 If you are a Mac user and you use apps, then this video is for you. Hello and welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. It was a bit broad really, that little introduction. Normally I try to be a little bit specific about exactly who the video is for, but this video really is for anybody who uses a Mac because I want to tell you about a great way that you can get access to a whole load of really top-notch high-end apps for a really reasonable price. And that is through a subscription service and a sort of app bundle, if you like, through an app called Set App. And the way it works is you pay a single monthly fee of $9.99, and then for that you get access to this whole library of apps. And as I say, these are really top-grade apps that I've been using outside of Set App for years in any case. And basically they have brought all of these developers together to be able to offer their apps through this one single subscription service. And what you'll often find is that if you go through to the actual individual websites for the individual apps, as well as the purchase from their site directly, they'll often redirect you to Set App anyway because it is a great way to get access to, as I say, all of these interesting and useful applications. So that's what I want to talk to you today. I'm gonna show you some of the apps that you can get through it. And then what I will plan to do, or what I will do, is also record a number of specific videos about some of the best apps that I'm using from Set App that I use on a day-to-day basis. So without further ado, I'll get straight over into the demonstration to actually show you how it looks. So now I'm sharing my screen, and this is the Set App app that you have on your Mac. And you don't need it open to actually run the other apps, but this is the way that you sort of browse for it for applications and download them. It's all done within this single application. Think of it a bit like a sort of iTunes, if you like, but for applications, or I suppose it's a bit like an App Store, really, isn't it? But there you go. So this is sort of the Set App Store, then. Let's call it what it is. So over on the right-hand side, the left-hand side, I'm getting everything wrong today, aren't I? Please forgive me. Over on the left-hand side, you've got this little menu, and then you sort of come into this little Explorer splash screen, if you like. And here you've got some recommended apps based on the other apps that I've used, new arrivals, so new apps that have been added into their catalog, and then also recently updated apps. Then we've got some favorites. You can have apps that are favorited, and why would you have that and not have them just installed on your computer? Well, this is one of the beauties of Set App, is that you can just add apps in and take them off your computer all from within here. And so if there is just some apps that you might use occasionally, so maybe you have some for specific graphics usage, maybe like resizing images, batch resizing or something like that, but you're not gonna do it very often. You might wanna favorite the app and then just download it when you need to use it, and then offload it when you don't to free up some space. So that's one reason why you can favorite apps. Then there's also a list here of all of the ones that you've got on your Mac currently. Then you can group them by collections as well, so specific groups of apps. And then this is where you come down to the actual store itself and it has the apps grouped into different categories. So that is what we'll look at first. So if I click on all apps, here you can see it literally, as you might guess, just all of the apps. Now I'll just flick through this so that you can see just how many there are in here. It is over 200, so this is just a way to visualize what that looks like. But you may have noticed some sort of familiar icons in there if you've been using the Mac for any amount of time. But also they've got them grouped here by different categories. Oh, and you can also just search for an app in the top if you know which one you're looking for as well. So let me have a look first. I'll just come down this little list of categories. So we've got lifestyle. So there's a few in here, different things like VPN. There's a couple of bloggers there. Downey, this is one of the first ones that I'm actually gonna cover in one of my little videos about specific apps. So Downey is a great app for downloading content, video content from any website really. And it comes with a Safari plugin and a plugin for Chrome and other browsers as well. And just allows you to basically take any video off that's been embedded in any website. And lots of other great features that come with that as well. So that will be the first one that I will release probably later today or tomorrow. And then yet lots of other apps. And as you can see, they're just all grouped here. These are all the lifestyle ones. And if I go into creativity, so this is a good one for looking at different sort of color palettes and things like that. Lots of camera effects, things like this in here as well. Ones for creating glyphs for icons and so on. And again, these may be sort of familiar names to some of you who are working in the creativity space with graphics and things like that. Pixel Snap is another good one. I'll be doing a video all about that, which is good for measuring on-screen graphics. So if you've done any sort of graphic design, web design, these are common tools that you will sometimes need. This is a great sketching program. So I have that for the iPad, but also on the desktop as well. And when you use it with a sidecar or with an iPad as a second monitor, it's a great drawing program. I should point out as well that you can see which ones I have. So if you've got the app actually installed, you can just open it there. But if there's another one here, that you want to download, it's simply a case of clicking the install button and it will just download it and install it straight onto your computer. So that's how easy it is. Then we've got developer tools. So lots of ones in here to do with coding and things like that, different coding environments. And yeah, some of these are duplicated. So if they're related to like this one, we just saw it in the creativity space, but it's also part of the developer tools because developing apps, you would need to know the dimensions of on-screen elements and things like that. But it just means that they're all grouped together quite nicely. RapidWeaver, that is another one for creating websites without coding. Personally, I was always a coder myself, but there you go. It is a popular application nonetheless. Productivity, so we've got some great ones in here for focused time. So that's a bit like the Pomodoro Technique, I believe, that sort of counter. BusyKel, BusyContacts, two great apps there. So like I say, I've got a lot of these apps already that I had pre-installed that I'd actually bought before I discovered or before SetApp was around and I've been using some of them for, as I say, over a decade. And yeah, really good apps. DefaultFolder is a different, an alternative to the MaxFinder with some extra functionality in there. I did try that one out at some point, but I ended up coming back to the Finder because of having multiple Macs. I just found having things consistent across all of them was easier, but still it has got some good features in there. So I think you're getting the impression there is really a lot of great apps. Bartender, I couldn't really live on my Mac without my bartender. That's the one that I have up in the top that organizes my menu bar and so I can split things down into basically have an extra area where you can store all of your little menu bar icons, the ones that you don't have space for in your main menu bar. So that is a great app. And incidentally, I did do a video all about my top five menu bar apps, specifically for people who are either live streaming or producing video content as I'm doing in a sort of live production environment as in recording it direct to your computer. So I'll leave a link to that video up in the top corner and down in the description as well because all of the apps that I talked about on there were actually set up apps as well. So you can get them all through a set up. Next, we have a writing and blogging section. So Mars Edit, I've been using that for over a decade for blogging on various different platforms. That's a way to actually do your blogging in on the Mac and then it just posts it down to whichever wherever your blogs happen to be. What else we've got in here, Ulysses. That is another good writing program. Personally, I've still been using Scrivener. I've been using Scrivener for years for writing but Ulysses is also a great option. And that one also comes with an iOS app. And I should point out that there is a section down here for all of the apps where there is an iOS version as well because you do get access to the iOS version so that it can work with the apps that you've downloaded from here. And then we've got some other sections. I'll just quickly flick through them, Education. So you've got things like here for mind mapping and things like that. I've been a user of mind node for a long time on the Mac and on the iPad. So as you can see, it's not listed as installed here. That's because I already have it installed from before I used set app. So I would say all in all, if I come up to my on this Mac it shows me that I've got how many apps here? Is that about 16, 17, 18, something like that. But I would say I've probably got another 20 of these apps that I use pretty frequently that I just happened to abort before I got set up. So at some point I'll probably just bring them all into set up and every time I have to make an update I'll just not do the update. I'll just download the latest version from here. And that is the other great thing about this is that with this single flat subscription fee of $9.99 a month you do actually get access to all of the updates. So you know that you're always gonna be up to date on this whole collection of apps. And as I say, there's quite a lot of them there. So one thing I've got to do now is actually tell you how to get hold of this haven't I? So if you go over to takeonetech.io slash set up that's S-E-T-A-Double-P then that'll take you through to the set up site and you'll be able to sign up for a two week free trial. And if you use my code then after the free trial if you decide to go ahead with set up then you can get a free month by using this link and just full disclosure part of their referral program is that I also get a free month as well. So if you use this link and then sign up you'll get a free month and I'll get a free month as well. So everybody wins. But this isn't about the referral links it is all about the actual apps because as I say, they're things that I use day in day out anyway. So I hope you have found that useful and if you want to hold off on taking action then don't worry because I have got a whole series of videos planned as I say that are all about set up and specific apps that I'm using from that. So maybe you might want to check out some of those and see if you really like the apps that you can get. The other thing I should point out is that it is a great way to actually try out a whole load of apps. So you could go and have a look at the catalog of apps that they've got in set up and download the trial and then you'd get to try out all of these other apps for two weeks as well. And maybe you feel like set up is not for you you maybe don't want another subscription but you will have got to try out those apps and then you can go and maybe buy the odd app that you do did like out of it. So in any case, there's a few options there and if you have found this useful then please like and subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications so you get notified whenever I make any new videos. And if you know any other Mac users who may benefit from this sort of content then do also share the videos and channel with them as well. But in the meantime, I will create that playlist all about set up and I shall leave it just down here at the bottom right and until the next video, I hope you all have an absolutely wonderful day.