LaunchBar VS Oversight

LaunchBar Reviews

Oversight Reviews

LaunchBar mentions (8)

• You're using function keys wrong

  I've been doing this for >10 years with https://manytricks.com/butler/. Works great! You can also bind snippets of text, scripts, etc. I can't overstate how important it is to have a keyboard that groups function keys into "islands" of (generally) 4 so you can touch-type them. An ergonomics consultant once observed that the source of my neck pain was that I looked at the keyboard while typing. As a touch-typist, I... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Maccy is an open source lightweight and searchable clipboard manager for macOS

  LaunchBar[0], which predates Alfred but is similar in function, also has a fantastic searchable clipboard manager. LaunchBar's manager includes a feature that I've not been able to find in any other clipboard manager: a push/pop stack. With this feature you can, for example, copy a bunch of different items from a web page on to the stack, then paste them sequentially in a web form and pop them from the stack so... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• What apps do you install on your MacBook Pro to improve performance and usability?

  LaunchBar is something I personally find a more useful and better considered tool than Alfred, though they're aimed at doing the same thing. It also comes with a great clipboard persister and manager. Every time you start doing things in LaunchBar, you can type a couple of letters to filter the list of candidates down, which means juggling a 100 item clipboard history becomes very easy to manage. Source: over 2 years ago

• Clipboard app for regularly used text

  I use the one integrated into Launchbar. Source: almost 3 years ago

• What is the best clipboard archiving utility for macbook?

  Launchbar will persist up to 100 clipboard items, with full-text search and access. I use it constantly. The rest of Launchbar is horrendously useful - the best of the 'accessory' tools, IMO. Source: almost 3 years ago

Oversight mentions (20)

• Picked up this beauty for college.

  Yup good advice! Instead of covering it physically you can use a trustworthy software solution OverSight https://objective-see.org/products/oversight.html. Source: 10 months ago

• My wife said she could never tell if I was on a call in our home office.

  Something like https://objective-see.org/products/oversight.html proves you can detect applications that open a microphone session on macOS. Could set something up that listens to that, filters by process and toggles it on/off based on active microphone sessions. Source: about 1 year ago

• What is this SUS orange dot????

  You can use Oversight to do that, but I'm a little confused by the location of the dot. Which OS version are you running? Source: over 1 year ago

• Why is my camera coming on every ~30 minutes? MBP-16" 2021

  I am using OverSight ( https://objective-see.org/products/oversight.html ). Source: over 1 year ago

• How to tell if my boss is remotely tapping into my company owned MacBook microphone?

  Ask your works IT admin to install OverSight which warns on camera and mic use. Source: over 1 year ago