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What are some of the most cleanest, sexiest apps for the Mac? I'm looking for apps that seamlessly blend in with the OS and feel as though it was developed and designed by Apple themselves.

Here are some of my all time favorites:

Transmit
Blocs
Pixelmator
iMazing
xScope
Magnet
Things
Sublime with Material theme and custom font
Little Snitch
VMware Fusion
Spark
Canary Mail
 
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Yoink
Paste (highly recommended)
Screens (formally Screens VNC)
Airmail
Audio Hijack (Highdh recommended)
Forklift
Daisy Disk
Popclip (Absolutelly recommended)
iState Menu (recommended)
Bartender (recommended)
World Clock Pro
Tweetbot
Acorn
Pixelmator Pro


All are best crafted and highly functional apps!
 
MacDraw
MacWrite
Daleks
Hendrix
ResEdit

LOL - that's going back

Here are a few others for "honourable mention" great innovative legacy apps
Appleworks - especially the data base part
SoundJam - before it became iTunes
Active Memory
 
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Have you tried Hyper? I think that one is the sexiest terminal app.
I just had a look at their website and it seems it is an electron app. I like iterm more because it is native and super easy to personalize, it reminds me I'm using a mac, it has that unique os x feel to it, plus there's a ton of online docs on the web.
 
Yoink
Paste (highly recommended)
Screens (formally Screens VNC)
Airmail
Audio Hijack (Highdh recommended)
Forklift
Daisy Disk
Popclip (Absolutelly recommended)
iState Menu (recommended)
Bartender (recommended)
World Clock Pro
Tweetbot
Acorn
Pixelmator Pro


All are best crafted and highly functional apps!


I recently purchased iStat. It is a great app. My question is what sensor are you using to show temperature in the top bar. It default to CPU Proximity for me but I notice that is typically not the warmest when in use.
 
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I recently purchased iStat. It is a great app. My question is what sensor are you using to show temperature in the top bar. It default to CPU Proximity for me but I notice that is typically not the warmest when in use.
I use CPU PECI to measure cpu temperature as PECI stands for Platform Environment Control Interface which is for mamaging the whole CPU thermal performance.
And I also use Intel GPU to get better overall CPU temp status.
Cheers.
 
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Little Snitch, Tweetbot, Jump desktop, Sketch, Itsycal, Transmission
 
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