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Reading and Writing Tools / Text Editors

  • Aurora Editor

    Lightweight Code Editor (IDE) for macOS

  • 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

  • CodeEdit

    A lightweight, natively-built editor. Open source. Free forever

  • CotEditor

    Lightweight plain-text editor for macOS

  • Emacs

    Popular Unix-based text editor for programmers and system administrators

  • Haystack Editor

    Code editor with a canvas UI for better code understanding

  • Helix

    A post-modern modal text editor

  • Lapce

    Lightning-fast and powerful code editor

  • LightTable

    The next generation code editor

  • micro

    Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

  • Neovim

    Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  • Nova

    The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic

  • Plain Text Editor

    Simple distraction-free notepad

  • Sublime Text

    A popular, clean, and sleek editor with a plugin management system. For more plugins, check

  • SubEthaEdit

    Powerful editor for writing, coding, and collaboration anytime, anywhere!

  • TextMate

    Editor that brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors

  • Tot

    Tot is an elegant, simple way to collect & edit text. It’s your tiny text companion!

  • Vim

    An old terminal-based editor. For common plugins, check

  • Vimr

    Refined Vim Experience for OS X

  • Zed

    A high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter

Reading and Writing Tools / Office

  • Keynote

    Build stunning presentations

  • LibreOffice

    Free, open-source office software used and tested daily by a large community

  • Microsoft Office

    Unmistakably Office, designed for Mac

  • Numbers

    Create impressive spreadsheets

  • OnlyOffice

    An office suite that combines text, spreadsheet and presentation editors allowing to create, view and edit local documents

  • Pages

    Documents that stand apart

  • SoftMaker Office

    A complete office suite that aims for full compatibility with Microsoft Office documents

  • WPS

    Is a cross-platform office software suite

Reading and Writing Tools / Markdown Tools

  • Archimedes

    Native macOS Markdown editor geared toward mathematical writing with inline LaTeX support

  • EME

    Open-source Markdown editor with an interface like Chrome

  • 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

  • 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

  • Marp

    Markdown presentation writer with cross-platform support

  • Marxico

    Delicate Markdown editor for Evernote. Reliable storage and sync

  • MWeb

    Pro Markdown writing, and static blog generator App

  • Obsidian

    A second brain, for you, forever

  • Typora

    Truly minimal Markdown editor featuring seamless live preview

  • Ulysses

    The Ultimate Writing App for Mac, iPad and iPhone

  • Zettlr

    A markdown editor for the 21st century

Reading and Writing Tools / Note-taking

  • Affine

    Affine is the next-generation collaborative knowledge base for professionals

  • Agenda

    Date-focused note taking app for both planning and documenting your projects

  • AppFlowy

    Open-source alternative to Notion

  • Bear Writer

    Beautiful, flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose

  • Boostnote

    Note-taking app made for programmers

  • Craft

    Notetaking and writing made beautiful

  • Dnote

    A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and a web interface

  • Email Me

    Email yourself and much more with just one tap, native on macOS, iOS and WatchOS

  • Evernote

    Infamous note-taking app, available on many platforms

  • FSNotes

    File System Notes is a modern notes manager, native on macOS and iOS

  • 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 to-do list management

  • Logseq

    Privacy-first, open-source knowledge base

  • MarginNote 4

    In-depth PDF and EPUB reading, learning, managing and note taking app

  • massCode

    Cross-platform open-source code snippets manager with markdown and mermaid support

  • MiaoYan

    Lightweight Markdown app to help you write great sentences

  • Notable

    The markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck

  • Notebook

    Note-taking app

  • Notes

    Clean, simple note-taking app

  • NotePlan 3

    Your tasks, notes, and calendar, plain-text markdown files

  • Noteship

    Turn notes into knowledge (spreadsheet view, heading summaries, etc.). Works offline, everything is saved locally

  • Notion

    All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

  • OneNote

    Note-taking app by Microsoft

  • OutlineEdit 3

    Fully-featured outline editor, for everyone who loves great structured notes

  • Saber

    Cross platform stylus and text notetaking app. Supports image and pdf imports, can sync

  • SideNotes

    Quick notes on the screen side with Markdown support

  • Standard Notes

    An end-to-end encrypted notes app for digitalists and professionals

  • QOwnNotes

    Open-source notepad with markdown support and todo list manager

  • Quick Note

    Colorful sticky notes in the Menu bar

  • Quiver

    Mix text, code, Markdown, and LaTeX in one note with live preview

  • VNote

    A Qt-based application designed to provide a pleasant note-taking platform with excellent editing experience

Reading and Writing Tools / Journaling

  • Day One

    Excellent journaling app using text, photos, video, audio, location data, and more

  • Journey

    Journaling app with many features and with apps for every platform available

  • Life Note

    Journal with the greatest minds in human history

  • linked

    Link your thoughts to days, distraction free

Reading and Writing Tools / Writing

  • novelWriter

    Open-source plain text editor for writing novels with minimal markdown-like syntax

  • Scrivener

    The quintessential word processor for writers

  • THORN

    All you need to power personal writing and website building

Reading and Writing Tools / Ebooks

  • Calibre

    Free, open-source e-book manager and reader

  • Clearview

    Tabbed style e-book reader for PDF, EPUB (DRM free), CHM, and MOBI

  • iChm

    Ebook reader for CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML help) files

  • Kindle App

    Amazon official reading app of kindle

  • Klib

    New way to manage highlights for Kindle and iBooks

  • Koodo Reader

    All-in-one eBook reader supporting over 15 formats

  • Readest

    Readest is an ebook reader with cross-platform access, powerful tools, and an intuitive interface

  • Scribus

    Professional layout and publishing software

  • Sigil

    Multi-platform EPUB ebook Editor

  • Simple Comic

    EBook reader for PDF, CBZ, and CBR formats with Live Text search

Reading and Writing Tools / RSS

  • Elytra

    A Simple & Private RSS Feed Reader with native rendering for macOS & iOS

  • Feedy

    An elegant and lightweight RSS client and news reader for your Mac

  • Follow

    🧡 Next generation information browser

  • Leaf

    A news reader for managing subscriptions and enjoying daily news

  • NetNewsWire

    It’s a free and open source feed reader for macOS

  • Doughnut

    Beautiful, open-source podcast catcher for Mac

  • ReadKit

    Bookmark and RSS management client

  • Reeder 5

    News reader for Feedbin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler and so on

  • Vienna

    RSS/Atom reader for Mac OS X

Reading and Writing Tools / Others

  • SwifDoo PDF

    PDF editor/converter for editing, compressing, and password-protecting PDFs

  • bindPDF

    Combine multiple PDF files into a single PDF file using a friendly UI

  • CHM Reader

    Read Compiled HTML (.chm) documents on your Mac

  • Chmox

    Read CHM documents on your Mac

  • Highlights

    The PDF Reader for Research on Mac, iPad & iPhone

  • PDF Expert

    Read, annotate and edit PDFs, change text and images

  • PDF Pals

    Chat with PDF app for Mac. No file size limits!

  • PDFgear

    AI-integrated PDF editor

  • PDF Reader Pro

    You Can view, create, sign, convert and compress any PDF documents

  • Skim

    PDF reader and note-taker for OS X

  • 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

  • texifier

    Great LaTeX editor for Mac with auto-update PDF and autocomplete LaTeX commands

  • UPDF

    Free PDF editor for reading, annotating, and editing PDFs

  • Zotero

    Free tool to collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research

Developer Tools / IDEs

  • Android Studio

    The official IDE for Android, based on Intellij IDEA

  • CodeRunner

    Lightweight, multi-language programming text editor and IDE

  • Deco IDE

    The best IDE for building React Native apps

  • Eclipse

    Popular open-source IDE for Java with plugin support for many languages

  • 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

Developer Tools / IDEs / JetBrains Toolbox App

  • AppCode

    Smart IDE for iOS/macOS development

  • RustRover

    A brand new JetBrains IDE for Rust Developers

  • CLion

    Powerful C and C++ IDE. ( for Students)

  • DataGrip

    Cross-Plaform IDE for Databases and SQL. for Students, check for more info

  • DataSpell

    The IDE for Professional Data Scientists

  • GoLand

    Provides ergonomic environment for Go development

  • IntelliJ IDEA

    Powerful IDE for JVM languages. ( for Students)

  • PHPStorm

    The Lightning-Smart PHP IDE

  • PyCharm

    Powerful Python IDE, which has professional version and community version

  • Rider

    Cross-platform C# IDE with Resharper features

  • WebStorm

    The smartest JavaScript IDE by JetBrains. for Students, check for more info

Developer Tools / IDEs

  • Haskell for Mac

    A Modern Development Environment for Haskell

  • NetBeans IDE

    Free, open-source IDE for Java and other languages

  • Nova

    Beautiful, fast, flexible Mac code editor from

  • Visual Studio Code

    Microsoft's free & open-source editor, TypeScript friendly,

  • Xamarin Studio

    Free cross-platform C# IDE for iOS, Android, and .Net

  • Xcode

    Essential IDE for iOS/macOS development

  • Zed

    A high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter

  • Spyder

    Powerful scientific environment written in Python, for Python

Developer Tools / Developer Utilities

  • BetterRename

    The most powerful and complete Mac file renaming application on the market

  • Beyond Compare

    Compare files and folders with powerful commands

  • Bidbar

    Manage bash commands from the menu bar and run them with keyboard shortcuts

  • Cacher

    Cloud-based code snippet manager with Gist sync and multi-platform support

  • CodeKit

    Web development tool for compiling and auto-refreshing

  • CodeMenu

    Advanced snippets manager with IDE integration, natural language search, and more

  • Conduktor

    Kafka desktop client

  • CubicBezier

    CubicBezier Generator for macOS

  • Cutter

    Powerful multi-platform reverse engineering tool

  • DevHub

    Feature-rich offline app for developers

  • Dash

    Awesome API documentation browser and code snippet manager

  • Deeplink Buddy

    Deeplink managers, made by developer for developers

  • DiffMerge

    Application to visually compare and merge files

  • EnvPane

    OS X preference pane for environment variables

  • FinderGo

    Open terminal quickly from Finder

  • Finicky

    Set rules to decide which browser opens each link

  • Gas Mask

    Simple hosts file manager for Mac OS X

  • Gemini

    Intelligent duplicate file finder

  • Hex Fiend

    Fast and clever open source hex editor

  • Hosts.prefpane

    System preference pane to manage your hosts file

  • Icon Preview

    Preview your app icon and menu bar icon

  • iHosts

    The only editor on Mac App Store

  • ILLA Cloud

    Low-code internal tool builder

  • ImHex

    Hex Editor for reverse engineers and programmers

  • Integrity

    Free website link checker for Mac

  • Kaleidoscope

    Compare text, images, and folders

  • Koala

    GUI application for Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript compilation

  • Loca Studio

    Analyze, review, and edit app translations

  • MacSystemColors

    Mac app that shows all system colors in light and dark mode for Cocoa developers

  • MJML

    Create responsive emails with a semantic syntax and rich components

  • PaintCode

    Vector drawing app that generates Objective-C or Swift code in real time

  • Pasteboard Viewer

    Inspect the system pasteboards

  • PPRows

    Application to calculate how many lines of code you write

  • PushMate

    Solves common push notification problems on macOS

  • Responsively

    A must-have devtool for web developers for quicker responsive web development

  • SCM Breeze

    Set of shell scripts (for bash and zsh) that enhance your interaction with git

  • SecureCRT

    Terminal emulation which supports SSH, Telnet or other protocols

  • Site Sucker

    Automatically downloads websites

  • 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

  • SwitchHosts

    Free and open-source app for hosts management & switching

  • SYM

    GUI Application to symbolicate iOS crash log

  • TeXstudio

    Integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents

  • Timelane

    Visually profile your asynchronous code

  • Touch Bar Simulator

    Use the Touch Bar on any Mac

  • Visual Paradigm

    All-in-one UML, SysML, BPMN modeling platform

  • Woodpecker

    View iOS app's Sandbox files, UserDefaults, Keychain items on a Mac

  • WWDC

    The Mac OS unofficial WWDC app

  • Xcodes

    Install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode

  • XCSnippetsApp

    Explore, view, and edit Swift and iOS code snippets for Xcode

  • zeplin

    Collaboration tool for work between designers and developers

  • ZOC Terminal

    Terminal emulator which supports SSH, telnet, connections and other protocols

  • Nib Unlocker

    .nib to .xib converter

  • He3

    Free and Modern Developer Utilities Toolbox

Developer Tools / Regular Expression Editors

  • Patterns

    Regular expression editor

  • Regex

    Regular expression testing tool with an emphasis on simplicity

  • RegExRX

    Development tool for regular expressions

Developer Tools / API Development and Analysis

  • Cocoa Rest Client

    Free, open-source, native Apple OS X app for testing HTTP/REST endpoints

  • Insomnia

    The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client

  • Paw

    Advanced HTTP client

  • Postman

    GUI platform for API development

  • Katalon Studio

    Simplify API, Web, and Mobile Automation Tests

  • HTTPie

    HTTPie is making APIs simple and intuitive for those building the tools of our time

  • bruno

    Bruno is a offline-only, fast and git-friendly opensource API client

Developer Tools / Network Analysis

  • Charles

    HTTP proxy/monitor to view HTTP and HTTPS traffic

  • James

    Open-source proxy tool for checking and mapping requests with http as well as https

  • Little Snitch

    Network monitor with a world map for visualizing network connections

  • mitmproxy

    Interactive intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers

  • Proxie

    HTTP debugging proxy

  • Proxyman

    Modern and intuitive HTTP debugging proxy for macOS

  • Sniffnet

    Application to comfortably monitor your network traffic

  • Wireshark

    The world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer

  • Apidog

    All-in-One workspace for API Design, Documentation, Debug, Mock, Test

Developer Tools / Command Line Tools

  • ack

    A tool like grep, optimized for programmers

  • Airlift

    Upload & Merge Data with Attachments to Airtable

  • alacritty

    A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator

  • archey-osx

    An archey script for OS X

  • asciinema

    Easily record terminal sessions and replay them in a terminal as well as in a web browser

  • autojump

    Replace with intelligent autojump

  • bash-it

    Shameless ripoff of oh-my-zsh for bash

  • bat

    A clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration

  • bclm

    macOS command-line utility to limit max battery charge

  • ccat

    The colorizing cat which works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting

  • ClamAV

    Cross-platform, open-source antivirus engine

  • cmatrix

    Terminal screensaver inspired by "The Matrix" movie

  • cmus

    Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems

  • cool-retro-term

    Good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display

  • CSV2Notion Neo

    Upload & Merge CSV or JSON Data with Images to Notion Database

  • dark-mode

    Control dark mode from the command-line

  • eureka

    CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal

  • Fish

    Smart and user-friendly shell, which is similar with zsh

  • fselect

    Find files with SQL-like queries

  • 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

  • Glances

    Glances is a cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool

  • Go2Shell

    Go2Shell opens a terminal window to the current directory in Finder

  • htop

    htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'

  • httpie

    Modern command line HTTP client

  • hyper

    A terminal built on web technologies

  • iTerm2

    iTerm2 is an amazing terminal emulator for OS X

  • job

    JOB, make your short-term command as a long-term job

  • kitty

    A cross-platform, fast, feature full, GPU based terminal emulator

  • lnav

    A log file navigator

  • m-cli

    Swiss Army Knife for macOS

  • Mac-CLI

    The ultimate tool to manage your Mac. Automatize the usage of your OS X system

  • Magic Wormhole

    Get Things From One Computer To Another, Safely

  • MarkersExtractor

    Marker metadata extraction and conversion tool and library for Final Cut Pro

  • mas

    Simple command line interface for the Mac App Store

  • Miller

    Like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON

  • mycli

    CLI for MySQL that can do auto-completion and syntax highlighting

  • ndm

    Manage straight from the couch

  • nushell

    nushell is a modern, GitHub-era shell written in Rust

  • nvm

    POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions

  • pgcli

    Pgcli is a command line interface for Postgres with auto-completion and syntax

  • OpenRecall

    Access your digital history, enhance memory and productivity, while maintaining privacy. highlighting

  • Rebound

    Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error

  • ripgrep (rg)

    Very fast text searching tool similar to (but faster than) ack, ag or grep

  • Serial

    Full-featured serial terminal for the Mac

  • shallow-backup

    Easily create text documentation of installed applications, dotfiles, and more

  • ShellHistory

    Backup, sync and organize your shell history

  • silver searcher (ag)

    A code searching tool similar to ack, with a focus on speed

  • spaceship

    A Zsh prompt for Astronauts

  • Tabby (formerly Terminus)

    Free terminal tool, built with TypeScript, heavily inspired by Hyper

  • Taskbook

    Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat

  • Termius

    A beautiful SSH and SFTP client for Mac. It is also available for mobile

  • TextQL

    Execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV

  • thefuck

    A interesting software that corrects errors in previous console commands

  • tldr

    Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands

  • tmux

    Terminal multiplexer to manage multiple terminals from a single terminal

  • tmuxinator

    Manage complex tmux sessions easily

  • trash

    Move files and directories to the trash

  • VisiData

    Terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data

  • Warp

    Warp is a blazingly fast, rust-based terminal reimagined from the ground up to work like a modern app

  • WezTerm

    A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer implemented in Rust

  • xonsh

    Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt

  • Zsh

    Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language

  • ohmyzsh

    A delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration

  • xcodes

    A command-line tool to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode

  • xxh

    Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH

  • x-cmd

    x-cmd is a vast and interesting collection of tools guided by the Unix philosophy

  • zellij

    A terminal workspace with batteries included (modern replacement for tmux and more)

Developer Tools / Frameworks For Hybrid Applications

  • AppJS

    Lightweight JavaScript UI library for creating mobile webapps that behave like native apps

  • create-dmg

    Create a good-looking DMG for your macOS app in seconds

  • Electrino

    Desktop runtime for web apps using the system's browser engine

  • Electron

    Build cross platform desktop application with JavaScript, HTML and CSS

  • ionic

    Build native and web apps with Angular and open web technologies

  • MacGap

    Lightweight JavaScript API for OS X integration

  • nw.js

    Build desktop apps with HTML and JavaScript

  • Qt

    Cross-platform application framework

  • React Native for Ubuntu

    Build Ubuntu desktop apps using React Native

  • React Native macOS

    Build OS X desktop apps using React Native and Cocoa

  • react-desktop

    React UI Components for macOS Sierra

  • ReactXP

    Microsoft platform for Web, iOS, Android, and Windows UWP

Developer Tools / Version Control

  • Cornerstone

    Powerful version control with a gorgeous interface

  • Fork

    Fast and friendly Git client for Mac

  • Git Cola

    Powerful, Fast, Lightweight and Friendly Git GUI. For those caffeine adicting users

  • Gitbar

    Open-source,display GitHub contribution statistics on your menu bar

  • GitFinder

    Fast and lightweight Git client for Mac with Finder integration

  • Gitfox

    Commit faster, improve your code quality with superior diffs - and look good doing it

  • GitHub Desktop

    The official GitHub GUI

  • GitKraken

    The most popular Git GUI for Windows, Mac and Linux

  • GitUp

    A simple & powerful Git client。

  • GitX-dev

    Fork of nice git GUI for OS X. Includes branch/tag sidebar and various fixes

  • Hub

    Command-line wrapper for Git that makes you better at GitHub

  • RelaGit

    The elegant solution to graphical version control. Built by developers, for developers

  • SmartGit

    Git client with support

  • SourceTree

    Free Git & Mercurial client for Windows or Mac

  • 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

  • Versions

    Mac Subversion (SVN) Client

Developer Tools / Virtualization

  • Docker

    Powerful, performs operating-system-level virtualization

  • MacVirtue

    Run free and unlimited Virtual Machines on your Mac

  • Multipass

    Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workstation

  • OrbStack

    Fast, light, and simple way to run Docker containers and Linux machines on macOS

  • Parallels

    Powerful, easy-to-use VM. No free upgrade for each new Mac OS

  • Rancher Desktop

    Container management and Kubernetes on the desktop

  • Lima

    Lima launches Linux virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding

  • QEMU

    A free and open-source emulator and virtualizer that can perform hardware virtualization

  • UTM

    UTM is an easy-to-use GUI for QEMU and can run ARM64, x64 and other VMs on M1 Macs

  • Vagrant

    Tool for building and distributing development environments

  • Veertu

    The lightest VM on Mac. Responsive, sandboxed & native way to run VM on your Mac

  • Virtual Box

    Powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product

  • VMware Fusion

    Powerful, commercial VM developed by VMware

Developer Tools / Databases

  • Apache Directory Studio

    LDAP browser and Active Directory client

  • Azure Data Studio

    Cross-platform database tool for Microsoft data platforms

  • Another Redis Desktop Manager

    A faster, better and more stable redis desktop manager

  • Base 2

    Application for creating, designing, editing and browsing SQLite 3 database files

  • Beekeeper Studio

    Smooth SQL editor and database manager

  • Bdash

    Modern SQL client application, supports MySQL, PostgreSQL (Redshift) and BigQuery

  • Chrome MySQL Admin

    Powerful Chrome app to manage your MySQL

  • Core Data Editor

    Core Data Editor lets you easily view, edit and analyze applications‘ data

  • Dataflare

    Simple database client supporting Postgres, MySQL, DuckDB, libSQL, Cloudflare D1, and more

  • DB Browser for SQLite

    Official home of the DB Browser for SQLite

  • DBeaver

    Universal SQL Client

  • ElectroCRUD

    Modern MySQL CRUD application

  • FastoNoSQL

    Cross-platform GUI client for various key-value databases

  • FastoRedis

    Cross-platform professional GUI management tool for Redis

  • JackDB

    Secure, collaborative environment for your queries and data-driven insights

  • 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

  • Mingo

    Easy to use MongoDB GUI with mind-blowing features

  • mongoDB.app

    The easiest way to get started with mongoDB on the Mac

  • MongoDB

    Scalable, flexible document database with querying and indexing

  • MySQL Workbench

    The official MySQL GUI

  • Navicat Data Modeler

    Cost-effective database design tool for high-quality data models

  • neo4j

    The leading graph database!

  • pgMagic🪄

    Chat to Postgres in natural language or SQL

  • pgModeler

    pgModeler is an open source data modeling tool designed for PostgreSQL

  • Postgres.app

    The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac

  • Postico

    Modern PostgreSQL client for Mac

  • PSequel

    PostgreSQL GUI tool for Mac OS X

  • RedisClient

    Redis client application on mac, windows and linux

  • RedisDesktopManager

    Cross-platform GUI management tool for Redis

  • Sequel Pro

    MySQL database management for Mac OS X

  • Sequel Ace

    The maintained "sequel" to the longtime macOS tool Sequel Pro

  • SQLight

    SQLite database manager tool

  • SQLPro Studio

    Simple, powerful database manager for macOS

  • Studio 3T

    the Ultimate GUI for MongoDB

  • SurrealDB

    A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web

  • Tableau Public

    Free data-visualization software

  • TablePlus

    Supports: PostgreSQL, MySQL, RedShift, MariaDB... High-end security ensured

  • redis-pro

    Small, easy to use Redis management, written with SwiftUI, support Dark mode

Design and Product / Design Tools

  • 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

  • Amadine

    Vector drawing app with an intuitive interface for graphic designers

  • Art Text 3

    Graphic design software for lettering, typography, and text effects

  • Blender

    Free and open 3D creation software

  • Colorpicker

    Colorpicker is a complete open-source colors manipulation tool with picking!

  • Draw.io

    Drawio is a diagramming and whiteboarding desktop app

  • Figma

    The collaborative interface design tool, for vector graphics and UI prototyping

  • FontForge

    Free, open-source font editor

  • GIMP

    The GNU Image Manipulation Program

  • inklet

    Turn your Mac trackpad into drawing board

  • Inkscape

    Professional vector graphics editor

  • Krita

    Open-source digital painting software for concept artists, digital painters, and illustrators

  • macSVG

    Designing HTML5 SVG art and animation

  • MagicaVoxel

    Free, lightweight 8-bit voxel editor and interactive path tracing renderer

  • MakeHuman

    Powerful and free 3D human modeler

  • Monodraw

    Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac

  • Nik Collection

    Nik Collection by DxO

  • Paintbrush

    Bitmap image editor

  • Pencil2D

    A easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations

  • Pixelmator

    Full-featured image editor for Mac

  • Pixen

    Native pixel art and animation editor for Mac

  • Principle

    Application for designing animated and interactive user interfaces

  • RawTherapee

    A powerful cross-platform raw photo processing program!

  • ScreenToLayers

    Easily export your screen into a layered PSD file

  • Sketch

    Professional digital design for mac

Design and Product / Design Tools / Sketch

Design and Product / Design Tools

Design and Product / Prototyping and Mind-Mapping Tools

  • Adobe XD

    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

  • Marvel

    Simple design, prototyping and collaboration

  • 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

  • ProtoPie

    Create the most advanced prototypes as easy as Pie

  • QuikFlow

    Create flowcharts with a mind-mapping workflow

  • 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

Design and Product / Screencapturing Software

  • CleanShot X

    Discover a superior way to capture your Mac's screen

  • CloudApp

    Work at the speed of sight

  • Flameshot

    Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software

  • Gifox

    Gif Recording and Sharing

  • Kap

    Open-source screen-recorder built with web technology

  • KeyCastr

    KeyCastr, an open-source keystroke visualizer

  • Kyapchar

    Simple screen and microphone audio recorder for Mac

  • Licecap

    Record your screen and export to GIF. You can change the recording area anytime during recording

  • Lightshot

    The fastest way to take a customizable screenshot

  • Monosnap

    Make screenshots. Draw on it. Shoot video and share your files. It's fast, easy and free

  • OBS Studio

    A free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording

  • Shottr

    Screen capture application with features like Scrolling capture, OCR and markup

  • Skitch

    Screen capture application with a powerful annotation capabilities

  • Snip

    Application for sharing captured images on QQ Mail

  • Snipaste

    Simple but powerful snipping tool

  • Teampaper Snap

    Let your screenshots speak up

  • Tuji

    Take a screenshot, annotate it, and beautify it

  • Xnip

    Handy Screenshot App

  • Dropbox

    Dropbox app offers easy screenshot capturing and sharing

  • Snagit

    Screen Capture and Recording Software. Simple and Powerful

  • Screen Studio

    Record beautiful screens in minutes, with built-in exquisite frame animations, no need for editing

  • Zappy

    Zappy is a screenshot and screen recording app all in one. Has some simple editing tools built in

Design and Product / Other Tools

  • Amazing AI

    Generate images from text using Stable Diffusion

  • APNGb

    PNG image assembler/disassembler app

  • Aspect

    Photo organization app with peer-to-peer sync

  • Assetizr

    Resizing images and optimising them for web and mobile applications

  • Couleurs

    Simple app for grabbing and tweaking the colors you see on your screen

  • Diffusion Bee

    The easiest way to generate AI art on your computer with Stable Diffusion

  • 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

  • FlowVision

    RWaterfall-style Image Viewer for macOS

  • HEIC Converter

    Convert HEIC images to JPEG or PNG

  • 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

  • Image2icon

    Create and personalize icons from your pictures

  • ImageAlpha

    Compress images with PNG format and remove transparency

  • ImageOptim

    Compress images and remove EXIF information

  • iPic

    Easily upload images with Markdown supported

  • JPEGmini

    Reduce image size by up to 80%, without compromising quality

  • 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

  • qView

    qView is an image viewer designed with minimalism and usability in mind

  • Resize Master

    Batch resize and watermark your images fast and easy

  • 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

  • svgus

    Organize, clean and transform your SVGs

  • TinyPNG4Mac

    Open-source tool to compress images

  • Tropy

    Research Photo Management

  • PicGo

    Support for common cdn image hosting tool

  • AppIconBuilder

    Export icons for multi-platform

  • uPic

    macOS native app, powerful terse image hosting client

Communication / Collaboration and Team Tools

  • Adium

    Free instant messaging application for Mac OS X. Connect to AIM, MSN, SMPP, Yahoo and more

  • BlurScreen App

    Blur sensitive data instantly anywhere on screen, while recording or screen sharing. No post editing required

  • Caprine

    Third-party privacy-focused Facebook Messenger app

  • DingTalk

    Free, powerful and professional office tool used by over 5 million enterprises and organizations globally

  • Discord

    All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that's free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone

  • Element

    Create, share communicate. Chat and call securely

  • Ferdium

    Desktop app that helps you organize how you use your favourite apps by combining them into one application. It is based on Franz with the difference that Ferdium gives you many additional features and doesn't restrict its usage

  • Franz

    based, multi-protocol wrapper for web-based chat. One application, 23 messenger services

  • 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!

  • Krisp

    An AI-powered noise cancelling app that mutes background noise during calls

  • Lark

    The Next-Gen Collaboration Suite. All your chats, meetings, calendars, docs, and emails in one place

  • LimeChat

    Open-source IRC client for Mac OS X

  • Mastodon

    Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

  • Matrix

    An open network for secure, decentralised communication!

  • Mattermost

    Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle

  • Misskey

    🌎 A completely free and open interplanetary microblogging platform 🚀

  • Muzzle

    A simple mac app to silence embarrassing notifications while screensharing

  • Presentify

    A mac app to draw on your screen while on calls, highlight your cursor, and more

  • Rambox

    Messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one

  • Signal Desktop

    Fast, simple, secure. Privacy that fits in your pocket

  • Skype

    Cross-platform application that provides video chat and voice call services. Users can exchange images, text, video and any other digital documents

  • Slack

    Awesome tool for team collaboration and communication

  • 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

  • Telegram

    Messaging app with a focus on speed and security

  • Textual

    Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client

  • Unite

    The only native GroupMe app for Mac

  • Wavebox

    A revolutionary and feature-rich Chromium browser that's built for productive working across Google Workspaces, Microsoft Teams, ClickUp, Monday, Atlassian, Asana, AirTable, Slack, and every other web app you use to get work done

  • WeChat

    Official WeChat app for Mac

  • WeeChat

    The extensible command-line chat client

  • WhatsApp Desktop

    Available in the Mac App Store, Whatsapp for Desktop

Communication / Email Clients

  • Airmail

    Fast email client. For both Mac OS and iOS

  • CanaryMail

    Secure email app for Mac and iPhone with built-in PGP Support and AI assistance

  • ElectronMail

    An Electron-based unofficial desktop client for ProtonMail

  • Foxmail

    Fast email client

  • MailTags

    Use tags to organize email and schedule

  • Mailspring

    A beautiful, fast, and fully open source mail client

  • N1

    Extensible, open-source mail app, free for developers and $7/month for Pro

  • Nylas Mail

    Extensible desktop mail app built on the modern web

  • Polymail

    Simple, beautiful and powerful email client

  • Postbox

    Powerful, simple and beautiful email client, need to pay for a license

  • Spark

    Fast email client. For both Mac OS and iOS

  • ThunderBird

    Software that makes email easier

  • Tutanota

    Encrypted email focused on security and privacy

  • Edison Mail

    A customisable, simple, and beautiful email client

  • Skiff Mail

    Encrypted & Decentralized Email -- available on web, iOS/Android, and macOS

Communication / File Sharing

  • Cyberduck

    Free FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure and OpenStack Swift browser

  • Dropshare

    Powerful menu bar application for sharing screen shots, screen recordings and all other files with over 27 storage providers

  • Flow

    Award-winning, beautiful, fast, and reliable FTP + SFTP client

  • LocalSend

    An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop

  • NearDrop

    An unofficial Google Nearby Share/Quick Share app for macOS

  • Transmit

    Highly flexible and intuitive FTP client, supports SFTP, S3 and iDisk/WebDAV

Data Recovery Tools

  • 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

  • Disk Drill

    Free data recovery tool. Also has a PRO version

Audio and Video Tools

  • Adapter

    Free audio, video and image conversion software

  • 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

  • Audio Profile Manager

    Allows you to pin input/output devices for each particular combination of connected devices. May suppress HDMI displays from being chosen

  • Aiko

    High-quality on-device transcription

  • Ardour

    Cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing

  • Audacity

    Free, open-source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing

  • Audio Hijack

    Record any application's audio, including VoIP calls from Skype, web streams from Safari, and much more

  • BeMyEars

    Free for hearing impaired, System wide on-device live caption, multi language support, just like you have YouTube subtitles everywhere

  • BlackHole

    Freemium, open-source virtual output/input audio driver for recording/routing internal audio

  • buzz

    Transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper

  • Camera Preview

    Preview your webcam, take photos, and use it as a mirror

  • Carol

    A minimal and beautiful lyrics app for macOS

  • Cog

    Free, open-source audio player

  • 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

  • FreeTube

    Open source desktop YouTube client built with privacy in mind

  • Gifski

    Convert videos to high-quality GIFs

  • HandBrake

    Tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs

  • Hydrogen

    Professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming for GNU/Linux

  • 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

  • Jellyfin

    The Free Software Media System

  • Kodi

    Award-winning free and open-source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more

  • LMMS

    Formerly "Linux MultiMedia Studio", LMMS is a powerful Digital Audio Workstation designed like FL Studio (formerly Fruity Loops)

  • LosslessCut

    Cross platform tool for quick and lossless video and audio trimming using ffmpeg

  • LyricsX

    Lyrics for iTunes, Spotify and Vox

  • MacYTDL

    A macOS GUI front-end for the youtube-dl video downloader

  • Marker Data

    The avant-garde Marker extraction application crafted for Final Cut Pro

  • Metadatics

    Advanced Audio Metadata Editor

  • Mp3tag

    A powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files

  • Mixxx

    The most advanced free DJ software

  • Movie Catcher

    Movie movie and online viewing offline download software, with Baidu cloud to make offline download and online playback

  • mpv

    Free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

  • MuseScore

    Free, open-source music notation software

  • Museeks

    A simple, clean and cross-platform music player

  • Natron

    Open-source compositing software. Node-graph based. Similar in functionality to Adobe After Effects and Nuke by The Foundry

  • Nuclear

    Streaming music player that finds free music for you

  • Perian

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  • MusicBrainz Picard

    Cross-platform music tagger written in Python

  • Playback

    Experimental video player

  • Plug

    Discover and listen to music from Hype Machine

  • Popcorn Time

    Watch torrent movies instantly, This Popcorn Time service will never be taken down. Download and enjoy

  • Potplayer X

    a Video Audio Player

  • Pulp

    Audio sample manager

  • ScreenFlow

    Screencasting and video editing software

  • Shotcut

    Free open-source video editor

  • Sonora

    Minimal, beautifully designed music player

  • SpotMenu

    Spotify and iTunes in your menu bar

  • Stremio

    Movies, TV shows, series, live television or web channels like YouTube and Twitch.tv - you can find all this on Stremio

  • 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

  • trax

    Free, open-source music library management tool with audio conversion and tag management functionalities

  • Tiny Player

    As the name suggests, a tiny player

  • VLC

    Free, open-source, cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files, DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols

  • VOX Player

    High-definition audio player for Mac and iPhone. Music just sounds better!

  • XLD

    Tool to decode, convert and play various 'lossless' audio files

  • Recordia

    Record audio directly from the menu bar or with a global keyboard shortcut

  • Omniplayer

    Best media player on Mac, support almost all format

  • YouTube Music

    YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader)

  • YouTube Music Desktop

    Free cross platform Desktop Player for YouTube Music

  • YPlayer

    A multifunctional app capable of live caption on-device, converting audio and video files into text and subtitle, transforming recordings into text, and translating subtitles

Audio and Video Tools / Audio Record and Process

  • GarageBand

    A free Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) from Apple,providing a simple interface and professional level audio production functions

  • 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

  • Stargate DAW

    An all-in-one digital audio workstation (DAW) and plugin suite

  • Quick Recorder

    A lightweight and high-performance screen recorder for macOS

Download Management Tools

  • aria2

    Lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility

  • Downie

    Video downloader for macOS with support for YouTube and other 1200 sites

  • Deluge

    Deluge is a lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client

  • FOLX

    Free download manager for Mac OS X with a true Mac-style interface

  • JDownloader

    Free, open-source download management tool with a huge community of developers that makes downloading as easy and fast as it should be

  • Motrix

    Motrix is a full-featured download manager that supports downloading HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, Baidu Net Disk, etc

  • Neat Download Manager

    Neat Download Manager is a simple and lightweight GUI wrapped around a powerful and optimized Download-Engine

  • qBittorrent

    A project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to µTorrent

  • Shuttle

    Easy Download Manager for any links

  • Transmission

    Fast, easy, free BitTorrent Client

  • You-Get

    Tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the web

  • youtube-dl

    Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

Cloud Storage

  • 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

  • Mega

    Free cloud service, offers 50GB free storage

  • NextCloud

    Actively maintained fork of ownCloud, faster and completely open-source

  • ownCloud

    Cloud storage

  • Seafile

    Reliable and High Speed File Sync and Share

Input Methods

  • Kawa

    Better input source switcher for OS X

  • Rocket

    Makes typing emoji faster and easier using Slack-style shortcuts

  • Touch Emoji

    Emoji picker for MacBook Pro Touch Bar

  • Type2Phone

    Use Your Mac as Keyboard for iPhone, iPad & Apple TV

  • betterglobekey

    Make macOS Globe key great again!

  • InputSourcePro

    A tool for multi-language users. Automatically switch input language for different applications

Browsers

  • Arc

    Arc is your space to breathe on the internet. A browser equipped for the way we use the internet in 2024, and foundational for how we hope to use it in the future

  • Brave

    Web browser with an emphasis on privacy and speed

  • Chrome

    Chrome, developed by Google

  • Chromium

    Open-source, free web browser project by Google, to provide the source code for Google Chrome

Browsers / Chromium

  • ungoogled-chromium

    A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency

Browsers

  • Firefox

    A free and open-source web browser developed by Mozilla

Browsers / Firefox

  • LibreWolf

    A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom

Browsers

  • Microsoft Edge

    Microsoft Edge, based on Chromium, but built by MS

  • Min

    Fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

  • Opera

    Experience faster, distraction-free browsing with Ad blocking, and browse privately

  • Orion

    Lightweight WebKit-based browser with support for Chrome and Firefox extensions

  • qutebrowser

    A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt

  • Safari

    Native browser for Macs

  • Station

    An open-source browser providing a single place for all of your web applications

  • Tor Browser

    Anonymity Online. Protect your privacy. Defend against network surveillance and traffic analysis

Browsers / Tor Browser

  • Mullvad Browser

    Tor Browser without the network integrations, aimed at providing anti-fingerprinting browser technologies to VPN users, though it does not require Mullvad VPN

Browsers

  • Vivaldi

    The browser that puts you in control

  • Yandex

    The quick and secure browser from Yandex for computers

  • Zen

    A beautifully designed, privacy-focused, and feature-rich browser

Translation Tools

  • DeepL

    Best quality translations

  • Easydict

    Easy to look up words or translate text

  • Grammarly

    Refine your english

  • iTranslate

    Translate entire website instantly with its built-in browser or with iTranslate Safari extension into over 40 languages

  • 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

  • OpenAI Translator

    Browser extension and cross-platform desktop application for translation based on ChatGPT API

  • Translatium

    Translate words, phrases and images between over 100 languages with dictionary, transliteration and voice output support

Education

  • Wokabulary

    Collect, practice, and organize your individual foreign language vocabulary

Finance

  • SubManager

    Track your subscriptions in one place and get notified when a subscription is due for renewal. Available for macOS, iOS and visionOS and syncs across all your devices

Encryption

  • Cryptomator

    Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud

  • Deadbolt

    The easiest file encryption tool you'll ever use. macOS-compatible, and open-source so you can trust it

Security Tools

  • Antivirus One

    Trusted Mac Security Protection: Protect your Mac from viruses, malware and adware. Block potential web threats and protect your Mac against vulnerabilities

  • 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

  • LockDown

    Open-source tool for El Capitan that audits and remediates security configuration settings

  • LuLu

    LuLu is the free macOS firewall that aims to block unauthorized (outgoing) network traffic

  • 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

  • Mana Security

    vulnerability management app for individuals

  • OverSight

    Monitor mic and webcam, alerting you when the internal mic is activated, or whenever a process accesses the webcam

  • ParetoSecurity

    A MenuBar app to automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene

  • RansomWhere?

    Generic Ransomware Detection

  • stronghold

    Easily configure MacOS security settings from the terminal

  • Suspicious Package

    An application for inspecting macOS installer packages

  • swiftGuard

    Lightweight App that safeguards your System's USB Ports from any Unauthorized Access and performs various Counter-Measures

  • 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

Proxy and VPN Tools

  • Algo

    Personal IPSEC VPN in the cloud

  • Cloudflare WARP

    Replaces the connection between your device and the Internet with a modern, optimized, protocol

  • Hiddify

    Multi-platform auto-proxy client, supporting Sing-box, X-ray, TUIC, Hysteria, Reality, Trojan, SSH etc

  • Lantern

    Free application that delivers fast, reliable and secure access to the open internet

  • Mullvad VPN

    Privacy focused VPN that requires no personal information for use, keeps no logs, and allows payments with Bitcoin Cash, Monero and more

  • Outline

    Outline makes it easy to create a VPN server, giving anyone access to the free and open internet

  • RerouteMe

    An easy one-click macOS Proxy Configuration app

  • ShadowsocksX-NG

    Next generation of ShadowsocksX

  • ShadowsocksX

    Secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your internet traffic

  • Shimo

    VPN Client for Mac

  • SpechtLite

    Rule-based proxy app for macOS

  • Surge

    Web developer tool and proxy utility for iOS 9

  • tinc

    Secure mesh VPN software

  • 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

  • Windscribe

    Gives 10GB free bandwidth monthly on the spot and gives limited server location options (for users on free plan). Connection also takes very less time

Utilities

  • Dropshelf

    A drag and drop helper app for macOS

  • Dropover

    A macOS utility that makes Drag and Drop easier. Stash, gather or move draggable content without having to open side-by-side windows

Utilities / Clipboard Tools

  • Boop

    Snippet tool that provides various functionalities like JSON formatting, MD5 Checksum, reverse string, encode, and much more

  • CleanClip

    The cleanest Clipboard Manager on macOS, ever!

  • Clipboard

    Easy-to-use terminal clipboard manager for all platforms

  • ClipMenu

    Clipboard manager for Mac OS X

  • ClipTools

    ClipTools is a status menu application that gives you access to a variety of simple clipboard utilities

  • Clipy

    Clipy is a Clipboard extension app for macOS. Based on ClipMenu

  • CopyQ

    Clipboard Manager with Advanced Features

  • iPaste

    Lightweight and efficient clipboard tool

  • Paste

    Smart clipboard history & snippets manager

  • PasteBar

    Limitless, Free Clipboard Manager for Mac and Windows

  • PasteBot

    Powerful clipboard manager

  • Pure Paste

    Paste as plain text by default

  • Flycut

    Clean and simple clipboard manager for developers

  • Maccy

    Lightweight clipboard manager for macOS

  • Yippy

    Clipboard manager with user-friendly UI

Utilities / Menu Bar Tools

  • Anvil

    Anvil is a beautiful menubar app for managing local websites. Serve up static sites and Rack apps with simple URLs and zero configuration

  • 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

  • Dato

    A better menu bar clock with calendar, events, and time zones

  • Dozer

    Hide MacOS menubar items

  • Eye Timer

    Take Breaks to prevent Eye Strain timer for Mac

  • Fishing Funds

    Display real-time trends of Chinese funds in the menubar

  • Folder Peek

    Quickly access documents, files, folders, and apps from the menu bar

  • Hidden

    A ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons

  • Hue in the Menu

    Philips Hue light management in the menu bar with multi-room support

  • Ice

    A free, open source, alternative to Bartender. Helps to hide menu items and gives options for different layouts

  • iGlance

    macOS System Monitor for the Status Bar

  • Itsycal

    Tiny calendar for your Mac's menu bar

  • Jiffy

    Discover and share the best GIFs on GIPHY

  • Later

    Save all your Mac apps for later with one click

  • MeetingBar

    Menu bar app for your calendar meetings

  • Menu Bar Calendar

    A monthly calendar right in your menu bar

  • MenubarX

    A powerful Mac menu bar browser, pin webpage like an App

  • MonitorControl

    Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display

  • One Thing

    Put a single task or goal in your menu bar

  • One Switch

    Mac menu bar app that adds various switches to the Mac's menu bar

  • OnlySwitch

    ⚙️ All-in-One menu bar app, hide 💻MacBook Pro's notch, dark mode, AirPods, Shortcuts

  • Pandan

    Time awareness in your menu bar

  • Peninsula

    Dynamic Peninsula for macOS, focusing on window switching, notifications, and file storage

  • PowerMeister

    Conserve energy and improve Battery-Life on your MacBook

  • Reminders MenuBar

    Simple macOS menu bar app to view and interact with reminders

  • RewriteBar

    A macOS menu bar app that helps you write your text with the assistance of AI

  • Second Clock

    Show a second clock for a different time zone in your menu bar

  • SketchyBar

    A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement

  • Spaced

    Organize your menu bar items into groups

  • Streaker

    GitHub contribution streak tracking menubar app

  • SwiftBar

    Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool

  • TextSniper

    Simple yet powerful OCR app in your Menu Bar. Instantly copy and paste text from anywhere

  • Today

    View today’s schedule right from the menu bar. The perfect companion to the built-in Calendar app

  • TomatoBar

    World's neatest Pomodoro timer for macOS menu bar

  • UTC Time

    Show the time in UTC in the menu bar or a widget

  • Vanilla

    Hide menu bar icons on your Mac

  • Week Number

    The current week number in your menu bar

  • Work Hours

    Simple app that tracks your work hours from the menu bar

  • Xbar

    Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar (the BitBar reboot)

  • FunKey-Mechanical Keyboard App

    FunKey is a Mac app that offers the ability to add artificial mechanical keyboard sounds to your MacBook

Utilities / File Organization Tools

  • 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

  • Fileside

    A modern, tiling file manager with unlimited panes

  • Folders File Manager

    A file manager with an expandable folder tree, similar to that of Windows Explorer

  • 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

  • muCommander

    Lightweight file manager with a dual-pane interface

  • Modal File Manager

    A lightweight, minimal dual-pane file manager with Vim style hotkeys. It can be customized with themes and extensions that are downloaded from GitHub using a built in interface

  • PDF Archiver

    Nice tool for tagging and archiving tasks

  • Rapidmg

    1-Click extracting apps from DMG images to the "Applications" folder

  • The Unarchiver

    Unarchive many different kinds of archive files

  • Unarchive One

    Quickly decompress multiple different types of compressed files/compressed files to various scene compression formats

  • Marta

    File Manager for macOS written entirely in Swift

Utilities / General Tools

  • AirServer

    Most advanced screen mirroring software receiver for Mac, PC and Xbox One

  • ChatGPT

    ChatGPT on your desktop. Chat about email, screenshots, files, and anything on your screen. Download. Available now on macOS

  • Claude

    Your AI partner on desktop. Fast, focused, and designed for deep work

  • Clean-Me

    A macOS system analyser and cleaner [ ]

  • CleanMyMac

    Delete megatons of junk, malware, and make your Mac faster & more organized

  • DNS Heaven

    Unifies macOS DNS so applications using glibc can resolve DNS with the native stack. Mainly for use with VPNs

  • DevToysMac

    Offline toolbox that helps developers in daily tasks

  • DevUtils.app

    All-in-one Toolbox for Developers. Format/Validate JSON, encode/decode Base64, convert timestamps, debug JWT… with just one click! Native macOS app and works offline

  • Etcher

    Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily

  • Equinox

    Create dynamic wallpapers for macOS

  • HTTrack

    Useful tool for downloading a whole website and offline browsing

  • Latest

    A tiny app that checks if all your apps from any source are up to date

  • Lungo

    Prevent your Mac from going to sleep

  • lo-rain

    Create a customizable rain over your desktop and apps, with splash over the dock

  • Mac Cache Cleaner

    Cache cleaner for Mac

  • Memo

    Simple and elegant app. Unlock memos even more quickly using Touch ID

  • Numi

    Beautiful calculator app for Mac

  • NextDNS

    The new firewall for the modern Internet

  • Plash

    Make any website your desktop wallpaper

  • rem

    An open source approach to locally record and enable searching everything you view on your Mac

  • Rewind

    Rewind is an application designed for macOS that records and indexes all user activities on the Mac, including screen content and audio. Users can rewind and search past activities, essentially adding a "rewind button" to the Mac

  • SlowQuitApps

    An OS X app that adds a global delay of 1 second to the Cmd-Q shortcut

  • Speediness

    Check your internet speed

  • Ultra TabSaver

    The Open Source Tab Manager for Safari

  • Upscayl

    Free and open-source AI image upscaling tool

  • CapsLockNoDelay

    Removes caps-lock key activation delay for fast typers

Utilities / To-Do Lists

  • 2Do

    Nice todo app

  • Day-O 2

    Menu bar clock replacement with built-in calendar

  • Fantastical

    The calendar app you won't be able to live without

  • Focus

    Beautiful pomodoro-based time manager

  • Focused Work: Focus Timer

    A simple, flexible Focus Timer

  • Lunatask

    An all-in-one encrypted to-do list, habit and mood tracker, journaling and notes app

  • Microsoft To-Do

    Microsoft's successor to Wunderlist

  • Nozbe

    Powerful GTD app for individuals and teams, with support for every Apple device (Mac, iPhone, iPad, Watch)

  • OmniFocus

    Nice GTD app, made by OmniGroups

  • One Task

    Conquer one task at a time

  • Super Productivity

    Cross-platform todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities

  • Taskade

    Real-time collaborative editor for teams

  • TaskPaper

    Plain text to-do lists

  • Things

    Delightful and easy to use task manager. ( )

  • Todoist

    Cross-platform todo list app

  • Tomato 2

    Beautiful and simple Pomodoro timer

  • TickTick

    Simple and effective to-do list and task manager that helps you organize all aspects of life

Utilities / Productivity

  • 1440 Minutes Left Today

    Keep a track of how many minutes you have left until the day is over, right in your menu bar

  • ActivityWatch

    Cross-platform, extensible, and privacy-focused time-tracker

  • 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

  • Atomic

    A habit tracker app to build good habits, break bad ones, and stay on top of your daily routines

  • BetterMouse

    Smooth scroll, cursor acceleration prohibition, and powerful button/gesture remapping in one utility for 3rd-party mice. Aims for replacing those bulky and intrusive official drivers

  • 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

  • BoltAI

    A beautiful & powerful ChatGPT app for Mac. Stay ahead by integrating AI into your workflow today

  • Cerebro

    Open-source productivity booster with a brain

  • Choosy

    UI, URL API and a browser extension set for managing rules where and how to open links

  • CursorSense

    Mouse & trackpad driver that lets you tweak the acceleration curve and more

  • Day Progress

    Time remaining today in your menu bar

  • Dropzone

    Create a popup grid of customizable actions. Scriptable in Ruby & Python

  • escrcpy

    -📱 Graphical Scrcpy to display and control Android, devices powered by Electron

  • Focalboard

    Open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

  • Freeter

    Open-source app that allows you to gather everything you need for work in one place, organized by projects and workflows, and have a quick access to them

  • Hammerspoon

    Tool for powerful OSX automation with the Lua scripting engine

  • HapticKey

    A simple utility application for MacBook with Touch Bar that triggers a haptic feedback when tapping Touch Bar

  • HazeOver

    App that dims your background app windows so you can focus more on your main task!

  • Hook for Mac

    Hook files together fast and easily, enabling you to find anything related with a simple keyboard shortcut

  • Hungrymark

    Useful app to bookmark your files, folders, and webs, quick access your bookmarks through menu bar

  • Hyperkey

    Lets you convert the caps lock key or any modifier key to the hyper key, all four modifiers combined: ⌃⌥⌘⇧

  • iCMD

    Fuzzy menubar search and vim/easymotion emulation which works globally for every native MacOS app

  • Journey Navigation

    A powerful route planning app with weather along your route, traffic alerts, turn by turn directions, and more

  • Karabiner

    Powerful and stable keyboard customizer for OS X

  • Keyboard Cowboy

    The missing keyboard shortcut utility for macOS

  • 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

  • Linear Mouse

    Full control of mouse. Change the speed, scrolling direction, pointer type and much more

  • Macaify

    Fast use of ChatGPT, lightweight, clean, keyboard-first

  • Memo Widget

    Sticky notes on your desktop

  • MindMac

    Feature-rich & privacy-first native ChatGPT app to use OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, OpenRouter all in one place

  • Mos

    Simple tool can offer the smooth scrolling and reverse the mouse scrolling direction on your Mac

  • 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

  • OmniPlan

    The best way to visualize, maintain, and simplify your projects. Project Management made easy

  • OpenIn

    Take control of installed apps on your Mac

  • PaletteBrain

    Access the power of ChatGPT across all your Mac applications with the press of a shortcut

  • Parrotflow

    Copilot for your Mac

  • Pie Menu

    – Control your tools with a radial menu customized for your active app

  • Perplexity

    Search and discovery with AI

  • Pomodoro Cycle

    Pomodoro tracker

  • 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

  • RecurseChat

    RecurseChat is a personal, local-first and private AI Chat App. Features a simple interface, powerful customizations and blazingly-fast speed

  • RescueTime

    Personal analytics service that shows you how you spend your time and provides tools to help you be more productive

  • Rize

    A.I. powered time tracker that automatically improves your focus and helps you build better work habits

  • Selectric

    Private personal search engine for your emails, documents and messages. Search across Gmail, Outlook, Drive, Dropbox, Teams, Slack and more applications right from your computer

  • SensibleSideButtons

    Use the side buttons on your mouse to move forward and backward in many apps, like in Windows

  • 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

  • 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

  • Time Out

    Easy break reminders, with micro-break and flexible customization if you want it

  • 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

  • Ukelele

    Unicode Keyboard Layout Editor

  • Velja

    Browser picker that lets you open links in a specific browser or a desktop app

  • 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

Utilities / Window Management

  • AltTab

    Open source window switcher with window previews

  • Amethyst

    Tiling window manager

  • Assignee

    Simple, instant app switcher

  • contexts

    Provides more power than the native Mac Dock. Especially when you have multiple screens, it can help you switch more quickly

  • Dissolv

    Hide and close inactive apps

  • 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

  • JankyBorders

    A lightweight window border system for macOS

  • Loop

    Window management made elegant

  • Lasso

    Intuitive and easy to use grid-based window manager

  • Magnet

    Window manager that keeps your workspace organized

  • MakeItHome

    Extends your macOS' UI allowing you to access with the pointer in the "over screen", an extension of the interface for accessing quick actions, mainly fast switch of the most used running applications

  • Moom

    Allows you to easily move and zoom windows, or to another display—using either the mouse or the keyboard

  • rcmd

    Use the key to switch applications based on their name

  • Rectangle-app

    Rectangle is a window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift: Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas

  • ShiftIt

    Managing window size and position in OSX

  • Sidebar

    The modern Dock replacement for your Mac

  • SizeUp

    Powerful, keyboard-centric window management

  • Slate

    Window management application similar to Divvy and SizeUp (except better and free!). ( )

  • Swift Shift

    Use your mouse with a keyboard shortcut to move and resize your windows quickly. It offers options to customize the draggable areas and mouse behavior

  • Tiles

    Easily reorganize windows by either dragging them to the edges of the screen, using keyboard shortcuts, or the menu bar

  • Topit

    Pin any window to the top of your screen ( )

  • 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

Utilities / Password Management

  • 1Password

    Cross-platform password management tool

  • Bitwarden

    Open source password management tool for Mac OS, iOS and browsers

  • Buttercup

    The Password Manager You Deserve

  • Dashlane

    Cloud-based password manager with award-winning design

  • Enpass

    Cross-platform password management tool with cloud integration

  • Keeweb

    Free, cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass

  • KeepassXC

    Free, open source, cross-platform password manager

  • MacPass

    Open-source KeePass Mac OS client

  • SafeInCloud

    Cross Platform password management, low cost app!

  • Strongbox

    Secure Password Management for iOS and MacOS. Open Source. Compatible with KeePass and Password Safe

  • Swifty

    Free Offline-first Password Manager for MacOS, Windows and Linux

Utilities / Finder Tools

  • Command X

    Cut and paste files in Finder

  • Default Folder X

    Quick access to your files and folders in every app

  • FinderFix

    Finally, a lasting solution for Finder windows size and position

  • 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

  • RClick

    Add new functionality to the macOS Finder context menu

  • TotalFinder

    Chrome-styled Finder substitute

  • XtraFinder

    Adds tabs and cut to Mac Finder

Utilities / Quality of Life Improvements

  • Actions

    Provides many useful actions for the Shortcuts app

  • AI Actions

    AI actions for the Shortcuts app

  • DisplayBuddy

    Control the brightness, contrast, input source and more of your external display directly from your Mac

  • f.lux

    Makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day

  • 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)

  • Hyperduck

    Receive links from your iOS & visionOS devices

  • KeyCastr

    Open-source keystroke visualizer

  • Luminescent

    Bring back Keyboard Backlight Shortcuts for the MacBook

  • Lunar

    Help you adujst brightness, contrast and volumn of your external display

  • Shifty

    A macOS menu bar app that gives you more control over Night Shift

  • Snap

    Launch an app in a snap. Ridiculously easy shortcut management

  • Shareful

    Supercharge the system share menu with copy, save, and open actions

  • AlDente

    Charge limiter app for MacBooks to keep your battery healthy even longer

  • Amphetamine

    Override your energy saver settings and keep your Mac awake

  • 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

  • AppCleaner

    Small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps

  • Apple Silicon App Test

    Browser-based tool for checking Apple Silicon app compatibility before you buy an M1 Mac

  • Background Music

    Automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio

  • 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

  • Cleaner for Xcode

    Helps make your Xcode faster by removing unwanted and deprecated files

  • coconutBattery

    Shows live information about the battery in your Mac. Includes: manufacture date, capacity, cycle count, battery status, temperature, discharging power

  • DaisyDisk

    Gives a great overview of disk usage. Can also make more disk-space available by cleaning up your disk

  • 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

  • GrandPerspective

    A small utility that visualizes disk usage by way of tree maps. It lets you quickly spot which files and folders take up the most space

  • Gray

    Pick between the light appearance and the dark appearance on a per-app basis with the click of a button

  • HandShaker

    Mac on the management of Android mobile phone content

  • 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

  • Juice

    Make your battery information a bit more interesting

  • KeepingYouAwake

    Alternative to Caffeine with better support for dark mode in Mac

  • MagicQuit

    Automatically closes unused apps on macOS to free memory, declutter the desktop, and improve battery life

  • 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

  • NitroShare

    Cross-platform network file transfer utility

  • Noti

    Receive Android notifications on your Mac (with Pushbullet)

  • OmniDiskSweeper

    Shows you the files on your drive, ordered by size. It can be used to find and remove unused files

  • OnyX

    Multifunction utility to verify disks and files, run cleaning and system maintenance tasks, configure hidden options and more

  • Pearcleaner

    A free, source-available and fair-code licensed mac app cleaner

  • Paragon NTFS

    Read/write access to NTFS in macOS Sierra

  • stats

    free Mac system monitor for the menubar

  • Sensei

    Sensei is a multi-tool for Mac performance, with features spanning across both hardware and software

  • Sleepr

    Sleepr brings back sleep timer on macOS

  • Sloth

    Shows all open files, directories, sockets, pipes and devices in use by all running processes

  • SwiftQuit

    Enables automatic quitting of macOS apps when closing their windows

  • Core Tunnel

    Application for managing SSH connections

  • TG Pro

    Temperature monitoring, fan control & hardware diagnostics to help keep your Mac cool and healthy

  • Time Machine Inspector

    Find out what's hogging up your Time Machine backups

  • Tuxera NTFS

    Full read-write compatibility with NTFS-formatted drives on a Mac

  • Overkill

    Stop iTunes from opening when you connect your iPhone

Gaming Software

  • OpenEmu

    A great video game console emulator, supports many different emulators in a single application. (e.g. Sony PSP, GameBoy, NDS and so on)

  • PlayCover

    Run iOS apps and games on Apple Silicon Macs with mouse, keyboard and controller support

  • Porting Kit

    Install Windows® Games inside your Mac

  • PPSSPP

    A awesome PSP emulator for any OS you can dream of!

  • RPCS3

    The Open-source PlayStation 3 Emulator

  • Suyu

    A familiar, open source, and powerful Nintendo Switch emulator

  • Whisky

    Wine wrapper that supports GPTK (Game Porting Toolkit)

Remote Login Software

  • AnyDesk

    Provides remote access across multiple machines

  • Moonlight

    GameStream client for PCs (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Steam Link)

  • Parsec

    Parsec offers a seamless 4k experience at up to 60 frames per second with near-zero latency. Secure, flexible, effortless access to whatever you do, at any time, from wherever you go

  • 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 systems with different protocols

  • RustDesk

    Yet another remote desktop software

  • Steam Link

    The Steam Link app allows you to play your Steam games across all your computers

  • Sunshine

    Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight

  • TeamViewer

    Proprietary computer software package for remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing, and file transfer between computers

  • Windows App

    Connect to a remote PC or virtual apps and desktops made available by your admin

QuickLook Plugins

Third Party App Markets

  • Setapp

    The best apps for Mac in one suite

Third Party App Markets / Package Managers

  • Applite

    User-friendly GUI app for Homebrew Casks. Install, update, and uninstall apps with a single click

  • Cork

    An intuitive and complete Homebrew GUI written in SwiftUI that supports all Homebrew features

  • Homebrew

    The missing package manager for macOS

  • 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

  • MacUpdate Desktop

    Simplifies finding, buying and installing apps for your Mac

Mac App Download Sites / Genuine Sites

  • alternativeTo

    Also a very nice community. If you are looking for some alternative apps 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!

  • Quora

    Also, , , you know the drill

  • Buy software, once

    The place to find all the software you can buy one time, and own for a lifetime

  • Open Alternative

    Discover Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software. A curated collection of the best open source alternatives to everyday SaaS products. Save money with reliable tools hand-picked for you

  • MacStories

    Other sites like , , are great resources

Podcasts

  • Mac Power Users

    Learn about getting the most from your Apple technology with focused topics and workflow guests

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