Which apps do you install first on any new Mac?

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

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  • MonitorControl

    🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.

  • MonitorControl- use the native DDC/CI of external monitors to control their brightness and contrast and volume through the menu bar rather than the physical monitor controls

  • Rectangle

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

  • Rectangle - Windows like window management with snap areas

  • WorkOS

    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.

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  • iina

    The modern video player for macOS.

  • IINA - VLC/Quicktime/video player alternative

  • homebrew-bundle

    📦 Bundler for non-Ruby dependencies from Homebrew, Homebrew Cask and the Mac App Store.

  • You should checkout Homebrew bundle and create a Brewfile instead. That will let you install both stuff from brew, casks and Mac AppStore apps in one go.

  • AlDente-Charge-Limiter

    macOS menubar tool to set Charge Limits and prolong battery lifespan

  • All the other ones that I'm familiar with are reasonably well summarized, but it's way off on AlDente!

  • yabai

    A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

  • Yabai (tiling window manager) - https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

  • stats

    macOS system monitor in your menu bar

  • i use, stats, its like istat menus but free and the dev adds almost every feature that is requested!

  • InfluxDB

    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.

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  • TextMate

    TextMate is a graphical text editor for macOS 10.12 or later

  • zimfw

    Zim: Modular, customizable, and blazing fast Zsh framework

  • TwitchAdSolutions

  • they have userscripts here: https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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