MUST HAVES
StopTheMadness- lets you get more control over webpages and block annoyances
LosslessCut- lossless video cutting
Amphetamine- prevent displays from going asleep depending on what you’re doing
Maccy- clipboard manager
AppCleaner- uninstall all an app and all it’s library files
DropOver- amazing and so handy
Hand Mirror- helpful tool to just check how you look on cam before a video call
IINA- best video player
Name Changer- bulk renaming utility
Wins- window organization
Acorn- great lightweight photoshop alternative
OpenEmu- great viddy game emulator
Subler- video metadata editor
Downie 4- youtube downloader safari extension
Black out- preview extension to easily black out sections of an image
MP3tag- great music metadata editor
Affinity Designer- great alt to illustrator
Fission- lossless audio editing
Infuse- great local or server video library
Keyboard Maestro- Automate everything?
Loopback Audio- makes your desktop audio a source
Magic Lasso- fav adblocker
NetNewsWire- RSS reader
Silicon- check to see if your apps were built for M1
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?
#112Camera Graph - OBS replacement, Mac native.
Better touch tool - remote cursor access + window snapping and a huge amount of configurability.
Iterm2 - don’t know how folks enjoy using the VSCode terminal all day.
Backblaze - simple backup.
Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
#113Raycast - 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…
Also, it has by far the best plugin system I've ever seen. It combines all the best practices from Web-Development with their own custom React-reconciler.
You can write fairly sophisticated UIs with less effort than for a shell script. If a FOSS version of this ever takes off, it could have the potential to replace terminal-UIs outright.
Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
#114* MacPorts: Everything you need to make Apple Unix equivalent to a Linux box, plus more. Works with the Apple OS, not against it. Doesn't put things in weird places or expect to disable SIP etc. Updates the old versions of CLI stuff that is in the standard MacOS (eg bash, GNU utilities etc).
* iTerm2: Awesome terminal
* Karabiner/Elements: Set up keyboard mappings with more flexibility than the standard settings. https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/
In terms of MacOS stuff to enhance the out-of-the-box:
* Bartender to control what shows on the menu bar https://www.macbartender.com/ (note, it has recently changed hands and people are suggesting to use "Ice" instead)
* Rectangle: To control windows and screens via the keyboard
* Arq: Better than Time Machine, allows selective backups and supports multiple destinations (OneDrive, NAS, etc)
* Monitor Control: Controls brightness across multi-screen setups https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl#readme
* Stats: Puts various meters in your menu bar (CPU, fans, network etc) https://github.com/exelban/stats
* Spotify Notifications: Uses standard notifications to show latest spotify track playing etc https://www.spotify-notifications.app/
* Dash: Awesome documentation tool for development, integrates with multiple other tools. https://kapeli.com/dash
Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
#115Pixelmator Pro is a fantastic Photoshop replacement I’ve been using for years.
I've loved Pixelmator from the beginning, but I just can't get used to the new UI of Pro. :/
Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
#116I like Typinator, which lets me automate (and customise) frequently typed text: https://ergonis.com/typinator
At some point I used that too, but it's kind of built-in nowadays.
Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
#117Asahi Linux.
How does that answer the question?
Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
#118Git Fork: a git client with a similar level of polish to Tower, but as a one-time purchase instead of a subscription product. https://git-fork.com/
Yes, Fork is a very welcome spiritual successor.
Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
#119- Kitty Terminal (used to use iTerm), with Jetbrains Mono Nerd font, custom colors, powerline-status, oh my zsh, fzf, brew etc
- Obsidian
- Jetbrains
- Arc
- 2 other side projects that solve personal problems
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Kitty for all the reasons for alacritty but there are tabs. The other tools I mentioned just improve quality of life.
Obsidian for notes- everything markdown files synced with icloud, works with phone and windows PC.
Jetbrains is my favorite suite of IDEs by far due to what I think of as "fearless coding" - but vscode has come a long way.
Arc is the least bad browser imo. It's hard to build a great browser.
Re: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
#120Bear for markdown/notes
Dashlane for password manager
OrbStack which is a much better docker alternative
DaisyDisk for disk cleanup
IINA for video playback