The Easy Mac

I am all about having the least amount of menubar apps as possible. So, I am pretty selective when it comes to what menubar apps I decide to leave up there. When I first tried out Tunesque, I knew within the first 5 minutes that this app was going to stay up there for good.

Are you a frequent iTunes searcher? I know I am always looking for the latest and greatest apps, music, and books for my iOS devices. But, opening up iTunes can sometimes be so slow at times. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could search iTunes without having to actually open iTunes? This is where an app like Tunesque comes into play very nicely.

Like, I mentioned earlier, Tunesque is a menubar app that gives you the opportunity to search the iTunes library. And it is not just for music, you can search, books, apps, podcasts, practically anything you would look for in the actual iTunes, you can search for in Tunesque.

When using the app, all you have to do is type in what you want to search for in iTunes into the Search bar. You will then get a populated list of different items from the iTunes library. There are a couple of neat things that you can see from here. The first is that if you want to only look at iPad apps from what you searched for, you can use the short cut key that is assigned in the top right corner for each different item in iTunes. For example, if I just wanted to see iPad apps, according to the picture above, I would click on Command button and the number 6 to see just iPad apps.

 As you are searching through you can put your mouse over an item and it out will pop a display window displaying information about that particular item. The nice part is that the display window will show you information about that particular item you are searching for, for the most part. Some of the types of items may not have descriptions for it.

Once you find the item that you want, you can click on it and then you will be directed to iTunes so that you can download what you want. You can also modify the search so that it only searches certain things. For example, if you strictly want to search iTunes for just iOS apps, you can tweak it so that Tunesque just searches for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad apps.

The best part about this app is that it is totally free. You can head over to the Tunesque website and download the latest version of the app. Marco Tabini, who is the creator of the app is a great guy to follow as well. If you are a heavy iTunes user and even if you are a casual user, this is a great menubar app to have for the Mac. It has come in so handy.