Awesome Mac Apps

Curated list of awesome mac apps

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Audio Hijack - records audio from essentially any device.
Camtasia - is a screen recorder with some light duty video editing tools.
Fission - lossless audio editing.
Mindnode - is a great way to visualize ideas and brainstorm. A good way to connect the dots.
PageLayers - is an app that will take a webpage and convert it into a layered PSD file.
Sketch - lightweight web mock-up tool.
VLC - open source multimedia and video player.
Writer Pro - is a minimalist notetaking and distraction free writing tool.
xScope - is engineered for measuring, inspecting, and fine tuning graphics.

A Better Finder Rename - is a great way to mass rename files based on predetermined sorting and filtering, as well as complex regular expressions.
Better Snap Tool - allows you to quickly resize windows with hotkeys.
ChronoSync - commercial grade file sync. ChronoSync is a nice GUI with some added features on rsync.
CleanApp - is essentially a disk clean up and app un-install utility.
Cocktail - is a utility to clear cache, fix permissions, adjust settings, and optimize OS X.
Divvy - is a nice compliment to Better Snap and it has a nice grid structure for arranging multiple windows.
ExpanDrive - is a good way to connect to S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive etc. without installing all the standalone apps.
iStat Menus - is a system monitor that lives in your menubar. Useful for monitoring network traffic and speed, hard drive and cpu status, and apps using significant energy.
MacDropAny - allows you to sync local and external folders with symbolic links to services like Dropbox.
SuperDuper! - is a great hard drive cloning and system recovery tool.
Transmit - makes transferring files between servers and cloud services an effortless process. This is a great app for integrating with AWS.
Pareto Security - a MenuBar app to automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene.

BBEdit - another minimalist text editor.
Coda - front-end web code IDE.
CodeKit - front-end code compiler, browser refresh, and ready to rock.
ColorSnapper - is an easy-to-use app to find the precise color of any pixel on the screen.
Icon Slate - makes retina ready favicons in a couple clicks.
MAMP PRO - is a good solution for developing and testing websites on your local machine.
Sublime Text - is a great working text editor with lots of plugins and community support.
Tower - is elegant and easy to use GUI for GIT.
xScope - is engineered for measuring, inspecting, and fine tuning graphics.
VS Code - excellent multipurpose IDE.

PCalc - is a scientific calculator with support for lots of complicated conversions and tasks.
Parallels - is a great app for running Linux or Windows virtual machines on your Mac.
Wizard - is a great compliment to a spreadsheet program to build predictive models and analyze data sets.