With 2022 over soon, what were your favorites apps of the year?

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Obsidian.md Landing Page

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Obsidian.md

A second brain, for you, forever. Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

🫴 Obsidian - Good for organising notes, text, etc. Can also be synced for free by storing your vault in iCloud.

#Knowledge Management #Knowledge Base #Markdown Editor 1501 social mentions
ImageOptim Landing Page
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ImageOptim

Faster web pages and apps.
Pricing:
- Open Source
🫴 ImageOptim – Shrink image file size without losing quality. It's not a new app, but I used it more this year and really appreciate how good it is.

#Image Optimisation #Image Editing #Image Effects 54 social mentions
BTT Remote Landing Page

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BTT

BTT Remote

A remote control for you Mac, using your iPhone or iPad

💵 Affinity suite used for graphic design every week. 🫴/💵 Alfred 5, used constantly 🫴 BetterTouchTool, also used constantly 🫴 Blender 3D CG Software 🫴 Davinci Resolve, though I finally shifted to the studio version 💵 🫴 DiffusionBee - Stable Diffusion for offline AI Image generation 🫴 Ferdium - To group all my messenger apps into one. 💵 Gigapixel and Denoise AI.

#Window Manager #Mac Tools #OSX Tools 186 social mentions
Ferdium Landing Page
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Ferdium

Introducing a great productivity tool to keep all messaging, productivity, and online services in one place
Pricing:
- Open Source
💵 Affinity suite used for graphic design every week. 🫴/💵 Alfred 5, used constantly 🫴 BetterTouchTool, also used constantly 🫴 Blender 3D CG Software 🫴 Davinci Resolve, though I finally shifted to the studio version 💵 🫴 DiffusionBee - Stable Diffusion for offline AI Image generation 🫴 Ferdium - To group all my messenger apps into one. 💵 Gigapixel and Denoise AI.

#Messaging #Group Chat & Notifications #Productivity 26 social mentions
Google Translate Landing Page

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Google Translate

Google's free service instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages.

🫴 Simple Comic free and open source - a reader for Graphic Novels, but it will also open image pdfs or a directory of images. It uses Apple's Vision Framework so you can use the mouse to select text in .pngs, .jpgs, and it has a Find command to make it all searchable. Once you've got the text, you can use the built-in Text-To-Speech to have it read to you, do a Google search, or paste it into translate.google.com to get it translated into a more comfortable language.

#Languages #Translation Service #Language Translation 511 social mentions
Dropover Landing Page

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Dropover

Mac app for easier drag & drop

Dropover for awesome file management.

#Mac #File Management #Productivity 15 social mentions
YACReader Landing Page
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YACReader

Download YACReader for your platform. Windows, Linux, MacOSX. And enjoy you comic books cbr cbz with the best comic reader.
Pricing:
- Open Source
YACReader is my favourite comic reader with YACserver to organize all comics. Https://yacreader.com/.

#Books #Bookmark Manager #eBook Reader 5 social mentions
Starship (Shell Prompt) Landing Page
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Starship (Shell Prompt)

Starship is the minimal, blazing fast, and extremely customizable prompt for any shell! Shows the information you need, while staying sleek and minimal. Quick installation available for Bash, Fish, ZSH, Ion, and Powershell.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Productivity #Programming 197 social mentions
Restic Landing Page
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Restic

Easy: Doing backups should be a frictionless process, otherwise you are tempted to skip it.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Backup #Backup Automation #Online Backup 189 social mentions
Kagi Landing Page
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Kagi

Kagi is a privacy-focused, user-centric search engine. Great search experience starts with Kagi!
Pricing:
- Open Source
🔁 Kagi – Search engine optimized for humans, not corporations.

#Search Engine #Security & Privacy #Privacy Search Engine 127 social mentions
fd Landing Page
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fd

A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'.
Pricing:
- Open Source
🫴 fd – CLI: Simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.

#Productivity #AI #Terminal Tools 126 social mentions
Bat Landing Page

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Bat

A cat(1) clone with wings.

🫴 bat – CLI: Clone of cat with syntax highlighting and Git integration.

#Productivity #AI #Terminal Tools 111 social mentions
fzf Landing Page
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fzf

A command-line fuzzy finder written in Go
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Productivity #AI #Marketing 231 social mentions
MailMate Landing Page

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MailMate

MailMate is an alternative email client that was designed for the macOS.

💵 MailMate – Email client for power users that uses Markdown to compose messages.

#Email #Email Clients #Calendar 26 social mentions
Affinity Photo Landing Page

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Affinity Photo

Affinity is the imaging and design suite for creative professionals exclusively for Mac.

💵 Affinity Photo - The whole Affinity suite is fantastic value, but I only use their Photoshop alternative (v1, not the new one). I'd LOVE a Lightroom replacement to match.

#Photos & Graphics #Photo Editing #Image Editing 34 social mentions