# Awesome Mac Apps

Curated list of awesome mac apps

## Creative and Ideas

- Audio Hijack - records audio from essentially any device.
- Camtasia - is a screen recorder with some light duty video editing tools.
- Fission - lossless audio editing.
- Mindnode - is a great way to visualize ideas and brainstorm. A good way to connect the dots.
- PageLayers - is an app that will take a webpage and convert it into a layered PSD file.
- Sketch - lightweight web mock-up tool.
- VLC - open source multimedia and video player.
- Writer Pro - is a minimalist notetaking and distraction free writing tool.
- xScope - is engineered for measuring, inspecting, and fine tuning graphics.

## Utilities

- A Better Finder Rename - is a great way to mass rename files based on predetermined sorting and filtering, as well as complex regular expressions.
- Better Snap Tool - allows you to quickly resize windows with hotkeys.
- ChronoSync - commercial grade file sync. ChronoSync is a nice GUI with some added features on rsync.
- CleanApp - is essentially a disk clean up and app un-install utility.
- Cocktail - is a utility to clear cache, fix permissions, adjust settings, and optimize OS X.
- Divvy - is a nice compliment to Better Snap and it has a nice grid structure for arranging multiple windows.
- ExpanDrive - is a good way to connect to S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive etc. without installing all the standalone apps.
- iStat Menus - is a system monitor that lives in your menubar. Useful for monitoring network traffic and speed, hard drive and cpu status, and apps using significant energy.
- MacDropAny - allows you to sync local and external folders with symbolic links to services like Dropbox.
- SuperDuper! - is a great hard drive cloning and system recovery tool.
- Transmit - makes transferring files between servers and cloud services an effortless process. This is a great app for integrating with AWS.
- Pareto Security - a MenuBar app to automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene.

## Developer Tools

- BBEdit - another minimalist text editor.
- Coda - front-end web code IDE.
- CodeKit - front-end code compiler, browser refresh, and ready to rock.
- ColorSnapper - is an easy-to-use app to find the precise color of any pixel on the screen.
- Icon Slate - makes retina ready favicons in a couple clicks.
- MAMP PRO - is a good solution for developing and testing websites on your local machine.
- Sublime Text - is a great working text editor with lots of plugins and community support.
- Tower - is elegant and easy to use GUI for GIT.
- xScope - is engineered for measuring, inspecting, and fine tuning graphics.
- VS Code - excellent multipurpose IDE.

## Business

- PCalc - is a scientific calculator with support for lots of complicated conversions and tasks.
- Parallels - is a great app for running Linux or Windows virtual machines on your Mac.
- Wizard - is a great compliment to a spreadsheet program to build predictive models and analyze data sets.