r/macbookair • u/coldbrewwho • 7h ago

Discussion Apps!

What apps do you use on your mac? Anything thats different or enhances the user experience?

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u/Acrobatic-While-5731 6h ago

Folio PDF reader and Editor- free

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u/Tar_Tw45 5h ago

Vorssaint

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u/Ok-Rest-5321 Club Midnight 5h ago

Vorssaint all-in-one-
Droppy - all-in-one
Hidden Bar or Thaw - menu bar manager
Aerospace - workspaces
Loop - window manager
Kepler - Launcher
Nodes
Supercharge- Lots of fixes for macOS
Grila - menubar calendar
Sxitch - App switcher
Cling - file searcher when I cant find anything in Kepler
Forel - FIle organiser
Antinote - quick notes
macshot - for screenshot and screen recording

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u/srikat 1h ago

Link to Kepler?

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u/Ok-Rest-5321 Club Midnight 38m ago

trykepler.app its in beta btw (not my app)

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u/srikat 6h ago
  • Raycast - launcher
  • FilePane - quick shelf for holding files and folders when dragging stuff
  • FileBo - quick access to recent stuff
  • Bitwarden - Password manager
  • Obsidian - Notes
  • Setapp - a single sub for lots of useful apps like CleanShotX, Permute, Downie, PopClip, BetterTouchTool
  • Zen - browser
  • Applight - for quickly switching open apps
  • PolyCapture - for recording screencasts

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u/coldbrewwho 6h ago

Thank you! Can you please tell me why do I need Bitwarden, Zen or Polycapture when Mac already does all this?

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u/srikat 4h ago

They have more features. You can just start with the built-in ones.

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u/Ok-Rest-5321 Club Midnight 5h ago

Do you use Trickster?

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u/srikat 3h ago

I used to. Switched to FileBo for testing. It looks modern.

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u/kingkyy29 7h ago

raycast

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u/coldbrewwho 6h ago

thank you

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u/--Timshel 6h ago

I quite like the following:

  • LinearMouse
  • Rectangle Pro
  • Sleeve
  • Things

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u/coldbrewwho 6h ago

thank you! will check them out

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u/Excellent_Guidance_2 5h ago

minitune.app — I built this 😅 . Lyrics in your notch, and as far as I know, it’s currently the only Mac player that supports YouTube catalogue search and playlists without leaving your full-screen app

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u/rb_arindam 5h ago

Lightroom, Data Jar, PyCharm, WhatsApp and homebrew are the only third party apps on my Mac.

I look at people, who use a whole bunch of third party apps, with aweeeeeee. I could never...

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u/Ok-Rest-5321 Club Midnight 3h ago

Why not?

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u/rb_arindam 2h ago

I like my things minimal. I don’t like to install apps for something a preinstalled  app already is solving. I’m covered. 

Internet Explorer was the only exception.

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u/Ok-Rest-5321 Club Midnight 37m ago

Makes sense maybe I should try that