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A curated collection of my favorite (free) apps for MacOs
Super Awesome Mac
A curated collection of tools to get the most out of you Mac
For a non-curated list please refer to the more general : Awesome Mac
Browser
- Orion Privacy first WebKit based browser, blazing fast and non-battery hungry
- Arc "the Chrome replacement I’ve been waiting for"
Battery
- Aldente Help prolong the battery life of your Mac by limiting charge to 70% and alarming about when too hot
File Management
- Commander One commander-like file manager
- Mimestream Native Gmail client for MacOS
Display
- MonitorControl Easily control the brightness of external Displays
Terminal / Terminal tools
- Brew Package manager for Mac
- Warp (new) or Fig.io
-
rg like ack but faster
brew install rg
-
jq pretty print json for the terminal
brew install jq
-
TLDR like
man
but with the most commonly used examplesbrew install tldr
- mac-cli Control your mac from the terminal
- fzf fuzzy finder for the terminal
- exa ls but better, with colors
- bat better than cat
- fd a better alternative to find
-
z jump around most used folders!
brew install z
Utils
- Cheatsheet Show keyboard shortcuts on every app
- Amphetamine Prevent Mac from sleeping
- Notunes Avoid auto-launching Itunes
Monitoring
- Stats Monitor all your hardware from the Menu bar
Audio/Video tools
- Shottr for screenshots (amazing and free)
- OBS for screen recording / streaming
- Screen Studio Paid alternative to OBS for fancy looking screen recordings
- BlackHole to record audio coming from the mac, see tutorial
- EqMac for audio equalizing
- Giphy Quick GIF screen record
Note taking
- Bear Notes as Markdown
- Simple Mind Mind maps
- Nebo Favorite Ipad note taking app, great with stylus pencil (one time payment of 10 euros)
Sharing
- Transmission BT client
Burn ISO images
Unlock hidden configuration
- Onyx hidden features/configuration toggle
- Tinkertool hidden features/configuration toggle
Desktop management apps
-
AltTab Cmd+Tab, supercharged
brew install --cask alt-tab
- Raycast Spotlight on steroids
- Rectangle for window management
- Easy-Move-Resize Use hot key to move windows around, Linux style
- Hidden Bar Hide less used apps on the menu bar
- Bartender 4 Paid alternative to Hidden Bar (more features compared to Hidden Bar)
- CopyClip for Clipboard management (but also the integrated one in Raycast is great)
Developer tools
- devutils A must have for developers.
- VSCODE with CodeSandbox Theme (dark)
- DockerDesktop
- nvm
- npm-check
- firebasetools
- Node Desktop Manager UI for NPM
Favorite VSCODE Extensions
- Auto Import
- Auto Rename Tag
- Code spell Checker
- Compare folders
- Console Ninja
- Diff
- DotENV
- env-cmd-file-syntax
- ES7+React/Redux/React-Native snippets
- ESLint
- Git HIstory Diff
- Import Cost
- Local History
- npm intellisense
- Prettier
- Tailwind CSS IntelliSense
- TODO Highlight
- Turbo Console Log
- Universum Theme
- VS Code Counter
- vscode-icons