Development tools - April 2020

The current tools I'm using, as an iOS/macOS freelance developer, as of april 2020.


MacBook Pro 15-Inch 2.3 Late 2013
macOS 10.15 Catalina
iPhone 8 256 GB (due for an upgrade)

Xcode version (11.3.1 since I had issues with 11.3)
SourceTree, for Git
BBEdit, classic general text editor
CyberDuck, FTP client
Unity for game development
Android Studio, still learning Android/Kotlin
MacDown, markdown editor
Sequel Pro, for editing remote MySQL databases
PHP/MySQL for web sites, backend APIs
• Terminal (built-in)

Affinity Photo, Photoshop replacement
Sketch, for iOS/macOS app design
Audacity, audio editing
Slack, team chat
• Twitter, @SkyriserMedia, @ChrisComeau
DropBox
Cronnix, visual Cron editor

Microsoft ToDo, for personal/shared todos
Trello, for work related task management

SomaFM, nice indie music station
Reeder, RSS client
Pocket, for read it later

Any other suggestions?
Discuss on Twitter...

(posted 2020.05.15)



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