System Battery / Power management Name ⇵ Description ⇵ Get it ⇵ ⇵ ⇵ Batteries Track all your devices' batteries from your Mac. Website coconutBattery Inspect your battery life and get live and current health information, as well in your menu bar. Website Juice! Keeps an eye on your laptop’s battery charge level and can play a sound when it’s time to plug in or when it’s OK to disconnect from the mains. AppStore Wattagio Powerful battery assistant for your Mac. It gives you information about current battery health, including battery life, battery consumption, and battery cycle count. Website FruitJuice FruitJuice will let you know how long to stay unplugged each day to keep your battery healthy. AppStore App Tamer Detect applications and take control over apps that is resource hogs. App Tamer will automatically slow down or pause your applications whenever you're not using them, greatly reducing their CPU use. Website Power Manager Automate sophisticated tasks and improve your Mac's power management. Website Battery Monitor Display and monitor internal battery information Website Endurence Add a power-saving mode for our Mac and boost your battery. Website Apple Juice Advanced battery gauge for macOS, that displays the remaining battery time and more. Github Magic Battery Mini Shows the battery level of supported input devices and headphones that are connected via Bluetooth. AppStore Magic Battery Shows the battery level of supported input devices and headphones that are connected via Bluetooth in the menu bar. Internal batteries are also supported. AppStore Better Battery Monitoring battery health AppStore
Bluetooth Name ⇵ Description ⇵ Get it ⇵ ⇵ ⇵ Juice The missing Bluetooth manager for mac (Note: No longer maintained, tested and works in Catalina). Website AirBuddy AirBuddy brings the same AirPods experience you have on iOS to the Mac. Website
Desktop Name ⇵ Description ⇵ Get it ⇵ ⇵ ⇵ Free My Desktop Automatically hides all the icons from your desktop, the dock and the menubar. Website HiddenMe Hide your desktop icons with a single click AppStore
Device management (MDM) Display Name ⇵ Description ⇵ Get it ⇵ ⇵ ⇵ SwitchResX Get full control of your displays Website f.lux It makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day. Website MonitorControl Control your external monitor brightness & volume on your Mac Github GammaControl Per-screen color adjustments. AppStore QuickRes Quick and simple resolution changer for MacOS as a menubar dropdown. Website Displays Manage your monitors and more Website NightTone Makes your screen more comfortable, enjoyable and healthier by shifting the colors of your display to a warmer, eye-friendly palette. AppStore EasyRes A fast screen resolution switcher for Mac OS X with live previews. AppStore RapidRes This allows to change the display resolution from the title bar. AppStore RDM Enable and use highest and unsupported resolutions from the menu bar. Github
File system / Drivers Name ⇵ Description ⇵ Get it ⇵ ⇵ ⇵ FUSE for MacOS FUSE extends macOS by adding support for user space file systems Website Mounty for NTFS A tiny tool to re-mount write-protected NTFS volumes under macOS in read-write mode. Website Paragon NTFS for Mac Seamless first-class support for NTFS. Write, edit, copy, move and delete files easy on your Mac. Website Paragon extFS for Mac Read or write files from HDD, SSD or flash drives formatted under Linux ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems. Just connect the disk and access the files. Website Blue Harvest BlueHarvest keeps your devices free of macOS and Windows metadata such as ._ files, .DS_Store files, .Trashes, Thumbs.db, Desktop.ini and $RECYCLE.BIN etc. AppStore Microsoft NTFS by Tuxera Get reliable read-write compatibility for all NTFS-formatted USB drives Website AutoMounter AutoMounter ensures that your shares are always mounted when you need them. AppStore
Keyboard Name ⇵ Description ⇵ Get it ⇵ ⇵ ⇵ KeyCastr An open-source keystroke visualizer Github Karabiner-Elements A powerful and stable keyboard customizer for macOS. Website Visualize Visualize allows you to highlight your key presses and mouse clicks right on your desktop! AppStore Key Codes Displays the key code, unicode value, and modifier keys state for any key combination you press AppStore KeyBell Plays relaxing and nostalgic mechanical sound every time you type something on your keyboard. AppStore CapsLocker Get a hint that you just enabled (or disabled) caps lock. AppStore
Management Name ⇵ Description ⇵ Get it ⇵ ⇵ ⇵ AppCleaner A small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps. Website TrashMe Clean and uninstall, the perfect way Website DaisyDisk Analyze disk usage and clear up space AppStore LaunchControl LaunchControl is a fully-featured launchd GUI allowing you to create, manage and debug system- and user services on your Mac. Website Lingon An easy to use yet powerful app to run things automatically Website Disk Inventory X Disk usage utility for Mac OS X. It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called "treemaps". Website OmniDiskSweeper This shows you the files on your drive, largest to smallest, and lets you quickly Trash or open them. Website Darksight Visualize your disk, so you can easily find and remove large folders and files that might be not needed anymore. AppStore Launch Services Uses the macOS Launch Services API to perform lookups of bundle IDs and file extensions. Website Disk Space Analyzer A powerful disk usage scanning and reporting utility for Mac. AppStore DiskSight Visualize your drive or folder AppStore
Mouse / Trackpad Name ⇵ Description ⇵ Get it ⇵ ⇵ ⇵ BetterTouchTool BetterTouchTool is a great, feature packed app that allows you to customize various input devices on your Mac. Website Mos A lightweight tool used to smooth scrolling and set scroll direction independently for your mouse on MacOS. Website SmoothScroll Give your mouse wheel buttery smooth scrolling. Website Swish Control windows and applications right from your trackpad with intuitive two-finger swipe, pinch, tap and hold gestures. Website Mouseposé Add spotlight to your mouse cursor. Website Middle Add middle click to your Mac Website MultiTouch Easily add more gestures to macOS. Website SteerMouse A utility that lets you freely customize buttons, wheels and cursor speed. Both USB and Bluetooth mice are supported. Website CursorSense An application that adjusts cursor acceleration and sensitivity. It can move the cursor to a specified destination, such as OK and Cancel button automatically. Website Keymou Keyboard control of your mouse AppStore Scroll reverse Reverse the direction of scrolling, with independent settings for trackpads and mice. Website Scrollow Control various system parameters and issue control events without touching function keys or using Touch Bar. AppStore Noo mouse Map mouse buttons and multi-touch gestures to any combination of keys. AppStore
Notification Center Name ⇵ Description ⇵ Get it ⇵ ⇵ ⇵ muzzle A simple app to silence embarrasing notifications while screensharing. Website
Package management Name ⇵ Description ⇵ Get it ⇵ ⇵ ⇵ Homebrew Most popular and easy to use package manager for MacOS. Website MacPorts Ports for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line X11 or Aqua based open-source software. Website MAS Mac App Store command line interface Github Cakebrew The Mac App (GUI) for Homebrew. Website Latest App for macOS that checks if all your apps are up to date. Website
Sleep Name ⇵ Description ⇵ Get it ⇵ ⇵ ⇵ Lungo Prevent your Mac from going to sleep AppStore KeepingYouAwake Prevents your Mac from going to sleep. Github Amphetamine Amphetamine can keep your Mac, and optionally its display(s), awake through a super simple on/off switch, or automatically through easy-to-configure Triggers. AppStore Coffee Buzz Easiest and safest display-sleep preventer available wuth an safety auto-shutoff feature. AppStore
Name ⇵ Description ⇵ Get it ⇵ ⇵ ⇵ Intel MacCPUID MacCPUID is a tool used for displaying information collected from the microprocessor via the CPUID instruction. Website Intel Power Gadget Software-based power usage monitoring tool for Intel CPUs Website Sensei Monitor, tweak and optimize your Mac with a easy to see dashboard. Website iStat Menus An advanced system monitor for your menubar. AppStore EtreCheck Produce a comprehensive diagnostic report on the current state of your computer. This report includes details about hardware, installed software, and performance. AppStore Sloth Show all open files, directories, sockets, pipes and devices in use by all running processes. GUI for lsof. Website iStatistica Advanced system monitor for macOS. It includes notification center widget and status bar menu AppStore FreeSpace Show free space of your drives in a menubar app, including TimeMachine and hidden local TimeMachine snapshots. AppStore Stats Simple macOS system monitor in your menu bar to show cpu, ram, network, battery and sensors. Github Silicon Scan macOS apps and display their supported CPU architecture. Github Hot Menu bar app that displays the CPU speed limit due to thermal issues. Github Go64 Check to see which of your applications are "Universal Apps" and which ones need to be updated. Website System Monitor Menu bar app, designed to inform you unobtrusively about the activity of your computer. AppStore
Tiling window managers Name ⇵ Description ⇵ Get it ⇵ ⇵ ⇵ Yabai A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning. Github Amethyst Tiling window manager for macOS along the lines of xmonad. Website
System Tweaks Name ⇵ Description ⇵ Get it ⇵ ⇵ ⇵ Fanny Notification Center Widget and Menu Bar application to monitor your Macs fans. Website Monolingual A tool for removing unneeded language localization files for macOS Github New File Menu New File Menu allows you to create new files quickly via the Finder context menu. AppStore Context Menu Context Menu is a configurable contextual menu extension for Finder. AppStore PrefEdit PrefEdit is an application to manage nearly all aspects of the preference system contained in every macOS installation. Website Prefs Editor A GUI for the 'defaults' command. a.k.a. the Registry Editor for macOS. Website Easy New File A finder extension which adds some functions in right click menu in the Finder AppStore Macs Fan Control Real-time monitoring of fan speeds and temperatures Website iPreview Add support for all kinds of file types MacOS can't preview in Finder, QuickLook and Spotlight. AppStore SlowQuitApps Add a global delay to Command-Q to stop accidental app quits. Github CommandQ Never accidentally quit an app or mistakenly close a window again. Website
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