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Ask HN: What are some cheap must-have software tools for Mac?

20 points by redrory 13y ago

My suggestion - Divvy - Window Management for Mac $14. http://mizage.com/divvy/

ixacto 13y ago
Textedit -- free.
joezydeco 13y ago
SuperDuper for making bootable clones of your hard drive. $27.95. http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription...
redrory 13y ago
Fantastical - Awesome Mac Calendar - $19 http://flexibits.com/fantastical http://flexibits.com/fantastical
shirro 13y ago
Brew http://brew.sh/ http://brew.sh/ Free Sublime Text https://www.sublimetext.com/ https://www.sublimetext.com/ $70 per user (install it on multiple machines and it is cheap) Transmit http://panic.com/transmit/ http://panic.com/transmit/ $34
dlau1 13y ago
Surprised nobody has mentioned: http://www.alfredapp.com/ http://www.alfredapp.com/ Basic version free power pack 17 pounds
hashtree 13y ago
App Store: Fantastical - NLP calendar and reminders. Day One - Journal that can be used to replace scribbled sticky notes and notebooks you have laying around. AirMail - Mail client. SomaFM Radio Player - Ambient music stations. Textual - IRC. Moom - Window management. Pixelmator, iDraw, Sketch, Inkscape - Graphics, ditch Adobe. Markdown Pro - Markdown editor. End up using for repo readmes and for most textual documents. Non-App Store: Incanter - Statistical computing and graphics. iTerm2 - Terminal replacement. Pencil - Prototyping/mockups. Wireshark - Capture ALL the packets! Temperature Gauge Pro - Monitor all your hardware sensors and control your fans. Better than SMC (plays nicely with Haswell/Mavericks). VIM, Emacs, Sublime Text, jEdit - Solid editors. Homebrew - Everything else (even some of the editors, if you wish). Be sure to check out interesting taps too (e.g. science and nginx): https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Interesting-Taps-%26-Branches
stevejalim 13y ago
* Pixelmator * Sublime Text 2/3 * Tower or SourceTree * Mailplane if you run multiple Gmail accounts * If you need to work on Illustrator files: iDraw (in App Store) * TotalFinder is pretty cool, too
meerita 13y ago
* Pixelmator * Sublime Text 2/3 * SizeUP * Brew The rest of the stuff I've used is not deleted. I changed Tower for Git line command and started to become adicted to command line things. --- * IA Writer (well, I do mostly of my text with Sublime).
johnmurch 13y ago
ARQ - http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/ http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/ Duplifinder - http://www.haystacksoftware.com/duplifinder/ http://www.haystacksoftware.com/duplifinder/ airfoil - http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/ http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/ Pocket - http://getpocket.com/ http://getpocket.com/ GifBrewery - http://www.helloresolven.com/portfolio/gifbrewery/ http://www.helloresolven.com/portfolio/gifbrewery/
pastylegs 13y ago
1Password - https://agilebits.com/onepassword/mac https://agilebits.com/onepassword/mac . It's not cheap but it's certainly worth the price ($40)
jsilence 13y ago
Quicksilver http://qsapp.com/ http://qsapp.com/ Emacs http://emacsformacosx.com/ http://emacsformacosx.com/

20 points by redrory 13y ago

My suggestion - Divvy - Window Management for Mac $14. http://mizage.com/divvy/

ixacto 13y ago

Textedit -- free.

joezydeco 13y ago

SuperDuper for making bootable clones of your hard drive. $27.95. http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription...

redrory 13y ago

Fantastical - Awesome Mac Calendar - $19 http://flexibits.com/fantastical http://flexibits.com/fantastical

shirro 13y ago

Brew http://brew.sh/ http://brew.sh/ Free Sublime Text https://www.sublimetext.com/ https://www.sublimetext.com/ $70 per user (install it on multiple machines and it is cheap) Transmit http://panic.com/transmit/ http://panic.com/transmit/ $34

dlau1 13y ago

Surprised nobody has mentioned: http://www.alfredapp.com/ http://www.alfredapp.com/ Basic version free power pack 17 pounds

hashtree 13y ago

App Store: Fantastical - NLP calendar and reminders. Day One - Journal that can be used to replace scribbled sticky notes and notebooks you have laying around. AirMail - Mail client. SomaFM Radio Player - Ambient music stations. Textual - IRC. Moom - Window management. Pixelmator, iDraw, Sketch, Inkscape - Graphics, ditch Adobe. Markdown Pro - Markdown editor. End up using for repo readmes and for most textual documents. Non-App Store: Incanter - Statistical computing and graphics. iTerm2 - Terminal replacement. Pencil - Prototyping/mockups. Wireshark - Capture ALL the packets! Temperature Gauge Pro - Monitor all your hardware sensors and control your fans. Better than SMC (plays nicely with Haswell/Mavericks). VIM, Emacs, Sublime Text, jEdit - Solid editors. Homebrew - Everything else (even some of the editors, if you wish). Be sure to check out interesting taps too (e.g. science and nginx): https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Interesting-Taps-%26-Branches

stevejalim 13y ago

* Pixelmator * Sublime Text 2/3 * Tower or SourceTree * Mailplane if you run multiple Gmail accounts * If you need to work on Illustrator files: iDraw (in App Store) * TotalFinder is pretty cool, too

meerita 13y ago

* Pixelmator * Sublime Text 2/3 * SizeUP * Brew The rest of the stuff I've used is not deleted. I changed Tower for Git line command and started to become adicted to command line things. --- * IA Writer (well, I do mostly of my text with Sublime).

johnmurch 13y ago

ARQ - http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/ http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/ Duplifinder - http://www.haystacksoftware.com/duplifinder/ http://www.haystacksoftware.com/duplifinder/ airfoil - http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/ http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/ Pocket - http://getpocket.com/ http://getpocket.com/ GifBrewery - http://www.helloresolven.com/portfolio/gifbrewery/ http://www.helloresolven.com/portfolio/gifbrewery/

pastylegs 13y ago

1Password - https://agilebits.com/onepassword/mac https://agilebits.com/onepassword/mac . It's not cheap but it's certainly worth the price ($40)

jsilence 13y ago

Quicksilver http://qsapp.com/ http://qsapp.com/ Emacs http://emacsformacosx.com/ http://emacsformacosx.com/