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Tech Close Tech Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Tech Gadgets Close Gadgets Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Gadgets Apps Close Apps Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Apps The app you need to clean up your computer Plus, in this week’s Installer: Dungeon Crawler Carl is back, an underwater adventure game, smart glasses, and much more. Plus, in this week’s Installer: Dungeon Crawler Carl is back, an underwater adventure game, smart glasses, and much more. by David Pierce Close David Pierce Editor-at-Large Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by David Pierce May 16, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC Link Share Gift If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Image: David Pierce / The Verge David Pierce Close David Pierce Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by David Pierce is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 128, your guide to the best and Verge -iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, sorry this one’s so Mac-heavy, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage .) This week, I’ve been reading about David Attenborough and screenwriters-turned-AI-trainers and the Subway Takes guy , listening to a lot of Productivity FM’s mixes while I work, finally writing my vibe-coding opus , testing the Poppy AI assistant (and giving it more of my data than I frankly should have), tracking my pathetic step counts with the new Fitbit Air, buying more of The Atlantic ’s summer reading list than I will ever plausibly read, watching a lot of Maxinomics videos after the one on quartz went viral, drowning in the nostalgia of my all-time Spotify Wrapped playlist , and switching browsers for the first time in forever. More on that next week. I also have for you a couple of really useful Mac utilities, a new book in the Installerverse’s favorite series, a new tool for managing the fediverse, and much more. Let’s get into it. (As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you reading / watching / playing / listening to / cutting into nifty shapes this week? Tell me everything: installer@theverge.com . And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installer , forward it to them and tell them to subscribe here .) The Drop Mole . I’ve been following this Mac app’s development for a while, and I’m a big fan. It does a great job of hunting down huge files, un-needed apps, memory-hungry processes, and other things mucking up your computer, without being overzealous about it (or constantly trying to upcharge you). For $9, I can’t recommend it enough. A Parade of Horribles . Dungeon Crawler Carl is back! I’m still catching up on the series, but I’m confident the eighth book in the story brings even more chaos to Carl and Donut. DCC is maybe the most-recommended thing in the history of Installer , so this book is huge news. I can’t wait. The Twelve South PowerClip . I am a big proponent of always carrying a giant backup battery, but I’m oddly charmed by this tiny $40 dongle that isn’t designed to fully charge your phone but rather to keep it from dying. Clever that it can also act as a USB-C cable, too. Bartender Pro . Bartender has always been a classic power-user Mac app for cleaning up your menu bar. For $15 a year, Bartender Pro does way more: It adds a bunch of small utilities, like audio controls and your calendar, to the notch in your Mac’s screen. (Or just the middle of your menu bar.) My favorite? Zero-click AirDrop from my computer to my phone, just by dragging a file. Subnautica 2 . This underwater adventure game became one of the biggest titles on Steam literally overnight , which is very funny given how many reviews say the game (which is, in fairness, in early access!) is full of bugs and weirdness. Doesn’t seem to be stopping anybody. Indigo . A Bluesky app, and a Mastodon app, combined into a single timeline in a way that looks and feels great. (The same developers also make a lovely app called Croissant for posting to both services.) Apps like this are the reason I’m still so excited about the fediverse. “ We aren’t ready for Meta glasses .” Terrific Christophe video about the cultural state of smart glasses — which my colleague Vee Song has also covered a lot — and why these devices are genuinely both thrilling and horrifying. And maybe here to stay either way. Snapseed 4.0 . Google just did something I never thought it would again: It made an extremely cool app. It’s exactly the kind of photo editing
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