10 Mac Apps/Utility tools to help with web design and development + windows

We all have our little gems that we use to save us time and minimise repetetive tasks in our day to day web design work. Below I will list some of the ones that save me time and effort and hope to start a dialogue because I have a feeling other people are sitting on links to good freeware that can help in the long run. I have skipped the obvious ones like filezilla, sublime etc. If you guys think I should list out all of them as well I can add to this list.

Web Design Apps

ImageAlpha

ImageAlpha greatly reduces file sizes of 24-bit PNG files, it achieves better quality than similar functionality in Adobe Fireworks & Photoshop.

Pngyu

Pngyu is simple PNG image file compression tool, it uses pngquant as a compression engine.

Official website
Windows version available

ImageOptim

ImageOptim seamlessly integrates the best optimization tools: PNGOUT, Zopfli, Pngcrush, AdvPNG, extended OptiPNG, JpegOptim, jpegrescan, jpegtran, and Gifsicle.

Official website

SVGO GUI

Compression of SVG files, ideal after creating a file in Illustrator, it removes superflous meta data inside the file and compresses it. Windows version available

Github repo

Windows alternative: Github repo (SVG Cleaner)

Paparazzi!

Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of webpages.

Official website

Windows alternative: Lightshot

NameChanger

Bulk rename a list of files quickly and easily. See how the names will change as you type.

Official website

Windows alternative: Bulk Rename Utility

Integrity

Scans your project checking for broken links – very fast and accurate.

App Store

Windows alternative: Xenu’s Link Sleuth

Keka

Keka is a full featured file archiver, as easy as it can be. Archive, split, unpack most formats, 7z, Zip, Tar, Gzip, DBG, ISO and more.

Official website
App Store (support the project £1.49)

Windows alternative: 7zip

Miro

A simple way to convert almost any video file to MP4, WebM (vp8), Ogg Theora, or for Android, iPhone, and iPad. HTML5 Video is no longer hard.

Official website
Windows version available
Ubuntu version available
Linux source available

Handbrake

HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.

Official website
Windows Vista to 10, (64 bit) & (32 bit) available
Ubuntu version available

Paid for Web Design apps/utilities but well worth it

Frank DeLoupe £0.69

With Frank you can pick any colour, anywhere on your screen and then copy and paste the value from the clipboard to your editor of choice. RGB, RGBA, HEX, HSL etc.

App Store

Windows alternative: Colorpic – FREE

Gradient £2.99

Gradient streamlines the creation of CSS3 Gradients. It is a simple yet powerful tool to help you get rid of the clumsiness of ALL vendor prefixes.

App Store

Windows alternative: Online Gradient generator – FREE

Please feel free to comment if you have any other pieces of software that help you and you think someone else might benefit from using.