Best macos on Reddit

194 reviews from r/macapps, r/MacOS, r/OpenCoreLegacyPatcher and 8 more subreddits

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Apple

4.2

(65)

"Perfect—very stable and extremely lightweight."

"I would suggest Monterey or higher to run current version of applications, like Chrome, HP printer utility, etc."

"Monterrey is working perfectly fine."

"If you’re specifically looking for stability, then macOS High Sierra is your best bet."

"For my case Sonoma is great."

"I think i will go back to Monterey. I need this Version as a minimum requirement for my DJ software."

"Mojave was absolutely solid."

"I chose to reboot the whole thing and keep using Monterrey. For everyday use it runs very well."

"My 2017 MBA runs Monterey like a champ."

"Everything works, and I only use it for this purpose."

Raycast

5.0

(6)

"Raycast, Homebrew, keyboard maestro, karabiner element, airbuddy, aldente."

"Raycast"

"Raycast, my all in one AI tool."

"- Raycast"

"Raycast"

Alfred

5.0

(5)

"Alfred and Keyboard Maestro."

"Alfred and Karabiner are my 2 must haves"

"Alfred: it's like Spotlight on steroids."

"Alfred"

"Alfred, is easily the most frequently used and essential utility I use"

Parallels

4.6

(5)

"Parallels. Nothing smooth as this."

"Parallels is probably the most polished looking and performing but also the most expensive."

"Parallels works great and is super easy."

"Personally I would choose Parallels over VMWare Fusion because of the stability, as well as easier to use."

"It's very good but of course good products come with a premium."

Rectangle

4.8

(4)

"[Rectangle]: resize windows."

"Rectangle"

"Rectangle."

"I use Rectangle and Alfred to handle this."

VMware

4.8

(4)

"VMware fusion pro (the free version) runs windows 10 super smooth on my intel MacBook"

"I heard that VMWare is becoming free for personal use."

"I'm gonna recommend **VMWare Fusion Preview**, it's free and natively supports GPU acceleration (on the M-series macs) and it runs VMs very nicely."

"Try VMware Fusion, you can get it for free"

HandBrake

4.5

(4)

"+1 for Handbreak for video. Been using it for decades."

"You should try the free Handbrake app."

"Handbrake for most videos."

"I would recommend handbrake. I believe handbrake uses the FFmpeg library."

BetterTouchTool

5.0

(3)

"Bettertouchtool"

"BetterTouchTool."

"Here are some of my top picks. - Better Touch Tool."

Homebrew

5.0

(3)

"I like the terminal, so I'll go with [Homebrew](https://brew.sh) and [Oh-My-Zsh](https://ohmyz.sh)."

"[Homebrew](https://brew.sh)"

"Homebrew is amazing."

#10

PDFgear

5.0

(3)

"For converting PDF files to/from other formats, I use PDFgear on my Mac."

#11

Mac OS X

5.0

(3)

"My mid-2012 15" MBP will forever be on Mojave (which I love) for 32 bit VST support."

"Mojave is great! Love it."

"14 Sonoma is also one of the best in a long time."

#12

Dropover

4.7

(3)

"I just bought Dropover, its worth the $5."

"Just a few I am instantly installing on all my new Macs: Dropover"

"Dropover"

#13

Firefox

4.3

(3)

"Been using it for over a decade. Love the extensions."

"Firefox, only other option is Safari. However, Firefox extensions have much better ad blocking."

"FF is my fav but I definitely wouldn’t recommend it to everyone."

#14

Cron

4.0

(3)

"I am checking out Cron and Fantastical for Calendar function today."

"I use Cron for calendar and Mimestream for email."

#15

macOS

5.0

(2)

"That's macOS 14 Sonoma."

"Sonoma"

#16

ImageOptim

5.0

(2)

"Imageoptim"

"Mine is ImageOptim. Very handy."

#17

Amphetamine

5.0

(2)

"Amphetamine"

"Here are some of my top picks. The links take you to a review, with download info, pricing and privacy info. - Amphetamine - Ultimate Sleep Prevention for Your Mac."

#18

PDF Expert

5.0

(2)

"I recently bought the PDF Expert on Stack social and it's great."

"PDF Expert. It is unfortunately not cheap, but it is the best I've found."

#19

UTM

4.5

(2)

"UTM works fine as well."

"UTM is free. If you don’t need tons of features, free is always good."

#20

Arc Browser

4.5

(2)

"+1 for Arc Browser"

"I really enjoy using Arc Browser because of its tab management."

#21

Clop

4.5

(2)

"Just a few I am instantly installing on all my new Macs: Clop"

"Just use whatever suites you best for your video recordings and then optimize the video file size with Clop."

#22

MonitorControl

4.5

(2)

"I use Lunar to control the brightness of my Dell monitor and it works great."

"MonitorControl will allow you to control brightness for any external monitor with DDC support."

#23

Brave

4.0

(2)

"Poll closed, but Brave for me."

"Brave."

#24

Mac OS

3.5

(2)

"Catalina. Works perfect with a good performance."

"With OCLP that macbook air can run Sonoma, but in my opinion is pretty slow (but stable enough)."

#25

Flux

5.0

(1)

"Flux and Aldente"

#26

App Cleaner

5.0

(1)

"Rectangle, App Cleaner"

#27

Transmit

5.0

(1)

"Transmit Alfred Sublime Text PremierVPN"

#28

VideoProc Converter

5.0

(1)

"I use this app because it's lightweight, simple, faster than others."

#29

Skookumlogger

5.0

(1)

"Skookumlogger is the only contest logging software worth considering for macOS."

#30

Final Cut

5.0

(1)

"The new Final Cut also digitizes MiniDV if you don't want to jump through hoops to get FCP7 working."

#31

AppCleaner

5.0

(1)

"AppCleaner"

#32

EasyDict

5.0

(1)

"Just a few I am instantly installing on all my new Macs: EasyDict"

#33

IINA

5.0

(1)

"Just a few I am instantly installing on all my new Macs: IINA"

#34

LinearMouse

5.0

(1)

"Just a few I am instantly installing on all my new Macs: LinearMouse"

#35

News Explorer

5.0

(1)

"Just a few I am instantly installing on all my new Macs: News Explorer"

#36

PearCleaner

5.0

(1)

"Just a few I am instantly installing on all my new Macs: PearCleaner"

#37

PopClip

5.0

(1)

"Here are some of my top picks. - PopClip - A Must Have Productivity App."

#38

Downie

5.0

(1)

"Downie"

#39

Onyx

5.0

(1)

"Onyx"

#40

Aiko

5.0

(1)

"Aiko"

#41

HEIC

5.0

(1)

"Heic"

#42

KeyboardCleanTool

5.0

(1)

"It's a great app I use all the time."

#43

Devonthink Pro

5.0

(1)

"Devonthink Pro."

#44

DisplayMaid

5.0

(1)

"DisplayMaid: saves the sizes and positions of the windows."

#45

BetterDisplay

5.0

(1)

"BetterDisplay: helps solve the common flickering issue."

#46

AlDente

5.0

(1)

"AlDente for battery health / longevity."

#47

TG Pro

5.0

(1)

"[TG Pro] - lets me see the internal temperatures in my Mac."

#48

TextSniper

5.0

(1)

"[TextSniper] - I use this all the time."

#49

wezterm

5.0

(1)

"Wezterm / OhMyZsh / homebrew for terminal."

#50

neovide

5.0

(1)

"Neovide as NeoVim GUI."

#51

wipr

5.0

(1)

"Wipr."

#52

Hazel

5.0

(1)

"Hazel (automatically sort files etc)."

#53

Monitor Control

5.0

(1)

"Monitor Control lets you control your external display brightness."

#54

TablePlus

5.0

(1)

"[TablePlus]: database management."

#55

Proxyman

5.0

(1)

"[Proxyman]: network packet capture."

#56

MindMac

5.0

(1)

"[MindMac]: AI API GUI."

#57

FreeFileSync

5.0

(1)

"[FreeFileSync: Open Source File Synchronization & Backup Software]."

#58

Carbon Copy Cloner

5.0

(1)

"Carbon Copy Cloner - used for years for backups."

#59

VMware Fusion

5.0

(1)

"Since you're (also) on Intel, there's nothing wrong with VMWare Fusion."

#60

Owl

5.0

(1)

"Try owl for thunderbird."

#61

Preview

5.0

(1)

"Preview. It is by far the best PDF reader for MacOS."

#62

PDFelement

5.0

(1)

"To edit, I found PDFelement to be the best."

#63

UPDF

5.0

(1)

"Check out UPDF for lightweight PDF viewing/editing."

#64

macOS Monterey

5.0

(1)

"You should try out MacOS Monterey."

#65

VueScan

5.0

(1)

"Invest in Vuescan. Great software that has kept many 1000s of scanners working."

#66

SSD

5.0

(1)

"Do yourself a favor and bump the ram to 4GB or even 6."

#67

High Sierra

5.0

(1)

"I would suggest High Sierra 10.13."

#68

Sonoma

5.0

(1)

"If you want to develop for ios and Mac os you have to go with Sonoma."

#69

Magnet

5.0

(1)

"I use Magnet, has worked flawlessly for me"

#70

Boxysuite

5.0

(1)

"Always use Boxysuite, dedicated Gmail and dedicated calendar apps."

#71

Raycast Pro

5.0

(1)

"Raycast pro (with ai)"

#73

Adapter

4.0

(1)

"I always use an app called Adapter."

#74

Frankenfile

4.0

(1)

"Frankenfile seems the most versatile, is also offline on your own computer."

#75

Canary Mail

4.0

(1)

"Canary Mail supports Gmail categories and has a built-in calendar."

#76

Fantastical

4.0

(1)

"If you haven't checked it out, Fantastical might do the trick."

#77

Spark

4.0

(1)

"I use Spark for my email client and Fantastical for my calendar."

#78

Kiwi

4.0

(1)

"I’m a long time user of Kiwi and haven’t found a better option so far."

#79

Batch Clipboard

4.0

(1)

"I found all the clipboard utilities to be too overbearing, and wanted just to be able to easily copy a bunch of items _here_ and then paste them all _there_."

#80

RUMlogNG

4.0

(1)

"It's not quite as full featured as N1MM (nothing is, really), but it has many of the most useful features."

#81

Airclap

4.0

(1)

"For transferring files to devices on other platforms, I use Airclap."

#82

Zorin OS

4.0

(1)

"Zorin for its simplicity."

#83

Manjaro

4.0

(1)

"Manjaro!"

#84

Vivaldi

3.0

(1)

"I am now exploring Vivaldi and Arc."

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