Best Mac Apps

Best Mac Apps: Frank Eves’ shortcut to getting the best software for your Mac.

• 1Password create strong, unique passwords, remember them, restore them
• Aperture refine images, showcase photos and manage massive libraries
• AppDelete uninstall applications, widgets, preference panes, plugins, screensavers along with their associated files
• Apple iLife iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand
• Apple iWork Pages, Numbers and Keynote
• Art Text create textual graphics, headings, logos, icons, web site elements and buttons
• BBEdit HTML and text editor
• BetterZip compress, decompress and manage your archives
• Carbon Copy Cloner backup featuring scheduled clones
• ColorSchemer Studio create professional color schemes
• CrashPlan offsite backup
• DEVONthink Pro Office manage info with AI help
• Direct Mail create, manage, and deliver powerful email marketing campaigns
• Dragon Dictate input text by speaking
• Dropbox share files
• ForkLift advanced file manager and FTP/SFTP/TLS/Amazon S3/WEBDav client
• Google Earth the world’s geographic information at your fingertips
• Growl lets Mac apps unobtrusively tell you when things happen
• HoudahSpot makes good on the promise of quickly finding the files you search for
• Knox secure your files create as many encrypted vaults as you want
• Labels & Addresses design and print address, shipping, file folder and barcode labels
• LicenseKeeper track information related to your purchased software
• OmniGraffle Professional create diagrams, process charts, quick page-layouts, websites, wireframes or graphic designs
• OmniOutliner Professional more than just an outlining tool
• Panorama Sheets powerful database with the familiar simplicity of a spreadsheet
• PCalc fully featured scientific calculator supports hexadecimal, octal and binary calculations, RPN mode, parentheses, programmable functions, and unit conversions
• PDFpenPro edit PDFs, create and edit forms
• PopChar get the most out of your fonts, special characters a few clicks away
• PTHPasteboard PRO multiple pasteboard
• Reeder Google RSS reader
• ScreenFlow screencasting, capture contents of monitor, video camera, microphone and computer’s audio at the same time
• Skitch screen capture, crop, resize, sketch… then share
• Skype free computer to computer voice and video calls
• Sound Studio record and edit digital audio
• Syncman synchronizes Address Book with Gmail Contacts
• TextExpander avoid typing the same thing over and over, customized abbreviations for text strings and graphics
• Textmate text editor with powerful snippets, macros, and a unique scoping system
• TextSoap effortlessly cleans up text
• Things task management
• Toast Titanium burn DVDs
• Transmit the #1 Mac OS X FTP client
• Vector Designer simple, intuitive and powerful vector drawing
• VidConvert simple and easy video converter
• VueScan Professional scan documents, photos and film
• Webnote powerful easy bookmarking
• xScope measure, align and inspect on-screen graphics and layouts

It’s subjective 🙂 , but after purchasing hundreds of apps, I’ve concluded that these are, currently, the best Mac Apps for doing what I do. One of the first things you’ll notice is that I’ve eliminated old-time favourites like Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office. I’ve also removed dozens of lesser known apps. Let me know what’s missing and feel free to suggest better apps.