Your best recommendations for apps, which are not broadly known.

Mac Mac Tools Productivity

sindresorhus.com Velja Landing Page

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sindresorhus.com Velja

NOTE: sindresorhus.com Velja has been discontinued.

Open links in a specific browser or a matching native app. Easily switch between browsers.

OpenIn is a pretty solid app. I’m not sure why people downvoted you. Velja is a nice free alternative.

#Project Management #Website Testing #Webapp Testing 4 social mentions
OpenIn Landing Page

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OpenIn

macOS native application for smart link handling

#Project Management #Website Testing #Webapp Testing 8 social mentions
SpacesforMac.xyz Landing Page
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SpacesforMac.xyz

Declutter your workspace and organize it in 1-click
Pricing:
- Paid
- $9.0 / One-off
#Mac #Productivity #Window Manager 5 social mentions
Calendar 366 II Landing Page

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Calendar 366 II

The most complete and powerful menu bar calendar for macOS.

#Calendar #Calendar And Scheduling #Email Clients 4 social mentions
Shottr Landing Page

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Shottr

Shottr is a free macOS screenshot app with scrolling screenshots, OCR, annotation and measurement instruments.

Lately I'm using https://shottr.cc/ a lot. It's so easy to use and lightweight, I cannot recommend it enough.

#Design Tools #Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots 68 social mentions
MacMenuBar Landing Page

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MMB

MacMenuBar

A curated directory of 200+ Mac menu bar apps

#Productivity #Marketing #CRM 15 social mentions
LinearMouse Landing Page
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LinearMouse

LinearMouse is a free and open-source utility for macOS which aims to improve the experience and functionality of third-party mice.
Pricing:
- Open Source
LinearMouse - Automatically sets scrolling behaviour for different input devices. For example, you can have different scroll directions for a trackpad and for a Bluetooth mouse when it connects.

#Note Taking #Automation #Game Reviews 53 social mentions
Multipass Landing Page
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Multipass

Multipass provides a command line interface to launch, manage and generally fiddle about with instances of Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Lima and Multipass are little-known options for creating, managing and running console-only Linux virtual machines.

#Cloud Computing #Group Chat & Notifications #Virtualization Platform 86 social mentions
Mac Mouse Fix Landing Page

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Mac Mouse Fix

A simple way to make your 3rd party mouse better.

Mac Mouse Fix lets you enhance the function of the extra buttons on generic Windows mice. There are other options, but I chose this one for reasons I no longer remember.

#Automation #Mac Tools #Note Taking 84 social mentions
Maccy Landing Page
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Maccy

Lightweight open-source clipboard manager for macOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
Https://maccy.app is my favored Clipboard manager.

#Clipboard Manager #Mac #Productivity 49 social mentions
Tiles Landing Page

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Tiles

Tiles is a window manager which allows you to easily reorganize windows by either dragging them to the edges of the screen, using keyboard shortcuts, or the menu bar.

Tiles is a free Window Manager that I think has a better "feel" than the frequently recommended Rectangle when snapping windows to the edges/corners of the display.

#Window Manager #OSX Tools #OSX Window Manager 19 social mentions
Optimage Landing Page

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Optimage

Advanced image optimization tool

Optimage is a batch image compression/resize app that I use to standardise images sent to me by clients for their website.

#Image Optimisation #Image Editing #Image Effects 5 social mentions
AppCleaner Landing Page

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AppCleaner

AppCleaner is a small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps. Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily.

For the uninstaller portion of it, how does it compare to AppCleaner?

#Monitoring Tools #CRM #Utilities 303 social mentions
TailScale Landing Page
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TailScale

Private networks made easy Connect all your devices using WireGuard, without the hassle. Tailscale makes it as easy as installing an app and signing in.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Tailscale: One-click and creates an internal network. URL: https://tailscale.com/.

#Security & Privacy #VPN #Cloud VPN 503 social mentions
PDF Expert Landing Page

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PDF Expert

Download a free trial of PDF Expert - the best PDF software for your Mac. Enjoy advanced reading layouts, powerful PDF editing and classical annotation tools.

PDF Expert: Super tool for create and edit PDF files, really love it. URL: https://pdfexpert.com/.

#PDF Tools #PDF Editor #PDF Creator 25 social mentions
Charmstone Landing Page

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Charmstone

The quicker switcher launcher for macOS

#iPhone #Mac #Productivity 10 social mentions
Moom Landing Page

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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).

Moom by Many Tricks. I have to have a lot of thesame windows opened and positioned in the same spot for productivity. With one click, able to position 10+ windows in the place I need them to be. Saves tons of time.

#Window Manager #OSX Tools #OSX Window Manager 65 social mentions
Skim Landing Page

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Skim

Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X.

#PDF Tools #PDF Editor #PDF Readers And Editors 29 social mentions
WebCatalog Landing Page

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WebCatalog

Run your favorite web apps natively

#Mac #Mac Tools #Group Chat & Notifications 12 social mentions
Unclutter Landing Page

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Unclutter

Unclutter is an app that is designed to help Mac users bring order to their desktop. Among other features, this powerful piece of software provides quick access to a user's notepad and clipboard.

Unclutter for short notes, activated by moving the cursor to the top of the screen.

#Clipboard Manager #Mac #Bookmarks 10 social mentions
Popclip Landing Page

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Popclip

PopClip appears when you select text with your mouse on your Mac.

Popclip for frequently repeated small actions especially on text.

#Mac #Clipboard Manager #Mac Tools 30 social mentions
OwlOCR Landing Page

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OwlOCR

OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text.

#Mac #Productivity #OCR 4 social mentions
One Switch Landing Page

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One Switch

All your mac toggles in one place

One switch for various actions e.g prevent Mac from sleeping, connect bluetooth speakers etc.

#Mac #Productivity #Mac Tools 10 social mentions
Dropover Landing Page

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Dropover

Mac app for easier drag & drop

#Mac #Productivity #Clipboard Manager 14 social mentions
Rectangle Landing Page
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Rectangle

Window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Rectangle - Windows 10/11 style window resizing.

#Mac Tools #Window Manager #Developer Tools 447 social mentions
Rocket Landing Page

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Rocket

Web Framework for Rust

Rocket - You can search emojis with your specified prefix. Have setup mine so that its like discord, type :smile: for 😄 or choose from the dropdown.

#Developer Tools #Web Frameworks #PHP Framework 25 social mentions
espanso Landing Page
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espanso

An Open Source, Cross-platform Text Expander on steroids
Pricing:
- Open Source
Expanso - A text expander on crack. If you know how to edit a text file, you will be able to make little macros like :date:, {{date}} or /date for the current date. It has shell integration and addons too.

#Writing Tools #Personal Productivity #Automation 96 social mentions
Pure Paste Landing Page

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Pure Paste

Paste as plain text by default.

You may also like my similar app Pure Paste. It handles more edge-cases, keyboard shortcuts, exclude certain apps, and it has a bonus feature to remove tracking parameters from URLs.

#Mac #Productivity #Menu Bar Apps 6 social mentions