Well, basically the title. I love trying out new apps across the whole ecosystem, but searching for them in the App store is not fun, and a bunch of apps I have used I found by accident in some posts or comments on the web.
So, the question is, what apps that are not widely known you use and recommend? Mac, iOS, iPadOS, WatchOS.
From me: WatchOS: TimeGlance that serves as date and time complication.
iOS/WatchOS: Duffy that serves only as a glanceable steps meter, with no fancy additions that many apps there have, and simple clean complications in watch.
iOS: Ermine, mainly serves me as a calendar widget that is better than the built in one, showing dots over the days that have some events and highlighting holidays.
iOS: Wristy, a widget to show my wrist temperature (requires Watch 8)
MacOS: Numi, a somewhat “natural language” calculator.
MacOS: Warp, a rich wrapper on the terminal.
WorkOutDoors for phone and watch. My favorite feature is being able to offline maps on my watch when I’m somewhere new and it leaves breadcrumbs so you can find your way back. It’s liberating to not have to take your phone everywhere while on vacation and also not get lost.
Paprika
I recently discovered this app, and am thoroughly impressed by it. Basically, you collect and curate recipes with it. It removes all the nonsense fluff, life stories, and ads from recipe pages, and saves only the recipe, ingredients, and directions.
Whenever I get a new computer I install these right away.
Used everyday:
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Alfred: customizable productivity tool. It’s a launcher, file searcher, web searcher, clipboard manager, snippet manager, script runner, etc with a robust community making scripts.
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Textpander: a text replacer I’ve been using before Apple’s and Alfred’s solutions.
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Bettertouchtool: customize keyboard and trackpad shortcuts
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Notational Velocity/nVALT + Obsidian: note taking synced across my devices. NValt for quick notes while Obsidian is for long form and personal knowledge management. Just plain text files in a communal vault somewhere.
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Dropbox: mainly used to sync settings for apps and notes across devices.
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1Password: password generation and management for me and my girlfriend. A little pricey, but I love it. been researching alternatives.
Also handy:
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Better Rename 9: rename files. Replace characters or strings, add in number sequencing, convert casing, etc. I have a lot of photos and work with a lot of images so this comes in handy
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Copyqueue: file copy. Enables a queue for file copy.
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Hidden Bar: menu bar management
For my watch:
- App in the Air: is a nice airport companion that visually shows the airplane phases (boarding, flight duration) with accompanying info (like gates and delays)
+1 for alfred, 1password, and dropbox.
I’ve been using Bear for notes forever, syncs across all apple devices, and is super nicely designed. My only gripe is that encryption doesn’t work with files attached to the text.
I use bartender to manage my menu bar. Not super happy, might check out hidden bar.
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I’ve recently fallen pretty hard for Anytype (http://anytype.io). It’s a knowledge store/second brain application like Notion except it is decentralized, end to end encrypted, P2P, and open source. It has a little bit of a learning curve, but now that I’m comfortable with it, I can’t help but keep dumping information into it. Even though it is still “beta” it is really solid, and I feel really comfortable relying on it more and more.
raycast as an alternative to alfred
Blackhole: Allows you to split/duplicate/route audio between apps on your Mac.
there’s a very old app on iOS (and hasn’t been updated in ages as well) called Asphaltgold Fittingroom where you can enter your shoe size on a certain sneaker model and then it’ll let you know what size you’d need for another model, even across different brands
i use it all the time when buying sneakers that are new to me it’s great
Memmy
wrote the post from this app ^^
Nice 👍
