4 Unsexy macOS Apps That Save Me 30+ Hours Every Week
The only 4 apps I’d pick, if I were forced to use only 4 for the rest of my life.
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7 min readFeb 21, 2023
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#1. GrandPerspective (Free)
This 20-year old app is truly unsexy. In other words, ugly. Look how ugly it is 🤢:
But there’s a catch.
It’s as ugly as the number of files you have in a folder. Lemme explain.
I’m one of those guys who stores millions of files on his Mac. Exaggeration, I know — but yeah, so many files.
When I run GrandPerspective on a greatⁿ grandfather folder with a huge family tree below, such an arbitrary pattern of blocks comes up. (Formally called Tree Map)
Each block depicts a file inside the directory, and the area of each block is proportional to the file’s size. (TLDR: Larger the block, larger the file)
Ex: A square of 1GB file will be approx 1000x larger than a square of 1MB file.