Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
+4
This is a tool for powerful automation of OS X. At its core, Hammerspoon is just a bridge between the operating system and a Lua scripting engine.
Optimize your Mac with this all-in-one cleaner, removing junk, duplicates, malware, and boosting performance. Free up space and enhance security.
+4
Dropzone is a productivity app for the Mac that makes it faster and easier to move and copy files, launch applications, upload to many different services, and more.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
+2
BetterTouchTool is a great, feature packed app that allows you to configure many gestures for your Magic Mouse (1 & 2), Macbook Trackpad and Magic Trackpad (1 & 2) and also Mouse Gestures for normal mice.
+1
Ulysses is a text editor for creative writers. Used by bloggers, poets, students and published novelists all over the world, it offers an integrated environment to brainstorm, draft, revise and even submit text on a professional level.
+5
NotePlan helps you to capture important details and keep track of things at work. Manage your calendar, todos and notes in one place.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
+10
ActiveDock 2 is a customizable alternative to the standard macOS Dock, offering advanced features for app launching, window management, appearance customization, and more. It fully replaces the classic Apple Dock and Launchpad while preserving their familiar look and behavior...
+1
No longer updated Mac utility to view documents side-by-side and move them between displays.
+2
PDF viewer and annotation tool for macOS supports scientific paper reading, note-taking, highlighting, bookmarks, multiple annotation types, and AppleScript.
macOS application that automatically downloads websites from the Internet. It does this by asynchronously copying the site's webpages, images, PDFs, style sheets, and other files to your local hard drive, duplicating the site's directory structure.
Pixel Winch is a screen measurement app with a unique approach. It combines aspects of a traditional image editor with the quick access of a modal interface (similar to macOS's Launchpad, Mission Control, or Dashboard).
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
Power Manager helps you save energy by reducing the running cost of your Mac. The savings appear on your energy bills, and in the time you save by taking advantage of Power Manager's ability to automate back-ups and other repetitive tasks.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
Pixave’s is an innovative image organizer with a useful workspace that helps you focus on your images.
+2
Pixate generates 100% native prototypes, so you can experience your ideas on device as if they’re completely real.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
+1
Paste stores everything you copy on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad, so it's always there whenever you need it again.
+3
Papers helps you collect and curate the research material that you're passionate about. This award-winning reference manager will improve the way you find, organize, read, cite, and share.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Firefox
+3
Collect your thoughts, think, write, brainstorm, and create the perfectly looking notes with this powerful, all-purpose, productivity tool.
+1
Magic Launch is a preference pane that lets you customize the experience of opening files on your Mac. Open your files using the original application that created them or create custom rules to decide which application should open a file.
+1
nvALT is a fork of the original Notational Velocity with some additional features and interface modifications by Brett Terpstra and ElasticThreads.
+1
Murus is a frontend for the OS X PF network firewall. From basic filtering to advanced proactive options, Murus allows to easily configure a complex network setup dragging and dropping icons and moving sliders and selecting checkboxes.
+2
Moom makes window management as easy as clicking a mouse button—or using a keyboard shortcut, if you're one of those types of people.
+8
Marked 2 is a previewer (not an editor) for Markdown, MultiMarkdown and other text markup languages. It updates live every time you save your document in your favorite text editor, comes with writing analysis tools, and is powerfully flexible.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
+2
Lingon is a graphical user interface for creating an editing launchd configuration files for Mac OS X.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
Karabiner, previously called KeyRemap4MacBook, is a very powerful keyboard remapper for Mac OS X. In addition to simple key remapping, it has special remapping modes like Emacs-mode, SandS-mode (Space and Shift).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
Inboard is a Mac desktop application that helps organize your images.
Perfected workflow
If you value simplicity then Inboard is for you. Most apps compete on which has the most features. We’re not one of those apps. We’re focused on perfecting a great workflow for collecting.
Quiver is a notebook built for programmers. It lets you easily mix text, code and Markdown within one note, edit code with an awesome code editor, live preview Markdown and LaTeX cells, and find any note instantly via the full-text search.
+2
Highlights is a PDF reader for note takers. Highlights lets you highlight text and select images in the PDF, but take notes in a regular text-editor. No more typing notes and comments into tiny text boxes.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
ImageOptim is excellent for publishing images on the web (easily shrinks images “Saved for Web” in Photoshop). It's useful for making Mac and iPhone/iPad applications smaller (if you configure Xcode to allow better optimization).
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Manage iOS devices on Mac and Windows, safely back up data, and transfer files, contacts, and app data. Export Safari history and customize ringtones.
+4
Gas Mask is simple hosts file manager for Mac OS X. It allows editing of host files and switching between them.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
Homebrew is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn’t include with macOS. Also available for Linux.
Organize, search and use icons the easy way. Iconjar gives you the ability to store all your icons in one place, just one click away.
+1
Ceceree is a Mac app that lets you organize apps from iTunes in lists. It can detect e.g. pricing changes and allows you to share your lists with others.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
Next Generation of TaskPaper with Reminders for iOS. Harnessing the latest technologies of iOS.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
+3
Typeface is a wonderful font manager for macOS that helps you pick the perfect type for your designs. A minimal interface and total focus on your fonts makes browsing your collection exciting and easy.
+2
RightFont is the best font manager app for macOS, helping designers to preview, sync and manage fonts and find the right font quickly. RightFont is the new generation font management software for Mac.
+2
SuperDuper makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and its built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically.
FruitJuice is a Mac application and online service that helps maximize Apple notebook battery life and runtime. FruitJuice makes it possible to follow Apple’s recommendations for ensuring longer battery life and accurate “time remaining” estimates when running on battery.
Transforms tablets or smartphones into a low-latency, high-res second screen or graphics tablet for Mac and PC, with secure remote access and touch support.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- visionOS
+1
Dictator is a program for on-screen reading of text files, developed with the intention of making it easier to read some of the fine electronic texts available on the net, such as those produced by The Gutenberg Project. ...
Open source non-destructive RAW photo editor and image database with lighttable and darkroom views, real-time editing, HDR and scientific image support.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
+3
Install Windows applications on Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS without needing a Windows license, offering seamless integration and easy app management.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- Android
- Chrome OS
+2
ChronoSync can synchronize, backup, and create bootable backups to almost anything you can connect to your Mac: select cloud services, other Macs, NAS drives, external drives, PC's or anything you can mount as a volume.
+3
Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) features an interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure very intuitive. In addition to general backup, CCC can also clone one hard drive to another, copying every single block or file to create an exact replica of your source hard drive.
uBar is the task bar for the Mac. Whether you've never really liked the Dock, always wanted the one thing that Windows does right, or are switching from Windows to OS X, uBar is the perfect solution.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
+5
Bookends is a commercial reference management software package for Mac OS X that is used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. Its target market is students, academics and professionals.
+2
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