Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser?

k310•about 1 hour ago

Ublock-origin with Firefox, Audacity, Batch Photo Resizer, calibre, cardflow, Diffraction, Ejimo and Ultra Character Map (try finding emojis without them), Libre Office, Paprika Recipe Manager, Samurai Safe, SeaMonkey (who else edits HTML?) GIMP, Darktable, RawTherapee, Super Photo Upscaler, Sublime Text, VLC, Clearview (and why isn't epub supported natively?), PhotoSync (share photos with all platforms), GhostText for editing browser text areas with Sublime Text or other. (life-saver)

Ones I actually use.

CobaltFire•about 3 hours ago

Heres my list:

Transnomino (https://www.transnomino.com/)

StillColor (https://github.com/aiaf/Stillcolor)

SublimeText (https://www.sublimetext.com/)

Homebrew (https://brew.sh/)

VLC (https://www.videolan.org/)

Macs Fan Control (https://crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control)

Rectangle (https://rectangleapp.com/)

NetBird (https://netbird.io/)

Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/)

Honestly its not huge and most are probably obvious, but those are what I immediately install on my machines. Looking forward to seeing alternatives or new must-haves.

simonebrunozzi•about 3 hours ago

pretty good. Which browser do you use?

CobaltFire•about 3 hours ago

Safari for most things, Chromium if I have to for something.

I didn't toss those there because those (and IDEs and SSH/Terminal clients) are very opinionated and everyone has their favorites.

swah•about 1 hour ago

Raycast (also does window management, dictation), Chrome, Ghostty, Karabiner..

smcleod•about 3 hours ago

Handy, Cotypist, Markedit, Ghostty Tip, BetterTouchTool, GoodLinks, Pixelmator Pro, Handbrake, Zed, Onyx, LittleSnitch (or LuLu), Chezmoi, Stats, Shottr, llama.cpp, oMLX, LM Studio, Parcel, Things, OrbStack, Msty Studio.

bobbiechen•about 3 hours ago

Magnet app (for window splitting) is usually one of my first installs. I think I paid like $7 for it years ago and it's well worth it.

mankhb2k•about 3 hours ago

Malwarebytes, Microsoft Office. That's the software I'll install when I buy a new device.

mortar•about 3 hours ago

Hammerspoon, Little snitch, iTerm2, Chezmoi, Orion

unmanageduck•about 2 hours ago

Package manager: Nix(alternative to homebrew) https://nixos.org/download/#nix-install-macos

Package management: Nix-darwin https://github.com/nix-darwin/nix-darwin

Browsers: - Librewolf https://librewolf.net - Tor https://www.torproject.org - Orion https://orionbrowser.com

Video downloader: Yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Video/audio player: Mpv https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv