Super Awesome Mac

A curated collection of tools to get the most out of you Mac

For a non-curated list please refer to the more general : Awesome Mac

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Browser

• Orion Privacy first WebKit based browser, blazing fast and non-battery hungry
• Arc "the Chrome replacement I’ve been waiting for"

Battery

• Aldente Help prolong the battery life of your Mac by limiting charge to 70% and alarming about when too hot

File Management

• Commander One commander-like file manager

Email

• Mimestream Native Gmail client for MacOS

Display

• MonitorControl Easily control the brightness of external Displays

Memory/Files/App cleanup

• Pearcleaner free mac app cleaner inspired by Freemacsoft's AppCleaner

Terminal / Terminal tools

• Brew Package manager for Mac
• Warp (new) or Fig.io
• rg like ack but faster brew install rg
• jq pretty print json for the terminal brew install jq
• TLDR like man but with the most commonly used examples brew install tldr
• mac-cli Control your mac from the terminal
• fzf fuzzy finder for the terminal
• exa ls but better, with colors
• bat better than cat
• fd a better alternative to find
• z jump around most used folders! brew install z

Utils

• Cheatsheet Show keyboard shortcuts on every app
• Amphetamine Prevent Mac from sleeping
• Notunes Avoid auto-launching Itunes
• Rocket Slack shortcuts for emojis everywhere
• Lulu Firewall for Mac Os

Monitoring

• Stats Monitor all your hardware from the Menu bar

Audio/Video tools

• Shottr for screenshots (amazing and free)
• OBS for screen recording / streaming
• Screen Studio Paid alternative to OBS for fancy looking screen recordings
• BlackHole to record audio coming from the mac, see tutorial
• EqMac for audio equalizing
• Giphy Quick GIF screen record

Note taking

• Bear Notes as Markdown
• Simple Mind Mind maps
• Nebo Favorite Ipad note taking app, great with stylus pencil (one time payment of 10 euros)

P2P

• Transmission BT client

Burn ISO images

• Etcher

Unlock hidden configuration

• Onyx hidden features/configuration toggle
• Tinkertool hidden features/configuration toggle

Desktop management apps

• AltTab Cmd+Tab, supercharged brew install --cask alt-tab
• Raycast Spotlight on steroids
• Rectangle Window management done properly
• Easy-Move-Resize Use hot key to move windows around, Linux style
• Hidden Bar Hide less used apps on the menu bar
• Bartender 4 Paid alternative to Hidden Bar (more features compared to Hidden Bar)
• CopyClip for Clipboard management (but currently I prefer to use the embedded clipboard manager in Raycast)

Developer tools

• devutils A must have for developers.
• VSCODE with CodeSandbox Theme (dark)
• DockerDesktop
• nvm
• npm-check
• firebasetools
• Node Desktop Manager UI for NPM

Favorite VSCODE Extensions

• Auto Import
• Auto Rename Tag
• Code spell Checker
• Compare folders
• Console Ninja
• Diff
• DotENV
• env-cmd-file-syntax
• ES7+React/Redux/React-Native snippets
• ESLint
• Git HIstory Diff
• Import Cost
• Local History
• npm intellisense
• Prettier
• Tailwind CSS IntelliSense
• TODO Highlight
• Turbo Console Log
• Universum Theme
• VS Code Counter
• vscode-icons