this Mac tool instead
- Receive iPhone photos as JPG via AirDrop (not HEIC)
- Reduce image file size on Mac (free + easy options)
- Reduce PNG file size on Mac
- Remove EXIF data from a photo on Mac
- Resize an image for Slack on Mac
- Run pngquant on Mac (the easy way)
- Save Mac screenshots as JPG instead of PNG
- Strip GPS location from a photo on Mac before sharing
- Strip metadata from a folder of photos on Mac
- The best Mac image compressor app (and how it works)
- TIFF vs PNG on Mac — which to keep, which to convert
- What metadata is stored in your Mac photos (and how to clean it)
- What's the best image format for the web (and how to export it on Mac)?
- Why are Mac screenshots so big — and how to fix it
- Why is my JPEG too large — and how to shrink it on Mac
- Why is my PNG so big — and how to make it smaller on Mac
57 tips
Tempo Pomodoro Timer
- A calm pomodoro timer for Mac (without the loud bell)
- Customise pomodoro durations on Mac
- How long should a pomodoro focus session be?
- Start a pomodoro timer from your Mac menubar
- Track how much focus time you put in each week
- Use Tempo with Apple's Focus mode for fewer interruptions
6 tips
Bench Screenshots & Recording
- Add arrows and annotations to a Mac screenshot
- Blur sensitive text in a screenshot on Mac
- Crop a screenshot before sharing it
- Record a single window on Mac (not the whole screen)
- Record your Mac screen with audio
- Take a screenshot and share a link in one keystroke on Mac
- Where Bench saves screenshots locally on your Mac
7 tips