For me, that would be Secure CRT. I have yet to find a terminal emulator that matches its feature set. If you regularly manage hundreds of machines using various connection protocols (serial and ssh mostly in my case) It’s worth the $$$, and so far there hasn’t been any subscription nonsense. I liked using it at work so much I forked over the dough to have it at home.
None of the free alternatives do everything I need.
I’ll also mention a few iOS apps. One is Sun Surveyor. It’s an AR app that shows you the position of the sun, moon, and galactic center at any given time. The other would have to be Radarscope. It’s a weather radar app, but it’s a really good weather radar app.
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This one’s debatable, but I use it all the time. Plasticity is 3D modelling software that attempts to bridge the gap between practical CAD programs and software meant for 3D artists like Blender. It’s not cheap considering Blender is free, but it’s buy once use forever, and at (I think) $150 it’s within reach of an individual hobbyist who knows what they want and is willing to pay for it.


I do not use MacOS anymore but when I did I have bought Pixelmator, it’s really good. Atleast when I have used it, the company behind it was bought by Apple since then.
Wish there would be something similar for Linux :( Gimp is like the opposite of intuitive.
Why not use PhotoGIMP, which is a Photoshop UX on GIMP? https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
It’s just not as nice.
An actually good alternative to Adobe software is the excellent Affinity suite.
Affinity is good, but the issue is that Affinity is proprietary. That’s my problem with it.
Also like Transmit and DaisyDisk, even though you have less fancy FOSS alternatives for that, which work just as well.
Affinity is apparently considering porting their suite to linux, so hopefully that’ll happen.
edit: source: https://techcentral.co.za/affinity-for-linux-canvas-next-big-move-could-reshape-the-desktop-software-market/274861/
That would close a major gap on the Linux desktop for me.