The whole Omni suite is a classic answer to this. I use OmniFocus daily, and in my opinion OmniGraffle is still by far the best choice for flowcharts and similar.
Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
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#12Scapple, inshort
These both look neat, and they're apps I'd legitimately never heard of before!
To save others the bit of Googling I did:
Scapple: Mind mapping software, looks almost like a modern version of Inspiration. Drag notes together to connect them. https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple/overview
Inshort: Flowcharts, and Gantt charts. Says it integrates with Calendar, which could be very useful. Wonder how it compares with Omnigraffle, though. http://www.shortki.com/inShort.html
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#13I don’t think that Transmit is particularly unknown but i love it dearly anyway. It is the single nicest UI for file transfer that i’ve ever used.
Transmit is a little too "full featured" for me. We use it at work, but at home I prefer Fetch, which is much more minimalistic.
I'm sure this largely depends on what you're doing, though. I really just need a pleasant UI for uploading and downloading files.
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#14I used to work for pagestrip.com and I feel we did a good job!
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#15Monodraw - ascii/text drawing app.
It’s useful and delightful
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#16Paw is a good api debugger.
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#17Also Fork and GitX are both git UI apps and they look and feel native. Simple and to the point.
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#18The whole Omni suite is a classic answer to this. I use OmniFocus daily, and in my opinion OmniGraffle is still by far the best choice for flowcharts and similar.
Is it easy to share flowcharts with non-Omni users? How does it compare to Visio?
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#19Paw 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.
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#20I don’t think that Transmit is particularly unknown but i love it dearly anyway. It is the single nicest UI for file transfer that i’ve ever used.
Transmit is a little too "full featured" for me. We use it at work, but at home I prefer Fetch, which is much more minimalistic. I'm sure this largely depends on what you're doing, though. I really just need a pleasant UI for uploading and downloading files.
I regularly need onedrive, s3, gdrive, etc. support. If i didn’t i’d probably just stick to cli tools.