In this week’s Mac app roundup, you’ll find a duck that likes to move your data around, a phone that doesn’t need dusting, and a tower that knows what happened to all your files.
Developer David Kocher’s $24 Cyberduck is a Swiss Army knife of utilities for transferring your files over the Internet.
The app supports a wide range of cloud services, including Microsoft’s Azure, Amazon’s S3, and, of course, your own private file server.
Xnet Communications’s $35 iSoftPhone ( App Store Link) is a software-based VoIP phone that allows you to access any SIP-enabled telephone systems directly from your desktop.
The app supports both audio and video, is compatible with most popular codecs—some of which are available as in-app purchases—and provides a full AppleScript dictionary that can be used to manage both incoming and outgoing calls.
Xelaton Software’s $8 Note-C is an easy-to-use app for collecting your all your notes in one place.
The program supports the creation of multiple notebooks and the categorization of entries in arbitrary groups. It’s compatible with a wide range of markup technologies like Markdown and Textile, and can export your data in a variety of formats.
Glam Software’s $8 Outlinely helps you create complex nested lists for your every need.
Perfect for a personal to-do list or an event checklist, the app supports rich text, multiple indentation levels, and even tagging.
DoReMIR’s ScoreCloud Studio ( App Store link) is a clever tool that converts a piece of music—either from audio or from a MIDI file—into a full score.
The app allows you to edit the scores it creates, and then print or share them through a variety of services.
Fournova’s $59 Tower 2 is a powerful front-end interface to the popular Git version control system.
The app supports all of Git’s functionality, and offers a great visual approach to managing your repositories.
Developer Jaroslaw Szpilewski’s $20 Vector ( App Store link) allows you to record and edit audio directly from your Mac.
The app supports multiple input sources and provides a number of built-in filters that work alongside the app’s visual waveform representation to give you a powerful editing environment.
Developer Evan Miller’s $200 Wizard Pro is a high-end statistical analysis tool that helps you make sense of large amounts of data.
The app supports collecting and manipulating data from a variety of sources, can create useful charts from it, and is even capable of producing answers to complex statistical questions in plain English.
Sonic Ladder’s $45 Riffstation ( Mac App Store link) is designed to help guitar players make some noise and practice their favorite songs. It supports chord detection, tempo manipulation, and pitch shift.
BeLight’s $30 Printworks ( Mac App Store link) offers a variety of templates for everything from brochures to calendars that you can customize and print directly from your Mac.