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Favorite or good apps and why?

Utility
Bartender - let’s you hide and store menubar items
Magnet - window management
SuperDuper - Backups, easy, free Updates, it works
CoconutBattery - Replaces my standard Battery Icon, gets you more information for your Mac and iOS devices
Keka (free) - Open Source unarchiver
Yoink - drag and drop
Deliveries - track parcels
Pastebot - clipboard manager with some neat features
Amphetamin (free) - keeps your Mac awake if you need to, customiceable

Programs
Affinity Photo - photo editing, even if you are not big into photo editing, this full featured software makes it easy to get into it because of their great explainatory videos.
Affinity Designer - Vector graphics
Atom (Free) - Text Editor with syntax highlighting, modular, customizable and expandable to your needs
Texpad - If you are writing LaTex you need to try this. And there is soon to be v1.8 release with a new design and live typesetting of the code
2Do - Todo List that offers many sync methods (I like using it to sync over my Apple Reminders app, so I can use advanced features of 2Do but I am able tomshare reminders with others that only use apples app and I can easily add reminders with Siri)
Spark (free) - email
Fantastical - calendar
Transmission (free) - open source BitTorrent client
Iina (free) - Open Source Video Player, Design is better than vlc, uses less energy than vlc, mpv as backend
Tweetbot - Twitter Client
PDFExpert - does tabs, which preview can’t do for some reason, and has some advanced editing features and works well together with their iOS app
Transmit - manage your cloud services / storage

And may more which I probably forgot right now.
 
Spectacle: Window management (split views)

VLC: Video player - plays anything you throw at it, and highly configurable

Disk inventory X: Detailed disk usage stats, so you can see where your junk is.

Mactracker: Detailed system specs and upgrade info
 
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TheAppleFairy said:
I recently switched from 1Password to Dashlane and I am loving it. Best password management software in my opinion.
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I'm considering switching from LastPass myself. Why do you prefer Dashlane over 1Password?
 
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mikzn said:
coconutBattery - current battery health shows info about the battery in your Mac and iOS devices
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Also does a great job of showing you right in your menu bar what wattage your Mac laptop is drawing off the battery. If you see the number looking higher than normal. Really helps when managing your battery life when away from power.
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Segev said:
I'm considering switching from LastPass myself. Why do you prefer Dashlane over 1Password?
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Curious about this as well. I'm sharing a family plan on 1Password with my wife, so we each have our own personal passwords, but also a set of shared ones. It's a little pricey, but it really is working very well.
[doublepost=1515001977][/doublepost]Sublime Text - awesome, fast, highly configurable text editor. There's a demo you can use to try out all the features.

MindNode - fun mindmapping tool, useful for brainstorming and lateral thinking

OmniFocus - very comprehensive GTD project management system. Every task I have is kept in this one place.

Notes - Yeah, I know, it's just the default, but it's gotten very powerful recently and I now use it as a huge catch-all for squirreling away stuff from the web, scans of paper I want to throw away, collaborative notes shared with others. And it all syncs very smoothly with iOS devices.
 
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Segev said:
I'm considering switching from LastPass myself. Why do you prefer Dashlane over 1Password?
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I find it really easy to use and very consistent. Also it has the ability to change passwords for sites with a single click without even logging into a webpage. Well worth looking into in my opinion. Also I found the search function seems to work better. Sometimes 1Password didn’t find what I was looking for with the keyword I used, that being said 1Password is great, but I like Dashlane a little more.
 
TheAppleFairy said:
I find it really easy to use and very consistent. Also it has the ability to change passwords for sites with a single click without even logging into a webpage. Well worth looking into in my opinion. Also I found the search function seems to work better. Sometimes 1Password didn’t find what I was looking for with the keyword I used, that being said 1Password is great, but I like Dashlane a little more.
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I'll give it a shot. Thanks!
 
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TheAppleFairy said:
I find it really easy to use and very consistent. Also it has the ability to change passwords for sites with a single click without even logging into a webpage. Well worth looking into in my opinion. Also I found the search function seems to work better. Sometimes 1Password didn’t find what I was looking for with the keyword I used, that being said 1Password is great, but I like Dashlane a little more.
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How does it compare to Roboform? I was just recommended that one as an alternative to 1password...
 
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