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

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/macapps

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  1. obsidian-releases

    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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  3. ImageOptim

    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

    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

    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

    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

    :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

    🫴 fzf – CLI fuzzy finder.

  8. fd

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

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

  9. InfluxDB

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

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  10. starship

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

    🫴 Starship – CLI terminal prompt.

  11. ripgrep

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

    🫴 ripgrep – CLI: Extremely fast grep alternative.

  12. Signal-Desktop

    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

    A cat(1) clone with wings.

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

  14. restic

    Fast, secure, efficient backup program

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

  15. AdguardBrowserExtension

    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

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

    That list is curated by EasyList.

  17. SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight

    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

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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