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Larsen's recommendations for Mac apps
  • 1Password - Great password manager
  • Alfred - Handy replacement for Spotlight
  • AlphaBaby - Fun app for kids to button mash your keyboard and more
  • Bartender - Hide some menu bar apps in its own menu
  • Charles - Great proxy tool
  • Chatology - Great way to read your iMessages logs (Discontinued, for Catalina or lower)
  • CleanMyMac X - Tidy up your computer (this app is legit)
  • CloudApp - Nice way to store your screenshots in the cloud, annotate them, share them, and more
  • Discord - Place to chat
  • EasyFind - Handy way to search files
  • EtreCheckPro - Do a report of your computer
  • Geekbench 5 - Do a benchmark test of your computer
  • Gemini 2 - Find duplicate files and remove them
  • Google Drive - Manage your Google Drive files
  • HandBrake - Encode videos
  • HazeOver - Dim other windows on your Mac to avoid distractions
  • Hex Fiend - The best hex editor for Mac
  • iStat Menus - Cool menu bar widgets
  • iTerm2 - Great Terminal replacement
  • Jump Desktop - Fast and efficient remote desktop server and client
  • Keka - Great tool to compress and extract archives
  • Kid Pix 5 - The best drawing tool for kids
  • Mactracker - Very handy tool to browse a library of Apple devices
  • MacUpdater - Fantastic app to update your Mac apps, finds the most updates than other apps
  • Magnet - Arrange Mac windows
  • OBS - Very useful if you like to stream or record
  • Parallels Desktop - The best virtual machine software for the Mac, and the fastest
  • Postman - Handy for HTTP requests
  • PrusaSlicer - Great tool for slicing for 3D printers
  • ScreenFlow - Great screen recording software
  • Textual - The best IRC client for Mac
  • The Print Shop 4 - Amazing tool to make printables, signs, cards, and more with so many features
  • The Unarchiver - Great tool to extract dozens of archive formats
  • Tot - Great note taking app
  • Transmission - The best torrent client for Mac
  • Transmit - The best FTP client for Mac
  • Visual Studio Code - Great text and code editor
  • VLC - Great media player
  • Wireshark - Great network tool
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