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Reduce Mac memory usage

You deserve all the RAM in the world

When your system feels slow, an overloaded RAM is often to blame. These apps help you monitor your machine’s memory and make room for the tasks you need at hand.

Track memory usage with iStat Menus

There’s no need to open Activity Monitor every you want to check your RAM usage. iStat Menus brings all the key stats to your menu bar and monitors them in real-time. Learn which apps use the most memory and consider quitting those.



Quit background apps with QuitAll

You’ll be surprised how many apps sit in the background, quietly eating up the memory. Find and quit them with QuitAll.



Open Quit All from the menu bar, click the Settings icon and choose “View background apps.” Now, you can quit them all!

Declutter your desktop with Spotless

A clean desktop means fewer icons, files, and folders for your Mac to render. Clean up your desktop regularly to help your Mac distribute its resources more efficiently. Spotless is a menu bar app where you can drag and drop files to autotidy.



Select the files you want off your desktop and set the rules for them to be sorted in dedicated folders. Organize files by file type, name, date of creation, and more. You can also schedule automatic tidying.

Hope this how-to will help you solve tasks faster, and enjoy solving them, too! Check out more how-tos picked for you below.

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