This is my third round of my end of the year round up of SomeWhat Creative’s Monthly HandPicked Goodies for Designers & Developers roundup, Normally in these type of roundups I like to showcase what’s new for Designers and Developers. In today’s post I will be focusing on Desktop Apps that you can use on Mac’s, Window’s and even Linux Machines!
Not every Applications that you can use on the Desktop are featuring in each of the monthly roundups, once again for the ease of your reading pleasure I will be splitting the best of Desktop Apps into each months… so lets start.
January
Cloud Magic – Mac OS X 10.10 – $19.99
Just landed for Mac is email app Cloud Magic, This app works with Gmail, Exchange, Yahoo, Outlook, iCloud, Google Apps, Office 365 and any IMAP accounts. Sign up once and access your email across devices with ease. features such like ● Instant push notifications for ALL types of email accounts: Gmail, Exchange, Yahoo, Outlook, iCloud, Google Apps, Office 365, IMAP – you name it, this app will sync folders that are important to you and even get push notifications for new emails which land in these folders and many other great features.
February
Noun Project for Mac – Free
Noun Project can be now found straight on your desktop, you can search over 100,000 icons. through the Mac App which constantly updates, giving you fresh content every day plus you will no longer need to download icons from the website. The app lets you drag and drop raster and vector icons into your favorite apps.
March
Franz – Mac App – Free
Franz allows you to add every service several times. This makes Franz the perfect tool to manage multiple business and private accounts at the same time. You can even use Facebook Messenger with five different accounts at once if some inexplicable reason urges you to do so.
Markoff – Mac App – Free
Markoff is a lightweight Markdown (CommonMark) previewer that allows you to open any Markdown file and preview it in a stylized HTML rendering (Github-inspired).
April
Vivaldi – Desktop App – Free
Vivaldi web browser lets you do things your way by adapting to you and not the other way around. If you prefer the browser tabs placed at the bottom or on the side of the window? or you prefer a different address bar location? Go ahead and customise your preferences be it your keyboard shortcuts, mouse gestures, appearance and so on, including if you are a keyboard person? Then Vivaldi is your delight. Vivaldi comes with quick commands let you search through open tabs, bookmarks, history, settings and more with one single keyboard shortcut. Quick commands menu is highly customisable allowing you to create your own commands and run them instantly.
Tired of unorganised tabs in your browser? Let the mess be cleaned up with Vivaldi. Organise your tabs using Tab stacks, a feature that you will fall in love with. It lets you group multiple tabs into one. It can’t get better than this – just drag a tab over to another for an uncomplicated grouping.
Material Colors for Mac – Mac OSX – Free
A handy little Mac app that gives you quick access to the standard material design color palette.
Typeface – Mac OSX – $10
Typeface is a new kind of font manager for Mac. It helps you pick the perfect font by focusing on quick and accurate font previews. Silky smooth browsing & detailed comparisons make Typeface an indispensible tool when you’re designingsexy typography for a new logo, website or app. Plus this font manager is only $10 from the App Store, a font manager doesn’t need to be expensive to be awesome!
May
Ghost Desktop – Mac/Windows/Linux App – Free
While using Ghost in your browser is great, but wouldn’t it be useful if it had its own app?
Well say hello to the , Ghost Desktop app that is available on Mac, Windows and Linux. It’s also free & completely open source.
DeckHub – Mac & Windows App – $9.99
DeckHub is a Tweetdeck style desktop client for GitHub which comes with a 15 day trial but then it cost only $9.99 which comes with a lifetime license.
DeckHub will keep you up to date with a notifications feed and push notifications, you can add, customised, rename and reorder feeds with it’s custom columns. Plus there’s no limititations as you allows to add and us any account in your deck.
Quitter for Mac – Mac App – Free
Quitter is a Mac app that automatically hides or quits apps after periods of inactivity.
This app is great for minimising distraction from social apps like Twitter and Slack, news readers, or even your email app.
June
Lightgallery – Mac/Windows/Linux App – Free
lightgallery is a modern, electron and nodejs based image viewer for Mac, Windows and Linux which is free.
Iconjar – Mac App – Free
Organise, search and use icons the easy way, as Iconjar gives you the ability to store all your icons in one place, just one click away.
DecoIDE – Mac App – Free
Deco is an IDE for React Native. It’s an all-in-one solution for writing React Native apps that you can download and use without any environment setup.
Deco improves the React Native development workflow by focusing on component reuse and enabling you to edit your UI in real time.
July
New File Menu – Mac App – $1.99
New File Menu is simply the coolest way to create a new file on the Mac OS X platform, you can right click in any Finder window to create a new file! You can even right click on the desktop to create your files!
ProtoPie – Mac App – Free
ProtoPie is a prototyping tool for smart devices. ProtoPie makes elaborate prototypes possible without any coding, and these prototypes can be tested on actual devices.
Smock – Mac App – $4.99
Say goodbye to static comps and complicated mockups. Emulate a live screenshot sized to the mobile device and high-resolution mockups showcase mobile website design.
sMedium – Mac App – Free
A free desktop app for writing Medium stories
August
Rambox – Windows/Mac/Linux – Free
Rambox is free and open source messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.
Cashew App – Mac App – $29.99
A simple Github Issues macOS client
September
Ramme – Mac/Windows/Linux App – Free
Ramme is the unofficial desktop app for Instagram that been build with Electron.
Avast Passwords – Mac App – Free
Avast Passwords won’t lock you on one browser or device. Use it on Safari or Chrome, iOS or Android, and easily auto-fill login information for all of your accounts.
Fork – Mac App – Free
Fork, a fast and friendly git client for Mac
October
Vectr – Mac/Windows/Linux/Chromebook App – Free
Vectr is a free graphics editor used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively. It’s a simple yet powerful web and desktop cross-platform tool to bring your designs into reality.
Now.app – Mac App – Free
Deploy to the cloud from your menubar
Surge for Mac – Mac App – Trial or Buy from $49.99
Advanced Web Debugging Proxy for Mac & iOS
Theme Juice – Mac App – $6p/m or $49 per year
Theme Juice is a powerful new desktop app for Mac that enables you to create, manage and deploy local WordPress projects all from a single app.
Kap – Mac App – Free
Capture your screen An open-source screen recorder built with web technology
November
ClickPalette – Mac/Windows App – Free
ClickPalette is the simple colour manager, you collect, manage and save all you favourite palettes, whether they’re for a project or you just love the colours.
December
Squash 2 for Mac – Mac App – $19.99
Squash is a simple, powerful app for compressing and converting images for the web and more.
Flinto for Mac – Mac App – $99
Flinto for Mac is a comprehensive app prototyping tool that allows you to create anything from simple tap-through prototypes, to comprehensive prototypes with impressive interactions. Carefully designed Flinto for Mac to minimize complexity. There’s no programming or timelines. It’s the prototyping tool designers have been waiting for.
Local by FlyWheel – Mac App – Free
A Mac App that helps local WordPress development made simple you can stop debugging local environments and spend more time launching WordPress sites.
Volume Mixer – Mac App – $8.99 to $13.99
Application Specific Volume Control
