Comments on: 20+ Outstanding Mac Apps for Designers

By: Irving Briscoe

Irving Briscoe — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 07:42:36 +0000

Sweet. Thanks

By: Cheap Printing

Cheap Printing — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:10:31 +0000

realy good post and loved the apps for designers, macs are so widely used these days that it’s nice to see more and more apps becoming available these days.

By: Liminal Web Design Cornwall

Liminal Web Design Cornwall — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:08:58 +0000

I have been through so many different systems, going to give things another go.

By: Scher

Scher — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:40:52 +0000

You did a great job in listing all of these apps! :) I’d suggest adding http://Lessaccounting.com in the list of invoicing apps. It’s the best invoicing solution for web-savvy designers. :)

By: bl0emetjE

bl0emetjE — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:42:32 +0000

We use Coda all the time, really love it!
Really neat about Coda (don’t know for Espresso) is the “sites” button. You can save sites (local directory, open files where you are working on and ftp connection) and open them in one click. So if you are working on different websites, it is very easy to switch between them without opening the right directory at your computer, opening all the files you are working on and connecting to the ftp again (it’s all saved and will open all together by one clikc)! Also when you are working on a “saved” site, you’ll have the “publish” function (and “reverse publish” from ftp to computer), you don’t have to go to the right directory at the ftp-server, you can just “publish” a file and it will go into the same directory on ftp as on your computer, so no swtiching between directories off- or online all the time.

By: Pontus

Pontus — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:58:15 +0000

TextMate for editing and Skitch for screengrabbing!
Great list though, thanx!

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By: maique

maique — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:17:31 +0000

great list, but i have to agree with the textmate comments before me.

By: Joshua Johnson

Joshua Johnson — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:19:11 +0000

Here’s the link to TextMate for all who want to give it a shot.
Price: $57
http://macromates.com/

And for Skitch (free) as well!
http://skitch.com/

By: Joshua Johnson

Joshua Johnson — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:15:28 +0000

Another great mention! Skitch is awesome. Keep it up!

By: Char Reed

Char Reed — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:12:29 +0000

For free Screenshot Utilities, I use Skitch (skitch.com) myself. It’s pretty simplistic, but it can take a photo and upload it to an easily shareable URL online in under 30 seconds. I find it pretty invaluable for my blogging and web forum posts!

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:12:39 +0000

how could you leave off TextMate?!

By: Al

Al — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:56:14 +0000

Nice list. Many of the tools I use are on there (Coda, Cyberduck, Art Directors Toolkit, Little Snapper). I’ve started using Bento too and have today written a review of it on my weblog.

I’ve tried Things for GTD but in the end always revert to using Mail as my To do list.

I might have to look at some of the billing apps though. At the moment I use TaskTime.

There are just so many good Mac apps.

Al.

By: Joshua Johnson

Joshua Johnson — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:54:08 +0000

Excellent call on TextMate, it was definitely on my list of potentials. I haven’t used it much though, I’ll have to give it a shot!

By: Rock Langston

Rock Langston — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:50:02 +0000

Nice collection of apps. Something for everyone here. Thanks!