# Awesome Mac Apps
Curated list of awesome mac apps

## Creative and Ideas

- [Audio Hijack](http://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/) - records audio from essentially any device.
- [Camtasia](http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html) - is a screen recorder with some light duty video editing tools. 
- [Fission](http://rogueamoeba.com/fission/) - lossless audio editing. 
- [Mindnode](http://mindnode.com/) - is a great way to visualize ideas and brainstorm.  A good way to connect the dots.
- [PageLayers](http://www.pagelayers.com/) - is an app that will take a webpage and convert it into a layered PSD file.
- [Sketch](http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/) - lightweight web mock-up tool. 
- [VLC](http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html) - open source multimedia and video player. 
- [Writer Pro](http://writer.pro/) - is a minimalist notetaking and distraction free writing tool. 
- [xScope](http://xscopeapp.com/) - is engineered for measuring, inspecting, and fine tuning graphics.


## Utilities

- [A Better Finder Rename](http://www.publicspace.net/BetterRename/) - is a great way to mass rename files based on predetermined sorting and filtering, as well as complex regular expressions. 
- [Better Snap Tool](http://blog.boastr.net/) - allows you to quickly resize windows with hotkeys. 
- [ChronoSync](http://www.econtechnologies.com/chronosync/overview.html) - commercial grade file sync.  ChronoSync is a nice GUI with some added features on rsync. 
- [CleanApp](http://www.syniumsoftware.com/cleanapp/) - is essentially a disk clean up and app un-install utility. 
- [Cocktail](http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/) - is a utility to clear cache, fix permissions, adjust settings, and optimize OS X. 
- [Divvy](http://mizage.com/divvy/) - is a nice compliment to Better Snap and it has a nice grid structure for arranging multiple windows.  
- [ExpanDrive](http://www.expandrive.com/) - is a good way to connect to S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive etc. without installing all the standalone apps. 
- [iStat Menus](http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/) - 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](http://www.zibity.com/macdropany.html) - allows you to sync local and external folders with symbolic links to services like Dropbox.
- [SuperDuper!](http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html) - is a great hard drive cloning and system recovery tool.
- [Transmit](http://panic.com/transmit/) - makes transferring files between servers and cloud services an effortless process.  This is a great app for integrating with AWS. 
- [Pareto Security](https://github.com/paretoSecurity/pareto-mac/) - a MenuBar app to automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene.



## Developer Tools

- [BBEdit](http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/) - another minimalist text editor. 
- [Coda](http://www.panic.com/coda/) - front-end web code IDE. 
- [CodeKit](http://incident57.com/codekit/) - front-end code compiler, browser refresh, and ready to rock.
- [ColorSnapper](http://www.colorsnapper.com/) - is an easy-to-use app to find the precise color of any pixel on the screen.
- [Icon Slate](http://kodlian.com/apps/icon-slate) - makes retina ready favicons in a couple clicks. 
- [MAMP PRO](http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp-pro/) - is a good solution for developing and testing websites on your local machine. 
- [Sublime Text](http://www.sublimetext.com/) - is a great working text editor with lots of plugins and community support. 
- [Tower](http://www.git-tower.com/) - is elegant and easy to use GUI for GIT. 
- [xScope](http://xscopeapp.com/) - is engineered for measuring, inspecting, and fine tuning graphics.
- [VS Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) - excellent multipurpose IDE.

## Business

- [PCalc](http://www.pcalc.com/) - is a scientific calculator with support for lots of complicated conversions and tasks.
- [Parallels](http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/) - is a great app for running Linux or Windows virtual machines on your Mac.
- [Wizard](http://www.wizardmac.com/) - is a great compliment to a spreadsheet program to build predictive models and analyze data sets.
