Top 10 Apps New to Me in 2024
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In order of usage frequency:
- Arc 🎨 - A creative new take on the web browser
- Thunderbird 🐦 - Lightweight, configurable email client - free and open-source from Mozilla
- BitWarden 🔐 - Modern, cross-platform and open-source password/secrets manager
- Bear 🐻 - Note taking and documentation writing markdown App
- Zed 🔳 - Open source high performance GPU accelerated collaborative code editor
- Suite 🚀 - Mounted cloud storage at lightning speeds
- Parallels ‼️ - Local VMs and cross platform integrations on your mac
- Signal 🛜 - WhatsApp substitute - letting me get away from meta in 2025
- MASV 🛸 - Lightweight, well designed file share platform for sending massive files (slack integration ++)
- Spacedrive 🪐 - A promising cross-platform file manager that packs a huge punch
Honorable mentions:
- Compressor 🗜️ - Apple’s Media Encoder - allowed me to leave adobe in 2024
- Pixelmator Pro 🖌️ - Photoshop/Illustrator replacement - also let me leave adobe in 2024
- ChatGPT 🤖 - LLM AI who’s lovely to talk to - but the app needs much more love
- DaVinci Resolve 🖲️ - Not new to most people - but this also allowed me to leave adobe in 2024 - deserves a mention just for that
- DaisyDisk 🌼 - Awesome graphical disk space utility for Mac (late to the game on sunburst diagrams)