Useful Apps for macOS
- Importance:
- 5/5: macOS is unusable without it
- ...
- 1/5: very good tool, but for specific purposes - you can also live without it
| App | Description | brew |
Importance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amphetamine | Caffeine with better UI; Keep Display awake | 5/5 | |
| iina | macOS Optimized media player for various types | --cask iina |
3/5 |
| HotKey | Manage Hotkeys like opening Terminal with CMD+T |
5/5 | |
| Rectangle Pro | Better Window Management | 2/5 | |
| AlDente | Better Battery Management / Safety | 5/5 | |
| AppCleaner | Uninstall Apps with storage directories | 1/5 | |
| The Unarchiver | Manage more compression types like rar, tar.xz or 7z |
--cask the-unarchiver |
5/5 |
| SwiftQuit | Auto Exit when closing last window of application | --cask swift-quit |
5/5 |
| MissionControl plus | Exit Apps in Mission Control | 1/5 | |
| Flameshot | Better Screenshot Tool | --cask flameshot |
5/5 |
| iTerm2 | Better Terminal | --cask iterm2 |
3/5 |
| UTM | Efficient VM using QEMU | --cask utm |
1/5 |
| Hidden Bar | Keep Icons in Topbar clean / hidden | --cask hiddenbar |
1/5 |
Important Hotkeys
- Flameshot:
CMD+Shift+Xmake screenshot with rectangle selectionCMD+C[In App] copy screenshot to clipboardCMD+S[In App] Save screenshot