For more videos. Mac. ($14.99) - Paste is a copy paste manager that keeps track of and organizes all the files, photos, URLs, and text snippets that you've copied and pasted on your Mac. Paste is described as a sort of Time Machine for your clipboard, because it saves everything and offers robust search capabilities so you can always find what you're looking for. Pinboards also give you access to things you copy and paste often, while custom shortcuts make it easier to copy and paste.
Paste is a Mac App Store app, but a free trial is also. (Free) - Station is an app that's designed to house and aggregate all of your web applications in one easy to access location. Instead of having dozens of tabs open with things like Gmail, Twitter, Instagram, and Slack, you can relocate them all to Station for quicker, more streamlined access. Station is essentially a web browser that has a better layout for accessing web apps. ($9.99) - Sip is a niche app, but it's useful for artists, designers, interior decorators, app developers, and other content creators who like to create and maintain color palettes. Sip lets you create and organize color palettes that can be accessed right in the menu bar of your Mac and shared to all of your favorite design apps like Photoshop, Xcode, Illustrator, Sketch, and more.
Choosing colors from any source is as simple as a key press, and a color dock makes all of your palettes readily available. ($15) - Bartender 3 is a popular Mac app that lets you rearrange and hide icons on the menu bar of your Mac. With Bartender, you can put the menu bar items you use most often front and center, while minimizing all of the rest behind the Bartender icon for a more streamlined menu bar. (Free) - NightOwl is a super simple Mac app that's designed to give you more control over Dark Mode. It adds a Dark Mode toggle to the menu bar so you can turn Dark Mode on and off without needing to open up System Preferences. You can also set Dark Mode to a timer or have it come on when the sun sets using NightOwl. IOS.
($9.99) - Procreate is a popular and well-known sketching, drawing, and painting app. Because it's been available on the iPad for years, the Procreate team has had a lot of time to make improvements and refinements to the app, making it the go-to for many artists who work on the iPad. It has been optimized for Apple Pencil, so you can create works of art with Apple's stylus.
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It features customizable brushes, support for layers, and a 64-bit painting engine that supports high-resolution artwork. ($19.99) - If you want to edit video on an iPad but want something more than iMovie, LumaFusion is a powerful video editing option that you'll want to take a look at. Using LumaFusion, you can do everything you might do with a desktop app, like trimming clips, adding transitions, correcting color, adding effects and titles, audio, and using slow-motion, fast forward, and reverse. (Free) - Bear is a writing, coding, and note taking app that has a simple interface and a rich feature set. It's available on iOS and Mac devices, and it offers Apple Pencil support, to-dos, multiple export options, an advanced markup editor with support for more than 20 programming languages, SmartData Recognition, in-line images and photos, hashtags for organization, and more. Bear is free to download, but if you want to sync your notes between your devices, unlock themes, and use advanced exporting options, you'll need to pay $1.49 per month or $14.99 per year for a subscription. ($4.99) - Alto's Odyssey is the highly-anticipated sequel to popular 2015 game Alto's Adventure.
Like the original, Alto's Odyssey is an endless runner with gorgeous graphics, but this time it takes place in the sand instead of the snow. ($5.99) - Grimvalor, from the team that developed popular game Swordigo, is a traditional hack n' slash platformer with solid virtual controls, great graphics, and plenty of content to get through. As with most games of this type, the idea is to fight monsters, explore dungeons, and gather loot to progress through the story. Grimvalor costs $5.99, and there are no additional in-app purchases. What were your favorite Mac and iOS apps in 2018? Let us know in the comments. Not on Mac App Store, but imho one of the best Mac app ever ist Better Touch Tool.
In my opinion it's Little Snitch, another one would be Diskwarrior, the problem with diskwarrior though is that it's not working (yet) on APFS, but that's not Diskwarriors fault, Apple should release code first so DW can add support. Gasmask is another great app, it can be used for blocking adds or complete websites. ClipMenu is a copy/paste app, better than the above suggestion, I used to use CopyPaste, should still be available.
Menumeters is a system resource utility, it can display Network/Disks/CPU/Memory usage. Anybody like MindNode? I love the UI/feature set/iOS compatibility, and esp. That I can keep my hands on the keys and move up and down the hierarchy of my concept maps.
I can build a whole map without touching the trackpad! It's a wonderful thing to leave the structure/aesthetic layout of my concepts to the app, while I just worry about my typing. Very fast for me, much more so than illustrator/pages/ppt/handwriting on paper/apple pencil on my iPad or any other method I've used to make concept maps and take notes.
Got a suggestion? Or want to add your product?! Please if you have any suggestions for best Mac OS apps!
I haven't included any of the default apps that come with Mac OS. All of these apps are actually used by me.
Whenever I get a new machine I actually come to this page and download everything! And every so often I go through my apps and see if I regularly use anything that isn't on this list and I update it. Please email me with your suggestions - but I tend to stick with the apps that I have and already use! BTW, as of Sept 2018 I have never accepted any payment for any app that was included on this list, and I've not used any affiliate links. There are a couple of Google ads on here but that is just to cover the tiny hosting and domain fees. Highly Recommended!
The Unarchiver is a small and easy to use program that can unarchive many different kinds of archive files. It will open common formats such as Zip, RAR, 7-zip, Tar, Gzip, and Bzip2. It will also open many older formats, such as StuffIt, DiskDoubler, LZH, ARJ, and ARC. It will even open other kinds of files, like ISO and BIN disc images, some Windows.EXE installers. The list is actually much longer - see the program homepage for the full list.
The Unarchiver also tries to detect and correctly handle the filename encoding in the archives it opens, allowing you to open files from every part of the world without getting garbled filenames. The Unarchiver aims to be the only unarchiving program you will ever need and to stay out of your way. I use this app most days - it sits at the top of your screen, you click its icon and you can see a full month's calendar. Don't let the name trick you: it doesn't add an extra day to the year.
I've actually been using it since the previous version, however that isn't available on the Mac App Store anymore. If you often finding yourself wanting a quick overview of the current month then this is useful - just click the icon at the top of your screen and a calendar (along with your events) appear. It is a bit pricey at $15 on the Mac App store but it gets quite a bit of usage from me. It is also available for sale on their website.
Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow? Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen? During the day, computer screens look good—they're designed to look like the sun. But, at 9 PM, 10 PM, or 3 AM, you probably shouldn't be looking at the sun. F.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.
It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better. A simple Mac app designed to make uploading images and screenshots to Imgur quick and effortless, as recommended by someone on Reddit. The application will listen for new screenshots taken by the built-in screenshot functionality of OS X. In addition, images can be uploaded manually by either dragging and dropping an image on the status bar icon or clicking the 'Select images' option in the status bar menu. As soon as an image is uploaded, the link is copied to your clipboard and a notification pops up. Over 14 million people use Pocket to easily save articles, videos and more for later.
With Pocket, all of your content goes to one place, so you can view it anytime, on any device. You can even read articles offline, making Pocket indispensable for subway commutes, flights, or anywhere else you find yourself without mobile data or Wi-Fi. Save articles, videos, recipes, and web pages you find online or from your favorite apps. If it’s in Pocket, it’s on your phone, tablet or computer, even when you’re offline.
Perfect for commutes, traveling, and curling up on your couch. Curb is designed to facilitate emptying the trash from removable media such as USB Keys. When files are deleted on removable media, it is stored in a special trash folder on the media. These files take up room, robbing your drive of free space. Ordinarily to remove these files the user must empty their own trash, which includes files you’ve deleted on the local system.
This is not always desirable. With Curb, emptying trash from a USB key becomes as easy as drag and drop. Drop any number of mounted USB keys onto Curb and each one will have the trash removed, all without losing your local trash.
Getting your laptop or your phone stolen sucks, but there is something you can do about it. Prey is a lightweight theft protection software that lets you keep an eye over them whether in town or abroad, and helps you recover them if ever lost or stolen. After installing the software on your laptop, tablet or phone, Prey will sleep silently in the background awaiting your command. Once remotely triggered from your Prey account, your device will gather and deliver detailed evidence back to you, including a picture of who's using it – often the crucial piece of data that police officers need to take action. Simplenote is an easy way to keep notes, lists, ideas and more. Your notes stay in sync with all your devices for free. The Simplenote experience is all about speed and efficiency.
Open it, write some thoughts, and you're done. As your collection of notes grows, you can search them instantly and keep them organized with tags and pins. You can also share notes and publish them for other people. The best way to learn about Simplenote is to try it. You'll be asked to create an account. This allows your notes to be backed up online and synchronized automatically. The #1 Desktop Blog Editor for the Mac - The best way to write, preview, and publish your blog.
Works with WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, TypePad, Movable Type and dozens more through standard MetaWeblog and AtomPub interfaces. Work offline with local drafts on your Mac, preview the formatting and content of your posts, and publish when you're ready to share with the world. Easily browse for a photo from your iPhoto, Aperture, or Lightroom libraries, and embed it for automatic upload with your blog post. Perfect for professional bloggers and casual writers who don't want to mess around with clunky web-based interfaces. If you're lucky enough to have a Mac, nothing is more powerful or more elegant than MarsEdit. Enhance and perfect your photography anywhere.
With Lightroom, your photography goes where you go. Organize, edit and share your photos from anywhere. Your photos don’t always match the scene the way you remember it.
But with Lightroom, you have all the tools you need to bring out the best in your photography. Punch up colors, make dull-looking shots vibrant, remove distracting objects and straighten skewed shots. Plus, the latest release includes powerful new ways to adjust atmospheric haze, create incredible HDR images and panoramas, import and edit faster and so much more. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities.
It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. With Spotify, it’s easy to find the right music for every moment – on your phone, your computer, your tablet and more. There are millions of tracks on Spotify.
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So whether you’re working out, partying or relaxing, the right music is always at your fingertips. Choose what you want to listen to, or let Spotify surprise you. You can also browse through the music collections of friends, artists and celebrities, or create a radio station and just sit back. Soundtrack your life with Spotify. Subscribe or listen for free.
Xee is a streamlined and convenient image viewer and browser. It is similar to Mac OS X's Preview.app, but lets you easily browse the entire contents of folders and archives, move and copy image files quickly, and supports many more image formats. It also shows animation for formats which support this. It is designed to take full advantage of touch controls, allowing you to swipe through images in a folder one by one. You can of course also zoom and rotate files using multi-touch gestures.
Xee can also display huge amounts of metadata from image files. Loading images directly from archive files is also possible, and Xee works very well as a comic book reader. BTW you can find the older, open source versions on Github. BBEdit a professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text.
An intelligent interface provides easy access to BBEdit’s best-of-class features, including grep pattern matching, search and replace across multiple files, project definition tools, function navigation and syntax coloring for numerous source code languages, code folding, FTP and SFTP open and save, AppleScript, Mac OS X Unix scripting support, text and code completion, and of course a complete set of robust HTML markup tools.