What are your favourite Mac apps?

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What are your favorite Mac app/s and why?

Hector G Sigala · Accepted Answer

Hands down most useful and best looking clipboard manager out there. It's not free, but it will save you so much time especially after months of use and being able to reference old things on your clipboard. Try it out!

Philip Amour · Answer

Best GTD app! :)

Patrick Thompson · Answer

When you want to hide all of the menubar icons you get from the rest of the recommended apps, this is the app to use!

Vinh Pham · Answer

I used to use Evernote to clip and save recipes, but I moved everything over to Paprika and haven't looked back. The two features I like the most are the simple web importing and the app can also adjust the measurements to fit a required serving size.

Frederik Waller · Answer

Spotlight Search on Steriods! Makes me a lot more productive and is probably among the first few apps I would install on a new Mac.

Patrick Thompson · Answer

This is probably the app I use the most, aside from a web browser, and would hate to have to live without it. Incredibly useful app with great features and UI.

Alex · Answer

Gives you a sweet popup menu when you highlight some text that allows you to search the web, copy, paste, etc. for that specific text.

Warwick Purves · Answer

It's really great, But they slam you on the price having to buy it for Desktop, Ipad, and Iphone. ( Almost $100) across the same eco-system. Plus no discount for having the 5-year-old version. 
Makes you wonder why Apple, Google, and MS can't build a good one. Google should just buy in and bang it into G suite.

Mike Coutermarsh · Answer

Totally Cloudapp. Working in web dev, makes it really easy to screenshot something, add comments then then share right into Slack.

Simon Bromberg · Answer

Fills in for the lack of a clipboard manager in MacOS

Daniele Trambusti · Answer

Great Visual Website Builder for your Mac!

Tejas Kinger · Answer

Couldn't have said it better. Best tool for nocturnal folks.

Kunal Bhatia · Answer

f.lux is a late-night lifesaver. I wouldn't be able to function without it on my Mac!

Philip Amour · Answer

Best Twitter experience on macOS

Rob Dearborn · Answer

Can't imagine computing without keyboard resize/snap controls

Constantin Bachvarov · Answer

Really nice UI on all devices, cheap service, reliable cloud. Love the option where I`m able to check the stats of any download link I create.  Highly secured with their Crypto technology. With their free plan u can get up to 20GB just like that.

Vinh Pham · Answer

I've been working on completing a full stack web dev course and have been using Duet a lot in the past few weeks. It let's me have the versatility of a home multi-display setup while working at a coffee shop.

Daniel Alm · Answer

Shameless plug: I think my app Timing 2 is really great ;-)
Most time tracking apps are quite ordinary, but Timing redefines the experience.
Not only does it have great design, it turns the concept of time tracking on its hand:
Instead of manually punching in and out, Timing tracks *you*.
It will automatically tell you what you did, so you don't have to figure that out yourself.

Rustem Mussabekov · Answer

Best bookmark app for Mac

R A I Z A · Answer

Times when I have something to SAY and can't type fast enough on two fingers: Mac app for Slack comes in handy!

Ana Topoljski · Answer

Loop brings team messaging to your inbox so you and your team can share emails and quick messages in one place. Loop is a secure email desktop app that works with your Gmail, Outlook or any Office365 account. Install Loop, connect it with your existing inbox, create your sales, marketing, management or any other project teams and start messaging.😻😎

Carlos Pacheco · Answer

As a non-graphics designer type, the Adobe tools are much too advanced and intimidating, not to mention pricey.
This app is a lifesaver and really easy to use. I've learned more about image editing by usine Pixelmator than any other design tool.

Warwick Purves · Answer

Love slack, but if you are on a laptop and running it on battery, just take a look at your activity monitor to see the amount of resources, it's draining. It's built on the same platform as Chrome which also is super hunger.
IF you are running low on power, Turn of Slack on Laptop and use Slack on your Phone and switch to Safari

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I have been using Alfred for some time now and I gotta stress the fact that I love it!

Philip Amour · Answer

Hands down the best picture editing experience on macOS

R1ck van de Laar · Answer

Nice to combine services like WhatsApp, Slack, Discord and Telegram in one app.

Robert Nachum · Answer

Best app ever!

troy_gingerlabs · Answer

Great note taking app that syncs between all iOS devices.

Matteo Gavagnin · Answer

Bear is a beautiful, flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose.

Chris Enns · Answer

It's indispensable to me as a podcast editor / producer. I'd give up Safari before I gave up Audio Hijack on my Mac.

Vinh Pham · Answer

I love saving funny cat gifs and other things to a clipboard that I can recall for later. There's an iOS app that pulls in the same clipboard from the cloud. You can also organize your clips into categories.

Julie Kim · Answer

Amazing for GTD. It's saving my life. 😂It's flexible and works well with my mental model for creating and saving information.

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It's my email client, and I can't live without it.

R A I Z A · Answer

Clearly biased here - but I 💩 you not, it has really changed the way I interact with my own stuff. "Where did I last see ____" or "What was that thing called again?" has become a thing of the past. It's made me lightning quick to go between task to task and that speed on my Mac has been pretty magical tbh.

Alex Chernikov · Answer

An ultimate translation & language learning app directly in the menu bar. It translates and speaks in 103 languages. You also can curate your own Phrasebook. Travelers and language learners will love it. Just save your favorite words in custom word lists in a few clicks and get back to them later–to learn or communicate. Mate also synchronizes all your data across all your Macs, iPhones and browsers.

Vojtech Rinik · Answer

Never again opened Google Analytics in web UI.

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Best all round email with accompanying iOS app that cares about privacy.

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The best screenshot app ! CleanShot is a macOS app that makes it easier to capture clean screenshots and screen recordings without Desktop icons.

Daniel Georgiev · Answer

Automatically reduce blue light and brightness during night time

Ana Topoljski · Answer

Helps me to be on top of my organising game🚀

Best Blenders Reviews · Answer

Makes using Twitter a snap on my Macbook Pro

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Tweetbot is without doubt the fastest way to tweet on Mac yet. With solid menu options, it cannot get better.

Marko Korevec · Answer

Its simple, its fast and best MySQL client I have ever used, although as not as powerfull as others, for quick edits, changes and viewing of data its perfect.

Gary Torres · Answer

I have an old iPad that serves as a second monitor now thanks to duet! super convenient

Jesse Payne · Answer

Quick and handy way to resize windows when multi/tasking. Second thing I install on a new machine after Alfred!

Best Blenders Reviews · Answer

Easy to use photo/picture editor tool

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I've tried EVERY clipboard app for mac and this is the best one by far!!

Matteo Gavagnin · Answer

Airmail lightning-fast mail client with pro features.

Mike Berezin · Answer

The best service for messages with both mobile and desktop native apps. Instant sync between all devices, fast work and clear calls.

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In today's crazy cybersecurity world having a password manager is pretty much non-negotiable. 1Password makes managing and autofilling passwords a ridiculously easy and is one of the best managers of any platform.

Christos X · Answer

A great news aggregator with tons of features, speed, and extensibility if you go premium. The free version is excellent.

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Some days I can avoid my browser altogether as this App truly does rule all of these!

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Some days I can avoid my browser altogether as this App truly does rule all of these!

R1ck van de Laar · Answer

Not free, but great annotation and share options for screenshots.

Resh Wallaja · Answer

Clean, simple way to strip formatting and take notes

Joe Rhodes · Answer

My personal app – a great solution for those needing to animate and prototype UIs on the Mac. :)

Resh Wallaja · Answer

Clean, simple way to strip formatting and take notes

Spencer P Shulem · Answer

Just DO IT.

André Hess Brenes · Answer

Because of Mac Os windows I usually struggle drag and dropping files. Yoink allows you to pin the file you want to drop on a side of the window to hold it until you find the right place to drop it. Must have.

Tomasz Gemza · Answer

Infinite Menu Bar allows you to customize your MacOS menu bar elements. The best feature IMO is possibility to display content from any URL. I use it to display users online on my sites.

Dionis Loire · Answer

Our team lives in Taskade as it is our unified workspace, and we built it! 🙂
Taskade is available natively on Mac, and every other platform imaginable https://www.taskade.com/downloads

joshua · Answer

THE best word processor out there. i use iA for note taking, but if Ulysses and Scrivener were in a fight, Scrivener would win

Wade Armstrong · Answer

Paprika is gorgeous on Mac and iOS. One great feature is that times in the instructions of recipes are clickable, and will give you a running timer when you click. You can run multiple timers.

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I used to like Paprika so much. But they haven't updated their Android app in years and it's so dated now, the images in the recipes are too tiny to see anything and there is no way to export to anything other that Paprika's proprietary extension.

Wade Armstrong · Answer

Alfred is great, great, for so many things, but often the clipboard history and the snippets are features a lot of folks will pay money for as their own app -- and they're just part of Alfred!

André Hess Brenes · Answer

Alfred may well be the reason I would not consider moving OS.

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This is my favorite application!

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Helps me with opening, math, and with the powerpack, workflows.

Gerry McIlveney · Answer

I have been searching for weeks for something to replace Evernote. The Mac Notes stock app is just too basic and Evernote too bloated and trying to be too many things at once. I had heard of Bear lots on my travels looking for a new app, but a lot of the consensus out there was that Bear was more of a writing app than a notes app. I saw someone on Reddit having a meltdown because someone was using it for note-taking.

THEN.....I thought I'm going to try it! I haven't looked back since! Beautiful, elegant app with great features. It is a beautiful notes app (and more if that is what you want out of it) and an ideal replacement for Evernote.

Victor Carreño · Answer

I used to love Evernote, but it became very complicated to use when I just wanted to write notes, to dos, annotations, etc. I fall in love with the markdown support of this app, also the price is very accessible. Totally recommended app.

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Bear is the best note taking and writing app out there. Simple, clean design and works seamlessly across all your Apple devices.

Chris Enns · Answer

Beautiful text editor with Markdown support and syncing across all macOS & iOS devices.

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I really prefer Paste to Pastebot because it's easier to access my categories and preview the text. I like how it shows you the color when you copy a hex color code too! And I don't need to remember a ton of shortcuts, just one.

Constantin Bachvarov · Answer

Totally agree. Really ease to do some screen shots and do a comments.

Muhammad Rizwan · Answer

Great tool for increasing productivity. Sharing files, screenshots or screen-casts is extremely simple and fast. Highly recommended.

Justin Mitchell · Answer

I literally don't know what I'd do without Jumpshare. I send links, code, screenshots, files, gifs, you name it, to everyone on my team. I have a branded URL and unlimited storage. It's such an integral part of my workflow.

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As I've been learning web design, I build websites in order to practise. So, my favorite Mac apps are website builders from http://www.webbuildersguide.com/website-builder-categories/website-builders-for-mac/ . They are easy-to-use and don't require special skills. Also it is possible to find a proper builder according to the theme of the website you are going to create.

Sandeep Mallya · Answer

Useful for multitasking. You can work while simultaneously watching Netflix or YouTube via a floating browser window.

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Can't live without it. I have no idea why it's not built into macOS :/

R1ck van de Laar · Answer

nice to keep your windows organized using keyboard shortcuts.

Resh Wallaja · Answer

Clean, simple way to strip formatting and take notes

Vinay Mimani · Answer

When your life is mostly about copy pasting (like mine), flycut remembers all the stuff you copy, and lets you refer back to it!

Serge Acker · Answer

One of the original Launchers, but so much more - THE app I install on all new Macs. In many ways, a lot more powerful than Alfred...

Naveen Kumar Gurram · Answer

has nifty keyboard shortcuts for better window management in Mac

Forrest Scofield · Answer

Great tool for organizing windows with easy to remember keyboard shortcuts. Doesn't get in the way.

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I have been using Polymail for a few months now and it makes email so much easier on Mac! It has a large amount of features that alternative clients do not have, including the ability to unsend an email, set reminders to follow up, and a slew of keyboard shortcuts which makes sending emails more efficient.

Andrea Gelati · Answer

Best Personal Database for macOS!

Sean Reilly · Answer

It's the most complete, powerful, and privacy-protecting finance manager on the Mac!

Zafer Arıcan · Answer

I am biased here but to launch or switch between apps is much faster with App Pier thanks to its keyboard-centric minimalistic design and Touch Bar support. It also saves some screen estate by hiding Dock as you do not need it anymore.

Judson Dunn · Answer

Great image editing app, not trying to be photoshop, but trying to be good for humans!

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I use it to keep 2 google drive accounts and a dropbox account humming along with a native experience.

Guilherme Rambo · Answer

I use it to listen to podcasts while I work

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The most flexible file sharing tool you'll ever use.

Daniel Ravina · Answer

The only way for me to listen to music these days!

Timothy Graham · Answer

Love this app for your desktop IG needs.

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Gotta stress the fact that I love Telegram for Mac! I find it very fast and fluid.

Audrey Poindessault · Answer

Daily use, it saves my time!

Pan Wangperawong · Answer

It's my go to design tool! Makes collaboration between the team easier and I could link to designs that change over time on my Trello cards.

Alex Chernikov · Answer

This app helps to get rid of eye strain by reminding to take breaks. Breaks For Eyes doesn’t treat you as a disciplined person who’d start taking breaks without skipping right away. Instead, it helps you to make it a habit.

Alex Chernikov · Answer

Simple app which helps eyes to rest enough. Enough rest = no eye strain = no eye-related problems.

Michael Musgrove · Answer

The Ultimate Writing App for Mac, iPad, and iPhone. A pleasant focused writing experience combined with effective document management, fast syncing and flexible export make Ulysses the first choice for writers of all kinds.

Andrew Emelianenko · Answer

I've tried a lot of mail apps but this is the best!

Basil Alias · Answer

This is my favorite and must have Mac app.

Tinh Nguyen · Answer

Sync with Google Calendar, the best feature is a tiny calendar on Menu Bar.

Tinh Nguyen · Answer

Easy to control window on Mac.

Eugene Bos · Answer

The best password management with a native app

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It's FREE and only 5€ for pro. Much better than bartender, way more intuitive with barely any options in the settings (that's a plus, it just works).

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It's FREE and only 5€ for pro. Much better than bartender, way more intuitive with barely any options in the settings (that's a plus, it just works).

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It's FREE and only 5€ for pro. Much better than bartender, way more intuitive with barely any options in the settings (that's a plus, it just works).