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YouTube Create

In another move to keep up with TikTok, YouTube finally made a video editing tool for mobile users, which you can get in beta from the Play Store. Use YouTube Create to spice up your Shorts with precision trimming, filters, effects, royalty-free music, voiceovers, captions, and the works. It’s coming to iOS in the new year.

Today Tagz

Quickly reference the trending topics and their tweet/view counts on X and TikTok, by country and city, all in one place, no logins necessary. You can even export the data into an Excel doc or choose to navigate directly to the app to view respective topics.

NotesNudge

If you’re a manager or a content creator or simply a student of life, you might like the NotesNudge app. It connects to your note-taking apps and serves you an excerpt of your own writing every day via a delivery method of your choosing. It’s like a quote-a-day, except instead of sayings from old poets, you get a “fresh conversation with your past self.” It’s pretty cool to see how old insights transform with new context.

Free Tiny Tools

This is the Swiss Army knife of websites. Access hundreds of free tiny tools for all your text, image, development, calculator, generator, and convertor needs. For free.

Elephas

Elephas has joined the chat with an AI writing assistant optimized for seamless use between your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. The “Super Brain” feature synthesizes your ideas collected across various knowledge management apps, and the AI assistant works with your favorite word processor to refine your writing projects. Plus, ChatGPT runs on top of any app with one click of the super-command bar.

GA4Spy

Keep this comprehensive GA4 cheatsheet handy. Quickly search, filter, and find the purpose, category, scope, Looker Studio and API availability, and more for each dimension and metric.

Mother Nature Wants Answers

A major tech brand holding itself accountable for its own sustainable promises? Cool. Octavia Spencer playing the role of Mother Nature herself requesting a detailed status report on Apple’s green initiatives? Brilliant.

Screen Studio

This MacOS tool creates polished screen recordings for your promo videos, tutorials, demos, and other projects. Its intuitive, user-friendly interface and baked-in features—like automatic zoom and branding options—make editing simple and flexible. Record an entire display, a single window, a defined area, or a device, and add the audio input of your choice. You can even export your screen recordings as GIFs.

Gamma App

Gamma is a good place to start if you need to make a deck or a doc or webpage on the fly. Dynamic AI templates help you revise and polish the look and feel without any of the tedium of formatting little boxes for hours. You can easily embed media, share in presentation mode, or publish your final product online. Plus, there is built-in analytics and commenting for easy collaboration.