Mine is abit of a cheat since its for iOS/Mac/iPad but MoneyStats. It does balance forecasting and unlike Kualto/Dollarbird/other balance forecasting apps, you can actually buy it. No subscriptions please.
Yabai: Being able to have zero delay switching is a must for me now. BetterTouchTools: So much stuff
I use BTT! What’s zero delay switching?
Normally if you switch to a different space you get this fancy animation which takes something between 1-2 seconds. With yabai I can switch between spaces instantly without animation and without any delay. Oh and you can do infinite rotation in spaces. So if you are at the end of your spaces and go to the next one you are at the beginning again.
Nice! Ty for the explanation :)
I know you said hidden gems, but I’m fairly new, so I admittedly use more popular apps.
- arc browser changed my relationship with the web
- hand mirror for checking that I’m not a hot mess before my next meeting
- karabiner for keyboard tweaking
- tot - dead simple quick note app
- fucking keyboard maestro!!
+1 for Arc Browser.
Spectacle, it adds shortcuts to snap windows to half of the screen and stuff like that. I really like it. Also, DaisyDisk helps me a lot when looking for stuff taking much storage.
There’s a FOSS app called Rectangle that does the same thing. I just saw that spectacle is no longer being maintained.
I rate Rectangle - I bought Pro as well to support the developer and get the hot key to snap multiple apps to a specific layout.
Thanks, sad that they gave up though
Shortery is sick too
SleepControlCenter is excellent upper-menu bar app that lets you tweak various sleep settings and easily toggling off sleep for various times and triggers.
Shortery is a great elaboration on Shortcuts, where it “listens” for various triggers to launch various shortcuts automagically.
Select text anywhere and a menu bar of tools pops up. Worth every penny.
Bettertouchtool is basically the best app ever made, bar none. It’s a major reason why I’m a macOS user. It’s basically a shortcut maker using any peripheral or any trigger and works nearly flawlessly.
It’s incredible that some of the trackpad gestures are actually linear rather than clunky
It truly is incredible!
What sort of things do you use BTT for? I use it too on my MacBook with Apple silicon. Although I view it as a consolation prize. Most everything I use it for I can do with a bash script + hotkey in Linux on my desktop.
Then again, maybe I’m just not creative enough. I understand BTT has a wide range of options to allow for complex shortcuts. But practically speaking, I don’t know if I can use 95% of those options.
3 finger swipe up - go to “home” (top of page)
4 finger swipe down - close window
4 finger swipe up - zoom
Graphic Converter - simple do-everything image editor. Cheap, shareware try-before-you-buy, powerful, swiss army knife of image editors
AppleScript. Amazing little language that comes with the OS. Can be used to to automate any app, send keystrokes, etc. Completely ignored by Apple and very underrated.
Boot camp.
I don’t think I’ve seen iStat menus listed yet! Looooongtime favorite of mine. I have network throughput listed on my work machine (+bartender hiding everything else) and that + temp + fan speed on my old old home server
I wanted to have Nix, a tiling window manager (Amethyst…meh compared to the beloved xmonad) and the latest MacOs on my 2013 MacBook Pro. So, I installed OpenCore Liberty Bootloader, Nix (w/ flakes and content addressed derivations), home-manager, and all the other goodies you macOS people are missing out on.
- fish, alacritty, amethyst, codium, declarative brew files, and dev overlays. https://github.com/harryprayiv/nix-darwin-config
a lot of free command line utilities run well on unix (like macos, linux). Things like ssh, ftp,…
Rectangle - It presets window sizes and assigns them to keystrokes. It’s great to quickly be able to move 2 apps to half a screen each, move them between monitors etc. Shortcat - allows you to basically do anything that you would with the mouse by the keyboard. It’s hard to explain so look it up! It also has a brilliant emoji picker that works so much quicker than the native one.
HiddenBar replaced my beloved Bartender. And it’s free!
