This Week’s Top Downloads

This Week’s Top Downloads

Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week.

The 50 Free Apps We’re Most Thankful For

It’s the time of year where we all give thanks, and among many other things, we here at Lifehacker are thankful for all the free apps out there that improve our lives (and the developers that make them!) Here are 50 of our favourites.

Blink Shell Is a Full SSH and Mosh Terminal for iPhone and iPad

iPhone/iPad: A terminal emulator on your iPhone might sound a little silly for most of us, but SSH can come in pretty handy sometimes. For a while, one the best apps for doing so was Panic’s Prompt 2, but Blink Shell is an option that’s worth a look too.

EscapeYourBubble Shows You Stories From Outside Your Echo Chamber

Chrome: Before you sit down to a tense Thanksgiving dinner in an election year, take a moment to see how your family sees the world. EscapeYourBubble shows you what people on the other side of the aisle are seeing.

Touché Lets You Test Drive the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar

The new MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar is a weird thing that our friends at Gizmodo found a bit lacking, but that doesn’t mean we’re not all a little curious as to how it works. While you obviously can’t make an actual Touch Bar, Touché is an app that gives you a glimpse of an app’s Touch Bar support so you can give it a digital test drive.

Time Buddy Visualizes Your Schedule Across Multiple Time Zones

Android/iOS: Most calendar apps can manage your schedule just fine, but if you deal with multiple time zones, it’s easy to get mixed up. Time Buddy helps you plot your day-to-day when you have to traverse the world.

The Black Sand Desktop

We’ve been seeing a lot of water-based, beach-y, ocean-y wallpapers lately, and that makes us think you guys must be yearning for warmer weather. This one, from Sebastian, is a gorgeous, stark, black and white desktop with just a little customisation. Here’s how it’s all set up.

M-Cli Adds Plain Language Controls to Your Mac’s Command Line

Playing around with settings in Terminal is a time honored tradition amongst tinkerers, but that doesn’t make any of those commands any less obtuse. M-cli is a tool that provides you with several plain language commands for common actions.

Gridsutra Organizes Your Mac’s Windows With a Couple Clicks

Mac: There a few tools out there that simplify windows management on Mac, but Gridsutra’s one of the easier ones to use because it lets you organise with keyboard shortcuts or a few clicks of the mouse.

Volume Scheduler Automatically Changes Your Phone’s Volume Depending on the Time of Day

You’re in a quiet place, you get a phone call, and a loud ring roars out of your phone. Volume Scheduler is a free app that can help you out when you’ve forgotten to silence your phone or set it to vibrate.


The Cheapest NBN 50 Plans

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