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Software I use

for macOS


Essentials

  • Kitty - terminal
  • AltTab - fixes alt tab with window previews
  • AeroSpace - Tiling WM
  • Homerow - Keybinds for clicking on stuff
  • LinearMouse - Mouse accerlation for trackpad and mouse and scrolling
  • Sketchybar
  • Affinity Suite
  • Shottr - screenshots
  • Pixelmator pro
  • Supercharge - various mac fixes
  • Raycast - cant live without this
  • System Color Picker
  • Screen studio - smooth screen recordings
  • SuperKey - caps lock rebind
  • Loop - manual window management
  • MediaMate - fix volume/brightness popup
  • Folder Preview
  • CompressX - pretty good ffmpeg wrapper with nice ui
  • motrix - good torrent client
  • Displaperture - round display corners
  • IINA - good video player
  • Shareful - more useful options in share menu

Editors

  • Zed
  • Nvim
  • VScode
  • Trae (lots of free claude)
  • Cursor
  • Xcode (noooooo)

CLI tools

  • exa - ls replacement
  • fish shell - mostly posix compilant shell replacement faster than zsh
  • zoxide - cd replacement
  • btop - better top
  • bat - cat replacement w/ syntax highlighting
  • lazygit - good git tui
  • ripgrep - better grep
  • uv - best python env management tool
  • ffmpeg - you already know what this is