The Ultimate Mac Setup for Web Designers (60 Apps)

There’s little doubt that OS X is a popular platform for web designers – it offers an enormous range of software for designing, managing, developing and publishing websites. Whether you prefer to use an all-in-one environment for designing websites or a range of different applications, there’s a tool to suit you perfectly.

This article will round up 60 different web design apps for every different conceivable need. And don’t worry if design isn’t your area of expertise; much of the software covered is fairly multi-purpose, suited to a variety of tasks.

Client & Project Management

Billings – An excellent tool for managing the details of clients, billing, and tracking payments and receipts.
iCal – Bundled with OS X, iCal can offer a simple and inexpensive method to track projects and deadlines. Email reminders are handy too!
OmniPlan – More advanced planning software with Gantt charting, robust task management, and a great interface
iTaskX – Seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Project to be another fairly advanced planning and project management tool.
Daylite – From the makers of Billings, Daylite is a more professional app capable of organizing an entire design team!
Merlin – Yet another advanced project management tool, with a great looking interface.

Creating an Asset Library

LittleSnapper – An awesome tool for capturing and organizing screenshots, ensuring you’re never stuck for inspiration.
TextExpander – Allows you to build up a library of code or text snippets, and quickly drop them into a document.
Yojimbo – An “information organizer”, which can be used for building up a library of code snippets, images, icons, or client material.
DevonThink – Similar to Yojimbo, but with a few advanced features such as OCR and scanner integration.
FontExplorer – The de facto font management tool for OS X, with automatic activation.
Fontcase – A great looking interface and robust comparison tools makes Fontcase a worthy competitor to FontExplorer.

Designing: All-in-one

Coda – The original (and, some would say, best) integrated web design environment for OS X with robust CSS tools, live previewing, and one-click publishing.
Espresso – Bringing several features across from CSSEdit, Espresso is a worthy Coda competitor with a built-in code snippet manager.
iWeb – Bundled with iLife, iWeb is Apple’s take on a WYSIWYG editor. Simple, easy-to-use, and capable of creating wonderfully designed sites. More of a consumer tool, with fewer advanced features than Coda/Espresso.
RapidWeaver – The undisputed king of visual web design apps on OS X, RapidWeaver has an extensive community creating hundreds of excellent themes.

Designing: Images

Adobe CS4 – The daddy of design suites, CS4 includes Photoshop and Illustrator – two essential apps for designing graphics for the web.
Pixelmator – Billed as a Photoshop competitor for “the rest of us”, Pixelmator is inexpensive and remarkably fast for editing photos and graphics.
GIMP – A completely free image editing tool. It lacks the same polish as Photoshop or Pixelmator, but packs a decent punch.
Keynote – Often overlooked, Keynote can create stunning diagrams and charts which are only a screenshot away from looking brilliant on your website.
Photoshop Elements – Photoshop’s little brother, Elements offers an inexpensive way to organize and edit a photo library for the web.
Acorn – The “image editor for humans”, Acorn has a bunch of excellent export-for-web options.
Picturesque – It’s easy to add reflections, borders, shadows, curves and change the perspective of photographs with Picturesque. Great for adding life to a dull image.

Designing: CSS & HTML

BBEdit – Undoubtedly the leading OS X text editor, BBEdit is incredibly powerful whilst retaining a simple interface. Particularly useful is the auto-complete feature.
TextWrangler – The free alternative to BBEdit, retaining much of the functionality at a price that’s too good to resist.
SubEthaEdit – Another great text editing tool, with powerful features for allowing multiple designers to collaborate on a document at the same time.
TextMate – A simple, unobtrusive text editor for editing HTML, CSS, or another programming language you throw at it.
CSSEdit – A game-changing app for editing and previewing CSS, packed with useful features such as a visual editing tool and “selector builder”.
Slammer – Capable of placing a grid over your screen to assist with laying out webpage elements and keeping a good structure.
xScope – A fantastic all-rounder for measuring and analyzing any element on your screen. xScope is worth every penny!
Caliper – Focusing on one small subset of xScope, Caliper is a free alternative for accurately measuring elements on your screen.

Audio & Video

Handbrake – A powerful video conversion application, which is ideally suited for converting videos into a web format. It can happily handle almost any video format available, and is completely free.
ScreenFlow – If you’re considering using a screencast on your website, ScreenFlow is worth every penny. It can record your screen/webcam/audio simultaneously, and packs a range of editing tools.
Audacity – An open source app for editing and encoding audio across a variety of different formats.
GarageBand – For podcasting website designers, GarageBand is a simple (and free) way to edit a recording and export it in a suitable podcast format.

Testing

MAMP – Whilst OS X ships with an in-built web server, MAMP also ensures that PHP and MySQL are installed. A quick way to set up a local website testing server.
Alkaline – A great app for generating screenshots of how a website will display in various Windows browsers.
ies4osx – Providing a way to test your website locally in various versions of Internet Explorer. A headache, but necessary!
Parallels Desktop – If you’re prefer to test websites in an actual Windows environment, Parallels is the virtualization industry leader.
VirtualBox – For the budget-conscious, VirtualBox is a free alternative to Parallels which can provide an equally useful testing setup.

Publishing

Transmit – Transmit is probably the best known FTP client for the Mac, with good reason – it packs a great deal of functionality and is notoriously well designed.
CyberDuck – The most full-featured open source client available, Cyberduck packs a decent punch and is a free rival to Transmit.
YummyFTP – Notable features include auto-recovery of failed transfers, filtering of upload synchronization, robust scheduling and FTP alias support
Interarchy – Supporting a range of SSH functionality, mirroring, Dashboard and Automator integration, and downloading of entire websites.
Forklift – Offering a great interface, but quite an expensive price tag for the features on offer.
Fetch -Support for a range of protocols with a few new Leopard-centric features in the latest release.

Version Control

Versions – A wonderfully designed subversion app, making it simple for a non-technical web designer to get started.
Cornerstone – A worthy Versions competitor with a stunning interface, and the latest version of Subversion built-in.
svnX – A free, open source, subversion client with a decent range of features.
GitX – Offering a history viewer and commit interface with OS X style.

Databases

Querious – A throughly full-featured SQL database manager, which unfortunately only works with MySQL5 at present. If you’re rocking the latest MySQL version, however, this is an incredibly useful app.
Sequel Pro – A free alternative to Querious, with a recent update bringing the interface up to a much improved standard. Reliable, and easy-to-use.

Monitoring & Statistics

Dashalytics – A simple Dashboard widget for monitoring Google Analytics statistics. I’m a fan of the simple graphical interface.
WatchMouse – Allows you to monitor the uptime of your website or server through the OS X Dashboard.
Junior Mint – If you use Mint as a statistics system, this is a simple way to stay up-to-date through Dashboard.
Reinvigorate (Beta) – Currently an invite-only beta, Reinvigorate allows desktop monitoring of website visitors and statistics. Get signed up to be a tester!

Backup

Time Machine – The OS X Leopard backup solution. All that you require is an external hard drive, and to keep a copy of your website locally.
Dropbox – I use Dropbox as a means of keeping an off-site backup of important website documents and files (though it’s also great at keeping multiple computers in sync!)
SuperDuper – If you’d like to keep a bootable backup of your Mac hard drive, SuperDuper is an excellent solution.
Syncplicity – Similar to Dropbox, Syncplicity can easily maintain a fully versioned remote backup of any folder(s) on your hard drive.

Conclusion

I hope to have covered most of the areas you’ll come across as a web designer, with a variety of applications for each. Whether you have a huge budget to blow or are working on a shoestring, nothing can hold you back with a combination of the above software (apart from IE6…).

I’m sure there are several fantastic applications not mentioned, so please feel free to share in the comments. I look forward to learning about a few new gems!

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Max
May 7th
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Great roundup – while most of them should be very well known already, I still discovered a couple of useful apps I’ll definitely evaluate later. Thanks!
Roger
May 7th
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Being fairly new to designing on a mac I find this list a great resource. Thanks for the insight!
Jeffery Saddoris
May 7th
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Great post. I use a number of these in my current work flow.
Shishir
May 7th
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I think you forgot Expandrive which is a must have for doing quick edits. Of course the price is a bit hefty.
- Adrian
  May 7th
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  A free alternative is MacFusion, which pretty much does the same thing. http://www.macfusionapp.org/
Dan Gayle
May 7th
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Bah, Humbug! You list BBEdit as “Undoubtedly the leading OS X text editor” over Textmate? You might have an argument based solely on numbers, but the “undoubtedly” part is itself in doubt.
Yay Textmate!
Jeffrey
May 7th
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Another vote for TextMate!
Dan Gayle
May 7th
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+1 for Expandrive
I’d also add ImageOptim for serious image compression goodness. For a free but awesome screenshot program, I’d also check out InstantShot!
Jeffrey
May 7th
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Also, I think VMware Fusion should be included. Its UI is much better than the alternatives.
Matthias Grimm
May 7th
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Is there nobody who is using Adobe Dreamweaver for writing HTML, CSS and so on…?
- Owen
  May 7th
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  I use to but have since changed to Coda. Much nicer, simpler interface. I’m more productive with Coda than when I was using Dreamweaver.
  - Dave Parsons
    May 7th
    Just done exactly the same and couldn’t agree more. Aside from a couple of niggles with Coda, it’s a breath of fresh air compared to DW.
- Glenn
  May 8th
  Reply
  I use Dw mainly for ASP sites. I think it still has a better handle on ASP than other IDE’s out there. (Hoping an Espresso ASP sugar will change that!) Coda/Textmate for everything else.
- Alex Hughes
  May 8th
  Reply
  I used to use DW on both Windows and OS X, but since finding Coda have done the same as many others as it is simply easier and as said, more productive to work with. Especially as I did have a few bugs with DW on my mac, it crashed occasionally. Which was not a common thing for my mac to-do.
  However I have stuck with it on Windows as I do not think it can be beat. Top notch when running on Windows.
- Mobs
  July 8th
  Reply
  Is CODA off the market? Their website is offline… http://www.panic.com
  For designers DW is a help since it is visual, a wysiwyg (alas, it try to be…). Problem occur as soon PHP is used. Does anybody knows a really good wysiwyg editor? Or is is non-existing…
  - Simon
    October 22nd
    I use textmate as a remplacement of textedit and NetBeans for project…
    And what about FileZilla? It’s a realy full feature ftp client… and free.
tc
May 7th
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One Photo App to Rule Them ALL: Lightzone http://www.lightcrafts.com/lightzone/
http://www.lightcrafts.com/gallery/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/lightzone/
Game-changing.
Owen
May 7th
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Nice list! For billing I’ve since changed from Billings to the Invoice Machine, an online invoicing system and I love it!
Jason
May 7th
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Fantastic, know most (but certainly not all) of them – thanks heaps.
TmiY
May 7th
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I think you should include “On The Job”, much like billings but in my oppinion a bit more intuative.
Pyemachine
May 7th
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Awesome collection and reviews. Well done
Caesar Aldhela
May 7th
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Great post!!
very useful :)
Serkan
May 7th
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Well Done. Great collection. Thank you.
Daz Jones
May 7th
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This is a great list! :)
JohnONolan
May 7th
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Woah, where’s Silverback?
lowell
May 7th
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BBEdit? The leading Mac editor?
Um, no. TextMate FTW
It’s the most imitated editor ever – from emulation modes in Emacs to gedit plugins to entire clones in Windows, like e. I didn’t even know BBEdit was still around.
- Wess
  May 7th
  Reply
  Yeah, Im going to have to agree and say Textmate as #1. Also how could you not mention Navicat (there is a free version) for db? It’s by far cake to use and not to bad to look at.
  And for version control/svn, Forget about Terminal?
  - Todd
    July 19th
    TextMate is a fine simple editor, but it has nowhere near the power of BBEdit. If you have the time and inclination to spend building it up into an app you’d want to use, with any of various bundles, maybe it would work for you. Instead, BBEdit comes with everything already built in, and is expandable with AppleScript. TextMate’s support is ‘community’ support (think IRC and forums), while BBEdit engineers answer their own support mail, quickly, PLUS there is community support.
    Let’s see, a Mac app that acts like Unix/FOSS, or a Mac app that acts like the Mac? No contest. BBEdit FTW.
yos
May 7th
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i see you prefer billings in every recommendation. there are a lot of other very good programs for invoices an client management which should be mentioned.
Bert de Weerd
May 7th
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Funny to see, no apps from the free OSX developerkit included! And what about the Aptana IDE?
Joris Witteman
May 7th
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I think Coda should be under the “Designing CSS & HTML” (you mean text editors) category with TextMate. Coda is not a WYSIWYG editor. Maybe just for the CSS but certainly not for entire page designs.
Richard Barrett
May 7th
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I’d not seen the IE on a Mac stuff before, I’ll have to take a look because it does wear thin running VMWare in the background all the time!
Jim
May 7th
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Ok David, now do the same list over again, but without mentioning any of the names already on the list – Just replace every name on the list with a new one. Can you do it? I’m fairly certain I could.
My point is, many of these apps seem to appear on every list on every Web site. Some of them I’m not even sure why.
Still, it’s a great list – I just wish people would stop taking the quick and easy way out and start doing just a little research on these lists before posting them. I’ve grown quite tired of seeing the same apps.
Lucian Ioan
May 7th
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Another good project management software is RationalPlan:
http://www.RationalPlan.com/
Mike Jolley
May 7th
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I prefer OnTheJob (http://stuntsoftware.com/OnTheJob/) to billings. I like its simplicity.
Eugenio Grigolon
May 7th
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Nice list, thanks for sharing.
Corey Molinelli
May 7th
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Great list! You listed keynote and mentioned creating a screen shot of your charts or graphs. Instead of a screen shot just export as a jpeg.
rob
May 7th
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I use SCPlugin for version control. It’s free and it integrates directly into the finder so it’s there all the time and I don’t need to run another app to use it.
Robert Dyson
May 7th
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Great article, thanks! I’d recommend Freshbooks for invoicing and Outright for keeping track of taxes.
James Teow
May 7th
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Firebug, the add-on to Firefox is completely essential.
- josheat
  May 25th
  Reply
  amen.
- Joop Vos
  July 6th
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  Yep, it is!
- Marcos Cerutti
  August 28th
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  Hell yeah James! Oh Yslow as well!
Rob
May 7th
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I used to use this outdated timesheet program appropriately named ‘Timesheet’; but I’ve recently switched to Billings and even though I only use it to log hours for my boss (In other words, I don’t bill them myself) I love it.
I use that, Adobe CS4, TextWrangler, MAMP, and VirtualBox. I’d love to start using some sort of program to organize all my files; but as I keep them on an external drive in folders under our clients names it’s not yet that big of a problem.
Mathies
May 7th
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When performing any kind of usability testing, Silverback is the app!
Leandro
May 7th
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FYI, Dropbox also does versioning backup. Each changes of the file in any computer is stored as a new version.
Horia Dragomir
May 7th
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Thanks!
I’m thinking whether to switch to mac, and this post will definitely help me get started when I do.
Brian
May 8th
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Another vote for Textmate here too…. no chance i would use BBedit over it..
Caleb Kimbrough
May 8th
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No one has mentioned Shovebox http://www.wonderwarp.com/shovebox/ which is one of the few apps that I really consider essential to my workflow. It’s the perfect tool for saving anything you don’t want to forget, like code snippets or screenshots or files for future downloading.
And it syncs with my iPhone!
Will Ayers
May 8th
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Wow! This is a great list of apps. Thanks for the resources. I have been trying to find out what some of the top Version Control apps were out there.
Jeedee
May 8th
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Missing DrawIt, the graphic editor that makes most sense for Web 2.0 designers…
Dan
May 8th
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Alkaline’s price points are a hard sell compared to the free offerings like browsershots.org for websites.
Transmit, Versions, CS4 all work well for me.
bvde
May 8th
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Alternative to Yojimbo = Evernote
Rickey
May 8th
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Great post! Thank you!
kixvix
May 8th
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Great list! Will definitely check out some of these apps. (+1) each for Dropbox and Littlesnapper.
Chris Johnston
May 8th
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No one using Fireworks anymore? I much prefer it to Photoshop due to its excellent handling of both Vector and Raster elements in a layout. It greatly reduces the number of layers you need to create when doing a layout and the slice tool is also a win.
- Tomoe
  May 13th
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  Yes ! Yes ! I prefer Fireworks too. Much more flexible than Photoshop for webdesign. Let’s support Fireworks !
LockWesMonster
May 8th
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YouControlDesktops is a must!
It is like Spaces on crack. You can actually have different desktops for each space (different backgrounds, desktop folders, etc). I run one for work and one for play. Come Friday, I just switch desktops and all of my work clutter is gone.
- LockWesMonster
  May 8th
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  BTW, here is the link http://www.yousoftware.com/desktops/desktops.php
- Jash Sayani
  May 8th
  Reply
  I use HyperSpaces for that !
bryan
May 8th
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Is there no good desktop app for google analytics? not a big fan of dash widgets….
- Anuga
  May 8th
  Reply
  Adobe Air has one.
harmlessgoat22
May 8th
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You should’ve just put 1 app of each type there. For instance, pick if you like Coda or Espresso better, and only put the winner on this page. It’s hard to find the best apps when you’ve got 60, and only about 10 actual different TYPES of apps. Still a good article though :) I like the huge lists of apps that you guys do…it helps me find new apps
Of the apps listed, I use Little Snapper, Espresso, Adobe CS4, Handbrake, Screenflow, Audacity, MAMP, Forklift, and Versions (although sometimes command line svn is appealing). I’m VERY picky about the beauty of the apps used on my Mac. Little Snapper, Espresso, Screenflow, Forklift, and Versions all have amazing interfaces. Handbrake, Audacity, and CS4 are so great, their semi-mediocre interfaces are excusable.
ray jalil
May 8th
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thanks for this resourceful list. plenty to make fabulous work with.
Johnny Halife
May 8th
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TextMate+
Rob Saurini
May 8th
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You forgot Integrity! It’s a super-fast link checker. It comes in handy when you have a large website and don’t want to click every single link to make sure it works.
http://peacockmedia.co.uk/integrity/
WebKarnage
May 8th
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If you are going to put Espresso in there, Flux 2 should be!! It’s in far better shape right now and has a WYSIWYG editor (drag stuff about) a full preview (and it actually works!) and a code editor too.
It’s RapidWeaver and Flux 2 for me. Awesome combo.
- Matt
  May 9th
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  I agree with WebKarnage. Flux 2 should really be getting more attention. It’s like an undiscovered gem.
  - Zooshej
    July 6th
    Wow… Flux2 seems to be fantastic. Do you guys have experience developing Wordpress-templates with Flux?
Lee Graham
May 8th
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You should really have BackBlaze under Backups. Only $5 month for encrypted backups. Its like TimeMachine but it but it backs up to the web.
- Jash Sayani
  May 8th
  Reply
  Tried it out sometime back… Too slow for my connection…
  Checkout ZumoDrive, its a better DropBox: http://jashsayani.com/zumodrive-hands-on/
  It downloads only needed files instead of updating all files on the computer…..
Jash Sayani
May 8th
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I have 1 app from each category. Though I would love to get Versions.app !
Expensive for SVN client !!
Bobby
May 9th
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How sould you make a list of the best apps and not have Charles Proxy. Testing anything over the network without Charles is crazy. Simulate slower internet connection. It’s the most useful app for web developers/designers.
Franky
May 9th
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Legit. I love it!!!
What about Snes 9x for those who wanna kill some snes roms!
MacHarry
May 9th
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One very powerfull all-in-one design solution is Freeway 5 from Softpress (http://www.softpress.com/). Much better than Coda… check it out !
Tomoe
May 9th
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Thanks for the list.
What about Smultron ? I’m using it everyday : simple, efficient, free text editor with syntax highlighting and text encoding support.
Paul Rostorp
May 9th
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Hi,
There is a french software called webacappella, it’s also in english and it’s much better than Rapidweaver!
http://www.webacappella.fr/crbst_0_en.html
thanks,
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freshapps
May 9th
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Really great compiled list. I wish you had added commercial or free app information.
Alex from Team Parallels
May 10th
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Thanks for the Parallels shout out
Alex (from Parallels)
http://twitter.com/parallels_hq
Adrian Rodriguez
May 10th
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This is awesome. I am taking a look at everything I don’t have, as I will most likely utilize a lot of these tools especially because of my job.
BORABORA
May 11th
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Thanks for putting all this up together!
Best wishes
BORABORA
Tom Bonner
May 11th
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You left PageSpinner from Optima-Systems off the HTML/CSS editor list. It is a very fast, light weight editor. If you code by hand, it offers everything you need and the built in Applescript support allows it to be extended to almost any role. It is the only HTML editor I use on the Mac.
Web Design Quote
May 11th
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Great article…….And i am happy to see lots of information in your articles.I am also vote for Textmate.
Thanks for sharing the information and add some more stuff in your list.
AYOUB - GHARAFI
May 14th
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THATS A VERY COOL DESIGNER PROGRAMES ………
Dario Gutierez
May 14th
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Great list and article.
Scott Prock
May 15th
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I’m surprised no one has mentioned Skitch from Plasq for screen captures. It’s still in public beta (so it’s free) and it’s by far the best screen capture app for the Mac.
I don’t see it mentioned much in these types of lists, I would hate to see such a great program get shut down because no one knows about it.
Regards … Scott
- Joop Vos
  July 6th
  Reply
  Skitch is one of the main apps I use … so get a copy (free!) and try it! Go to http://www.skitch.com/
Jason
May 16th
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Paparazzi for taking screenshots of your website work for you portfolio. http://derailer.org/paparazzi/screenshots
- Thomas
  May 25th
  Reply
  great list! exactly what i’m looking for!! thank you :)
  i think you could also add Logic, Final Cut or iMovie to the Audio and Video Apps!
  regards
  Thomas
website analyzer
May 18th
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Thanks for thos grate list of links with tools.
Keep up the good work with this website
Dale Berkebile
May 27th
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This is a great collection. I use several of these items already, but you introduced me to several new ones as well. Thanks!
matthew
May 28th
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Thanks for this. I was thinking of apps I would add as scrolling down and it looks like you have them all covered. How about Kompozer though?
accessko
June 7th
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Thank you for the list.
Thomas
June 10th
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a very good list of programs and tools – thank you for the very useful list
Chris
June 23rd
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Great list, but you should also include http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html for local PHP/MySQL installs and testing.
Sean Nieuwoudt
July 5th
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Fantastic list! thanks very much!
Zooshej
July 6th
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That’s a really useful article. I still look for an easy way to develop Wordpress templates on my my. At the moment I am testing ExpanDrive in combination with Flux 2. Does any of you have a more productive or just easier solution?
Dan Taylor
July 7th
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A handy tool you perhaps overlooked in the ‘Backup’ category is Bombich Software’s Carbon Copy Cloner. It’s yet to let me down.
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Toby
July 20th
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I discovered a nice well priced pixel & vector/layout app: http://www.pl32.com (It’s better than the website appears)
Mariusz
August 4th
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You’re missing quite a lot great apps, like PhotoLine (best Photoshop competitor out there, imho) or TextMate (best text/code editor out there, imho)
Christophe
August 26th
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Great post and very usefull list !
Thanks
PrevUK
September 2nd
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Syncplicity is now a windows only app.. shame.. it was just what I was looking for..
From Their Blog:
July 9th, 2009
Today, we’ve made the decision to withdraw our Mac Beta Client. As of today, the Mac Beta Client is no longer available for new users to download. Existing users of the Mac Beta Client can continue to use it until July 31st at which time service will be discontinued.
Tom
October 15th
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Great article. Deveoping on OS X is the only way to go.
Bob Young
November 16th
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Thanks million for your hard work. This is great stuff.
Ash
December 5th
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Hi,
Thanks for your list.
I have switched to a Mac recently and found this list useful.
Nils Holmström
December 7th
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It’s worth to notice that Coda by itself fulfills multiple of these needs. It’s a text-editor, subversion-client, ftp-client and you can also edit remote files as if they were local.
visavi
December 18th
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tz tz tz … when I read things like “I am very picky about the look of the apps” or “Webdeveloping on OSX is the only way to go” … OMG … C’mon kids! We all know, most of you are no professional webdesigners at all here ?!?! Let’s face it. For a pro, it doesn’t matter what GUI and what Computer. It is more about options and its reliability …visavi
BTW: Nice list for first time mac users. better than most others. But it doesn’t go deep enough into the alternatives of pro webdesign apps.
Bathrobewarrior
January 29th
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Very nice stuff! I use alot of those apps :)