Free Apps on the OSX App Store? Does anyone actually use this?

[scootermaster]

I just got a brand new Quad Core, High Rez Antiglare 15" MBP. It's pretty much the awesomest thing ever.

Anyway, so I'm finally at 10.6.6 -- as opposed to my Hack, which is at 10.6.4 -- so I figured I'd try out the app store. I was stoked to be rid of AppFresh, etc. I figured most of the apps I use (Adium, iTerm, PandoraJam, etc) would be on the App store, but...um...no.

In fact, the ONLY free app I use that's on there is TextWrangler, I think. Actually, Transmit is on there too, but, um, that's a paid app.

Anyway, so does anyone actually USE the OSX app store? Are there any good freebies out there? I don't want to start another "Must have apps!" thread (Which should be stickied, but I'll prolly bump it in a sec), but I guess I'm just looking at must have free apps from the App store.

So back to AppFresh, eh?

 

[Adramalech]

I downloaded and use Trillian, Twitter, Textwrangler, and the rest were paid apps for me.

 

[speg]

The only free app i use is twitter. I have picked up some paid apps though (Aperture, iMovie, and some others)

 

[Seeruk]

Textwrangler, evernote, sparrow lite, mindnode, kindle, stuffit exapander ... thats all I have from the free section.

The dissapointing thing about the appstore is so many of the free things are actually paid apps on the appstore such as Smultron.

On a side note, I see you are an iTerm user. I have been too for many years, using the app more or less every working hour of every working day, yet I was totally unaware that there is an Iterm2 !!!! Apparently a fork but improves iTerm immensely. Shocked I never heard about it for so long - am I the only one?

 

[sourceninja]

The only app I've gotten from the app store was twitter. Most of my apps are free/open source. I also use coda, but I bought it before it was on the app store.

my app list
chrome
twitter
adium
textmate
coda
oracle sql developer
mysql workbench
LibreOffice
OmniGaffle
CyberDuck
dropbox
gfxCardStatus
vlc
transmission
minecraft
burn
applcleaner
The Unarchiver
XCode
MacFuse
Growl
VMWare Fusion

 

[amdhunter]

Solitaire. I can't stop playing it.

 

[oogabooga]

Is it odd it didn't even occur to me to look in the app store for those apps? The apps I use I just went straight to the website.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Is it odd it didn't even occur to me to look in the app store for those apps? The apps I use I just went straight to the website.

No. not at all.

 

[scootermaster]

Textwrangler, evernote, sparrow lite, mindnode, kindle, stuffit exapander ... thats all I have from the free section.

The dissapointing thing about the appstore is so many of the free things are actually paid apps on the appstore such as Smultron.

On a side note, I see you are an iTerm user. I have been too for many years, using the app more or less every working hour of every working day, yet I was totally unaware that there is an Iterm2 !!!! Apparently a fork but improves iTerm immensely. Shocked I never heard about it for so long - am I the only one?

Nope, I got this from Weaksauce12/Kaido's twitter feed today too! I'm not sure if it's stable or not, but I can't wait. I do 100% of my work in iTerm.

 

[Seeruk]

I've been using it for around 2 weeks now for work, and no problems with stability, only good comes from the upgrade and it even preserves all of your most intimate profiles settings etc. It's funny but the biggest positive is that its dock icon LOOKS like a terminal prompt and thus I don't keep launching wrong app 🙂

Highly recommended! - very polished and stable.

 

[amdhunter]

Anyone knows how to get rid of it from the Apple menu? I kind of find it annoying that it's always there now...