Tools

A very powerful productivity tool for the Mac, which replaces Spotlight search and adds a lot of time-saving tools to the universal search bar.

The team behind Arc browser is trying to reinvent the browser. Arc is simply awesome and I highly recommend everybody to at least give it a try.

A simple but easy to use wireframing tool that keeps you from falling into designing at a stage, where designing is not the task at hand.

Allows for a lot of customization on touchpad gestures and general behavior. It also enables macros and custom triggers to enable chains of actions through touchpad gestures.

An online tool to manage and schedule posts across multiple Social Media Networks, reducing the necessity to log into different networks.

Handles meeting scheduling fully automatically and saves hours of sending emails with proposed dates for meetings back and forth.

The best screenshot and screen-recording tool there is for the Mac. It includes just the right amount of features for a screenshot and recording tool.

A documentation tool for teams like no other. Coda helps you build single-source of truth (SSOT) style documents with powerful databases, forms and automations.

The perfect design inspiration collection tool, where you can store, catalogue and sort screenshots, designs and even complete websites.

Expensive (subscription-based) pricing but definitively the best calendar tool there is. My whole business and private life is organized with Fantastical.

An online whiteboard within the Figma application, which enables you to work together as a team with sticky notes, create and facilitate workshops.

The currently best tool for UI design, design systems — especially if working with other team members.

Provides all the in-depth and nerdy information about the Mac, from temperatures to CPU, GPU and RAM load to everything else.

A very complex but complete software for managing Scrum- or Kanban-based workflows within teams.

Create simple and fast screen recordings with voice over instead of meetings. Especially helpful for feedback on design, websites, and anything else visual.

Create simple or very complex automations and move data between different tools easily and automatically. Pretty simple to use but very flexible.

An online whiteboard with a whole range of different features and helpful templates to facilitate UX research workshops, and facilitate remote workshops.

A collection of different apps and screenshots of different screen designs, which can help you find inspiration for specific UI elements.

A powerful documentation tool with a delightful text editor that is based on Markdown, with databases and sheer endless possibilities.

The best Markdown editor, which is completely free and very customizable through plugins and themes. There is also a huge community surrounding the tool.

A tool to measure distances, sizes or anything else on-screen. It can also create custom guidelines on the screen to measure alignment of elements.

A very powerful bookmark manager that solves many issues you will encounter when trying to manage bookmarks via the native browser bookmark manager.

A very powerful Spotlight alternative which has a vibrant plugin community, awesome UX and a very nice design.

Readwise collects and syncs any highlights I take reading eBooks, websites, PDFs and ePubs into an easy to use app and also into my Obsidian note-taking system.

A universal reader and read-it-later app, which collects RSS feeds, newsletters, articles and more. Directly integrated into the Readwise service.

Awesome free tool for branded links (even in the free version) and some light tracking possibilities.

Create very slick looking mockup images and even videos of your UI designs. The UI is very simple to use and produces very unique results.

Complete invoicing and bookkeeping tool with automatic import from bank account to help with invoice tracking. Also features proposals, recurring invoices and simple expense tracking.

Probably the best free screenshot tool for Mac with a lot of super-helpful features and built-in editing tools.

One of the best communication applications that helps tremendously with cross-team communication and can even help building communities for specific topics.

A very different email client, that makes processing a lot of emails very fast and efficient. Now also features AI capabilities for composing emails.

Automatically tracks time for individual applications and includes things like browser tab or window names to make it easier to assign different things to projects and clients.

A simple time tracking tool, which also provides various analytics and sharable dashboards for clients with time-based contracts.

A simple kanban-based tool for managing tasks either for yourself or within a team.

A free browser based on Chromium but highly customizable and extendable — and without any Google tracking tech.

A very flexible tool for UX research and documentation with a special focus on diagrams, wireframes and written documents.

A handoff and documentation tool, that can help with feedback and handoff for designs by importing from Figma, Sketch, XD and other design tools.

A very easy-to-use design documentation tool for design systems which can connect directly to Figma to synchronize styles, components and much more.