• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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).
• 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).
• 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:.
• 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)
• 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)
• 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
• Mosaic - 25 |
• Rectangle - |
• RectanglePro
• Stay
• Window-collage - |
• Command-Tab Plus
• SuperTab
• Witch
• Wooshy
• 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.
• Laravel Herd - One click PHP development environment. Zero dependencies (basic version is free, pro is $100/yr).

Podium

• IINA - The ultimate video player for mac.
• Readwise Reader - aims to become a total reader (pdf, books, news, rss, newsletters, youtube). Some great features, some nice AI integration. (Subscription: $96/y)
• AppCleaner - Cleans-up after you uninstall another app.
• Raycast AI - AI toolset provided as part of the Raycast Pro + Advanced AI subscription. For a single monthly sub you get all top models + prompts + scenarios + the new @ask-ai feature (Subscription: ~$10 pro + ~$10 advanced AI).
• ChatGPT - OpenAI's own app. Excellent UX and great feature set for a monthly sub of ~$20.
• Permute - Best video/audio/image converter (Paid: $15)
• Meta - pretty looking mp3 tag editor. (Paid: $20)
• PDF Squeezer - Best PDF compressor (Paid: €20)
• Velja - Browser picker with lots of cool built-in.
• Bruno - Bruno is a Git-integrated, fully offline, and open-source API client OpenSource with premium paid features.
• iTerm2 - Customizable terminal emulator.
• Nimble Commander - Best dual-panel file manager.
• VSCode - Code editor. Best in class.
• LinearMouse - mouse and trackpad customizer (also works wil magic mouse).
• Adguard - System-wide ad-blocker. It's expensive ($65) but occasionally gets discounted (even down to $14).
• Reeder Classic - The best RSS reader for Apple devices (Paid: $10).
• Daisy Disk - Disk usage viewer/manager (Paid: €11)
• Moom - one of the best. custom grid sizes & lots of useful options (Paid $15).
• Swish - brilliant gestures to throw windows left & right. Nicely supplements other window managers (Paid €12).
• Dato - Menubar Clock with calendar integration (Paid: $4.99)
• Fantastical - probably the best calendar app for mac (Subscription €70/yr)

Contenders

• Downie - A youtube downloader. Comes with browser extensions. Used to be great, but recently doesn't work that well and downloads are much slower than via ytdl (Paid €19)
• BoltAI - bring-your-own-api-key. Lots of features, "evolving" UX ;-).
• SUBgpt - bring-your-own-api-key. Lots of features, "evolving" UX ;-).
• HandBrake - Converts videos from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
• Infuse - a nice mmedia player from a variety of sources (local, network, plex). (Subscription: $10/y or Lifetime: $95)