Good open-source alternatives to essential paid Mac apps

Project Management Disk Analyzer Website Testing

GrandPerspective Landing Page

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GrandPerspective

GrandPerspective is a small utility application for Mac that graphically shows the disk usage...

GrandPerspective (http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net) is an open-source alternative to DaisyDisk (https://daisydiskapp.com). Purpose: Tree-style visualization of which files take up which space on a specified drive. The one-step solution to every “why does my mac say ‘Other’ is taking up 70 gigabytes” post.

#Disk Analyzer #Hard Disk Usage #OS & Utilities 117 social mentions
DaisyDisk Landing Page
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DaisyDisk

DaisyDisk is a disk analyzer tool for OS X that visualizes hard disk usage and allows to free up hard disk space.
Pricing:
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $9.99 / One-off
GrandPerspective (http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net) is an open-source alternative to DaisyDisk (https://daisydiskapp.com). Purpose: Tree-style visualization of which files take up which space on a specified drive. The one-step solution to every “why does my mac say ‘Other’ is taking up 70 gigabytes” post.

#Disk Analyzer #Hard Disk Usage #Hard Drive Tools 113 social mentions
AlternativeTo Landing Page

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AlternativeTo

AlternativeTo lets you find apps and software for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android, Android Tablets, Web Apps, Online, Windows Tablets and more by recommending alternatives to apps you already know.

Can we get a thread like this going? I frequently check https://alternativeto.net for this exact purpose, but most of the time I return empty-handed, only to randomly stumble upon exactly the software I was looking for a few months later.

#Software Marketplace #Software Recommendations #Software Alternatives 423 social mentions
Hidden Bar Landing Page

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Hidden Bar

A ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons.

#Productivity #Trademark Registration #Tool 28 social mentions
CotEditor Landing Page
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CotEditor

Open Source Plain-Text Editor for OS X
Pricing:
- Open Source
Coteditor is a lightweight text/code editor with support for "50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown".

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 25 social mentions
Finicky Landing Page

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Finicky

A MacOS app for creating rules that decide which browser is opened for every link that would open...

I found Finicky to be a good (foss) alternative to Choosy if you don't mind writing a bit of json over using a nice GUI.

#Project Management #Website Testing #Webapp Testing 21 social mentions
Choosy Landing Page

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Choosy

Choosy opens links in different browsers as specified, according to rules, set by the user.

I found Finicky to be a good (foss) alternative to Choosy if you don't mind writing a bit of json over using a nice GUI.

#Project Management #Website Testing #Webapp Testing 1 social mentions
espanso Landing Page
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espanso

An Open Source, Cross-platform Text Expander on steroids
Pricing:
- Open Source
Espanso is a nice text expander that let's you write sentences and whatnot with just a few characters. Worth checking it out.

#Writing Tools #Personal Productivity #Automation 96 social mentions
Stats Landing Page
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Stats

Simple macOS system monitor in your menu bar.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Mac Tools #Device Management 94 social mentions
MPV Landing Page
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MPV

MPV is an audio and movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I was worried as someone who would never ever pay for stuff like this (especially not subscriptions) that the situation was gonna be a lot worse than what it is on macOS, but I've been able to find free and open source versions of everything I've tried to find so far, which is nice. Shoutouts to https://iina.io, really good video player based on mpv.

#Audio Player #Media Player #Video Player 227 social mentions