Below is a list of Naaackers favorite apps for MacOS as of August 2023.
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▶️ - Video
🖼 - Photo
🔑 - Security and Password
⚒️ - Tools
🛍 - Shopping
📷 - Camera and Camcorders
🌐 - Internet / Browsers
👨💻 - Development / Coding
🔉 - Audio
🖥 - Monitors / Displays
📆 - Calendar
📖 - Reading
💡- Lighting
🖌 - Art/Modeling/3D
📝 - Document Editor
😀 - Emoji
✅ - Task or To-Do
⏰ - Reminders & Timers
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🔑 1password - Password Manager
Password management and two factor authentication. Price: 💵 PAID
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✅ 2do - Personal Task/To-do Manager
2Do was designed to meet your need for speed. Quickly enter your thoughts and ideas before you forget. Quick Add on iOS allows you to enter multiple tasks in a matter of seconds. Price: 💵 PAID
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▶️ 4k Video Download - YouTube Downloader
Download videos from all popular websites including YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, SoundCloud, Facebook, Twitch, Bilibili and more in high-quality. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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⚒️ Airbuddy - Battery Widget
Open your AirPods case next to your Mac to see the status right away, just like it works on your iPhone or iPad. AirBuddy lives in your Menu Bar and can also show battery information for your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mouse, Keyboard, and more. Price: 💵 PAID
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⚒️ Alfred 5 - MacOS Spotlight Replacement
Alfred is an award-winning app for macOS which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more. Search your Mac and the web, and be more productive with custom actions to control your Mac. Price: 💵 PAID
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🛍 Anylist - Grocery List Manager
One app for stress-free shopping, cooking, and meal planning. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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📷 Affinity photo - Photo Editor
As the only fully-loaded photo editor integrated across macOS, Windows and iPad, Affinity Photo is the first choice of millions of creative and photography professionals around the world. With incredible speed, power and precision, the award-winning software has everything you need to edit and retouch images, create multi-layered compositions, beautiful raster paintings and so much more. Price: 💵 PAID
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🌐 Arc - Internet Browser
The best internet browser for MacOS by far. Price: 🎁 FREE
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👨💻 Atom - Coding
Atom describes itself as a hackable text editor, and what it means is that it allows new and intermediate programmers the chance to create their own text editor without years of work or programming experience. It is an open source text editor that has made altering its code even easier than ever. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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🔉 Audacity - Audio/Digital Audio Workstation
Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free, open source software. Price: 🎁 FREE
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🔑 Authy - Two-Factor Authentication
Two-factor authentication (2FA) is the best way to protect yourself online. Defeat cyber criminals & avoid account takeovers with stronger security, for free! Price: 🎁 FREE
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⚒️ Bartender - A declutter tool for Menu bar.
Bartender is an award-winning app for macOS that superpowers your menu bar, giving you total control over your menu bar items, what's displayed, and when, with menu bar items only showing when you need them. Bartender improves your workflow with quick reveal, search, custom hotkeys and triggers, and lots more. Price: 💵 PAID
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🖥 Better display - Internal & External Display Management
BetterDisplay is a truly wonderful tool! It lets you convert your displays to fully scalable screens, manage display configuration overrides, allows brightness and color control, provides XDR/HDR brightness upscaling (extra brightness beyond 100% for compatible displays with Apple Silicon Macs), full dimming to black, helps you create and manage virtual screens (dummies) for your Mac, create Picture in Picture windows of your displays and gives you a host of other features to manage your display's settings easily from the menu bar. Price: 🎁 FREE
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▶️ Capcut - Lightweight Video Editor & FX
Free all-in-one video editor for everyone to create anything anywhere Flexible editing, magical AI tools, team collaboration, and stock assets. Make video creation like never before. Price: 🎁 FREE
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📧 Canary Mail - Email Client
Your AI Email Sidekick. Canary learns how you email. It can write your emails, surface what needs attention, silence spam, and much more. Say hello to your Inbox Copilot. Price: 💵 PAID
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⚒️ CeanMyMac - MacOS Cleanup Tool
The most user-friendly problem fixer for Mac. Delete system junk, unwanted apps and malware, and tune your Mac for maximum speed. For a slow computer, use immediately. Price: 💵 PAID
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📕 Craft - Document Editor
Create documents, make impact, when your work needs to wow, Craft gives you the tools to make it magnificent. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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🖼 Cleanshot - Screenshot Tool
CleanShot X provides over 50 features making it the ultimate screen capturing tool. Price: 💵 PAID
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⚒️ Diagrams.net - Diagram Maker & Editor
Security-first diagramming for teams. Bring your storage to our online tool, or save locally with the desktop app. Price: 🎁 FREE
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▶️ DaVinci Resolve - Video Editing
DaVinci Resolve is the world’s only solution that combines editing, color correction, visual effects, motion graphics and audio post production all in one software tool! Its elegant, modern interface is fast to learn and easy for new users, yet powerful for professionals. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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⚒️ Dropzone - Files Sharing Tool
Dropzone makes it faster and easier to copy and move files, open applications and share files with many different services. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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🔉 Decibel x - Audio Decibel Meter
This app turns your iOS device into a professional sound level meter, detects harmful environmental noises, and helps protect your hearing and health. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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⏰ Due - Reminders and Timers
Due just doesn’t let you forget. It is the reminders app that actually helps you get stuff done. It captures your reminders quickly, reminds you persistently, and allows you to reschedule them effortlessly. Price: 💵 PAID
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⚒️ DiskDrill - Disk/Drive Scanning and Reporting
Recover deleted, lost, or damaged data, personal or business documents, music, photos, videos, and other files from internal, external and virtual hard drives, memory cards, iPhones, iPads, Android devices, RAID arrays, and other data sources. Disk Drill excels in data recovery for Mac. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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⚒️ Easy-Move-Resize - Screen resizing and moving, but better.
Use 1 macro to move a window by clicking and dragging anywhere on the window, and use another macro for clicking the general area of a corner to resize, instead of having to grab the edges or corners of apps, which can be a nightmare. Price: 🎁 FREE
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Gifski - Convert Videos to High Quality Gifs
Convert videos to high-quality GIFs. It converts videos to animated GIFs that use thousands of colors per frame. This is made possible by some fancy features for efficient cross-frame palettes and temporal dithering.
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📕 Freeform - Diagram Maker/Editor
Freeform is a great place to bring your ideas to life. Sketch out a project, design a mood board or start a brainstorming session on a flexible canvas that supports almost any kind of file. And with iCloud, all your boards stay in sync, whether you’re on your Mac, your iPad or your iPhone. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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📆 Fantastical - Calendar App
Add your existing calendar accounts directly to Fantastical and keep all of your events and tasks in sync. Your Flexibits account syncs all your custom calendar sets, templates, notifications, weather settings, and more. Price: 💵 PAID
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📖 Feedly - RSS Reader
Track insights across the web without having to read everything. You tell Feedly AI what’s important to you and it flags the important insights from everywhere, including news sites, blogs, and newsletters. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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🖼 HEIC converter - Converts HEIC Photos from iOS
iMazing Converter is the first 100% free solution to easily convert pictures and videos taken in the new HEIC/HEIF and HEVC formats. Easy to use, efficient, and compatible with older macOS versions, it's a cute little utility we hope you'll find useful! Price: 🎁 FREE
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📝 HiSticky - Lightweight Note Taking
Hi Sticky (formerly Notes SE) is a free simple note taking app that's available on all Apple devices. Manage plain text easily with Hi Sticky. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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⚒️ HiddenBar - Hide Menu Bar Items
Hide items in your menu bar with features like features like launch at login, auto to-hide after 5/10/15/30/60 second, show/hide with global shortcut, full menu bar mode, and more. Price: 🎁 FREE
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▶️ IINa - A media player
IINA is born to be a modern macOS application, from its framework to the user interface. It adopts the post-Yosemite design language of macOS and keeps up the pace of new technologies like Force Touch, Touch Bar, and Picture-in-Picture. Price: 🎁 FREE
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⚒️ iStat Menus 6 - Resource stats for Menu Bar
An Advanced System Monitor for your Menubar. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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🧰 Keycastr - Share your keystrokes for screen recordings.
Adds an on screen overlay showing your keyboard presses and mouse clicks. Price: 🎁 FREE
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⚒️ Karabiner Elements - Keyboard Key Remapper
A powerful and stable keyboard customizer for macOS. Price: 🎁 FREE
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🖼 Luminar Neo - Photo Editor with AI Features
Level up your editing capabilities effortlessly with Luminar Neo's next-gen AI-powered photo editing tools. Price: 💵 PAID
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⚒️ LanScan - LAN scanner for IP address and MAC Addresses
LanScan is a simple and efficient IPv4 & IPv6 network scanner that discovers all active devices on any subnet: the local one, or any public subnet that you configure. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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⚒️ Mate - Universal Tab Translator
Stop tabbing to translation websites and start using Mate! Select text in any app and translate it. Join the other 850k users worldwide that are already using Mate. Mate can understand 103 languages! Translate selected text and clipboard contents with Mate. Open it above all other apps. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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⚒️ Magnet - Window Manager and Pinning
Every time you multitask with many apps open, you need all the windows arranged accordingly. Magnet makes this process swift and easy. In one drag to the edge of your display, you size any app into half of the screen. And by dragging its windows to corners, you snap them into quarters. Sliding on the bottom edge creates thirds, or even sixths on ultra-wide monitors. Taking advantage of such arrangements eliminates app switching and greatly enhances workspace efficiency. Price: 💵 PAID
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⚒️ MenuBarX - MenuBar Customizer
MenubarX is a powerful menu bar browser. You can add any web pages to the menu bar just like Native Apps. It will open up a new world for Web Apps. Price: 🎁 FREE
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⚒️ Middle - Magic Trackpad Gesture Control
Add middle click to your Mac. Price: 💵 PAID
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⚒️ Mission Control Plus - Window Management
Manage your windows in Mission Control, adding keyboard navigation, shortcuts and more. Price: 💵 PAID
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⚒️ MultiTouch - Magic Trackpad Gesture Control
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🖼 MyWallpaper - Rotating Wallpapers
MyWallPaper is a great wallpaper app, a rich and colorful picture for you to use as a wallpaper.Price: 💵 PAID
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📆 Numi - Beautiful Calculator App
A beautiful calculator app for MacOS Price: 🎁 FREE
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▶️ NDI - Sending Video over Network
NDI Applications: Design next-generation IP workflows or enhance your current productions with software, tools, and utilities. Price: 🎁 FREE
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💽 OBS - Recording/Streaming Content
Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux. Price: 🎁 FREE
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▶️ Permute - Media Converter
Video, audio and image files come in many different kinds and shapes, but sometimes you need a specific format since your iPad or DVD player won't play that video. That is what Permute is for! Easily convert your media files to various different formats. Naaack-Favorite Feature: Quickly converting short video to high frame rate GIF’s for Twitter. Price: 💵 PAID
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⚒️ PastePal - Clipboard manager with iCloud Sync
PastePal is a powerful clipboard manager for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Save copied items in collection, widget, keyboard extension, Share and Action extension, Siri shortcut Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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⚒️ Pixelsnap - Measure things on Screen
Lets you measure anything on your screen. Helpful for quickly gathering distances between objects in pixels. Price: 💵 PAID
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⚒️ Parsec - Remote Access
Remote desktop you’ll actually love, in crystal clear, interactive HD. Connect to work, games, or projects wherever you are, whenever you want. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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Raycast - Spotlight Launcher Replacement
Raycast is a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher. It lets you complete tasks, calculate, share common links, and much more. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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🔉 Reaper - Digital Audio Workstation
REAPER is a complete digital audio production application for computers, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset. REAPER supports a vast range of hardware, digital formats and plugins, and can be comprehensively extended, scripted and modified. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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👨⚕️ Repeat - Habits & Wellbeing
Repeat is a productivity app with content and guidance for those of us just getting started and flexible options for the pros. This is a Universal Purchase with iOS. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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⚒️ Resilio Sync - File Syncing Software
Sync All Your DataAcross All Your Devices. Resilio Sync is a fast, reliable, and simple file sync and share solution, powered by P2P technology. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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😀 Rocket - Emoji Menu & Shortcut App
Rocket is a free Mac app that makes typing emoji faster and easier using Slack-style shortcuts. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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🖌 Sip - Color picker with history
Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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📝 SideNotes - Quick Note Taker
A fast note-taking. SideNotes is designed to take notes instantly. Now with Apple Shortcuts support. Price: 💵 PAID
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📝 Slidepad - Slide Over Browser for Notes
A Slide Over browser on your Mac. No more hassle of window switching.Price: 🎁 FREE
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🖌 Sharp3d - 3D modeling or 3d printing
Need to model a quick part? Create it without interruptions and export to or import from all major industry standard file formats. Shapr3D also offers a native experience on all Windows, macOS, and iPadOS devices so that you can work wherever you are. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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🔉 Soundly - Sound Effects for Video
Find your perfect sound in the massive Soundly cloud library, use our powerful search engine on your local files, and Drag&Drop sounds to your favorite tools! Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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⚒️ Sublime text - Development and Code Writing
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⚒️ Swish - Window Management
Insanely great window management. Control your Mac with intuitive swipe, pinch, tap and hold gestures. Works with Magic Trackpad, Magic Mouse and keyboard shortcuts. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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⚒️ TeamViewer - Remote Access
Work from anywhere with full access to any device. Stay productive wherever you are with unrestricted access to all your files and applications, as well as your mobile devices and servers, all without a VPN. Forget costly site visits by solving your IT challenges remotely with the market’s most secure and powerful support platform. TeamViewer is compatible with almost any device and operating system. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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🖼 Unsplash Wallpapers - Daily Rotating Wallpapers
Choose from the highest quality selection of high-definition wallpapers–all submitted by our talented community of contributors. Free to download and use for your mobile and desktop screens. Price: 🎁 FREE
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⚒️ Usage - Menu Bar Resource Usage
Usage is a menu bar app that comes with cool customizable popover widgets and advanced features to track your system’s performance, processor, disk usage, network activity, and memory pressure among others. Price: 🎁 FREE + 💵 PAID
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⚒️ Via and Vial - Keyboard Layout Editors
VIA Compatible with 1400+ keyboards and easily added to other QMK keyboards. Configure, test and design in one place - VIA is the last application you'll need for your keyboard.Price: 🎁 FREE
VIALVial is a completely open project, with sources for all components publicly available on GitHub. Vial is decentralized: with Vial you do not have to submit your keyboard as a pull-request to any third-party repositories before it can be used in the GUI; instead, the keymap JSON definition is stored within the keyboard firmware and is retrieved at runtime.
Price: 🎁 FREE
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⚒️ Yoink - Better Drag and Drop
Yoink simplifies and improves drag and drop between windows, apps, spaces and fullscreen apps, by providing a temporary "shelf" for your files and app-content. Price: 💵 PAID
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💡 We Love Lights - Phillips Hue Controller
The easiest yet most powerful way to control your Philips Hue lights and devices with you Mac. For Day-to-Day. For Pros. Price: 💵 PAID
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▶️ VLC - Media Player
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Price: 🎁 FREE
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