Top Paid Apps for Mac OS X Users

I’ve compiled the list of top paid apps out there for Mac users. Most of the apps are Tiger and Leopard compatible. I tried my best to list out ‘all the best apps’ but couldn’t avoid missing some. So feel free to list ’em in the comment section below.
For those who looking for great, free Mac apps, be sure to take a look at OpenSourceMac
Last updated: May 30th 2010. LaunchBar, TimeBoxed, Fontcase, Little Snitch, BusyCal added to the list.

Productivity

Things A beautiful task manager from Cultured Code. Let you organize your to-dos with tag, recurring supported within Projects and custom Areas of Responsibility. Also has an iPhone app with syncing. Syncing in the cloud is on the way.

OmniFocus An awesome product from OmniGroup, OmniFocus is designed to quickly capture your thoughts and allow you to store, manage, and process them into actionable to-do items. In comparison with Things, I can’t say which one is superior.

The Hit List Forget what you need to do with confidence. The Hit List is a simple, yet sophisticated application to manage the daily chaos of your modern life. Based on the simple concept of making lists, The Hit List lets you plan, forget, then act when the time is right.

1Password 1Password can create strong, unique passwords for you, remember them, and restore them, all directly in your web browser.

TimeBoxed TimeBoxed is a timer application, for Mac OS X with Growl supported. The first timer that helps you focus on what matters to you

LaunchBar LaunchBar is a smart and powerful, keyboard driven productivity utility that provides instant access to your applications, documents, contacts and calendars, bookmarks and history, to your iTunes and iPhoto library, to search engines and so much more – just by typing short abbreviations. Alternative open-source app: Quicksilver

Email Clients

Postbox Powered by an ultra-fast email engine and a sharp-looking, intuitive interface, Postbox will help you focus, save time, and get more done. You can save $10 when buying via my referral link.

Mailplane Get Gmail out of the browser tab and start saving time. Mailplane supports many features such as drag and drop attachments, multiple Gmail accounts, link Gmail conversation with Mac documents, etc…

Calendar

BusyCal BusyCal is a desktop calendar that provides seamless calendar sharing and enhanced productivity tools for workgroups and individuals.

Twitter Clients

Tweetie “Tweetie’s interface is so clean you would think it came straight out of Apple headquarters.” via Wired. Free app is available with ad-supported..

Twitterific A Twitter client from Potion Factory with slick interface. Free app is available with ad-supported.

Office Suite

Apple iWork Documents, Speedsheets, Presentations. The Mac way. Compatible with Microsoft Office documents.

Microsoft Office for Mac Bring the most popular office suite in the world to Mac.

Desktop Blog Editors

Blogo With a simple, intuitive interface and support for WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, Typo, Drupal, Joomla, and Expression Engine, Blogo is the best way to maintain your blog and spread the word with Twitter, Ping.fm and other supported services. Its UI is remarkable. Blogo is my blog editor of choice.

MarsEdit Compatible with many different blogging systems, WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, for example. One of the best blog editor out there.

Development Tools

Coda The one-window web development tool from Panic. Featuring built-in text editor, file transfer, svn, CSS, terminal, etc…

CSSEdit Winner of Apple Design Award 2007 for Best Developer Tool. Best CSS editor out there.

TextMate The missing editor for Mac OS X. A must-have app for developers. Alternative: TextWrangler (open-source)

Espresso Another awesome app from MacRabbit – the creator of CSSEdit. A all-in-one app to create, preview and publish your website.

FTP Client

Transmit The best FTP client around. Featuring everything you expect from a FTP Client: FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3, WebDAV, synchronization and more. You can also try the open-source FTP client Cyberduck, which is comparable to Transmit.

Utilities

Little Snapper A great tool to capture your desktop, webpages with built-in vector-based annotation tools for editing. You can easily share your snaps with friends via Flickr, FTP, SFTP.

TextExpander TextExpander saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently-used text strings and images.

Speed Download An ultimate download manager + accelerator for Mac OS X. Speed Download is great alternative for those who miss Internet Download Manager on Windows

iStat Menus iStat Menus puts a collection of live-updated status icons in your menubar that help you keep track of what your system is up to and how its resources are being allocated.

CandyBar A great app for changing system icons as well as managing your icons, with a smooth, unified interface.

Fontcase Fontcase is a font management application that provides an elegant and powerful workflow to help you organize the fonts you have installed on your system.

Security Tools

Little Snitch A firewall protects your computer against unwanted guests from the Internet. But who protects your private data from being sent out? Little Snitch does!!