🏛 app-pantheon 🏛

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

—Issac Newton

Overview

Apps are ordered from most to least important within categories. The vast majority are free!

Mac and Chrome Extensions

Essential

• UBlock Origin: ad blocker that makes browsing the Internet much more enjoyable
• Rectangle: speedy convenient window management. Really speeds up work, cannot be underemphasized!
• Duck on screen

Extremely Handy

• Archive: access most news articles for free with a single click (and old versions of websites)
• Video Speed Controller: change speed of videos; useful for lectures
• OwlOCR: screenshot copy and paste

Nice to Have

• Pandan: keep track of how long your current screen time session has been so far
• IINA: video player that can handle more formats and looks great
• Yoink: drag files more conveniently
• TimeYourWeb: Be more aware of your web time usage
• BitWarden: password manager
• Numi: beautifully designed, rapidly toggleable calculator with built-in unit conversions, radians vs. degrees, etc.
• Return YouTube Dislike: enough said
• Spark: nice cross-platform mail client across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch. Handy features like snooze and delay send

Coding

• VSCode: great all around editor
• Nova: elegant code editor for web development, robust visual SSH
• iTerm: terminal with more options
• Mark Text: configurable, elegant GUI Markdown editor
• Github Desktop: great for approachable git management

Video Editing

• Envato: all the assets you need
• Downie: quickly scrape and download almost any video from online
• Unsplash: many fantastic free photos
• The Noun Project: many free icons

iPhone (iOS)

• QuickScan: free, handy, fast PDF scanner (no more CamScanner!)
• Scannable: in my experience Scannable has the clearest scans and the best image processing
• Intonia: lets you visualize how in-tune your singing or instrument-playing is (unfortunately)
• Apple Maps: is underrated for turn-by-turn directions. With the latest update, it is 🔥!
• G.Calculator: TI-84 based calculator app
• SPQR: Latin dictionary and texts in one handy app
• Wikipedia: I like the design, and it’s such a time sink!
• Axios: compact, efficient, mostly unbiased/nuanced news. Emphasis on presenting facts and concision