Your top 5 (or so) freeware/shareware apps for OS X?

[Pablo]

What are some of your favorite free/cheap shareware programs, and what are they?


(In no particular order)

1) Transmit - ftp
2) Mac Stumbler - presence/singal/strength of wireless networks
3) ClearDock - removes translucent background from the Dock
4) Camino - browser
5) VLC - media player

[Giaguara]

no order.

of the ones that are already in the system my favorite is terminal. (the itunes and iphoto too)

others:

- BBedit

- Safari and Links

- Notes

- Photoshop

- Toy Viewer and Image Indexer. Both are really small softweares, fast and do exactly what they promise. Especially Image Indexer saves a lot of work. :)

[Schiffi]

Photoshop isn't freeware...

1. Spark ME (audio recorder)
2. MacJanitor
3. VLC
4. FTP Thingy
5. DVTimeLapse

[Veldek]

1. VueScan
2. Camino
3. VLC
4. OSXPM
5. MacJanitor

[jxyama]

1. Weatherpop/Meteorologist (latter has been a bit buggy...)
2. MacJanitor
3. KeepSoundAwake (10.2.6 may have fixed this, but maybe not...)
4. Fugu - sftp/scp app

These are the four apps I use practically every day. I also use CodeTek Multiple Desktop - though recent avalanche of updates got me a little weary that these guys are not checking their apps too carefully as a part of their development process... A bit too much fire-fighting to me...

not "exactly" freeware/shareware but Safari, QT Pro and iChat AV are fine apps from Apple.

[Chaszmyr]

No particular order:

Transmit
EvoCam
Konfabulator
Okito Composer
Kung-Log

I obviously didnt include Apple freeware... if I did the list would look like:

Safari
iTunes
iChat
iPhoto
iMovie

[VIREBEL661]

CarbonCopy Cloner
(used for duplicating OS X HD's - makes bootable copies)


http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

[Coca-Cola]

1. Watson
2. Omni Disksweeper
3. Checkbook
4. Folding@home

[StrongGlad]

1. Proteus
2. Chronosync
3. Son of Weather Grok
4. RBrowser Lite
5. BBEdit Lite

[jpmack]

1. LaunchBar
2. see #1
3. Default Folder
4. iView Media Pro
5. Transmit

LaunchBar is the greatest thing to happen to the Mac UI since MultiFinder. I am sooo old ;(

[StrongGlad]

Oh! How could I forget:

6, 7, 8. The Escape Velocity Games from Ambrosia!

[mnkeybsness]

no particular order:
-codetek dockextender
-M-Beat
-Adium
-Key Xing
-APE manager and enhancers (www.unsanity.com)
-VLC player
-BBEdit
-Stuffit

[hvfsl]

Mine are:

VLC
www.videolan.org
iTunes
www.apple.com/itunes
MPlayerOSX
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayerosx
Mozilla
www.mozilla.org
OpenOffice
www.openoffice.org

I don't think Giaguara got the idea of this thread since he put photoshop. It is also good to see a lot of people using VLC.

[Daveman Deluxe]

BBedit
Maintain Your Mac
EV Nova
SNES9X
VueScan

[andrewlandry]

LiteSwitch
Weather Pop

[Freg3000]

I used to use MacJanitor, but now I use Cocktail-it is a lifesaver.

[pEZ]

I used to use MacJanitor, then switched to Cocktail.

I used to use Cocktail, then switched to OnyX. More features.

1. OnyX
2. iBank
3. Proteus
4. TransparentDock
5. VLC

[benixau]

guys and gals - BZFlag. The best game ever.

http://www.bzflag.org

its also open source.

[tjwett]

Spark ME
Greenoak Crystal AU Synth (AMAZING)
WeatherPop
NetNewsWire
iChat AV (this is the kewlest thing i have ever seen since the last thing that i thought was the coolest thing i had ever seen)

[jbomber]

X-Assist
iComic
Meteorologist
iPulse

[shadowfax]

windowshade X
cleardock
menu meters
UptimeInMenuBar
TinkerTool

[segastyle]

no aprticular order...
WATSON -- the only way i choose to get tv and movie listings
ADIUM -- chat with tabs, one whole window holding everything (including buddylists), and dock notifications.
R-NAME -- renames any number of files, any way you want
FRUITMENU -- custom apple menu and contextual menus
TINKERTOOL -- easy, one-step access to all the os x custom confiurations

almost in my top 5...
OMNI GRAFFLE -- forget visio
OMNI OUTLINER -- i love outlines and lists

[vollspacken]

1. Spark ME (Freeware)

2. TinkerTool (Freeware)

3. VLC (Freeware)

4. Audion (Shareware)

5. NetStatInDock (Freeware)

[maradong]

aquamon,
cplot
iblog,
netnewswirelite
oo ;-)

[littlejim]

Excluding Apple freebies, and in no order.

Drag Thing
Amadeus
XNap
BBEdit Lite
LiFTP

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by littlejim
Excluding Apple freebies i don't think anyone should bother including apple freebies. we all have them, and we all love them. it's really only the third party ones that others may not have.

[anneleonard]

1. Clutter (http://www.sprote.com/clutter/) (freeware, gets album art directly from amazon to display, and controls iTunes, nicer interface than mini-itunes window, possibly the most perfect freeware app ever?!)
2. Audio Hijack (http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/) (freeware, record any audio from any selected app, genius)
3. Focus (http://members.home.nl/vissering/Freeware.html#Focus) (freeware graphical UI feature that adds to the glossiness of os X I think)
4. Proteus (http://www.indigofield.com) (donationware, IM client, great for chats one-to-one and my favourite but I still miss some features of using MSN Plus for windows)
5. Sound Studio (http://www.felttip.com/products/soundstudio) (shareware, but now bundled with new macs, great app for editing audio)

Funny how my choice of apps reflect my fave mac interests, i.e. audio, gui & IM

[Nermal]

VLC
Fetch
Download Wizard

Those 3 are the free apps I use a lot, I could make the list a lot longer if I include stuff I don't use so much, but still couldn't survive without.