Power User's Guide to the Galaxy

• Maccy

  30 10,391 9.0 Swift

  Lightweight clipboard manager for macOS

With Alfred you can do almost anything efficiently.  Personally, I did get its powerpack to get all of Alfred's features; clipboard history and much more. Though when it comes to clipboard history there's a free alternative: Maccy. Back to Alfred - Alfred can also create workflows that allows you to control apps, make snippets and queries directly to websites that you can customize. Watch this video to learn more.

• Rectangle

  723 24,403 8.2 Swift

  Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas

Apps that can sell themselves: Numi - a way better calculator. Meeter – gives you a timer in your toolbar to showcase your next meeting, you can also easily join the meetings. Bartender – Tidy up your toolbar. Hidden Bar is a free alternative Magnet – Snap windows in place. Rectangle is a free alternative. I just happened to get Magnet. Ryan Hanson is the developer for Magnet, but also Hyperkey. He has some more interesting apps that I'm yet to try out. Checking out his work might be worth some time. Dropover – Effortlessly drag and drop files. Creates a temporary box to hold your files while navigating to where you want to drop them. Pure Paste – Can automatically remove formatting from what you copy, which I believe has annoyed everyone at some point.

• 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.

  

• numi

  50 5,265 5.2 JavaScript

  Beautiful calculator app for macOS

Apps that can sell themselves: Numi - a way better calculator. Meeter – gives you a timer in your toolbar to showcase your next meeting, you can also easily join the meetings. Bartender – Tidy up your toolbar. Hidden Bar is a free alternative Magnet – Snap windows in place. Rectangle is a free alternative. I just happened to get Magnet. Ryan Hanson is the developer for Magnet, but also Hyperkey. He has some more interesting apps that I'm yet to try out. Checking out his work might be worth some time. Dropover – Effortlessly drag and drop files. Creates a temporary box to hold your files while navigating to where you want to drop them. Pure Paste – Can automatically remove formatting from what you copy, which I believe has annoyed everyone at some point.

• alt-tab-macos

  311 9,665 7.8 Swift

  Windows alt-tab on macOS

There's still things missing in this post though. Your comment made me realize it's missing AltTab. Think that's an app you'd like coming from Windows

• Bitwarden

  1,055 14,286 9.8 C#

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

  

Don’t forget about Bitwarden, and cmd+shift+L to auto-fill username/password fields.

• hammerspoon

  114 11,459 7.5 Objective-C

  Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

  

HammerSpoon is available on github. The "spoon" or script that I use is from here, and works quite well.

• ControlEscape.spoon

  1 148 10.0 Lua

  ⌨ Supercharge your Control key: Tap it for Escape. Hold it for Control.

HammerSpoon is available on github. The "spoon" or script that I use is from here, and works quite well.

• 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.

  

• HomeBrew

  1,281 39,303 10.0 Ruby

  🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

  

Two must-haves I’d like to see make the list: 1. Homebrew, an apt-like package Manager for macOS. Makes it easy to install, update and manage applications. 2. Caffeinated, a small utility to prevent your Mac from going to sleep.

• sol

  11 1,823 9.3 TypeScript

  MacOS launcher & command palette

Sol open source alternative

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