OS X Apps I use

NOTE: install any of the apps here at your own risk.

Key

⭐️

Essential app

😴

Install only if needed

💀

Obsolete or discontinued

Alfred ⭐️

Command launcher. Even though very often it's nothing more than a proxy around Spotlight, I feel naked when working on a machine that doesn't have it. I sync the settings with Dropbox

App Cleaner

When I need to download apps like this to remove standard OS X apps I don't want (looking at you, "News") is when I realise I shuld really move to Linux...

Anki ⭐️

I am a big fan of Flashcards both for keeping my tech know-how up to date and to practice languages and other things. Sadly the latest desktop upgrade screws up all my custom cards, haven't upgraded for a while

Joplin

I almost completely migrated out of Evernote. Almost

Calibre ⭐️

calibre is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager. Users say it’s outstanding and a must-have. It’ll allow you to do nearly everything and it takes things a step beyond normal e-book software. It’s also completely free and open source and great for both casual users and computer experts

DBeaver

A SQL client for all databases

Docker

Package Software into Standardized Units for Development, Shipment and Deployment

Dropbox ⭐️

Essential, if nothing else because I share Alfred settings with it

Firefox

It's no longer my main browser since they messed up the signing certificate expiry some time ago, but it still has some useful tools

Gimp ⭐️

These days Gimp got simpler. Even my mum uses it for image processing

Google Drive ⭐️

Useful to share all sort of stuff you don't mind Google to read

Handbrake

The best for video transcoder for Macs, comes with a CLI version as well

Homebrew ⭐️

If you use a Mac and you do something even remotely technical you need Homebrew, simple as that

MacX DVD Ripper Pro

DVD cost more money than they are worth and if they get scratched they become useless. I use this app to make backups

MalwareBytes ⭐️

Malware protection app

NameChanger

Batch file-renaming app. I know there are CLI utils for achieving the same, but I haven't got around researching them, and I am used to this

OmniDiskSweeper ⭐️

A utility to quickly find large files and get rid of them. You'd think it should be easy to do from Finder, but this is much more convenient

OnyX ⭐️

An all-in-one system maintenance tool and optimizer. Another essential app

Bruno

A dev tool for http requests. Replaces postman

Thunderbird ⭐️

Free App that gets the job done

TinkerTool ⭐️

An application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.

Visual Studio Code ⭐️

The best free code editor out there

Virus Barrier ⭐️

My Virus barrier of choice, from Intego

VLC ⭐️

THE Open Source video player