Interesting / uncommon tools
Table of contents
- Carbon - Code images
- Joplin - Synced markdown notes
- Bitbar - toolbar scripting
- Stats - system monitor in your menu bar
- ScreenCloud - Screenshot sharing application
- Lepton - A Lean GitHub Gist Client
- James - Web debugging proxy application
- Espanso - Text expander
- Guppy Proxy - Intercepting proxy
- Delta Chat - Secure instant messaging
- ViMbAdmin - Virtual mailbox administration
- GoldenChaos - BetterTouchTool UI replacement
- Adium - Instant messaging client
- OpenInCode - Open current folder in VSCode
- OpenInTerminal / OpenInEditor
- shell.now.sh - Reverse Shell as a Service
- Stylus - Restyle the web
- KeyBase - Identities and encryption keys
- balenaEtcher - OS images to SD cards
- Frontail - streaming logs through browser
- pgcli - Postgres CLI with superpowers
- shallow-backup - Dotfiles backup to Git
- App Downloader - Brew Casks GUI
- Mailspring - Fast and lean Email client
- Rambox CE - Common web apps merged into one
- Homebrew Cask - Installation of GUI macOS apps
- Nativefier - Turn WebApps into Dekstop Applications
- LyricsX - Lyrics over menubar
- Astral - Organize GitHub Stars
- Localtunnel - Exposes localhost
- gtop - System monitoring dashboard for terminal
- wtfutil - Personal dashboard for your terminal
- STF - Remotely manage Android devices
- terminal-notifier - Notifications from CLI
- WhatsApp Dark Mode - Theme for official desktop client
- DNSViz - Visualizing DNSSEC
- Brave - Browser
- Pennywise - Media floating window
- Mackup - Syncing config files
- Lumen - Magic Auto Brightness Based on Screen Contents
- HTTP Toolkit - Intercept & view all your HTTP(S)
Carbon - Code images
Create and share beautiful images of your source code https://carbon.now.sh
🌎 carbon.now.sh 
scrapy/scrapely
Joplin - Synced markdown notes
An open source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation capabilities
🌎 joplinapp.org laurent22/joplin
Bitbar - toolbar scripting
The BitBar app lets you put the output from any script or program right in your Mac OS X menu bar. And it’s completely free. An impressive number of plugins have already been contributed by a wide range of developers just like you, and this site makes it easy to find them.
🌎 getbitbar.com matryer/bitbar
Stats - system monitor in your menu bar
Stats is a application which allows you to monitor your macOS system.
- CPU Usage
- Memory Usage
- Disk utilization
- Battery level
- Network usage
- Black theme compatible
ScreenCloud - Screenshot sharing application
This is the source code for the ScreenCloud client. ScreenCloud is an easy to use screenshot sharing tool that works on Windows, Mac and Linux. For more info, see: screencloud.net
You can also upload to other services, including your own FTP server, Imgur, Dropbox and more through the use of plugins.
🌎 screencloud.net olav-st/screencloud
Lepton - A Lean GitHub Gist Client
Lepton is a lean code snippet manager based on GitHub Gist. Check out its latest release.
- Unlimited public/private snippets
- Unlimited tags
- Language groups
- Markdown/JupyterNotebook support
- GitHub Enterprise support
- Immersive mode
- Customizable
- Light/Dark theme
- macOS/Win/Linux
- Dashboard
- Search
- Proxy
- Free
🌎 hackjutsu.com/Lepton/ hackjutsu/Lepton
James - Web debugging proxy application
James is an HTTP Proxy and Monitor that enables developers to view and intercept requests made from the browser. It is an open-source alternative to the popular developer tool Charles
Espanso - Text expander
What is a Text Expander?
A text expander is a program that detects when you type a specific keyword and replaces it with something else. This is useful in many ways:
- Save a lot of typing, expanding common sentences.
- Create system-wide code snippets.
- Execute custom scripts
- Use emojis like a pro.
🌎 espanso.org federico-terzi/espanso
Guppy Proxy - Intercepting proxy
The Guppy Proxy is an intercepting proxy for performing web application security testing. Its features are often similar to, or straight up rippoffs from Burp Suite. However, Burp Suite has its own issues (search, licensing) which led to the creation of Guppy.
Delta Chat - Secure instant messaging
Delta Chat is like Telegram or WhatsApp but without the tracking or central control. Delta Chat does not need your phone number. Check out our privacy statement.
Delta Chat doesn’t have their own servers but uses the most massive and diverse open messaging system ever: the existing e-mail server network.
Chat with anyone if you know their e-mail address, no need for them to install DeltaChat! All you need is a standard e-mail account.
🌎 delta.chat deltachat/deltachat-android deltachat/deltachat-desktop
ViMbAdmin - Virtual mailbox administration
The ViMbAdmin project (vim-be-admin) provides a web based virtual mailbox administration system allowing mail administrators to manage domains, mailboxes and aliases.
🌎 vimbadmin.net opensolutions/ViMbAdmin
GoldenChaos - BetterTouchTool UI replacement
Touch Bar into GoldenChaos-BTT: a true general purpose Touch Bar UI with support for tons of apps that’s intuitive enough to make you love your Touch Bar again - or, more likely, for the first time.
Adium - Instant messaging client
Adium is a free and open source instant messaging application for Mac OS X, written using Mac OS X’s Cocoa API, released under the GNU GPL and developed by the Adium team.
OpenInCode - Open current folder in VSCode
Finder toolbar app to open current folder in Visual Studio Code
Installation and usage:
- Download app for Light or Dark mode or using
brew cask install open-in-code(if using VS Code Insiders, download this instead)- Move Open in Code.app to /Applications
- Go to /Applications
- While holding Command key, drag Open in Code.app to Finder toolbar
- Right-click Open in Code.app and click Open. When the security dialog prompt appears, click Open.
- Once Visual Studio Code new window is opened, close it.
- Navigate to a folder you want to open with Visual Studio Code
- Click on the toolbar icon
- Folder will open with Visual Studio Code
OpenInTerminal / OpenInEditor
While OpenInTerminal enables you to easily open a terminal from Finder in your current path, OpenInEditor does the same but for your preferred code editor.
OpenInTerminal:
OpenInEditor:
shell.now.sh - Reverse Shell as a Service
Easy to remember reverse shell that should work on most Unix-like systems. Detects available software on the target and runs an appropriate payload.
Stylus - Restyle the web
“Stylus” is a fork of the popular Stylish extension which can be used to restyle the web. Not “ish”, but “us”, as in “us” the actual users. Stylus is a fork of Stylish that is based on the source code of version 1.5.2, which was the most up-to-date version before the original developer stopped working on the project. The objective in creating Stylus was to remove any and all analytics, and return to a more user-friendly UI. We recognize that the ability to transfer your database from Stylish is important, so this is the one and only feature we’ve implemented from the new version.
Themes: https://userstyles.org/
🌎 add0n.com/stylus.html openstyles/stylus
KeyBase - Identities and encryption keys
Keybase is a key directory that maps social media identities to encryption keys in a publicly auditable manner.
balenaEtcher - OS images to SD cards
Etcher is a powerful OS image flasher built with web technologies to ensure flashing an SDCard or USB drive is a pleasant and safe experience. It protects you from accidentally writing to your hard-drives, ensures every byte of data was written correctly and much more. It can also flash directly Raspberry Pi devices that support the usbboot protocol
Frontail - streaming logs through browser
frontailis a Node.js application for streaming logs to the browser. It’s atail -Fwith UI.
pgcli - Postgres CLI with superpowers
Postgres client that does auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
shallow-backup - Dotfiles backup to Git
shallow-backup lets you easily create lightweight backups of installed packages, applications, fonts and dotfiles, and automatically push them to a remote Git repository.
App Downloader - Brew Casks GUI
Easily search for macOS apps from the
homebrew caskapp catalog.
Mailspring - Fast and lean Email client
Mailspring is a new version of Nylas Mail maintained by one of the original authors. It’s faster, leaner, and shipping today! It replaces the JavaScript sync code in Nylas Mail with a new C++ sync engine based on Mailcore2. It uses roughly half the RAM and CPU of Nylas Mail and idles with almost zero “CPU Wakes”, which translates to great battery life. It also has an entirely revamped composer and other great new features.
Rambox CE - Common web apps merged into one
Free and Open Source messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one. https://rambox.app
Homebrew Cask - Installation of GUI macOS apps
A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
Nativefier - Turn WebApps into Dekstop Applications
Make any web page a desktop application.
LyricsX - Lyrics over menubar
🎶 Lyrics for iTunes, Spotify, Vox and Audirvana Plus.
Astral - Organize GitHub Stars
Astral pulls down all of your starred repositories from GitHub, and allows you to organize them using a simple & intuitive tagging system.
🌎 astralapp.com astralapp/astral
Localtunnel - Exposes localhost
Localtunnel allows you to easily share a web service on your local development machine without messing with DNS and firewall settings.
Localtunnel will assign you a unique publicly accessible url that will proxy all requests to your locally running webserver.
🌎 pirngruber.github.io/localtunnel-www/ Pirngruber/localtunnel
gtop - System monitoring dashboard for terminal
wtfutil - Personal dashboard for your terminal
WTF (aka ‘wtfutil’) is the personal information dashboard for your terminal, providing at-a-glance access to your very important but infrequently-needed stats and data.
STF - Remotely manage Android devices
STF (or Smartphone Test Farm) is a web application for debugging smartphones, smartwatches and other gadgets remotely, from the comfort of your browser.
terminal-notifier - Notifications from CLI
terminal-notifier is a command-line tool to send macOS User Notifications, which are available on macOS 10.10 and higher.
WhatsApp Dark Mode - Theme for official desktop client
This mod is a simple tweak for WhatsApp Desktop Official version to make it look awesomely dark.
DNSViz - Visualizing DNSSEC
DNSViz is a tool for visualizing the status of a DNS zone.
Brave - Browser
The new Brave browser blocks ads and trackers that slow you down and invade your privacy. Discover a new way of thinking about how the web can work.
🌎 brave.com brave/brave-browser
Pennywise - Media floating window
Pennywise opens any website or media in a small floating window that remains on top of all other applications. Pennywise windows stays up all the time. No need to keep struggling with alt + tab, use Pennywise for easy multitasking.
Mackup - Syncing config files
Keep your application settings in sync.
Lumen - Magic Auto Brightness Based on Screen Contents
Lumen is a tiny menu bar app for macOS that magically sets screen brightness based on screen contents.
🌎 anishathalye.com/2016/07/31/lumen/ anishathalye/lumen
HTTP Toolkit - Intercept & view all your HTTP(S)
HTTP Toolkit is a beautiful & open-source tool for debugging, testing and building with HTTP(S) on Windows, Linux & Mac.
🌎 httptoolkit.tech httptoolkit