Apollo… (Too soon?)

macOS: iTerm - terminal emulator Alfred - application launcher (and a lot more) Spark - email client DevonThink - finder replacement FuzzyTime - show time in menu bar rounded by 5 minutes Bartender - organize menu bar LosslessSwitcher - automatically switch sample rate and but depth based on music playing SoundSource - easily control sound input/output and levels PDFExpert - PDF editor Reeder - RSS reader Affinity Creative Suite - Rastor/Vector/Photo/Print enditor

iOS: Timepage/Actions - Calendar and task manager Marvis Pro - Apple Music client Authenticator - FOSS authentication app MusicSmart - lists details of songs and albums not otherwise mentioned or credited Aftership - simple and free shipment tracker Carrot Weather - A great weather app PCalc - a customizable calculator Overcast - a better podcast player

iPadOS: Mela - Recipe browser and ingredient checklist maker Procreate - iPad 2D art at its best Affinity Photo - Great port of a really powerful photo editor PDFExpert - Edit PDFs but with the addition of an Apple Pencil and little niceties as well as good for note taking all in one space.

Parcel (all platforms): the best shipment tracker you’ll ever use

Solves (all platforms): it’s basically identical to the built in calculator but is 1,000,000x better

Music Library Tracker (iOS, iPadOS): keeps track of the change in your Apple Music library and can automatically make a spatial audio playlist for you

Mlem (iOS, iPadOS): the best Lemmy client

Vinegar (all platforms): a Safari extension that makes YouTube use the native video player, adds PiP for free and removes ads!

Baking Soda (all platforms): replaces custom video players in other sites with the native one

Crouton (all platforms): a natively built recipe manager. I don’t use it much but it’s really well made

MacWhisper (macOS): uses openAI’s whisper model to create super accurate transcriptions of audio and video files

Monitor Control (macOS): allows you to control the brightness of external monitors (other than Apple’s)

Calipers Tape Measure (iOS): a super accurate set of Calipers for your iPhone

Cric Pulse (iOS): the only cricket app with live activities

Loving this thread!

Here's mine:

• 1Writer - lovely little markdown app
• IceCubes - for Mastodon (Havn't seen a better mastodon client yet, not even Ivory)
• Element X - A swift rewrite of element, the matrix client (though not yet feature complete but on a great way)
• Amperfy - A subsonic client to stream music from any subsonic server (like navidrome)
• Voyager - The sexiest lemmy client I've found so far

• Bear - Markdown Notes
• Lemma - Lemmy client (very influenced by Apollo)
• Parcel - Track packages
• Craftbound - Idle Game
• 1Password - Password Manager

Here are my most-used apps:

• Libby
• Todoist
• Pocket Casts
• The Google and Office suite of apps are each pretty good, and I use them a good bit.
• Voyager (for Lemmy)
• Dropbox, AnyList, Acrobat for everyday stuff
• Volume Pro gives you much finer control of the volume
• Sleep Cycle helps with tracking sleep hygiene

YNAB (Financial, subscription required)
Lost It! (Calorie counting)
AdGuard Pro (Ad blocker)
mSecure (Password manager)
Pixelmator (Image editor)
Smart Photo (Photo widgets)
Night Sky & SkySafari (Astronomy apps)

macOS: iTerm is just superior and so configurable. Magnet is great for moving and snapping windows. Last recommendation: column mode in Finder. It's perfect and should be the default everywhere!

For_ me it will be: Organic maps for finding new tracks for walks plus Merlin Birds. Kindle - books, Mammoth and Voyager - mastodon and Lemmy, I love hue/I love hue too - simple games to kill the time.

Signal

Authy :: for TOTP

Notion- notes, todos, project management Libby and Hoopla- ebooks, eaudioBooks, comics Goodnotes- more note taking (but a lot of people use this for digital bullet journaling) Procreate- art Things- honestly amazing task management, but I felt like I needed something available on pc or web for work, goes great with Bear which I saw someone else suggest. Ice cubes- mastodon Avelon- lemmy

Remind Me Faster - a little tool that helps you to quickly add reminders to the native Reminders app. Very useful for power users of the reminders app.

Habitica is kind of fun if you’re looking to gamify your to-do list.

I Am Rich

Don't ask why it's my favorite. If you know the story, you'll know why.

as a parent, Chwazi.

Cryptomator (Encryption for cloud services integrated into Files app)

Bring! (Shared shopping list)

Calendar 366 (Alternative calendar with monthly view)

Crouton (Shared recipe book)