Keyboard Maestro

$59 FROM Stairways Software, keyboardmaestro.com NEEDS OS X 10.11 or later

Your Mac already has a whole range of handy built-in timesavers thanks to keyboard shortcuts and trackpad swipes. Keyboard Maestro takes that a step further, enabling you to automate a huge number of tasks with both pre-programmed and custom options.

You can automate almost any task you can think of. Launch apps at the touch of a button, rearrange the windows on your desktop, control your music playback, fill out website forms – all these features and more can be activated with a touch.

The app can manipulate text, too. With a few quick clicks you can complete calculations, expand text abbreviations into full words and phrases, create reports, convert images to text, and use multiple clipboard items. When you’re working with text–heavy tasks, these features are invaluable.