True detective season finale is about to come on, and I thought what better way to celebrate

that is to give you guys a video. The best free Mac apps 2014.

So that's what I'm gonna do. Let's get right into this. This is just my personal favorite

list

of all the free apps for Mac that I always recommend to people so

Let's do it right now. Best free Mac apps 2014. All these apps will be linked in the blog

post link below so if you click that blog post link that will take you to

the page on my website where it lists all these apps where I link them all

and you can download them for free for the Mac. Kicking off this list deservingly so

is caffeine. Caffeine has been with me through the years for

I don't know how, ever since I've gotten a Mac. Basically it just does it's very simple. It keeps your

Mac

awake. It doesn't let your Mac go to sleep. It comes in handy, trust me

its does it's very simple that's all it does. But it does come in handy I use it

all the time so caffeine is number one

number two on the list is actually two applications they're both web browsers and

its Google Chrome

and Mozilla Firefox those are both free web browsers. I'm going to list them

together because I use them both equally the same and they both do different

things

for example Firefox has some awesome addons that I can't live without

chrome on the other hand is very fast. It also has some addons as well but

firefox does have some addons that chrome does not have that I use so I

use them both hand in hand

they both work great I always install them together so chrome and firefox free

web browsers

definitely cannot live without those number three on the list is transmission

It's a free Bit Torrent client for the Mac and I've always used this

as my BitTorrent client it is is lightweight it's simple

it's free it allows you to add block lists all kinds of stuff

and is is probably it's just the best BitTorrent client I've tried uTorrent

for the Mac

and I i went back to transmission transmission is the best BitTorrent

client so if you need something

to download torrents from, use transmission for the Mac

it is by far the best cloud storage of course I can't just choose one

so Dropbox and Google Drive both use those every single day

they both hold a very special place in my heart so i can't put one on the list

and leave out the other so they're both included free cloud storage

Dropbox and Google Drive I'm sure you've already heard of them Google Drive is

free

with a Google account also Dropbox is free

to start out there's actually a paid plan as well but

I use the free versions for both of them and they fulfill all my cloud storage

needs

so Google Drive and Dropbox definitely a must-have for Mac users

better touch tool this is a fantastic free app for the Mac

if you have a trackpad or a magic mouse this is

this will let you customize different gestures

just totally customize the heck out of it so I right now I don't have

a magic mouse or trackpad on this Mac Meaning so I don't have it installed on this

machine

but on my MacBook Pro I do and so if you have a a magic pad

or trackpad anything like that on your Mac get the better touch tool

and you can customize it it is definitely awesome next on the list

is the veteran, the all-star handbrake this has been on the best free Mac apps list

for

ever since I can remember ever since I was a young lad this is a video converting

application it also does some other things

as well so if you want to convert a movie

to mp4 to put on your iPhone or iPad or you wanna

convert all kinds of it's just a very good converting application to have

for videos and also does some other things as well definitely got to have that

on your Mac that's handbrake now sticking with the converting applications this is

called smart converter

it does the the same thing it converts video files but it also converts

audio files as well just a very quick and simple

converting application to have alongside handbrake and

it's it's good to have I use this a lot when I just want to do a quick

conversion for any time of specific device or an mp3 conversion if I want to

convert

something to an mp3 audio file I use this application

awesome application it is called smart converter another free converting

application for the Mac is called adapter

I'm not going to include it on my list because I personally do not use it but

I've heard good things it gets

a lot of praise it's very popular if you want to check that out it's called adapter

again I don't use it but

it's free and I've heard good things converts videos and audio files

VirtualBox this is an awesome application it's a free virtual

Machine Manager for the Mac so if you want to install Linux or Windows or just

any

virtual machine on your Mac this is a free

application that you can do that with it's awesome it's what I started out

with when I installed Windows

on my Mac for the first time since then I've moved to a

a premium application call parallels because it has some added features and

added functionality but VirtualBox works awesomely great if you don't wanna spend

any money and just try it out for free

VirtualBox is the way to go if you're looking to install Windows

on your Mac now this next app I'm not entirely sure how to pronounce it but

I'm gonna do my best its Libreoffice

that's what I'm going to go with right now I don't know if that's right but it's

basically a free

office suite for your Mac so if you don't want to shell out the cash for

microsoft office for mac

you can use this as an alternative you know it doesn't work

as great as microsoft office but it is the best

free office suite for the Mac you can have a

It's got a writer document calc spreadsheet so you can do all the basic

things you can do

slide presentations you can do word processing and excel sheets

You can do all kinds of stuff like that also database for access alternative but yeah

if you were looking for a free office suite for the Mac

Libre office is definitely the way to go next on the list

is Evernote evernote is one of my favorite

applications period I love this this is cross platform so it's not just for the Mac

it's free

it's a web app that allows you to store all your notes

on in evernote so it's a note-taking cloud app that syncs

with the cloud to all your different devices so you can never forget

anything again you can take notes write things down it will sync up to

your your Evernote account and then be synced to

your devices so if I'm on my Mac and I want to take a note

I can put it right here on my Mac it will sync to the cloud instantly and it will be

synced on my iPhone my iPad and on my Windows computer

so it's basically one of the best applications to have period

its it's free and I love it it'll definitely

it works as a productivity app you'll never forget anything again I use it to

store all my ideas for videos

anything I need to to write down and just remember so its a virtual notebook

pretty much

evernote if you don't have it get it right now

the creators of evernote also created another awesome application called

skitch

this is free and this is a way to add annotations and arrows

and text to a screen grab or certain picture

it's basically just a up a team app if you if you're sending something to

somebody and you want to actually

draw their attention to something or explain something on on a from a screen

grab or picture

this is a great application to have it's definitely the easiest way to edit

info into a picture or screen grab

this next app is one of my favorite all-time applications ever

for Windows and Mac as it works cross-platform VLC

VLC is a another all-star this is a media player

it will play any type of audio or video file

I don't care what it is it will play it if it's a video or audio file

and it also has some other functionalities as well this is definitely one of my

all-time favorite applications I love it

I install it this is one of the first applications I install on a computer

Mac or Windows so check that out that is VLC media player

this next app is not for everybody but if you're getting into programming or

you want to

edit some code Sublime Text is the best free

code editor on the Mac so if you're looking to

edit some HTML documents or any type of code document

Sublime Text is the best for that Sublime Text for the Mac

next up is FileZilla this is a free FTP application for the Mac

and it's actually cross platform as well but there are some other ones for the

Mac called I think Cyberduck

is one but I've always used FileZilla for

the FTP that I need to do on the Mac I've never had a problem with it

it's worked great for me so I always recommend it and I haven't really tried any

other ones so

FileZilla a free FTP app for the Mac

okay so this next app is for everybody out there who gets on the computer at

night

so everybody it is a life saver it's called flux

if you've never heard of it it's F.LUX and it's a very simple application

it runs in the background of your Mac and it will adjust your screen brightness and

color

actually your screen color according to what time of day it is so as the Sun Goes

Down

your screen will start to become warmer more like warmer colors

and it will it will be easier on your eyes

when it's night time so it definitely it will definitely like

it helps you sleep better I think because if you if you have it running

you will instantly see the change of what it would look like

if you hadn't had flux running and it's really bright when flux is not

running

your screen is really bright and that's why I always leave I always

leave flux running in the background

so my screen adjusts to time of day

it's easier on my eyes helps you sleep better it's honestly an awesome app

so get that it's flux this next app you probably heard of it

it's called Alfred and it is a an alternative to your finder

it's basically finder on steroids okay

You can you install it what you install it has a bunch of features but basically

what I use it for

it has a a quick shortcut a quick keyboard shortcut that you can use so if I do

alt plus space it will bring up the Alfred search bar here and what it does is it

you can search

anything and everything it'll search it searches your Mac but also

searches online too so if I wanna search true detective

i'm about to watch that here can't wait true detective okay when I start to type it in

it'll give me these lists if it doesn't find anything on my Mac it'll give me

I can search google I can search Amazon I can search Wikipedia and I can also

customize this list to where it gives me different results I have different

options to choose from but I'm just going to choose Google

and it'll automatically bring up my web browser and search Google for true detective

or whatever I searched so

its it's just basically a better way to find

certain things it just saves a ton of time instead of having to bring up your web

browser and do that you just bring up Alfred and search

basically use it to search anything it's your main search functionality for Mac

so Alfred that's an awesome application the unarchiver this application can

compress and uncompress any sort of compressed file

for the Mac and it does it bam instantly it's really fast

it's definitely one of the first applications I always install on

a new Mac so if you if you like 7-zip if you're a Windows user and you use 7-zip

this is basically 7 zip for Mac I mean it is the best

zipping compressing application for the Mac

and that's called the unarchiver now I love this next app so much

it's called app cleaner and it will uninstall

any application on your Mac fully it'll get rid of all the junk files left over

if you normally do it with the Mac when you delete an application you just drag the application

to the trash

and then empty the trash well this actually will do that it does that

plus it finds all the junk files left behind from that program that you no

longer need

it's very easy to use you just find the application that you want to uninstall

say if I want to uninstall caffeine if I search for that

it'll give me my main application file and all the other junk files

as well and then all I have to do is hit delete and it will delete

that application along with all the junk files so just it's a better way to

keep your system optimized

and clean and I i love it appcleaner

if you're a smart person you will be backing up your Mac and one of the best

ways to do is using a free app called super duper

if you never heard of this this is one of the another all-time favorites for Mac

applications

Super Duper is a free backup and recovery software for the Mac

you can use it to back up your Mac you can use it to create a bootable backup

of your Mac

there's a paid version that you can you can buy

which gives you some other features like scheduling but if you can also just

stick with the free version the free version will back up your Mac no problem

so if you don't want to use Time Machine and you want to use something more

conventional super duper is the way to go

another productivity app for the Mac is self control

if you've