How many Mac Apps are You Sporting? / What is your #AppNum?

I used About this Mac: 850 apps. Maybe we should start a 12 step program. It’s possible we’re virtual hoarders…LOL. Most have been idle for a few years.
1Password 7

ACDSee Photo Studio 5

Acorn

Acrobat Distiller

ActiveDock

Activity Monitor

Adobe Acrobat

Adobe After Effects 2020

Adobe After Effects Render Engine

Adobe Audition 2020

Adobe Flash Player Install Manager

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign 2020

Adobe Lightroom Classic

Adobe Media Encoder 2020

Adobe Photoshop 2020

Affinity Designer

Affinity Photo

Affinity Publisher

AirPort Utility

Airy

Aiseesoft Mac Blu-ray Player

Akrilic

AKVIS NatureArt

AKVIS Sketch

Alien Skin Exposure X2

Alien Skin Exposure X2

Alien Skin Settings Router

Alien Skin Snap Art 4

AliveColors

Amazing Mac Blu-ray Player

Amberlight 2

Analog

ANALOG projects 3

Anamorphic

Any DeepStyle

App Store

App Wiki for Wikipedia

AppCleaner

AppCleaner

AppiSketchPhotoPro

Arma Cold War Assault

Arma Cold War Assault 2

Art Text 4

Artistry Photo Pro

Artoon

ArtRage 4

Astropad

Audacity

Audacity

Audio MIDI Setup

Aurora HDR 2019

Aurora3DAnimation

Aurora3DMaker

Automator

Automator

AweCleaner

AweClone

AweClone

Back In Focus

Back-In-Time 5

Batman Arkham Asylum

Battle.net-Setup

Bear

Beautune

Bejeweled 3

Biff

BioShock

BioShock 2

BioShock3

BlackjackHDPro

Blu-ray Player

Blu-ray Player

Blu-ray Player Pro

Bluetooth File Exchange

Books

BookShelf2

BookViewer

Boom 3D

Boot Camp Assistant

BubbleBreaker

Burn Zombie Burn

Business Card Composer 5

Butler

c4dpy

c4dpy

Calculator

Calendar

CameraBag 2

Camptune X

Capto

Carbon Copy Cloner

Cardiris

Cartoonist

Caster

CaveShooter

Chalkspiration

Chess

Choco

Chromatic Edges

ChronoSync

Cinema 4D

Cinema 4D

Cinema 4D Lite

Cinema 4D Team Render Client

Cinema 4D Team Render Client

Cinema 4D Team Render Server

Cinema 4D Team Render Server

Cinemagraph Pro

Cinematica

Cinematize Pro

Cineware

Cineware

Circular Studio

Cisdem DVD Burner

Cisdem DVD Burner

Cisdem OCRWizard

Cisdem PDFConverterOCR

Cisdem PDFCreator

Cisdem PDFManagerUltimate

Cisdem Unarchiver

Cisdem Video Converter

Civilization Beyond Earth

Clicker for Netflix

Clicker for Netflix

Clipart Prime

Clips FX Funny

Cloud Outliner Pro

cloudLibrary

Cocktail

Cocktail

CODIJYPro

CollageIt 3 Pro

collagePRO

Color Paint Art Studio Pro FX

COLOR projects 4

Color Splash Pro

ColorEffectsStudio2

ColorStrokes

ColorSync Utility

Comic Life 3

Comic Life Magiq

Comic Strip Factory

Commander One 2

Commandline

Commandline

Compressor

Console

ContactPage Pro

Contacts

Contour

Cookie

Coolmuster Data Recovery for iPhone iPad iPod

Coolmuster Data Recovery for Mac

Coolmuster iPad iPhone iPod to Mac Transfer

Coolmuster PDF Converter Pro for Mac

Corel AfterShot Pro 3 (64-bit)

CosmicBrush

CrazyTalk 8-Standard

CrazyTalk Animator 2-Std

CrazyTalk Animator 3-Std

CrazyTalk7

CrazyTalk7PRO

Crimsonworld

CutOut 8 professional

DaisyDisk

Dashboard

Data Backup

Data Rescue

DaVinci Resolve

DeathSpank

Decompose

Delete VLC Preferences

Delicious Library 3

DepthCamPro

DesiGN Market - Templates

DesiGN Templates for Keynote

Designs for Mail

Desktop Poet

Diablo-III-Setup

Diagrammix

Dictionary

Digital Color Meter

Dink Smallwood HD

Disk Clean Pro

Disk Doctor

Disk Drill

Disk Sensei

Disk Utility

DiskCatalogMaker

DiskCatalogMaker

DiskTools Pro

Divvy

Do Your Data Recovery

Doodly

Doom 3

DoomsKnightLite

Downie 3

DoYourData AppUninser

Dramatic Black & White

Drive Genius

Dropbox

Dropbox

Duplicate Annihilator

Duplicate Annihilator for Photos

Duplicate File Doctor

Duplicate File Finder

Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro

DUSK

DVD Snap 3

DVDRemaster

Easy Audio Mixer

EasyPlanarTracker

EasyPointTracker

Ebay

Elasty

Elmedia Video Player

Enolsoft PDF Password Remover

EtreCheckPro

Evernote

EverWeb

ExpoBoard

Eye Candy 7 Uninstaller

FaceFilter3-Standard

FaceTime

Family Tree Builder

Fantashow

Film Noir

Filter Forge

Final Cut Library Manager

Final Cut Pro

Final Draft 10

Final Draft 11

Final Draft Tagger 2

Find Any File

Flame Painter 4

Flare 2

Flight of the Icarus

Flip Player

Fluid

Fluid Mask 3

Flux

Focus 2

Focus CK

Fold Defy

Folder Tidy

FoldersSynchronizer

Font Book

Font Sleuth

FontExplorer X Pro

FotoMagico 5

FotoMagico 5

Fotor Photo Editor

Full Deck Solitaire

Fumy

FunSketch

Funtastic Photos

FX Photo Studio PRO

FxFactory

FxFactory

GameManager

GarageSale Classic

Gemini 2

Get Backup 2

Getting Started for Final Cut Pro 10.4

GIFBrewery

Glimpses

Go64

Google Chrome

Google Earth Pro

Grammarly

Grapher

Graphic Styles

Grungetastic

Gun Bros 2

Hand Tint

Hand Tint Pro

HandBrake

HandBrake

HandBrakeBatch

Happy Holidaze

HDR Darkroom 3

HDR Express 3

HDR projects 4 professional

HDR projects 5

HDR-Splash

HDRtist Pro

Helium

HiddenObjectsXIII

Home

Home Contents Manager

Home Design Studio

Home Inventory

HueShifter

Hype4

HyperStudio

HyperStudio Author

HyperStudio Player

iBooks Author

iBooks Author

iBooks Author Themes

iBooks Author Themes

iCleanMemory

iClip

Icon Drop

Icon Plus

Icon Slate

IconLab

IconLogo&AvatarDesigner

iConvert Icons

iDVD

iFlicks

iFunia PhotoCollage

iHDClip

iJustine Teaches FCP X

Image Capture

Image Capture

Image Capture

Image Crop

Image Crop

Image Plus

Image Smith

Image Tricks

Image Tricks

Image2Icon

ImageFramer3

Imagerie

iMazing

iMovie

Infographics

Inpaint

Inspiration 9

Inspiration Set for Pages

Inspiration Set for Word

Inspirit

Install Disk Creator

Install macOS Catalina

Install macOS High Sierra

Install macOS High Sierra

Intensify Pro

iPhoneCareforMac

iPhoto

iPhoto Buddy

iPhoto Library Manager

iResizer

iRingg

IRIScan Mouse

iSale 5

iSkysoft Video Converter

ISplash Studio FX

iStat Menus

iStonsoft ePub Converter for Mac

iStonsoft USB Data Recovery for Mac

iStudio Publisher

iThoughtsX

Itsycal

iTube Studio

iTunes

iWeb

Jedi Knight II

Jixi Pack

John’s Background Switcher

Jumsoft Clipart

Jumsoft Themes for Keynote

JustPlay

JustTranslate

Keyboard for Emoji

Keyboard Maestro

Keychain Access

KeyCue

Keynote

Kindle

Klondike 3D

Knights of the Old Republic

krita

krita

Kyoobik Photo

Launchey 2

Launchey 2

Launchpad

LCC Connection Utility

LCC Uninstaller

Leap

LeawoBlurayCopy

LeawoVideoConverterPro

Lessons for Compressor

Lessons for Final Cut Pro X

Let’s Golf 2

Letters

Lexica for Words with Friends

Librarian Pro

Librarian Pro

Librarian Pro 2

Librarian Pro 2

Lifespan

LightEQ

Live Interior 3D Standard 2

Live Screen Capture

LiveDesktop

LiveQuartz

Logi Options

Logic Pro X

Logitech Z-5 Speakers

Logo Pop Lite

Logoist 2

Logoist 3

Logoist 4

LooksBuilderPL

Lucid 4

Luminar 2018

Luminar 3

Luminar 4

LuxDraw

LuxMark

Mac Backup Guru

Mac Data Recovery Guru

Mac Product Key Finder Pro

macFlux

MacGourmet Deluxe

Mach Desktop

MachineProfile

MacJournal

MacPaw Gemini

MacPilot

MacSnapper

macTuneUp v7

MacX DVD Ripper Pro

MacX DVD Ripper Pro 2

MacX DVD Video Converter Pro Pack

MacX Video Converter Pro

Mad Max

Magic Window 4K

Mahjong Solitaire Epic

Mail

Mail Plugin Manager

Malwarebytes

Malwarebytes

Malwarebytes

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

Maps

MaxSnap

McSolitaire

MDRP

MediaTrans

Meme Generator

MemoryBooster

Messages

Messenger

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft OneNote

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Migration Assistant

MindNode

mInstaller

mInstaller

Mission Control

MKV2MP4

mocha Pro

Moku Hanga

Montage

Moom

Moonlight Mahjong

Morph Age Pro

Morpheus Photo Animation Suite

Morpheus Photo Animation Suite

MorphRush

Motion

Motion Video Backgrounds

Movie Draft SE

Movie Explorer

MovieSherlock

MovingPhotos3D

MPV’s Pro Tools Tutorials

MultiCam Capture and Editing

Multitouch

Muse CC Fundamentals

MyDVD Pro

MyFourWalls

MyHarmony

MyHarmony

MyPublisher

MYStuff Pro

Narrator

Narrator

Neat Image v8

NeonGlowPaint

Neverwinter Nights 2

News

NextFlip FlipBook Maker

NIR Color

Nisus Thesaurus

Noiseless

NoteBook

Notebook

NotePlan

Notes

NTFS for Mac

Numbers

Nutrition Menu

OBS

Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath

OmniOutliner

ON1 Photo RAW 2018

ON1 Photo RAW 2020

Ondesoft AudioBook Converter

Ondesoft iTunes Converter

Ondesoft iTunes DRM Media Converter

One Switch

OnyX

Oscura Second Shadow

Pages

Painter Essentials 6

Painter Essentials 7

PaintMee

PaintSupreme

Panorama Maker 5

Paperless

Parallels Desktop

Parallels Toolbox

ParticleShop

Pastello

Patterno

PDF Plus

PDF to Word +

Perfect Face

Perfect365

Periscope Pro

PermissionScanner

Permute 3

Persecond

Persona

photo

Photo Booth

Photo Denoise

Photo Effect Studio

Photo Effects #2 - Visual Effect

Photo Effects #3 - More Visual Effects

Photo Effects #4 - Water Colors

Photo Movie Maker Pro

Photo Plus

Photo Sense

Photo Slideshow-DVD Slideshow1

Photo Stitcher

Photo to Movie

Photo to Poster EZ

Photo Wall - Collage Maker Pro

Photo3D

PhotoDazzle Beautifier-2

PhotoEffects

PhotoEffects1

Photolemur

Photolemur 3

Photomatix Pro 6

Photonium Access

PhotoPresenter

Photos

Photos Duplicate Cleaner

PhotosBlender

PhotoScissors

PhotoSketcher

PhotosRevive

PhotoStitcher

PhotoStudio

PhotoSweeper

PhotoZoom Pro 5

PhotoZoom Pro 7

PicConvert

PicGIF

Picktorial

Picture Collage Maker 3

Picturesque

Picturesque

PinPoint

Pixelmator

PixelStyle

Pixlr

Plex Media Server

Pocket

Pocket Tanks Deluxe

PokerHD

Pool Rebel+

Pop Dot Comics

Portrait Painter

Poser

Posterino

PostworkShopX64

PowerPhotos

Premium Fonts

Presentify

Preview

Prey

Print Selection

Prizmo

Pro Mouse

psykopaint

PullTube

QRecall

Queue Manager

Queue Manager

QuickPick

QuickRes

Quicksilver

QuickTime Player

QuickTime Player

QuickTime Player

QuickTime Player 7

QuickTime Player 7

QuickTime Player 7

RaidenLegacy

Rails

Raindrop.io for Safari

RapidWeaver 8

Real Boxing

Rebelle 2

ReceiptBox

Records

Reflector 3

ReflectStudio

Reminders

Remote Desktop

remotecore

Renamer

Resize Sense

Resolutionator

Resume Templates

Rip Studio

RipPix

Robokill

Rocket Typist

Roxio Secure Burn

RWmultitool

RWThemeMiner

Safari

Scapple

ScatterShow

ScreenFlow

ScreenFlow

Screenium 3

Screens 4

Screenshot

Screenshot Creator

Scribus

Script Editor

Scrivener

Scrivener 2

Scrutiny5

Setapp

ShadowBlade

Shazam

Shortcut Bar

SILKYPIX Developer Studio Pro 10E

SILKYPIX Developer Studio Pro 7E

SimCity

SimCity 4 Deluxe

Simple Recorder

Simply HDR

Siri

Sketch

Sketch n Cartoonize

SketchBookPro

Sketcher

Sky Gamblers - Storm Raiders

SkyLab Studio

Skype

Slack

Slideshow Maker HD - Photo Movie

SMARTReporter

Smith Micro Download Manager

Smith Micro Download Manager

SnapFlow

Snapheal

Snapheal CK

SnapMotion

Snapseed

Snapselect

Snapshot

Snapshot Editor

Softorino YouTube Converter 2

SousChef

Spark

SparkChess

Spectacle

Speedball 2 Evolution

Speedtest

Spreeder CX

Spy Cam

Stanza

Star Wars The Force Unleashed

StartMenu

Stationery Pack

Steam

Steam

SteamWorld Heist

StellarPhoenixMacDataRecovery

Stick Fight The Game

Stickies

Stills

Stock Icons - Cliparts by GN

Stock Icons - Cliparts by GN

Stocks

Storyist

StoryMill

StuffIt Expander

Style

Super Arcade Boy in Defender of Planet Earth

Super Denoising

Super Eraser

Super Eraser

Super Eraser Pro

Super Eraser Pro

Super PhotoCut

Super Refocus

Super Vectorizer 2

Super Vectorizer 2

Super265

SuperDuper!

Superstring

SuperTab

Swift Publisher 3

Switchem

SWJKJA

System Information

System Preferences

TeamViewer

TechTool Pro 11

TechTool Pro 12

Terminal

TerraRay

Text Extractor

TextEdit

TextEdit

TextEdit

TG Pro

The Chaos Engine - Remastered

The Eternal Shooter

The Eyes of Ara

The Print Shop 4

The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition

The Sims 2

The Unarchiver

Theme Designs for Sandvox

Themes for iBooks Author

Themes for Keynote

Tidy Up

Time Machine

Timecode

TimeMachineEditor

TimeMachineScheduler

TinyAlarm

TinyAlarm

Tipard Blu-ray Converter for Mac

Toast Audio Assistant

Toast Slice

Toast Titanium

Tomb Raider 2

Tonality Pro

Toolbox for iWork - Templates

Toolbox for Keynote -Templates

Toolbox for Pages - Templates

Toonly

ToonPhoto

ToothFairy

Topaz A.I. Gigapixel

Topaz Adjust 5

Topaz Adjust AI

Topaz DeNoise 6

Topaz Glow

Topaz Glow 2

Topaz Impression 2

Topaz JPEG to RAW AI

Topaz Mask AI

Topaz ReMask 5

Topaz ReMask 5

Topaz Studio

Topaz Texture Effects

Topaz Texture Effects 2

TorBrowser

Total Adjustment for Final Cut Pro

Total Video Converter For Mac

Total Video Player Pro

Total Video Tools

Transistor

Translatium

Translatium

Trine

TubeSock Pro

Tune Sweeper

Typinator

uBar 3

Ultra Character Map

Ultrablast HD

Umbrella

Unclutter

UninstallPKG

Unite

Unstoppable Gorg

UpdateManager

UpdateManager

UpdateManager

UpdateManager

UpdateManager

Vector Icons - Cliparts by GN

Videator

Video Cropper Pro

Video GIF Creator

VideoDenoise

VideoGet

VideoProc

VideoSpeak

Vintage Scene

VLC

VoiceMemos

VoiceOver Utility

Voila

VSlide

VueScan

w3capture

Waking Mars

Wallpapers HD

watermark PRO

WD Drive Utilities

WD Drive Utilities Uninstaller

WiFi Scanner

Wikibot

Wikibuy from Capital One

Wilde

Window Tidy

WindowSwitcher

WinX DVD Ripper for Mac

WinZip

Wondershare Fantashow

Wondershare Fantashow 2

Wondershare Helper Compact

Workflow Guide By macProVideo

World of Goo

WorldCard

Worms Special Edition

X-Mirage

xScan

YemuZip

Yep

YouTube

Yummy FTP

Zinio Reader

Rather long post (understandably). You can collapse all that with this control in the Discourse edit box. Saves your fellow mates from hand and motion stress from all the scrolling :slight_smile:

Screenshot of Safari (7-24-20, 8-04-02 PM)

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Wonderful commands
95 total

I know I don’t use some of them

My list includes some duplicates, which I will have to investigate. Wonder why I show 3 installs of IDLE and 3 Python Launchers? And 2 of Microsoft Remote Desktop?

1Password 7
A Better Finder Attributes 6
A Better Finder Rename 10
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC
Adobe Digital Editions 4.5
Adobe Flash Player Install Manager
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Lightroom Classic
Adobe Photoshop 2020
Adobe Photoshop CC 2019
Aeon Timeline 2
Android Studio
Backup and Sync
Banktivity 7
BatchCrop
Bookpedia
calibre
Carbon Copy Cloner
CDpedia
ChronoSync
CleanMyMac X
DaisyDisk
DataVault Password Manager
DB Browser for SQLite
DEVONthink 3
DEVONthink Pro Office
Dropbox
DVDpedia
Epson Connect Printer Setup
Epson Scan 2
Epson Scan 2 Utility
EPSON Software Updater
Event Manager
Fetch
Firefox
FLIR Tools
GitKraken
Go64
GoodNotes
Google Chrome
Google Earth Pro
GoToMeeting
IDLE
IDLE
IDLE
iMazing
iMovie
iOS Console
iPastels
Jaspersoft Studio
Keynote
Kindle
LibreOffice
LiveCode Community 9.0.2
Microsoft Remote Desktop
Microsoft Remote Desktop
MindNode
NameChanger
Numbers
OmniFocus
OmniFocus Clip-o-Tron
OmniFocusColors
OmniOutliner
OmniPresence
Pages
PDF Expert
PedPro
PhotoSync
Printopia
PyCharm
Python Launcher
Python Launcher
Python Launcher
ReadKit
Reunion 12
Safari
Scapple
Scrivener
Send to Kindle
Silhouette Studio
Slack
SlideSnap Pro Auto Cropper
SpamSieve
SQLite Professional
SQLiteManager
TimeTable 3
TweetDeck
Type Fu
Typinator
Uninstall Send to Kindle
ViewPic
VMware Fusion
VueScan
XQuartz
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And eliminate the last fragment of exercise that I am getting?

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You probably have 3 versions of Python installed. Like 2.7.x, 3.6.x and 3.7.x.

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I need a judges ruling to see if duplicates and old version should be excluded from the total. I vote that they should not.

@EZ-Rider What is the reasoning behind keeping various versions of the same software?

I am finding it is harder to eradicate Adobe software than COVID-19 no wonder Steve Jobs gave it the boot. I needed to install Adobe AIR to run a app. That failed as Apple quarantined this app and I am still trying to eradicate it.

Enough is Enough!
Steve Jobs on Adobe Flash

BTW I wrote a question to the developer asking them if they will develop on a modern software platform
Goalscape software

duh correct, I have 2.7, 3.7 and 3.8 all installed I didn’t even think of that

and the 2 Microsoft remote desktops are probably the 2 different machines I use on occasion (under great duress I might add!)

Sometimes it is enjoyable (at least to me) to rediscover the apps that we have installed. Sorta like the collector enjoying their collection.

Another program that I have been using for this examination is an App available on the App store name “List My Apps

One of the issues discovered is that I was trying to put apps into folders such as Word Processing programs into a Word Processing folder but some OEM’s when it is updated place it in the base Applications Folder causing duplicate app files with different versions.

So now redoing my organization to get rid of the folder structure and adding categories as grouped in the MindMap to the Tags field.

Personally I prefer Homebrew to install Python. Besides the fact that it can automatically update (e.g. with @tjluoma’s script) it also just installs Python without all the IDLE and Python Launcher stuff (which you probably don’t use/need anyway).

Home brew is awesome

Anybody know a way to generate the home brew list? Might not be as useful given a lot of supporting commands

I think most people here have more apps than will fit on my Mac :joy:

$ brew list

Should give the list of all installed packages

I can’t find that Discourse edit box. How do I get to it?

At the bottom of your post, you should see a pencil Icon which allows you to edit. Then it will open the edit box and the options will be available at the top of the edit box

Included a screenshot

298 on my new iPhone se! I don’t use half of them. I’d use more of them if so many were not tied to subscriptions.

Okay but ‘How many Mac apps are you sporting?’ :wink:

None! I wish I had a laptop! Oh well…

Yes @bowline could be another thread. I have not gotten there yet as I am still whittling down my Mac apps.

This task has been enlightening whereas evaluating duplicate function apps and also diving deeper into apps already in my library.

One such app is Popclip. The real value is in its extensions where it can send the highlighted text to many apps such as Scrivner, Ulysses etc.

Popclip Extensions

Popclip is definatively a keeper and something I use daily.

Probably a few more months on this project as I keep on falling in those pesky rabbit holes.

Now I found an app that has two names All Things Done and Tomatoes Task Management. I sent a message to them to see which one that I can delete.

Recently I thought about an effective long term strategy in order to reduce the number of my Apps.

I found out I will just do a clean install every 2-3 years and then only will install Apps I need at that point and before installing the App I will think, whether I really need it (or could replace it with apples apps) or needed it in the last 3 years. In this way I dont hae to think constatnly about apps, but only once every 3years.