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

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Raycast - Replaces Spotlight for opening applications - Replaces Magnet for window management, same features but don’t have to run a separate app now. - keeps a clipboard history - allows me to convert colours and units - integrates with my calendar to show me upcoming meetings, shows them in my menu bar and lets me join them with one click - allows me to prevent my Mac from sleeping (for certain durations) with caff…

It's good but VC backed. Also the actual file search is really bad.

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

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CleanShot X is one of the most well-designed pieces of software out there imo.

I second this. I encourage all our designers to grab it. It really is a godsend for anyone who takes a ton of screenshots.

Recently I learned that there is a decent little video editor baked in too (and you can even open pre-existing videos).

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

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If your into the tiling window manager experience, I would highly recommend looking into yabai + skhd + Sketchybar - https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai - https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd - https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar Some honorable mentions: Hammerspoon - Unlock insane levels of configuration/automation ( https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon ) Raycast - Spotlight search replacement ( https://w…

yabal requires quite some privileges. Did you check out https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace ?

FYI AeroSpace is nice but can't handle apps with tabs, like Finder. This is a non-starter issue for me at least.

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

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All these have been mentioned but I can't live without them:

- Rectangle - Hazel - iStat Menus - Homebrew - iTerm2

Some others:

- One Thing, puts a single task/note/etc. in your menu bar - Übersicht, desktop widgets (uses React) - Be Focused Pro, make using the Pomodoro method a breeze - Informant, shows a selected file's size without using Get Info

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

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- 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.

Thanks for the Ice recommendation, just moved over from Bartender.

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

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iTerm2[2] and I'm astonished there's less mention of it on this thread (though there is some).

That is mainly because I switched mostly to Linux a few years ago, and you'd think the lack of a good terminal app wouldn't be the biggest pain point of switching from Mac to Linux, but it absolutely is.

There's no terminal app on Linux even close to as good as iTerm2.

[2]: https://iterm2.com/ but it's v3 tho ¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯

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

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iTerm2[2] and I'm astonished there's less mention of it on this thread (though there is some). That is mainly because I switched mostly to Linux a few years ago, and you'd think the lack of a good terminal app wouldn't be the biggest pain point of switching from Mac to Linux, but it absolutely is. There's no terminal app on Linux even close to as good as iTerm2. [2]: https://iterm2.com/ but it's v3 tho ¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯

I use terminator as a substitute for iterm. It's written in python and looking for your support. https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator
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