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A curated collection of macOS applications and tools for productivity and development.
A curated list of awesome applications, softwares, tools and shiny things for macOS.
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Applications / Audio | |||
| Audio Hijack | Record audio from any application like iTunes, Skype or Safari, or from hardware devices like microphones and mixers | ||
| Audio Profile Manager | Allows you to pin input/output devices for each particular combination of connected devices. May suppress HDMI displays from being chosen | ||
| BackgroundMusic | 16,480 | almost 2 years ago | Record system audio, control audio levels for individual apps, and automatically pauses your music player when other audio starts playing and unpauses it afterwards |
| krisp | AI-powered app that removes background noise and echo from meetings leaving only human voice | ||
| Plug | Discover and listen to music from Hype Machine | ||
| Recordia | Record audio directly from the menu bar or with a global keyboard shortcut | ||
| VOX Player | Play numerous lossy and lossless audio formats | ||
| XLD | Rip/Decode/convert/play various "lossless" audio files | ||
Applications / Backup | |||
| Arq | Encrypted backups to Amazon, Dropbox, Google, OneDrive, etc | ||
| Carbon Copy Cloner | Create incremental and fully bootable backups of your Mac to external storage | ||
Applications / Chat Clients | |||
| ChitChat | 1,900 | almost 7 years ago | A native Mac app wrapper for WhatsApp Web |
| Telegram | A messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super fast, simple and free | ||
| Textual | An Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client | ||
Applications / Data Recovery | |||
| Data Rescue | Comprehensive and professional data recovery for a multitude of scenarios | ||
| DiskWarrior | Recover from filesystem corruptions when Disk Utility is out of options | ||
Applications / Developers | |||
| Anvil | Serve up static sites and Rack apps with simple URLs and zero configuration | ||
| Base 2 | A GUI for managing SQLite databases | ||
| CocoaRestClient | An app for testing REST endpoints | ||
| Cork | A fast, intuitive Homebrew GUI | ||
| Dash | An API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager | ||
| Decode | Converts Xcode Interface Builder files (Xib and Storyboard files) to Swift source code | ||
| Fork | a fast and friendly git client for Mac | ||
| DevUtils | All-in-one toolbox for developers. 42+ beautifully crafted useful developer tools, native macOS app, work offline | ||
| Gas Mask | 3,736 | over 3 years ago | A simple hosts file manager which allows editing of host files and switching between them |
| gitbar | 360 | about 9 years ago | Open source github contribution stats on your Menu Bar |
| GitUp | A simple but powerful Git macOS app | ||
| GitX-dev | A fork (variant) of GitX, maintained and enhanced with productivity oriented changes | ||
| Hopper Dissassembler | A Dissassembler for MacOS and Linux. Has a Demo option for 30 minutes of productivity | ||
| Hosts | 1,622 | almost 6 years ago | Edit hosts file |
| Iconology | 131 | over 3 years ago | Edit Icons and then Export to Xcode, Icns, Ico, Favicon, Mac Iconset, or a Custom List of Sizes |
| ImageAlpha | Apply lossy compression on PNG files with or without transparency for more efficient files | ||
| ImageOptim | Makes images take up less disk space and load faster | ||
| Integrity | Easily find your website's broken links | ||
| Kaleidoscope | Powerful diff and merge application supporting text, images, and folders | ||
| Knuff | 5,246 | about 4 years ago | The debug application for Apple Push Notification Service (APNs) |
| Medis | A modern GUI for Redis | ||
| Pasteboard Viewer | Inspect the system pasteboards | ||
| Paw | The ultimate REST client | ||
| pgMagic | A PostgreSQL client that lets you talk to your database in SQL or natural language | ||
| Pods Updater | 531 | over 7 years ago | A macOS app which helps you manage dependency releases in your Podfile |
| Postico | A modern PostgreSQL client | ||
| Postgres.app | The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL | ||
| Proxyman | High-performance man-in-the-middle proxy to observe and manipulate HTTP/HTTPS requests | ||
| Pusher | 6,308 | over 5 years ago | A free tool to do sandbox push notifications |
| PSequel | A PostgreSQL GUI tool | ||
| QorumLogs | 786 | over 8 years ago | Swift Logging Utility for Xcode & Google Docs |
| Quiver | A delightful notebook for programmers that allows mixing rich text, code, markdown, LaTeX, and graphs | ||
| Sequel Ace | 6,776 | almost 2 years ago | A MySQL & MariaDB database manager |
| Sequel Pro | A MySQL database manager | ||
| SnippetsLab | Manage and organise snippets of code | ||
| SourceTree | A free Git & Mercurial client | ||
| Swiftify | Objective-C to Swift code converter and Xcode & Finder extensions | ||
| TablePlus | A modern, native GUI for multiple databases | ||
| Touch Bar Simulator | 1,909 | over 2 years ago | The macOS Touch Bar Simulator as a standalone app |
| Tower | The most powerful Git client | ||
| Trailer | Configurable menubar Git notifications with accompanying native iOS app | ||
| Unused | An app for checking Xcode projects for unused resources | ||
| Vagrant Manager | Manage your vagrant machines in one place with Vagrant Manager for macOS | ||
| Versions | SVN GUI client for Mac | ||
| WWDC | 8,643 | over 2 years ago | The WWDC app |
| Xcodes | 7,108 | almost 2 years ago | Install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode |
Applications / E-Book Utilities | |||
| Kindle App | Amazon Kindle App for macOS | ||
Applications / Editors | |||
| CotEditor | Lightweight plain-text editor for macOS | ||
| Emacs | Port of Emacs to work as an macOS app | ||
| MacVim | 7,565 | almost 2 years ago | Vim, the text editor |
| Nova | The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic | ||
| Sublime Text 3 | The sophisticated text editor | ||
| TextMate | A graphical text editor | ||
| VimR | Vim, refined | ||
Applications / Email Utilities | |||
| Airmail | Lightning fast email client designed for El Capitan | ||
| MailMate | Advanced IMAP email client, featuring extensive keyboard control and Markdown support | ||
| Mailplane | A tightly integreted client for Google Mail, Inbox, Calender, and Contacts | ||
Applications / Finder | |||
| ForkLift | File Manager and FTP/SFTP/WebDAV/Amazon S3 client | ||
| Path Finder | A powerful dual-pane browser alternative to Finder | ||
| Quicklook-Plugins | 18,108 | almost 3 years ago | List of extra quicklook plugins to enable previewing more filetypes in the Finder |
| TotalFinder | A powerful alternative to Finder | ||
| XtraFinder | Adds useful features to Finder | ||
Applications / Games | |||
| Battle for Wesnoth | Turn-based tactical strategy game, featuring both single-player and online multiplayer combat | ||
| Boxer | The DOS game emulator that’s fit for your Mac | ||
| Dolphin | A powerful, Open Source emulator for Nintendo GameCube and Wii games | ||
| OpenEmu | Multiple Video Game System | ||
| Screentendo | Turn your screen into a playable level of Mario | ||
| Stockfish | Beautiful, powerful chess application | ||
Applications / Graphics | |||
| Acorn | A very Mac-like image editor with a comprehensive feature set | ||
| Affinity Designer | Vector image design tool, possible Adobe Illustrator alternative | ||
| Affinity Photo | Raster image design tool, possible Adobe Photoshop alternative | ||
| GifCapture | 944 | over 5 years ago | Record GIF screencasts |
| GIPHY Capture | Capture and share GIFs on the desktop | ||
| Image2icon | Create and personalize icons from your pictures | ||
| macSVG | Design and edit SVG content for web, mobile, and animation | ||
| OmniGraffle | An app for creating precise, beautiful graphics | ||
| Pixea | An image viewer for macOS with a nice minimal modern user interface | ||
| Pixelmator | Powerful image editor, possible Photoshop alternative | ||
| Sketch | Hybrid vector/bitmap layout application, especially useful for UI, web and mobile design | ||
| Sketch Toolbox | A super simple plugin manager for Sketch | ||
| xScope | Tools for measuring, inspecting and testing on-screen graphics and layouts | ||
Applications / News Readers | |||
| hacker-menu | Hacker News Delivered to Desktop | ||
| NetNewsWire | A classic RSS reader reacquired by its original author and rewritten for modern macOS | ||
| ReadKit | Have all your Instapaper, Pocket, etc. feeds in one place even when you're offline | ||
| Reeder | News reader that integrates with with Feedbin, Feedly, and other popular services | ||
| Vienna | RSS/Atom newsreader | ||
Applications / Productivity | |||
| Alfred | Boosts your efficiency and productivity | ||
| BetterTouchTool | Configure gestures for mouse and actions for keyboard shortcuts | ||
| ClipMenu | ClipBoard History Manager | ||
| CloudClip | Sync your clipboard between your Mac and your iOS devices | ||
| Dropzone | Create a popup grid of customizable actions that enhance productivity on your Mac | ||
| f.lux | Automatically adjust your computer screen to match lighting | ||
| Fantastical | Complete Calendar app replacement which uses natural language for creating events | ||
| Hazel | Create rules to automatically keep your files organized | ||
| HazeOver | Turn distractions down and focus on your current task | ||
| HyperDock | Select individual application window | ||
| iCMD | Fuzzy menubar search and vim emulation | ||
| Instant Translate | Translate speech and text between 100+ languages from the menu bar | ||
| ItsyCal | A tiny menubar calendar to display your Mac Calendar app events | ||
| Karabiner | A powerful keyboard customizer | ||
| Keyboard Maestro | Automate routine actions based on triggers from keyboard, menu, location, added devices, and more | ||
| Keytty | Enables you to control your mouse with a few key strokes. Mouse Keys Alternative | ||
| LaunchBar | Start applications, navigate folders, manipulate files, control your Mac and much more just by using the keyboard | ||
| MeetingBar | Your meetings in MacOS status bar | ||
| MenubarX | A powerful menu bar browser | ||
| OmniFocus | An incredible task management platform for Mac, iPad, and iPhone | ||
| OmniOutliner | Perfect for collecting information, outlining ideas, adding structure to any sort of writing, and much more | ||
| Pandan | Time awareness in your menu bar | ||
| Paste | The new way to copy & paste for Mac | ||
| PDF Archiver | 308 | almost 2 years ago | A nice tool for tagging and archiving tasks |
| PopClip | Instantly copy & paste, access actions like search, spelling, dictionary and more | ||
| Presentify | Annotate anything on screen, be it, images, pdfs, videos, code, etc | ||
| Qbserve | Automatic time and project tracking, timesheets, invoicing, and real-time productivity feedback | ||
| Quicksilver | Control your Mac quickly and elegantly | ||
| Rocket | Makes typing emoji faster and easier using Slack-style shortcuts | ||
| SelfControl | Block access to distracting websites | ||
| Simplenote | Simple cross-platform note taking app with cloud-based syncing | ||
| Taskade | Real-time organization and task management tool | ||
| TaskPaper | Plain text to-do lists | ||
| Telephone | A SIP softphone. Make phone calls over the Internet or your company’s network | ||
| TextExpander | Create custom keyboard shortcuts for frequently-used text and pictures | ||
| 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 | ||
Applications / Sharing Files | |||
| CloudApp | Capture and share files and screenshots instantly | ||
| Jumpshare | Real-time file sharing app with support for instantly sharing code / Markdown, annotating screenshots, screen recording, and voice recording | ||
| mac2imgur | 966 | over 7 years ago | Upload images and screenshots to Imgur |
| Monosnap | Annotate and upload images and screenshots, supports many backends like S3, SFTP, WebDAV, Dropbox, etc | ||
| Transmission | Simple, lightweight, multi-platform torrent client | ||
Applications / Terminal | |||
| iTerm 2 | A terminal emulator | ||
Applications / Utilities | |||
| 1Password | Password Manager and Secure Wallet | ||
| AnyBar | 5,928 | over 2 years ago | A menubar status indicator |
| APNGb | 317 | almost 7 years ago | .apng image assembler/disassembler app |
| AppCleaner | Uninstall your apps easily | ||
| Artify | 180 | over 7 years ago | A macOS X application for bringing dedicatedly 18th century Arts to everyone |
| Bartender | Organize your menu bar apps | ||
| Batch Image Resizer | Resize a large number of images quickly on your computer | ||
| BeardedSpice | 2,830 | over 5 years ago | Control web based media players with the media keys found on Mac keyboards |
| BetterZip | A very capable and full-featured archive manager | ||
| BitBar | 17,608 | about 2 years ago | Display output of any script to the menu bar |
| Burn | No-nonsense burning of Data/Audio/Video CDs and DVDs, including copying | ||
| CheatSheet | Know your short cuts | ||
| ClipboardCleaner | 17 | almost 8 years ago | Automatically removes text formatting from the clipboard |
| CommandQ | Never accidentally quit an app again | ||
| ControlPlane | Automate running tasks based on where you are or what you do | ||
| DaisyDisk | Analyze disk usage and free up disk space | ||
| Deliveries | Beautiful and simple package tracking | ||
| DisableMonitor | 1,364 | over 8 years ago | Easily disable or enable a monitor on your Mac |
| Dozer | 8,289 | almost 3 years ago | Hide MacOS menubar items |
| EtreCheck | Output system information and configuration to get more informed help from Apple support professionals | ||
| Equinox | Create macOS dynamic wallpapers | ||
| Fanny | Notification Center widget and menu bar application to monitor your Mac's fans and CPU temperature | ||
| Finicky | App that allows you to set rules that decide which browser is opened for every link | ||
| Flotato | Use any web site as a beautiful Mac app | ||
| Fluid | Turn web applications into Mac applications | ||
| gfxCardStatus | Menu bar app to monitor and switch between integrated and discrete GPUs on MacBook Pro | ||
| Gray | 1,349 | about 4 years ago | Pick between the light appearance and the dark appearance on a per-app basis with the click of a button |
| Helium | 3,579 | over 4 years ago | A floating browser window that allows you to watch media while you work |
| Irvue | Thousands of stunning photos and wallpapers from Unsplash on your Mac | ||
| iStat Menus | An advanced system monitor for your menubar | ||
| Jiffy | Discover and share the best GIFs on GIPHY | ||
| Kawa | 1,427 | about 4 years ago | A better input source switcher with shortcuts |
| KeepingYouAwake | 5,650 | almost 2 years ago | Menu bar utility that prevents Mac from going to sleep |
| Keka | Compress to and extract from many archive file formats | ||
| Knock | Unlock your Mac quickly and securely | ||
| LaunchControl | Create, manage and debug launchd services | ||
| Loading | See when apps are using your network in your Mac menubar | ||
| Little Snitch | Protect your privacy | ||
| MacDown | Markdown editor | ||
| Mackup | 14,651 | about 2 years ago | Keep your application settings in sync |
| MacPass | Password Manager | ||
| Media Converter | Simple (drag and drop) but advanced media conversion | ||
| Menubar Colors | 183 | over 4 years ago | Convenient access to the system color panel |
| MenuMeters | A set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for macOS | ||
| MonitorControl | 28,404 | almost 2 years ago | Control your display's brightness and volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs |
| Monodraw | A powerful ASCII art editor | ||
| Mounty | A tiny tool to re-mount write-protected NTFS volumes under macOS 10.9+ in read-write mode | ||
| Noizio | Ambient sound equalizer for relaxation or productivity | ||
| Notational Velocity | Store, retrieve and sync notes within a minimal GUI | ||
| Noti | Receive Android notifications on your mac (with PushBullet) | ||
| Numi | Beautiful calculator app | ||
| OnyX | Multifunction utility to verify disks and files, run cleaning and system maintenance tasks, configure hidden options and more | ||
| Paparazzi | A small utility that makes screenshots of webpages | ||
| Paragon NTFS | World fastest NTFS driver | ||
| Radio Silence | Simple to use firewall and network monitor | ||
| Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client | Remote Desktop Connection Client lets you connect from your Macintosh computer to a Windows-based computer | ||
| RDM | 4,143 | almost 3 years ago | Easily set Mac Retina display to higher unsupported resolutions |
| Site Sucker | Automatically download websites from the Internet | ||
| ShiftIt | 5,534 | almost 3 years ago | Managing windows size and position |
| SlowQuitApps | 1,172 | over 5 years ago | Prevent accidental Cmd-Q |
| SmartCapsLock | Makes the Caps Lock key smarter, so that when the key accidentally gets activated and you START YELLING even though you don't want to, you can just select the yelling-text and press the key again to instantly fix its case instead of typing everything all over again | ||
| Soulver | Beautiful expressive calculator | ||
| SSH Tunnel | Manage your SSH tunnels, tightly integrated with macOS Keychain, secure and intuitive | ||
| Strongbox | Secure Password Management for iOS and MacOS. Open Source. Compatible with KeePass and Password Safe | ||
| TeamViewer | Remotely control another computer | ||
| TextBar | TextBar is a tiny but powerful app that lets you add any text to your MenuBar | ||
| Typeeto | Lets you use your Mac's keyboard as a bluetooth keyboard to type on another devices | ||
| Typora | Another minimal Markdown editor | ||
| Ukelele | Unicode Keyboard Layout Editor | ||
| Übersicht | Run system commands and display their output on your desktop as widgets | ||
| The Unarchiver | Unarchive many different kinds of archive files | ||
| Wineskin | 319 | almost 2 years ago | Run Windows applications and games on your Mac |
Applications / Video | |||
| HandBrake | High performance video encoding and conversion tools with a nice GUI | ||
| IINA | Media player with a minimalist design | ||
| mpv | Media player | ||
| ScreenFlow | Screencasting and video editing software | ||
| Subler | Mux and tag MP4 files | ||
| Subtitlr | Drag and drop subititle download utility | ||
Applications / Window Management | |||
| Amethyst | Window manager (automatically keep windows sized in grids) | ||
| Divvy Window Manager | Window management for tiling your windows | ||
| Hammerspoon | Extremely powerful scripting engine for macOS | ||
| Hummingbird | Easily move and resize windows without mouse clicks, from anywhere within a window | ||
| Moom | Move and zoom windows, super light weight and customizable | ||
| Phoenix | 4,398 | over 2 years ago | A lightweight window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript |
| Rectangle | Easily organize windows without using a mouse | ||
| Stay | Resize/position windows when displays change | ||
| Swish | Control windows and applications with trackpad gestures | ||
| yabai | 24,334 | almost 2 years ago | Tiling window manager with focus follows mouse |
Applications / Others | |||
| Aerial | 20,792 | almost 2 years ago | Apple TV Aerial Screensaver for Mac |
| Catch | The easiest way to use ShowRSS | ||
| Clocker | Check time in multiple timezones from your Mac menubar | ||
| Juice | 763 | over 2 years ago | Make your battery information a bit more interesting |
| Sonora | 937 | over 11 years ago | A minimal, beautifully designed music player |
| Spillo | Powerful, beautiful and fast Pinboard client | ||
| Transmit | A FTP client | ||
Command Line Utilities | |||
| Awesome macOS Command Line | 29,026 | about 5 years ago | Use your macOS terminal shell to do awesome things |
| m-cli | 9,703 | about 2 years ago | Swiss Army Knife for macOS |
| Mac-CLI | 8,915 | over 2 years ago | macOS command line tools for developers |
| mas | 11,011 | almost 2 years ago | A CLI for the Mac App Store |
macOS Utilities | |||
| Bluetooth Debug Menu | Factory reset devices and more | ||
| Command Line Utilities Part 1 | |||
| Command Line Utilities Part 2 | |||
| EnvPane | 746 | over 3 years ago | An preference pane for environment variables |
| Glances | 27,127 | almost 2 years ago | System monitoring tool that runs in terminal |
| Thread on StackExchange | |||
Setup / DevMyMac | |||
| https://github.com/adamisntdead/DevMyMac | 377 | almost 6 years ago | |
Setup / laptop | |||
| https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop | 8,513 | almost 2 years ago | |
Setup / mac-dev-setup | |||
| https://github.com/nicolashery/mac-dev-setup | 5,637 | over 2 years ago | |
Setup / macbook-playbook | |||
| https://github.com/mpereira/macbook-playbook | 205 | almost 2 years ago | |
Setup / macOS 10.9 Mavericks Setup | |||
| https://gist.github.com/kevinelliott/3135044 | |||
| https://gist.github.com/kimmobrunfeldt/350f4898d1b82cf10bce | |||
Setup / macOS 10.10 Yosemite Setup | |||
| https://gist.github.com/kevinelliott/0726211d17020a6abc1f | |||
Setup / macOS 10.11 El Capitan Setup | |||
| https://gist.github.com/saetia/1623487 | |||
Setup / macOS 10.12 Sierra Setup | |||
| https://gist.github.com/kevinelliott/7a152c556a83b322e0a8cd2df128235c/ | |||
Setup / macOS 10.13 High Sierra Setup | |||
| https://gist.github.com/jimmynotjim/7617722 | |||
Setup / macOS 10.14 Mojave Setup | |||
| https://gist.github.com/kevinelliott/ab14cfb080cc85e0f8a415b147a0d895 | |||
Setup / macOS 10.15 Catalina Setup | |||
| https://gist.github.com/kevinelliott/7152e00d6567e223902a4775b5a0a0be | |||
Security | |||
| GPG Suite | Full GPG toolkit with easy to understand GUI applications and Mail.app plugin | ||
| LinkLiar | 1,268 | about 2 years ago | Menu application written in Swift to help you spoof the MAC addresses of your Wi-Fi and Ethernet interfaces |
| macchanger by acrogenesis | Easily change your MAC Address | ||
| macchanger by shilch | 170 | over 2 years ago | Change / spoof MAC address (random, custom and restore) |
| MIDAS | 834 | about 11 years ago | Intrusion Detection Analysis System |
| OS-X-Security-and-Privacy-Guide | 21,367 | almost 2 years ago | |
| OSXCollector | 1,879 | over 7 years ago | Forensic evidence collection & analysis toolkit |
| Pareto Security | A MenuBar app to automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene | ||
| santa | 4,447 | almost 2 years ago | A binary whitelisting/blacklisting system |
| Shimo | Fully-featured VPN client for Mac | ||
| SimpleumSafe | Encrypt, organize and sync files with macOS or iOS | ||
| tinc | Secure mesh VPN software | ||
| Tunnelblick | Easy to use OpenVPN client and GUI | ||
| VeraCrypt | Free and open source disk encryption software | ||
| Viscosity | Fully-featured OpenVPN client, ready for enterprise deployment | ||
Miscellaneous | |||
| Trackpad Gestures | |||
| Power Tools | |||
| Show hidden files | |||
| Mac Power Users | |||
| Awesome Screensavers | 3,999 | almost 2 years ago | |
Discussion Forums / IRC channels | |||
| #macosx | |||
| #apple | |||
| #mac | |||
Discussion Forums / MacRumors | |||
| macOS 11 Big Sur | |||
| macOS 12 Monterey | |||
| macOS 13 Ventura) | |||
| macOS 14 Sonoma | |||
Discussion Forums / Reddit | |||
| osx | |||
| macapps | |||
| mac | |||
| macOS | |||
| macsetups | |||
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