
Some of the best apps are written by Apple. I’ve decided that had one too many requirements. Reflect great design/usability and usefulness.I liked this, as its a more complete picture of the Mac landscape. Some of the apps were redundant like BBedit/Coda/Espresso, some of the apps were simply utilities like Little Snitch and BetterTouchTool, and several developers nearly had their entire catalogs present. The list is as long as the list needs to be. I didn’t assign any arbitrary rankings or felt it necessary to prune the list or balloon it to a number like 50. The tools ranged in price and scope greatly, but reflected fine-tuned experiences capable of performing professional level work. iOS is the “in” Apple OS but OS X still remains the more powerful/flexible/professional and in my opinion, important OS.

In May I wrote a list of the 44 best Mac Only, Design Apps, easily my most popular blog post, to highlight the proliferation of Mac only applications that are unique to the platform.
