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Elgato Stream Deck+ review: completely unnecessary but totally compelling

First, you can’t see why you’d ever want a Stream Deck for your Mac, then you try one, and you will never give it back. Out of all the different models, though, the Stream Deck+ is best, and here’s why.

Black Elgato Stream Deck console with eight colorful square buttons, a central status screen showing volume and brightness controls, and four round control dials along the bottom edge
Get a Stream Deck+ and you’ll never use a Mac without one again

Every Stream Deck is a Mac accessory that provides buttons to launch apps, perform entire sequences of tasks, or turn on your smart lights. You connect it through a USB-A or USB-C cable, and the difference in the models is chiefly in how many buttons you get and whether you also have dials.

Get any of them. I’ve just set up a button that switches audio between my Mac and my headphones. I have one that opens all the folders for the books I’m writing. Another launches every app I need for AppleInsider, and positions them on the screen where I want.

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