I've been watching Mac launches since 2021. 2023 added 76 more. The engagement patterns below tell you which ones broke through and which ones didn't.
76 Mac products launched in 2023, ranked by community engagement.
I've been watching Mac launches since 2021. 2023 added 76 more. The engagement patterns below tell you which ones broke through and which ones didn't.
Lens turns Zoom into an online teaching powerhouse that helps you keep your learners engaged, gauge the performance of your live classes, and increase retention rates.
Maigic Book, the unique and engaging way to entertain yourself with personalized stories. We use AI and user parameters to create one-of-a-kind stories, with beautiful illustrations and endless entertainment. Available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Download now!
Skyrocket your crypto futures trading with our renewed approach to functionality and design! Perform in-depth analysis, trade on crypto exchanges, like Binance, and track results. Developed with day traders & scalpers in mind, but suits any strategy.🚀
Journal is a beautiful, minimalist, and non-intrusive macOS app for your journals and notes. It puts you right into the flow of writing, is privacy-first, supports Markdown, and works offline too!
Keyboard shortcuts are fast and awesome. But there are still many actions that require you to reach out for the mouse. Homerow solves this by allowing you to search and click on every button or link in macOS.
Say goodbye to frustrating, hard-to-remember keyboard shortcuts! Lasso solves the problem with an easy-to-use grid system where you can click and drag to move and resize windows.
Shipmunk is a powerful app manager and ASO tracker. Search, bookmark and track keywords rating for your favorite apps Shipmunk is an ideal app for iOS and Mac developers who want to gain insight in favorite apps and test keyword performance.
Make the text of your website or app easy to read for people with low literacy skills. - We make text more understandable - We can filter facts from text - Multiple language support
The Rive editor lets you design graphics that can react, animate, and change themselves at any moment. Now it's available as a blazing-fast macOS desktop app.
Fancy Macbook App allows you to specifically select the applications included in the brew and gives the ready terminal command to install on your mac through these selected applications.
The missing link between macOS and https://www.producthunt.com/products/obsidian, the personal knowledge management tool: 30+ Shortcuts actions to bring your notes and your automations together. It makes Obsidian a first-class productivity citizen in Apple's Shortcuts app.
Folders File Manager is designed for users who recently transitioned from a PC as well as for those who have always missed a tree-style file manager on their Mac.
Barbee is a menu bar manager giving you control over your menu bar items. With Barbee you can: - Hide & show menu bar items with 1 click. - Reduce the spacing of menu bar items. - Easy to arrange your menu bar items. And many other features for you!
Rave Reviews! • "Love it. Very nice options too. Highly recommend this app. " • "Love the app. Simple and does exactly what it is meant for." Stickies app for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch! Show stickies on notification center and home screen!
View today’s schedule right from the menu bar. The perfect companion to the built-in Calendar app. You can also quickly join video calls. The app is free and requires macOS 13.
The MacOS app that makes maintaining your clipboard history fun. Cliptonite lives inside the menubar and lets you quickly copy and paste items from your clipboard history.
Do you want to set the Dock a bit bigger when connected to your big monitor? Or hide the dock only when you're on your laptop? Or maybe move the Dock to the Left when you have multiple displays connected? Me too
Paste is a productivity app for Mac and iOS devices that enhances the system's clipboard capabilities. It automatically saves everything you copy to your Clipboard History, ensuring you never lose anything important copied on any of your devices.
Breveto is a beautiful writing app for Mac with an elegant writing experience.
Finale To Do is a powerful daily planner, task manager and habit tracker. It is a flexible tool to help you organize to-do lists, manage tasks, build good habits, track shopping lists, schedule agenda, and much more.
Mimestream is a new kind of email client powered by the Gmail API and built with the latest Apple technologies. The app brings together the best features of Gmail with the power of macOS, to let you fly through your inbox faster than ever before.
PiPHero works across all apps and you can picture-in-picture any window freeing the rest of your screen for other tasks.
Hyperfocused combines the best of all macOS productivity apps -- a window manager + app launcher + website blocker -- so that you can get into a flow state quickly.
CleanPresenter puts the app you want to present in the spotlight. It shows up perfectly centred on a beautiful wallpaper without any distractions. No other apps, desktop clutter or notifications visible. It makes you and what you present stand out.
We've worked hard on the new version of Typefully, which is now used by more than 100,000 creators. Rewrite and improve your content with AI. Cross-post to LinkedIn. Become more productive with a Command Bar. Download the Mac app. And much much more...
AudioWrangler automatically switches to user's preferred microphone and speakers based on what is currently connected and a user-specified priority list of devices.
Completely customize how you switch between applications on MacOS.
ChatX is a powerful AI chat client that supports iPhone/iPad/macOS, supports the most advanced GPT 3.5 and GPT-4. With our high-speed API servers, you can use AI to generate any content anytime, anywhere, to boost your work and life efficiency.
Introducing the purrfect way to brighten your day. Chatty Cat is your adorable, cute, interactive and chatty pet! They will be your trusty sidekick throughout the day to help you with tasks, chat about random things, or just pop up and say Hello.
I made watson! because sharing screens in apps like Slack or Discord, I've always felt the need to draw or write on screen. It lets you do exactly that. It even comes with all the handy shortcuts, and tablet stylus support!
HelloAI is a handy chatGPT app that was built entirely by copy-pasting GPT4 responses! 🤯 It has a Prompt Store with hundreds of inspirational prompts and a Library so you can manage your frequently used prompts easily. Give it a try! 🙏
Codelime is a powerful code snippet manager with many dev tools for iOS development. It is available across Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Quickly send a link from your iOS device to your Mac. For example, share a link from Safari on your iPhone or iPad and have it open in the default browser on your Mac. You can also use it to run shortcuts on your Mac from your iOS device.
Quick launch ChatGPT with a single shortcut key
Ivory is a brand new app that brings over a dozen years of experience building the award-winning Tweetbot for Twitter, over to the Mastodon network. We obsess over every detail and put good design and experience first. If you liked Tweetbot, you’ll love Ivory!
Launch ChatGPT via hotkey in any app, natively. Create expert personas that improve response quality by 10x. Effortlessly save, reuse, and share your go-to prompts. No more copy-paste, just highlight for context and launch Baron. The ultimate AI interface.
Built for the hearing impaired, Lugs is a new tool to caption and subtitle the world around you. Using state of the art AI, Lugs will listen and gain an understanding of your conversation to better follow along and give you world class accuracy.
Born from a fun weekend project, with popular demand, BatteryBoi has become a full-fledged, open-source, completely free battery app giving you beautiful Dynamic Island-style notifications, and insights into your battery, and even your connected devices.
MemFlow is your memory assistant. While you're using a Mac, MemFlow records screenshots and sounds automatically in chronological order. You can find back memory by semantic search.
We are excited to present our BuhoCleaner 1.9.6, the all-in-one solution to supercharge your Mac's performance and reclaim precious disk space. Say goodbye to sluggishness and hello to lightning-fast productivity!
As a big sports fan, I want to stay up to date on all sports news. Now you can do that right in Raycast on your macOS computer. Choose your favourite section, browse the news and read it in your favourite browser on the ESPN page
Bezel is a macOS app that mirrors any iPhone onto your Mac by just plugging it in. Show what’s happening on your iPhone to others. Bezel makes it quick and easy to present, record and demo any app in a beautiful way.
Structure your thoughts without getting distracted by manually doing the layout. Just like in a mindmapping app, but without being restricted to trees!
Forget about creating HTTPS certificates manually 😩, remembering port numbers and IP addresses 😢, or editing /etc/hosts 😭! All of this is handled by LocalCan, so you can focus on you app and not the setup.
Clippy is back! Access chatGPT using the legendary paperclip on your macOS desktop. Ask anything, have a chat, get help or anything else you need. Clippy lives in the bottom right corner of your screen, so just move your mouse cursor to the corner to chat.
Grant is the best way to manage your USCIS cases natively on macOS. Instantly track status & history, take notes, attach documents, access Emma chat with one click, and much more.
Meet Doneit, a feature-packed projects and tasks manager that focuses on simplicity and organization. With Doneit, you don't need to worry about your tasks lists ever being messy because it was designed to help you better organize all of your daily to-do's.
ChatGPT & GPT-4 to your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and of course Siri. Primed with personalities like a French tour guide, a math tutor, a SwiftUI expert, or even invent your own. And for most users the one-time lifetime unlock is cheaper than a ChatGPT+ subscription!
InfyniDock is an alternative dock for macOS that provides an expanded window of open windows without collapsing them. It offers keyboard shortcuts to switch between windows and allows for customizable themes.
Introducing Caretaker - the efficient file management assistant for your Mac. Caretaker automatically moves your files to the Trash based on your preferences, helping you keep your folders clutter-free and organized effortlessly.
Finbar reimagines your Mac’s built–in menu bar search with great features like fuzzy filtering and tracking of recent items — without any speed sacrifice. With Finbar, you’ll unlock the menu bar’s true potential as a native, ubiquitous command palette.
Effortlessly explore archive contents without the need for extraction, enabling a convenient overview of stored files and structure. Quickly preview files using Quick Look, share them directly from the archive, or drag and drop them wherever you desire.
OrbStack is a fast, light, and simple way to run containers and Linux machines on macOS. It's a supercharged alternative to Docker Desktop and WSL, all in one easy-to-use app.
Avoid those awkward moments in public places or in presentation meetings in 1-click.
AI Coder Buddy supports 90 languages, frameworks, and libraries. More than 145,000 code examples which can be accessed and searched in just seconds with a minimum of keystrokes using Fuzzy Search. Easily 100 times faster than a Google or Stack Overflow search.
BoxAi, a one-click AI toolbox, simplifies AI use by offering diverse capabilities from machine learning to predictive analytics. Its user-friendly interface is designed for all tech levels.
Introducing MagicAI – a new assistant for your Mac that can turn the most simple sketches into works of art. MagicAI runs locally on your computer and is powered by Stable Diffusion. It comes bundled with Magic's 3.0 release, available now on the App Store.
Bartender is an award-winning app for macOS that for more than 10 years has superpowered your menu bar, giving you total control over your menu bar items, what's displayed, and when, with menu bar items only showing when you need them.
DockX is a magic app that allows you to display anything in the Dock and Menu bar, just sneak a peek anytime without opening any app. Network speed, CPU/Memory usage, Date, Clock, Memo or funky GIFs animations.
Applite is a free and open-source macOS application that streamlines the installation and management of third-party apps using Homebrew. The main goal of the application is to bring the convenience of Homebrew casks to the non-technical user.
Pactto is a mobile-first tool that helps creative pros easily provide feedback with precision, nuance, and fidelity. Add a recording of yourself to any video or image, use screen markup tools, and create clarity without endless commenting threads and meetings.
Backup Status introduces a widget to view the status of Time Machine right from your desktop or Notification Center.
FocusFusion is your personal productivity app, designed exclusively for macOS. It empowers you to take charge of your workday, fostering improved habits through incentivizing sharper focus and heightened efficiency.
Declutter your inbox without giving third-party access to your emails! Reclaim GBs of storage, unsubscribe from pesky emails—all while keeping your emails off our servers. Experience full privacy with GoodByEmail, even offline!
Hotspot Meter lets you monitor metered network usage directly from your menubar. This includes personal hotspots (tethered connections), cellular hotspots or certain metered wi-fi connections.
GitBrain lets you simplify your Git workflow and maximize you coding productivity. Using AI, it intelligently understands your code changes and provides suggestions for Git operations.
Transform your smart lighting experience with Hue Log, the ultimate macOS companion for Philips Hue enthusiasts. Hue Log is an efficient, native macOS application to get real-time events from your Philips Hue system, and insights into your setup.
Get organized with Coolbar - the ultimate solution for storing and accessing your frequently used files, folders, and website links right from your menu bar.
Canvas is an open-source, native macOS app that allows you to explore OpenAI's DALL·E capabilities like image generation, editing, and variations.
Clop optimises screenshots as soon as you copy them, so you can send up to 10x smaller images. Same with videos: save your screen recordings on the Desktop, and have them optimised for upload in seconds. It even works on PDFs!
This is a free native macOS companion app for Buy Me a Coffee service. Get a notification on your desktop (with celebratory emoji-confetti!) whenever you receive a donation. Minimal and efficient and lives in your menubar.
Do you frequently walk away from your Mac without locking it? Discover a modern premium Proximity Lock feature for your Mac. It doesn't require pairing with your iPhone or Apple watch. It just works! Setting it up feels almost magical. We bet you'll love it.
SNote is a Privacy focused, End-to-End Encrypted workspace where you can write, plan, collaborate and get organized - it allows you to take notes, store files, add tasks, manage projects & more. Whether you're working solo or in a team.
Anybox is a native bookmark manager for iPhone and Mac users. It syncs via iCloud so that all of your data stay private. You can organize bookmarks with nested tags and folders, and smart lists. It can also archive webpages.
Mind Depot is a macOS tool designed to Capture and Organize Information. Through a clean user interface, efficient keyboard shortcuts, and local data storage, we provide an optimized, comfortable, and secure user experience.
Hand Mirror is a super simple app that lives in your Menu Bar (little cozy top right corner of your Mac) and gives you a one-click access camera check — and now with Mic Check and new macOS Sonoma Reactions!
The category grew by 1% compared to 2022, moving from 75 launches to 76. Average interest score across all 2023 launches: 159. Average engagement ratio: 0.16.
Highest community engagement at launch, measured by interest score and engagement ratio. These are traction rankings, not editorial picks.
Launch timing matters. Q1 products face different competition than Q4 products. Seasonal patterns affect both launch volume and community attention. Quarterly grouping makes comparisons fairer.
No. Some of the best-loved tools in our index have modest interest scores but sky-high engagement ratios. That pattern means a smaller audience cared deeply. I'd take that over 5,000 interest and crickets in the discussion threads.
Over 30. AI, Developer Tools, Productivity, Marketing, SaaS, Design, and everything in between. Most products appear in 2-3 categories. Some show up in 5+.
Products are ranked within their launch year. A 2022 product competes against 2022 launches, not 2025 launches. Use the year navigation to compare how standards evolved.