Category: Apps on Mac

Alibre Design is a professional CAD program focused on mechanical modeling just like DesignSpark Mechanical. It has both a professional and a hobbyist version – the latter one is named Alibre Atom3D. The hobbyist version can be used to create CNC projects – with support for both metal and wood – as well as 3D printing projects. Built-in precision features allow the user to create very complex parts, as well as mechanical designs comprised of many different parts. Lastly, it also provides sketching capabilities – useful for creating layouts. The professional version further expands on this, adding features such as automatic bill of materials generation, dynamic part creation, and scripting. Unfortunately, the developers do not support macOS – their products only work on Windows. However, this limitation can be bypassed, allowing you to run Alibre Design on Mac as well. The guide below will explain the process in detail. It is not limited to Alibre Design, and can be used to run Alibre Atom3D on Mac too.

WhatsApp is a popular messaging program owned by Meta (formerly known as Facebook). It is primarily a smartphone app, available on both iOS and Android. While it is available on Windows and macOS too, these versions are not a priority for the developers. Sadly, this means that there is no WhatsApp M1 Mac version. The version of WhatsApp available on the App Store is Intel-only. This leads some users to believe that there is no way to run WhatsApp on Mac M1. However, this is not the case at all – in fact, it isn’t much difficult that running it on a regular Mac. This article will explain what to do if you want to run WhatsApp on Mac M1. There are several easy options available to you, and all you have to do to learn them is to read the article below.

Elevate is a mobile app by Elevate Inc., designed to improve mental abilities. To accomplish this, Elevate App has more than 40 simple, game-like exercises – the official App Store page even calls them games. When you first start the app, you have to tell the app what training courses you’re interested in. Based on this, you will be given a daily routine to complete, consisting of three to five different exercises. You receive a score based on your performance so that you can track improvement over time. The idea is that your performance in the exercises transfers to the actual skills you want to improve. For example, one exercise involves reading a sentence, finding a word that can be removed without losing any of the meaning, and tapping on it. This should help you write more concisely. Elevate App features training courses in writing, grammar, reading comprehension, vocabulary, math, and speaking. With a selection this wide, most people would find something they’re interested in. However, there is one small problem. Elevate is a strictly mobile app. There is no Elevate Mac version, or Elevate PC version. It is available only on smartphones. However, with this guide, you should be able to launch Elevate on Mac nonetheless. The guide can also be used to launch Elevate on PC.

VidMate is an Android application for downloading videos, music, and pictures. It has support for many popular platforms, most importantly YouTube and TikTok, but also Instagram, Vimeo, Twitter, and many more. Additionally, VidMate has several useful features to make downloading easier. It has an in-built video and music player to check out the content you’ve just downloaded, it supports downloading video in all available resolutions, and it can also download audio only. So, for example, if you want to download a music track from YouTube, you will be able to download just audio, in the mp3 format, without wasting any of your data on video. Even with unlimited data, this is still useful as it allows you to download music faster and eliminates the need for any conversion afterwards.
As useful as it is, VidMate is not available on PC, Mac, or iOS – it is Android only. And even then, you cannot download it from the Play Store because downloading content from YouTube is against Google’s policies. But maybe you don’t have an Android phone, or you do, but you don’t want to install an APK from a third-party source on it, or you just want to download content directly to your computer. What should you do if you want to run VidMate on PC or Mac? Read the guide below to understand your options.

PaintShop Pro is an advanced image editor developed by Corel. It has support for both raster and vector graphics. PaintShop Pro provides plenty of tools to its users, ranging from simple ones such as color correction and noise removal, to more sophisticated ones such as scripting and batch image processing, to cutting-edge advanced technologies like AI-powered content-aware editing.
PaintShop can work with RAW files from hundreds of different camera models, create HDR images by combining several pictures, automatically adjust and correct certain image issues, and much more. It is a very capable editor with a long history – the first version was released in 1990. Over all these years, the developers had time to not only add all these features, but also to refine them to work near-perfectly, with the precision of a true professional tool.
There is, however, a flaw in this program. To this day, PaintShop has never been available on anything other than Windows. And while the developers likely feel that porting PaintShop to other platforms would not be worth it, that doesn’t change the fact that there are people who want to run PaintShop Pro on Mac. Thankfully, there are a few ways to do so – learn about them in the guide below.

Free Cam is a free, easy-to-use application developed by iSpring. A lightweight program without many complex features, it is designed primarily to be a simple and accessible solution for screen recording. That’s not to say there aren’t any features whatsoever, though. You can easily highlight cursor, record voice-over, and trim videos using the program. You can also upload videos to YouTube without leaving the application – a nice feature to streamline the workflow. Overall, it is a great application for an aspiring YouTuber, or simply a person who quickly needs to show how to do something on a computer. Another thing to say in favor of Free Cam is that it doesn’t add any watermarks to the video – something that free recording apps frequently do to push people to purchase the paid version.
Speaking of paid versions, Free Cam does have one – called Cam Pro as it isn’t free anymore. It allows the users to record in higher quality and adds several useful features, like recording from a webcam, adding text and transition effects to the video, and uploading videos to the cloud.
Regrettably, both Free Cam and Cam Pro are available on Windows only. You can still run Free Cam on Mac by using BootCamp or third-party software, however – read the guide below for more information.

DesignSpark Mechanical is a free CAD software that focuses on mechanical design – that is to say, it provides tools that are best suitable for designing machines and machine parts. Despite being free, it offers many features typically associated with paid (and expensive) CAD software. For example, DesignSpark Mechanical has a library of various machine parts from different suppliers, and allows users to insert 3D models of these parts into their design. Additionally, if you’re using RS Components or Allied Electronics as your supplier, the software suite can also tell you how much these components will cost you. A variety of tools for measuring the geometry of created models are also included. However, DesignSpark Mechanical cannot natively run on MacOS – but this is not a problem as the application can still be launched in several ways described in the article below.

Autodesk Navisworks Manage software is designed to view, control, and coordinate architecture projects from other CAD apps (for example from Autodesk Revit). Users admit that the program is easy to use and set up and has a modern interface and decent technical support. Most frequently Navisworks is being used to view projects, identify the clashes and interference problems before the actual construction, rendering, and finalization. The program is officially available only for Windows users. Luckily, this is no longer unsolved trouble, read about a solution in the article below.