What are your favorite apps?

[VitoBotta]

I am curious if there are some nice apps out there that I haven't heard of / tried yet.

 

[400]

I love "Find any File" "Etre Check" and "Affinity Photo", quite a few more but rebuilding the apps after a reset. "DxOptics Pro" pluggin for Photos is also excellent. I liked the DxO program as well but settled on Affinity Photo. "Raw Power" by Gentlemen Coders is also superb and works well with Photos but also in the mix for photos, Canon Professional (if you as Canon user). And "Cookie" for managing, well, cookies.

 

[VitoBotta]

I love "Find any File" "Etre Check" and "Affinity Photo", quite a few more but rebuilding the apps after a reset. "DxOptics Pro" pluggin for Photos is also excellent. I liked the DxO program as well but settled on Affinity Photo. "Raw Power" by Gentlemen Coders is also superb and works well with Photos but also in the mix for photos, Canon Professional (if you as Canon user). And "Cookie" for managing, well, cookies.

How does Affinity Photo compare to Pixelmator Pro (which I have)?

 

[fivenotrump]

in no particular order: Pixelmator Pro, BBEdit, NetNewsWire, Wireshark, Signal

 

[Minimuz]

Bear for Notes, Spark for emails, AdGuard to block ads, Rectangle as window management tool for big screens, Brave or Edge browser as Chrome alternatives, Telegram instead of WhatsApp, 1Password to manage passwords, Bartender.

For work:
Sublime Text/Merge, iTerm2, VS Code

 

[400]

How does Affinity Photo compare to Pixelmator Pro (which I have)?

Couldn't say. I probably looked at it some years ago (along with many others) before I settled on Affinity and stopped using whatever version of Photoshop Essentials was around at that time. But why I dismissed it I cannot remember. Might be worth another look at it at some point but settled in with Affinity.


Usual stuff for me is RAW pics and just tweaking them, panorama's, and so on. I skim the surface on what it can do.

Though the Affinity app on the m1 iPad with a pen is a joy to use and I find it easier to get all layers etc. with the iPad.

 

[MisterSavage]

Apollo, Bitwarden, Scanner Pro, Signal, Kayak

 

[Lioness~]

DayOne, 1Password, Things, iStat Menus, Translate Tab, Bartender, TextExpander

 

[TinyMito]

• 1Password
• Adguard for Safari
• Affinity Photo
• Affinity Design
• Affinity Publisher
• Discord M1 (Apple Silicon version)
• App Cleaner & Uninstaller PRO (by nektony)
• Parcel
• TG Pro
• Blender
• Movist Pro
• Capture One
• DaVinci Resolve

 

[VitoBotta]

what? discord m1? I didn't know they released it! going to download it right away

 

[VitoBotta]

• Discord M1 (Apple Silicon version)

I can't find it. Where can I download it? Thanks

 

[TinyMito]

I can't find it. Where can I download it? Thanks

Info: https://github.com/yannhodiesne/Discord-M1

Download: https://github.com/yannhodiesne/Discord-M1/releases

 

[VitoBotta]

Info: https://github.com/yannhodiesne/Discord-M1

Download: https://github.com/yannhodiesne/Discord-M1/releases

Thanks!

 

[kyriedan]

• Chrome for web browsing (with useful extensions)
• Microsoft Office for documentation
• Skye for instant messaging
• Sketch for graphics

 

[Traverse]

My favorite third party apps are:

1. Ulysses - for writing
2. Reeder - RSS feed manager
3. Pixelmator Pro - image editor more akin to Photoshop rather than a photo manager like Photos.app
4. Plex - media manager and server

My favorite third party utilities are:

1. 1Password - password manager
2. Bartender - manage menubar applications/icons
3. Better Touch Tool - customize gestures for Magic Mouse/Trackpad
4. Backblaze - online backup
5. Amphetamine - customizable manager for computer sleep
6. iState Menus - Lets you see all kinds of info about system (temperature, RAM usage, fan speed, etc.)
7. Meta - app for managing meta data tags of media files such as music.