Well i'm a FullStack MEAN Developer and my day to day apps are the following:

Development

• Atom - my data to day editor
• MongoChef - for a mongo gui
• iTerm2 - i use it heavily with for nodejs, git, docker, etc.
• Sketch - i use it for making my diagrams
• MindNode - i use it to plan and structure my articles, i do it for projects too.
• Git (this comes when you install Xcode) - my version control
• OmniPlan - for project management.
• Docker (i use virtualbox as virtual machines provider) - for dockerizing my apps

Utilities

• Flux - taking care of my eyes
• Dr. Cleaner - clean mac memory resources
• Slack - for slacking

• Unarchiver - to unrar compress files.

• Safari (for surfing the web, i manage here all my bookmarks)

• Chrome (For testing and development, because of its grate dev tools )

And as other user commented, i also code and write articles everyday 🍻

you can read my articles here at https://medium.com/@cramirez92

Many of those I love are already on other answer but I would add VSCode, a great text editor built by Microsoft (yes on Mac :) ), and Kitematic as well if you work with Docker for development.

My workflow today:

• Atom - My Code IDE
• Eclipse - I am learning about to Java and I didn't like Intellij
• iTerm + oh-my-zsh. - This combination is amazing.
• Zeplin - Manager my assets

Utilities

• f.lux - I installed it has two weeks, it was for great to my eyes
• Caffeine - I've used to app once my first Macbook White.
• Alfred - I never liked to Spotlight, even after Apple updates on Sierra, the Alfred is so much better.
• Bear - Month ago, I was use to Evernote for my notes, Apple updated Notes (on Sierra again ;) and I moved it. A week ago, I discovered Bear, I don't know where I found it, but I am using to app and I recommend for all.
• Last.pass - Manager my passwords.

Querious for Mysql https://www.araelium.com/querious/

iTerm anyone?

Hi, me as a developer too, like to use multiplataform apps, cause in my house i have an ubuntu and in my work i have a mac mini, so for IDE i'm using IntelliJ Idea and it is a great IDE, i have Atom and Sublime only for study and fast projects too, mongobooster for mongo, mysql workbench, docker, vagrant, ... and all this stuff is multiplataform. Maybe i don't help you with my stack but i think that a multiplataform stack is better than an OS specific cause you have freedom. The only problem that i have is with Windows machines, cause it is not unix based and using an emulate terminal is a crap.

As a web developer you really don't need more than this and a terminal:

• Sublime Text 3 (with a ton of packages of course)
• Tower
• Kaleidoscope (can do with Sublime but Kaleidoscope is much more suitable)
• Postman (or Paw but I like apps that work on every OS)

DB tools:

• Navicat
• MySQLWorkbench
• MongoChef

Others:

• SIP
• Homebrew
• Alfred

I usually do image (and any other bandwidth) optimization on the fly with Pagespeed on either nginx or Apache. All the FTP work is done either via Sublime or SSH. The clipboard management is handled by Alfred.

Here is what I use.

• Atom editor.
• Gimp for image editing.
• Google docs.
• Apple mail.
• Apple Preview for PDF reading.
• SelfControl for distraction control.
• Git ( the command line one )
• flu.x - amazing tool.
• Terminal.
• Nimbus screenshot and record chrome extension.

PS: I code and write article everyday :)

Hey ! When i search for an app i usually go to The Sweet Setup Not every apps are on it, but it covers lot of domains :) cheerz

Addition to all posts, I am a huge fan of Parallels Desktop for VM enviroment. I develop a lot of .NET code also and this helps me to run Windows Apps like they are running on Mac.

I keep the core stuff as cross-platform as possible: Sublime 3, bash, git on command line... avoids being too closely tied to any OS.

To answer the q...

• surprised nobody's mentioned Homebrew (http://brew.sh)
• Xcode for dev tooling and iOS emulator
• BetterTouchTool makes a big difference for window wrangling (although there are lots of alternatives)
• Bartender cleans up the menu if you have too many icons, not a massive thing but nice
• LiceCapp is a neat little tool for screen capturing direct to animated gif
• On the FTP side I'll throw in a probably-unpopular vote for FileZilla. I find Transit and Cyberduck really weird. FileZilla isn't purty but it works.
• Dash for docs is neat if you have a need for offline documentation.

Not an install as such, but be aware OSX Terminal runs Bash 3 not 4. Coming from linux you might hit the odd script that doesn't work out of the box.

Not a single FTP / SFTP client on the list? For shame...

Transmit is hands down the best *FTP program for the mac. Some will say Cyberduck is but no... If you don't want to use Coda, Transmit is the only way to go.

If you're looking for Mac-only software (which is a much shorter list than Mac-supported software then I only have a few things to recommend.

Generally, I try to use cross-platform tools on every platform, but these outliers on OS X are so good that I'll gladly use them over their cross-platform competitors:

Kaleidoscope - a graphical diff viewer

I use Kaleidoscope to compare individual files, or file trees for differences so I can be more aware of what has changed between them. Just yesterday I was using this tool to compare new additions somebody made in version 1.2.1 of a file and to isolate those changes to see if I could try adding them to version 1.5.0, even though those two files have changed quite a bit.

imageOptim - the best image compression tool

There are many different image compression algorithms, and imageOptim uses all of them :D When you optimize an image using imageOptim it runs a tournament between all different algorithms and gives you the ultimate winner. Because all sorts of images compress differently, it's not always going to be the same algorithm that crunches all of them. This is easily the most important Mac-only utility, because there's no equivalent tool I've found on any other OS.

Coda 2 - an editor for the web

Coda strikes the perfect balance between editor and IDE, and it includes an FTP view, an Editor view (with a browser-preview), a Terminal view, and a MySQL view - meaning when I'm working on websites I can set Coda to fullscreen and:

• log into a server
• manage files on that server like FTP
• edit files on the server
• preview those files or view any other webpage
• jump into the terminal and use Git to track and commit my changes

All without leaving my editor :D Because I can work on all aspects of a website from the same app, setting it to fullscreen is like putting myself into 'Productivity Mode' and eliminating distractions.

There are things about every editor that annoy me, but for all the editors I've tried on all OSes, Coda gets the least things wrong and it's the comfiest editor I've ever used. I wish this was ported to Linux :D

For IDE you have the JetBrains, for text editor Sublime, for database Sequel Pro and if you want to see git in a visual way you have Source Tree or Git kraken

I would prefer Sublime Text over Atom.

Also SequelPro is the best SQL tool you will get.

What are you developing?

Well, recently we have Visual Studio for Mac, it's a great deal. It's hard without knowing what you developer but Atom Text Editor it's an indispensable tool for work-day. At least you can look at macOS & iOS Development Group at facebook.