What are the must-have apps for Mac in 2022?

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

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  • sublime_text

    Issue tracker for Sublime Text

  • Sublime Text is probably my favorite text editor.

  • Keka

    The macOS & iOS file archiver

  • Keka (Minimalist file archiver and unarchiver)

  • 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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  • Rectangle

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

  • Rectangle (Window resize and snap manager)

  • iTerm2

    iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.

  • From a coder perspective, these are the ones I could not live without: - Alfred - goes without saying. It's all in the name ;-) - VSCode - I used SublimeText for a long time, but VSCode is just too good to not switch. It has all I ever wanted, and I tweaked the rest :-) - 1password - I tried lots of others (Enpass, KeePass(x/ce), LastPass, BitWarden) but 1p is just another level of usability (especially with this quick-access-spotlight-like-search in v8) - (Things](https://culturedcode.com/things/) - I don't know where my life was before Things, but now cannot imagine not using it every day! - (Fantastical)[https://flexibits.com/fantastical] - same as above - handles calendars and reminders impossibly well. And the natural language task adding is just amazing! - Bear - I go on a note-app-hunt every couple of months, but always come back to my bear. Nothing (IMO) comes even close! Including native Notes, which for some reason has issues with sync across my devices. Bear just works. Always! - iTerm - replaced my terminal because it's better in so many ways (split panes, nicer UI & lots of tweaks).

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    Visual Studio Code

  • From a coder perspective, these are the ones I could not live without: - Alfred - goes without saying. It's all in the name ;-) - VSCode - I used SublimeText for a long time, but VSCode is just too good to not switch. It has all I ever wanted, and I tweaked the rest :-) - 1password - I tried lots of others (Enpass, KeePass(x/ce), LastPass, BitWarden) but 1p is just another level of usability (especially with this quick-access-spotlight-like-search in v8) - (Things](https://culturedcode.com/things/) - I don't know where my life was before Things, but now cannot imagine not using it every day! - (Fantastical)[https://flexibits.com/fantastical] - same as above - handles calendars and reminders impossibly well. And the natural language task adding is just amazing! - Bear - I go on a note-app-hunt every couple of months, but always come back to my bear. Nothing (IMO) comes even close! Including native Notes, which for some reason has issues with sync across my devices. Bear just works. Always! - iTerm - replaced my terminal because it's better in so many ways (split panes, nicer UI & lots of tweaks).

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  • strawberry

    :strawberry: Strawberry Music Player (by strawberrymusicplayer)

  • Yeah, here's the link: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry

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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.

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  • RectanglePro-Community

    Bug reports and discussion for the Rectangle Pro app

  • I thought Swish was great at first, but it ended up feeling pretty squirrely and I accidentally triggered gestures a lot. Switched to Rectangle Pro and would never go back. Being able to move a window from wherever the cursor is on it is amazing.

  • LuLu

    LuLu is the free macOS firewall

  • Lulu is an open source (free) alternative.

  • spectacle

    Discontinued Spectacle allows you to organize your windows without using a mouse.

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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