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Awesome Mac Apps

Curated list of awesome mac apps

Creative and Ideas

  • Audio Hijack - records audio from essentially any device.
  • Camtasia - is a screen recorder with some light duty video editing tools.
  • Fission - lossless audio editing.
  • Mindnode - is a great way to visualize ideas and brainstorm. A good way to connect the dots.
  • PageLayers - is an app that will take a webpage and convert it into a layered PSD file.
  • Sketch - lightweight web mock-up tool.
  • VLC - open source multimedia and video player.
  • Writer Pro - is a minimalist notetaking and distraction free writing tool.
  • xScope - is engineered for measuring, inspecting, and fine tuning graphics.

Utilities

  • A Better Finder Rename - is a great way to mass rename files based on predetermined sorting and filtering, as well as complex regular expressions.
  • Better Snap Tool - allows you to quickly resize windows with hotkeys.
  • ChronoSync - commercial grade file sync. ChronoSync is a nice GUI with some added features on rsync.
  • CleanApp - is essentially a disk clean up and app un-install utility.
  • Cocktail - is a utility to clear cache, fix permissions, adjust settings, and optimize OS X.
  • Divvy - is a nice compliment to Better Snap and it has a nice grid structure for arranging multiple windows.
  • ExpanDrive - is a good way to connect to S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive etc. without installing all the standalone apps.
  • iStat Menus - is a system monitor that lives in your menubar. Useful for monitoring network traffic and speed, hard drive and cpu status, and apps using significant energy.
  • MacDropAny - allows you to sync local and external folders with symbolic links to services like Dropbox.
  • SuperDuper! - is a great hard drive cloning and system recovery tool.
  • Transmit - makes transferring files between servers and cloud services an effortless process. This is a great app for integrating with AWS.
  • Pareto Security - a MenuBar app to automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene.

Developer Tools

  • BBEdit - another minimalist text editor.
  • Coda - front-end web code IDE.
  • CodeKit - front-end code compiler, browser refresh, and ready to rock.
  • ColorSnapper - is an easy-to-use app to find the precise color of any pixel on the screen.
  • Icon Slate - makes retina ready favicons in a couple clicks.
  • MAMP PRO - is a good solution for developing and testing websites on your local machine.
  • Sublime Text - is a great working text editor with lots of plugins and community support.
  • Tower - is elegant and easy to use GUI for GIT.
  • xScope - is engineered for measuring, inspecting, and fine tuning graphics.
  • VS Code - excellent multipurpose IDE.

Business

  • PCalc - is a scientific calculator with support for lots of complicated conversions and tasks.
  • Parallels - is a great app for running Linux or Windows virtual machines on your Mac.
  • Wizard - is a great compliment to a spreadsheet program to build predictive models and analyze data sets.

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