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Currated list of awesome mac apps

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Mac app collection

A curated list of useful and highly-regarded Mac applications across various categories.

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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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