MacGesture vs Boop

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MacGesture		Boop
	Project
3	Mentions	16
797	Stars	3,627
0.8%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	1.4
11 months ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
Objective-C	Language	JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

MacGesture

Posts with mentions or reviews of MacGesture. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-31.

Mac switching desktops with Kensington Expert Mouse
1 project | /r/Trackballs | 10 Jun 2023

I just found this opensource app MacGesture
Long time iOS user, first time trying a Mac! Any tips and tricks/must know about?
8 projects | /r/mac | 31 Jan 2023

MacGesture for mouses as well—pretty convenient for browsing the web, for instance; you can set gestures for going forward/backward, closing a tab, opening a tab, etc.
Lesser Known App Recommendations
7 projects | /r/macapps | 25 Mar 2021

MacGestures — mouse gestures, in Safari and system-wide.

Boop

Posts with mentions or reviews of Boop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-29.

DevToys–A Swiss army knife for developers
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Aug 2023

There's also Boop, which is open source: https://github.com/IvanMathy/Boop
Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
149 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2023

I've been using Boop, it's pretty good for, json, yaml, datetimes, hashing etc! Missing a lot of what you've mentioned, but might be able to get some more ideas from it!
https://github.com/IvanMathy/Boop
Tutorial Mac OS
6 projects | /r/SwiftUI | 2 Mar 2023
My list of Setapp apps alternatives
8 projects | /r/macapps | 24 Oct 2022

Another alternative to DevUtils would be Boop. Or CyberChef, for that matter (web, but available for local and selfhosted installation).
Recommendation for Software Engineer/Developer and Software architect apps?
15 projects | /r/macapps | 22 Apr 2022

in addition to what's already mentioned, https://github.com/IvanMathy/Boop to convert and format things instead of googling for a converter every time
Boop, a Scriptable Scratchpad for Developers
2 projects | /r/programmingtools | 11 Feb 2022

1 project | /r/programming | 11 Feb 2022
DevToys For mac
4 projects | /r/MacOS | 9 Feb 2022

Also, Boop.
What are some good open-source Mac apps you can't live without?
25 projects | /r/macapps | 1 Feb 2022

Boop: Collection of utilities/extensions for developers
Made an app for Windows that aims to be a Swiss Army knife for developers. Sharing some screenshots here.
3 projects | /r/Windows11 | 19 Jan 2022

Though may I suggest checking out Boop? I love how minimal it looks. Maybe you can implement a minimal mode later?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MacGesture and Boop you can also consider the following projects:

macmediakeyforwarder - Media Key Forwarder for iTunes and Spotify

DevUtils-app - All-in-one Toolbox for Developers. Native macOS app.

alfred-calculate-anything - Alfred Workflow to calculate anything with natural language

CotEditor - Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS

ImageOptim - GUI image optimizer for Mac

DevToys - A Swiss Army knife for developers.

Mousecape - Cursor Manager for OSX

jrnlsync-sh - Write jrnl.sh entries on iOS, using your favourite writing app and Siri Shortcuts. Then sync your journal with a bash script. Very simple, easy to install and use, and works well.

ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.