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Ask HN: What are some good open-source Mac apps you can't live without?
Hi, I think a question of this kind has appeared before. As both open source contributor and Mac users myself, I have tried many open sources apps and there are a few I find quite essential. Therefore I have curated https://oss.wiki/ to easily find and filter apps based on tech stack and topic.
A few apps I can't live without are:
- Rectangle: window manager
- Pika: color picker
- Kap: screen recorder
- Insomnia: Rest API testing
- Itsycal: calendar
- iTerm2: terminal
Would love to get to know more apps and I would love to add them to the list to spread the words
- CtrlAlt 5y agoyabai - Tiling window manager https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai I use the basic feature set so it works well on my work laptop (no need to disable SIP).
- onmyway133 5y agoIt's a nice tool, I will check it
- surrTurr 5y agoAmethyst: A tiling window manager à la xmonad https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
- onmyway133 5y agoNice tool, I've already added Rectangle, but I will check this
- KolenCh 5y agoIt is a completely different code base however and even in a wrong language so it isn’t really monad. However it is their goal (to imitate that experience) and how they market it.
- mtmail 5y agoMacDown https://macdown.uranusjr.com/ https://macdown.uranusjr.com/ - Markdown Editor VLC https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ - Media player
- albumdropped 5y ago+1 for macDown maccy clipboard manager https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy/blob/master/README.md
- hitsurume 5y agoHammerspoon - AHK for Mac. Been great to use to set custom keybinds for different apps.
- mobilio 5y agoVienna - RSS Reader https://www.vienna-rss.com https://www.vienna-rss.com SimpleNote - note https://app.simplenote.com/ https://app.simplenote.com/
- onmyway133 5y agoThanks, I will check these, very nice tools indeed
- jamil7 5y agoSee also NetNewsWire - RSS Reader https://netnewswire.com/ https://netnewswire.com/
- quintes 5y agoHow are you all vetting these, scanning for malware etc? How many are silicon native , may be a useful way to list as well
- tra3 5y agoI trust brew. Until you asked though, I haven’t thought about it. Have no real reason to trust brew. Never even verified if their stuff is signed..
- KolenCh 5y agoGUI only? Ie excluding some packages that has no GUI component such as OpenZFS? - kitty - VSCode (true OSS only is like VSCodium) - imageoptim-cli & it’s dependencies (some dep are not open source) - mactex - mpv - KeePass derivatives including keepassxc, keypassium, StrongBox - zotero - chromium Also upvote Rectangle.
- luckman212 5y agosome of my top picks: - Hammerspoon: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon - MeetingBar: https://github.com/leits/MeetingBar https://github.com/leits/MeetingBar - Stats: https://github.com/exelban/stats https://github.com/exelban/stats - Syncthing: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-macos https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-macos - Bitwarden: https://github.com/bitwarden https://github.com/bitwarden
- deanmoriarty 5y agoAldente for battery management.
- tra3 5y ago- handbrake to transcode videos: https://handbrake.fr https://handbrake.fr - anki for spaced repetition https://ankiweb.net/ https://ankiweb.net/ - Snipaste a really nice screenshot utility https://www.snipaste.com https://www.snipaste.com there's also awesome Mac that's worth looking at if you're missing something: https://github.com/jaywcjlove/awesome-mac https://github.com/jaywcjlove/awesome-mac