What's your favorite software for Mac?

Engineroom · 2 years

quicksilver

jumpcut

akmjolnir · 2 years

Transmission

thingamagizmo · 2 years

Papers. There's nothing like it when you're trying to do research,

JaxEden · 2 years

Coda and CSSEdit.

mundungous · 2 years

Logic Studio. So simple but so powerful.

neosapien · 2 years

Things for task management (Getting Things Done)

Skim for reading/annotating papers (like Preview but more functionality for annotation and integration with BibDesk)

BibDesk for managing bibliographies (like JabRef but better)

TextMate text editor (and so much more that's worth paying for it)

GoGoPoCoSo · 2 years

Textmate!

coppersink · 2 years

Final Cut Pro.

doyoulikeworms · 2 years

MacVim!

firelight · 2 years

So many great apps in this thread, so I'll throw my addition to Better Touch Tool, for anyone with a multi-touch trackpad or Magic Mouse.

paxswill · 2 years

TextMate

DTerm

MacPorts

GeekTool

Dropbox

Growl

tctony · 2 years

BetterTouchTool.

Allows you to greatly improve the usefulness of your trackpad. Heres a good youtube video tutorial.

yiddish_policeman · 2 years

Civ 4

bigshum · 2 years

Thank fuck for Adium.

Bytes_U · 2 years

Adobe Lightroom (osx&win) provides a pleasurable photography workflow and does wonders to tweak that perfect image. Unfortunately it's too expensive unless you qualify for an education discount. My favorite daily use app by far. In the zero cost category, I find Dropbox indispensable on keeping all my stuff synced between computers. Bonus dropbox referral link for anyone who still hasn't signed up and got extra storage space.

ardenr · 2 years

Since nobody's mentioned f.lux, here's a quick description: it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

It makes such a difference, and you only ever have to set it to your lighting and location once.

Bytes_U · 2 years

1Password has become indispensable for storing all my passwords and secure online info. Combine that with Dropbox, for easy background syncing keychains across all my computers.

sfgeek · 2 years

Quicksilver will make you hate using any other computer that doesn't have it. It's changed the way I interface with my Mac completely.

Schrockwell · 2 years

ExpanDrive is one of my most useful apps that is probably not well-known. I use it daily for mounting FTP and SFTP drives from both development servers and my own personal computers (it also supports Amazon S3). I know, there are free alternatives, but ExpanDrive is fast, seamlessly integrates with OS X, and has a nice UI.

psed · 2 years

I couldn't live without SizeUp, a keyboard-centric window manager.

opiapr · 2 years

Evernote

victoknight · 2 years

MagicPrefs - A must have for any Magic Mouse user

RampantAI · 2 years

For those of you who have grown accustomed to Aero Snap in Windows 7, I recommend Cinch.

The Unarchiver will open pretty much any compressed file you can find.

MPlayer is my preferred movie player, but I keep VLC around 'just in case'.

Perian is nice for enabling video playback in QuickLook, but I still prefer MPlayer for watching videos.

ksaj · 2 years

Logic Audio is amazing if you do multitrack recording :)

ageofinnosence · 2 years

As someone writing a novel, I've found Scrivener to be a wonderful tool.

Should also add that I recently discovered Bowtie. Fantastic iTunes controller that is themeable with HTML, CSS, and Javascript apparently.

Jimmni · 2 years

Launchbar, Adium, Camino, Unison. Those are my essential four.

I also echo MenuMeters, and often use Movist, Awaken and Onyx on a regular basis.

uncleungie · 2 years

xGestures: System wide mouse gestures!

tomb25 · 2 years

Cinch

Engineroom · 2 years

DEVONthink Pro Office Absolutely incredibly personal database.

Papers Organises research papers. Indispensable for me, but if you're not in research / studying probably no use.

Circus Ponies Notebook Best note app i've seen. Similar to one-note, but way, way better. Do all my research / uni stuff with this.

Overflow App launcher, but mouse based. I bind the 'show window' to a mouse button. Works awesome

Omnifocus Best to-do app ever. Things is also good if you need less features.

CloudApp File / Link / Image sharing app. Really quite useful. Cmd+C = upload image / link / file to cloud, automatically puts shortened url in clipboard for you to paste.

Google Quick Search Box Fuck you, it's better than Quicksilver. :P The guy running it WROTE Quicksilver.

Postbox Sexiest mail client I've seen. Based on Thunderbird, but with yummy, yummy features.

aclashingcolour · 2 years

I really like Boxee. Gives a great interface for mlb.tv and netflix.

ascagnel · 2 years

Pixelmator -- Think Photoshop, but less cruft and much slimmer & faster.

Bhima · 2 years

quicksilver and MacPorts

victoknight · 2 years

TVShows - Automatic torrent downloader

moppsy · 2 years

Google Sketchup

bpg131313 · 2 years

I'd recommend Stellarium, and Sun Spotter 2.5. Celestia is also a lot of fun if you want to explore through space.

fmurell · 2 years

MacJournal, Coda, TextMate, Path Finder, mSecure, XLD, Pixelmator

sittered · 2 years

Quickeys. Keyboard shortcuts for anything you can imagine, easily scriptable.

[deleted] · 2 years

adium safari chrome photoshop pixelmator utorrent pages

km1116 · 2 years

Things (task management) WriteRoom (distraction-free writing)

davel_jonez · 2 years

I need MenuMeters so I know how busy my CPUs & network are.

BaboTron · 2 years

Here's the 3 that I use most often:

Adobe CS4
Suitcase Fusion 2
iChat

Bytes_U · 2 years

Textmate. I can't code on Windows because I'm so hooked on it. It's easily worth the relatively high price tag.

[deleted] · 2 years

I would say: - Safari - Adium - iTunes [yes i think it does the job ;)] - Cosmopod - Dropbox - Echofon - Transmission - AppZapper - iScrobbler

opie2 · 2 years

Wolfshawk · 2 years

Cyberduck

Gimp

taligent · 2 years

I couldn't live without Growl, HardwareNotifier and MailAppetizer. As well as GlimmerBlocker, MenuMeters and iStatMenus.

smift · 2 years

There has to be at least 200 threads about useful mac software...

joe24pack · 2 years

Terminal ...

ajcnicholson · 2 years

MindNode - great, and free mind mapping software!

[deleted] · 2 years

Notational Velocity, TaskPaper

jdas12 · 2 years

EyeTV
TotalFinder
Visor

I just started using the last two...they're godsends.

stblack · 2 years

Pathfinder is a rockin' Finder replacement.

tantric_pogo · 2 years

Can anyone suggest one for sorting/managing your downloads folder?

Zalenka · 2 years

perian

PhixionFilms · 2 years

TextExpander is a must for any operator type of work. :)

necuz · 2 years

[deleted] · 2 years

WriteRoom is a favorite to avoid distractions.

kennethcollins47 · 2 years

"I Love Stars," "Caffeine," "Notify," and "Bowtie." (You have to pay $10 for all of the features of Notify after a while, but it's SO worth it.)

JCY2K · 2 years

Shovebox

jonnyiselectric · 2 years

http://www.facebook.com/notifier

It uses growl and shows you when you get a new facebook notification. Its a great lightweight app.

[deleted] · 2 years

Textmate Adium SimpleComic Transmission After Effects Cinema 4D

moge · 2 years

quicksilver OmniGraffle TextMate cyberduck growl dropbox omnifocus

xixor · 2 years

I just got DTerm (http://www.decimus.net/dterm.php) and it is quickly becoming my favourite mac app

Breyker4711 · 2 years

Maya 2011 right now

leestreitz · 2 years

Aperture 3

xmnstr · 2 years

Ableton Live.

Nerdlinger · 2 years

Does OS X count?

nicwolff · 2 years

I can't use a Mac without Zooom/2.

tonaldefiance · 2 years

I wish FL studio was mac only and not windows because that would mean alot to me.

bware189 · 2 years

OSX.

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