TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for the best Mac utility app

The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you -- the readers -- and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We'll be announcing the winner in just a few days. Vote early and often!

Today TUAW is asking for your vote for the best Mac utility app of 2011. If the nominations were any indication, the free Alfred app looks like it might take the top honors for this category. It attracted over half of the total nominations for best Mac utility app.

The other apps that qualified for this category include the popular iStumbler, a free wireless discovery app for Mac; perennial favorite Quicksilver; the beautiful and functional DaisyDisk (US$9.99); and shareware favorite Carbon Copy Cloner.

Only one of these items will win TUAW's top honor for Mac utility app of 2011. Naming the winner is all up to you.

What is the best Mac utility app of 2011?
Alfred	776 (55.1%)
iStumbler	29 (2.1%)
Quicksilver	180 (12.8%)
DaisyDisk	242 (17.2%)
Carbon Copy Cloner	181 (12.9%)

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istumbler

Nothing like a crushing defeat.

Well, there's always next year…

December 19 2011 at 4:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jameschurchman

agree with others, TOTAL FINDER hands down.. ( and second, pathfinder !! ;-) ) i voted for QS but that would be my 3rd

December 15 2011 at 10:37 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dgoujard

I vote for DaisyDisk

December 15 2011 at 3:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

macron1

VOTE: total finder.
I didnt even use any of the listed options this year. quite liked Super Duper! also.

December 14 2011 at 7:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

S Roura Torrent

People think alfred is great because they don't know Quicksilver. Alfred lacks a lot of functions. Things I can do with Quicksilver: eject all USB with three keystrokes, change Itunes songs with a few strokes too, move files from the finder superfast, make my mac shut down after certain time or just quit or open any application in a certain time, make visual reminders, choose a file from the finder and send it by email in less than 10 seconds etc etc etc

Seriously, all you use Alfred will love QS too. Maybe it's just a bit difficult to learn but it's also more powerful and there are plenty of screencasts you can learn from.

Quicksilver is still the lion king!!!!

December 13 2011 at 4:39 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply

2 replies to S Roura Torrent's comment

michael

QS was my goto for years, then it languished in beta land crashing frequently. When Alfred came along I started using it. It's been very stable and pleasant to use, so I've stuck with it. I have no idea what QS is like now that development has picked up again, I'm sure it's a solid choice also.

December 13 2011 at 8:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Maciej Skrzypczak

"Seriously, all you use Alfred will love QS too. Maybe it's just a bit difficult to learn but it's also more powerful and there are plenty of screencasts you can learn from."

And that's the point. Alfred is very easy to learn, intuitive. It's good for users who don't want much than open apps, make some math (built in calc), but it's excellent for advanced users (with PowerPack) also, for its ability to run advanced scripts, customized hotkeys and more :)

December 14 2011 at 1:17 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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sadhuram

Yeah, there's a lot of development in QS, updates are constant. I don't know, I see Alfred just a QS with less plugins, less functions. I don't like to use the mouse and QS allows me to forget the dock and desktop (in fact my desktop is empty). I want to go to Gmail and instead of opening the browser, clicking Gmail and writing my user and password I just use the 1Password plugin to select Gmail and then the browser opens and my user and password are filled in automatically and I'm in front of my inbox. It's just a example, can you do that in Alfred?

December 15 2011 at 5:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down