This is the second of my yearly roundup of What’s New for Designers & Developers for 2019, in this roundup, I will be focusing on showing you what some of the exceptional and beautiful apps for both Mac & Windows operating systems that been released during this year.
I want to mention that not every app for Mac & Windows that been featured in each of my roundups will be featured in today’s post, as I feel that this list could be enormous.
So for your peace of reading pleasure, I will be splitting up the best of these apps into month of release.
So lets get in to it.
January
Focus Window – Mac App
Focus Window helps boost your productivity by allowing you to,focus solely on a single app at a time.
Price: $1.99
Clockify – Windows App
Clockify is the only 100% free time tracking app for Windows that lets you and your team log hours straight from your desktop while working.
Price: Free
DejaVideo – Mac App
Continuous screen recorder for Mac, jump back anytime.
Price: Free
February
Webfont – Mac App
Webfont for Mac streamlines the process of creating and maintaining custom SVG icon fonts. Easily create a shared library of icons, invite your team and export your font in minutes.
Price: Free
Rotato – Mac App
Animated 3D mockups for your app designs
Price: free beta for macOS
March
Multrin – Windows App
Multrin is a cross-platform app built on top of Electron, that lets you to organize apps in tabs, by just dropping them onto Multrin. It aims to greatly improve your productivity and organisation.
Price: Free
Monochrome Browser – Mac App
Monochrome is a modern browser that brings mobile web apps to desktop. It’s slim, fast and energy efficient. It lets you browse and check all your favorite social networks at the same time from the ease of your laptop.
Price: Pay what you want
Macify – Mac App
Macify allows you to turn any site into a customisable and distributable macOS application.
Turn your site into an app for your customers, or turn a site into an independent instance for distribution within your organisation.
Price: Contact them
April
Diffchecker – Mac/Windows/Linux App
Diffchecker is a tool to compare text differences between two files. Also available online, or as a command-line tool. Compares text, images, and PDFs.
Price: $49.00
Day Night – Mac/Windows App
Day Night for macOS and Windows is a desktop app that shows you how much time left in percentage.You can keep track of today, month and year time in percentage. Day Night have awake mode, sleep mode and changes the theme automatically according to the real time.
Price: $5.00
Tim – Mac App
Keep track of your time right in the menu menu bar! Tim’s minimal, simple interface is always visible yet not in the way.
Price: $2.99
May
Contrast Safe – Mac App
A simple macOS menu bar app, that allows you to check the contrast ratio between 2 colors and validate it against the WCAG standard.
Price: $1.99
HTTP View – Windows, Linux & Mac App
HTTP View is an x-ray for HTTP(S), for debugging, building, testing & reverse-engineering anything that speaks HTTP.
Price: Free / Pro $6.00 month / Team $10.00 per user/month
Charmap – Mac App
CharMap is a unicode character viewer and keyboard for iOS. With it, you can browse a comprehensive database of unicode characters, organise them into custom collections and type them anywhere using the character and collections keyboards.
Price: Free
June
Polypane – Mac & Windows App
A browser built from the ground up to create and test websites and apps. For developers, designers, product managers, QA and anyone that works on the web.
Price: $12.00pm for Single User / $49.00pm for Team (up to 10)
Inkdrop – Mac & Windows App
Inkdrop is a Markdown note-taking app solely designed for developers. It’s clean, beautiful and extensible. It syncs data securely across your devices through end-to-end encryption.
Price: $4.99pm
Klokki – Mac App
Klokki was created to solve an annoying issue that many freelancer and makers face, which is forgetting to start and pause a timer, during the work. The solution is automation, but we knew that people still want to control what should be tracked. Enter — rule-based automatic time-tracking.
Price: Free (for Klokki Lite) or $2 .99 pm (for Klokki)
July
Biscuit – Mac & Windows App
Biscuit is a browser where you can organize your apps.
Price: Free
Commandeer – Mac App
As developers, we have felt the pain of clicking through endless website GUI’s and logging in and out. Your time matters, become more productive, and take back control of the cloud. With this app you can manage Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, Dynamo, and IAM for LocalStack and AWS accounts.
Price: Free
SeeQL – Mac App
SeeQL is a user experience focused desktop app to view and execute SQL queries easily. You’ll be able to see all your database tables and their relations. You can automatically generate your queries or manually write some yourself.
Price: Free
August
Eagle – Windows & Mac App
Eagle helps you become a happier, better designer. A new way to collect, search and organize your image files in a logical way and all in one place.
Price: Free
Slack 4.0 – Mac App
The latest version of Slack desktop app, it provides a smoother, faster experience for all. Some notable changes include faster loading times, better overall performance and the ability to work offline.
Price: Free
GitFox – Mac App
The Git Client built for Productivity.Powerful Search, Image Diff, Reflog, Drag & Drop, Multiple Identities and more.
Price: $32.00
SVG Assets – Icon Exporter – Mac App
Create application icons and image sets from SVG or PNG files in seconds!Just drag your SVG or a high resolution image file to SVG Assets, select supported devices and drag the resulting “AppIcon.appiconset” folder straight to Xcode or Finder.
Price: $8.99
September
Rambox Pro – Mac/Windows/Linux App
Rambox is a workspace browser that allows you to manage as many applications as you want, all in one place. It is perfect for people who care about productivity and work with many applications, both business and personal.
Price: Free for 99 Apps or $4.00 per month for 600+ apps
Tempo – Mac App
Tempo is the minimalist email client that helps you build healthier habits. Take control of your time and do your best work – inside and outside your inbox.
Price: Tempo is free for the period of the beta but after launch it’s $15.00 per month
Switch – Windows App
Switch between your favourite apps lightning fast. (MacOS – WIP)
Price: Free
October
Quark – Mac, Widnows & Linux App
Quark is a general purpose software tool specifically designed to help you create projects written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript with native desktop app like capabilities. Quark apps run on Mac, Windows, and Linux from a single codebase.
Price: Free
Figmac – Mac App
A super lightweight Figma desktop app alternative, that delivers a more natural Mac experience.
Price: Free
Linear – Mac App
Linear lets you manage software development and track bugs. Linear’s streamlined design is built for speed and efficiency — helping high performing teams accomplish great things.
Price: Free
November
MarkDown – Mac & Window App
WYSIWYG Editor for Markdown, Offline Support and Easy Generation of Markdown
Price: Free
Gifski – Mac App
Gifski converts videos to GIF animations using fancy features for efficient cross-frame palettes and temporal dithering. It produces animated GIFs that use thousands of colors per frame.
Price: Free
1440 – Mac App
1440 minutes — seems like a little, but that’s a whole day. Keep a track of how many minutes you have left until the day is over, right in your Menu Bar.
Price: Free
December
Port Manager – Mac App
We’ve all been there: You fire up a project in your terminal and are interrupted by an obnoxious “EADDRINUSE” message. Well, no more! Port Manager will spare you countless minutes of pointless frustration.
Price: $3.99
Vectornator Pro – Mac App
Vectornator is an all in one graphic design tool and with Vectornator Pro, we’re making a big and exciting leap to bring our popular iPad software on macOS: a platform that is widely used and loved by designers from all around the world.
Price: Free
