The best Mac Apps to unlock your max potential (recommended by users of r/MacOs )

• chatgpt-mac

  19 6,243 3.2 JavaScript

  ChatGPT for Mac, living in your menubar.

• Quicksilver

  16 2,701 7.4 Objective-C

  Quicksilver Project Source

  

Should add Quicksilver. It's the first app I install on my Macs

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  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.

  

• obsidian-releases

  1,652 7,956 9.9 JavaScript

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

  

• hammerspoon

  114 11,479 7.3 Objective-C

  Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

  

- Hammerspoon for macOS automation

• Bitwarden

  1,055 14,318 9.8 C#

  The core infrastructure backend (API, database, Docker, etc). (by bitwarden)

  

Bitwarden - great password management app.

• alt-tab-macos

  311 9,665 7.8 Swift

  Windows alt-tab on macOS

AltTab - for people that want an Alt-Tab behavior similar to Windows.

• Cork

  9 1,647 9.6 Swift

  A fast GUI for Homebrew written in SwiftUI

Because you mentioned Homebrew, I’d recommend everyone who doesn’t want to use it through the terminal to look into Cork, which is a very nice GUI for it. It’s still pretty new, but I’m impressed with it. It also adds some pretty nifty features that Homebrew doesn’t have (like package tagging, or clearing Homebrew folders that don’t get cleared by it)

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  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.

  

• LuLu

  46 9,135 7.3 Objective-C

  LuLu is the free macOS firewall

LuLu is a free alternative for LittleSnitch

• iina

  228 36,293 8.7 Swift

  The modern video player for macOS.

  

IINA media player- https://iina.io

• askai

  1,747 86 10.0 TypeScript

  Command Line Interface for OpenAi ChatGPT (by yudax42)

you can enter in your browser here: https://chat.openai.com

• Latest

  24 2,531 9.0 Swift

  A small utility app for macOS that makes sure you know about all the latest updates to the apps you use.

Latest (Open source) - A lightweight app to keep all other apps updated, even the ones that weren't installed from the Mac App Store. Works like a charm.

• mackup

  30 14,203 8.1 Python

  Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux)

Yeah, I went through a similar process when I finally upgraded my MBP after 8 years on a 2013 MBP. In light of the transition from Intel to Apple Silicon, I decided to do some spring cleaning with a fresh install. I ended up curating my own setup/bootstrap scripts as well as using mackup to backup and sync my dotfiles and app configs.

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