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Most beautiful Mac apps

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pad07

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Jul 29, 2007
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I want to create a decent list of the most beautiful, where possible currently-developed Mac Apps. I'll list a few, then if you know any others please post them!

FREEWARE

NewsFire
A good-looking RSS app
@newsfirex.com

Transmission
The best Mac torrent app?
@transmissionbt.com

Tweetie
Lovely Twitter app, ad-supported fully-functioning free version. You can pay to remove the ads.
@atebits.com

Adium
Great IM app! Can be customised to look amazing - tons of lovely themes
@adium.im

Colloquy
An attractive IRC client with a simple, sleek UI
@colloquy.info

Bean
Lovely free Word processing app.
@bean-osx.com

SHAREWARE

Things
A beautiful To-do application, with a faultless design and an iPhone companion.
@culturedcode.com

xTorrent
or... the best Mac torrent app?
@xtorrent.com

Cha-Ching
Beautiful personal financing
@midnightapps.com

Coda
One-window Web development
@panic.com

CandyBar
Gorgeous app for customising your Mac's icons and dock
@panic.com

Delicious Library
Jaw-droppingly beautiful personal library software
@delicious-monster.com

Pixelmator
Beautiful dark image-editor, with many features!
@pixelmator.com

Awaken
Gorgeous alarm-clock software
@embraceware.com

Rapidweaver
Beautiful visual web editor!
@realmacsoftware.com

Flow
The most beautiful FTP client for Mac.
@extendmac.com

Acquisition
Gorgeous P2P client for Mac
@acquisitionx.com

Checkout
Stunning Point of Sale app for Mac
@checkoutapp.com

Billings
Beautiful billing app
@billingsapp.com

CSS Edit
Amazing application for developing CSS stylesheets
@macrabbit.com

Espresso
Beautiful web design software
@macrabbit.com

LittleSnapper
Beautiful screenshot and website capture software
@realmacsoftware.com

Schoohouse
Academic planning for students, really nice UI
@schoolhouseapp.com

DaisyDisk
Disk visualisation tool, polished to the max
@daisydiskapp.com

Picturesque
Gorgeous app for making images look good
@acqualia.com

1Password
Sleek password manager with a lovely UI.
@agilewebsolutions.com

The Hit List
Another good looking GTD app, but pretty much nothing can beat Things!
@potionfactory.com

Espionage
A gorgeous security and encryption app.
@taoeffect.com

Schreiben
Simple, gorgeous text editor.
@myownapp.com



Anymore for anymore?
 
Added Adium on request.

Any more suggestions for additions?
 
pad07 said:
Added Adium on request.

Any more suggestions for additions?
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Not an app, but since its in almost everypost in the "post your setup thread"

Fliqlo screensaver

some apps:

VLC

Firefox

Transmission

schoolhouse

cashbox

GeekTool

BowTie

Hulu Desktop

cant think of anymore for now, ill add as I go along, being that I'm getting a mac tonight/tomorrow and I have to add apps :p
 
i used to use transmission, but it always crashed. utorrent has features such as port forwarding and it's generally tends to be more stable than any other client.
 
Tweetie is not really freeware since the "free" version will display ads. The payware version removes the ads. Tweetie is more like shareware.
Nambu or Natsulion would be proper freeware twitterclients (they don't mind donations btw).
 
dyn said:
Tweetie is not really freeware since the "free" version will display ads. The payware version removes the ads. Tweetie is more like shareware.
Nambu or Natsulion would be proper freeware twitterclients (they don't mind donations btw).
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Tweetie has a free/ad based one and a fee-based one, so it should technically be in both. Maybe a seperate column/category is in need for these apps?
 
My vote is for the hit list. The sounds the look, they just fit so perfectly together for a nice looking app.
 
uTorrent beta for Mac easily beats the competition. Transmission is great though. If uTorrent had automatic moving, I'd switch completely (sometimes, or usually, i forget to organize my downloads folder, therefor some of the stuff i have i can never remember if it completed or not). uTorrent also uses less RAM than Transmission.

As for Adium being on that list, it only looks pretty. But for MSN, I find it close to useless. MSN names arent displayed properly, avatars take too long to load, custom emoticons are a mess, and most importantly; file transfers are ridiculously slow (3.5kbps max)

VLC should have definitely gotten a mention.

Transmit > all (for FTP usage)
 
Shareware/Commercial:

Things has a very clean design, although I don't think I have much use for GTD software.

MacFamilyTree has many faults, but its interface isn't one of them. It's probably the only software for genealogy that has anything approaching an attractive interface, and it's extremely powerful.

Shareware:

I've been impressed with just about all the MOApp apps, particularly myDocuments. Very simple, clean design.

Free:

Bean has always one of may faves. Everything's where it ought to be.

mt
 
Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

I'm not going to add VLC because while I do have it and it's an incredibly useful and powerful app and player, its UI is quite dated even despite its simplicity, it feels clunky and its icon is hideous.

QuickTime X + Perian + Flip4Mac is where it's at I think for the best UX.

Cyberduck's interface is outdated. Remember, we are talking about the primary fit and finish, overall polish, and sleekness of the UIs here. Transmit is due a UI refresh - it's not been updated in nearly a year and feels little "Tiger"-esque (not that there's anything wrong with that!) I think Panic have focused their efforts on Coda recently over Transmit and that shows in UI design. Flow is the best looking FTP app.

Added 1Password. Added Colloquy. I've added the Hit List even though I find some of the UI elements irritating such as the use of Helvetica Neue Light in large font on the tabs and so on. Added Bean.

Also added Espionage.
 
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