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 :-)
- 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
- 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.
- 1Password (Website) - Password manager. 💵 36 USD per year subscription
- Airflow (Website) - Apple TV connector and player. 💶 19 EUR
- Cog (Website) - Audio player.
- ColorSlurp (Website) - Color picker.
- Open Broadcaster Software (Website) - Screen broadcaster.
- VLC (Website) - Media Player.
- Camera Controller (Website) - Configure webcam settings.
- Kap (Website) - Screen recorder.
- 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:
- Extensions
- iFunBox (Website) - macOS to iOS synchronizer.
- IntelliJ IDEA (Website) - Java IDE.
- OpenLens (Website) - Kubernetes IDE.
- Mockoon (Website) - Mock API servers locally.
- Postman (Website) - API client.
- Rancher Desktop (Website) - Docker desktop replacement.
Applications that I used in the past but have been replaced by other (better) applications.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
- DBeaver (Website) - Database client.
Replaced by the database integration in IntelliJ - Eclipse (Website) - Java IDE.
Replaced by IntelliJ IDEA (like most of the world)- Plugin update sites
- PathFinder (Website) - File manager. 💵 40 USD.
Replaced by the regular macOS Finder, I simply didn't need the additional features from PathFinder any more. - Spark (Website) - E-Mail client.
Switched to web interfaces - SQuirreL SQL (Website) - Database client.
Replaced by the database integration in IntelliJ
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
- CotEditor (Website ▪ App Store) - Text editor.
- Dash (Website) - Documentation hub. 💵 30 USD
- Handbrake (Website) - Video transcoder.
- 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