App Recommendations
Software that I use and like. None of which are electron apps.
Linux
- Arch Linux -- A fine Linux distribution
- CopyQ -- Clipboard manager
- Corebird -- Twitter client
- Enpass -- Password manager
- Firefox -- Web browser
- GNOME -- Desktop environment
- Geary -- Email client
- NeovimGTK -- Text editor
- Tilix -- Tiling terminal emulator
iPhone
- 1Blocker -- Block ads and tracking scripts on web pages
- Amoraq -- Mastodon client
- Authy -- 2-Factor auth app that's not by Google
- CamCard -- Business card scanner
- Clips -- Clipboard manager
- Digitally Imported -- Streaming electronic music radio
- Editorial -- Markdown editor with powerful Python workflows and Dropbox support
- Enpass -- Password manager
- Firefox -- Web browser
- GON -- Mastodon client
- Hydra -- Enhanced low light and zoomed photos
- Instapaper -- Save web pages and email for reading later, clutter free
- Mail to Self -- Send links to yourself
- Overcast -- Podcast client
- PDFpen Scan+ -- Scanner, PDF generation, OCR
- Paprika -- Recipe manager (syncs with Mac)
- Pinpoint -- Markup screenshots with text and arrows
- Pocket Weather Australia -- Weather from the BOM
- Prompt -- SSH client
- Reeder -- RSS reader
- Scan -- Fast QR code scanner
- Simplenote -- Synced text notes
- SymbolMate
- Tweetbot -- A better Twitter client
- Vivino -- Take a photo of a wine bottle and get reviews
Mac OS X
- 1Blocker -- Content blocker
- 1Password (App Store) -- Password manager
- Alfred -- Quick launcher, search, clipboard manager, workflows for efficient keyboard operation of your Mac
- AquaPath (App Store) -- Interactive XPath evaluator
- Backblaze -- Online backup
- BrowseShot (App Store) -- Take full length screenshots of websites
- Dash (App Store) -- "API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager"
- Divvy (App Store) -- Window manager and organiser
- Fluid -- Create single site browsers (app wrappers around a website)
- Flux -- Automatic display colour adjustment to reduce impact of using screens at night
- Gif Brewery (App Store) -- Animated GIF builder
- Hocus Focus -- Automatically hide apps you haven't used after a preset time
- ImageAlpha -- Reduce the size of transparent PNGs
- ImageOptim -- Reduce the size of images
- iTerm -- Better Terminal
- Karabiner -- A powerful keyboard customiser
- Marked (App Store) -- Live Markdown preview
- MoneyWell (App Store) -- Envelope budgeting done right
- Paprika (App Store) -- Recipe manager
- PDFpen (App Store) -- PDF editor
- Pixelmator (App Store) -- Photoshop alternative
- Postico -- PostgreSQL GUI
- Reeder (App Store) -- RSS Reader
- Sequel Pro -- MySQL GUI
- Simplenote (App Store) -- Plain text notes with tags, sharing and syncing
- The Unarchiver (App Store) -- Unarchive files (Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, RAR, 7-zip, and more)
- Things -- (App Store) Task management
- Viscosity -- VPN Client
- xScope (App Store) -- "Set of tools that are ideal for measuring, inspecting & testing on-screen graphics and layouts"
Command Line
- Neovim -- A better
vim
(built-in terminal is awesome) - Syncthing -- Peer-to-peer file sync (like Dropbox but files are not stored in the cloud)
- Tarsnap -- Secure online backup
- dot -- Dot file manager
- exa --
ls
replacement - fd -- Alternative to
find
- jq --
awk
for JSON (also pretty prints JSON) - pwgen -- Password generator
- restic -- Encrypted, incremental, verifiable, efficient backups
- ripgrep -- Fast text search
- tig -- curses git client
- vifm -- Vi inspired file browser that enables powerful bulk operations
Online
- DuckDuckGo -- Search that doesn't track you
- FastMail -- Email (you should own your identity)
- Feedbin -- RSS reader and sync engine
- One-Time Secret -- Send a secret that is viewable once only
- Mastodon -- Federated, open source social network
- Privacy Badger -- Privacy preserving ad blocker that learns which websites are tracking you and blocks them
Other
- PragmataPro -- Programming font
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