Mac Apps To Watch In 2012

Mac.AppStorm has published a nice list of upcoming Mac apps to watch in 2012. The list includes some MacStories staff favorites like Coda, TextMate, Spotify and Caffeinated. Other new apps worth keeping an eye on are Mou (Markdown text editor), Wunderkit (from the creators of Wunderlist) and Chocolat.

Today we want to reverse things and start looking forward instead of reviewing what has already come. We’ll introduce you to ten apps that are going to make big waves in 2012. Interestingly enough, most of them happen to be geared towards designers and web developers so if you fit that description, you’ll definitely want to take a look! We’ll also look at an awesome new Google Reader app, what’s in store for Spotify and even get a glimpse of the gem that 6Wunderkinder has been keeping up its sleeve.

I had some additions I wanted to share, but I decided to run a quick poll among my Twitter followers first. Surprisingly, it appears we all share the same apps we’re looking forward to.

OmniFocus 2, confirmed in 2011.

A new app by Bjango, aimed at designers (WIP icons above).

Alien Blue for Mac, confirmed months ago.

Two new music apps, Sonora and Enqueue, currently in beta.

OmniOutliner 4, also confirmed and possibly featuring new cloud syncing capabilities.

Someone even mentioned Things with cloud sync. There’s also an interesting list of “rumored” software, such as iBooks for Mac, a new iWork, Aperture 4, and Flipboard for Mac (or the web?).

2011 has been a great year for third-party Mac software. From the looks of things, I think 2012 is going to be fantastic.