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A curated collection of macOS applications and tools for productivity and development.

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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 11 months 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 about 6 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 2 years ago A simple hosts file manager which allows editing of host files and switching between them
gitbar 360 about 8 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 about 5 years ago Edit hosts file
Iconology 131 over 2 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 3 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 6 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 4 years ago A free tool to do sandbox push notifications
PSequel A PostgreSQL GUI tool
QorumLogs 786 over 7 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 11 months 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 1 year 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 1 year ago The WWDC app
Xcodes 7,108 11 months 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 11 months 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 2 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 4 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 11 months 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 6 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 1 year ago A menubar status indicator
APNGb 317 almost 6 years ago .apng image assembler/disassembler app
AppCleaner Uninstall your apps easily
Artify 180 over 6 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 4 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 1 year 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 7 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 almost 8 years ago Easily disable or enable a monitor on your Mac
Dozer 8,289 almost 2 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 over 3 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 3 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 3 years ago A better input source switcher with shortcuts
KeepingYouAwake 5,650 12 months 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 1 year ago Keep your application settings in sync
MacPass Password Manager
Media Converter Simple (drag and drop) but advanced media conversion
Menubar Colors 183 over 3 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 about 1 year 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 2 years ago Easily set Mac Retina display to higher unsupported resolutions
Site Sucker Automatically download websites from the Internet
ShiftIt 5,534 almost 2 years ago Managing windows size and position
SlowQuitApps 1,172 almost 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 11 months 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 1 year 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 11 months ago Tiling window manager with focus follows mouse

Applications / Others
Aerial 20,792 11 months 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 1 year ago Make your battery information a bit more interesting
Sonora 937 over 10 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 4 years ago Use your macOS terminal shell to do awesome things
m-cli 9,703 about 1 year ago  Swiss Army Knife for macOS
Mac-CLI 8,915 almost 2 years ago  macOS command line tools for developers
mas 11,011 11 months 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 2 years ago An preference pane for environment variables
Glances 27,127 11 months ago System monitoring tool that runs in terminal
Thread on StackExchange

Setup / DevMyMac
https://github.com/adamisntdead/DevMyMac 377 about 5 years ago

Setup / laptop
https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop 8,513 12 months ago

Setup / mac-dev-setup
https://github.com/nicolashery/mac-dev-setup 5,637 over 1 year ago

Setup / macbook-playbook
https://github.com/mpereira/macbook-playbook 205 11 months 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Change / spoof MAC address (random, custom and restore)
MIDAS 834 about 10 years ago Intrusion Detection Analysis System
OS-X-Security-and-Privacy-Guide 21,367 12 months ago
OSXCollector 1,879 over 6 years ago Forensic evidence collection & analysis toolkit
Pareto Security A MenuBar app to automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene
santa 4,447 11 months 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 12 months ago

Discussion Forums / IRC channels
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#mac

Discussion Forums / MacRumors
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macOS 14 Sonoma

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