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The apps (on Mac) that I cannot live without

· One min read
Daniel G
Developer

Maccy

Maccy is a lightweight clipboard manager for macOS. It keeps the history of what you copy and lets you quickly navigate, search, and use previous clipboard contents.

Project site: https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy.

Features:

  • Open source and free
  • Keyboard-first
  • Lightweight and fast
  • Secure and private
  • Options to past automatically and paste without formatting
  • It can ignore applications like password managers

Hammerspoon

It is an open source tool for powerful automation of OS X. You can write Lua scripts to control many aspects of your OS X environment.

I mainly use it to configure global shortcuts for applications (my config).

Project site: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon

Vim

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient.

I use Vim whenever possible, for example: VS Code (Cursor), Sublime Text, Intellij Idea etc (my config).

Project site: https://github.com/vim/vim