App Recommendations

Software that I use and like. None of which are electron apps.

#Linux

• Arch Linux -- A fine Linux distribution
• CopyQ -- Clipboard manager
• Corebird -- Twitter client
• Enpass -- Password manager
• Firefox -- Web browser
• GNOME -- Desktop environment
• Geary -- Email client
• NeovimGTK -- Text editor
• Tilix -- Tiling terminal emulator

#iPhone

• 1Blocker -- Block ads and tracking scripts on web pages
• Amoraq -- Mastodon client
• Authy -- 2-Factor auth app that's not by Google
• CamCard -- Business card scanner
• Clips -- Clipboard manager
• Digitally Imported -- Streaming electronic music radio
• Editorial -- Markdown editor with powerful Python workflows and Dropbox support
• Enpass -- Password manager
• Firefox -- Web browser
• GON -- Mastodon client
• Hydra -- Enhanced low light and zoomed photos
• Instapaper -- Save web pages and email for reading later, clutter free
• Mail to Self -- Send links to yourself
• Overcast -- Podcast client
• PDFpen Scan+ -- Scanner, PDF generation, OCR
• Paprika -- Recipe manager (syncs with Mac)
• Pinpoint -- Markup screenshots with text and arrows
• Pocket Weather Australia -- Weather from the BOM
• Prompt -- SSH client
• Reeder -- RSS reader
• Scan -- Fast QR code scanner
• Simplenote -- Synced text notes
• SymbolMate
• Tweetbot -- A better Twitter client
• Vivino -- Take a photo of a wine bottle and get reviews

#Mac OS X

• 1Blocker -- Content blocker
• 1Password (App Store) -- Password manager
• Alfred -- Quick launcher, search, clipboard manager, workflows for efficient keyboard operation of your Mac
• AquaPath (App Store) -- Interactive XPath evaluator
• Backblaze -- Online backup
• BrowseShot (App Store) -- Take full length screenshots of websites
• Dash (App Store) -- "API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager"
• Divvy (App Store) -- Window manager and organiser
• Fluid -- Create single site browsers (app wrappers around a website)
• Flux -- Automatic display colour adjustment to reduce impact of using screens at night
• Gif Brewery (App Store) -- Animated GIF builder
• Hocus Focus -- Automatically hide apps you haven't used after a preset time
• ImageAlpha -- Reduce the size of transparent PNGs
• ImageOptim -- Reduce the size of images
• iTerm -- Better Terminal
• Karabiner -- A powerful keyboard customiser
• Marked (App Store) -- Live Markdown preview
• MoneyWell (App Store) -- Envelope budgeting done right
• Paprika (App Store) -- Recipe manager
• PDFpen (App Store) -- PDF editor
• Pixelmator (App Store) -- Photoshop alternative
• Postico -- PostgreSQL GUI
• Reeder (App Store) -- RSS Reader
• Sequel Pro -- MySQL GUI
• Simplenote (App Store) -- Plain text notes with tags, sharing and syncing
• The Unarchiver (App Store) -- Unarchive files (Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, RAR, 7-zip, and more)
• Things -- (App Store) Task management
• Viscosity -- VPN Client
• xScope (App Store) -- "Set of tools that are ideal for measuring, inspecting & testing on-screen graphics and layouts"

#Command Line

• Neovim -- A better vim (built-in terminal is awesome)
• Syncthing -- Peer-to-peer file sync (like Dropbox but files are not stored in the cloud)
• Tarsnap -- Secure online backup
• dot -- Dot file manager
• exa -- ls replacement
• fd -- Alternative to find
• jq -- awk for JSON (also pretty prints JSON)
• pwgen -- Password generator
• restic -- Encrypted, incremental, verifiable, efficient backups
• ripgrep -- Fast text search
• tig -- curses git client
• vifm -- Vi inspired file browser that enables powerful bulk operations

#Online

• DuckDuckGo -- Search that doesn't track you
• FastMail -- Email (you should own your identity)
• Feedbin -- RSS reader and sync engine
• One-Time Secret -- Send a secret that is viewable once only
• Mastodon -- Federated, open source social network
• Privacy Badger -- Privacy preserving ad blocker that learns which websites are tracking you and blocks them

#Other

• PragmataPro -- Programming font

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