What are some good non-subscription Mac apps?

Rectangle: https://rectangleapp.com/

EasyRes: https://easyresapp.com/

ScreenFloat: https://www.screenfloatapp.com/

Bartender (paid): https://www.macbartender.com/ - Hidden Bar (free alternative): https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden

AltTab: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/

Panic Nova. Serif Affinity suite.

Edit: Nova is arguably a subscription in some respects, there is an optional support & upgrade path for a fee, but the app works just fine without it.

https://nova.app/

https://affinity.serif.com/

OmniGraffle single-handedly keeps me from switching to Linux. They have non-subscription pricing here:

https://store.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle?pk_vid=40876fd2b0ffb...

monodraw - https://monodraw.helftone.com/ like paint but for ascii art

I used it to come up with the new gitleaks logo: https://github.com/zricethezav/gitleaks

Reeder for RSS and read it later. Things for tasks. Sublime Text 3 for scripts, though I haven’t yet paid the license.

A little bit Off-topic... I just googled for it, and I couldn't find the answer anywhere. Does anyone know, what is the minimum that a developer can charge as a yearly subscription on the apple App Store? Can you have multiple in-app subscriptions active at once? Just curious.

For an app like 1password, which has been finished for years now, you wonder how much it would cost to have someone check that the code still compiles ok and tweak it for the latest Xcode release. Doesn't sound to me like a full time year round job for one person. They could sell their syncing service as a separate additional in-app subscription to cover their AWS (or whatever) costs. Their developers must be completely bored of trying to come up with new ideas for how to change it to justify bumping the version numbers by now. So bored they are porting it to electron.

Raycast. Alfred but a million times more.

https://www.raycast.com

PCalc, Arq for backup, Sublime text/merge, Charles/Proxyman http debugging, Alfred, iStat Menus, Little Snitch

Pikka - Color picker - https://pikka.app JSON Editor - https://theapiscout.com/jsoneditor/

Scrivener: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview

Screenflick: https://www.araelium.com/screenflick-mac-screen-recorder

Retrobatch: https://flyingmeat.com/retrobatch/

What I bought and personally use:

- Things 3

- iA Writer

- Bartender

- Alfred

- Cleanshot X

- Sip

- Tot

- Keyboard Maestro

- Tim (time tracker for freelance work)

- Swinsian (Very good, but no dark mode)

- Doppler (Good)

- PDF Expert (Preview was a pain with annotation)

- Reeder

- Mela

- Pixelmator Pro

- Dash

- Affinity Photo & Designer

Just thought of another one that I use all the time that fits this criteria:

Nimble Commander: https://magnumbytes.com

NetNewsWire is a great free and open source RSS reader. It has completely replaced Reeder for me. Is also out on iOS

SnippetsLab https://www.renfei.org/snippets-lab/

I keep project notes in SnippetsLab. The Markdown support is great and I output really nice looking PDF files when I need to share something professional looking with management.

I’ve happily paid for all of these and keep getting my money’s worth many times over.

* Things * Alfred * Nimble Commander * Transmit * Little Snitch * SublimeText and SublimeMerge * Affinity Photo and Designer * Davinci Resolve * Sound Paint * Cleanshot X * iStat Menus * IA Writer

Things, Proxyman, Postico, Lumen

Multi-platform ones. Don't worry about "native" apps unless it is multi-platform or you'll get too tied to a specific eco-system and won't be able to migrate if you need to.

Qbserve for time tracking. (https://qotoqot.com/qbserve/)

Anyone know of a good Mac app that can handle fed up location of photos?

I’ve got many copies of the same photos and could use a decent backup tool.

Bonus point if it can recover from bit-rot.

Contexts: https://contexts.co/

Cleanshot X (app for taking screenshots and easily annotate them, with e.g. arrows and text)

- Cinch - Snap windows

- SizeUp - Quick resize apps

- Itsycal - Minimal taskbar calendar

- Alfred - Quick launcher

I still like BBEdit.

iThoughtsX for mind mapping

MacVim

Rogue Amoeba AirFoil for using a Mac as an AirPlay hub

Little Snitch for outbound firewall

Soulver 3 notepad calculator

Acorn and Typora.

Things