Honestly its not huge and most are probably obvious, but those are what I immediately install on my machines. Looking forward to seeing alternatives or new must-haves.
simonebrunozzi 6 hours ago [-]
pretty good. Which browser do you use?
CobaltFire 6 hours ago [-]
Safari for most things, Chromium if I have to for something.
I didn't toss those there because those (and IDEs and SSH/Terminal clients) are very opinionated and everyone has their favorites.
k310 4 hours ago [-]
Ublock-origin with Firefox, Audacity, Batch Photo Resizer, calibre, cardflow, Diffraction, Ejimo and Ultra Character Map (try finding emojis without them), Libre Office, Paprika Recipe Manager, Samurai Safe, SeaMonkey (who else edits HTML?) GIMP, Darktable, RawTherapee, Super Photo Upscaler, Sublime Text, VLC, Clearview (and why isn't epub supported natively?), PhotoSync (share photos with all platforms), GhostText for editing browser text areas with Sublime Text or other. (life-saver)
Ones I actually use.
al_borland 3 hours ago [-]
I always come back to Safari.
I’d install apps based on your needs. If you install other people’s must-have apps, you’re not going to have such a clean install anymore.
swah 4 hours ago [-]
Raycast (also does window management, dictation), Chrome, Ghostty, Karabiner..
Transnomino (https://www.transnomino.com/)
StillColor (https://github.com/aiaf/Stillcolor)
SublimeText (https://www.sublimetext.com/)
Homebrew (https://brew.sh/)
VLC (https://www.videolan.org/)
Macs Fan Control (https://crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control)
Rectangle (https://rectangleapp.com/)
NetBird (https://netbird.io/)
Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/)
Honestly its not huge and most are probably obvious, but those are what I immediately install on my machines. Looking forward to seeing alternatives or new must-haves.
I didn't toss those there because those (and IDEs and SSH/Terminal clients) are very opinionated and everyone has their favorites.
Ones I actually use.
I’d install apps based on your needs. If you install other people’s must-have apps, you’re not going to have such a clean install anymore.
Package management: Nix-darwin https://github.com/nix-darwin/nix-darwin
Browsers: - Librewolf https://librewolf.net - Tor https://www.torproject.org - Orion https://orionbrowser.com
Video downloader: Yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Video/audio player: Mpv https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv
Video editor: LosslessCut https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut
Video encoding: Ffmpeg https://search.nixos.org/packages?&query=ffmpeg
Office suite: LibreOffice https://www.libreoffice.org
IDE: Zed https://github.com/zed-industries/zed
Window management: Rectangle https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
Menubar system monitor: Stats https://github.com/exelban/stats
Screen tweaks: MonitorControl https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl
Autorun checker: KnockKnock https://github.com/objective-see/KnockKnock
Video streaming platforms: Grayjay https://grayjay.app/desktop
Communication: Signal https://signal.org/download/macos
Torrenting: Transmission https://github.com/transmission/transmission
VPN: Mullvad https://mullvad.net/en/download/vpn/macos
DNS: NextDNS https://nextdns.io
Add the following in denylist to block the constant communication with apple servers:
aaplimg.com
apple-cloudkit.com
apple.com
apple.com.akadns.net
apple.com.edgekey.net
apple-dns.net
apple.news
cdn-apple.com
icloud-content.com
icloud.com
me.com
mzstatic.com
push-apple.com.akadns.net
safebrowsing.apple
Connect to the mac from anywhere: Tailscale https://tailscale.com/download/mac