# Tools that I use

2025-03-28

<Tool
  url="https://www.raycast.com"
  name="Raycast"
  description="Like Spotlight but faster and better. Has a smarter calculator, including currency conversions like `20 gbp in isk`."
>
  <img src="/blog/raycast.svg" alt="Raycast" width="32" />
</Tool>

<Tool
  url="https://tableplus.com"
  name="TablePlus"
  description="My SQL GUI of choice, has a very native and fast MacOS UI, supports libSQL."
>
  <img src="/blog/tableplus.png" alt="TablePlus logo" width="32" className="w-8 max-w-none" />
</Tool>

<Tool
  url="https://cleanshot.com/"
  name="Cleanshot"
  description="Augments the screenshot utilities on macOS with hosting, copying, better annotations, GIF and MP4, custom domains and more and more. Excellent support."
>
  <img
    src="/blog/cleanshot.png"
    width="32"
    className="w-8 max-w-none"
    alt="Cleanshot app logo"
  />
</Tool>

<Tool
  url="https://rectangleapp.com/"
  name="Rectangle"
  description="Window and monitor management. Map keyboard shortcuts to resize and move windows around, between displays etc."
>
  <img
    src="/blog/rectangle.png"
    width="32"
    className="w-8 max-w-none"
    alt="Rectangle app logo"
  />
</Tool>

<Tool
  url="https://www.plex.tv/"
  name="Plex"
  description="I'm a bit of a media server geek. Downloading and organizing media has always been a hobby of mine. Today I have a mac mini set up with container orchestration from [klutchell/mediaserver](https://github.com/klutchell/mediaserver)."
>
  <img src="/blog/plex.png" width="32" className="w-8 max-w-none" alt="Plex app logo" />
</Tool>

<Tool
  name="iCloud Passwords"
  description="Apple has finally added security codes to passwords management. This means I no longer need 1Password and I have one more thing in the iCloud toolchain that just syncs across devices without secondary apps. Password management is something that to me, belongs in the OS layer."
>
  <img src="/blog/macos-passwords.png" className="w-8 h-8 max-w-none object-contain" alt="iCloud Passwords" />
</Tool>

<Tool
  url="https://fastmail.com"
  name="Fastmail"
  description="Fastmail used to be good just because it was a nice way to eject out of the Gmail ecosystem. Today it is not only an alternative to Gmail but a better app, better search and better designed product. Yeah, you pay a fee, but for email that makes sense."
>
  <img src="/blog/fastmail.png" width="32" className="w-8 max-w-none" alt="Fastmail logo" />
</Tool>

<Tool
  url="https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/"
  name="Kitty"
  description="Kitty is a highly configurable GPU accelerated terminal emulator that has a good build for macOS. I use it with the fish shell and [Starship](https://starship.rs). The icon displayed here on the right is an [alternative app icon found here](https://github.com/DinkDonk/kitty-icon)."
>
  <img src="/blog/kitty.png" width="32" className="w-8 max-w-none" alt="Kitty logo" />
</Tool>