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