--- title: Kourosh’s Currently Used Apps description: Here is a list of my currently most used apps --- ![burger-icon](https://www.kouroshdini.com/hubfs/icons/burger-icon.svg) [![Kourosh Dini - Homepage](https://www.kouroshdini.com/hubfs/logos/kourosh-logo.svg)](https://www.kouroshdini.com) ![close-icon](https://www.kouroshdini.com/hubfs/icons/close-icon.svg) - [Blog page](https://www.kouroshdini.com/the-dini-group-ltd-blog) - [Podcast page](https://www.kouroshdini.com/podcast) - [Music page](https://www.kouroshdini.com/music) - [Courses & Books page](https://www.kouroshdini.com/courses-and-books) - [Psychoanalysis page](https://www.kouroshdini.com/psy) - [About page](https://www.kouroshdini.com/about) - [Contact page](https://www.kouroshdini.com/contact) - [Waves of Focus page](https://www.kouroshdini.com/waves-of-focus) ![Search](https://www.kouroshdini.com/hubfs/icons/search-icon.svg) [![at-icon](https://www.kouroshdini.com/hubfs/icons/at-icon.svg)](mailto:kmdini@gmail.com) [Return to Blog](https://www.kouroshdini.com/the-dini-group-ltd-blog) # Kourosh’s Currently Used Apps Apr 22, 2019 ![](https://www.kouroshdini.com/hubfs/blog%20image.webp) I've put together a list of apps that I tend to use. The ecology of apple apps is so rich at this point. In any case, here they are: ## Password Management ### [1Password](https://1password.com/) - - Excellent password manager ## Menu Bar ### [Alfred 3](https://www.alfredapp.com/) - - Application launcher and more ### [Amphetamine](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amphetamine/id937984704?mt=12) - - Keeps my mac awake ### [Display Menu](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/display-menu/id549083868?mt=12) - - Quickly adjusts the display size ### [Little Snitch](https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html) - - Limits the traffic apps seem to think they have the privilege of using ## Sound, Music, and Broadcasting ### [Audio Hijack](https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/) - - Useful for broadcasting music from Cubase ### AudioTunes (no longer made) - - really useful for making quick changes of audio format ### [Boom 3d](https://www.globaldelight.com/boom/index.php) - - magically makes music sound better ### [Capo](http://supermegaultragroovy.com/products/capo/) - - Useful for reverse engineering music ### [Cubase 10](https://new.steinberg.net/cubase/) - - my standby Digital Audio Workstation ### [Gameshow](http://www.gameshow.net/) - - Useful for broadcasting live performances - about to be discontinued and taken over by Wirecast. ### [Grand 3](https://www.steinberg.net/en/shop/buy_product/product/the-grand-3.html) - - A solid piano VST ### [iTunes](https://www.apple.com/itunes/) - - Good stuff ### [Loopback](https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/) - - Very useful for routing music from one app to another ### [ScreenFlow](http://www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm) - - Standby screencasting. This with Keynote were the main apps for Being Productive ### [Soundsource](https://rogueamoeba.com/soundsource/) - - Simple menu bar app to direct sounds to different places ### [Syntorial](https://www.syntorial.com/) - - Super cool app for learning the useful workings of a synthesizer ### [VLC](https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html) - - Powerful, free media player ### [VOX](https://vox.rocks/) - - Another very useful media player ### [Wavelab 9](https://www.steinberg.net/en/products/wavelab/version_comparison/wavelab_elements.html) - - Sound wave editor. Great for anatomically dissecting sound ## File Management ### [A Better Finder Rename](http://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/index.html) - - Quickly rename a bunch of stuff ### [Big Mean Folder Machine](http://www.publicspace.net/BigMeanFolderMachine/index.html) - - Quickly separate or merge files in folders ### [Carbon Copy Cloner](https://bombich.com/) - - I have an external hard drive regularly copied to another drive as backup ### [CrashPlan](https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/) - - Has been my a solid online backup service for years. ### [DEVONthink Pro Office](https://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonthink/devonthink-pro-office.html) - - Useful for siloing different parts of my work and life. Deserves more than a couple of sentences of explanations. ### [Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/) - - A reliable cloud service for files ### [Dropzone](https://aptonic.com/) - - I’ll use this to send files from one computer to another via a Dropbox folder and a Hazel script ### [Finder](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201732) - - Main file navigation ### [Forklift](https://binarynights.com/) - - FTP client of choice ### [FreeSpace](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/freespace/id457520846?mt=12) - - Tells me how much space I have left on my hard drive ### [Gemini 2](https://macpaw.com/gemini) - - Great for finding duplicate files and removing them ### [HoudahSpot](https://www.houdah.com/houdahSpot/download.html) - - Powerful search ### [Hazel](https://www.noodlesoft.com/) - - An excellent file manager. Set some rules and Hazel keeps my files tidy. See my post on [using Hazel to sort](https://www.kouroshdini.com/fastest-filing-in-the-west-services-hazel/). ### [OmniPresence](https://www.omnigroup.com/omnipresence) - - Keeps my OmniOutliner files synced ### [Path Finder](https://cocoatech.com/#/) - - Another approach to Finder files. I like its preview set up. ### [Space Gremlin Pro](http://www.spacegremlinapp.com/) - - Excellent visualizer for space used in my disk drives ### [Time Machine](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201250) - - Backup! ### [VisualDiffer](http://visualdiffer.com/) - - Another one of those apps that I don’t use often, but when I need it, it is excellent for what it does. ## Productivity ### [Bartender 3](https://www.macbartender.com/) - - Hides or shows my menu bar items ### [BusyCal](https://www.busymac.com/busycal/) - - My favorite calendar app - I particularly love the 2-week view ### [Due](https://www.dueapp.com/) - - My favorite timer. I love the nagging feature. ### [Flashcard Hero](http://flashcardhero.com/) - - When I need flashcards. ### [Freedom](https://freedom.to/) - - I don’t really use it anymore, but it was useful to block websites ### [Hook](https://hookproductivity.com/) - - A really neat bi-directional linking system and more ([Hook & OmniFocus](https://www.beingproductive.org/2019/04/hook-omnifocus-making-connections/)) ### [Howler Pro](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/howler-pro/id434985132?mt=12) - - a fun alert ### [Keyboard Maestro](https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/) - - an excellent tool to manage key commands and more ([Posts integrating Keyboard Maestro with OmniFocus](https://www.beingproductive.org/?s=keyboard+maestro)) ### [Moom](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moom/id419330170?mt=12) - - window size and placement management ### [OmniFocus](https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus/) - - my task manager of choice ### [OmniGraffle](https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle) - - great for designing concepts and spaces ### [OmniOutliner](https://www.omnigroup.com/omnioutliner) - - an outliner that works well as a project house ### [Paste](https://pasteapp.me/) - - copy and paste management ### [TextExpander](https://textexpander.com/) - - a deluxe text management app - type a few letters and make many more ([posts integrating TextExpander with OmniFocus](https://www.beingproductive.org/?s=TextExpander)) ### [Workspaces](https://www.apptorium.com/workspaces) - - an app that can link to a number of files and documents ## Figures, Billing ### [Banktivity](https://www.iggsoftware.com/banktivity/) - - my financial tracking program of choice ### [Calca](http://calca.io/) - - a neat text-based program for quick doing calculations ### [Moon Invoice](https://www.mooninvoice.com/) - - for simple invoicing ### [Numbers](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/numbers/id361304891?mt=8) - - a solid spreadsheet tool ## Interfaces ### [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/) - - internet browser ### [Google Chrome](https://www.google.com/chrome/) - - internet browser ### [Epic Games](https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/download) - - video games! ### [Firestorm](https://www.firestormviewer.org/) - - Second Life client ### [GOG Galaxy](https://www.gog.com/galaxy) - - video games! ### [Kindle](https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/fd/kcp) ### [Mailplane](https://mailplaneapp.com/) - - great for managing multiple Gmail accounts ### [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/about/) - - video games! ### [TweetDeck](https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/) ### [Origin](https://www.origin.com/usa/en-us/store) - - video games! ### [Plex Media](https://www.plex.tv/) - - watch my movies on other devices ## Writing, Drafting, and Text Editors ### [Audiobook Builder](https://www.splasm.com/audiobookbuilder/) - - helps me make audiobooks ### [BBEdit](https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/) - - for when I’m doing rudimentary php coding, trying to break my websites ### [Folding Text](https://www.foldingtext.com/) - - a text editor to focus on individual sections ### [Hemingway Editor](http://www.hemingwayapp.com/desktop.html) - - great for helping me improvinate my sentences ### [iA Writer](https://ia.net/writer) - - a text editor for focus ### [Keynote](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/keynote/id361285480?mt=8) - - a solid presentation device - used for the bulk of making [Being Productive](https://gumroad.com/l/Being_Productive) ### [Pages](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pages/id409201541?mt=12) - - A solid word processor and text designer ### [MindNode](https://mindnode.com/) - - great for mind-mapping ### [Scrivener](https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview) - - the workhorse of all text programs. This is what I write books with ### [Ulysses](https://ulysses.app/) - - a nice all around text manager ### [Zettelkasten](http://zettelkasten.danielluedecke.de/) - - a notetaking app I’ve been recently experimenting with and really excited by ### [Zotero](https://www.zotero.org/) - - a free research assistant app ## PDF Management ### [PDF Expert](https://pdfexpert.com/) - - a PDF editor ### [PDFpenPro](https://smilesoftware.com/pdfpenpro) - - another PDF editor ### [Preview](https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/welcome/mac) - - an unsung hero of default PDF tools ## Images ### [Capto](https://www.globaldelight.com/capto/) - - great for managing and marking up screenshots ### [Pixelmator](https://www.pixelmator.com/pro/) - - solid image editor ### [ScreenFloat](https://eternalstorms.at/ScreenFloat/ScreenFloat_-_Make_your_Shots_fly/ScreenFloat_-_Make_your_Shots_fly%21.html) - - for when I need a screenshot to continue floating above other windows ![Divider](https://www.kouroshdini.com/hubfs/separator.svg) Share this article ## Recent Articles [![Is the Medication Working?](https://www.kouroshdini.com/hubfs/S01E77%20-%20Is%20the%20Medication%20Working-blog.jpg)](https://www.kouroshdini.com/the-dini-group-ltd-blog/is-the-adhd-medication-working) #### [Is the Medication Working?](https://www.kouroshdini.com/the-dini-group-ltd-blog/is-the-adhd-medication-working) Oct 16, 2026 Hmm, I wonder if this medication's working. 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