This App Fixes MacOS

Summary

The reviewer presents Vorssaint—also rendered inaccurately in the subtitles as “Versant” or similar—as a free, modular collection of Mac utilities comparable to Microsoft PowerToys. After using it for about a month, the reviewer says it has replaced several separate apps and addresses a range of macOS annoyances.

Features highlighted

• Keep Awake: Prevents the Mac from sleeping, including when its lid is closed and it is connected to an external display. The reviewer prefers it to the built-in caffeinate command, which they say does not keep the external display active when the lid is shut.
• Per-app volume mixer: Lets users adjust audio levels for individual applications. The reviewer finds it useful while editing video—for example, to hear Spotify through the speakers and editing audio through headphones.
• External mouse controls: Allows separate scrolling behavior for a mouse, including reversing its direction independently of the trackpad, and provides smoother scrolling.
• Screenshot and text extraction tools: Offers expanded screenshot options and can select text from images and copy it to the clipboard.
• Cut-and-paste shortcuts: Restores the familiar Command-X and Command-V workflow for moving files, instead of macOS’s copy-then-move shortcut.
• Quit and close: Closes an app when its final window is closed, rather than leaving the app running.
• System statistics and controls: Displays system and network information, offers a speed test, and shows battery health and energy use, as well as disk health and usage. It also provides quick switches for actions such as changing appearance, turning off the keyboard backlight, emptying the Trash, and ejecting disks.
• Other utilities: Includes a keyboard-and-trackpad lock for cleaning, a command bar, a floating quick panel, an uninstaller that removes related files, a cleaner for remnants of normally uninstalled apps, Homebrew package management, and a tool for removing tracking parameters from copied URLs.

Review and caveats

The reviewer particularly values Keep Awake, the volume mixer, mouse controls, text extraction, and the file-movement and app-closing behaviors. They use the command bar and quick panel only occasionally, and say some other tools were not tested or did not prove useful.

One missing feature they would like is the ability to keep windows always on top, as PowerToys can. A floating file shelf partly helps with moving files between applications. The reviewer notes that the app is free and received several updates during their trial.

Main speaker/source: Rogi, the video’s narrator and reviewer.