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

[bowline]

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.

[D_Rehak]

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

[apb123]

@tjluoma

find /Applications -maxdepth 2 -type d -iname ‘*.app’ -print | wc -l

72 for me. I mainly just use Devonthink, Curio and the stock apps

[JaxGirl]

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

[tomalmy]

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.

[D_Rehak]

So Jacgirl rises to top of pack with 749

[Rob_Polding]

I’ve 111

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[JaxGirl]

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.

[D_Rehak]

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

[tomalmy]

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.

[Larry_Wilson]

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!

[anon41602260]

@Larry_Wilson

there are a few of you that are certifiably NUTS!

Nah. We just need to get a life.

[Bmosbacker]

My inner minimalist smiled when I ran this report.

[JEMIII]

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…

[GraemeS]

Funny, I’m feeling jealous of the low numbers.

My Mac Mini is at 84 apps, so a couple lower than my MBP, which surprises me. I feel compelled to see what is different…but I really should resist that pointless task! TripMode is one, I suppose. Must resist.

[r2d2]

My MBP is at 158 apps. I think it’s time to prune the list.

I wonder if we could get a cross listing to see the most commonly installed non-native apps.

[memex]

I’m at 70 (searched TJLuoma’s style)

[GraemeS]

Here’s a Google Sheet that can do that. If people run TJ’s terminal command, then paste the results in a new column on the first tab (next to my MPB results), the chart should auto-update.

@tjluoma

find /Applications -maxdepth 2 -type d -iname '*.app' -print \
| sed -e 's#.*/##g' -e 's#\.app##g' \
| sort -f

It should get more interesting than this.

[r2d2]

Very Very cool! I dropped my data in. I’m still on Mojave so I’ll have the stock apps in there

[r2d2]

Just thought of a slight flaw for this … I use home brew and those apps won’t show up. Granted they’re primarily commandline so maybe it’s less of a concern.