But no single calendar app is best for everyone. Some want their calendars to be simple and streamlined; others prefer robust, customization calendar apps that track tasks and notes alongside events Free April iClock is the handiest calendar app for Mac. Millions rely on Any.do, a beautifully designed calendar app for your Mac, that makes it easy to organize your life and get more done.

Setting a price range for yourself and conducting a little bit of product research will help you determine the model that’s right for you. Going the Extra Mile So, there you have it—everything you need to get started streaming on Twitch! Broadcast software twitch. If you’re looking to go the extra mile, however, there are some other tools you can use to help. The come ranging from around $30 to hundreds of dollars, depending on how advanced you’re looking to get.

Books and calendars in Photos for Mac: What are the best options? Coffee table books from Mimeo (2016) and Motif (2017).

[ The newest version of my ebook about Photos for Mac and iOS,, has just been released. A lot of the research I did for this story came out of working on that book. If you use the Photos app a lot,.] For many years, Apple let you use iPhoto and then Photos to create designs with your photos, upload those designs to Apple’s servers, and then take delivery of custom-printed objects in a few days’ time. My family creates annual calendars and frequently creates books, too. These physical products are great ways to keep our photos in view throughout the year, even when we aren’t staring at a device. Unfortunately, Apple has gotten out of the business of producing books and calendars. Instead, it’s allowed third-party services to create special apps and make them available for download in the Mac App Store.

These free apps allow you to create projects based on your Photos library and order them from right within Photos. (Sure, you could just build books by uploading photos to a website. But in my opinion, building on your Mac from your existing library of images and using a native app is a superior experience.) Apple started in leaning into extensions last year, but with its official announcement that it’s getting out of this category, a few other companies have finally jumped in. The result is that there are two apps—available for free from the Mac App Store—that are worth checking out if you’re interested in printing photo books or calendars from within Photos for Mac.

(Unsurprisingly, the companies behind both apps seem to have been past suppliers for Apple’s book-printing services so this is their way of staying in the game.) Building the books Given what they’re designed to do, it’s not surprising that these apps are more similar than they are different. Visual studio for mac open two solutions. Both let you build books from different design templates. You add photos to a project by dragging them from the main Photos view to the project’s icon in the sidebar.

You can view all the photos in your project or just see the ones you haven’t used yet—a very useful feature, since you want to avoid duplicates and make sure all the good photos get in. Both extensions let you select the number of photos on a page and choose from a bunch of different layouts. And doing Apple’s original implementation one better, both will let you perform free-form adjustments of the sizes of photos on any page, if you think you can do a better job than the pre-formatted templates can. Both apps offer predesigned templates, so you don’t have to create your books from scratch. Mimeo definitely wins when it comes to volume: Mimeo’s template picker offers more than 50 options (including versions of Apple’s old templates), while Motif is limited to 14.

Motif places photos at the bottom of the screen and layout options as icons beneath each page. Mimeo puts layout thumbnails at the bottom of the screen and hides other items in slide-out drawers accessible from the toolbar on the right side of the screen. The apps also have their differences. If you’re someone who wants the ultimate in customizability, Mimeo shines.

You can add or remove photo boxes, resize them at will, drag them anywhere on the page, and even send them to the front or back, so if you want to have a complex design with overlapping images, you can do it. (Mimeo will also let you run photos across the center spread of the book.) Mimeo’s interface puts thumbnails of all your pages at the bottom of the screen, with a toolbar at the right that slides out drawers of your photos and lets you select layout preferences. Mimeo’s basically a free-form layout tool for photo books. There are no drawers in Motif, which places your project’s photos in a strip across the bottom and lets you toggle between a single-spread view and a set of project thumbnails via a pair of toolbar buttons. This is a better interface decision, since I’m the kind of person who builds books page by page and wants access to all of my project photos at all times. You get access to layout options by clicking a small icon beneath a page.

Motif provides templates for between one and nine photos on a page. (Mimeo has templates for one to four photos, and then a “5+” category with a few different layout options for many more photos.) Motif lets you change the dimensions of any photo box. If I had to sum up the differences between the apps, I’d say that Motif feels more modern and is easier to use, since it puts project photos (rather than page thumbnails) on the main interface and isn’t reliant on a bunch of slide-out drawers to access photos and layout controls. While Motif offers more layout flexibility than Apple’s old tools did, if you want to have ultimate control, Mimeo will give it to you. You can try them both and see for yourself, if you like. But at this point I’d recommend that most people start with Motif, because of the streamlined interface. (Most people don’t need their book-building tool to be a miniature QuarkXPress.) Getting the books Now we come to the other part of the equation: Actually printing the books!