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Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by stephenr »

I'll try to point out some things I haven't seen in the list so far:

- https://github.com/zorgiepoo/Komet for Git/Hg/etc commit messages

- https://apps.apple.com/th/app/multi-monitor-wallpaper/id5042... for splitting a single (large) wallpaper over multiple displays

- https://proxie.app for network traffic inspection

- https://apps.apple.com/th/app/the-clock/id488764545?mt=12 for a multi timezone-aware clock

- https://apps.apple.com/th/app/patterns-the-regex-app/id42944... for quickly writing/checking Regular Expressions

- https://tableplus.com for an RDBMS client

Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by thiht »

MicDrop - Add a global "mute microphone" button in the status bar (https://getmicdrop.com/)

AltTab - Give the same (sane) behaviour to cmd+tab as alt+tab on Windows (https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/)

Rectangle - Window snapping (https://rectangleapp.com/)

Maccy - A clipboard history manager (https://maccy.app/)

DropZone - Add a "shelf" zone in the same way as Dropover. It's less good than Dropover, but it's available in Homebrew (whereas Dropover is only available in the app store) (https://aptonic.com/)

Notion Calendar (previously cron) - I love having my next meetings displayed in the status bar, and its notifications are very useful (eg. they have a "join google meet" button)

Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by cultofthecow »

Raycast - hands down the best one.

MeetingBar - simply does it's job. simple and effective. has inyourface functionality in place.

Arc - wanna jump off to Safari but I think Arc is still the best one so far.

Obsidian - I'm new to it but "file-first" approach looks good.

1Password - still nothing beats it.

KarabinerElements+goku - to have it configurable. have layers of keybinding to launch something. Like ".+i" will open iTrem2 and so on.

Ice - just landed my setup.

Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by drcongo »

hi-v-rocknroll wrote: post #104

- LittleSnitch per-application firewall, mostly for selectively granting outbound access but also controls inbound access (In general, you also need the built-in firewall setup and running correctly too.) - BlockBlock, KnockKnock, and RansomWhere, but not LuLu because it caused TCP connections to drop nondeterministically - ScrollReverser to fix standalone mouse scrolling behavior because macOS only has one mouse and…

Just in case you missed the news, Bartender has been bought by a shady seeming app mill. I switched to Ice the other day, it's very good.

Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by latchkey »

thiht wrote: post #132

MicDrop - Add a global "mute microphone" button in the status bar ( https://getmicdrop.com/ ) AltTab - Give the same (sane) behaviour to cmd+tab as alt+tab on Windows ( https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/ ) Rectangle - Window snapping ( https://rectangleapp.com/ ) Maccy - A clipboard history manager ( https://maccy.app/ ) DropZone - Add a "shelf" zone in the same way as Dropover. It's less good than Dropover, but it's…

I use MeetingBar for the menubar calendar... open source. https://github.com/leits/MeetingBar

Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by junon »

emidln wrote: post #128

Besides the usual Firefox/Chrome, Spotify, etc I use the following: - Karabiner-Elements[0] for key remapping, specifically, for making caps lock into ctrl/esc. I don't know of anything else that does this job. Everyone who remaps keys seems to use this. - Kitty[1] as my terminal of choice. I spend most of my time logged in remotely to a server via ssh where I attach to a tmux session. Kitty was easy enough to config…

Latest MacOS allows rebinding caps lock now BTW. Actually might be the last two or three.

Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

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Post by lamnguyenx »

Perceval wrote: post #44
jiehong wrote: post #30

Sublime Merge: git client Karabiner: mostly map my mouse back button to previous page gesture for web browsing. ITerm2: just a good terminal Sublime Text: text editor IINA: video player

I will second IINA. It's not the swiss army knife that VLC is, but it seems to stream videos from a NAS with better/smoother performance than VLC, and its interface is more mac-native.

Don't forget full HDR support of IINA that VLC and most other alternatives on Apple Silicon don't have.

However, VLC still provides the best subtitle style customizations.

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