Setapp Review: Best Mac Apps for Agency Teams | #AgencyToolbox

Welcome back to Agency Toolbox. This is Gray Mackenzie from zenpilot and today I want to talk about some of the best Mac apps for agency teams. Specifically, I want to talk about a way that you can standardize your tech stack and empower your team to all use the same central repository of main app. So everyone's empowered and has what they need to get their work done as efficiently as possible. And so super cool platform that came across earlier this year is called SetApp and if you haven't heard of them, and we'll just flip over here to the SetApp site, it's basically a suite of Mac apps that all come under one single subscription. And what's cool about this is they've rolled out this teams product. So let's click over to teams here and what it gives you is. And the pricing's down farther on this page. Where are we here? Team members. So it's 10 bucks or less per month and it is by device. So you can't all sign into the same account and do it separately. But what's super cool is they have this whole repository of apps. You pay for each team member to have a seat and then they can access and download as many of those apps, use as many as they want to, and if they don't need something, they don't need to have it. So it's super cool. They have a ton of apps in the library available. I want to walk through a couple specifically that we use and would be in trouble without. But it's super cool to have available. People can use the tools that they need. And you should probably inside of this repository, you should probably also customize and say, hey, here's the ones that we use that we, you know, these are kind of the must haves. You should definitely install and use these ones. The rest of it is optional. If there's something that's helpful for you, that's fine to use it. If not, don't get tied to it now in our use case and we're subscribed right now and using it, but I'd already purchased some of these apps independently ahead of time, so. And some of these apps are pretty pricey clean My Mac, which I think is the best platform out there or best app out there for Mac maintenance is pretty pricey if you buy it on its own and then there's updates versus the subscription fee. But an app like Bartender, which is also super helpful and that's what cleans up my menu bar and gives me just what I need. That one's much less expensive. Clean Shot has a subscription. So it's a real mix of things that are one off purchases and then basically a license and upgrade other things that might have been a subscription product. So let's take a look at a couple of them. I'm going to flip over to the SetApp interface here. So this is what the interface looks like when you log in. You've got your membership, your profile stuff and then it's got on the left hand side all the apps. So we'll just take a look at what I have downloaded right now. So I don't have two of the main ones that I want to mention on here. One is Bartender. It actually is installed, it's just not licensed through SetApp because I'd previously purchased it. I haven't switched my license over to SetApp. The other one is Paste as well. Tooth Fairy I'm assuming you're probably using something currently if you're AirPods user or any type of Bluetooth. I've got a one click button up here that I can just click and it syncs up to my AirPods right away. I've not gone down the route, which some of you may have of buying two different sets of AirPods and having one synced up to my phone, one synced up to my computer. And so this is my easy way around that for right now. Clean my Mac super helpful. Run Clean. There's a whole bunch of tools involved with it, but this one has been helpful. I'll run this every week or two. I probably should do it. I don't know if I should do it more frequently or not, but that that platform has been super helpful for helping my Mac continue going strong. There's a couple others. Cleanshot cleanshot is an awesome quick screenshot and then cloud uploading service to take screenshots and share it. This is one that a number of teams have struggled with. How do we standardize what we have? I use Loom. Loom just recently came out with the screenshot availability as well. We're Dropbox users. Dropbox has for the longest time you can take a screenshot and then have it generate a sharing link and that works easily. There's droplr. There's a million different competitors in that space and having one unified tool that your team uses I think is a great way to standardize your operations and make sure clients aren't getting a loom from me and then getting a soapbox video from someone else and then something just manually uploaded from someone else and it just looks Less. Less unified that way. So there's a couple other cool ones I'm using Coherence X. This is a pretty simple app. It just takes any site and turns it into what seems like its own native app on Mac, but just wraps the Chrome browser into this app. I use that. So I do a ton of demos for Agencies of our ClickUp for Agencies product. And so when I search click up for Agencies, this is its own. It looks like its own standalone app. It pulls up, it's got in the header it says click up for Agencies and everything. But it's just a Chrome wrapper around our ClickUp portal that I use for showing agencies how we set up and optimize and streamline ClickUp. So anyways, there's a number of tools there. The other two that I want to show and I won't ramble on for too long here, but the other two that I do want to show, one is Paste. So this could be scary. I'm gonna hit Command Shift V on my keyboard and it's basically a clipboard manager. I've done a prior agency toolbox episode just around Paste itself. And let's see what I have in here. I've got discount code, some different pieces. So it's got my whole entire clipboard history. I can categorize and save things that I don't want to delete. I can determine how long I want my clipboard history to be saved for. If you want to do a week, 30 days, forever, if you only want to save the most recent X number of items or whatever. But what's really cool about this is I do flip into a couple of my common items that I have here saved to the clipboard. But one, it can save your formatting, but two, it's searchable. So if I want to go search for something I said command fold and now I can search through and find all my zoom links. Or if I want to find colors specifically, you said that real quickly. If I search for color, I'm going to get either something that contains the word color or the actual hex codes themselves for me. So I love paste. I would be stuck without it, especially for flipping back and forth any type of data entry or manipulation that you're doing real quickly. Super helpful. Often I will send an email I haven't yet. Or I'll send some snippet of that email. I haven't yet turned it into a template. I'll save it in here. I'll find out, hey, I used that thing twice. I should probably turn that into a template. So that's paste. The other one is Bartender. And so Bartender basically cleans up your Mac app bar. There's a couple other tools that do this as well. I want to say one is called Vanilla by Matthew Palmer. In fact, let's just find out if that's true or not. It is. Okay, so this one, there's no subscription needed for this one if you haven't needed it. Matthew's an independent developer. It's a $5. I'm not sure why this is so small. Do I have it turned down? No, that's normal. But it does a lot of the same stuff that Bartender does. Bartender has some additional features that I like and prefer it for, but basically Bartender gives me this little icon. I could use this whatever I want. And I can pick and choose. Do I want to show things? Do I hide things? This is actually not the Mac default calendar widget. This is a different one that shows date and time the way that I want it and then expands into my calendar. But if I click this, you can see it updates and then you can see my preferences here inside Bartender. So it's, hey, here's all the different apps that you've got running at any point in time. Um, and you can choose on each of these. Do I want it to hide? Do I want it to show? Do I want it to always show? Regardless. Do I want it to always hide? So hide just means it's hidden for now. As soon as I expand the menu, I'll be able to see there's one password for me. If it's shown, it obviously is going to show in my menu bar the entire time. So once that goes back down, it'll show my menu bar the entire time and then always show whether it's expanded or contracted. It'll. It'll continue to be there. There's some other options that you have. And then there's short keys for searching, for pulling it up, and for quickly finding the different applications that you have as well. So anyways, those are a couple that I specifically use heavily. Inside SetApp itself, there are a large number of apps. If we look at a couple of common ones that get used. Forklift has been a pretty common one that's been helpful for. I'm not even sure what Forklift is under, maybe under productivity. So Forklift just gives you. It's a FTP client. And it's also. And this has been helpful in the agency space also. We'll just give you some different interfaces for how you want to let's see if we can blow that up for how you interface with your files quickly work through them so there's anyways a large number of apps in the in the app store here and did I have one other one I was going to mention specifically? I think those are the main ones that I'm actively using and really enjoying. I have not done a full price comparison to see so if we just bought clean my Mac foreign let's take a look and see. 34.95 what does that get you for one Mac $35 Nice countdown timer set from an hour by default. Interesting. So we've got that bartender I think is normally $15 pace just went to an annual subscription paste subscription that's $10 a year. So I actually am not sure how big of I guess you could do the math and figure out hey, does this make sense to pay for teams specifically? Does it make sense if we're paying $10 per user on a monthly basis versus buying this individually for everyone or telling them that they have to do it on their own? What I love about it is it's just really easy to manage that that repository of apps and to say hey, this is what I want to have set up and recommend to my team members that they need to go all install and it's one click to go get in, someone leaves, you deactivate it, it's fine. But it's easy to pay for and manage while you have it set up. So that is SetApp and a couple of the specific apps that I use inside of it. Definitely recommend checking out setapp for teams. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in the comments or or reach out to me and subscribe to Agency Toolbox. Thanks for tagging along.