Awesome OS X

A curated list of awesome applications, softwares, tools and shiny things for OS X.

Items marked with are open-source software.

Table of Contents

• Applications
• OS X Utilities
• Setup
• Security
• Miscellaneous
• Discussion Forums
• Contribute

Applications

Chat Clients

• ChitChat - A native Mac app wrapper for WhatsApp Web.
• LimeChat - Instant messaging application.
• Messenger for Desktop - An app for Facebook messenger.
• Profanity - A terminal XMPP client.
• Textual 5 - An Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.
• WeeChat - A terminal IRC client.

Developers

• Base 2 - A GUI for managing SQLite databases.
• Cakebrew - The Homebrew GUI App.
• Color-Picker-Pro - A Color Detection Tool.
• Dash - An API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager.
• Github Desktop - A GUI for using Github.
• Gitup - A simple but powerful Git OS X app.
• Hosts - Edit hosts file.
• ImageOptim - Makes images take up less disk space and load faster.
• Paw - The ultimate REST client.
• PSequel - A PostgreSQL GUI tool.
• Sequel Pro - A MySQL database manager.
• SourceTree - A free Git & Mercurial client.
• Tower - The most powerful Git client.
• Unused - An app for checking Xcode projects for unused resources.
• WWDC - The WWDC app.
• Zsh - A powerful command line shell.

Editors

• Atom - The hackable text editor.
• Brackets - A modern text editor that understands web design.
• Light Table - A customizable editor with REPL support for Clojure, JavaScript, Python and others.
• Macvim - Vim, the text editor.
• Sublime Text 3 - The sophisticated text editor.
• Textmate - A graphical text editor.
• VimR - Vim, refined.
• Visual Studio Code - Build and debug modern web and cloud applications.

Finder

• ForkLift2 - File Manager and FTP/SFTP/WebDAV/Amazon S3 client
• Path Finder - A powerful dual-pane browser alternative to Finder.
• TotalFinder - A powerful alternative to Finder.
• XtraFinder - Adds useful features to Finder.

Games

• OpenEmu - Multiple Video Game System.
• Screentendo - Turn your screen into a playable level of Mario.
• stockfish-mac - Beautiful, powerful chess application.

Productivity

• Alfred - Boosts your efficiency and productivity.
• Amethyst - Window manager (automatically keep windows sized in grids).
• Better Touch Tool - Configure gestures for mouse and actions for keyboard shortcuts.
• ClipMenu - ClipBoard History Manager.
• CloudClip - Sync your clipboard between your Mac and your iOS devices.
• Divvy Window Manager - Window management for tiling your windows.
• F.lux - Automatically adjust your computer screen to match lighting.
• HyperDock - Select individual application window.
• Karabiner - A powerful keyboard customizer.
• Quicksilver - Control your Mac quickly and elegantly.
• Spectacle - Easily organize windows without using a mouse.
• TextExpander - Create custom keyboard shortcuts for frequently-used text and pictures.
• Zooom/2 - Mac window management.

Sharing files

• Cloudapp - Capture and share files and screenshots instantly.
• Mac2Imgur - Upload images and screenshots to Imgur.

Terminal

• iTerm2 - A terminal emulator.
• TotalTerminal - A system-wide terminal available on a hot-key.

Utilities

• 1Password - Password Manager and Secure Wallet.
• Amphetamine - Prevents OS X from automatically going to sleep, with lots of configurations.
• AnyBar - A menubar status indicator.
• AppCleaner - Uninstall your apps easily.
• Bartender - Organize your menu bar apps.
• DaisyDisk - Analyze disk usage and free up disk space.
• Finicky - App that allows you to set rules that decide which browser is opened for every link.
• Helium - A floating browser window that allows you to watch media while you work.
• iStat Menus - An advanced system monitor for your menubar.
• Kawa - A better input source switcher with shortcuts.
• Keka - Compress to and extract from many archive file formats.
• MacDown - Markdown editor.
• Mackup - Keep your application settings in sync.
• Monodraw - A powerful ASCII art editor.
• Numi - Beautiful calculator app.
• Subtitles - Automatically downloads subtitles for your movies and TV shows.
• Teamviewer - Remotely control another computer.
• TheUnarchiver - Unarchive many different kinds of archive files.

Others

• Catch - The easiest way to use ShowRSS.
• gInbox - gInbox is a wrapper made for Mac around Inbox by Gmail.
• Hacky - Hacky provides browsing Hacker News in a clean and minimalistic way.
• mpv - Media player.
• Sonora - A minimal, beautifully designed music player.
• soundcleod - A browser for SoundCloud.
• Transmit - A FTP client.
• vienna-rss - RSS/Atom newsreader.

OS X Utilities

• Command Line Utilities Part 1
• Command Line Utilities Part 2
• Glances - System monitoring tool that runs in terminal.
• Thread on StackExchange

Setup

OS X 10.9 Mavericks Setup

• https://gist.github.com/kevinelliott/3135044
• https://gist.github.com/kimmobrunfeldt/350f4898d1b82cf10bce

OS X 10.10 Yosemite Setup

https://gist.github.com/kevinelliott/0726211d17020a6abc1f

Security

• MIDAS - Intrusion Detection Analysis System.
• OS-X-Yosemite-Security-and-Privacy-Guide
• OSXAuditor - A free computer forensics tool.
• santa - A binary whitelisting/blacklisting system.

Miscellaneous

• Trackpad Gestures
• Power Tools
• Show hidden files
• Mac Power Users

Discussion Forums

Apple

Apple Support Communities

IRC channels

• #macosx
• #apple
• #mac

MacRumors

OS X Yosemite

Reddit

• /r/osx
• /r/macapps
• /r/mac
• /r/macsetups

Contribute

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