Surprisingly Useful@surprisinguse

Native Mac apps that you may find useful.

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined May 2026
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Capture, record, mark up, compose, edit, share. It's HotShot, the only screenshot and recording tool you need. bendansby.com/apps/hotshot.h…

HotShot — capture, mark up, and finish a shot in one place

Shoot the screen, a window, a region, a live web page, or a recording — then mark it up, compose it, and export.

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Capture your Mac's audio directly with ListenUp bendansby.com/apps/listenup.…

ListenUp — record your Mac's system audio

Record whatever's playing on your Mac, trim it on a waveform, auto-strip silence, and save.

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TextBuddy: a plain text editor that cleans up text with just a few clicks. Fix punctuation, standardize spacing, change case, wrap in tags, much more. Generates filler text, too. bendansby.com/apps/textbuddy…

TextBuddy — a text editor with a wall of one-shot fixes

Case, lines, whitespace, punctuation, find & replace, and filler text — one click each, on the whole file or just your selection.

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TopSecret: automatically redact sensitive info. Burn in black bars to flattened PDFs and leave no trace of the original. bendansby.com/apps/topsecret…

TopSecret — redact anything, for good

Black out sensitive text and faces in images and PDFs, and export a copy where the hidden data is truly gone. On Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

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Get 6 to 16 apps for $20 to $40. It's Surprisingly Useful bundles bendansby.com/apps/bundles.h…

Bundles — Surprisingly Useful Mac apps

Three ways to buy more than one app at once — save on the tools you already want.

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Introducing ShowRunner — build pixel perfect screen walkthroughs and demos, and run them live or export a stylish video. bendansby.com/apps/showrunne…
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MoveMatic — a free, native Mac app for animating product UI. Stacked spans, pulses, scene transitions, a timeline that snaps the way designers iterate. bendansby.com/apps/movematic
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