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Ask HN: What are your "Must Have" utility apps on macOS?
I finally bought in to the apple m-series hype and picked up an M1 Pro Macbook Pro refurbished.
It seems like everyone has a load of different utility and QOL apps that they use to help make MacOS more usable for them.
What are your go-tos, and how do you make use of third party MacOS apps and tweaks day to day?
- is_taken 3y agoI use - Alfred - Cheatsheet - Bartender - 1Password - iTerm2 - Moom (you could also check Rectangle) - Some IDEs from Jetbrains
- KingLancelot 3y ago[dead]
- nathanredblur 3y agoI use and recommend this: - Iterm2 - Better terminal - Fig - terminal setup - Raycast - better Alfred - Rectangle - windows organizer - Bartender - if you don’t have much space for apps in your top bar - KeyCue - keyboard shortcut hints that you can configure - Aldente - To protect your battery life - Adgurad - add blocker in DNS level - Reflex - fix annoying behavior with media keys - Visual Code - Nice IDE with cool plugins and awesome community behind - In Your Face - to never miss a meeting - time-out - to remember take brakes in a cool way - Cleanshot - to take perfect screenshots and screen gifs https://github.com/nathanredblur/nathanredblur/blob/main/mac-setup/Brewfile https://github.com/nathanredblur/nathanredblur/blob/main/mac...
- oblib 3y agoI don't have many QOL apps. I like Pixelmator. Photoshop is way to expensive and Pixelmator is both affordable and feature rich. I also have Alfred set up so I can monitor what's going on outside. Doesn't always work well for me, but the phones I use for cameras are really old. Aside from that I have quite a few web browsers I use to test my apps. I mostly use BBEdit and Fetch, and those are about the only apps I pay to keep updated, but that's pretty rare. I will take a look at the apps "is_taken" has listed here though.
- fjarlq 3y agoA recent thread with some good ideas: https://lobste.rs/s/d5qwzs/what_is_your_mac_os_setup https://lobste.rs/s/d5qwzs/what_is_your_mac_os_setup
- chrism238 3y agoWell one used to be Dropbox, until it became completely disfunctional under Sonoma.
- gaoryrt 3y agoSince no one else has mentioned it, I propose the Dash the documentation program.