What's your favorite Mac app?

Sad Professor

No lists, just tell us about the Mac app you love the most. Not necessarily the most useful or important one, but the one you really enjoy using.

For me it has to be Reeder - a beautifully designed RSS reader that uses Google Reeder. It's a complete pleasure to use and makes me wonder how I ever used Google's ghastly web interface. It started out as iPhone app and is a great example of how iOS has benefited the Mac.

silvine

Scrivener.

It's great for working on long writing projects and for writing. It supported full screen long before Lion. It looks fantastic on a Mac, it's intuitive, ti works well with Dropbox and it's cheaper than Word or Pages.

Tazium

+1 for Reader, it's great.

I'm also enjoying SyncTwoFolders specifically for moving the changed iTunes files between Macs/Windows.

Honorable mention to VirtualBox.

conor.hogan.2

Virtualbox, Colloquay, Textmate, Fraise, Skim, Dropbox.

Josey Wales

silvine wrote: »

Scrivener.

It's great for working on long writing projects and for writing. It supported full screen long before Lion. It looks fantastic on a Mac, it's intuitive, ti works well with Dropbox and it's cheaper than Word or Pages.

You learn something new everyday. I use Scrivener but had been manually copying my files to my Dropbox folder. Didn't realise I could sync it to an external folder.

Cheers.

Discostuy

Dropbox
Coversutra for iTunes
Would Plex be considered an App?

Duck Soup

Toast Titanium. The utility I get out of it is directly related to my enjoyment of it. It's an easy-to-use interface and gives excellent end results.

Also DiskWarrior. Not just for digging me out of deep holes, but for the reassuring feeling of a newly solid system when I use it for spring cleaning. Also a big fan of two Bitfield products, Submerge and Road Movie. Once again, good results and classy interfaces, but also just a general feeling of working with well-made products.

miralize

Coda, Reeder, Sparrow & Cloud

ArtOfEscape

+1 for Reeder and Skim. Wish I'd heard of Scrivener earlier - it looks great and my thesis is due in two days!

jester77

Reeder with Sparrow, Spotify & Sublime close behind

Hobbes

iMovie. The storyboard option is how video editing should have been done in the first place.

Sad Professor

Is the paid version of Sparrow as "lightweight" as they claim? Because when I tried out the free version it was much heavier on the CPU (and therefore the battery) than Mail is. In fact, I never see Mail pop up in iStat's processes window while idle, but Sparrow was using up to 5 percent just sitting there. Kinda defeats the purpose, no? It was ad version though which might have had something to do with it, but it's not like the ads were reloading every few seconds.

miralize

Looking at the activity monitor right now, Sparrow (paid version) is hovering around .5% and .8% cpu usage. I always have it running, and its never the culprit if things are slowing me down. How long ago was it that you used it?

Sad Professor

It was a good while ago. Probably around September. Maybe I'll give it another shot.

mathepac

For me there are a few apps that do exactly what they say on the tin and epitomise what having and using apps on a Mac is all about.

• A Widget called EasyEnvelopes from Ambrosia Software that prints a variety of envelope sizes from either the clip-board or Address Book
• Jelly SMS a "text-from-from-your-desktop" from WebReach, an Irish crowd, which has a tiny footprint on my MacMini (I believe it's also available for mobile platforms etc.) It also uses Address Book and / or re-uses names & numbers it stores itself. I have the paid-for version but there's also a "Lite" version if you want to check it out in the App Store
• CodeRunner when I want to convince myself I'm still a ****-hot programmer, typing Pearl scripts for CGI, etc. It's actually a very good little app.
• VueScan - never install another scanner "driver", and never struggle "teaching" an OCR package again

I also use SyncTwoFolders, DropBox and Toast Titanium.

Sorry about the lists but if I was pushed into a corner, Vuescan, by the same guy who does Graphic Converter.

RoyalMarine

jellySMS - best app I've ever bought.

VMware Fusion - I've used lots of virtual machines, and this is by far the most impressive one I've seen.

xLog - visual text on your desktop of all running processes, incoming / outgoing connections etc. really handy security app.

mobile mouse server - real handy for watching movies / music etc and using iPhone to control vlc etc.

Talisman

DEVONthink Pro Office - I've recently gone paperless and DEVONthink along with a Fujitsu Scansnap S1300 for those companies that still issue paper invoices and receipts makes it all possible.