Xcode. Other than that online there’s an app called MacGPT. It adds chat gpt right Into the task bar making it super easy to access with a quick hot key press.

PopClip, one of the most useful applications available on macOS

FL STUDIO

iStat always. It lets you know when your machine’s acting up. Maybe Alfred. Otherwise since all I do is surf the web, email, and calendar I mostly use the stock Apple apps for compatibility.

Following

Vivid or Lunar, both have a £20 lifetime license fee but also a free trial to see if you like it. I personally recommend Lunar. They both allow you to push the screen brightness upto 1000 nits and below 100 nits for whatever working environment you’re in. Best thing is it doesn’t damage the screen as Apple themselves state the XDR display is capable of sustained full screen 1000 nits indefinitely.

"SelfControl" and "Flux" are really good for productivity, SelfControl helps to block the unnecessary websites, and there's literally no way, absolutely no way to access those websites, unless of course you turn on a VPN, Flux on the other hand uses circadian rhythm and the location of the device to determine the colour temp of the screen, really beneficial for sleep cycle

For studying pomodoro

Scroll Reverser. Not as often now, but back when my MBP was my “everything” computer, I’d use a mouse and separate keyboard regularly.

But if you ever use a mouse regularly, you’ll notice that the scrolling follows the natural scroll direction of the trackpad. Scroll Reverse lets you invert it just for mice.

Also Macs Fan Control. Not really an issue on the new M-chips, but for anyone with an Intel Mac reading this, this is a godsend. Set your own fan curve, and monitor CPU temps from the nav bar.

Rectangle is a must, it’s like sort of windows management but on Mac, I couldn’t live without it

1. iA Writer
2. iA Presenter
3. Obsidian
4. GoodLinks

Raycast, Dropover, shottr, Bartender, Magnet, better battery 2, Tinkertool, latest, pictogram, noTunes, betterdisplay, bettertouchtool, macMediaKeyForwarder

One thing I missed from Windows when I switched over was the calendar for the current month at single click away. Itsycal is a great replacement. It also uses your calendar events and shows every item in a given week. It also gives zoom or meet shortcuts if the event contains them. It has literally been the first app I install on every Mac Ive used in the past few years.

Rectangle for window snapping

PDF expert

I really like macs fan control but I also have an Intel mac lmao

Bettertouch tool, I was able to push the limits of what I can do on my macbook pro

I just bought mbp with apple care + till 26 , is there any way to make sure battery goes below 80% health before warranty expires

Someone has already linked to some of his videos, but Quinn's SnazzLabs youtube channel is great.

I like to keep my Mac as default as possible, generally, though I use BetterSnapTool (for window snapping), and iStat monitor so I can see CPU/memory in my taskbar.

Bartender 5, top notch, better snap tool.

Whatever you need the MacBook for

Good looking mac

Rectangle for window management App cleaner for comprehensive app removal Rocket for Slack style emoji support

I would personally subscribe to Set App. You get Clean My Mac X which is EASILY worth the sub alone. Plus you get to try a ton of apps for many situations that crop up. I would definitely recommend it, at least for a month to see what you may need. I use the absolute crap out of it.

I personally migrated from Linux to macOS and love my little creature comforts so:

- Homebrew

- Yabai

- skhd

- Sketchybar

definitely daisydisk. when you get that problem of “other” being 10+ gb that you can’t seem to get rid of daisy disk will help. i promise this isn’t paid promo or anything it was just the app that actually helped me with my storage issues

Ableton live

Soulver

is there a chatgpt app for mac?

Raycast.

Brew.

Raindrop.

Arc (browser).