With 2022 over soon, what were your favorites apps of the year?

1. obsidian-releases

   1 1,698 11,191 9.9 JavaScript

   Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

   

   🫴 Obsidian - Good for organising notes, text, etc. Can also be synced for free by storing your vault in iCloud.

2. CodeRabbit

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   CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

   

3. ImageOptim

   2 85 9,314 7.9 HTML

   GUI image optimizer for Mac

   

   🫴 ImageOptim – Shrink image file size without losing quality. It's not a new app, but I used it more this year and really appreciate how good it is.

4. Ferdium

   3 218 3,282 8.6 TypeScript

   Ferdium is a desktop app that helps you organize how you use your favourite apps by combining them into one application.

   

   💵 Affinity suite used for graphic design every week. 🫴/💵 Alfred 5, used constantly 🫴 BetterTouchTool, also used constantly 🫴 Blender 3D CG Software 🫴 Davinci Resolve, though I finally shifted to the studio version 💵 🫴 DiffusionBee - Stable Diffusion for offline AI Image generation 🫴 Ferdium - To group all my messenger apps into one. 💵 Gigapixel and Denoise AI

5. diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-ui

   4 144 13,168 1.6 JavaScript

   Diffusion Bee is the easiest way to run Stable Diffusion locally on your M1 Mac. Comes with a one-click installer. No dependencies or technical knowledge needed.

   

   💵 Affinity suite used for graphic design every week. 🫴/💵 Alfred 5, used constantly 🫴 BetterTouchTool, also used constantly 🫴 Blender 3D CG Software 🫴 Davinci Resolve, though I finally shifted to the studio version 💵 🫴 DiffusionBee - Stable Diffusion for offline AI Image generation 🫴 Ferdium - To group all my messenger apps into one. 💵 Gigapixel and Denoise AI

6. Simple-Comic

   5 9 286 7.6 Objective-C

   macOS comic viewer

   

   🫴 Simple Comic free and open source - a reader for Graphic Novels, but it will also open image pdfs or a directory of images. It uses Apple's Vision Framework so you can use the mouse to select text in .pngs, .jpgs, and it has a Find command to make it all searchable. Once you've got the text, you can use the built-in Text-To-Speech to have it read to you, do a Google search, or paste it into translate.google.com to get it translated into a more comfortable language.

7. fzf

   6 426 69,469 9.7 Go

   :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

   

   🫴 fzf – CLI fuzzy finder.

8. fd

   7 190 37,552 8.6 Rust

   A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

   

   🫴 fd – CLI: Simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.

9. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

10. starship

    8 308 48,043 9.7 Rust

    ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

    

    🫴 Starship – CLI terminal prompt.

11. ripgrep

    9 364 51,741 7.6 Rust

    ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

    

    🫴 ripgrep – CLI: Extremely fast grep alternative.

12. Signal-Desktop

    10 325 15,139 9.9 TypeScript

    A private messenger for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

    

    🫴 Signal – The best secure messaging app is becoming really polished on the desktop and a pleasure to use, and now most of my friends and family use it.

13. bat

    11 207 52,228 9.3 Rust

    A cat(1) clone with wings.

    

    🫴 bat – CLI: Clone of cat with syntax highlighting and Git integration.

14. restic

    12 364 28,279 9.8 Go

    Fast, secure, efficient backup program

    

    🫴 restic – Fast, efficient and secure CLI backup program.

15. AdguardBrowserExtension

    13 110 3,390 9.5 TypeScript

    AdGuard browser extension

    

    💵 AdGuard (get a lifetime family license off StackSocial, best deal out there and it can also block ads in apps on iOS)

16. easylist

    14 340 2,427 10.0 Adblock Filter List

    EasyList filter subscription (EasyList, EasyPrivacy, EasyList Cookie, Fanboy's Social/Annoyances/Notifications Blocking List)

    

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17. SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight

    15 6 3,226 4.8 C++

    Quick Look extension for highlight source code files on macOS 10.15 and later.

    

    Those are some nice picks. Have you tried the free Syntax Highlight and is Peek better than it?

18. SaaSHub

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