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    Top 9 Mac Apps and Software for OS X El Capitan (Now 10 Apps in 2021 including High Sierra Support)


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      Summary: Back in 2016; this blog shared the 9 best applications and software for the then OS X El Capitan users. With time, El Cap was succeeded by Sierra and now High Sierra hence we decided to update this blog and share the best apps for El Cap, macOS Sierra 10.12, and High Sierra 10.13 users. We are glad to share that there are now 10 top Mac software and applications that are best suited for OS X El Capitan, Sierra, and High Sierra.

      Contents – Top Apps for Mac

      Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac #1

      Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac supports all kinds of deleted recovery on macOS High Sierra, Sierra, OS X El Capitan and below OS X versions. You can recover data from external hard drives, disk drives, partitions formatted with APFS, HFS, HFS+, NTFS, FAT, ex-FAT. Further, it recovers files deleted from Time Machine & Encrypted hard drives. The support for Time Capsule sparse bundle disk image has been added in the latest version. Also, Stellar Data Recovery for Mac software provides vast support for various file formats of Digital Photos, Audio, Videos, Documents, Archives, Applications, Text and other applications.

      Stellar Data Recovery Premium for Mac #2

      Stellar Data Recovery Premium for Mac is the bigger and more powerful version of the above data recovery software. It performs all the duties of a recovery tool on OS X El Cap, Sierra, macOS Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave and older OS X versions. Additionally, the Premium version includes another couple of advance module which are immensely useful in repairing a corrupt or damaged Photos and Video files on any storage drive. It supports the repairing of multiple photos and video file formats such as JPEG, JPG, MOV, MP4, F4V, M4V, 3GP, & 3G2. Stellar Data Recovery  Premium for Mac is available at 44% Discount.

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      Smart iPhone® Data Recovery #3

      Smart iPhone® Data Recovery is an ultimate application to recover deleted pictures from Camera Roll, Photo Stream, deleted Contacts, Call History, Notes, Memos, WhatsApp, WeChat, Line, Viber, Tango and Kik Messages, WhatsApp attachments and Safari bookmarks. This application performs file recovery on iTunes backup files and iCloud backup files. Support for data recovery on encrypted iTunes backup files is also included in this fantastic application. Supported iPhone models are – iPhone® X, 8 Plus, 8, 7 Plus, 7, 6S Plus, 6S, 6 Plus, 6, 5S, 5c, 5, 4S And 4. The application also supports the recovery of multiple devices including iPhone and iPad.

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      Stellar Repair for Video #4

      Stellar Repair for Video , perhaps, the only available videos repair software for Mac OS. Stellar Repair for Video 3.0 supports fixing header corruption, duration, sound and movement corruption of MOV, MP4, F4V, M4V, 3GP, & 3G2 Files. With this utility, you can repair multiple damaged video files in a single go. The software facilitates preview of video files before and after repair.

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      Stellar Photo Recovery Professional #5

      Stellar Photo Recovery- Professional allows recovering deleted, lost and erased photos, videos and audio files from Mac hard drives. The digital media recovery support is extended to external hard drives, SD cards, SDXC, SDHC, CF cards, USB drives and digital cameras. Photo recovery software also allows you to create a disk image of a corrupt media and perform recovery from it.

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      Stellar Drive Clone #6

      Stellar Drive Clone application provides features that are helpful in creating a backup copy of your Mac start-up disk drive. The software clones the source drive to a chosen destination drive without any problem. It can also create a disk image file of Mac’s partition, folders or an external storage drive. Stellar Drive Clone creates an exact replica of an HFS, FAT, ex-FAT file-system. This backup tool replicates an NTFS formatted storage drive to ex-FAT volume. Stellar Drive Clone is compatible with macOS High Sierra 10.13, Sierra, OS X El Capitan and below OS X versions.

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      Stellar Partition Manager #7

      Stellar Partition Manager; provides advance Disk Utility alike features for managing partition on OS X El Capitan, Sierra and below OS X versions. Leverage Stellar Partition Manager when the Disk Utility on El Capitan or Sierra won’t let you resize or remove a particular partition. Stellar Partition Manager application simplifies managing Mac hard drives & mounted partitions on OS X El Capitan & macOS Sierra. This software creates a bootable USB and helps you resize Macintosh HD, BootCamp partition, remove or add partitions. Note: As of now, Stellar Partition Manager is not yet compatible with macOS High Sierra 10.13.

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      Stellar Speedup Mac #8

      Stellar Speedup Mac is one ultimate disk cleaning utility that makes your El Capitan storage drive neat and tidy. This Shareware removes system junks, unused & lengthy log reports, unattended trashed files and unreachable leftovers in the free trial version. The registered version of the Stellar Speedup Mac will further eliminate unused & old caches, duplicates from iTunes, iMovie, iWork, Aperture, unused large files, unwanted language files, and universal binaries. Stellar Speedup Mac software incorporates an inbuilt Uninstaller which helps remove the applications, which are no longer required on OS X El Capitan. Note: Stellar Speedup Mac is not yet compatible with Sierra / High Sierra.

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      Stellar PDF Repair for Mac #9

      Stellar PDF Repair for Mac ensures that your damaged or corrupt PDF files are professionally repaired with the help of this utility on Mac OS X. The software uploads numerous damaged .pdf files from Mac hard drive or external hard drives and allows the user to select desired pdf files for quick repair. The utility is designed to address the damages occurred on PDF tables, word art, shapes, page format, forms, footers, clip art, charts, and headers.

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      Stellar Entourage Repair #10

      Stellar Repair for Entourage is a powerful Entourage Database repair utility to fix annoying issues like freezing, inaccessible email items and corruption in entourage database. The Software has the potential to recover each and every component of the Entourage database like emails, attachments, contacts, tasks, and calendars. It is compatible with Entourage 2008 & 2004 versions. Note: Stellar Repair for Entourage is compatible with macOS Sierra, OS X El Cap and below versions.

      Conclusion

      The objective of this blog is to introduce you to the top ten software which could help you conveniently perform any task on OS X El Cap, Sierra & High Sierra. You can avail the free trial version of each application mentioned above. Please feel free to communicate your queries via comment box.

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      About The Author

      Vishal linkdin

      Vishal is a data recovery expert @Stellar. He addresses data loss scenarios on a Mac. He intends to help people solve their macOS problems. Besides, Vishal prefers to read about astronomy and autobiography, and his favorite is Steve Jobs - The man who thought different written by Karen Bluementhal.

      25 comments

      1. I am using Entourage 2008 web services edition along exchange account. Last week, I have upgraded from Mac OSX 10.8.4 to El Capitan 10.11.4. After completing this upgrade at local machine, it fails to open again and again. This problem comes along reported error “not responding”. Right now, then I have no option except quit.

        I read about the above Stellar Entourage Repair tool. Is it relevant for me?

        1. Tom, Stellar Speedup Mac Software is a freemium utility which helps Mac users to remove few gbs of useless data at free of cost and for using additional features of the software, they need to register this software.

      2. Can I remove 1 GB of junk data from my Mac using free version of Stellar Speedup Mac Software?

      3. I have problem in my Entourage 2008 on El Capitan 10.11. As i observed, some folders are not updating efficiently.
        How i can solve it?

        1. This is a very common issue that occurs in MS Entourage due to the synchronization problem with Server. To fix this problem completely, clear the cache of affected Folders. To execute this process, follow the steps:

          1. Click on the folder which is not updating
          2. Click on the folder properties.
          3. In the Empty Cache section, click on the Empty

          We hope, the solution will work for you. Please let us know if the issue still persists.

      4. Will Stellar Drive Defrag work on 1 TB WD hard drive which is running pathetically slow?

      5. I wanted to purchase Stellar Partition Manager but I found Stellar Drive ToolBox on the checkout page. Is ToolBox a better choice for my Mac OS X?

        1. Hi Stanley,

          Indeed Stellar Drive ToolBox is a better choice since it has 15 disk utilities including the Stellar Partition Manager. Below I am listing all of them:

          1) Speedup Mac
          2) UnInstaller
          3) Partition Manager
          4) Drive Defrag
          5) Drive Wipe
          6) Drive Clone
          7) Drive Initialize
          8) Disk Editor
          9) Shield
          10) Drive Monitor
          11) Smart Finder
          12) Benchmark
          13) Data Encryptor
          14) Drive Repair
          15) Smart Mac Care

        1. Hi Davis, registering Stellar Speedup Mac will benefit your Mac system in many ways. You will be able to clean as many gigabytes of junks from Mac HDD, remove unwanted apps, clean duplicates from an external hard drive and much more. You will be able to schedule Mac cleaning at different intervals.

      6. Hi Vishal, Do i need to create bootable media for resizing and creating partitions on my external WD passport drive?

        1. Hi Wesley, no creating bootable media for external hard drive isn’t needed. Actually software will prompt you to create bootable media only when the hard drive is a Mac startup disk. Hope this helps!!!!

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