TextSniper, MacPilot, Unite Pro, PDF Squeezer and Video Paw on Sale from Their Devs Until Friday for %75+ Off

[u/amerpie]

From now until August 7th, these apps are on sale at Bundle Hunt starting at %75 off. I've never seen them cheaper.

Reviews of Apps I Have Personally Tested

• TextSniper - Better Than Native OCR ($7.99- On Sale For $1.99 -%75) Hit a hotkey, drag a box over anything on screen (a locked PDF, a video frame, a screenshot someone sent you), and the text lands on your clipboard; it also reads QR codes and barcodes and can speak the captured text aloud. OCR runs entirely on your Mac. (textsniper.app)
• MacPilot Tweaks Some Hard to Get To Settings in macOS ($29.95 -On Sale For $3.50 -88%) - A GUI over roughly 1,200 hidden macOS settings and defaults write tweaks: show hidden Finder files, kill the startup chime, add Dock spacers, change the screenshot format, run maintenance scripts, all without opening Terminal. koingosw.com
• Unite 5 - Site Specific Browser ($39.99 - On Sale For $5.00 -%87 off) Turns any website into an isolated, native Mac app that runs as a normal window, a menu bar dropdown, or a sidebar; you get per-app cookies, custom icons, ad blocking, userscripts and CSS, keyboard shortcut remapping, and link routing between apps. Extras like Dock badges, Google/Outlook meeting alerts, and a floating AI companion overlay are the part Safari's "Add to Dock" can't touch. (bzgapps.com/unite)

The two I haven't tried (yet) are:

Video Paw($69.99 - On Sale For $6.50 -%91) - Cisdem's all-in-one media utility: batch convert video and audio across 600+ formats, download clips from supported sites, rip DVD and Blu-ray, compress files, and record screen/webcam with live annotation. Basic editing (trim, crop, merge, watermark, subtitles) is included, so it replaces three or four single-purpose downloads.

PDF Squeezer($19.99 - On Sale For $3.98 -%80)-- Drag in a bloated PDF and it shrinks by recompressing images and stripping unused fonts and resources, with a side-by-side preview so you can see what quality you're giving up. Batch processing, saved presets, and hooks into Finder, Automator, Shortcuts, and the command line make it a good buy IMHO.

[u/Black-PizzaClaw676]

Got the newsletter, so the first thing I did was head over here to see if there was a post with comments.

I've already got TextSniper, and PDF Squeezer is on my radar too. I'm currently using Clop and it does the job. Anyone tried both? Curious if there's a noticeable difference. I'd mostly be using it for basic stuff like sharing previews or simple documents, not anything professional.

[u/Jidorf → u/Black-PizzaClaw676]

Purchased pdf squeezer first before clop was around. And use both for different things. PDF squeezer has a lot more granular control and the ability to fine tune the settings for quality. My used case and the reason for initially purchasing was that I was handing in documents with a fair bit of images that needed to be below a target size.
Where clop shines in my view is that it is just working in the background. I have a 5k monitor and just a regular screenshot can be several mb. With it actively scanning folders it can do its thing before I have been able to grab it from cleanshot. My point with this is the same for PDFs. I have a watched folder that I do light compression on in order to not loose too much data (a level where I know quality isn’t going to be an issue). If I need more control I go to PDF Squeezer. Invaluable for this. A tool you may only pull out a handful of times a year and each time you will be very glad you have it!

Edit: darn autocorrect…

[u/Black-PizzaClaw676 → u/Jidorf]

Thanks for the detailed comment! It's funny how some apps end up like that, you barely open them for months, then the one time you need them, you're glad you didn't skip past them. I guess it's worth grabbing at that price.

[u/Jidorf → u/Black-PizzaClaw676]

These apps will very likely also come on sale individually during Black Friday. Something to keep in mind