Windows users will be familiar with a feature that allows previewing window contents by hovering over their taskbar icons. If you want this in macOS as well, the only way you’re going to get it is via a third-party app.

Dock previews are DockDoor’s main functionality, with the added bonus of an alternative alt-tab feature that includes window previews. It’s an open-source app, very easy to set up and use, though still not quite perfect.

Parallels Desktop is one of the oldest and most popular applications for virtualization on macOS. There are quite a few options out there for Mac users who want to run other operating systems on their Apple devices, but none are quite as intuitive and novice-friendly as Parallels.

This app allows you to Run Windows, various flavors of Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and many other operating systems in virtual machines, and it makes setting up and configuring these VMs incredibly straightforward. Much of the process is automated, and the virtualized OSes integrate well with macOS.

CleanMyMac X is an user friendly Mac app that comes with a stylish design and helps you detect the junk files, but also user and system cache / log files, broken preferences or login items, apps that have universal binaries (you can remove the executable that is not suitable for your architecture), language files (you can keep only the one you actually employ).

n-Track Studio 10 Suite provides musicians and producers with a complete DAW environment for recording, editing, and mixing with an easy workflow and audio resolution up to 24-bit / 192 kHz. It supports an unlimited number of audio and MIDI tracks, as well as plug-ins including VST, VST3, DirectX, AU, and ReWire.

Viscosity is an OpenVPN client for Mac, providing a rich Cocoa user interface for creating, editing, and controlling VPN connections. Viscosity provides a complete OpenVPN solution for macOS, and does not require any additional downloads or software.

Proxyman is a modern and intuitive HTTP Debugging Proxy app. Don't let cumbersome web debugging tools hold you back. With Proxyman's native macOS app, you can capture, inspect, and manipulate HTTP(s) traffic with ease.

Email clients that support Gmail aren't exactly rare, but the vast majority of them use the IMAP protocol to retrieve and manage your messages, which means they can't take advantage of Gmail-specific features such as inbox categorization, labels, and synchronized signatures.

Mimestream goes about it differently — it uses the Gmail API, allowing it to provide most, though not quite all, of the features you are familiar with from Google's mail client. It's also worth noting that the app is written in Swift, so it will integrate very well with macOS and provide a much smoother experience than, for instance, an Electron-based app.

Voice & music recording studio For beginner singers or those who want to be heard - Pro Microphone. Make your voice sound louder! Sing and save all of your songs, choose different mics to match your mood! Professional studio microphone is always in your Mac.

Visual Studio Code provides developers with a new choice of developer tool that combines the simplicity and streamlined experience of a code editor with the best of what developers need for their core code-edit-debug cycle. Visual Studio Code is the first code editor, and first cross-platform development tool - supporting macOS, Linux, and Windows - in the Visual Studio family.

With remote collaboration becoming the norm, and cloud storage services making backups accessible to everyone, it’s common to have multiple versions of the same file, with slight differences that can’t be easily distinguished.

Kaleidoscope was created to help you spot these differences at a glance, in addition to helping you deal with potential conflicts. It’s suitable for text, images, folders, and source code, with features for both regular users and developers.

Designed to help you publish beautiful e-books, Vellum is a modern and well organized application that provides a collection of  simple yet very efficient publishing tools.

Bloom is a high-performance file manager for macOS. It replaces Finder with faster navigation, precise search, and professional-grade file control.

FSNotes is a plain-text note manager for macOS, and is modern reinvention of notational velocity (nvALT) on steroids. Our application respects the following open formats: plain/text, Markdown, and RTF, and stores data in the file system. You can view, edit, and copy data in your favourite external editor, and see live results in FSNotes.

Flexible, super charged, batch image processing for your Mac. … A node based batch image processor means you can mix, match, and combine different operations together to make the perfect workflow. … Convert PSD files to HEIC, JPEG, PDF, PNG, or TIFF.

Working on multiple devices is a quite common practice that calls for a reliable synchronizing solution to make sure you always have access to the latest version of a document. Syncovery is a fairly easy to use backup and sync tool designed to streamline the procedure.