One of the biggest reasons to use a Mac is the sheer number of high-quality indie apps for them. My colleagues and I have written about many of them, including tools to help you take better screenshots, improve your screen recordings, and even some totally wacky apps that bring a smile to your face. I love discovering such apps and I keep checking out new ones all the time, but I know that it can get overwhelming for some.
If you’re the sort of person who’d rather have one app to rule them all, then you should check out Almighty. It’s home to over 50 cool tweaks and utilities—from an emoji picker to a tool that lets you copy text from images—all in a single app. The app has a seven-day free trial, but if you like it, you can buy it from the developer’s website for just $20. It is also available on the Mac App Store for $16, but due to Apple’s limitations, quite a few tools aren’t available in that version.
Getting started with Almighty
Before getting to the utilities, take a minute to familiarize yourself with the interface and how the app works. The home screen can feel a bit chaotic since it lumps all utilities together, and I don’t know about you, but my brain finds that hard to process. I’m much more of an “organize utilities by folder” kind of a person.
Fortunately for people like us, Almighty’s left pane has lots of sorting options. Start with the Popular tab to see the most-used tools—a few will probably stick out to you as especially handy. There’s also subsections that arrange tools by their function, such as the Display section, which houses all tweaks related to your Mac’s screen. Finally, you can create custom folders to organize tools your way. By default, Almighty ships with a Favorite folder that lets you bookmark the tools you like, but you can also go to the app’s Settings and navigate to the Workflow tab to create more folders.
Lastly, I highly recommend that you set up keyboard shortcuts for the tools you like the most. Almighty lets you create keyboard shortcuts for every single utility, which you can do by going to a utility’s page and clicking the gear icon in the bottom-right corner. From there, go to the Configure menu to see the keyboard shortcut option. With these tips out of the way, let’s take a look at some of the best utilities in Almighty.
Copy text from images
This feature is available in Almighty via a tool called Extract Text. It’s in the Utility section. Run it to automatically change the cursor into a crosshair. Then, click and drag within an image or even video to select text, and Extract Text will automatically copy it to the clipboard. Paste it wherever you like.
Highlight the active window
When you have many open windows, it can be hard to focus on what you’re doing. In this case, use Almighty’s Highlight Active Window tweak to automatically dim all background windows. This will allow you to easily pay attention to the foremost window.
Add a middle click to your Mac
There are other apps that give your Mac a middle-click, but if you don’t want to bother with them, Almighty has its own. It’s called Middle Click, and you can find it in the Mouse section. Like other middle-click apps, it lets you tap the trackpad (or magic mouse) with three fingers to middle-click. You can use this feature to quickly open links in background tabs in your browser.
Clear your clipboard in one click
All of us have copied a password or sensitive credit card information at some point. If you use a good password manager, it’ll automatically clear the clipboard, but if you’ve copied sensitive data from your iPhone and are pasting it on the Mac, you might want to be extra cautious and clear it from the clipboard. You don’t want to end up accidentally pasting it somewhere unsafe. To do this, use Almighty’s Clear Clipboard utility.
Preview open windows in the dock
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Windows PCs have a great feature that lets you move the mouse cursor to any app in the taskbar, which shows you thumbnail previews of all open windows. Almighty lets you replicate that on your Mac, via its Preview Dock Window tool. This is available in the Dock section.
See all keyboard shortcuts
There are lots of easy ways to learn the best keyboard shortcuts, and Almighty also has one. This tool is called View Shortcuts. Once you run it, the tool shows you a searchable list of keyboard shortcuts for the app you’re currently using. To make the most of this tool, you should use a keyboard shortcut to launch it.
Stop your Mac from going to sleep
The Mac app Amphetamine lets you stop your computer from going to sleep. It’s a great app, but if you want a simpler tool, Almighty has one called Keep Mac Awake. While Amphetamine is highly configurable, Keep Mac Awake keeps things simple. Enable it to stop the Mac from going to sleep, and disable it when you’re ready to let your computer rest.
Add a Quit button to the Finder menu
Your Mac doesn’t let you quit Finder easily. If you go to its menu, you won’t see a quit button. Almighty lets you add a Quit button to Finder, using the Add a Quit Option.
Window snapping on your Mac
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While macOS Sequoia is getting improved window management, Almighty already has a tool that brings excellent window snapping features to your Mac. This tool is called Snap Windows. When you move any app’s window on your Mac, Snap Windows shows a small preview that divides your Mac’s screen into boxes. Drop the window in any box and it’ll automatically be resized and placed there. If you drag it to the center, it’ll maximize the window.
