Mac Apps

Free Apps

• iTerm2 - The best terminal. Support Vim better. See this gist for tips and tricks.
• CotEditor - A simple and neat plain text editor.
• Skim - A PDF reader designed for annotating academic papers.
• IINA - A more powerful video player.
• The Unarchiver - Decompress RAR, 7-Zip, Tar, etc.
• DaisyDisk (Freemium) - Examine disk usage with a pie chart.
• Image2icon (Freemium) - Create custom icons for files and folders.
• ‎GIF Brewery 3 - Create GIF from videos.

Paid Apps

• 1Password (Subscription) - A great password manager.
• Day One (Subscription) - Write diaries.
• Pixelmator Pro (One-time payment) - A great image editor.
• Sketch (One-time payment) - A vector UI design tool.
• Final Cut Pro X (One-time payment) - Apple's professional video editor.
• Marked 2 (One-time payment) - Markdown previewer (not editor).

Command-line

• Homebrew - Free and open source package manager for command line tools (like apt-get in Ubuntu).

Menu Bar

cmd and mouse drag to rearrange menu bar icons.

• Itsycal - Show mini calendar with event integration.
• CornerCal - Show mini calendar with Mac native style.
• Semulov - Show the number of mounted volumes and a menu to eject them.
• Display Menu - Change screen resolution and toggle mirroring from the menu bar.

Keyboard & Mouse

• MagicPrefs - Enable three-finger click on trackpad as middle click (dragging in Accessibility will lose effect).
• Scroll Reverser - Different scroll directions for mouse and trackpad.
• Karabiner-Elements - Remap keyboard keys, such as a smart Caps Lock.

Finder QuickLook

Space or Force Click on files. Require Homebrew to install.

• QuicklookStephen - Preview plain text files. brew cask install qlstephen
• QLColorCode - Preview source code files with syntax highlighting. brew cask install qlcolorcode
• QLMarkdown - Preview Markdown files. brew cask install qlmarkdown