Awesome macOS applications

My personal collection of macOS applications that I find useful.

It's most likely not transferable 1:1 to anyone else, but if you find it useful and get inspired by an application you didn't know about I'm happy to help :-)

Applications

System Utilities

• Alfred (Website) - Replaces the default macOS spotlight search. 💷 34 GBP (Powerpack)
  • Additional workflows: GitHub repos, Network tools
• AltTab (Website) - Better application switcher (ALT-TAB replacement).
• Amphetamine (App Store) - Prevents the screensaver and hibernation.
• BetterTouchTool (Website) - Keyboard customization. 💵 10 USD
• CotEditor (Website ▪ App Store) - Text editor.
• Fluor (Website) - Configure applications to use function keys instead of macOS special keys.
• f.lux (Website) - Monitor color temperature adjuster.
• GrandPerspective (Website) - Disk usage analyzer.
• Hazel (Website) - React to changes within the file system and execute actions. 💵 42 USD
• Itsycal (Website) - Calendar for the menubar.
• MeetingBar (Website) - Show upcoming meetings in the menubar.
• The Unarchiver (Website ▪ App Store) - Better ZIP extractor.

Security and Privacy

• 1Password (Website) - Password manager. 💶 31,80 EUR per year subscription

Productivity

• Scrivener (Website) - Note keeping. 💶 70 EUR

Multimedia

• Airflow (Website) - Apple TV connector and player. 💶 19 EUR
• Cog (Website) - Audio player.
• ColorSlurp (Website) - Color picker.
• Handbrake (Website) - Video transcoder.
• IINA (Website) - Media player.
• MakeMKV (Website) - DVD/Blu-ray extractor.
• Open Broadcaster Software (Website) - Screen broadcaster.
• Camera Controller (Website) - Configure webcam settings.
• Kap (Website) - Screen recorder.

World Wide Web, Cloud Storage and Communication

• Dropbox (Website) - File synchronization client.
  • Maestral (Website) - Alternative Open Source Dropbox client.
• Transmit (Website) - FTP, SFTP (and lots of other transfer protocols) client. 💵 45 USD
• Vivaldi (Website) - Webbrowser.
  • Extensions
    • 1Password (Website) - Integrate 1Password password manager
    • ArchivePage (Website) - Find archived articles
    • Random User-Agent (Website) - Send fake user agents
    • Styles (Website) - Add custom CSS for any website
    • Tampermonkey (Website) - User scripts
    • uBlock Origin (Website) - Ad blocker
    • Video DownloadHelper (Website) - Extract videos from websites
  • Alternative Browsers I use for development and multi-browser page verification:
    • Brave (Website)
    • Firefox (Website)
    • Opera (Website)

Misc

• iFunBox (Website) - macOS to iOS synchronizer.

Terminal and Command Line

• Dotfiles (Website) - My personal dotfiles.
• iTerm2 (Website) - Terminal and SSH client.

Development

• IntelliJ IDEA (Website) - Java IDE.
• OpenLens (Website) - Kubernetes IDE.
• Postman (Website) - API client.
• Rancher Desktop (Website) - Docker desktop replacement.
• Sloth (Website) - Local port and resource allocation watcher.
• UTM (Webseite) - Virtualization.

Parking space

Applications that I used in the past but are currently not installed. Also place to put applications I've read about and may want to revisit at some point.

• AudioHighjack (Website) - Record any audio. 💵 71 USD
• BetterMouse (Website) - Mouse Manager. 💵 8 USD
• Dash (Website) - Documentation hub. 💶 15 EUR
• LittleSnitch (Website) - Network watcher. 💶 45 EUR
• LuLu (Website) - macOS Firewall.
• SoundSource (Website) - Volume control per App. 💵 35 USD
• TripMode (Website) - Limit network bandwidth for specific applications. 💶 8 EUR
• VLC (Website) - Media Player.

Historic

Applications that I used in the past but have been replaced by other (better) applications. The list serves as sort of fallback, if the replacement should become unavailable

• Spark (Website) - E-Mail client.
  Switched to the macOS Messages App
• SQuirreL SQL (Website) - Database client.
  Replaced by the database integration in IntelliJ