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What's your favorite utility Mac app?

What's your favorite utility Mac app that you can't live without? :) Inspired by this tweet from @rrhoover https://twitter.com/rrhoover/sta...

Dimitar RaykovProduct Designer · Asked 20d ago

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Alfred

Never use your mouse again

Vinh Pham4🤤 · Written 19d ago

Mentioned this in another Ask PH thread yesterday, but it's worth repeating. Alfred is so incredibly useful in my daily workflow that I don't even notice I'm using it half the time. Anything I need to do that I can do with Alfred is just automatic.

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Les HallGeneral Factotum, Blaylock Manor. · Written 19d ago

I just use it without thinking. Cmd-Spacebar, type first few characters of an app's name, your pick is highlighted, hit return, opens app. Sounds like a lot but takes seconds. It does so much more which I need to learn.

Premankan SealDesigner | Animator · Written 19d ago

Alfred is quite possibly the only application I can't live without. I use it for everything. From opening files and folders, to navigating my drives, to launching applications, to running searches, to the hundreds of workflows I use everyday without so much as thinking about them. The Evernote workflow for instance. Hitting CMD+SPACE followed by ENT to search through my notes is just muscle memory at this point.

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CleanMyMac 3

Clean, optimize, and maintain your Mac.

Julia PetrykPR Manager, MacPaw · Written 17d ago

Julia Petryk made this product

Must-have utility for a Mac user.

Sambruce JosephProduct Designer · Written 18d ago

Memory and storage management at its best.

f.lux

Adjusts your computer's display to adapt to the time of day

Naveed ShahHunter of Products · Written 19d ago

Well, this was great but the new OS has Nightshift built-in

Vinit AgrawalCo-Founder at Tars · Written 19d ago

This is lifesaver app, that i would highly recommend for your eyes. Although i use it on my linux machine.

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Atlas Recall

A searchable photographic memory for your digital life

Paul WilliamsCreative problem solver. · Written 19d ago

I use Recall nearly as much as I use the Finder and Alfred... it is my "go to" app to find the bits and pieces I've surfed, browsed, viewed and worked on... it is - like they say on the site - a digital memory...

Mauro Massucatti NettoAdvogado · Written 19d ago

Fantastic App! Plus: The Support Team is the Best!!!

George HiltonI do something somewhere · Written 18d ago

Does anyone have recommendations for a memory improvement game? I have extra time on my hands, thanks to Recall, and I don't need to remember where I've browsed; where files are stored; or what my work looked like several revisions ago. Recall provides *so* much utility while simultaneously disappearing - there isn't any configuration or maintenance necessary. Many products claim to "just work" but nothing comes close to Recall's ability to work out of the box with zero maintance. Additionally, it provides faster lookup of websites, files, and everything Mac without the setup/organizational investments of bookmarks,… See more

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Gemini 2.0

The intelligent duplicate file finder for your Mac

Dmytro BilkunWritten 17d ago

Helps you get rid of unneeded duplicates and similar files thus saving plenty of space. Especially useful if you have a lot of photos.

Spectacle

Move and resize windows with ease on Mac.

Udara JayFounder @ Tidl Inc. · Written 19d ago

The invisible app that saves me a lot of time every day! When you're doing dev/design work and have to move around terminals, Photoshop windows, editors, FTP clients and Safari, Spectacle is the smoothest way to put things in place quickly!

Dimitar RaykovProduct Designer · Written 19d ago

+1 for Spectacle. Great app!

Nick Abouzeid 🕴6Social & Growth Intern at Product Hunt · Written 19d ago

Snap windows to grids with easy shortcuts. Invaluable if you have a cluttered homescreen like I do.

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CleanMyDrive 2

A lightweight drive manager for Mac

Serhii ButenkoCocoa Engineer · Written 17d ago

A really awesome drive manager for Mac. Clean and manage your external HDD and flash card in one click

Numi

A beautiful calculator app for Mac

Dimitar RaykovProduct Designer · Written 20d ago

To answer my question myself - Numi is more than a beautiful calculator. It does so much more than just calculations - https://numi.io/docs/

Karl NislowFinance Manager @fuzzpro · Written 19d ago

Numi caters seamlessly to the chaotic intersectionality of the tech space. It scales with your needs; from simple addition to defining reusable variables, Numi can function at whatever level you need it to. Play with it, read the documentation, and use the dark skin.

1Password 6.0 for Mac

Charley MaGrowth @ Plaid · Written 19d ago

Favorite password manager across all my devices

Bartender

Organize and hide menu bar items on your Mac

Eric PangilinanWritten 19d ago

Saves Menu Bar real estate!

Vanilla

Anom B.Writer · Written 19d ago

A free alternative to Bartender. But only work for macOS Sierra (10.12 or later).

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CheatSheet

View Mac keyboard shortcuts in the current application

Mohammed ShammoutWritten 19d ago

Because shortcuts are life.

Amphetamine 3

Keep your Mac awake from the menubar

Kevin SuttleProfessional nobody · Written 19d ago

To combat macOS' overly-aggressive sleep settings.

Redacted

Quick and easy to redact parts of an image

Ryan Hoover44Founder, Product Hunt · Written 19d ago

As Dimitar pointed out in the description, Redacted by @soffes is a useful, single-purpose app for censoring photos on your Mac. Here's an example.

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Caffeine

Keep your Mac from going to sleep

Parthiv PatelHere to see cool stuff. · Written 19d ago

Best way to keep your mac from going to sleep.

Popclip

The Swiss Army Knife of Mac apps

Eric PangilinanWritten 19d ago

Great time-saver! I used at least 10X a day

Kaushik ThirthappaWritten 17d ago

Same here, i myself have been using it for like 3 years now. It was on sale during christmas and boy do i love it. Select a text and do like a 100 things with it. Worth every single penny.

Magnet for Mac

Keep your workspace organized

Vikram RangnekarBuilder of https://bellpluscat.com · Written 17d ago

As a developer I love this best way to get my browser and code windows sorted out quickly.

Ray HernandezCreative Director · Written 17d ago

When you're operating with 100s of tabs/windows, and 10 different software items open at once...the only way you don't go crazy is with Magnet. Love this app!

Disk Drill 3

The all-new data recovery tool for Mac & Windows

Alina MulovaWritten 11d ago

My hard drive crashed and everything was lost. My wedding photos, important financial files and my favourite music which I hadn't backed up onto any flash drive were lost! Disk Drill helped me to recover all my files.

Hemingboard Mac

Puns, synonyms, rhymes in any app. Now for Mac.

joshua bradleyCelebrating people, making life better. · Written 19d ago

I click this little icon in my menu bar to find the right words all the time

Copia for Mac

Smart and elegant clipboard manager for Mac

Kunal Bhatia22Co-founder & Design Lead @SlidesUp · Written 19d ago

I've been using Copia nonstop since it was launched on Product Hunt. It has saved me so much time since I started using it. I love the sound it makes when you copy something too!