If better Mac audio is on your list of resolutions for 2026, the folks at Rogue Amoeba have you covered with SoundSource, their essential audio control app.

SoundSource provides audio control so useful, it ought to be built in to MacOS. Get instant access to your Mac’s audio settings right from the menu bar, with powerful per-app volume and routing control, and the ability to apply effects to any app’s audio.

The newly released SoundSource 6 is a major upgrade, with dozens of enhancements. Updates include supercharged AirPlay support, output groups to send audio to multiple devices at once, Quick Configs that save your entire audio configuration, and a powerful new Audio Devices window that gives deep control over device settings.

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Copilot Money, the only personal finance app to win an Apple Editor’s Choice award, now gives you a seamless, cross-device way to manage your money across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Web.

With Copilot’s beautifully designed interface and powerful financial insights, you can see your spending, budgets, investments, and net worth all in one place. Everything syncs automatically across devices, so whether you’re at your desk or on the go, you always have an up-to-date picture of your finances.

Copilot is built to help you go deeper without feeling overwhelmed. Transactions are intelligently categorized, trends surface automatically, and insights are presented in a way that feels intuitive and confidence-building, not stressful.

Whether you’re tracking monthly spending, planning ahead, or working toward long-term goals, Copilot’s unified dashboard helps you feel clear, calm, and in control of your money.

Copilot Money is offering MacStories readers an extended two-month free trial with code MACSTORIES. Plus, for one more week, you can save 26% on your first year through the link below.

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WinterFest 2025: The Festival of Artisanal Software is back with a fantastic new collection of carefully crafted software for writing, research, and thinking.

Innovative software often comes from small teams, crafted with imagination and a vision of a better way to work. There are no bundles, games, or prices that are too good to be true: just fresh software with fantastic support at great, sustainable prices.

Software artisans from around the globe have come together for this time-limited sale to bring you innovative apps to assist you with everyday work. This incredible catalog of productivity software includes:

• Avalanche: Photo catalog migration
• BBEdit: Power tool for text
• Bookends: The reference manager you’ve been looking for
• Cotypist: Type as fast as you can think (Free Beta)
• DEVONagent Pro: Your smart (re)search assistant
• DEVONthink 4: Manage documents the smart way
• Easy Data Transform: Merge, clean, and reformat data without coding
• FindMySnap: Your private photo search engine
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• HyperPlan: Flexible visual planner
• ImageFramer Pro: Add creative borders and frames to photos
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These amazing deals don’t come around often, so act today to start 2025 off with the best software available from this terrific group of developers.

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Our thanks to Winterfest for sponsoring MacStories this week.

Today, Copilot Money — the Apple Editor’s Choice money app — is expanding beyond iPhone, iPad, and Mac with the launch of its new web app, available now. This release brings Copilot’s beautiful, clean interface and powerful financial insights to any browser, with native-quality performance built right into the web experience. And with seamless syncing across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and now the web, it’s easier than ever to get a consistent, clear picture of your money wherever you are.

Their apps have earned accolades for a reason: they bring all your spending, budgets, investments, and net worth into one organized place, with a thoughtful design that helps you dive into the details without losing the big picture. This is how a modern budgeting app should feel — calm, intuitive, and built to give you confidence, not anxiety.

With Copilot Money, every account connects to a single dashboard, transactions are intelligently categorized, and insights surface automatically to help you stay on track without maintaining spreadsheets or jumping between apps. Whether you’re planning your month, analyzing trends, or working toward long-term goals, Copilot Money’s cross-device experience now makes financial clarity available anywhere you need it.

To celebrate the web launch, Copilot Money is offering MacStories readers two months free with code MACSTORIES. And for a limited time, when you sign up on their website, you’ll also get 26% off your first year.

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Our thanks to Copilot Money for sponsoring MacStories this week.

Get Notify for instant alerts when any website changes, RSS feed updates, your scripts or devices need your attention – right from your iPhone or iPad. No accounts, servers, or technical setup needed.

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Why Choose Notify?

Traditional monitoring requires servers, hosting, and complex setup. Notify works instantly – whether tracking prices, monitoring news, or receiving alerts from your own apps and scripts. Start simple, expand when ready.

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Perfect for anyone wanting powerful monitoring without the complexity. Download Notify from the App Store and start monitoring in seconds, or visit Notify’s website to learn more.

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Our thanks to Setapp for sponsoring MacStories this week.

Gamery is the ultimate video game library app for iPhone and iPad—designed to look and feel right at home on Apple platforms.

With a simple, stunning design now refreshed for iOS 26 and a beautiful new app icon, Gamery makes managing your games as sleek and enjoyable as playing them. Everything is thoughtfully built to feel fast, fluid, and perfectly native across Apple devices.

Importing your games has never been easier. Gamery offers powerful importing options for PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, Epic Games Store, and more, so you can build your collection in seconds instead of hours. A brand-new Home tab keeps you updated with monthly PlayStation Plus titles, Xbox Game Pass releases, and Epic Games Store freebies, so you never miss what’s new.

Once your library is set up, Gamery helps you stay organized with powerful filters, collections, unified search, and widgets for quick access right from your Home Screen or Lock Screen. Whether you want to track your playthrough progress or just browse your collection in style, Gamery keeps everything in one beautifully designed place. And on iPad, use the power of multiple windows and keyboard shortcuts to move through your library with ease.

If you love great design, powerful features, and effortless importing, Gamery makes tracking your games simple, beautiful, and fun.

Download Gamery today for free and check out some limited-time discounts for the Gamery+ subscription by visiting gamery.app/sale.

Our thanks to Gamery for sponsoring MacStories this week.

Great indie apps that shine on OS 26. Try them free today:

• Drafts: Quick capture notes taking with powerful actions to edit and export content.
• Tally: Flexible, simple app for all your counting needs, from scorekeeping to habit tracking.
• Terminology: Extensible dictionary and thesaurus.
• Simple Scan: Breaks Apple’s scanning interface out of Notes, and provides easy, low-friction ways to route scans to email, messages, files, and more.

Download for free today at agiletortoise.com!

Our thanks to Agile Tortoise for sponsoring MacStories this week.

Quip is a supercharged clipboard manager and text expander for Mac, iPhone, and iPad—built to feel perfectly native, fast, and private.

Most clipboard apps turn into junk drawers. Quip is different. You choose how items get saved: capture everything, or enable Only Copy on Shortcut so your archive stays intentional. Then Quip Intelligence (secure, on-device AI) cleans things up—fixing broken links, removing tracking parameters, normalizing messy text, keeping code formatting intact, avoiding duplicates, and more. It even learns from your behavior to automatically avoid items you likely wish to ignore. Quip OCR lets you copy text from anywhere on your Mac’s screen - even if it is not normally copyable.

Your history is beautiful and searchable, with filters for app, type, and date. Organize with Collections (including Smart Collections that auto-sort by rules). When you need to act, Super Shortcuts paste anything—signatures, links, snippets—just by typing a trigger, anywhere on your Mac.

Quip works across your devices with iCloud sync and includes Quip Keyboard on iOS so your items are always a tap away. It’s privacy-first, with granular content rules (ignore apps or keywords, or strip sensitive terms) and full control over retention.

If you live in copy/paste all day, Quip makes it fast, thoughtful, and actually enjoyable.

Try Quip free on the App Store or learn more on our site: bzgapps.com/quip

Our thanks to Quip from BZG Apps for sponsoring MacStories this week.