Postico (PostgreSQL client) https://eggerapps.at/postico/
I love this app and use it daily. Very robust and well designed.
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?
#62Paw 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.
It's chock full of those little touches that you didn't know you needed, like generating code snippets, being able to copy and paste responsive request/response elements...I even realized yesterday you can paste a JSON clip into the JSON request body tab (which is an active native control, not just a rich text area). I've had a few crashes but it seems to save everything quite well. And imports Postman (and others) quite well!
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#63Timing is one. Tracks all time on your mac and visualizes it for you. ( https://timingapp.com ) 2Do is another. Can't live without this app ( https://www.2doapp.com )
Timing 2 is what I have been waiting on macOS after using https://www.manictime.com on Windows. Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same here. I still use it even though it crashes when closing a tab on latest MacOS. I’ve tried TablePlus and always end up back at Sequel Pro.
What do you like about it that makes you prefer it to TablePlus?
A couple things:
- the bling in TP is too much for me. I don’t want or need an overly shiny DBA tool.
- I’ve memorized the keyboard shortcuts in Sequel Pro.
- Sequel Pro seems to handle large imports/exports of .sql files better. I think it’s because Sequel chunks dumps into multiple insert statements while TP does not.
Overall, I’m just lazy and don’t want to learn a new tool that offers the same features.
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#65Acorn is my go to graphic editor, it is lesser known than other editors.
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#66VueScan by Hamrick Software. Scanner software -- Mac drivers for about a billion current and older (otherwise unsupported) scanners. Great support, regularly updated. I use VueScan with an old Nikon Coolscan color slide scanner, and VueScan provides better functionality than Nikon. I can now use my no longer supported Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M sheet fed duplex scanner.
Vuescan is very useful and incredibly feature rich but it’s interface is ugly, and that’s also because it’s not a native Mac app, it’s written in some rather obscure cross platform application framework.
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you like about it that makes you prefer it to TablePlus?
A couple things: - the bling in TP is too much for me. I don’t want or need an overly shiny DBA tool. - I’ve memorized the keyboard shortcuts in Sequel Pro. - Sequel Pro seems to handle large imports/exports of .sql files better. I think it’s because Sequel chunks dumps into multiple insert statements while TP does not. Overall, I’m just lazy and don’t want to learn a new tool that offers the same features.
Fair. I switched from MySQL Workbench to Sequel Pro because Workbench didn't support Percona TokuDB, but I missed safe mode (warn before sending queries other than SELECT/EXPLAIN, by having edit/commit be separate steps). So when TablePlus had it, I switched immediately.
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#68VueScan by Hamrick Software. Scanner software -- Mac drivers for about a billion current and older (otherwise unsupported) scanners. Great support, regularly updated. I use VueScan with an old Nikon Coolscan color slide scanner, and VueScan provides better functionality than Nikon. I can now use my no longer supported Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M sheet fed duplex scanner.
Vuescan is very useful and incredibly feature rich but it’s interface is ugly, and that’s also because it’s not a native Mac app, it’s written in some rather obscure cross platform application framework.
Agreed. It’s good software in that it produces good scans from a huge array of obscure scanners, but the UI is embarrassingly slow; it lags and redraws during interaction a lot.
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#69I love the Hex Fiend hex editor [0]!
Among the rest, it shows how scrolling should work in all macOS apps (fast, smooth, and precise).
Re: Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
#70Postico (PostgreSQL client) https://eggerapps.at/postico/
I love this app and use it daily. Very robust and well designed.
Same person is responsible for Postgres.app, the Mac OS X database binary