For me these have entered into my must haves

  • BetterDisplay: For better scaling support for external monitors
  • Rectangle: To be able to use a mouse to drag and snap windows
  • Pixea: To be able to double click an image with a mouse in any folder and then use arrow keys or scroll wheel to proceed to the next file in the folder. Replaced the stock preview with this.

Something I’m looking for now is the ability to use the forward and back buttons on my mouse when I’m in Finder and want to go back to the previous folder I was in. Doesn’t work in Safari either. Works in good old dependable Firefox though.

And separate volume controls for each applications.

  • @iamthatis@lemmy.world
    23•2 years ago

    +1 for Rectangle

    As a developer, the following are musts for me -

    1. VS Code
    2. iTerm2 + oh-my-zsh

    As a general user,

    1. Amphetamine
    2. Hidden Bar
    3. MonitorControl
    4. AdGuard for Safari
    5. CheatSheet to keep track of keyboard shortcuts
    6. IINA, the best video player for Mac
    7. Scroll Reverser to set Mouse and Trackpad scrolling directions reverse of each other
  • @Deemo@bookwormstory.social
    12•2 years ago

    Some of my general programs

    1. Homebrew (https://brew.sh/)
    2. Magnet
    3. Shottr
    4. Velja
    5. Bitwarden
    6. Spark
    7. Firefox Nightly/Chrome
    8. Ferdium
    9. Pdf expert (before the subscription junk happened)/ PDF Studio
    10. Day progress
    11. Horo
    12. Obsidian
    13. Bartender (testing it)
    • @Dankry@lemmy.world
      4•2 years ago

      Horo

      For anyone reading this Horo is a timer for your menu bar. It’s simple but I can’t recommend it enough, I use it so often these days that I don’t know how I ever got by without it.

  • 520
    8•2 years ago

    UTM. The best free VM software that works on all Macs, M1/M2 included. Can even virtualise MacOS instances relatively easily.

      • 520
        3•2 years ago

        Runs like an absolute dream on an M1 - provided you use an ARM64 image. X86 performance is shit.

        • @cianmor@lemmy.world
          1•2 years ago

          How does it run Office and especially MS Teams? I guess you can watch a YouTube video but not really game on that VM?

          • 520
            1•2 years ago

            Depends on your setup. ARM based guest OSes will run them fine performance wise. X86 guest OSes run like dogshit just trying to boot the thing up.

            GPU acceleration is actually a thing but it is very much in beta and has known side effects, especially for Linux.

            It is worth bearing in mind that UTM can’t pass through the Apple laptop webcam and mic like it can with other USB devices. The same is true of all virtualisation software, as MacOS treats these devices very differently to regular USB devices.

    • kratoz29
      6•2 years ago

      As a Mac user it is a bit of a shame that we need to depend on apps like this… Despite this app is awesome lol.

      Sometimes getting rid of certain programs is like getting rid of malware lol.

      • ImaginaryFoxOP
        2•2 years ago

        Does Mac not cleanly uninstall programs? Is this needed for programs installed from the official Mac store too?

        • kratoz29
          7•2 years ago

          I can’t speak for all the programs but I think almost all the programs I have ever used let a lot of undesired files everywhere, in theory moving the app to the thrash bin should be enough, but why let all that crap hanging around there?

          • ImaginaryFoxOP
            1•2 years ago

            Yeah, I do like the option of if I uninstall something to get rid of everything so it is back to the state it was before instead all these random misc and now unneeded files. I did some searches and lot of users were wondering why this functionality isn’t present already.

        • Riven
          4•2 years ago

          Most Mac apps don’t have an uninstaller (or installer) you’re meant to just toss the app in the trash. The problem is this leaves in place your preferences files, any “application support” files it may have downloaded, maybe a cache, etc

          That said, I’ve been migrating the same Library folder from Mac to Mac since around 2003 and have never used an app cleaner. It really isn’t an issue 99% of the time.

          • arquebus_x
            2•2 years ago

            I can imagine a very edge use case for an app cleaner, but for most purposes - 99% of users - there’s really no reason for it. Macs don’t have a Registry. If you remove the application itself, all of its ancillary files in Application Support and elsewhere will just… not do anything. And they won’t interfere. They won’t interact in any way with anything else on your computer. And in most cases, they’re tiny files. There’s functionally no reason to care that they’re still around.

  • Vector
    7•2 years ago

    I like Spectacle for arranging windows on the desktop.

    If you’re a command line user, give iTerm2 a look.

    If you’re a developer or power user, you’ll probably want Homebrew for package management.

    • @Onse@lemmy.ml
      1•2 years ago

      I switched to KiTTY. It has all the functionality I need with little configuration. Also, I feel the speed difference a lot when rendering TUIs like telescope in nvim.

  • Izax
    7•2 years ago

    These are the Mac-exclusive apps I use regularly on my MacBook Pro 14" CotEditor Amazing open source text editor just for Mac BetterSnapTool for snapping windows (old school I know) Image2icon is useful for making my dock icons consistent TopNotch because the notch is annoying TG Pro because Macs get hot Keka because sometimes you run across a RAR or 7z file

    These are just Mac apps, but I also use a bunch of cross-platform apps

    • ImaginaryFoxOP
      2•2 years ago

      CotEditor looks kind of like Notepad++ which I love for when I just want a simple text editor that is a little more functional that the default text editor without launching visual studio code. Thanks for the recommendations.

  • @woofbark@lemmy.world
    4•2 years ago

    Maccy - clipboard app Alfred - launcher Iterm2 - terminal Firefox BettertouchTool - touchpad gestures Hidden bar - hide menu bar icons Itsycal - menubar calendar IINA - gui for mpv video player Keka - extract archives Espanso - text replacement

  • Skullvalanche
    3•2 years ago

    BetterTouchTool (which isn’t free but is worth every penny) lets you do everything rectangle does. Also lets you configure your mouse buttons to do whatever you want. Also infinite custom hot keys and shortcuts.

    Also Raycast as a replacement for Spotlight.

    • @abhibeckert@lemmy.world
      2•2 years ago

      Raycast has replaced BetterTouchTool for me. I own a license for BTT, have it installed, but it’s never running anymore.