7 Mac Apps for Your First Week at a New Dev Job in 2026

Starting a new dev job is exciting — and overwhelming. New codebase, new team, new tools. You want to hit the ground running without spending your first sprint configuring your machine. Here are 7 Mac apps I'd install on day one at any new developer job. They're small, fast, and solve problems you'll run into before your first PR. 1. Raycast — The Launcher That Replaces Five Apps Raycast is the first thing I install on any Mac. It's a launcher, clipboard manager, snippet expander, and window manager rolled into one. The built-in extensions for GitHub, Jira, and Linear mean you can search issues, check PRs, and manage tasks without opening a browser tab. Your new team uses Slack? There's an extension for that too. 🔗 raycast.com 2. Warp — A Terminal That Doesn't Fight You Your first week will involve a lot of terminal work — cloning repos, setting up environments, running builds. Warp makes that less painful with block-based output, command search, and AI-powered completions. It also ha