Best Must Have Mac Apps and Utilities
In this thread I decided to cover some of the best must have mac apps and utilities. Please check and also suggest some other good mac apps.
The applications which you will check in this article are totally free and developed by third party developers. By using these app you can be more productive and help you to do things which are not possible to perform on Mac.
So without wasting a single second, why don't you have look at some of the best essential apps for mac
1. Infinit.io
With this app you can send files and folder of any size from mac to any other device like, iPhone, iPad, Windows PC, Android phone or Mac itself.
2. Spectacle
Its an amazing utility for organizing and positioning windows on your screen without the use of a mouse.
3. Duet Display
With Duet Display you can use your iPad as an external display.
4. Knock
Knock let you unlock your Mac without a password using your iPhone and Apple Watch.
5. ImageOptim
ImageOptim is a free app that makes images take up less disk space and load faster, without sacrificing quality.
6. HiddenMe
This amazing application let you hide your desktop icons with a single click.
7. SiteStuck
Automatically downloads Web sites from the Internet by asynchronously copying the site's webpages, images, PDFs, and other files to hard disk.
8. AppCleaner
Small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps.
9. Download Shuttle
Download Shuttle is a blisteringly fast download accelerator and manager, and its free.
10. Toggl
Toggls time tracker is built for speed and ease of use.
11. Fluid
Fluid lets you create a Real Mac App (or "Fluid App") out of any website or web application, effectively turning your favorite web apps into OS X desktop apps.
12. Transmit
Transmit for Mac is a full service FTP client for the OS X platform.
13. Caffeine
Tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar.
14. NoSleep
NoSleep extension will keep the screen awake even when the lid is closed.
15. Air Browser
With Air Browser, all your favorite websites are pre-loaded in the background, easily accessible from menubar.
16. MacDropAny
Sync any folder on your Mac with your favourite cloud storage service.
17. Self Control
Lets you block your own access to distracting websites, your mail servers, or anything else on the Internet.
18. Gas Mask
Cool hosts file editor for Mac using which you can permanently block access to certain websites from your computer.
19. Pixel Winch
Pixel Winch is a screen measurement app with a unique approach. It combines aspects of a traditional image editor with the quick access of a modal interface (similar to OS X's Launchpad or Dashboard).
20. Buffer
Any link, text, picture or video you want to share, just add it to your Buffer.
21. Hocus Focus
Hocus Focus automatically hides application windows that have been inactive for a certain period of time.
22. AirDroid
AirDroid connect Android phone to your Mac and let you access, messages, manage photos, transfer files and more.
23. PushBullet
Pushbullet saves you time by moving your notifications, links, and files wherever you go.
24. Unarchiver
Unarchiver is a small and easy to use program that can unarchive many different kinds of archive files.
25. iBrowse
Browse is a simple app that lets your Mac or PC access an iOS device file system. Simply connect your device to your computer and you can read and write to the device's media, app and root* directories.
26. GIF Brewery
GIF Brewery is the best video to GIF creator on Mac OS X. It let you convert clips from your video files to GIFs.
27. Karabiner
A powerful and stable keyboard customizer for OS X. You can easily customize from prepared settings. You can also add your own settings by XML.
28. BetterTouchTool
Allows you to configure many gestures for your Magic Mouse, Macbook Trackpad and Magic Trackpad. It also allows you to configure actions for keyboard shortcuts, normal mice and the Apple Remote.
29. Hazel
Hazel is a System Preference pane that works silently in the background, automatically filing, organizing and cleaning.
30. Helium
Helium is a floating browser window that allows you to watch media while you work. Your content will never fall behind your other windows even as you switch tasks.
31. Dropzone
Dropzone makes it faster and easier to copy and move files, open applications and share files with many different services.
32. RSS Bot- News Notifier
RSS Bot is your perfect companion to keep up to date with all of your RSS feeds in a simple, sleek and friendly manner.
33. F.lux
f.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to thetime of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.
34. EVE
EVE helps you to learn shortcuts, in order to increase your productivity with MAC OS X. Every time you execute an action using the mouse, EVE will teach you the matching shortcut.
35. Bootcamp
Quickly boot into Boot Camp. Contribute to BootChamp development by creating an account on GitHub.
36. aText
aText accelerates your typing by replacing abbreviations with frequently used phrases you define.
37. Flashlight
Search the web, save a note, add a reminder, or do over 190 other things, just by typing into your Mac's Spotlight search box. Or write your own plugins
38. Disk Inventory X
Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called "treemaps".
39. Alfred
Alfred is an application launcher and productivity application for Mac OS X. It saves you time when you search for files online or on your Mac.
40. BitTorrent Sync
Sync helps you keep files and folders on all your computers and mobile devices in sync with each other but without using the cloud. There are no size limitations either.
41. Bartender
Bartender lets you organize your menu bar apps, by hiding them,rearranging them, or moving them to Bartender's Bar.
42. CloudUp
Amazing app developed by Wordpress that lets you quickly upload and share local files and screenshots from the menu bar.
43. Unclutter
Unclutter is a new handy place on your desktop for storing notes, files and pasteboard clips.
44. TextBar
TextBar is a tiny but powerful app that lets you add any text to your MenuBar.
45. Handbrake
HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
46. Soundflower
Soundflower is a Mac OS X kernel extension that enables audio to be passed between applications. It acts as a virtual audio device, with both inputs and outputs. With it, any audio application can send and receive audio.
47. QuickCast
QuickCast is amazing app that make screencasting more easier. With this app you can record, publish & share, in seconds.
48. MuteMyMic
MuteMyMic provides you with easy way to control Input Volume from the status bar or via keyboard shortcuts.
49. Oynx
It provides access to hidden settings, you can perform system maintenance tasks and also configure system apps like Finder, Spotlight and Dock.
50. Control Air
ControlAir provides magical touch free control over media applications on your Mac, such as iTunes, Spotify and others. Just raise your finger in the air to control volume, skip songs and pause. A finger raised to your lips will mute the sound.
51. Pixelmator
Pixelmator takes full advantage of the latest Mac technologies, giving you speedy, powerful tools that let you touch up and enhance images, draw or paint, apply dazzling effects, or create advanced compositions amazingly simple.
51. Vox Player
Vox for Mac plays more file formats than iTunes, including FLAC, a smaller file that doesn't compromise on quality.
52. Things
Things is a delightful and easy to use task manager. Its the perfect companion for everything you want to achieve in life, offering a great balance between ease of use and powerful features.
53. Tabular
Tabular is a tablature editor that lets you read and write music for guitar, bass, drums and much more. It's the best way to learn new songs, write your own songs and run through practice exercises for nearly any kind of stringed instrument or drum kit.
54. Living Earth
Living Earth is the best and most beautiful world clock and weather app for your Mac. With a single click from your Mac menu bar offering easily accessible world times and weather for millions of cities around the world.
55. Gear Player
Gear Player allows you to easily manage your Google Play Music and YouTube music collection, without the difficulties of a web browser or Flash Player.
56. Geektool
GeekTool is an application for Mac OS 10.6+. It lets you display various kinds of information on your desktop via 3 default plug-ins: File plugin to monitor MacOS X activity with /var/log/system.log, or any file that you want to follow
So these are some of the best mac app which you can try on machine. Also let me know your favourite apps which I forget to mention in this opinion piece.
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