
Lossless audio decoder, I use this to convert Flac to Apple Lossless while automatically dropping this into the iTunes watch folder so it gets added automatically.Offline documentation and snippets, I mostly use it for the snippets because it supports placeholders in snippets too.Torrent client, whitelisted on most trackers.My favorite OpenVPN client because it doesn’t look as ugly as Tunnelblick and does everything I need.Twitter client without sponsored tweets and ads, supports multiple accounts, muting etc.One of my most used apps and the best IRC client on macOS, lots of features, ZNC support, Tor support included.


Screen is less bright at night so your eyes start to hurt…later.Docker.app is a very easy way to have the docker deamon running on your Mac.mitm proxy capatable of mitm’ing SSL connections, very useful for reverse engineering APIs.Bootable Backups to an external HD on top of TimeMachine and Arq.Automatically upload screenshots to your own server and copying URL to clipboard.Converting eBooks and move them to Kindle, ugly but it’s the best for this use case.Use it as a window manager (cmd + shift + arrow key to move window around the screen), couldn’t live without that.Text editor for Go development with go-plus.Client side encrypted backups to a bunch of services, I use it for Amazon Drive, Google Drive and my own server via SCP.

Delete apps and clean up related files like preferences and other clutter.1Password also has a web interface so you don’t have to install the program if you are on some other computer.iOS sync, all my important documents / certificates are stored in there and sync with my phone and browser extensions.As this will probably happen again I’ll just keep this list here so I can easily link to it. Someone who just bought his first Mac asked me which essential (GUI) apps I currently use that I could recommend to him.
