Intaglio: A vector drawing program, designed in the tradition of classics like MacDraw. It even supports importing old MacDraw, AppleWorks, and ClarisWorks drawing files. But that doesn't mean it's not an up-to-date application, with support for modern Mac features like CoreImage, Automator, native tabbed windows, 64-bit, retina displays, etc.
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?
#32I came across Dash last week - a very cool offline API documentation browser. Super useful and very well done. https://kapeli.com/dash
I really like this one. I'm going to put it in my wish list.
One great bit of UI on that web site: When you hover over the "Buy" button, it shows you the price. Too many web sites hide the price of software.
Very often I want to know how much something costs before I look at its features, so as I'm learning what it does I can better understand if it's a good value.
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#33Also Fork and GitX are both git UI apps and they look and feel native. Simple and to the point.
GitX does not pass the native sniff test (were native means Cocoa)
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#34Espresso — rarely updated but beautifully designed HTML/CSS IDE
TablePlus — elegant database app
Antetype — my all-time favorite app. The only UI design app I’ve ever encountered that is built from the ground up for UI design rather than being a torturously adapted drawing app.
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#35Scapple, inshort
Scrapple is $18. Hooray for sanely-priced indie Mac software!
It even has an .edu license for $14.40.
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#36I came across Dash last week - a very cool offline API documentation browser. Super useful and very well done. https://kapeli.com/dash
It used to work great on iOS until Apple crippled it.
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#37I came across Dash last week - a very cool offline API documentation browser. Super useful and very well done. https://kapeli.com/dash
See also the web based https://devdocs.io
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#38Postico (PostgreSQL client)
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#39Paw is hands-down the best REST app one I’ve ever used, and it’s a glorious, native macOS app. If you have any use for such a thing, give it a look.
I use it too and save often folks, it crashes frequently.
Still a much, much, much better interface than postman/insomnia.
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#40HomeBrew (https://brew.sh)