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OSX-only apps that I absolutely love and consider must-haves:

Free: Iterm2 Spectacles Sip

Not free: Dash Textmate (I use it as the equivalent of Windows' Notepad.exe) Transmit Sketch Paw

If anyone has any other suggestions for things that they consider must-haves, I'd love to know about them so I can try them out!

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I wrote a small blog post on OS X must-have apps[1] back in 2009, but I realize more or less all but the most obvious (e.g., Chrome) have changed.

Now: InsomniaX (like Caffeine.app, but maintained); Bartender; LaunchBar (mostly for clipboard management - easily my favorite manager); iStat Menus; Atom; Tweetbot; Dropbox; and to a lesser extent, iA Writer. (And BowTie for a Last.fm scrobbler, because it's the only one that works with Apple Music)

[1]: http://alanhogan.com/starter-mac-apps

FYI, TextMate has been FOSS for years!

I like Bartender to keep my menu bar clean.

iStatMenus gives you a nice view into various resources and temps.

thanks for the tip on spectacles. I've been using sizeup for the same functionality for years bit it looks like spectacles does the same thing for free. How does paw compare to postman?

Thanks for the mention! What makes Paw different is dynamic values which lets you access/parse data from previous responses and compute anything you want. It's a simple way to do visual programming for your API testing. Also today we're introducing full encryption for users credentials. Also, Paw is a native Mac app, and we love the look and feel it has. (disclaimer: I'm Paw's founder)

Paw is great, use it nearly every day at work :)

Try ForkLift too, I almost never use Finder any more.

Non-free: BetterTouchTool

Free: Control Plane

Snappy and DragonDrop

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