MyApplications - An App for App Lovers
For the avid app collector there are a few tools available to help
catalog and curate the assortment of programs that accumulate over time.
You can use Apple's built in system report to get comprehensive
information but it's rather dense and not illustrated. You can use an
app like Apparency,
but then you are limited to a single app at the time. MyApplications,
available in the app store for 99 cents, serves as both a database and a
launcher for your computer.
The MyApplications general interface includes a count of the
number of apps you have installed, 414 in my case. It breaks the apps
down into publishers, for example I have 92 apps from Apple itself and
six from the wonderful developer Sindre Sorhus. Apparently, many
apps don't provide publisher information because I have a lot that are
not listed. It also breaks the apps into categories such as utilities,
productivity, developer tools, graphics and design etc. The categories,
while helpful, are a little too broad for my taste, for example I have
124 labeled as utilities and it seems that could have been further
narrowed into categories like disk utilities, archive utilities, etc.
The app interface lets you choose sorting by name or last
launched. It tells you how many apps you currently have running and how
may you have launched in the past day. If you click on individual apps,
you have the option to launch them or to get more information regarding
size on disk, location, language localizations, download date and date
of last update. A complete permissions report is included. The package
contents are listed as is a complete description, apparently from the
App store or developer's web site if provided. There are even screen
shots provided.
(This is a repost. I’m out camping with my grandkids and didn’t
have a chance to test anything today.)