Little Snitch
https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
Lulu https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html
Haven't used a block-first, prompt to allow firewall on windows or linux. Similar to noscript in the browser
Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#102Big fan of Postico and Table Tool by Egger Apps. https://eggerapps.at
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#103MacPaw apps, at least CleanMyMac and Gemini 2 are very nicely done, and useful to boot.
Softorinos app WALTR 2 is in the same vein, looks nice and very useful.
DaisyDisk is amazing as well.
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From what I've noticed, they seems to have some overlap and they often do cross promotions. I actually think their advertisement verge on spam sometimes, but I still love their apps.
Something else I noticed is that all of these seem to be run by eastern European people. I am curious if there is some niche/stereotype to be found in making high quality apps from those countries.
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#104I love Eagle and use it regularly to collect images, videos, and many other things as my sources of inspiration. IMO, it's a better alternative to Inboard.
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#105[Excentro](http://www.excourse.com/excentro/) is fun specialized software for creating guilloche or "Spirograph" vector designs like you might see on bank notes and contracts and such. You can bring the results over to your vector program of choice to integrate into a composition.
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#106I would list all of Panic’s apps if the question did not specifically exclude well-known apps. They are hands down the best at delivering just beautiful software. --- I use Reeder a lot (both on macOS and iOS), and love its beautiful simplicity! https://www.reederapp.com/ --- I recently started using Paw and am in love with it with its design and features! There are so many well-thought features, I wasn't even aware…
Is CloudMounter actually reliable? Decent speeds, connection doesn't randomly drop, etc? I've tried both Transmit Disk and Mountain Duck, and I've been disappointed. Transmit Disk works but is very slow compared to using the client directly. Mountain Duck causes all sorts of odd things to happen—files disappearing, files that appear to have been moved aren't moved on the server, etc.
From my experience so far, yes it's reliable.
I'm using CloudMounter to mount an OwnCloud instance in our company network using WebDAV. It was able to properly pause and resume syncing multiple large files, several times.
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#107PopClip https://pilotmoon.com/popclip/ Spectacle https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle Alfred 4 Bartender 3 Fantastical RunCat ControlPlane Mindful Mynah Audio Hijack SSH Proxy VOX Clearview Skim Dash Hopper Disassembler Pacifist Suspicious Package Vienna XLD Mactracker IINA iChm Hocus Focus http://hocusfoc.us/ Entropy http://www.eigenlogik.com/entropy/ Clipy https://github.com/ian4hu/Clipy https://github.com/the0neyo…
Alfred 4: https://www.alfredapp.com/ Bartender 3: https://www.macbartender.com/ Fantastical: https://flexibits.com/fantastical RunCat: https://kyome.io/runcat/index.html ControlPlane: https://www.controlplaneapp.com Mindful Mynah: https://42burnside.com/mindful-mynah/ Audio Hijack: https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/ SSH Proxy: https://codinn.com/#sshcopy (SSH Proxy is in the section following this one linked. The S…
Thank you for linking software mentions here and throughout this thread.
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#108I hate the built in Finder app (who doesn’t?). XtraFinder is a great replacement.
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#109I don't know how I ever got by without iStat Menus. Very customizable system metrics in the menu bar.
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#110Kind of meta for this question:
Setapp https://setapp.com/
It's a (yet another) subscription service ($10/mo) to some 100 apps, many mentioned here. It's how I learned about:
- Better Touch Tool - Paw - iStatMenus - Marked (I already owned this, but using it in setapp gives Brett a bit of cash per launch) - and a handful of others that I needed to use just once or twice