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Editor’s note: The following review is part of Macworld’s GemFest 2013. Every day (except Sunday) from mid-July until late September, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a standout free or low-cost program. You can view a list of this year’s apps, updated daily, on our handy GemFest page, and you can visit the Mac Gems homepage to see past Mac Gems reviews.
If you use any aspects of iCloud sync—Photo Stream, saving documents from iWork apps, or anything—I strongly recommend that you stop reading this review, go buy the $7 Cloud Mate, and then come back here to read why you just bought yourself a great Mac app.
Cloud Mate offers features that Apple should provide on its own. But since Apple doesn’t, we can rejoice that Cloud Mate stepped into the breach. The app sports a two-pane interface. On the left sit all your apps (both Mac and iOS) that use your iCloud account for syncing. Click any of those apps, and the larger right pane will list all the documents and data synced in iCloud for that app.
For example, when I click on Pages in the left pane, I see all of my iCloud-synced documents for the app. I can double-click on one of the files to immediately open it in Pages. This feature is essentially the Dropbox-ification of iCloud.
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