Recently Popular Mac Apps (Issue #16)

Welcome to MacBed’s new apps introduction column. Here, we will introduce to you the latest and excellent Mac App. We also hope that you can share with us in the comment section the applications that you are interested in or enjoy using. Here are this week’s recommended new apps. The recommended apps will mainly be free apps.

1.Hidden Bar – An ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons

Bartender 5 quietly changed developers and it is not certain that it is still safe.

So if you have related needs, you can try these open source applications, including those we introduced before Ice.

Hidden Bar lets you hide menu bar items to give your Mac a cleaner look.

Hidden Bar is free and open source and has been released to the Mac App Store.


2.Loop – Window management made elegant.

Loop is a macOS app that simplifies window management for you! You can effortlessly choose your window direction using a radial menu triggered by a simple key press, and customize it according to your preferences with personalized colors and settings. You can easily move, resize, and arrange your windows with just a few clicks, saving you valuable time and energy.

Loop is free and open source at Github.


3.Tiny RDM – A Modern Redis GUI Client

Tiny RDM is a modern lightweight cross-platform Redis desktop manager available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Feature

  • Super lightweight, built on Webview2, without embedded browsers .
  • Provides visually and user-friendly UI, light and dark themes.
  • Multi-language support .
  • Better connection management: supports SSH Tunnel/SSL/Sentinel Mode/Cluster Mode/HTTP proxy/SOCKS5 proxy.
  • Visualize key value operations, CRUD support for Lists, Hashes, Strings, Sets, Sorted Sets, and Streams.
  • Support multiple data viewing format and decode/decompression methods.
  • Use SCAN for segmented loading, making it easy to list millions of keys.
  • Logs list for command operation history.
  • Provides command-line mode.
  • Provides slow logs list.
  • Segmented loading and querying for List/Hash/Set/Sorted Set.
  • Provide value decode/decompression for List/Hash/Set/Sorted Set.
  • Integrate with Monaco Editor
  • Support real-time commands monitoring.
  • Support import/export data.
  • Support publish/subscribe.
  • Support import/export connection profile.
  • Custom data encoder and decoder for value display.

4.Jan – an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer. Multiple engine support (llama.cpp, TensorRT-LLM)

Jan is an open-source ChatGPT alternative that runs 100% offline on your computer.

Jan runs on any hardware. From PCs to multi-GPU clusters, Jan supports universal architectures:

  •  NVIDIA GPUs (fast)
  •  Apple M-series (fast)
  •  Apple Intel
  •  Linux Debian
  •  Windows x64

Github Link


5.ThoriumThe fastest browser on Earth.

Thorium is a browser based on Chromium.

Highlights

  • Compiler optimizations include SSE4.2, AVX, AES, and modifications to CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, thinLTO flags, import_instr_limit flags, and PGO, as well as other compiler flags.
  • LLVM LOOP optimizations as -mllvm flags
  • UI Changes and Patches for Linux and Windows that fix bugs, enhance useability, and strengthen privacy/security.

Recommended App Update

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Affinity Designer 2.5.2

ChatGPT for macOS 1.2024.144

Pixelmator Pro 3.6.2

Downie 4.7.17

Jump Desktop (RDP, VNC, Fluid) 8.10.8




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1 Response

  1. Jacob the Shepherd says:

    Cool article, I support this initiative, thanks !

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