Wow I’m at 187 and that seems like a lot…
TJ’s method gives me 86 on my MBP, whilst CleanMyMac gives me 90, which is not bad correlation.
I’m really curious if my Mac Mini is much higher.
Only 40 here, you folks make me feel like I’m not even trying 
App List:
1Password 7
Affinity Designer
AirBuddy
AppCleaner
Backblaze
Backup and Sync
Carbon Copy Cloner
Citrix Workspace
DaisyDisk
Deliveries
Developer
Discord
Downie 4
Drafts
Firefox
GarageBand
GoodLinks
iA Writer
iStat Menus
Logi Options
LogiMgr Uninstaller
Microsoft Edge
Microsoft OneNote
MiniPlay
NetNewsWire
Notability
OneDrive
Permute 3
Pixelmator Pro
Safari
Silicio
SoundSource
Spotify
Steam
Textastic
Visual Studio Code
VLC
Wipr
Xcode
zoom
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Well how about our MPU Creators chiming in?
@MacSparky
@ismh
@RosemaryOrchard
I will venture some guesses.
David with streamlined productivity 250
Steven with the collector’s mentality building a separate building to house his collection 350
Rosemary Ms. Automation herself programming away 450
Let’s see if they would like to entertain our curiosity.
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It’s frankly a terrifyingly long list, but I recognize most of the apps and can see keeping most of them just in case.
Here’s just the 'A’s:
!nstaBro
1Blocker
1Password 7
2Do
A Better Finder Attributes 6
A Better Finder Rename 11
Ableton Live 10
Acorn
ActiveDock
Activity Monitor
Adobe Lightroom 3
Adobe Lightroom Classic
Adobe Photoshop 2020
Adobe Photoshop CC 2019
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5
Affinity Photo
After Focus
Airfoil
Airfoil Satellite
Airmail
AirPlayRecorder
AirPort Utility
Airy
Alfred 4
Anesidora
Anki
Annotate
Antnotes
Any File Info
Any HEIC Converter
AnyList
AnyMP4 Video 2 GIF Maker
App for Dropbox
App for Dropbox +
App Store
AppDelete
Apps on Sale
AppSomnia
Aquallegro
Archy
Aristocrat
Art Text 3
Artpip
Artwork Extractor
Asset Resizer
atMonitor
Audio Hijack
Audio MIDI Setup
AudioBookBinder
Authorizer
Authy Bluetooth
Automator
The Go64 app, which hunts down and shows installed 32-bit apps, says it found 60 32-bit apps, but 1,083 “apps” total, but that total includes things like little registration utilities for old Adobe apps and uninstallers and printer utilities.
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It would be nice if Apple made a 32-bit emulator as I miss my favorite outliner “Tree” I think it is the only outliner that did outlines in a horizontal orientation
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72 for me. I mainly just use Devonthink, Curio and the stock apps
Only 749 after deleting the 32-bit apps when upgrading to Catalina and a few utilities. And that doesn’t include the handful of Windows-only apps on the Parallels VM. I ran Go64
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155 of them. But when I looked at them I could probably delete 50 of them and never miss them. So I won’t list this embarrassing list here. 
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So Jacgirl rises to top of pack with 749
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I’ve 111
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Not really. Only 128 actual apps (plus a few Windows-only stuff on Parallels VM). As Bowline noted, The Go64 app , which hunts down and shows installed 32-bit and 64-bit apps, says it found 749 “apps” total, but that total includes things like little registration utilities for old Adobe apps and uninstallers and printer utilities.
Oh I see, best to use the script Command Line submitted by @tjluoma
Having recently done a clean re-install, I consider my current set of installed apps to be ‘minimal’.
I was curious to see what that number actually is, so I ran this command in Terminal:
find /Applications -maxdepth 2 -type d -iname '*.app' -print | wc -l
Or similar results from CleanMyMac
So disqualified @JaxGirl retains @bowline still front runner
I am doing the difficult task of reducing my apps going towards a Minimalist lifestyle and it is very difficult mindset to adopt. A bad case of FOMO withdrawal
Today’s Execution is Yojimbo transferring functionality over to DevonThink
I realized that my new MacBookPro had a fresh install of Catalina when I purchased it and I decided to only install what I need. So I ended up with a mere 67 apps in /Applications. OK, not a record low here.
For the record, Catalina comes with 52 apps hidden away in /System/Applications. So everyone running Catalina needs to add 52 to their totals.
Mojave 10.14.6
CleanMyMac shows 56 apps total.
The terminal command shows 187.
Don’t know why the big difference.
Overall I’d say that there are a few of you that are certifiably NUTS!
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Nah. We just need to get a life.
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I was getting jealous with all of the 100+ apps, but hoped with a newer machine, I would be on the lowest end. Coming in at 69 apps right now. I am not sure whether to prune more or add…