Alfred | Must have. Spotlight on steroids: much, much better. (Above the best workflows)
- atop
- Banner Be Gone
- Calculate Anything
- Emoji Mate
- IP Address
- Low Power Mode
- Menu Bar Search
- Switch Appearance
- System Settings
- Flux | Must have. Automatically adjusts screen color temperature throughout the day based on time and location
- KeyClu | Keyboard shortcut manager. Just press cmd twice.
- Swish | Must have. Quit, minimize, hide, full screen, manage your apps with trackpad gestures.
- TopNotch | Makes your notch disappear.
- LittleSnitch | Must have. Hands down the best software firewall out there, no more ads.
- Command X | Must have. Pretty self-explanatory.
- Rectangle | Must have. Window management with hotkeys.
- OneSwitch | Must have. System toggles.
- Cleanshot X | Must have. The best screenshot utility.
- Amphetamine | Must have. Prevents sleep mode.
- Lockera Widgets | Free, nice, useful widgets.
- AltTab | Windows like app switcher.
- Bat-Fi | Must have. Prevents your Mac from charging to 100%. Plus, it gives you some battery stats. Oh, and there's a graph.
- Bartender 5 | Must have. No more mess on the menu bar.
- Popclip | Instant text actions.
- HazeOver | Focus on one app, haze the others.
- TomatoBar | Pomodoro timer in your menu bar.
- CleanMyMac | System cleaner and optimizer (so they say)
- Dynaper | Make custom dynamic wallpaper changer.
- Elmedia Video Player | Video player.
- Keka | Must have. File archiver.
- iStatistica | System monitoring.
- Transmit | File transfer client.
- DiskSight | Disk space visualizer.
- Latest | App update tracker.
- Encrypto | File encryption made easy.
- AppCleaner | Must have. The proper way to fully uninstall apps.
- DaisyDisk | Disk space analyzer.
- Stats | System resource monitor in your menu bar.
- MalwareBytes | Malware scanner.
- Cryptomator | Create encrypted vaults to store your files.
- Tuxera Disk Manager NTFS | Use NTFS formatted disk with MacOS.
- Dropover | Must have. Drag-and-drop made easier.
- Clop | Optimize pics when you copy them.
- Fantastical | Must have. A proper calendar app.
- Obsidian | Must have. Note-taking and knowledge management.
- Background Music | Control volume per-app.
- Tailscale | Your very personal VPN, in safe and easy way.
- Arc Browser | The Chrome alternative we were waiting for.
- Photomator | Best user-friendly photo editor (still pretty powerful though)
- BusyCal and Cal366 as an alternative to Fantastical
- Homebrew | CLI packet manager to install additional useful tools and apps
- Infuse Media Player as an alternative to Elmedia
- BetterTouchTool as an alternative to Swish (?)
- Orion Browser
- OnlySwitch as a free alternative to OneSwitch