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Just got a Mac, what are some of your must-have apps and software to have on it?

This page summarizes and extends the software alternatives mentioned in the source post on Reddit.
2022-08-11

Rectangle MeetingBar ColorSlurp Phoenix Magnet Window Manager Moom Sequel Ace Kitty terminal
Window Manager OSX Tools Mac Tools
  1. Rectangle Landing Page
    Rectangle Landing Page
    1

    Rectangle

    Window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Mac Tools #Window Manager #Developer Tools 447 social mentions

  2. MeetingBar Landing Page
    MeetingBar Landing Page
    2

    MeetingBar

    MeetingBar is a menu bar app for your calendar meetings.
    Haven’t seen them mentioned yet but ColorSlurp is a slick colour picker and MeetingBar is an awesome meeting reminder tool that lives in your menu bar and gives you a quick prompt to join a Zoom/Teams/whatever meeting.

    #Calendar #Email Clients #Productivity 5 social mentions

  3. ColorSlurp Landing Page
    ColorSlurp Landing Page
    3

    ColorSlurp

    Pick, edit, save, and copy colors. The best color picker in the universe!
    Haven’t seen them mentioned yet but ColorSlurp is a slick colour picker and MeetingBar is an awesome meeting reminder tool that lives in your menu bar and gives you a quick prompt to join a Zoom/Teams/whatever meeting.

    #Color Tools #Color Picker #Design Tools 10 social mentions

  4. Phoenix Landing Page
    Phoenix Landing Page
    4

    Phoenix

    Brief Description of Phoenix software: Phoenix is a light platform that acts as a macOS and windows application manager and is scriptable with JavaScript. Read more about Phoenix.
    I like Phoenix, since you can program it exactly to your needs in any flavor of JavaScript.

    #Window Manager #OSX Tools #Linux 10 social mentions

  5. Magnet Window Manager Landing Page
    Magnet Window Manager Landing Page
    5

    Magnet Window Manager

    Magnet Developers

    #Window Manager #OSX Tools #OSX Window Manager 68 social mentions

  6. Moom Landing Page
    Moom Landing Page
    6

    Moom

    Move your mouse over the green zoom button in any window, and Moom's mouse control overlay will appear (as seen in the above animation).
    I used magnet, but switched to moom when I discovered that.

    #Window Manager #OSX Tools #OSX Window Manager 65 social mentions

  7. Sequel Ace Landing Page
    Sequel Ace Landing Page
    7

    Sequel Ace

    Sequel Ace is the "sequel" to longtime macOS tool Sequel Pro. Sequel Ace is a fast, easy-to-use Mac database management application for working with MySQL & MariaDB databases.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Database Management #Databases #MySQL Tools 8 social mentions

  8. Kitty terminal Landing Page
    Kitty terminal Landing Page
    8

    Kitty terminal

    Super fast, GPU and OpenGL based terminal emulator with tiling support
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    After 7 years of iTerm I’ve started using kitty: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ It uses the GPU instead of CPU. Works fine for me personally.

    #SSH #Terminal Tools #Server Management 88 social mentions

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