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macOS apps

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• Audio
• Code
• Communication
• Crypto
• Databases
• Design
• Dev tools
• Games
• Health
• IDE
• Images
• Learn
• Music
• Productivity
• Read
• Terminal emulators
• Text Editors
• Utilities
• Video
• Write
• Other
• Related

Audio

• Ardour - Record, edit, and mix audio in a production-level environment.
• Audio Hijack - Record any application's audio, including VoIP calls from Skype, web streams from Safari, and much more.
• OpenQuack - Privacy-first local voice dictation menu bar app powered by WhisperKit.

Code

• iTerm
• VS Code

Communication

• Airmail
• Gitter
• Slack
• Telegram
• Textual
• Tweetbot

Crypto

• 1Password
• Hider 2
• Remembear

Databases

• MongoDB
• Postico
• Sequel pro

Design

• Affinity Designer - Vector-based design tool.
• Affinity Photo - Raster-based design tool.
• Framer X - Interactive design tool.
• Iconizer - Create Xcode asset catalogs on the fly.
• Image2icon - Create and personalize icons from your pictures.
• Patina
• Pixelmator
• Sip
• Sketch
• Svgsus - Organize, clean and transform your SVGs.
• Type Case - Preview fonts installed on your mac.

Dev tools

• AgentGrid - Infinite zoomable canvas for orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel, with role-based workers, per-agent git worktrees, and integrated terminals and browser panes.
• Bee - Issue tracker.
• Command Book - A terminal companion for long-running terminal commands.
• Dash
• Dumper - Extract, browse and inspect the class declarations from any Mach-O file containing Objective-C runtime information.
• OpenPaw - Personal assistant skills for Claude Code. Focus mode, task dashboard, smart home control, 39 skills. npx pawmode
• Paw
• Platypus - Create Mac applications from command line scripts.
• SnippetsLab
• Sublime Merge - Git client from makers of Sublime Text.
• Tower
• VirtualBox - Powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.

Games

• MineCraft
• Stockfish

Health

• Paprika recipe manager

IDE

• IntelliJ
• Pycharm

Images

• Flume
• GIF Brewery - Create/edit GIFs.
• Pixave - Image organizer.
• Wallcat - New wallpaper everyday.

Learn

• Anki
• Soulver

Music

• Kaset - Native YouTube Music client for macOS.
• Noizio
• Spotify
• Tine Player
• LyricsX - Ultimate lyrics app for macOS.

Productivity

• 2Do - Powerful & flexible GTD task manager.
• Air Pasteboard - Quick pasteboard and file sharing.
• BetterTouchTool
• Fantastical
• Keyboard Maestro - Automation engine.
• Merlin Project – Project Management on macOS & iOS.
• MindNode - Create interactive mind maps.
• Next meeting
• PDF Archiver - Tag and archive documents.
• Timing 2
• TogglDesktop
• Trello
• Taskade - Simple and sharable task lists, notes and outlines.
• Up Next - See your day at a glance. Integrated with Google Meet so you can join meetings with ⌘J.

Read

• iBooks
• MacMD Viewer - Native macOS Markdown viewer with Mermaid diagram support, QuickLook extension, and syntax highlighting.
• PDF Expert
• Reeder 3

Terminal emulators

• iTerm
• Kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature full, GPU based terminal emulator.

Text Editors

• Atom
• Code runner
• Sublime Text
• VS Code

Utilities

• Alfred - Customizable launcher with many powerful workflows.
• Bartender - Organize menu bar apps.
• Bearded spice
• Bitbar
• Brew
• Chronosync
• Capty - Lightning-fast screen recordings with a native macOS experience.
• CleanShot X - Ultimate screen recording app.
• Clean my mac 3
• ClearDisk - macOS menu bar utility that monitors 44+ developer cache paths (Xcode, Docker, npm, pip, Cargo, Homebrew, etc.) and helps reclaim disk space.
• Daisy disk
• Dropzone 4
• Feather - Minimal, lightweight MacOS desktop application to check for regular expression pattern matches.
• Gitify
• Hammerspoon
• Hummingbird - Easily move and resize windows without mouse clicks, from anywhere within a window.
• HexFriend - Fast and clever open source hex editor.
• IStat menus
• Kap
• Karabiner - Powerful keyboard customizer.
• Keka
• Little Snitch
• Lumen
• MonthlyCal - Notification Center Calendar
• Name mangler
• Pacifist - Opens Mac OS X .pkg package files, .dmg disk images, and .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, and .xar archives and allows you to extract individual files and folders out of them.
• Popclip
• Spotifree
• Swish - A gesture layer and window manager for the trackpad power user.
• Typinator - Text expansions.
• Unclutter
• Mouse Jiggler for Mac - Prevent Mac from sleep with Mac Mouse Mover.
• ZoomShot - Real-time screen zoom, cursor highlight, drawing, and text memo for presentations and recordings.

Video

• IINA
• MPV
• ScreenFlow
• Claquette - Easy-to-use video utility.

Write

• adoc Studio - Technical Writing in AsciiDoc.
• Day One
• FSNotes - Notes manager.
• MacDown
• Marked 2
• Texpad
• Ulysses - Writing app.

Preference Panes

• SwiftDefaultApps - Set the default application used for various URL schemes, file extensions, file types, MIME types, and Uniform Type Identifiers.
• TinkerTool - Gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into macOS.

Other

• Detexify - Draw a symbol and get LaTeX code for it.
• Dozer - Hide status bar icons on macOS.
• Dictionaries - Translate words without ever opening a dictionary.
• Irvue - Brings thousands of stunning high-resolution photos from Unsplash to your desktop.
• GarageSale - Make and manage eBay listings.
• Diagrams - Diagram Editor.
• Service Station - Customize Right-Click Menu.
• Presentify - macOS menu bar app that helps you give better presentations by letting you annotate any screen, highlight your cursor, and more. (HN)
• Keyboard Cleaner

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