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Ask HN: What are some good open-source Mac apps you can't live without?

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Hi, I think a question of this kind has appeared before. As both open source contributor and Mac users myself, I have tried many open sources apps and there are a few I find quite essential. Therefore I have curated https://oss.wiki/ to easily find and filter apps based on tech stack and topic.

A few apps I can't live without are:

- Rectangle: window manager

- Pika: color picker

- Kap: screen recorder

- Insomnia: Rest API testing

- Itsycal: calendar

- iTerm2: terminal

Would love to get to know more apps and I would love to add them to the list to spread the words

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Amethyst: A tiling window manager à la xmonad

https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst

Nice tool, I've already added Rectangle, but I will check this

It is a completely different code base however and even in a wrong language so it isn’t really monad. However it is their goal (to imitate that experience) and how they market it.

some of my top picks:

- Hammerspoon: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon

- MeetingBar: https://github.com/leits/MeetingBar

- Stats: https://github.com/exelban/stats

- Syncthing: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-macos

- Bitwarden: https://github.com/bitwarden

MacDown https://macdown.uranusjr.com/ - Markdown Editor

VLC https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ - Media player

- handbrake to transcode videos: https://handbrake.fr

- anki for spaced repetition https://ankiweb.net/

- Snipaste a really nice screenshot utility https://www.snipaste.com

there's also awesome Mac that's worth looking at if you're missing something: https://github.com/jaywcjlove/awesome-mac