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Mac awesome MacOS Apps
https://github.com/tborychowski/awesome-mac

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  • A very subjective star rating

    • LaunchControl - GUI for launchd (Paid: €28.05).
    • LingonX - GUI for launchd (Paid: €23).
    • awesome-ios
    • Telik - track YT channels for new videos.
    • TempBox - opensource temp email app.
    • ControlPlane - context automation (abandonware).
    • FiScript - add options to context menu.
    • Commander GPT - A decent ChatGPT app app for mac. Requires OpenAI account and a personal token (Paid $5).
    • MacGPT - A decent ChatGPT app app for mac. Requires OpenAI account and a personal token (Pay what you want).
    • QuickGPT - A native macos wrapper around the OpenAI GPT window. Doesn't require a key (Pay what you want).
    • HandBrake - Converts videos from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
    • IINA - The ultimate video player for mac.
    • Infuse - a nice mmedia player from a variety of sources (local, network, plex). (Subscription: $10/y or Lifetime: $95)
    • Meta - pretty looking mp3 tag editor. (Paid: $20)
    • Permute - Best video/audio/image converter (Paid: $15)
    • PDF Squeezer - Best PDF compressor (Paid: €20)
    • Reflex - ensures that media keys hit the right app (stop YT taking over).
    • Swinsian - A great music player for local libraries (Paid: $25)
    • Tagger - mp3 tags editor.
    • Yomu - An independent reader for book lovers (Paid: €7).
    • SigmaOS - Tabs in the sidebar. Like Arc but worse. Cannot even change the wallpaper.
    • Velja - Browser picker with lots of cool built-in.
    • Iconology - icon maker
    • iConvert Icons - A darag&drop image converter (Paid: $10)
    • ImageOptim - Best image compressor
    • Image2icon - Easy, drag&drop icon creation (Free/Paid: $9.99).
    • Mizframa - Beautiful mockup generator (puts screenshots in devices) (Lifetime €23).
    • CotEditor - similar to Notepad++ for Windows.
    • CommanderOne - FTP client and dual-panel file manager (Limited free version and paid Pro: $30 for 1 mac).
    • Dash - instant offline access to 200+ API documentation sets (you can even backup stack-overflow!) (Paid: €33).
    • Forklift - 2 panel file browser (Paid: $29.95)
    • Insomnia Core - REST API tester. Extremely slow. Used to be good, now unusable.
    • iTerm2 - Customizable terminal emulator.
    • Patterns - Regex tester (Paid: $3)
    • Peek - to quicklook code files (Paid: $3)
    • RegExp.app - regex tester for JS, Python, Go, Swift & Rust
    • Sequel Ace - a nice MySQL/SQLite DB manager for mac.
    • SQLiteStudio - SQLite DB manager
    • TablePlus - DB manager for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, etc. (Limited free version and paid options from $90/1 Mac).
    • VSCode - Code editor. Best in class.
    • FMail - unofficial desktop app for FastMail. Now deprecated in favour of the new version, which is not as good (does not show in menubar, only in the dock).
    • LinearMouse - mouse and trackpad customizer (also works wil magic mouse).
    • SteerMouse - External mouse customizer (Paid: $20).
    • Smooze - External mouse customizer (speed, smoothness, etc) (Paid: $25).
    • ApolloOne - (Subscription: €12/y)
    • aText - text expander (Paid: $4.99).
    • Gestimer - for quick reminders (Paid: $4)
    • Glide - Glide is a focus pointer which dims parts of your screen for better focus and reading experience (Paid: $7).
    • JustFocus - A simple and free pomodoro app, that shows full-screen notifications.
    • Klokki Slim - nice & simple 5time tracking app.
    • OpenIn - Handle opening urls & files in different browsers (allows for rules or even javascripts) (Paid: $10)
    • OwlOCR - OCR anything (Core version is free, Pro costs $8.99).
    • PDFgear - although with a decade old UI, it's a decent app for pdf annotation, and can make filling non-interactive forms a breeze. And it's free!
    • Shiori - pinboard client for mac (like Spotlight for pinboard).
    • Adguard - System-wide ad-blocker. It's expensive but occasionally gets discounted (even down to $14).
    • Bitwarden - Self-hostable, open source password manager with free apps for mobile & desktop.
    • Firefox - secure & configurable web browser.
    • Muzzle - Automatically turn on Do Not Disturb when screen sharing.
    • Session - Even more private Signal clone.
    • Telegram - Private messenger with great UX (only *Secret Chats* are encrypted).
    • freezingcam - fakes poor connection :wink:.
    • Readwise Reader - aims to become a total reader (pdf, books, news, rss, newsletters, youtube) (Subscription: $96/y)
    • ActiveDock2 - Replaces MacOS with a different dock. Doesn't look that well, functions worse, and cannot even hide the native dock, so... there's really no point in using this app (unless as a second dock on a different edge maybe?). (Paid: €24.10/y or Lifetime: €57.85)
    • AppCleaner - Cleans-up after you uninstall another app.
    • Daisy Disk - Disk usage viewer/manager (Paid: €11)
    • Dato - Menubar Clock with calendar integration (Paid: $4.99)
    • Forecast Bar - a menubar weather app (Subscription ~€10.50 a year)
    • iperf - network performance/throughput measure tool.
    • PasteBot - best clipboard manager (Paid: $13)
    • ScreenFocus - dim other monitors when not needed (Paid: $8)
    • SDCardFormatter
    • Sloth - displays all open files and sockets in use by all running processes.
    • Transnomino - the best file renamer tool for mac.
    • WiFi Explorer Lite - excellent WiFi scanner/analyser (Paid: $2)
    • xsearch - allows to set custom search providers in safari (Paid: €3.50).
    • Busycal - seems to be feature rich, almost in par with fantastical, but keeps crashing & freezing and doesn't work as well (Paid: $50)
    • Calendar 366 II - good looking but not as feature rich as fantastical (Paid: $15)
    • Diarly - Excellent diary/journal app (Basic free, or premium subscription: €23/yr)
    • Fantastical - probably the best calendar app for mac (Subscription €70/yr)
    • Structured - Quite a good daily planner. Shows a timeline of your day with a great UX. (Yearly: €10, Lifetime: €35).
    • Bettersnaptool
    • DisplayMaid
    • Divvy
    • Grid
    • LayoutSwitcher
    • Magnet
    • Moom
    • Mosaic - 25 |
    • Rectangle - |
    • RectanglePro
    • Stay
    • Swish
    • Window-collage - |
    • Command-Tab Plus
    • SuperTab
    • Witch
    • Wooshy
    • Downie - Best youtube downloader. Comes with browser extensions. (Paid €19)
    • Glide - Glide is a focus pointer which dims parts of your screen for better focus and reading experience (Paid: $7).
    • DocFlipper
    • ShortcutDetective - detects which app receives a keyboard shortcut.
    • PopClip - popover on selected text (like on iOS but better) (Paid: $19)
    • Laravel Herd - One click PHP development environment. Zero dependencies (basic version is free, pro is $100/yr).

  • Insomnia

  • Safari

    • StopTheMadness - stops websites from making your browser harder to use
    • Noir - make all websites dark. Has custom schedule and can ignore sites that already have dark mode. Available also for [iOS](https://getnoir.app) 🔗 (Mac $3, iOS $3).
    • UnTrap - Customize youtube (remove sidebar, toolbar sections, etc.) (Paid for Safari: $2).

  • Firefox

  • VSCode

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