# The Shortlist

> A curated collection of software recommended by Glasscat.

Canonical page: https://glasscat.org/shortlist
Content type: software directory and editorial guides

The Shortlist contains individual application profiles, editorial guides, pairings, and comparisons. Application profiles include editorial strengths, limitations, platforms, pricing, and links to the official product website.

## Guides

- [Three for Personal Curation](https://glasscat.org/agents/three-for-personal-curation.txt): Three thoughtful apps for collecting, organising, and returning to the things that make your digital life feel like your own. A small toolkit for keeping the good parts of the internet close without turning curation into another chore.
- [Three for Great Focus](https://glasscat.org/agents/three-for-great-focus.txt): Three small utilities that quietly protect your attention and help you focus on what matters. They make room for fewer interruptions, gentler routines, and a little more control over the shape of an ordinary day.

## Applications

- [Ghostty](https://glasscat.org/agents/ghostty.txt): A state-of-the-art terminal emulator combining exceptional performance, native design, and extensive functionality without compromise.
- [Hyper](https://glasscat.org/agents/hyper.txt): A visually striking, Electron-based terminal emulator with extensive theming capabilities, a minimalist interface, and a plugin-driven architecture.
- [iTerm2](https://glasscat.org/agents/iterm2.txt): A feature-rich terminal emulator for macOS that combines powerful customization, advanced session management, and a polished graphical interface.
- [Kitty](https://glasscat.org/agents/kitty.txt): A blazing-fast, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator built for power users, offering extensive customization, advanced window management, and powerful scripting capabilities.
- [Terminal](https://glasscat.org/agents/terminal.txt): The built-in macOS terminal emulator offering a simple, reliable, and native command-line experience without unnecessary complexity.
- [WezTerm](https://glasscat.org/agents/wezterm.txt): A highly customizable, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator with built-in multiplexing, Lua scripting, and extensive cross-platform support.
- [AlDente](https://glasscat.org/agents/aldente.txt): A MacBook connected to a monitor can spend most of its life plugged in. AlDente lets you decide how much charge it should hold while it sits there. Set a battery percentage, and charging stops at that limit. The free version covers this central task, while Pro adds temperature protection, charging ranges and battery statistics. A small utility for looking after the hardware you already own.
- [Hyperkey](https://glasscat.org/agents/hyperkey.txt): Caps Lock takes up a generous amount of keyboard space for something many of us rarely use. Hyperkey gives it another purpose. It turns the key into Command, Control, Option and Shift pressed together, opening up room for your own shortcuts. A small, free macOS utility by Ryan Hanson that makes an existing key more useful.
- [Supercharge](https://glasscat.org/agents/supercharge.txt): Clicking the green window button when you only wanted a larger window. Opening Finder to create a file and finding no obvious way to do it. Supercharge collects these small macOS frustrations and gives you ways around them. Sindre Sorhus’s utility adds practical adjustments to Finder, the Dock, Mission Control and more. Every feature is opt-in. You decide which habits your Mac should accommodate.
- [Tintd 2](https://glasscat.org/agents/tintd2.txt): Make your Mac folders feel like they actually belong to you. Tintd 2 lets you customize them with colors, icons, emojis, and your own artwork; going far beyond what macOS offers out of the box.
- [Noticky](https://glasscat.org/agents/noticky.txt): Noticky brings sticky notes to the Mac desktop for the things that don’t quite belong in a notes app or task manager. Keep thoughts, reminders, checklists, links, and attachments visible without adding another place you need to remember to check.
- [Hazel 6](https://glasscat.org/agents/hazel.txt): A powerful file automation tool for macOS that quietly keeps your folders organized.
- [PCalc](https://glasscat.org/agents/pcalc.txt): PCalc is one of the best, strongest and most customisable calculators for macOS, iPadOS and iOS. You can adjust your calculator to fit your personal needs. It offers everything you need, including engineering and scientific notation, multi line and a practical menu bar app.
- [Agenda](https://glasscat.org/agents/agenda.txt): Agenda is a mix of notes, ToDos, and your calendar in one. Since most notes apps loose track of time Agenda allows you to write notes on a timeline that works alongside your calendar. It has been one of my favourite note taking app since years.
- [Cosmos](https://glasscat.org/agents/cosmos.txt): Cosmos is the place for calm and distraction free inspiration. Create mood boards, organize and collect ideas. Think of a calmer and more curated version of Pinterest.
- [Clucky](https://glasscat.org/agents/clucky.txt): Ever wanted to wake up to a rooster screaming? Clucky helps you with really waking you up at the right time. The games and tasks ensure you cant fall into a snooze-loop.
- [SnakeCity](https://glasscat.org/agents/snakecity.txt): SnakeCity turns walking into a social media that helps you to improve your walking habits. The playful design, leaderboards and map really motivate you to get moving. You can see where you've walked an discover streets you've missed.
- [FocusFlight](https://glasscat.org/agents/focusflight.txt): FocusFlight is an exceptional Pomodoro timer with a genuinely fun twist. Choose your departure airport, pick a destination, and take off into your next focus session. Along the way, you can track the destinations you’ve visited, listen to ambient sounds, collect miles, and unlock new flight passes. The app looks fantastic and makes great use of Apple’s MapKit. If you struggle to stay focused and traditional Pomodoro timers have never really clicked with you, FocusFlight might be one of the best upgrades to your productivity setup.
- [Coffee Book](https://glasscat.org/agents/coffee-book.txt): Keep track of your favorite coffee recipes and ensure that you brew them to perfection with each attempt.
- [Too Good To Go](https://glasscat.org/agents/too-good-to-go.txt): Rescue meals, groceries and takeout before they get thrown away for a fair price, sometimes even delivered to you.
- [Bring!](https://glasscat.org/agents/bring-groceries.txt): Bring makes shopping easier, particularly for families and couples. It provides a live-updating shopping list that automatically sorts across devices. With product catalogues, specific shop items, and detailed item information, traditional shopping lists become unnecessary.
- [CARROT Weather](https://glasscat.org/agents/carrot-weather.txt): CARROT Weather is an award-winning, playful, and beautifully designed weather app that occasionally employs satire. It provides accurate weather information across all your devices, covering everything from notifications to weather updates while you're on a trip.
- [Todoist](https://glasscat.org/agents/todoist.txt): A modern ToDo app that offers a variety of features and supports collaboration.
- [Tennis Notes](https://glasscat.org/agents/tennis-notes.txt): Tennis Notes is a great way to track game and set scores during your matches. Gain insights, monitor fitness data with Apple Watch, and analyze your performance against recurring opponents.
- [Sudoku a Day](https://glasscat.org/agents/sudoku-a-day.txt): The best-designed Sudoku app available offers a new puzzle to try each day, complete with a time challenge and lives to increase the difficulty. Its outstanding design makes it excellent for daily cognitive training.
- [Thru](https://glasscat.org/agents/thru.txt): Turn your daily steps into a journey. Explore beautifully illustrated landscapes, follow your progress on an interactive map, and uncover insights about the sights along the way.
- [YAZIO](https://glasscat.org/agents/yazio.txt): YAZIO is a contemporary calorie tracker app featuring an adorable Yeti mascot. It provides an extensive variety of products, a thorough onboarding process, AI food scanning, valuable macro insights, and a sleek, modern user interface that stands out among most calorie tracking apps.
- [LaunchOS](https://glasscat.org/agents/launch-os.txt): Enhanced replacement for the old Launchpad for macOS Tahoe, featuring excellent organisation and customisation options.
- [Poke](https://glasscat.org/agents/poke.txt): The most natural-sounding and helpful assistant that you can message directly via iMessage or WhatsApp. It features a friendly communication style, reminds you of upcoming events, offers opinions, and assists in various other ways. Recipes enable Poke to enhance its capabilities and serve you even better.
- [Guide MICHELIN](https://glasscat.org/agents/guide-michelin.txt): Discover remarkable locations to savour exquisite culinary experiences.
- [Mela](https://glasscat.org/agents/mela.txt): Gather your family recipes, follow cooking channels, and create your own personal cookbook.
- [TypoTab](https://glasscat.org/agents/typotab.txt): A useful tool for correcting your typing everywhere, rephrasing, shortening text, or providing custom instructions on how you want your text to be modified.
- [Clocks](https://glasscat.org/agents/clocks.txt): An attractive alternative for iOS standby mode, featuring stunning animations and layouts.
- [Fable](https://glasscat.org/agents/fable.txt): Monitor the books you've read and those you wish to read, establish goals, and track your statistics.
- [Finch](https://glasscat.org/agents/finch.txt): A charming app that helps you take care of your own self-care puffin. We are great for fostering healthy habits, providing exercises, and offering an emergency kit.
- [Headspace](https://glasscat.org/agents/headspace.txt): An impressive app designed to support your mental health through beautiful meditation and calming exercises.
- [HiCoffee](https://glasscat.org/agents/hi-coffee.txt): Monitor your daily caffeine consumption with this thoughtfully designed app. Customisable settings and an extensive selection of presets enable excellent tracking.
- [MD Vinyl](https://glasscat.org/agents/md-vinyl.txt): A stunning app for visualising music in a charming vinyl format, complete with stunning album covers.
- [Neuecast](https://glasscat.org/agents/neuecast.txt): Beautiful minimalist podcast app with outstanding audio quality
- [Spark](https://glasscat.org/agents/spark-quiz.txt): A fascinating quiz app features a daily rotating topic and engaging new quiz categories, giving you the opportunity to learn something new each day and test your general knowledge.
- [Pool](https://glasscat.org/agents/pool.txt): Automatically organize screenshots in a beautiful pool based app
- [Aspect Ratio Pro](https://glasscat.org/agents/aspect-ratio-pro.txt): Aspect Ratio Pro, or the Rule of Thirds, is a well-crafted tool for calculating screen sizes of various aspect ratios across different pixel canvas sizes.
- [Motion](https://glasscat.org/agents/apple-motion.txt): Apple Motion is animation software designed for both standard keyframe animations and visual effects for Final Cut Pro, though it can also function independently. Its main application is in conjunction with Final Cut Pro.
- [Pixelsnap 2](https://glasscat.org/agents/pixelsnap-2.txt): Whether you're a designer needing to measure spacing and dimensions, a developer checking pixel-perfect layouts, or just someone who wants to quickly measure distances on their screen, Pixelsnap 2 is an essential tool. Its intuitive interface and powerful features make it a must-have for anyone who works with digital design.
- [Reeder Classic](https://glasscat.org/agents/reeder-classic.txt): Reeder Classic is a powerful RSS reader for Mac that combines a clean, minimalist design with robust features. It supports multiple RSS services, offers offline reading, and provides a seamless reading experience with customisable themes and layouts.
- [Excalidraw](https://glasscat.org/agents/excalidraw.txt): A web-based collaborative whiteboard tool with a signature hand-drawn aesthetic. Excalidraw makes it easy to sketch diagrams, explain ideas visually, and share them instantly - no account required
- [Notemap](https://glasscat.org/agents/notemap.txt): A native, local-first mind mapping app for macOS built with Swift. Notemap makes it easy to brainstorm, plan, and organise ideas in a beautiful, fast interface - with a one-time price and no cloud required.
- [Pieoneer](https://glasscat.org/agents/pieoneer.txt): A radial pie menu for macOS that lets you switch, launch, and control apps with a single hotkey. A fresh and tactile alternative to the Dock and traditional app switcher.
- [Pixelmator Pro](https://glasscat.org/agents/pixelmatorpro.txt): A powerful yet approachable image editor for Mac and iPad, combining photo retouching, graphic design, and vector tools in one beautifully crafted app. Backed by AI-powered features and deep Apple integration.
- [Resurf](https://glasscat.org/agents/resurf.txt): Resurf is a personal library for Mac, iPhone, and iPad that gives people one place to save and organize notes, links, articles, PDFs, screenshots, images, voice notes, audio, video, and other files. The library stays on the user's Apple devices, works offline, and can sync privately through iCloud without a Resurf account. Resurf includes quick capture, flexible Spaces and tags, reading and annotation tools, full-library search, and optional AI features. The Mac app is free to try and available through a one-time purchase; the iPhone and iPad apps are free and unlimited.
- [Subscription Day²](https://glasscat.org/agents/subscriptionday2.txt): A clean and focused subscription tracker for Mac and iOS that gives you a clear overview of what you're paying for, when, and how much - with stats, multi-currency support, and iCloud sync across devices.
- [Warp](https://glasscat.org/agents/warp.txt): A modern, AI-powered terminal for Mac, Linux, and Windows that rethinks the command line from the ground up. Warp combines a clean, customizable interface with genuinely useful AI assistance for writing, debugging, and understanding commands.
- [Zen](https://glasscat.org/agents/zen.txt): A privacy-focused, Firefox-based browser built around a beautifully minimal interface. Zen strips the browser back to what matters, while offering deep customisation options for those who want to make it their own.
- [Cap](https://glasscat.org/agents/cap.txt): Beautiful, lightweight tool for screen capture and recording on macOS and Windows.
- [Dropover](https://glasscat.org/agents/dropover.txt): A fresh approach to drag-and-drop on macOS. Dropover makes moving and copying files faster, easier, and more intuitive.
- [Monocle](https://glasscat.org/agents/monocle.txt): A minimalist, elegant app that keeps your focus by subtly blurring all inactive windows. Monocle gives you many customisation options, and allows you to enable or disable the blur for specific apps. The simplicity and the effect of it make it a stunning utility.
- [Freeform](https://glasscat.org/agents/freeform.txt): A digital whiteboard app by Apple designed for visual thinking, brainstorming, and collaborative planning. Freeform lets you organize ideas freely in a flexible workspace.
- [Keka](https://glasscat.org/agents/keka.txt): A lightweight archive utility for macOS. Keka makes compressing and extracting files simple, fast, and reliable.
- [LookAway](https://glasscat.org/agents/lookaway.txt): A beautifully designed break reminder for macOS and iOS. LookAway helps you take regular breaks to rest your eyes and stay productive.
- [Onigiri](https://glasscat.org/agents/onigiri.txt): Ultra-minimalistic Pomodoro timer for macOS, designed to help you stay focused and productive with simple, distraction-free time management.
- [Sketch](https://glasscat.org/agents/sketch.txt): A vector-based design tool built for UI and product design. Sketch provides a streamlined workflow for creating interfaces, components, and design systems.
- [Speakmac](https://glasscat.org/agents/speakmac.txt): A lightweight dictation app for macOS that focuses on fast, accurate speech-to-text without unnecessary complexity. SpeakMac is designed to integrate smoothly into everyday writing workflows.
- [Zed](https://glasscat.org/agents/zed.txt): A modern, high-performance code editor built with a focus on speed, collaboration, and native performance. Zed explores a new approach to editing by combining low-latency design with real-time features.
- [Things 3](https://glasscat.org/agents/things-3.txt): An award-winning personal task manager that helps you organize your day, manage projects, and track progress toward your goals with clarity and simplicity.
- [Notion](https://glasscat.org/agents/notion.txt): A flexible all-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, databases, and wikis. Notion helps you organize projects, knowledge, and daily work in one place.
- [Affinity](https://glasscat.org/agents/affinity.txt): An all-in-one creative suite combining vector design, layout, and photo editing. Affinity offers professional tools for designers without a subscription model.
- [Antinote](https://glasscat.org/agents/antinote.txt): A beautifully minimal scratchpad for macOS designed for temporary notes, quick calculations, and in-the-moment thinking. Antinote strips away permanence and organisation so you can just jot, compute, and move on.
- [iA Presenter](https://glasscat.org/agents/ia-presenter.txt): A presentation tool for macOS that lets you write your slides in plain text and Markdown. iA Presenter separates what you want to say from what you want to show, handling layout and design automatically so you can focus on the story.
- [iA Writer](https://glasscat.org/agents/ia-writer.txt): A focused writing app designed for distraction-free composition. iA Writer emphasises simplicity, clarity, and clean formatting for notes, articles, and long-form writing.
- [Raycast](https://glasscat.org/agents/raycast.txt): A blazing-fast launcher for macOS that replaces Spotlight with a far more powerful, extensible alternative. Search apps, files, and the web, run scripts, manage snippets, and extend everything with a rich library of community plugin
- [TablePlus](https://glasscat.org/agents/tableplus.txt): A native database management tool for Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS that supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, and more. Clean, fast, and built for developers who want power without the clutter.

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