 In this video, I'm going to be talking about an application that allows you to create applications out of websites that you maybe frequently use. So, why would you want to do that? Well, perhaps something that doesn't have a native app on the Mac, for example, something like Twitter. You may want to just create a standalone app that you can always open up and know that you're going to go right to your Twitter page. Or perhaps you want it for something like Amazon, Netflix or any website that you can think about. Well, that is what this application does, and it's called Coherence X. In fact, X4, I believe we're on now, and I'm not sure whether that's supposed to be a 10 or an X, but anyway, we'll just work with it. So, Coherence X is available as a standalone application, and you can buy it from their website. I'll leave a link in the description. It is $29.99 for one license. Or they've got various other different options for licensing it for two Macs, for five Macs, for 10 Macs, 25 Macs, and so on. So there's all these different licensing options, but wait, there is potentially an easier way because it's also available on SetApp. Now, SetApp is basically a monthly subscription that you pay, which is just $9.99, and that gives you access to over 200 great apps for the Mac. And you can get a free trial of it, as can anybody, but if you use my link to go and get the free trial, as well as the seven-day free trial, then you will also, once you sign up, get an extra month free added onto your subscription, and I will get a month free as well. That is just how their affiliate program works, so we both win. It is a great service. It means that you've got access to, as I say, over 200 apps, and they're all these kind of sort of little utility apps that can really boost your productivity on the Mac, and you can download them, use them, try them out. If you don't like them, offload them, and just use them like that. Or if you are short of space on your Mac, perhaps you can just download it for the particular task that you want to do, and then offload it when you don't need it, knowing that you can always re-download it again. So as I say, SetApp is a great service, and I highly recommend it. Try it today at takeonetech.io. But in any case, let's get back to what we're talking about today, and that is coherence. So what does coherence look like in terms of the actual application itself? It's about as simple as they come. That's what the interface looks like when you open it up. And all you're going to do is it's going to ask you if you want to create an application. Now, the way it works is it's actually got some sort of pre-made applications, if you like, which is just links to existing websites that it thinks might be useful to you. So you can either click on this Create application here, this nice big button there. We'll come onto the My Applications in a moment, but you can see it's already got a few that have been populated down here. So if you wanted to create a standalone Gmail app, for example, you would just come and click on here. And then you can see Install or Customize. So if I was to click on Customize, then it would just bring up a couple of things. So you could change the name of it, change the exact web address that it was going to, although it's obviously pre-populated with Gmail. You can also choose the application path, so where you want to actually save these two. So I'm leaving these as the default being the Applications folder. And then you can also get the app icon. So if you wanted to add your own icon, you could do that as a default. You can see it's just pulling the app icon from the web, and it does actually a very good job of that. So here you can see we've got Facebook, Twitter, Amazon. And then if you click on the More Apps button, then it's going to bring up a load of other websites that you may be interested in. So it's as simple as just clicking on any one of these. So let's just go back. And if I wanted to install Twitter, then I would have actually already got it installed. So let me pick a different one. Let's just say I wanted to install a standalone Facebook app. Then I would just click on this Install button. And then it's going to ask you which browser you want to use as the sort of container for this. Because although it does appear as an application on your Mac, it is essentially just a wrapper around the website. So because I've got the Chrome browser and Brave browser included on my Mac or installed on my Mac, it's given me the option of which one of those I want to use. So I'm just going to stick with Chrome for now. And there we go. That was as simple as that. You can see how it says it's now created, application successfully created. And you can choose to launch it now. It does just sit in your menu bar at the bottom, sorry, in the dock, I should say. So when I launch it, it's just going to have that icon and sit in the dock. And then it's loading up Facebook. It's going to ask me to log in. So I won't bore you with my credentials. But then it does just basically look like a standalone app. So I can show you what this looks like with the Twitter app, which I have, as I say, already installed. So there you can see the Twitter app. And what it does is it's basically removing all of the other things around the browser interface. You don't get the browser bar, the search bar, tabs, all things like that. And so you've just got this view. So that would be how my Twitter looks if I want to have it in this standalone app. And then I can just always launch it from the dock. So that was a look at basically how to create these apps. Now if you want to create one that isn't one of the built-in ones, so if I come back over here and then let's go to create another app, then if you want to make your own, you can either come to this more apps and click on Custom App, or if you come back to the main screen and click Create Application, this is where we can create one of our own. So let's just say that I wanted to, I don't know, create one for my Biomere Coffee, maybe a good point to say. If you're enjoying my content and want to support the channel on a one-off or ongoing basis, then you can head over to biomerecoffee.com. Take one tech to either make a donation there or to sign up for a monthly subscription. So let's just say I wanted to have my Biomere Coffee page as a standalone app, so just to be clear, here is what it looks like in the regular web interface. So you can see obviously we've got the address bar and all of the things associated with the browser, the tabs and things like that. So let's say that I want to just actually create a standalone app for this. Well, if I come back over here now, let's give this application a name. So we're going to call it Biomere Coffee, Biomere Coffee or BMAC for short, BMAC like that. And then it's asking for the URL. So we just want to put in that URL. So I've copied that one over from there or at least I thought I had. Obviously I didn't. Let me come back and try that again. There we go. Second time lucky. And now we're going to choose the application path as we saw before. I'm just going to leave that one as it is. Now you can see that we've got the space to add the app icon in here. Now what you can do is you can actually choose an app icon, sorry, from here, from either the web or browse the Mac, but actually just clicking in it, it will go and try and retrieve an app icon from the website itself. So BMAC has actually got their app icon on there so that if you're adding it as a web app or whatever on the iPhone, for example, this would be the app that would show up. So it has actually just gone and grabbed that one. There is a couple of things we can change in terms of the app here. So you can change the style of the app, different rounded corners, things like that, whether you want to use the application as a browser to be able to do other things in there or using incognito mode. And then you've also got the option to create a tabbed app. So if you are then using a tabbed view or it's something you want to use with a tab view, you can actually still include those tabs. But that's essentially it. Now if I just click on the next here, it's going to take me through to the next screen. Once again, we can choose between the Chrome or Brave browser. I'm going to leave it as Chrome and click on next. And then from here, if there are any extensions or plugins or things like that that you've got in Chrome, that you specifically need to have active on the application that we're creating, then you would just pick those here. I haven't got any that I'm using or that are relevant to this particular site. Same goes for profiles as well. So it's as simple as that and then just click on create application. And then that is going to bring us to this screen and it's now completed. So then you've got the option to launch now or choose another app. So let's just launch it and just double check that it is working and it's come right over this screen. So here you can see it's loading up and I'll just make it a little bit smaller so that you can see. It's basically just given that website a wrapper. Now I'm guessing I probably won't be actually using this. So I may want to just actually offload this because I don't really see the need to have this particular website as a standalone app. It's not really what it's intended for, which is a good reason to demo why or how rather you might want to remove apps once you've created them. So you can obviously just delete them from within the app folder itself. But let's just come back to here and we'll go back to the main screen because there was this thing here that I mentioned before where it says my application. So if you just open coherence and by the way you don't need to have coherence open when you're actually using these apps. So you're only using this to actually set them up and then once they're set up they just work as standalone applications. But if you do want to edit any of them then you can just come into here to my applications and you'll see the list of the ones that I've got there created. And then it tells you a little bit of information about them and you've got these three little dots next to each one. So let's just say I want to delete that by mere coffee one that I've just created. Then you can just click on the three little dots here and then you can either edit it if you want to change any of the details. If you're not sure where it is, if you hadn't saved it in the applications folder you can reveal in Finder or you can just actually delete it from here as well. So I'm just going to go ahead and delete that. It will ask you to confirm it if you really want to do it. Yeah, I think I do. So I'm just going to click on delete and there it's gone. So that is Coherence. It's a great little app in my estimation for making apps out of websites. It's around about $30 to buy as a standalone app, but as I say it's much better value if you use it as part of the Setup Bundle link down below in the description and just beneath me here as well. So you can get that for $9.99 a month to get this plus over 200 other great apps. And because there are so many great Setup apps I'm going to leave a link to other Setup videos over on the right hand side. So be sure to go and check out that playlist too.