by Guilherme Rambo (insidegui)

An app that lets you open .car files and browse/extract their images, or preview them on Finder with QuickLook.

(from github.com/insidegui/AssetCatalogTinkerer

Download

You can also install it using Homebrew Cask, simply

brew cask install asset-catalog-tinkerer

QuickLook Plugin

The app also includes a QuickLook PlugIn so you can see previews of asset catalogs in QuickLook.

How to use

The app can open any .car file, usually located within an app’s Resources directory.

Once you have an asset catalog opened, you can drag individual assets out or export the entire catalog / selected images to a directory.

Supported file types

Since version 2.2, Asset Catalog Tinkerer can now read theme store files, not only catalog files.

Theme store files contain assets for UI components, you can find examples of them in /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemAppearance.bundle. The app also supports ProKit’s theme stores found inside ProKit.framework, LunaKit.framework and other folders within pro apps.

Licence

AssetCatalogTinkerer is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause “Simplified” License.

A permissive license that comes in two variants, the BSD 2-Clause and BSD 3-Clause. Both have very minute differences to the MIT license.

the next generation of archiving

macitbetter.com

BetterZip requires a $24.95 licence. However, the download includes a QuickLook extension for free - no licence required. The QuickLook extension allows to look into the content of a archive without actually extracting it, just by selecting the file in the Finder and opening QuickLook by pressing the space bar.

Follow up and manage the status of your Pi-hole with this simple macOS app that lives in your menu bar.

Open source on GitHub

github.com/Bunn/HoleStats

Download

Pay what you want ($0+) at:

gumroad.com/l/iqhwv

The modern media player for macOS.

Features

(from github.com/iina/iina)

• Based on mpv, which provides the best decoding capacity on macOS
• Designed with modern versions of macOS (10.11+) in mind
• All the features you need for video and music: subtitles, playlists, chapters…and much, much more!
• Force Touch, picture-in-picture and advanced Touch Bar support
• Customizable user interface including multiple color schemes and on screen controller (OSC) layout positioning
• Standalone Music Mode designed for audio files
• Video thumbnails
• Online subtitle searching and intelligent local subtitle matching
• Unlimited playback history
• Convenient and interactive settings for video/audio filters
• Fully customizable keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and gesture controls
• mpv configuration files and script system for advanced users
• Command line tool and browser extensions provided
• In active development

Download

iina.io

Github

The source code of IINA is available at Github under the GLPv3 licence.

by Mowglii

The Tiny Menu Bar Calender

Features

Itsycal is a tiny menu bar calendar.

If you want, it will display your events as a companion to the Mac Calendar app.

Itsycal has Dark Mode, ISO week numbers, a customizable system clock replacement, and more.

Download

Download for free at mowglii.com/itsycal/

by Jorge Garcia Armero

the macOS file archiver
Store more, share with privacy

Features

Keka is a full featured file archiver, as easy as it can be.

With Keka you can compress as many files as you want in a bunch of formats. Divide files and protect them with a password is now a kids game. Just drop the files you want to compress to the Keka icon in the Dock or the main window.

Also Keka can extract lots of compressed files, from ZIP and 7Z to RAR archives, even parted ones. Just double click on those files and they will be extracted using Keka, or drop them to the icon in the Dock or the main window.

Compression formats supported:

• 7Z, ZIP, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ, LZIP and ISO

Extraction formats supported:

• 7Z, ZIP, RAR, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ, LZIP, DMG, ISO, LZMA, EXE, CAB, WIM, PAX, JAR, APK, APPX, XPI, IPA, CPGZ, CPIO and more

Download

Keka is available for free at keka.io.

There is also a version of Keka on the Mac App Store. To support the developer, this version costs 3.49€ / 2.99$.

A simple, quick and quite clean unarchiver and archiver app.
Keka also supports encrypting and decrypting archives in a nice user interface. keka.io

534dff2 (updates, added iOS, and iOS apps)

by MRR Software

Features

• Rename a list of files quickly and easily.
• See how the names will change as you type.

How To

Add the files through the GUI or drag and drop files directly onto the App. These original filenames show up in the Original Filename column. Grayed out rows indicate files that you do not have permissions to change. Next select how to change the file names:

• Replace First Occurrence
• Replace Last Occurrence
• Replace All Occurrences
• Wildcard
• Append
• Prepend
• Date
• Sequence
• Character Removal
• Regular Expression
• Change Case

As text is entered into the appropriate text fields the resulting filenames appear in the Renamed Filename column. As you type each row is updated to reflect the changes you will make. Finally click the Rename button, and all your files will be renamed as displayed. You will be informed of any files that could not be modified.

Download

Available for free at mrrsoftware.com/namechanger/

Pock

Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar.

It’s free and open source, and it also brings some minimalistic widgets with it!

Disclaimer: I personally have not tested Pock yet.

Website

pock.dev

Github

Pock is available on Github under the MIT licence.

Rectangle is a window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift.

Download

brew install --cask rectangle

rectangleapp.com

GitHub: rxhanson/Rectangle

by Matthew Palmer

Mind-blowing emoji on your Mac.

Features

• The fastest, smoothest Slack-style emoji picker for your Mac
• Access to every emoji through the shortcut window
• Pick your favourite skin tone
• Light and dark themes

Download

Download for free from matthewpalmer.net/rocket/

Powerful and customizable text editor with support for a huge list of programming languages and developed as open source.

Download at MacroMates

Features

(from macromates.com)

Multiple Carets

Making multiple changes at once, swapping pieces of code, and a lot more is made trivial with TextMate’s easy way to add multiple insertion points.

File Search

Select what you want to search, what you want to search for, and TextMate will present the results in a way that makes it easy to jump between matches, extract matched text, or preview desired replacements.

Version Control

See what files have changes in the file browser view, what lines have changes in the editor view, bring up a diff of the current file’s changes, commit a subset, TextMate supports it all for all the major version control systems.

Scoped Settings

One file mixing languages? Projects using different build systems? Third party code with different formatting preferences? TextMate can handle it all by associating detailed scope selectors with key shortcuts, settings, etc.

Commands

The UNIX underpinnings of macOS allows custom actions to be written in any language that can work with stdin, stdout, and environment variables, and for complex interactions TextMate expose both WebKit and a dialog framework for Mac-native or HTML-based interfaces.

Snippets

Commonly used pieces of text or code can be turned into snippets with placeholders, transformations, and more, to have them adapt according to the context in which they are used.

Bundles

TextMate uses bundles for customization and supports a countless number of different languages, markup systems, workflows, and more.

Macros

Repetitive work can be eliminated with macros. Either save them for repeated use or record a scratch macro for immediate replay.

And More…

Clipboard history, custom themes, live HTML/Markdown preview, foldable code blocks, indented soft wrap, etc.

Source Code on Github

The source code of Textmate is available on Github.

Textmate is licenced under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 3.

by The Iconfactory

Tot is an elegant, simple way to collect & edit text across your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. It’s your tiny text companion!

Download

Tot is available for free on the Mac App Store.

Additionally, Tot is also available on iPhone and iPad for 21.99 € / 19.99 $

Features

Less Is More

Tot’s single window design and simple formatting controls mean no more hunting for that chunk of text. Seven color-coded dots let you organize your notes while keeping them from getting out of hand.

Dark / Light Mode

Designed to look stunning both day and night, Tot takes full advantage of iOS and macOS themes.

Small Footprint

Stays out of the way on the desktop with minimal chrome and can even be controlled via the Menu bar. On mobile, each dot is just a swipe away.

iCloud Sync

Seamlessly syncs your text across iOS and macOS using iCloud so you can capture thoughts wherever you are.

Markdown Support

Full support for rich or plain text and even automatically translates text to Markdown for handy use on the web. Have an RTF file you need marked up? No problem!

Killer Keyboard

Tot puts common text operations on the keyboard and keeps track of word and character counts as you type.

Requirement

macOS 10.14 or newer

by Christoph Sinai (coconut-flavour.com)

Features

With coconutBattery you are always aware of your current battery health. It shows you live information about the battery in your Mac, iPhone and iPad including:

• Age of your devices and their batteries
• How often the battery was charged
• Your battery health
• and much more…

You are also able to save the current health information, so you can see the changes of your battery over time.

Download

The free download is available on https://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/

coconutBattery Plus

There’s also a Plus upgrade available to unlock even more and advanced features for just 9.95 €.

A better Terminal app

Personal Settings

1. General -> Selection -> Enable 'Copy ... on selection'
2. Appearance -> General -> Theme -> Choose 'Minimal'
3. Appearance -> Dimming -> Enable all
4. Profiles -> Keys -> Presets -> Choose 'Natural Text Editing'