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- Security in macOS
- Contents
- Reading and Writing Tools
- Developer Tools
- Design and Product
- Communication
- Data Recovery Tools
- Audio and Video Tools
- Download Management Tools
- Cloud Storage
- Input Methods
- Browsers
- Translation Tools
- Encryption
- Security Tools
- Proxy and VPN Tools
- Utilities
- Gaming Software
- Remote Login Software
- Social Networking
- QuickLook Plugins
- Third Party App Markets
- Mac App Download Sites
- Podcasts
- Contributors
- Backers
- Sponsors
- License
Applications to edit text, I suggest the open-source editors
- Atom - Hackable text editor for the 21st century made by GitHub. Atom Plugins. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- Bear Writer - Beautiful, flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Bootstrap Studio - A powerful desktop app for creating responsive websites using the Bootstrap framework.
- Brackets - A modern, open source text editor that understands web design. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Chocolat - Native text editor.
- Coda2 - Fast, clean and powerful text editor.
- CotEditor - Lightweight plain-text editor for macOS. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Emacs - A popular text editor used mainly on Unix-based systems by programmers, scientists, engineers, students, and system administrators. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- LightTable - The next generation code editor. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- micro - Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Nova - Modern, extensible text editor, by the makers of Coda.
- ONI - IDE powered by Neovim. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Sublime Text - Sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance, Sublime Text Plugins. ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- TextMate - Editor that brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Vim - Highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient, Vim Plugins. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- Vimr - Refined Vim Experience for OS X. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- LibreOffice - LibreOffice is free and open-source software office software. Software is tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- WPS - Is a cross-platform office software suite. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Pages Documents that stand apart. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Keynote Build stunning presentations. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Numbers Create impressive spreadsheets. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Microsoft Office Unmistakably Office, designed for Mac. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- SoftMaker Office A complete office suite that aims for full compatibility with Microsoft Office documents
- EME - Open-source Markdown editor with an interface like Chrome. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- iA Writer - Writing app with an emphasis on simplicity and design.
- LightPaper - Simple, beautiful, yet powerful text editor for your Mac.
- MacDown - Open-source Markdown editor for OS X. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Marked 2 - This is the Markdown preview with an elegant and powerful set of tools for all writers.
- MarkText - Next generation markdown editor, running on platforms of MacOS Windows and Linux. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Marp - Markdown presentation writer with cross-platform support. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Marxico - Delicate Markdown editor for Evernote. Reliable storage and sync.
- MWeb - Pro Markdown writing, and static blog generator App.
- TextNut - Rich-format editor featuring Markdown export and Markdown syntax hints. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Typora - Truly minimal Markdown editor featuring seamless live preview. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Ulysses - The Ultimate Writing App for Mac, iPad and iPhone.
- Agenda - Date-focused note taking app for both planning and documenting your projects. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Boostnote - Note-taking app made for programmers. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Dnote - A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and a web interface. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Evernote - Infamous note-taking app, available on many platforms. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- FSNotes - File System Notes is a modern notes manager, native on macOS and iOS. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Gooba - Writing app and task manager with a simple and interactive design.
- Inkdrop - Notebook app for Markdown lovers built on top of Electron.
- Joplin - Cross platform open-source notepad with markdown support and todo list manager with synchronisation capabilities. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- MarginNote - In-depth PDF and EPUB reading, learning, managing and note taking app.
- Notable - The markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck.
- Notebook Note-taking app. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Notes - Clean, simple note-taking app. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Noteship - Turn notes into knowledge (spreadsheet view, heading summaries, etc.). Works offline, everything is saved locally. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Notion -Notion is the all-in-one workspace. From notes, tasks, wikis, to database, Notion is all you need. Works great for teams and individuals.
- Obsidian - Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
- OneNote - Note-taking app by Microsoft. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- SideNotes - Quick notes on the screen side. Take notes while working with other apps. Use Markdown for text formatting.
- QOwnNotes - Open-source notepad with markdown support and todo list manager. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Quiver - The Programmer's Notebook, lets you easily mix text, code, Markdown and LaTeX within one note, edit code with an awesome code editor and live preview Markdown and LaTeX.
- AliYuQue - Cloud note-taking knowledge management, collaboration platform, Markdown based writing, support embedded flow chart, brain diagram, timing sequence, code rendering, Sketch board creation, personal knowledge sharing, etc. Compared to youdao cloud note and evernote similar products, which include all of its functions, support knowledge sharing and more powerful creation, collaboration and editor, it comes from alibaba ant financial.![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Day One - Excellent journaling app using text, photos, video, audio, location data, and more. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Journey - Journaling app with many features and with apps for every platform available. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- linked - Link your thoughts to days, distraction free. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Calibre - Free and open-source e-book computer software application suite which runs on multiple platforms, allows users to manage e-book collections as well as create, edit, and read e-books. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Clearview - Tabbed style e-book reader for PDF, EPUB (DRM free), CHM, and MOBI. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- iChm - Ebook reader for CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML help) files. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Kindle App - Amazon official reading app of kindle.
- Klib - New way to manage highlights for Kindle and iBooks. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Scribus - Professional layout and publishing software supporting EPS and SVG import/export, and PDF support. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Sigil - Multi-platform EPUB ebook Editor. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Leaf - Amazing news reader dedicated to help you enjoy your daily news and easily manage your subscriptions.
- NetNewsWire - It’s a free and open source feed reader for macOS. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ReadKit - Mac read-later client supporting all major providers: Instapaper, Pocket and Readability. Even more, ReadKit is a full-featured RSS reader as well.
- Reeder 4 - News reader for Feedbin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler and so on. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Vienna - RSS/Atom reader for Mac OS X. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Feedy - An elegant and lightweight RSS client and news reader for your Mac. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- bindPDF - Combine multiple PDF files into a single PDF file using a friendly UI. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- CHM Reader - Read Compiled HTML (.chm) documents on your Mac. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Chmox - Read CHM documents on your Mac. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- PDF Expert - Read, annotate and edit PDFs, change text and images.
- PDF Reader Pro - You Can view, create, sign, convert and compress any PDF documents. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Skim - PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- SkyFonts - The simplest way to try, install, and manage fonts.
- Spillo - Powerful, beautiful and amazingly fast Pinboard client for OS X.
- Tad - Application for viewing and analyzing tabular data such as CSV files. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- texpad - Great LaTeX editor for Mac with auto-update PDF and autocomplete LaTeX commands.
- Android Studio - The official IDE for Android, based on Intellij IDEA. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- Deco IDE - The best IDE for building React Native apps. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Eclipse - Popular open-source IDE, mainly for Java but with plugin support for a wide array of languages and platforms. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Espresso - The web editor for Mac is back. For people who make delightful, innovative and fast websites.
- JetBrains Toolbox App - Manage installed JetBrains tools, download new ones and open recent projects. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- AppCode - Smart IDE for iOS/macOS development
- CLion - Powerful C and C++ IDE. (Free for Students)
- DataGrip - Cross-Plaform IDE for Databases and SQL. FREE for Students, check here for more info.
- DataSpell - The IDE for Professional Data Scientists
- GoLand - Provides ergonomic environment for Go development.
- IntelliJ IDEA - Powerful IDE for JVM languages. (Free for Students)
- PyCharm - Powerful Python IDE, which has professional version and community version.
- Rider - Cross-Platform C# IDE. It is an alternative to Visual Studio by Microsoft with the additional benefit of getting Resharper features that are not available on Visual Studio for Mac.
- WebStorm - The smartest JavaScript IDE by JetBrains. FREE for Students, check here for more info.
- Haskell for Mac - A Modern Development Environment for Haskell. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- NetBeans IDE - Free and open-source IDE, mainly used for Java development, but supports many other languages and frameworks. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Nova - From the creators of Coda and Transmit, bring you a beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.
- Visual Studio Community for Mac - Free version. It supports classroom learning, individual developers and small companies. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Visual Studio Code - Microsoft's free & open-source editor, TypeScript friendly, VSCode Plugins. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- Xamarin Studio - Free cross platform C# IDE. Xamarin Studio supports iOS, Android and .Net development ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- Xcode - Essential IDE for iOS/macOS development. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Spyder - Powerful scientific environment written in Python, for Python.
- BetterRename - The most powerful and complete Mac file renaming application on the market. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Beyond Compare - Compare files and folders using simple, powerful commands that focus on the differences you are interested in and ignore those you are not. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Bidbar - Manage bash commands from the menu bar and run them with keyboard shortcuts.
- Cacher - Cloud-based, team-enabled code snippet manager with Gist sync, VSCode/Atom/Sublime packages and Mac/Windows/Linux/Web clients.
- canSnippet - Powerful snippet management tool that works across the whole operating system, always accessible via simple keyboard shortcut.
- CodeKit - Web development tool which can automatically compile Less, Sass, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Jade and JavaScript, auto-refresh browsers and much more.
- Conduktor - Kafka desktop client. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Dash - Awesome API documentation browser and code snippet manager.
- DiffMerge - Application to visually compare and merge files. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- EnvPane - OS X preference pane for environment variables. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- FinderGo - Open terminal quickly from Finder. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Finicky - Application that allows you to set up rules that decide which browser is opened for every link that would open the default browser. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Gas Mask - Simple hosts file manager for Mac OS X. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Gemini - Intelligent duplicate file finder.
- Hex Fiend - Fast and clever open source hex editor. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Hosts.prefpane - System preference pane to manage your hosts file. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- iHosts - The only
/etc/hosts
editor on Mac App Store. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon] - Integrity - Free website link checker for Mac. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Kaleidoscope - Powerful compare tool for text, images and folders. Works perfectly with git, svn or other version control tools.
- Koala - GUI application for Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript compilation. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Loca Studio - Analyze, review, and edit app translations. Supports Xcode Localization Catalog (xcloc) and XLIFF 1.2 file formats. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- MacSystemColors - Mac app that shows all system colors in light and dark mode for Cocoa developers. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- MJML - Framework that utilizes a semantic syntax and a rich standard components library, which allow users to easily create responsive emails. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- PaintCode - PaintCode is a unique vector drawing app that generates Objective-C or Swift code in real time, acting as a bridge between developers and graphic designers.
- Pasteboard Viewer - Inspect the system pasteboards. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- PPRows - Application to calculate how many lines of code you write. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- PushMate PushMate is a MacOS app that solves common push notification problems by ensuring your push payloads are correct.
- Responsively - A must-have devtool for web developers for quicker responsive web development. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- SCM Breeze - Set of shell scripts (for bash and zsh) that enhance your interaction with git. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- SecureCRT - Terminal emulation which supports SSH, Telnet or other protocols.
- Site Sucker - SiteSucker is a Macintosh application that automatically downloads websites from the Internet. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- SnippetsLab - Easy-to-use code snippets manager.
- Solarized - Clean and beautiful color theme. Works well with iTerm, JetBrains products, Vim etc.
- StarUML - Powerful UML app.
- Swiftify - Objective-C to Swift code converter and Xcode & Finder extensions.
- SwiftPlantUML - Generate and view class diagrams from Xcode for Swift code. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- SwitchHosts - Free and open-source app for hosts management & switching. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- SYM - GUI Application to symbolicate iOS crash log. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- TeXstudio - Integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Timelane - Visually profile your asynchronous code. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Touch Bar Simulator - Use the Touch Bar on any Mac. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Visual Paradigm - All-in-one UML, SysML, BPMN Modeling Platform for Agile, EA TOGAF ADM Process Management.
- Woodpecker - View iOS app's Sandbox files, UserDefaults, Keychain items on a Mac. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- WWDC - The Mac OS unofficial WWDC app. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Xcodes - Install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- zeplin - Collaboration tool for work between designers and developers. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Nib Unlocker - .nib to .xib converter ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Patterns - Regular expression editor.
- Regex - Regular expression testing tool with an emphasis on simplicity.
- RegExRX - Development tool for regular expressions.
- Cocoa Rest Client - Free, open-source, native Apple OS X app for testing HTTP/REST endpoints. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Insomnia - The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Paw - Advanced HTTP client.
- Postman - Powerful GUI platform to make your API development faster & easier, from building API requests through testing, documentation and sharing.![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Katalon Studio - Simplify API, Web, Mobile Automation Tests Free. Robust. Cross-platform. Automation testers from 160 countries with YouTube channels, GitHub repositories.![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Charles - HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet.
- James - Open-source proxy tool for checking and mapping requests with http as well as https. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Little Snitch - Network monitor with a world map for visualizing network connections.
- mitmproxy - Interactive intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Proxie - HTTP debugging proxy. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Proxyman - Modern and intuitive HTTP debugging proxy for macOS. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Wireshark - The world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ack - A tool like grep, optimized for programmers. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- alacritty - A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- archey-osx - An archey script for OS X. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- asciinema - Easily record terminal sessions and replay them in a terminal as well as in a web browser. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- autojump - Replace
cd
with an intelligent autojump to easily navigate directories from the command line. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] - bash-it - Shameless ripoff of oh-my-zsh for bash. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- bat - A
cat(1)
clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] - ccat - The colorizing cat which works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- cool-retro-term - Good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- dark-mode - Control dark mode from the command-line. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- eureka - CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Fish Shell - Smart and user-friendly terminal, which is similar with zsh. ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- fselect - Find files with SQL-like queries. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Github CLI - gh is GitHub on the command line. It brings pull requests, issues, and other GitHub concepts to the terminal next to where you are already working with git and your code. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Glances - Glances is a cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Go2Shell - Go2Shell opens a terminal window to the current directory in Finder. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- htop - htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- httpie - Modern command line HTTP client – user-friendly curl alternative with intuitive UI, JSON support, syntax highlighting, wget-like downloads, extensions, etc. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- hyper - A terminal built on web technologies. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- iTerm2 - iTerm2 is an amazing terminal emulator for OS X. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- itunes-remote - Software for controlling iTunes via the terminal. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- job - JOB, make your short-term command as a long-term job. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- kitty - A cross-platform, fast, feature full, GPU based terminal emulator. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- lnav - A log file navigator. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- m-cli - Swiss Army Knife for macOS. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Mac-CLI - The ultimate tool to manage your Mac. Automatize the usage of your OS X system. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Magic Wormhole - Get Things From One Computer To Another, Safely. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- mas - Simple command line interface for the Mac App Store. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Miller - Like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- mycli - CLI for MySQL that can do auto-completion and syntax highlighting. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ndm - Manage npm straight from the couch. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- nushell - nushell is a modern, GitHub-era shell written in Rust. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- pgcli - Pgcli is a command line interface for Postgres with auto-completion and syntax highlighting. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Rebound - Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Serial - Full-featured serial terminal for the Mac.
- shallow-backup - Easily create text documentation of installed applications, dotfiles, and more. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- silver searcher (ag) - A code searching tool similar to ack, with a focus on speed. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- spaceship - A Zsh prompt for Astronauts. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Tabby (formerly Terminus) - Free terminal tool, built with TypeScript, heavily inspired by Hyper. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Taskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Termius - Free terminal tool,comparable to xshell on windows platform. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- TextQL - Execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- thefuck - A interesting software that corrects errors in previous console commands[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]]
- tmux - "Terminal multiplexer", it enables a number of terminals (or windows) to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal. tmux is intended to be a simple, modern, BSD-licensed alternative to programs such as GNU screen. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- tmuxinator - Manage complex tmux sessions easily. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- trash - Move files and directories to the trash. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- VisiData - Terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- xonsh - Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Zsh - Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- xcodes - A command-line tool to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- xxh - Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- AppJS - Lightweight JavaScript UI library for creating mobile webapps that behave like native apps. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- create-dmg - Create a good-looking DMG for your macOS app in seconds. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Electrino - Desktop runtime for apps built on web technologies, using the system's own web browser engine. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Electron - Build cross platform desktop application with JavaScript, HTML and CSS. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ionic - Build amazing native and progressive web apps with Angular and open web technologies. One app running on everything. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- MacGap - Provides a lightweight JavaScript API for OS X integration, such as displaying native notifications or writing data to a file. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- nw.js - Build desktop application with HTML and JavaScript. It lets you call all
Node.js
modules directly from DOM and enables a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] - Qt - Cross-platform application framework.
- React Native for Ubuntu - Build Ubuntu desktop apps using React Native. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- React Native macOS - Build OS X desktop apps using React Native and Cocoa. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- react-desktop - React UI Components for macOS Sierra. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ReactXP - Microsoft official production, support platform Web, iOS, Android and Windows UWP is still an ongoing work. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Cornerstone - Powerful version control with a gorgeous interface.
- Fork - Fast and friendly Git client for Mac. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Git Cola - Powerful, Fast, Lightweight and Friendly Git GUI. For those caffeine adicting users. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Gitbar - Open-source,display Github contribution statistics on your menu bar. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- GitFinder - Fast and lightweight Git client for Mac with Finder integration. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Gitfox - Commit faster, improve your code quality with superior diffs - and look good doing it. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- GitHub Desktop - The official GitHub GUI. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- GitKraken - The most popular Git GUI for Windows, Mac and Linux.
- GitUp - A simple & powerful Git client。![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- GitX-dev - Fork of Pieter's nice git GUI for OS X. Includes branch/tag sidebar and various fixes. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Hub - Command-line wrapper for Git that makes you better at GitHub. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- OhMyStar Beautiful and efficient way to manage, explore and share your Github Stars. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- SmartGit - Git client with support.
- SourceTree - Free Git & Mercurial client for Windows or Mac. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Sublime Merge - Git client, from the makers of Sublime Text.
- Tower2 - The most powerful Git client for Mac and Windows.
- Vershd - The free for personal use effortless Git GUI, for Windows, Mac, & Linux. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Versions - Mac Subversion (SVN) Client.
- Docker - Powerful, performs operating-system-level virtualization. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- Parallels - Powerful, easy-to-use VM. No free upgrade for each new Mac OS.
- QEMU - a free and open-source emulator and virtualizer that can perform hardware virtualization. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Vagrant - Tool for building and distributing development environments. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- Veertu - The lightest VM on Mac. Responsive, sandboxed & native way to run VM on your Mac. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Virtual Box - Powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- VMware Fusion - Powerful, commercial VM developed by VMware.
- Apache Directory Studio - LDAP browser and Active Directory client. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Azure Data Studio - Cross-platform database tool for using on Microsoft family on-premises and cloud data platforms such as MSSQL Server ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Another Redis Desktop Manager - A faster, better and more stable redis desktop manager.![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Base 2 - Application for creating, designing, editing and browsing SQLite 3 database files.
- Beekeeper Studio - Smooth SQL editor and database manager ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Bdash - Modern SQL client application, supports MySQL, PostgreSQL (Redshift) and BigQuery.![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Chrome MySQL Admin - Powerful Chrome app to manage your MySQL. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Core Data Editor - Core Data Editor lets you easily view, edit and analyze applications‘ data. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- DB Browser for SQLite - Official home of the DB Browser for SQLite. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- DBeaver - Universal SQL Client.
- ElectroCRUD - Modern MySQL CRUD application. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- FastoNoSQL - Cross-platform GUI client for Redis, Memcached, SSDB, LevelDB, RocksDB, UnQLite, LMDB, ForestDB, Pika and Dynomite key-value databases. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- FastoRedis - Cross-platform professional GUI management tool for Redis. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- JackDB - Secure, collaborative environment for your queries and data-driven insights. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Keylord - Desktop GUI client for Redis, Bolt, LevelDB and Memcached key-value databases.
- MDB Explorer - MDB tool to open, read, export your MDB files to other formats and databases.
- Medis - GUI Manager for Redis. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Mingo - Easy to use MongoDB GUI with mind-blowing features.
- Mongo Management Studio - Simple MongoDB GUI.
- mongoDB.app - The easiest way to get started with mongoDB on the Mac. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- MongoDB - MongoDB is a document database with the scalability and flexibility that you want with the querying and indexing that you need. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- MySQL Workbench - The official MySQL GUI.
- Navicat Data Modeler - Powerful and cost-effective database design tool which helps you build high-quality conceptual, logical and physical data models. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- neo4j - The leading graph database! ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- pgModeler - is an open source data modeling tool designed for PostgreSQL. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Postgres.app - The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Postico - Modern PostgreSQL client for Mac.
- PSequel - PostgreSQL GUI tool for Mac OS X. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- RedisClient - Redis client application on mac, windows and linux. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- RedisDesktopManager - Cross-platform GUI management tool for Redis. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Sequel Pro - MySQL database management for Mac OS X. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- SQLight - SQLite database manager tool. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- SQLPro Studio - Simple, powerful database manager for macOS.
- Tableau Public - Free data-visualization software. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- TablePlus - Supports: PostgreSQL, MySQL, RedShift, MariaDB... High-end security ensured. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- redis-pro - Small, easy to use Redis management, written with SwiftUI, support Dark mode. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Acorn - Great Mac OS X picture and photo editor, built for humans.
- Affinity Designer - Professional graphic design software for Mac.
- Affinity Photo - Professional image editing software for Mac.
- Alchemy - Experimental, open-source drawing application with an emphasis on creating conceptual art. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Amadine - A vector drawing app that has everything a graphic designer needs wrapped in an uncluttered and intuitive interface.
- Art Text 3 - This is graphic design software specifically tuned for lettering, typography, text mockups and various artistic text effects.
- Blender - Free and open 3D creation software. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Colorpicker - Colorpicker is a complete open-source colors manipulation tool with picking! ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Figma - The collaborative interface design tool, for vector graphics and UI prototyping. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- FontForge - Free, open-source font editor. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Gravit Designer - Full featured free vector design app right at your fingertips. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- inklet - Turn your Mac trackpad into drawing board.
- Inkscape - Professional vector graphics editor. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Krita - Open-source digital painting software for concept artists, digital painters, and illustrators. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- macSVG - Designing HTML5 SVG art and animation. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- MagicaVoxel - Free, lightweight 8-bit voxel editor and interactive path tracing renderer.
- MakeHuman - Powerful and free 3D human modeler. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Monodraw - Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Nik Collection - Nik Collection by DxO.
- Paintbrush - Bitmap image editor. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Pencil2D - A easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Pixel Perfect - Tool to overlay design images over implementation and make it pixel perfect. ![App Store][app-store Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Pixelmator - Full-featured image editor for Mac.
- Principle - Application for designing animated and interactive user interfaces.
- ScreenToLayers- Easily export your screen into a layered PSD file. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Sculptris - 3D sculpting software. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Sketch - Professional digital design for mac.
- Sketch Cache Cleaner - Deletes hidden Sketch history files that can take a lot of space on your hard drive and that you would probably never use. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Measure Plugin - Make it a fun to create spec for developers and teammates. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Sketch Toolbox Plugin Manager - Simple plugin manager for Sketch. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- User Flows Plugin - Generating flow diagrams from Artboards. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- SketchBook - Drawing software for concept design, comic art, and digital sketching. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Sparkle - Pro visual web design.
- Tayasui Sketches - Professional drawing software.
- Vectornator: Design Software - The Most Intuitive and Precise Illustration Software in the Galaxy. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Vectr - Free graphics editor used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Adobe XD (Experience Design) - First all-in-one cross-platform tool for designing and prototyping websites and mobile apps.
- Axure RP 8 - Prototypes, specifications and diagrams in one tool.
- Balsamiq Mockups - Wire-framing tool that helps you work faster and smarter.
- Flinto - Quickly create interactive prototypes of mobile, desktop, or web apps.
- Framer - Tool for interactive prototyping.
- Justinmind - Prototyping platform for web and mobile apps.
- Kite - Powerful animation and prototyping application for Mac & iOS.
- Lighten - The best way to clarify thinking, boost productivity, brainstorm, and visualize concepts.
- Loremify - Great Lorem ipsum generator.![Freeware][Freeware Icon]![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Marvel - Simple design, prototyping and collaboration.![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- MindNode - Mind-mapping software with an emphasis on simplicity and ease-of-use.
- MockFlow - Online prototyping suite for web-design and usability testing.
- Mockplus - Prototype faster, smarter and easier.
- OmniGraffle - Diagramming and graphic design for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
- Origami Studio - Tool for designing modern interfaces, built and used by designers at Facebook.
- pencil - Free, open-source tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ProtoPie - Create the most advanced prototypes as easy as Pie.
- Scapple - Practical mind-mapping software with free whiteboard-like layout.
- SimpleMind - The world leader in cross platform Mind Mapping tools.
- WriteMapper - Get from idea to final draft in no time.
- XMind - The most popular mind-mapping tool on the planet.
- Simple Diagrams - A desktop app for creating hand-drawn-like, fast, clear sketches of problems, processes, workflows, ideas and more!
- yGraph Editor - High quality diagrams made easy.
- CleanShot - Discover a superior way to capture your Mac's screen.
- CloudApp - Work at the speed of sight. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Gifox - Gif Recording and Sharing. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Kap - Open-source screen-recorder built with web technology. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- KeyCastr - KeyCastr, an open-source keystroke visualizer. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Kyapchar - Simple screen and microphone audio recorder for Mac. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Licecap - Record your screen and export to GIF. You can change the recording area anytime during recording. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Lightshot - The fastest way to take a customizable screenshot. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Monosnap - Make screenshots. Draw on it. Shoot video and share your files. It's fast, easy and free. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- ScreenShot PSD - Capture the screen as a layered PSD for easy editing. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Skitch - Screen capture application with a powerful annotation capabilities. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Snip - Application for sharing captured images on QQ Mail. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Snipaste - Simple but powerful snipping tool. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Teampaper Snap - Let your screenshots speak up. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Xnip - Handy Screenshot App. ![App Store][app-store Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Dropbox - Dropbox app offers easy screenshot capturing and sharing ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- APNGb - PNG image assembler/disassembler app. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Assetizr - Resizing images and optimising them for web and mobile applications. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Couleurs - Simple app for grabbing and tweaking the colors you see on your screen. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Eagle App - Simple and intuitive file manager with tag and annotaion for all your design files. Supports all major source, image, RAW, video, 3D, audio, font, and office files.
- ExifCleaner - Remove exif metadata from images and videos with drag and drop. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Frank DeLoupe - Color-picking tool, supports Retina.
- HEIC Converter - Convert HEIC images to JPEG or PNG. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Iconset - Free, cross-platform and fast SVG icon organizer and manager for Mac and Windows.
- Iconjar - Icon management tool to organize or search your icons.
- IconKit - App icon generator. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Image2icon - Create and personalize icons from your pictures. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ImageAlpha - Compress images with PNG format and remove transparency. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ImageOptim - Compress images and remove EXIF information. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- iPic - Easily upload images with Markdown supported. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- JPEGmini - Reduce image size by up to 80%, without compromising quality. ![App Store][app-store Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Mark Man - Measure & Spec Fast.
- Nucleo - Icon manager. Import, export, customize and convert icon libraries.
- Preset Brewery - Tool to convert Lightroom presets to Adobe Camera Raw.
- Resize Master - Batch resize and watermark your images fast and easy. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- RightFont - Preview, sync, install and manage fonts on Mac, Dropbox or Google Drive.
- Sip - The best way to collect, organize & share your colors.
- Snagit - Simple, Powerful Screen Capture Software and Screen Recorder.
- Spectrum - Easily and intuitively creating beautiful color schemes. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- svgus - Organize, clean and transform your SVGs. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- TinyPNG4Mac - Open-source tool to compress images. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Tropy - Research Photo Management. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- PicGo - Support for common cdn image hosting tool. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- AppIconBuilder - Export icons for multi-platform![App Store][app-store Icon]
- uPic - macOS native app, powerful terse image hosting client. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Adium - Free instant messaging application for Mac OS X. Connect to AIM, MSN, SMPP, Yahoo and more. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Caprine - Third-party privacy-focused Facebook Messenger app. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- DingTalk - Free, powerful and professional office tool used by over 5 million enterprises and organizations globally. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Discord - All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that's free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone.
- Franz - Electron based, multi-protocol wrapper for web-based chat. One application, 23 messenger services. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Gitter - Instant messaging and chat room system for developers as well as GitHub users. Developer friendly with Markdown syntax support.
- Keybase - Secure groups, files, and chat for everyone! ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Krisp - An AI-powered noise cancelling app that mutes background noise during calls.
- LimeChat - Open-source IRC client for Mac OS X. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Messenger For Mac - Third-party Facebook messenger for Mac. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Muzzle - A simple mac app to silence embarrassing notifications while screensharing.
- Rambox - Messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Element - Create, share communicate. Chat and call securely. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Presentify - A mac app to draw on your screen while on calls, highlight your cursor, and more. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Signal Desktop - Fast, simple, secure. Privacy that fits in your pocket. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Skype - Cross-platform application that provides video chat and voice call services. Users can exchange images, text, video and any other digital documents.
- Shift - De-clutter your desktop workspace and streamline your accounts, apps, and workflows.
- Slack - Awesome tool for team collaboration and communication. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Stack - Open, organize and use multiple web apps on a single screen. Stack your apps by categories or projects.
- Teambition - Team collaboration tool, including many features like task plan, schedule, file sharing, instant discussion and everything you need when collaborating with other team members. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Telegram - Messaging app with a focus on speed and security. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Textual - Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- WeChat - Official WeChat app for Mac. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- WeeChat - The extensible command-line chat client. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- WhatsApp Desktop - Available in the Mac App Store, Whatsapp for Desktop. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Airmail - Fast email client. For both Mac OS and iOS.
- Foxmail - Fast email client. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- MailTags - Use tags to organize email and schedule.
- N1 - Extensible, open-source mail app, free for developers and $7/month for Pro. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Nylas Mail - Extensible desktop mail app built on the modern web. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Polymail - Simple, beautiful and powerful email client. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Postbox - Powerful, simple and beautiful email client, need to pay for a license.
- Spark - Fast email client. For both Mac OS and iOS.![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ThunderBird - Software that makes email easier. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Edison Mail - A customisable, simple, and beautiful email client. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Cyberduck - Free FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure and OpenStack Swift browser. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Flow - Award-winning, beautiful, fast, and reliable FTP + SFTP client.
- Transmit - Highly flexible and intuitive FTP client, supports SFTP, S3 and iDisk/WebDAV.
- Data Rescue - Comprehensive and professional data recovery tool for most cases.
- DiskWarrior - The world’s most advanced repair and recovery tool for Mac.
- R-Studio for Mac - Powerful tool for recovering data on disks, even if their partitions are formatted, damaged or deleted.
- SuperDuper! - Painless fully bootable disk backups.
- Adapter - Free audio, video and image conversion software. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Aegisub - Free, cross-platform open source tool for creating and modifying subtitles. Aegisub makes it quick and easy to time subtitles to audio, and features many powerful tools for styling them, including a built-in real-time video preview. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Audio Profile Manager - Allows you to pin input/output devices for each particular combination of connected devices. May suppress HDMI displays from being chosen. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Ardour - Cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Audacity - Free, open-source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Audio Hijack - Record any application's audio, including VoIP calls from Skype, web streams from Safari, and much more.
- BlackHole - Freemium, open-source virtual output/input audio driver for recording/routing internal audio. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Carol - A minimal and beautiful lyrics app for macOS. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Cog - Free, open-source audio player. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- DaVinci Resolve - Free, cross-platform video editing, color grading, video effects and audio editing software.
- Elmedia Player - This media player is a super versatile app for any file format you probably may think of: FLV, MP4, AVI, MOV, DAT, MKV, MP3, FLAC, M4V are all supported as well as many others.
- Gifski - Convert videos to high-quality GIFs. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- HandBrake - Tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Hydrogen - Professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming for GNU/Linux. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- ffWorks - Comprehensive Media Tool for macOS. Making High Quality Video Encoding Accessible for Everyone.
- IINA - The modern video player for macOS. Based on mpv, the powerful media player project. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Kodi - Award-winning free and open-source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- LMMS Formerly "Linux MultiMedia Studio", LMMS is a powerful Digital Audio Workstation designed like FL Studio (formerly Fruity Loops). ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- LosslessCut - Cross platform tool for quick and lossless video and audio trimming using ffmpeg. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- LyricsX - Lyrics for iTunes, Spotify and Vox. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Metadatics - Advanced Audio Metadata Editor. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Mp3tag - a powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Mixxx - The most advanced free DJ software. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Movie Catcher - Movie movie and online viewing offline download software, with Baidu cloud to make offline download and online playback. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- mpv - Free, open-source, and cross-platform media player. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- MuseScore - Free, open-source music notation software. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Natron - Open-source compositing software. Node-graph based. Similar in functionality to Adobe After Effects and Nuke by The Foundry. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Perian - (No longer under active development)
Let QuickTime play all the common formats of free plug-ins. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] - Playback - Experimental video player. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Plug - Discover and listen to music from Hype Machine. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Popcorn Time - Watch torrent movies instantly, This Popcorn Time service will never be taken down. Download and enjoy. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ScreenFlow - Screencasting and video editing software.
- Shotcut - Free open-source video editor. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Soda Player - Player that can play seed, magnetic links, online video, automatic captions, links and local video files. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Sonora - Minimal, beautifully designed music player. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- SpotMenu - Spotify and iTunes in your menu bar. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Stremio - Movies, TV shows, series, live television or web channels like YouTube and Twitch.tv - you can find all this on Stremio. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Stringed 2 - Music practice software designed to help users learn how to play their favorite songs.
- Synfig Studio - Synfig Studio is free, open-source 2D animation software. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- VLC - Free, open-source, cross-platform multimedia player as well as framework that plays most multimedia files, DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs and various streaming protocols. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- VOX Player - High-definition audio player for Mac and iPhone. Music just sounds better! ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- XLD - Tool to decode, convert and play various 'lossless' audio files. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- MusicPlus - Search, play & download music for free. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Recordia - Record audio directly from the menu bar or with a global keyboard shortcut. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Omniplayer - Best media player on Mac, support almost all format. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- GarageBand A free Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) from Apple,providing a simple interface and professional level audio production functions. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Logic Pro X A professional Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) from Apple,providing complete audio production functions along with high quality native plugins and soundtracks. With native Apple Silicon support. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- aria2 - Lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Downie - Video downloader for macOS with support for YouTube and other 1200 sites.
- Deluge - Deluge is a lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- FOLX - Free download manager for Mac OS X with a true Mac-style interface. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Free Download Manager - Powerful, modern download accelerator and organizer for Windows and Mac. (FREE) ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- JDownloader - Free, open-source download management tool with a huge community of developers that makes downloading as easy and fast as it should be. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Motrix - Motrix is a full-featured download manager that supports downloading HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, Baidu Net Disk, etc. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- qBittorrent - A project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to µTorrent. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Shuttle - Easy Download Manager for any links.
- Transmission - Fast, easy, free BitTorrent Client. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- You-Get - Tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the web. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
I recommend using online storage with Mac clients
- Arq - Cloud storage backup client that supports AWS, GCP, DropBox, and more.
- Carbonite - Carbonite can protect your Mac from all of the most common forms of data loss.
- Dropbox - File hosting service that offers cloud storage and file synchronization with collaborative edit features. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Mega - Free cloud service, offers 50GB free storage. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- NextCloud - Actively maintained fork of ownCloud, faster and completely open-source ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- ownCloud - Cloud storage.
- Seafile - Reliable and High Speed File Sync and Share.![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Kawa - Better input source switcher for OS X. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Rocket - Makes typing emoji faster and easier using Slack-style shortcuts. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Touch Emoji - emoji picker for MacBook Pro Touch Bar. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Type2Phone - Use Your Mac as Keyboard for iPhone, iPad & Apple TV. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Brave - Web browser with an emphasis on privacy and speed. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Chrome - Chrome, developed by Google ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Chromium - Open-source, free web browser project by Google, to provide the source code for Google Chrome. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Microsoft Edge — Microsoft Edge, based on Chromium, but built by MS ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Firefox - Meet Firefox Quantum. Fast, free, open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Safari - Native browser for Macs. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- TorBrowser - Anonymity Online. Protect your privacy. Defend against network surveillance and traffic analysis. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Vivaldi - The browser that puts you in control. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
(Or you could just use the Mac OS built-in dictionary)
- Grammarly - Refine your english
- iTranslate - Translate entire website instantly with its built-in browser or with iTranslate Safari extension into over 40 languages. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Ludwig - Linguistic search engine that helps you to write better in English.
- Mate Translate - Translate in Safari and any app on macOS between 103 languages.
- Translatium - Translate words, phrases and images between over 100 languages with dictionary, transliteration and voice output support. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Deadbolt - The easiest file encryption tool you'll ever use. macOS-compatible, and open-source so you can trust it. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Antivirus One - Trusted Mac Security Protection: Protect your Mac from viruses, malware and adware. Block potential web threats and protect your Mac against vulnerabilities.![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- BlockBlock - Me: "Please alert me whenever anything is persistently installed." BlockBlock: "You got it"
- Dylib Hijack Scanner - Simple utility that will scan your computer for applications that are either susceptible to dylib hijacking or have been hijacked.
- KextViewer - View all modules on that are loaded in the OS kernel.
- KnockKnock - See what's persistently installed on your Mac.
- LinkLiar - Link-Layer MAC spoofing GUI for macOS. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- LockDown - Open-source tool for El Capitan that audits and remediates security configuration settings. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- LuLu - is the free macOS firewall that aims to block unauthorized (outgoing) network traffic. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- MalwareBytes - Malwarebytes crushes the growing threat of Mac malware, so you are protected and your machine keeps running silky smooth. Cybersecurity smart enough for the Mac. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- OverSight - Monitor mic and webcam, alerting you when the internal mic is activated, or whenever a process accesses the webcam.
- RansomWhere? - Generic Ransomware Detection.
- stronghold - Easily configure MacOS security settings from the terminal. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- TaskExplorer - Explore all processes running on your Mac with TaskExplorer.
- What's Your Sign? - Adds menu item to Finder.app to display the cryptographic signing information for any file.
- Algo - Personal IPSEC VPN in the cloud. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- tigerVPN - VPN Client for Mac. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Lantern - Free application that delivers fast, reliable and secure access to the open internet. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ShadowsocksX-NG - Next generation of ShadowsocksX. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ShadowsocksX - Secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your internet traffic. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Shimo - VPN Client for Mac.
- SpechtLite - Rule-based proxy app for macOS. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Surge - Web developer tool and proxy utility for iOS 9. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- tinc - Secure mesh VPN software. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Tunnelbear - Really simple VPN to browse the web privately & securely. Unblock websites around the world with applications for Mac, PC, iOS, Android & Chrome.
- Tunnelblick - Free, open-source graphic user interface for OpenVPN on OS X. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- V2rayU - Macos client based on v2ray. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Windscribe - Gives 10gb per month free on the spot and gives limited(on free) location control. Connection also takes very less time.
- ClashX - A rule based proxy For Mac base on Clash. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ClipMenu - Clipboard manager for Mac OS X. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Clipy - Clipy is a Clipboard extension app for macOS. Based on ClipMenu. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- CopyQ - Clipboard Manager with Advanced Features. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- iPaste - Lightweight and efficient clipboard tool. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Paste - Smart clipboard history & snippets manager. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- PasteBot - Powerful clipboard manager. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Flycut - Clean and simple clipboard manager for developers. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Maccy - Lightweight clipboard manager for macOS. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Yippy - Clipboard manager with user-friendly UI. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Anvil - Anvil is a beautiful menubar app for managing local websites. Serve up static sites and Rack apps with simple URLs and zero configuration. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Bartender - Organize or hide menu bar icons on your Mac.
- BeardedSpice - Allows you to control web based media players (SoundCloud, YouTube, etc) and some native apps with the media keys on Mac keyboards. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- BitBar - Place the output from any script or program right in your Mac OS X menu bar. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Dato - A better menu bar clock with calendar, events, and time zones. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Dozer - Hide MacOS menubar items. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Eye Timer - Take Breaks to prevent Eye Strain timer for Mac. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Hidden - A ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Hue in the Menu - Philips Hue light management in the menu bar with multi-room support. ![App Store][app-store Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- iGlance - macOS System Monitor for the Status Bar. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Itsycal - Tiny calendar for your Mac's menu bar. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- MeetingBar - Menu bar app for your calendar meetings ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Pandan - Time awareness in your menu bar. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Streaker - GitHub contribution streak tracking menubar app. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- SwiftBar - Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- UTC Time - Show the time in UTC in the menu bar or a widget. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Vanilla - Hide menu bar icons on your Mac. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Jiffy - Discover and share the best GIFs on GIPHY. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Work Hours - Simple app that tracks your work hours from the menu bar. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Xbar - Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar (the BitBar reboot). ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- BetterZip - Archive tool supports ZIP, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TXZ (new), 7-ZIP, RAR.
- eZip - An easy to use, feature-rich archiver for macOS. Supports popular formats such as RAR, ZIP, 7Z, BZ2, GZ etc. Works great with Mojave dark-mode and QuickLook. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Fileside - A modern, tiling file manager with unlimited panes.
- Hazel - Automated file organization for your Mac. Responsibly and beautifully designed.
- Keka - file archiver for macOS. Compression: 7Z, ZIP, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ LZIP, DMG, ISO. Extraction: 7Z, ZIP, RAR, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ, LZIP, DMG, ISO, LZMA, EXE, CAB, WIM, PAX, JAR, APK, APPX, CPGZ, CPIO. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- muCommander - Lightweight file manager with a dual-pane interface. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- PDF Archiver - Nice tool for tagging and archiving tasks. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- The Unarchiver - Unarchive many different kinds of archive files. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Unarchive One - Quickly decompress multiple different types of compressed files/compressed files to various scene compression formats. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- AirServer - Most advanced screen mirroring software receiver for Mac, PC and Xbox One.
- ControlPlane - Manages configuration profiles for your Mac. Determines where you are or what you are doing based on a number of available evidence sources and then automatically reconfigures your Mac based on your preferences. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- DNS Heaven - Unifies macOS DNS so applications using glibc can resolve DNS with the native stack. Mainly for use with VPNs. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Google Assistant (Unofficial Desktop Client) - A cross-platform desktop client for Google Assistant based on Google Assistant SDK. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Equinox - Create dynamic wallpapers for macOS. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- HTTrack - Useful tool for downloading a whole website and offline browsing. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Lungo - Prevent your Mac from going to sleep. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Mac Cache Cleaner - Cache cleaner for Mac ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Manta - Flexible invoicing desktop app with beautiful & customizable templates. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Memo - Simple and elegant app. Unlock memos even more quickly using Touch ID. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Numi - Beautiful calculator app for Mac. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Plash - Make any website your desktop wallpaper. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- SlowQuitApps - An OS X app that adds a global delay of 1 second to the Cmd-Q shortcut. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Torimori Sweeper - MacOS app that lets you declutter your Downloads, one file at a time. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Ultra TabSaver - The Open Source Tab Manager for Safari ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- 2Do - Nice todo app.
- Day-O 2 - Menu bar clock replacement with built-in calendar. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Fantastical - The calendar app you won't be able to live without.
- Focus - Beautiful pomodoro-based time manager. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Focused Work: Focus Timer - A simple, flexible Focus Timer. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Microsoft To-Do - Microsoft's successor to Wunderlist. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Nozbe - Powerful GTD app for individuals and teams, with support for every Apple device (Mac, iPhone, iPad, Watch). ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- OmniFocus - Nice GTD app, made by OmniGroups.
- Taskade - Real-time collaborative editor for teams.
- TaskPaper - Plain text to-do lists.
- Things - Delightful and easy to use task manager. (Award-winning App)
- Todoist - Cross-platform todo list app. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Tomato 2 - Beautiful and simple Pomodoro timer. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- TickTick - Simple and effective to-do list and task manager that helps you organize all aspects of life. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- 1440 Minutes Left Today - Keep a track of how many minutes you have left until the day is over, right in your menu bar. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Alfred - Award-winning app which boosts efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more. Search your Mac and the web, and be more productive with custom actions to control your Mac. ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- BetterTouchTool - Great, feature-packed app that allows you to configure many gestures for your Magic Mouse, Macbook Trackpad, Magic Trackpad and also Mouse Gestures for normal mice.
- Choosy - UI, URL API and a browser extension set for managing rules where and how to open links.
- Clovery - Integrate all your favorite Google services tightly with your Mac, let you access these services quickly and work more productively. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- CursorSense - Mouse & trackpad driver that lets you tweak the acceleration curve and more.
- Dropzone - Create a popup grid of customizable actions. Scriptable in Ruby & Python.
- Hammerspoon - Tool for powerful OSX automation with the Lua scripting engine. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- HapticKey - A simple utility application for MacBook with Touch Bar that triggers a haptic feedback when tapping Touch Bar. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- HazeOver App that dims your background app windows so you can focus more on your main task! ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Hungrymark - Useful app to bookmark your files, folders, and webs, quick access your bookmarks through menu bar ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- iCMD - Fuzzy menubar search and vim/easymotion emulation which works globally for every native MacOS app.
- Karabiner - Powerful and stable keyboard customizer for OS X. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Keyboard Maestro - Automate routine actions based on triggers from keyboard, menu, location, added devices, and more.
- Keytty - App to keep your hands on the keyboard. Move, click, scroll, drag and more with a few strokes.
- Lazy - Keyboard-driven commands to manage your surroundings directly from your mac.
- Mos - Simple tool can offer the smooth scrolling and reverse the mouse scrolling direction on your Mac. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Mouseless - Master all of the magic keystrokes for your favorite apps & tools.
- OmniPlan - The best way to visualize, maintain, and simplify your projects. Project Management made easy.
- Qbserve - Time tracking automation: freelance project tracking, timesheets, invoicing & real-time productivity feedback.
- Raycast - Raycast lets you control your tools with a few keystrokes. It’s designed to keep you focused.
- RescueTime - Personal analytics service that shows you how you spend your time and provides tools to help you be more productive.
- SensibleSideButtons – Use the side buttons on your mouse to move forward and backward in many apps, like in Windows. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- nnScreenshots - a super easy way to keep a visual record of your productivity to make it easier to fill out timesheets or just to help you review the day. Built in timesheet editor.
- skhd - Simple hotkey daemon for macOS. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Strategr – No-fuss time management app. Stategr helps you maximize your productivity, giving you the quickest and most effective way to time-box your day. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Time Out - Easy break reminders, with micro-break and flexible customization if you want it. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Timing - Automatic time and productivity tracking for Mac. Helps you stay on track with your work and ensures no billable hours get lost if you are billing hourly.
- Trello - A collaboration tool that organizes your projects into Kanban boards.![Freeware][Freeware Icon]![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Ukelele - Unicode Keyboard Layout Editor.
- xScope - Powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, inspecting & testing on-screen graphics and layouts.
- Z - Powerful way to navigate easily by typing only a string of directory name in terminal instead of typing exact location of director.
- Pomodoro Cycle - Pomodoro tracker
- AltTab - Open source window switcher with window previews. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Amethyst - Tiling window manager. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- contexts - Provides more power than the native Mac Dock. Especially when you have multiple screens, it can help you switch more quickly.
- Divvy - Window management at its finest with its amazing Divvy Grid system.
- Hummingbird - Easily move and resize windows without mouse clicks, from anywhere within a window.
- IntelliDock - Hides the Dock, Automatically.
- Magnet - Window manager that keeps your workspace organized. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Moom - Allows you to easily move and zoom windows, or to another display—using either the mouse or the keyboard.
- rcmd - Use the ⌘ Right Command key to switch applications based on their name. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Rectangle - Window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ShiftIt - Managing window size and position in OSX. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- SizeUp - Powerful, keyboard-centric window management.
- Slate - Window management application similar to Divvy and SizeUp (except better and free!). (Needs config file) ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Total Spaces - Provides window management much like ubuntu. Creates hotkeys for workspaces which allows you to easily move around.
- yabai - Tiling window manager for macOS. A rewrite of chunkwm, it provides a more seamless integration with the operating system. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- 1Password - Cross-platform password management tool.
- Authy - Two-factor authentication token manager that backs up and syncs across your devices. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Bitwarden - Open source password management tool for Mac OS, iOS and browsers. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Buttercup - The Password Manager You Deserve ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Dashlane - Cloud-based password manager with award-winning design. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Enpass - Cross-platform password management tool with cloud integration. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Keeweb - Free, cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- KeepassXC - Free, open source, cross-platform password manager. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- LastPass - Password management tool for Mac OS and browser.
- MacPass - Open-source KeePass Mac OS client. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- SafeInCloud - Cross Platform password management, low cost app! ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Strongbox - Secure Password Management for iOS and MacOS. Open Source. Compatible with KeePass and Password Safe. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- fman - The first dual-pane file manager to integrate features from Sublime Text.
- ForkLift - The most advanced dual pane file manager and file transfer client for macOS.
- Path Finder - File management app.
- QSpace - A clean and efficient Multi-view File Manager. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- TotalFinder - Chrome-styled Finder substitute.
- XtraFinder - Adds tabs and cut to Mac Finder. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- CheatSheet - Hold the ⌘-Key to get a list of all active shortcuts of the current application. It's as simple as that. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- f.lux - Makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Lunar - Help you adujst brightness, contrast and volumn of your external display. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Grayscale Mode - An open source macOS app that lets you quickly toggle grayscale filter right from your menu bar or using a keyboard shortcut (⌥⌘G). ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- KeyCastr - Open-source keystroke visualizer. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- NightOwl - Automatically switch between macOS Mojave's light and dark themes by time of day or with a menu bar or keyboard shortcut. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- One Switch - Mac menu bar app that adds various switches to the Mac's menu bar.
- Shifty - A macOS menu bar app that gives you more control over Night Shift. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Snap - Launch an app in a snap. Ridiculously easy shortcut management. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Shareful - Supercharge the system share menu with copy, save, and open actions. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Amphetamine - Override your energy saver settings and keep your Mac awake. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- AdBlock One - Your New Favorite Free Ad Blocker for macOS and iOS: Stop seeing annoying ads in Safari. Open websites faster. Browse the web more safely.![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- AppCleaner - Small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Apple Silicon App Test - Browser-based tool for checking Apple Silicon app compatibility before you buy an M1 Mac. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Background Music - Automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Cleaner One - All-in-one Disk Cleaning Manager: Clean up your Mac and optimize its performance. Run a quick scan now to verify what's taking up your storage. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Cleaner for Xcode - Helps make your Xcode faster by removing unwanted and deprecated files. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- coconutBattery - Shows live information about the battery in your Mac. Includes: manufacture date, capacity, cycle count, battery status, temperature, discharging power.
- Coolant - Menubar app that lets you know when an app is consuming 100% CPU or more than a gigabyte of memory (or any arbitrary limits you choose).
- DaisyDisk - Gives a great overview of disk usage. Can also make more disk-space available by cleaning up your disk.
- FruitJuice - Will let you know how long to stay unplugged each day to keep your battery healthy. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- gfxCardStatus - Unobtrusive menu bar app for OS X that allows MacBook Pro users to see which apps are affecting their battery life by using the more power-hungry graphics. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Gray - Pick between the light appearance and the dark appearance on a per-app basis with the click of a button. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- HandShaker - Mac on the management of Android mobile phone content. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- HTML5 Player - HTML 5 video player. Keep your Mac from "burning".
- iStat Menus - Advanced Mac system monitor on the menubar.
- iStats - Command-line tool that allows you to easily grab the CPU temperature, fan speeds and battery information on OSX. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Juice - Make your battery information a bit more interesting. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- KeepingYouAwake - Alternative to Caffeine with better support for dark mode in Mac. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Monity - System monitoring widget for OS X.
- Mounty - Tiny tool to re-mount write-protected NTFS volumes under Mac OS X 10.9+ in read-write mode. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- NitroShare - Cross-platform network file transfer utility. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Noti - Receive Android notifications on your Mac (with Pushbullet). ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- OmniDiskSweeper - Shows you the files on your drive, ordered by size. It can be used to find and remove unused files. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- OnyX - Multifunction utility to verify disks and files, run cleaning and system maintenance tasks, configure hidden options and more. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Paragon NTFS - Read/write access to NTFS in macOS Sierra.
- Porting Kit - Install Windows® Games inside your Mac. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Sensei - Sensei is a multi-tool for Mac performance, with features spanning across both hardware and software.
- SSH Tunnel - Application for managing SSH connections.
- TG Pro - Temperature monitoring, fan control & hardware diagnostics to help keep your Mac cool and healthy.
- Tuxera NTFS - Full read-write compatibility with NTFS-formatted drives on a Mac.
- Overkill - Stop iTunes from opening when you connect your iPhone.
- OpenEmu - A great video game console emulator, supports many different emulators in a single application. (e.g. Sony PSP, GameBoy, NDS and so on) ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- PPSSPP - A awesome PSP emulator for any OS you can dream of! ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- RustDesk - Yet another remote desktop software. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- AnyDesk - Provides Remote access across multiple machines.
- Microsoft Remote Desktop - Connect to a remote PC or virtual apps and desktops made available by your admin. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- RealVNC - The original and best software for remote access across desktop and mobile.
- RoyalTSX - Royal TSX is an ideal tool for system engineers and other IT professionals who need remote access to system with different protocols. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- TeamViewer - Proprietary computer software package for remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Chirper - A simple and tiny menu bar app for Buffer/Twitter that helps you tweet your thoughts without opening anything.
- Flume - A beautiful Instagram experience for your Mac. The free version is good enough if you only want to do the browsing instead of posting.![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- quick-look-plugins - List of useful Quick Look plugins for developers
If you come across websites offering pirated software or cracks, please post HERE. We love apps, but only authentic ones. :)
- Setapp - The best apps for Mac in one suite.
Here are some of the major software download sites, there are a number of OSX Mac software sites
- Cakebrew - GUI client for Homebrew. Install, check or remove apps, no command-line needed. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Homebrew Cask - Command line installation manager which extends Homebrew and brings its elegance, simplicity, and speed to Mac OS applications and large binaries alike. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Homebrew - The missing package manager for macOS. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- MacPorts - Open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- MacUpdate Desktop - Simplifies finding, buying and installing apps for your Mac.
Here are some of the major software download sites, there are a number of OSX Mac software sites
- alternativeTo - Also a very nice community. If you are looking for some alternative apps FOR Windows or another platform, check this site.
- Slant - I personally recommend this. This is a platform where you can compare apps side-by-side, you might get an idea by seeing other users recommendations. Please contribute if you find an application from this list!
- Also, Quora, Reddit, you know the drill.
- App Shopper:http://appshopper.com/
- MacUpdate:https://www.macupdate.com/
- Other sites like MacStories, LifeHacker, ProductHunt are great resources.
Refuse piracy from me. Software vendors can go to these places rights.
- AppKed:
http://www.macbed.com
- Softasm:
https://softasm.com/
- Mac Power Users - Learn about getting the most from your Apple technology with focused topics and workflow guests. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
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