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Mac Software

  • Automa

    Automate browser tasks

  • Gifski

    Convert videos to high-quality GIFs on your Mac. This macOS app uses advanced techniques to create smooth, colorful GIF animations with thousands of colors per frame. Features include customizable dimensions, speed, frame rate, quality settings, bounce (yo-yo) playback, and support for all video formats that macOS supports. Available on the App Store and includes share extension and system service integration.

  • i18n studio

    A GPT4-powered developer tool for multilingual management and localization translation

  • KeyCastr

    An open-source keystroke visualizer for macOS that displays your keystrokes during screencasts, presentations, or collaborations. It can show command keys, modified keys, or all keystrokes, and includes an option to display mouse clicks. Installation available via Homebrew:

  • PicSharp

    A modern, full-featured, high-performance, cross-platform image compression application. Built with Tauri (Rust + TypeScript), it offers both offline compression and TinyPNG integration. Features include batch processing, format conversion, clipboard support, Finder Services menu (Mac), automatic compression mode, and rich configuration options. Supports PNG, JPEG, WebP, AVIF, TIFF, GIF, and SVG formats.

Resource Directories

  • Awesome Mac

    A comprehensive curated list of awesome macOS software organized into various categories. Features text editors, office tools, developer utilities, design tools, productivity apps, and more. Each entry includes detailed descriptions, licensing information, and direct links to help you discover the best Mac applications for your needs.

  • OpenAlternative

    A curated collection of open-source alternatives to popular proprietary software. Helps users find high-quality open-source tools organized by categories, with detailed information about stars, forks, and recent activity.

  • Product Hunt Daily

    Daily updates on trending products from Product Hunt. Discover the hottest new products, tools, and innovations with detailed descriptions, voting data, and launch information. Perfect for staying updated with the latest tech trends and product launches.

AI Related

  • BrowserTools

    A powerful tool that embeds AI code editors and agents directly into your web browser. It enables AI assistants to monitor console logs, network requests, take screenshots, interact with DOM elements, and run performance audits. Features include debugger mode for bug fixing, audit mode for comprehensive web app analysis, and seamless integration with MCP-enabled editors like Cursor.

  • Browser Use

    A tool that makes websites accessible for AI agents by extracting interactive elements. Features include vision + HTML extraction, multi-tab management, element tracking, and support for various LLMs including GPT-4, Claude 3, and Llama 2. Available as both open-source and cloud versions.

  • Bylo

    Free text-to-image generation website, can generate images in various styles through text descriptions

  • ChatGPT

    A large language model developed by OpenAI, can be used for conversation, writing, programming, and many other scenarios, currently one of the most popular AI assistants

  • Color-diffusion

    An open-source Python program that uses Diffusion model to colorize black and white photos

  • DeepWiki

    A tool that provides up-to-date documentation you can talk to for every GitHub repository. Think of it as Deep Research for GitHub, allowing you to understand and explore any repository through natural conversation.

Monitoring Tools

  • changedetection.io

    The best and simplest open-source tool for monitoring websites for changes. Features include customizable notifications (Discord, Email, Slack, etc.), visual selector tool, JSON/API monitoring, proxy support, and scheduled monitoring. Perfect for tracking price changes, restocks, PDF updates, and website modifications.

Frontend Development

  • Chrome DevTools

    Web developer tools built directly into the Google Chrome browser

  • ChromeDriver

    An open source tool for automated testing of web apps across many browsers

  • Chrome UX Report

    Discover how real-world Chrome users experience popular destinations on the web

  • Dashed Border Generator

    When designers feel that the native border-dashed spacing no longer meets their needs, this tool can be used to generate custom dashed borders

  • Excalidraw

    A free and open-source virtual whiteboard for creating hand-drawn-style diagrams, wireframes, and more. Features infinite canvas, real-time collaboration with end-to-end encryption, and various drawing tools. Perfect for UI/UX wireframing, brainstorming, and collaborative design sessions.

  • GSAP

    Professional-grade JavaScript animation library that lets you animate anything JS can touch. Features silky-smooth performance and comprehensive tools for UI, SVG, text and scroll-based animations

Screenshot Tools

  • CleanShot

    Premium Mac screenshot and screen recording tool with advanced features. Includes smart annotations, scrolling screenshots, screen recording with audio, cloud storage integration, and beautiful interface. Perfect for designers, developers, and content creators who need professional-quality screenshots and recordings.

  • Launch Shots

    The most versatile screenshot editor for creating stunning, professional visuals for your app listings in seconds. Features hundreds of professionally designed templates (original & community), powerful layer management, shadows, backgrounds, device frames, AI localization (100+ languages), high-quality exports for App Store and Play Store, dedicated apps page, and weekly template updates. Free to use with 3 credits per month, all features included.

  • Website Screenshot Online

    Free online tool to capture website screenshots and record scrolling videos. Features full-page screenshots up to 20,000 pixels, multiple output formats (PNG, JPEG, PDF), device simulation, automatic cookie popup handling, ad blocking, and privacy-first approach with no data storage.

Development Related

  • Datasette

    A tool for exploring and publishing data that helps people take data of any shape, analyze and explore it, and publish it as an interactive website and accompanying API. Aimed at data journalists, researchers, scientists, and anyone who wants to share structured data. Features include exploratory data analysis, instant data publishing, rapid prototyping with JSON APIs, and a rich ecosystem of 44 tools and 154 plugins.

Editors

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