awesome-macos-apps
github.com/eyalben/awesome-macos-apps ↗Curated list of recommended macOS apps
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Installation instructions →What's inside
Design
- Affinity Designer
Adobe Illustrator alternative - One time payment
- Affinity Photo
Adobe Photoshop alternative - One time payment
- ColorSlurp
Mac color picker from anywhere on the screen
- Excalidraw
Instantly create amazing diagrams
- Figma
Web design
Utilities
- Amphetamine
Prevents your mac from sleeping
- App Cleaner
The missing uninstaller for mac
- Cyberduck
FTP/SFTP Client
- Handy
Voice to Text using local models
- Hidden Bar
Hide menu bar items
- MonitorControl
Control external monitor brightness
Shell
Dev
- GitHub Desktop
Git client app for GitHub
- Insomnia
REST API Client
- Proxyman
Packet sniffer with builtin SSL Proxy
- Tailscale
Create a VPN between your computers and phones, zero config, serverless.
- Visual Studio Code
IDE, The modern Emacs compromise 🙈
Showing a sample of 31 resources. View the full list on GitHub →