Tiny tools

A collection of useful, simple, single purpose apps and tools for everyday problems and tasks. With a focus on macOS.

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Table of contents

• Apps management
• Audio
• Browsing
• Camera
• Developer tools
• Display
• Email
• Files
  • Sharing
• Images
• Miscellaneous
• Music
• Network
• Productivity
• Reading
• Security and privacy
• Shell
• Social
• Text
• Travel and maps
• Utilities
• Video

Apps management

• AltTab - brings the power of Windows’s alt-tab window switcher to macOS. It represents a big mosaic of all the minimized, hidden, fullscreen windows of all apps so you can instantly identify and focus on the window you need.

  Alternatives and similar apps:
  TabLift and Witch
  rcmd - assign custom keys for your favorite apps.

• Apparency - get more details about any app: it's structure, used frameworks, result of macOS secuity check.

• Cork - a fast GUI for Homebrew with useful features.

• HazeOver - fade all open apps' windows out except the front one.

• Latest - checks if all your macOS apps are up to date.

• Menuwhere - pop up the frontmost app's menus at the current mouse location.

• Obtainium - get Android app updates from the source pages. Supports GitHub, GitLab and others.

• Paletro - command palette to access any functionality of a currently opened application.

• Pearcleaner - apps uninstaller tool with leftover files search.

• Rapidmg - fast app extraction from a .dmg file with optional cleanup.

• Swift Shift - create shortcuts to move and resize windows from anywhere.

  Alternatives: Easy Move+Resize, Rectangle, Tiles

• Swish - control windows and apps right from your trackpad with intuitive swipe, pinch, tap and hold gestures. Features easy-to-use titlebar, dock and menubar gestures and supports Magic Mouse and keyboard as well.

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Audio

• EQ Studio - a simple equalizer for audio and video files preserving original video quality.

• Krisp - AI-powered app that removes background noise and echo from meetings leaving only human voice.

  Alternative: Utterly

• MacWhisper - quickly and easily transcribe audio files into text with OpenAI's transcription technology Whisper.

• Micdrop - mutes your mic in any app with a global keyboard shortcut or a menu bar control.

• Recordia - lets you record audio directly from the menu bar or with a global keyboard shortcut.

  Alternatives: macOS voice memos or Piezo app.

• Wavacity - well known Audacity audio editor but for the web.

• XLD - a tool to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files.

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Browsing

• Anybox - a modern native bookmarks manager for mac and iOS.

• linkding - a minimal and fast self-hosted bookmarks manager.

• Link Gopher - a Firefox/Chrome add-on which can extract all links from a web page, sort them and remove duplicates.

• MaximizeVideo - watch a video maximized in the current tab without going fullscreen.

• MenubarX - a browser in your menu bar.

• Min - a fast, minimal and open source browser.

• Noir - a Safari extension for iOS that automatically adds a dark mode to every website you visit.

• Opener - open links from the web in apps instead.

• Prevent Duplicate Tabs - prevent creating of repeating tabs.

• Svadilfari - an extension that lets you control mobile Safari with gestures.

• Table of contents - see and quickly jump to any heading on a web page.

• TWP - translate current web page in real time using Google or Yandex.

• Velja - open links in a specific browser or a matching native app.

  Browsers - an open source cross-platform alternative.

• uBlacklist - blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results.

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Camera

• Hand Mirror - lives in the menu bar and gives a view from your camera when you click on it.

• Webcam Plus - use any camera on iPhone as a webcam for your Mac.

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Developer tools

• Boop - handy scriptable scratchpad to transform plain text using basic operations such as JSON formatting, unescaping, base 64 encoding, etc.

  DevUtils - a paid alternative with a bit different set of tools, but native macOS UI.

• cheat.sh - unified access to the best community driven cheat sheets repositories of the world.

• Dash - an API documentation browser and code snippet manager. Dash instantly searches offline documentation sets for 200+ APIs, 100+ cheat sheets.

  DevDocs - a web based free alternative.

• Fig - adds autocomplete to an existing terminal so you can move faster.

• fx - a Terminal JSON viewer.

• Gitleaks - a fast and light-weight scanner for git repositories, files and directories for detecting and preventing hardcoded secrets like passwords, api keys and tokens.

• GitUpdate - commit and push all updated files with one command.

• Hopper - reverse engineering tool that lets you disassemble, decompile and debug your applications.

• Lite XL - cross-platform lightweight text editor written in Lua.

• Lorem Picsum - Lorem Ipsum for photos only.

  https://picsum.photos/200?grayscale&blur=2
  

• Pika - a compact native colour picker app.

• Proxyman - cross-platform debugger tool which enables developers to capture, inspect, and manipulate HTTP(s) requests/responses with ease.

• regex101 - a multilingual regular expression debugger with real time explanation, error detection and highlighting.

• Secretive - an app for storing and managing SSH keys in the Secure Enclave.

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Display

• MonitorControl - control external display brightness and volume right from your Mac.

• ScreenFocus - dim inactive monitors while working with multiple screens.

• Shifty - expand capabilities of Night Shift and Dark mode. Disable for specific apps and sites, follow the schedule, adjust the colour temperature.

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Email

• followupthen - a simple but flexible way to schedule an email reminder.

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Files

• 789-Zip - easily modify archives.

• age - a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format and Go library.

• Broot - an alternative to the standard tree command, which allows you to view and navigate directories, perform fuzzy searches, run commands on the selected files or directories and etc.

• Czkawka - a simple and fast app which finds duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.

• Default Folder X enhances the Open and Save dialogs in all of your applications.

• Dropover - improves drag & drop by providing a "shelf" where you can stash, gather or move any draggable content.

  Alternatives:
  Mac: Dropzone and Yoink.
  iOS/iPadOS: Gladys and Yoink. Both provide iCloud sync.

• [Duplicarius](https://duplicarius.flutha