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7 Best Utilities & Tooling in 2026

Updated Jan 14, 2026

See how our top 7 picks compare across the 7 utilities & tooling we evaluated.

Explore what each does best, where it falls short, and why it earned a spot on our 2026 list.

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  1. Stable
    Stable

    Best virtual mailbox

    Best virtual mailbox
  2. Tella
    Tella

    Best for recording + editing course content

    Best for recording + editing course content
  3. Screen Studio
    Screen Studio

    Best for polished screen recordings

    Best for polished screen recordings
  4. Mailparser
    Mailparser

    Best for parsing structured data from unstructured emails

    Best for parsing structured data from unstructured emails
  5. Loom
    Loom

    Was once the leader, now legacy

    Was once the leader, now legacy
  6. Dub Links
    Dub Links

    Best for modern link attribution, a true industry disrupter

    Best for modern link attribution, a true industry disrupter
  7. CleanShot X
    CleanShot X

    Best for fast Mac screenshots

    Best for fast Mac screenshots

How We Evaluate Utilities & Tooling

We score each utilities & tooling across multiple criteria, and hands-on expert evaluation

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    Curated by
    Alex
    and
    Andra
    , our rankings reflect in-depth testing, industry insights, and hands-on experience.
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Stable

Stable

Best virtual mailbox

Best virtual mailbox

If you're a remote business and want a permanent business mailing address in the U.S., then Stable is your best bet. We've used it for 3+ years and have been incredibly happy with the solution. Your mail comes in and you get notified via email where you can instantly view, scan, or forward it.

Stable
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What is Stable?

What is Stable?

Stable gives remote businesses a professional, permanent mailing address in the U.S. a must-have if you're moving often or want to keep your personal address private. It scans your mail and notifies you instantly via Slack or email.

We used to rely on our home address, but that broke down fast. Co-working spaces were too expensive for just a mailing address. Stable solved that with less cost and more convenience.

If you're remote and want to take mail management off your plate, Stable is the no-brainer pick.

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Tella

Tella

Best for recording + editing course content

Best for recording + editing course content

Tella solved a real pain point for us when it came to recording + editing our Motion Course. But if you're looking for a Loom alternative, it's not quite there because it's missing core features (like the quick ability to leave comments at certain timestamps). In that case we'd recommend Supercut instead.

Overall, we'd recommend Tella for recording tutorials, courses or any videos you want to put a bit more effort into (opposed to something like a quick screen recording).

Tella
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What is Tella?

What is Tella?

Tella is an awesome tool to use if you are wanting to create courses or film beautiful videos that require screen sharing. It easily allows you to film a series a clips to create your video, and also allows you to edit your videos right within the web browser.

We used Tella to create our Motion App Course and it saved us tons of time and not to mention we didn't have to hire a video editor to get a beautiful end result.

While some editing features can be improved, overall we'd recommend it and found that it came in very handy.

Superhuman Mail
Superhuman Mail
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Get through your inbox 2x as fast (for teams of all sizes).

3
Screen Studio

Screen Studio

Best for polished screen recordings

Best for polished screen recordings

If you're looking for the highest quality screen recording software for showing off product interfaces in video or for posting GIFs and short videos to social media, then there's no better screen recording software on the market.

Screen Studio
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What is Screen Studio?

What is Screen Studio?

Screen studio is the best screen recording tool for quick and elevated videos. You don't have to have any experience with professional screen recording when using Screen Studio. It gives your screen video a professional look by default with features like automatic zoom, smooth cursor movement, auto-hiding your static cursor and super easy editing (if even required). We are huge fans.

Who is Screen Studio for?

Who is Screen Studio for?

Screen Studio is for you if you are creating promotional videos, tutorials, product updates, demos, or social media stories. I'm sure you've seen screen recordings that were recorded and edited via Screen Studio—more and more software companies have been using them for new feature launches, and product videos.

We've tried a myriad of tools in this category (e.g. Supercut and CleanShot X), and while they both work well for capturing the screen recording, Screen Studio is a far superior. When recording software videos for our social media channels, we were previously recording with CleanShot X and the videos felt quite dull and boring. There was no auto-zoom or a way to really engage the viewer.

Then we saw someone else's demo video on Twitter and were blown away with how sleek it looked. Our first impression was "Wow, how did they film and edit that? That's so cool!". When finding out that Screen Studio was actually a software that actually automatically edits the screen recording by following your cursor, and zooming in on the screen when you click, we knew it had to be a part of our arsenal. We also wanted our videos to have that elevated look 👀

You can even edit your videos easily after the recording for vertical video platforms like YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter.

We'd go as far as saying this is the best tool on the market for professional screen recording.

It is currently only available on macOS.

4
Mailparser

Mailparser

Best for parsing structured data from unstructured emails

Best for parsing structured data from unstructured emails

Mailparser extracts specific data from structured emails with a level of consistency and granularity you won't get from free tools, especially if your workflow depends on reliable and accurate parsing.

That said, they haven't seemed to embrace AI, which would do a pretty great job here, they still rely on more structured rules, which may make it feel a bit frustrating, but it is consistent once you've set it up.

Mailparser
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What is Mailparser?

What is Mailparser?

Having used many other parsing tools (like Zapier's free email parser), we've found that if you want to consistently extract important data from structured emails, there's no better tool than that of Mailparser.

What makes Mailparser better is the consistency that comes with setting it up properly.

It allows for a deep level of granularity, allowing you to extract the exact data-points that you want from emails. From there, if you're using one of the best CRM solutions, you can easily categorize and pass the data along to your CRM and other tools.

Zapier's solution on the other hand, while "free", was created as more of a lead magnet for Zapier. It hasn't been updated in years, and attempts to extract data by highlighting data in an email, paired with some incredibly basic machine learning.

What I'm saying, is that it works, until it doesn't. If the email changes in any way, even slightly, your output is a mess of data. Mailparser on the other hand, while paid, allows you to actually make emails a consistent part of your process.

This is very much a category of "you get what you pay for".

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Get through your inbox 2x as fast (for teams of all sizes).

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Loom

Loom

Was once the leader, now legacy

Was once the leader, now legacy

What used to be the gold standard for screen recording, async team collaboration, and light video editing, has turned into a bloated and frustrating tool. If you're willing to actually invest in a modern screen recording solution, use Supercut instead.

Loom
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What is Loom?

What is Loom?

Loom used to be the gold standard for the best screen recording software and internal collaboration, but it has been upended by Supercut recently.

After Atlassian acquired Loom back in October 2023, it just became more bloated, constantly crashing, with a constant push to upgrade to their "AI tier", which is quite basic and unremarkable features.

If it's between having tons of meetings or just recording a quick async Loom, definitely do the latter. That said, there's now way better solutions on the market that feel lightweight, fast, and powerful, like Supercut (our entire team switched off of Loom to Supercut and do not miss Loom in the slightest).

If you're completely unwilling to spend money on a tool in this category, then your best bet is the free 5 minute limit Loom tier, but if you want to actually use the best solution on the market and not have restrictions, constant upsells, and just a great product, invest in a quality tool like Supercut that you and your entire team will actually enjoy using.

On the other hand, if you're looking for more of an impressive screen recording and video editing tool for things like product feature launch GIFs and videos, look no further than our friends over at Screen Studio.

Superhuman Mail
Superhuman Mail
Featured

Get through your inbox 2x as fast (for teams of all sizes).

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CleanShot X

CleanShot X

Best for fast Mac screenshots

Best for fast Mac screenshots

CleanShot X lets you instantly copy screenshots so you can paste them anywhere without dragging files around, keeps your shots organized on the side of your screen, and makes it easy to annotate or blur sensitive info. If you take screenshots often and want to save time, this tool will make you much more productive and is worth switching to.

CleanShot X
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What is Cleanshot X?

What is Cleanshot X?

For years, I used the native Mac screenshot tool (which saves your screenshots to your desktop, and then you need to drag the image into your email or wherever you're trying to get it). I didn't think there was a better option out there.

Then I met Alex and he introduced me to CleanShot X that auto-copies the screenshot you take so you can paste it directly where you want. Whaaat? Let me tell you, this saves me so.much.time on a daily basis.

Want to screenshot a few images? No problem. All the images will auto-appear on the side of your screen and you can pick and choose which ones you want.

It's also super easy to annotate and draw on each image if you want to point something out, or blur out important information.

In summary, if you screenshot often this will make you MUCH more productive. Try it for a week and you won't be able to go back.

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