My favorite macOS apps

Very opinionated list of best macOS apps. I use these daily after considering a bunch of alternatives.

Time tracking and utils

• Tyme - very polished app for tracking time and putting up basic invoices
• WakaTime - automatic time tracking when no invocing is needed, integrates with NeoVim
• Pandan - minimalistic "time awareness" app (reminds to have a break)
• iSmartClock - nice minimalist desktop clock for Mac

Terminal

• Ghostty - a terminal with a much better macOS support than, say, Alacritty (my previous go-to terminal); check out my config

Automation

• Keyboard Maestro
• BetterTouchTool

Postgres client

• Postico - recently got lots of great new features

Mail client

• MailMate - no-BS email client that allows conveniently deleting all messages from the same sender, a time saver

RSS client

• ReadKit

Personal knowledge base

• Obsidian

Screenshots

• Xnip

Battery health

• AlDente -- prevents battery from charging to 100%

Menu bar

• Ice -- a polished open-source alternative to Bartender (which, beside being a paid app, started crashing way too often)

Monitoring

• Stats -- open-source menu bar utils to monitor system activity