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title: My currently used apps
description: Here's a list of my currently used apps
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# [My currently used apps](https://www.kouroshdini.com/the-dini-group-ltd-blog/my-currently-used-apps)

 Written by [Kourosh](https://www.kouroshdini.com/the-dini-group-ltd-blog/author/kourosh) | Apr 22, 2019 3:00:55 PM

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/apps/devonthink)

- - 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.usingomnifocus.com/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.usingomnifocus.com/?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.usingomnifocus.com/?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

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