[Mac Apps] Essential Mac applications #spotify #apps

general-apps.md

Essential Mac applications

Email

• Mailspring - Productivity focused & cross-platform email client

Organization

• bitwarden - Open-source cross-platform password manager

Music/Sound

• eqMac2 - system-wide audio equalizer

• SpotiKeys - Bind your own custom global hotkeys to control Spotify!

• SpotMenu - Spotify in your menu bar

• Relax - Unplug - Relax automatically mutes your internal speakers and pauses music apps when you disconnect headphones or other speakers.

Menubar

• Vanilla - Hide menu bar icons on your Mac.
• Itsycal - Itsycal is a tiny menu bar calendar.
• MenuMeters - MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for Mac OS X
• Stats - macOS system monitor in your menu bar (like iStatMenus, but free)
• Dozer - Dozer lets you hide menu bar items to give your Mac a cleaner look. Simple and free.

Utilities

• dupeGuru - find duplicate files on your computer (cross-platform)
• Maclaunch - Manage your macOS startup items.
• Amphetamine - Powerful keep-awake utility

Video

• IINA - Modern video player for MacOS
• Soda Player - Feature-packed video player that supports streaming BitTorrent (instantly), SOCKS5, Chromecast/Apple TV, auto-matching sub-titles

Windows/Task Mangers

• HyperSwitch - Window Switching easy in OSX.
• Magnet - Instand window resizing/positioning with mouse dragging and keyboard shortcuts

Inputs / Keys / Display

• Cutbox - Copy and Paste board
• Karabiner - customize your Mac's keyboard keys (Great for non-Mac layout keyboards)
• BetterTouchTool - Turbo-charged mouse/keyboard/trackpad shortcuts. Control windows positioning/size, activate apps and Mac OS events. (Recommended)
• Mos - A lightweight tool used to smooth scrolling and set scroll direction independently for your mouse on MacOS

Display

• NativeDisplayBrightness - macOS display brightness utility for external monitors with a native UI.
• Lunar - Smarter controls and a new Adaptive algorithm for your external displays.
• Nightowl - App to toggle macOS Mojaves dark mode (Mac OS
• MonitorControl - Control your external monitor brightness, contrast or volume directly from a menulet or with keyboard native keys.

Security

• Lulu - Little Snitch-like outbound firewall for Mac OS.

Alfred Workflows

• Convert - Unit conversion (including currency)
• Google Translate - Translate text
• caniuse - caniuse.com
• devdocs - devdocs
• colors - Convert colors
• terminalfinder - Alfred workflow to open current Finder window in Terminal/iTerm and vice versa.
• Units - Converts all kinds of units

QuickLook PLugins

• QLVideo - This package allows macOS Finder to display thumbnails, static QuickLook previews, cover art and metadata for most types of video files.
• Markdown - Markdown Quick Look Plugin for Mac OS X
• quick-look-plugins - List of useful Quick Look plugins for developers

Photo (Editing)

• AmazePhotos

Web Browsers

• BrowserFairy - Manage multiple browsers on Mac

web-developer.md

Accessibility

• Contraste - Check the accessibility of text against the WCAG.

Font Managers

• Font Base (Free) - A blazing fast, beautiful and free font manager for designers

Notes/Snippets

• Lepton (free) - cross-platform snippet manager based on gist
• Quiver - the programmers notebook
• Snippetlab - code snippet manager

Utilities

• Cheatsheet (free) - shows shortcuts for current app
• wifi-password - get wifi password from OSX keychain

GIT

• SCM Breeze - shell scripts (for bash and zsh) that enhance your interaction with git

Terminal

• iTerm 2 - iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.
• iTerm 2 Themes (150) - This is a set of color schemes for iTerm (aka iTerm2)
• go2shell - Opens a terminal window to the current directory in Finder. Supports iTerm2
• cdto - Finder Toolbar app to open the current directory in the Terminal.

ZSH Shell

• Oh My ZSH! - open source, community-driven framework for managing your ZSH configuration
• Prezto - Prezto is the configuration framework for Zsh; it enriches the command line interface environment with sane defaults, aliases, functions, auto completion, and prompt themes.
• pure - Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt

Web Browser

• Responsively - Responsive web browser with multiple viewports/devices at the same time

Misc