This is the second round of my end of the year round up of SomeWhat Creative’s monthly What’s New for Designers & Developers roundups.
In these type of roundups I like to show what’s new, so in this post you will see the new, great and beautiful apps for both Mac & Windows that has been released during 2018.
Please note not every app that got featured in each of the monthly roundups will be highlighted, as the list is huge anyway. So for your ease of reading pleasure, I will be splitting the best of the apps for Mac and Windows into each month… so let’s start.
January
Musca – Mac App
Musca is a mac app that will listen to GitHub webhook and provide you with feedback on the taskbar bar!
February
Manta – Mac/Windows/Linux App
A desktop application for creating invoices with beautiful and customisable templates.
Price: Free
RetroClip – Mac App
RetroClip lets you save instant replay videos from your Mac’s screen as easily as taking a screenshot.
Price: Free
PixelSnap – Mac App
PixelSnap is an app for macOS that makes it easier for designers and web-developers to measure anything on their screens by just clicking and dragging around the cursor.
Price: $15.00
March
Annotation for PDF PRO – Windows App
The app includes all features to edit any PDF fast, efficient and smooth. You get tools for adding highlights, comments, colorful shapes, text and even more to your PDF documents. Thanks to the user-friendly design you’ll be really satisfied with app’s work.
Price: Free
Keylord – Mac App
Keylord is a desktop GUI client for Redis, Memcached, Bolt and LevelDB key-value databases. It helps developers, dev-ops and system administrators quickly view content of key-value databases and simplify typical routine operations related to them.
Price: $39.00 1 License
Autotimer – Mac App
Autotimer is easy time tracking that you don’t have to think about. Autotimer keeps track of your updates to specific files and updates the time you have worked on your various projects accordingly.
Price: Free
Compress – Mac App
Compress is a new tool for macOS that allows users to easily and dramatically compress PNG and JPG images on their Mac. Additionally, it allows users to quickly convert PSDs to JPGs without ever having to open Photoshop.
Price: $9.99
April
Pretzel – Mac App
Pretzel is Mac desktop app that shows and find keyboard shortcuts based on your current app.
Price: Free
Oni – Mac/Windows/Linux App
Oni is a new kind of editor, focused on maximizing productivity – combining modal editing with features you expect in modern editors. Oni is built with neovim, and inspired by VSCode, Atom, LightTable, and Emacs
Price: Free
May
Pickaxe – Mac App
Pickaxe is a beautiful static site generator for MacOS powered by Crypto
Price: Free
Mprove – Mac App
mprove is a menu bar app that shows in real-time your daily productivity and procrastination progress based on the free time you have every day.
Price: Free
IP Man – Mac App
Ip Man is a simple Mac menu bar app displaying your public IP at any time. Easily and quickly copy/paste it by clicking it or use the shortcut cmd+i.
Price: $2.99
June
TweetFast – Mac App
TweetFast makes it incredibly simple and fast to compose and send out tweets from your Mac, regardless of whatever you are doing on your mac, you can simply drop down a menu and tweet your heart out in literally seconds.
Price: $1.99
ProtonVPN – Mac App
The only truly free VPN service for macOS. ProtonVPN has no ads, no bandwidth limits, and doesn’t sell browsing data to advertisers to monetise the free service.
Price: Free
July
Splashify v2 – Windows & Mac App
Splashify v2 is a desktop wallpaper app for Mac & Windows. Choose from 500k+ stunning photos taken by amazing photographers from around the world and set them as your desktop background with 1-click.
Price: Free
MetaImage – Mac App
MetaImage is the ultimate tool to read, write and edit images metadata. This is first editor that allows you to edit EXIF, IPTC and XMP tags as well as MakerNotes in a beautiful and familiar interface.
Price: $8.99
Pikka – Mac App
A Color Picker which is a easy to use color picker for Cocoa developers and designers, that works well with multiple screens.
Price: $4.99
August
Brandy – Mac App
Brandy is a brand asset manager that keeps your team in sync with correct assets at all times.Drag and drop logos or copy hex codes by clicking on swatches, brandy is meant to be a toolkit to help you stay productive.
Price: Free
CleanShot – Mac App
CleanShot is a macOS app that makes it easier to capture clean screenshots and screen recordings without Desktop icons.
Price: $15.00
September
Snipper – Mac App
Snipper is a native macOS snippets manager with modern, lightweight GUI, syntax highlighting, and Markdown support. Stay more organized and productive during your day to day job.
Price: $8.99
Analytics Bar – Mac and Windows App
Analytics Bar is a mac menu bar / windows taskbar app which displays realtime / current Google Analytics stats for the day of all your tracked websites and/or apps.
Price: Free
October
Cloud Sketch – Mac App
A streamlined interface, support for recording videos, fast sharing, and nothing to configure. Try Cloud Sketch for free to share anything with anyone.
Price: Free
Alva – Linux, Mac & Windows App
Alva lets you to design interactive products based on the same components your developers are using for production websites.
Price: Free
November
Overframe – Mac App
Overframe is a screen recording app that comes with phone frame for you to overlay on top of your app or prototype window.
Price: $5.00
Remote Control for Mac – Mac App
Remote Control for Mac allows you to control your Mac computer using iPhone or iPad from anywhere at your home or office. And now you can even use your HomePod or Siri on your devices to control your Mac. How cool is that?!
Price: $9.99
StandUp – Mac App
StandUp reminds you to take breaks as often as you want, it knows exactly when you’re away from the keyboard. You don’t need to put your computer to sleep or lower your screensaver timer. Using this, you will never get a random notification, we try to make them as relevant as possible.
Price: $1.99
December
Permute 3 – Mac App
Video, audio and image files come in many different kinds and shapes, but sometimes you need a specific format since your iPad or DVD player won’t play that video. That is what Permute is for – easily convert your media files to various different formats.
Price: $9.99
SBlack – Mac App
Sblack is an ultralight Slack client built with Slack’s core features in mind, it also comes with a Dark mode theme
Price: Free
Relax – Mac App
Disconnecting your headphones or speakers from your Mac automatically selects the Internal Speakers. Any sound that was playing before is now shared with everyone around you.
Price: Free