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

• obsidian-releases

  1,650 7,901 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.

• ImageOptim

  83 8,907 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.

• WorkOS

  workos.com

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Ferdium

  216 2,502 9.1 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

• diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-ui

  141 11,886 4.4 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

• Simple-Comic

  9 242 6.4 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.

• fzf

  405 59,462 9.5 Go

  :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

  🫴 fzf – CLI fuzzy finder.

• fd

  172 31,495 8.8 Rust

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

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

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• starship

  298 40,506 9.7 Rust

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

  

  🫴 Starship – CLI terminal prompt.

• ripgrep

  348 44,747 9.3 Rust

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

  🫴 ripgrep – CLI: Extremely fast grep alternative.

• Signal-Desktop

  322 13,985 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.

• bat

  195 46,217 9.5 Rust

  A cat(1) clone with wings.

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

• restic

  357 23,706 9.7 Go

  Fast, secure, efficient backup program

  

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

• AdguardBrowserExtension

  110 2,764 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)

• easylist

  338 1,981 10.0 Adblock Filter List

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

  

  That list is curated by EasyList.

• SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight

  6 2,645 4.7 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?

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com

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