[Designers] What are your must-have Mac apps?

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What apps are you using every day that you simply can't design without? From workflow to inspiration...

Lisa Dziuba · Accepted Answer

Mac app for compering the real design with the final app. Useful for mobile developers, UI & UX designers and product managers.,

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Flawless Feedback allows to easily leave feedback on the implemented design for iOS apps. The tool can stream real app from iPhone to Mac, allowing annotate screenshots with UI fixes.

Prithvi Ravi · Answer

The best design tool ever!

John Kappa · Answer

100% Game Changer!

Camp Olivia · Answer

I really love the pre-built templates and the selection that comes with it. Overall, easy to adapt and customize. Personally, I found that it was easier to use and more professional looking end product compared to PS.

tobinharris · Answer

It's great for interface design for apps and websites, has loads of templates and resources available on ui8.net and other sites. Also good for flow diagrams. And as a bonus, I use it for product canvases/strategy canvases - a kind of infinite surface where I need to dump a load of info on the screen at once (docs, images, annotations etc).

Dan Edwards · Answer

The simplest tool I've found for UI animation, especially good with Sketch.

Dan Edwards · Answer

Great simple tool to adjust Sketch nudge settings.

Jeff Davis · Answer

When I sit in front of a Mac that doesn't have Alfred installed, I have no idea what to do. It is like when I am at a friend's house and I drop food on the floor and realize they don't have a dog. Why not just get a dog?  It makes like so much easier. Alfred is the very first thing I would install on a Mac

John Kappa · Answer

Once you get used to using Alfred you'll be able to kill your dock and speed up your workflow.

Nimasha Sewwandi · Answer

One app for managing all your files, folders and project assets.

Earnest Tao · Answer

Design camera is an app that mocks a 3D phone, and it includes animations. Just drag and drop your photo (needs to be device size), and it will automatically insert into the mockup. I use this for advertising, it's so simple, yet effective.
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Lullaby Tom · Answer

For my passion with taking photos, I have tried why you not?

PratheeP /../ · Answer

Likely the fastest prototyping tool with great options for micro animations. The learning curve is low and can easily support complex projects with many pages. Has good integration with Sketch but can also be used as a stand-alone design tool. The prototype can be viewed on all iOS devices but not on Android.

Vlad Arbatov · Answer

Keeps design iterations on the point, especially valuable when working with the team / client.

Samuel Beaulieu · Answer

Great for measuring distance and useful for screenshots too!

Celine Carpet · Answer

Everyday we need work with PDFs, but the most simplest and cheapest PDF editor tool is best for daily work. So PDFelement express is great for that.https://pdf.wondershare.com/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=producthunt-peytl&utm_campaign=wspe

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It's a new era of the application store.

Dawid Tkocz · Answer

Definitely must-have :) Extremely handy once you are using macOS - "copy/paste" SVG icons has never been easier.

Johny vino · Answer

Best tool make your design standout

Kalia Hayes · Answer

My preferred design environment that's on the come up. It's prototyping abilities are decently advanced and improved on periodically. A bit more intuitive than Sketch while also being less bloated, imo.

Adobe XD has a very nice built in prototype sharing feature, too. I send my higher-ups links to prototypes with embedded comments throughout the artboard which they can easily pull up in browser. Or I can connect my phone to my Mac and view my mobile designs with ease via an Adobe XD mobile app. Edits I make on my Mac are instantly reflected on my phone in real time.

It is also free to use and cross platform, which is handy.

Dan Edwards · Answer

Couldn't imagine sharing design files with my team without Dropbox.

Dan Edwards · Answer

Essential accessibility tool for designers.

Lullaby Tom · Answer

I don't think it is the best. But for me, it is helpful.

Vahan Hovhannisyan · Answer

Greatest design software