A bit of prehistory. After my catastrophic fail to install Monterey on my 10.1, I went full-into customization. Customizing every bit and byte of my Mac with every single app I could find. The menubar was overflowing, the dock was at it's worst, there were always at least 10 apps running...

And then something changed. After over-customizing, I fell in love with the default look. The plain 'vanilla'. Now, looking back, I'm not surprized about over-customizing, since Catalina really looked that awful...

Just less then a moth ago, however, I began expandng the MacOS experience with apps that weren't there by default.

Tools and Utilities

MacOS Sequoia, with the new "Passwords" app and the "Feedback Assstant", since it's a beta

iDownloader (download client, up to 5x faster)

Avast Antivirus & Kaspersky VPN

Displapepture (rounded screen corners)

Bartender 5 & Lickable Menu Bar (MB tools)

VOX (music player, couldn't get the default Music to work properly)

Disk Space Analyzer, CCleaner (space freeing tools)

Pasty (clipboard manager)

Asset Catalog Tinkerer (to preview .car files, which I used to do really often)

Amphetamine w/ enhancer (Anti-sleep tool to use my Mac, clamshell, no charger connected)

Dark Reader & AdGuard for Safari (extensions)

TempBox (temporary email creator)

Coding tools

Xcode (my primary app creating IDE, as well as for some occasional C/C++ developmet)

Apple Developer (place to see apple developer news)

DetailsPro (GUI for SwiftUI development)

IDLE (Python3 development, with the Python Launcher app included)

Visual Studio Code (HTML & CSS, as well as some Python development)

GitHub Desktop (use for deploying my website, like this one!)

Image and visual design

Pixelmator Pro (the #1 app for image editing and graphics overall)

Equinox (dynamic .heic wallpaper creator)

Duplicate File Finder (used for quickly looking through bad photos)

Image2Icon (application icon creator)

FCP Trial (I'm too broke to afford the 200 dollar app :( )

Sketchbook (a sketching app I used before Pixelmator Pro, still have it... idk why)

Virtualization

VMWare Fusion Pro, personal use (for VMs)

Wine (to run Windows apps without a serious lag of classic VMs)

CrystalFetch (to download Winders (Steve Jobs said it, not me))

And of course...My Apps

MenuWeb

TinyWeb

Widgets

occasionaly, others as well