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Software suggestions for regular users
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# Software suggestions for regular users



I’m often asked for software recommendations. In maintaining [`homebrew-cask`](https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/) I’m in frequent contact with new apps, but that does not mean I use them. Yet, some I decide to save for later as they look like they would make fine recommendations. This is where I save them to.



[Suggestions](#suggestions) is the main interest point. I haven’t used the majority of software on that list; they’re recommended on the basis of their perceived usefulness or third-party praise. They’re all free to use, as most people I know don’t pay for apps.



An [alternatives](#alternatives) list is also included. You’ll know an app has an alternative by the asterisk next to its name. Unlike with the suggestions list, the alternatives are all software I currently use or used heavily in the past. They’re considered alternatives because they’re either paid or too advanced for most users (command-line apps, for example).



### Suggestions



- [Airpass](http://airpass.tiagoalves.me/): overcome time constrained WiFi networks. (macOS)

- [Caption](https://getcaption.co/): subtitle downloader. (macOS / Windows / Linux)

- [Dashlane](https://www.dashlane.com/)\*: password manager. (macOS / Windows)

- [Deadbolt](https://github.com/alichtman/deadbolt): file encryption and decryption. (macOS / Windows / Linux)

- [Dozer](https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer/)\*: hide menu bar icons. (macOS)

- [Etcher](https://etcher.io/): burn disc images to SD cards and USB drives. (macOS / Windows / Linux)

- [Gaze](https://letsgaze.com/): watch videos with another person over the web. (Website)

- [Gifski](https://itunes.apple.com/no/app/gifski/id1351639930) (GUI)\*: convert videos to gifs. (macOS)

- [Hidden Bar](https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden)\*: hide menu bar icons. (macOS)

- [IINA](https://iina.io/)\*: media player. (macOS)

- [Kap](https://getkap.co/)\*: screen recorder. (macOS)

- [macOS storage manager](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206996): disk space visualiser. (macOS) (native)

- [Maccy](https://maccy.app): clipboard manager. (macOS)

- [QuickTime Player](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201066#record): screen recorder. (macOS) (native)

- [Open Access Button](https://openaccessbutton.org/): find legal, open, and free alternative sources to paywalled research papers. (Extension for Chrome)

- [Soda Player](https://www.sodaplayer.com/)\*: media player with support for bittorrent playback and downloading subtitles. (macOS / Windows)

- [Space Radar](https://github.com/zz85/space-radar): disk space visualiser. (macOS / Windows)

- [Unpaywall](http://unpaywall.org/): find legal, open, and free alternative sources to paywalled research papers. (Extension for Chrome / Firefox)

- [Vanilla](http://matthewpalmer.net/vanilla/)\*: hide menu bar icons. (macOS)

- [ViDL](https://omz-software.com/vidl/)\*: download video from various websites. (macOS)

- [VOX](https://vox.rocks/mac-music-player): music player. (macOS)

- [Whereby](https://whereby.com): video chat in the browser without plugins or accounts. (Website)



### Alternatives



- [1Password](https://1password.com/): alternative to Dashlane. (macOS / Windows) (paid)

- [Bartender](https://www.macbartender.com/): alternative to Dozer and Vanilla. (macos) (paid)

- [gifski](https://gif.ski/) (CLI): alternative to Gifski (GUI) (macOS / Windows / Linux)

- [mpv](https://mpv.io/): alternative to IINA and Soda Player. (macOS / Windows / Linux)

- [ScreenFlow](https://www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm): alternative to Kap. (macOS) (paid)

- [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp): alternative to Sacar Musak and ViDL. (macOS / Windows / Linux)