PopClip
“Instant text actions PopClip appears when you select text in any app, giving you instant access to useful actions.” I don't always have PopClip enabled,...
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2024
Arq
“Arq backs up your files. You control your data.” I use Arq for a decade now to backup my data to my otherwise unused OneDrive...
Little Snitch 6.0
“The Little Snitch Network Monitor shows you where your Mac connects to on the Internet. You decide what you want to allow or deny.” I...
Carbon Copy Cloner 7
“Advanced backup and copying for macOS. Take control of your backups.” In addition to time machine backups you either use SuperDuper! or CCC. I am...
Monodraw
“Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac.” If you haven't seen any reason to generate and use ASCII art so far, you should change...
Hookmark
“Search less and focus more. Instantly retrieve relevant information on your Mac or the web. Use links like never before.” Hookmark, for sure, is not...
Menuwhere
“The menu, anywhere” "Menuwhere's one purpose is to pop up the frontmost app's menus at the current mouse location." - that's it and it's very...
Typinator
“Types text for you” I know there are many different text expansion tools for macOS, so feel free to use and prefer a different one....
MacUpdater
“keep all your apps up-to-date effortlessly” MacUpdater is probably not for everyone, but if you have a lot of apps installed on your Mac, especially...
Actions for Obsidian
“The missing link between Obsidian and macOS / iOS: 50+ Shortcuts actions to bring your notes and your automations together. ” AFO lets you automate Obsidian...
Marked 2
“Marked is a previewer for Markdown and other plain text markups. ” Marked 2 is THE markdown preview app. If you were looking for one or...
Chronicling
“An iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and visionOS app to track anything” There are many similar apps, but I like Chronicling particularly because of its very good...
DaisyDisk
“Find it. Clean it. Find out what's taking up your disk space and recover it in the most efficient and easy way.” DaisyDisk visualises your...
CleanShot X
“Capture your Mac's screen like a pro.” CleanShot X is simply the best screenshot utility on macOS. If the build in features are not enough,...
Remind Me Faster
“Quick-entry for Reminders” Remind Me Faster makes it quick and easy to set reminders in Apple's task manager on iOS and iPadOS. Although I often...
Homebrew
“The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux) Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple (or your Linux system) didn't.” Homebrew is not a...
Hazel
“Automated Organization for Your Mac.” Most of the things Hazel does you can do with Keyboard Maestro or folder actions in combination with Apple Script or...
Keyboard Maestro
“Automate applications or web sites, text or images, simple or complex, on command or scheduled. You can automate virtually anything.” Keyboard Maestro is the SAK...
PDF Squeezer 4
“Compressing PDF Files Quickly and Easily” PDF Squeezer is not really cheap (but included in your Setapp subscription) but does one thing exceptional well: Compressing...
Ollama
“Get up and running with large language models. Run Llama 3, Mistral, Gemma, and other models. Customize and create your own.” A very convenient way...
