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Awesome Mac / 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 A popular text editor used mainly on Unix-based systems by programmers, scientists, engineers, students, and system administrators
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 83,313 6 days ago 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 Sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance,
SubEthaEdit Powerful Text Editing. Write articles, code, notes or meeting minutes with friends – wherever they are. Ideal for extreme programming sessions, tutoring and creative writing
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 Highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient,
Vimr Refined Vim Experience for OS X
Zed A high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter

Awesome Mac / Reading and Writing Tools / Office

LibreOffice LibreOffice is free and open-source software office software. Software is tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community
WPS Is a cross-platform office software suite
Pages Documents that stand apart
Keynote Build stunning presentations
Numbers Create impressive spreadsheets
Microsoft Office Unmistakably Office, designed for Mac
OnlyOffice An office suite that combines text, spreadsheet and presentation editors allowing to create, view and edit local documents
SoftMaker Office A complete office suite that aims for full compatibility with Microsoft Office documents

Awesome Mac / Reading and Writing Tools / Markdown Tools

Archimedes Native macOS Markdown editor geared toward mathematical writing with inline LaTeX support
EME 2,048 almost 2 years ago 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 47,398 3 months ago 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

Awesome Mac / 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 todo list manager with synchronisation capabilities
Logseq Privacy-first, open-source knowledge base that works on top of local plain-text Markdown and Org-mode files
MarginNote 4 In-depth PDF and EPUB reading, learning, managing and note taking app
massCode 5,800 9 months ago Cross platform open-source code snippets manager for developers with markdown and mermaid support
MiaoYan Lightweight Markdown app to help you write great sentences
Notable 22,647 5 months ago 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 Notion is the all-in-one workspace. From notes, tasks, wikis, to database, Notion is all you need. Works great for teams and individuals
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. Take notes while working with other apps. Use Markdown for text formatting
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 The Programmer's Notebook, lets you easily mix text, code, Markdown and LaTeX within one note, edit code with an awesome code editor and live preview Markdown and LaTeX
AliYuQue Cloud note-taking knowledge management, collaboration platform, Markdown based writing, support embedded flow chart, brain diagram, timing sequence, code rendering, Sketch board creation, personal knowledge sharing, etc. Compared to youdao cloud note and evernote similar products, which include all of its functions, support knowledge sharing and more powerful creation, collaboration and editor, it comes from alibaba ant financial
VNote A Qt-based application designed to provide a pleasant note-taking platform with excellent editing experience

Awesome Mac / 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 898 4 months ago Link your thoughts to days, distraction free

Awesome Mac / Reading and Writing Tools / Writing

novelWriter 2,132 1 day ago an open source plain text editor designed for writing novels. It supports a minimal markdown-like syntax for formatting text
Scrivener The quintessential word processor for writers
THORN All you need to power personal writing and website building

Awesome Mac / Reading and Writing Tools / Ebooks

Calibre Free and open-source e-book computer software application suite which runs on multiple platforms, allows users to manage e-book collections as well as create, edit, and read e-books
Clearview Tabbed style e-book reader for PDF, EPUB (DRM free), CHM, and MOBI
iChm 108 almost 4 years ago 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 Koodo Reader is an all-in-one eBook reader for Windows, macOS, Linux, and the web, supporting over 15 formats
Scribus Professional layout and publishing software supporting EPS and SVG import/export, and PDF support
Sigil Multi-platform EPUB ebook Editor
Simple Comic EBook reader for graphic novels in PDF, CBZ, CBR format. Find command powered by Live Text on recent Macs

Awesome Mac / 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 16,405 3 days ago 🧡 Next generation information browser
ReadKit
Leaf Amazing news reader dedicated to help you enjoy your daily news and easily manage your subscriptions
NetNewsWire It’s a free and open source feed reader for macOS
Doughnut Beautiful, open-source podcast catcher for Mac
ReadKit Mac read-later client supporting all major providers: Instapaper, Pocket and Readability. Even more, ReadKit is a full-featured RSS reader as well
Reeder 5 News reader for Feedbin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler and so on
Vienna RSS/Atom reader for Mac OS X

Awesome Mac / Reading and Writing Tools / Others

SwifDoo PDF The best PDF Editor/converter that’ll help you transform your PDF file, edit it, compress, or password-protect it in just a couple of simple steps
bindPDF 102 about 5 years ago 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
PDFgear AI-integrated PDF editor providing view, edit, annotate, protect, convert, Copilot assistant, and more possibilities
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 that makes it possible to read, annotate and edit PDFs, change text and images on Mac
Zotero Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research

Awesome Mac / Developer Tools / IDEs

Android Studio The official IDE for Android, based on Intellij IDEA
CodeRunner A lightweight, multi-language programming text editor and IDE for quickly building, running and debugging code
Deco IDE The best IDE for building React Native apps
Eclipse Popular open-source IDE, mainly for Java but with plugin support for a wide array of languages and platforms
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

Awesome Mac / 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. It is an alternative to Visual Studio by Microsoft with the additional benefit of getting Resharper features that are not available on Visual Studio for Mac
WebStorm The smartest JavaScript IDE by JetBrains. for Students, check for more info

Awesome Mac / Developer Tools / IDEs

Haskell for Mac A Modern Development Environment for Haskell
NetBeans IDE Free and open-source IDE, mainly used for Java development, but supports many other languages and frameworks
Nova From the creators of Coda and Transmit, bring you a beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from
Visual Studio Code Microsoft's free & open-source editor, TypeScript friendly,
Xamarin Studio Free cross platform C# IDE. Xamarin Studio supports iOS, Android and .Net development
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

Awesome Mac / Developer Tools / Developer Utilities

BetterRename The most powerful and complete Mac file renaming application on the market
Beyond Compare Compare files and folders using simple, powerful commands that focus on the differences you are interested in and ignore those you are not
Bidbar Manage bash commands from the menu bar and run them with keyboard shortcuts
Cacher Cloud-based, team-enabled code snippet manager with Gist sync, VSCode/Atom/Sublime packages and Mac/Windows/Linux/Web clients
CodeKit Web development tool which can automatically compile Less, Sass, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Jade and JavaScript, auto-refresh browsers and much more
CodeMenu An advanced snippets manager with features like side window, access in IDEs using Suggestions app, natural language search, placeholders, code running, HTML preview and more
Conduktor Kafka desktop client
CubicBezier 156 about 2 years ago CubicBezier Generator for macOS
Cutter Powerful multi-platform reverse engineering tool
DevHub A feature-rich offline application, meticulously crafted to support developers in their daily tasks
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 735 over 1 year ago OS X preference pane for environment variables
FinderGo 1,111 12 months ago Open terminal quickly from Finder
Finicky Application that allows you to set up rules that decide which browser is opened for every link that would open the default browser
Gas Mask 3,723 over 1 year ago Simple hosts file manager for Mac OS X
Gemini Intelligent duplicate file finder
Hex Fiend Fast and clever open source hex editor
Hosts.prefpane 1,622 about 4 years ago 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 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM
Integrity Free website link checker for Mac
Kaleidoscope Powerful compare tool for text, images and folders. Works perfectly with git, svn or other version control tools
Koala GUI application for Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript compilation
Loca Studio Analyze, review, and edit app translations. Supports Xcode Localization Catalog (xcloc) and XLIFF 1.2 file formats
MacSystemColors 36 about 4 years ago Mac app that shows all system colors in light and dark mode for Cocoa developers
MJML Framework that utilizes a semantic syntax and a rich standard components library, which allow users to easily create responsive emails
PaintCode PaintCode is a unique vector drawing app that generates Objective-C or Swift code in real time, acting as a bridge between developers and graphic designers
Pasteboard Viewer 703 2 months ago Inspect the system pasteboards
PPRows 1,513 about 3 years ago Application to calculate how many lines of code you write
PushMate PushMate is a MacOS app that solves common push notification problems by ensuring your push payloads are correct
Responsively A must-have devtool for web developers for quicker responsive web development
SCM Breeze 2,834 5 months ago 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 SiteSucker is a Macintosh application that automatically downloads websites from the Internet
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 437 11 months ago Generate and view class diagrams from Xcode for Swift code
SwitchHosts Free and open-source app for hosts management & switching
SYM 594 about 1 year ago GUI Application to symbolicate iOS crash log
TeXstudio Integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents
Timelane Visually profile your asynchronous code
Touch Bar Simulator 1,901 9 months ago Use the Touch Bar on any Mac
Visual Paradigm All-in-one UML, SysML, BPMN Modeling Platform for Agile, EA TOGAF ADM Process Management
Woodpecker View iOS app's Sandbox files, UserDefaults, Keychain items on a Mac
WWDC 8,629 5 months ago The Mac OS unofficial WWDC app
Xcodes 7,044 10 days ago Install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode
XCSnippetsApp 160 about 2 years ago Explore code snippets from the Swift and iOS community, view and edit the snippets before adding them conveniently to 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

Awesome Mac / 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

Awesome Mac / 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 Powerful GUI platform to make your API development faster & easier, from building API requests through testing, documentation and sharing
Katalon Studio Simplify API, Web, Mobile Automation Tests Free. Robust. Cross-platform. Automation testers from 160 countries with channels, GitHub repositories
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

Awesome Mac / Developer Tools / Network Analysis

Charles HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet
James 1,419 over 3 years ago 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 18,550 6 days ago 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

Awesome Mac / Developer Tools / Command Line Tools

ack A tool like grep, optimized for programmers
Airlift 12 10 days ago Upload & Merge Data with Attachments to Airtable
alacritty 56,489 19 days ago A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
archey-osx An archey script for OS X
asciinema 14,219 9 days ago Easily record terminal sessions and replay them in a terminal as well as in a web browser
autojump 16,274 about 1 year ago Replace with an intelligent autojump to easily navigate directories from the command line
bash-it 14,287 8 days ago Shameless ripoff of oh-my-zsh for bash
bat 49,699 8 days ago A clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration
bclm 1,878 3 months ago macOS command-line utility to limit max battery charge
ccat 3,167 about 2 years ago The colorizing cat which works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting
ClamAV A cross-platform, open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats
cmatrix 4,035 3 months ago CMatrix is based on the screensaver from The Matrix website. It shows text flying in and out in a terminal like as seen in "The Matrix" movie. It can scroll lines all at the same rate or asynchronously and at a user-defined speed
cmus Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems
cool-retro-term 22,379 5 months ago Good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display
CSV2Notion Neo 22 10 days ago Upload & Merge CSV or JSON Data with Images to Notion Database
dark-mode 661 about 3 years ago Control dark mode from the command-line
eureka 776 about 1 year ago CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal
Fish Smart and user-friendly shell, which is similar with zsh
fselect 4,020 13 days ago Find files with SQL-like queries
GitHub CLI 37,323 6 days ago 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 26,860 6 days ago Glances is a cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool
Go2Shell Go2Shell opens a terminal window to the current directory in Finder
htop 5,846 about 4 years ago htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'
httpie Modern command line HTTP client – user-friendly curl alternative with intuitive UI, JSON support, syntax highlighting, wget-like downloads, extensions, etc
hyper A terminal built on web technologies
iTerm2 iTerm2 is an amazing terminal emulator for OS X
job 145 over 4 years ago JOB, make your short-term command as a long-term job
kitty 24,637 4 days ago A cross-platform, fast, feature full, GPU based terminal emulator
lnav A log file navigator
m-cli 9,692 3 months ago Swiss Army Knife for macOS
Mac-CLI 8,896 10 months ago 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 37 7 days ago Marker metadata extraction and conversion tool and library for Final Cut Pro
mas 10,922 4 days ago 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 11,481 11 days ago CLI for MySQL that can do auto-completion and syntax highlighting
ndm Manage straight from the couch
nushell 32,528 6 days ago nushell is a modern, GitHub-era shell written in Rust
nvm 80,353 8 days ago Node Version Manager is a 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 highlighting
Rebound 4,106 almost 3 years ago Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error
ripgrep (rg) 48,751 about 2 months ago Very fast text searching tool similar to (but faster than) ack, ag or grep
Serial Full-featured serial terminal for the Mac
shallow-backup 1,243 about 2 months ago Easily create text documentation of installed applications, dotfiles, and more
ShellHistory Backup, sync and organize your shell history
silver searcher (ag) 26,185 5 months ago A code searching tool similar to ack, with a focus on speed
spaceship 19,561 22 days ago A Zsh prompt for Astronauts
Tabby (formerly Terminus) 59,412 14 days ago Free terminal tool, built with TypeScript, heavily inspired by Hyper
Taskbook 8,980 3 months ago Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat
Termius A beautiful SSH and SFTP client for Mac. It is also available for mobile
TextQL 9,066 about 1 year ago Execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV
thefuck 85,406 4 months ago A interesting software that corrects errors in previous console commands
tldr Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands
tmux 35,387 5 days ago "Terminal multiplexer", it enables a number of terminals (or windows) to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal. tmux is intended to be a simple, modern, BSD-licensed alternative to programs such as GNU screen
tmuxinator 12,765 10 days ago Manage complex tmux sessions easily
trash 2,577 4 months ago 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 174,014 7 days ago A delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration
xcodes 3,848 16 days ago A command-line tool to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode
xxh 5,375 5 months ago Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH
x-cmd 1,083 4 days ago 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)

Awesome Mac / Developer Tools / Frameworks For Hybrid Applications

AppJS Lightweight JavaScript UI library for creating mobile webapps that behave like native apps
create-dmg 4,714 10 months ago Create a good-looking DMG for your macOS app in seconds
Electrino 4,387 almost 2 years ago Desktop runtime for apps built on web technologies, using the system's own web browser engine
Electron Build cross platform desktop application with JavaScript, HTML and CSS
ionic Build amazing native and progressive web apps with Angular and open web technologies. One app running on everything
MacGap Provides a lightweight JavaScript API for OS X integration, such as displaying native notifications or writing data to a file
nw.js Build desktop application with HTML and JavaScript. It lets you call all modules directly from DOM and enables a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies
Qt Cross-platform application framework
React Native for Ubuntu 953 over 7 years ago Build Ubuntu desktop apps using React Native
React Native macOS 11,241 9 months ago Build OS X desktop apps using React Native and Cocoa
react-desktop React UI Components for macOS Sierra
ReactXP Microsoft official production, support platform Web, iOS, Android and Windows UWP is still an ongoing work

Awesome Mac / 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 360 about 7 years ago 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

Awesome Mac / 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 OrbStack is a 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 Rancher Desktop is an app that provides container management and Kubernetes on the desktop
Lima 15,388 6 days ago 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

Awesome Mac / Developer Tools / Databases

Apache Directory Studio LDAP browser and Active Directory client
Azure Data Studio Cross-platform database tool for using on Microsoft family on-premises and cloud data platforms such as MSSQL Server
Another Redis Desktop Manager 30,713 13 days ago 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 1,500 about 1 month ago Modern SQL client application, supports MySQL, PostgreSQL (Redshift) and BigQuery
Chrome MySQL Admin 139 over 5 years ago Powerful Chrome app to manage your MySQL
Core Data Editor 2,134 over 3 years ago Core Data Editor lets you easily view, edit and analyze applications‘ data
Dataflare Simple and easy-to-use database client that supports 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 Redis, Memcached, SSDB, LevelDB, RocksDB, UnQLite, LMDB, ForestDB, Pika and Dynomite 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 MongoDB is a document database with the scalability and flexibility that you want with the querying and indexing that you need
MySQL Workbench The official MySQL GUI
Navicat Data Modeler Powerful and cost-effective database design tool which helps you build high-quality conceptual, logical and physical data models
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 136 over 3 years ago 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 6,737 16 days ago 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 27,517 5 days ago 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 651 7 days ago Small, easy to use Redis management, written with SwiftUI, support Dark mode

Awesome Mac / 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 A vector drawing app that has everything a graphic designer needs wrapped in an uncluttered and intuitive interface
Art Text 3 This is graphic design software specifically tuned for lettering, typography, text mockups and various artistic text effects
Blender Free and open 3D creation software
Colorpicker Colorpicker is a complete open-source colors manipulation tool with picking!
Draw.io 50,777 27 days ago 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 154 over 7 years ago Easily export your screen into a layered PSD file
Sketch Professional digital design for mac

Awesome Mac / Design and Product / Design Tools / Sketch

Sketch Cache Cleaner Deletes hidden Sketch history files that can take a lot of space on your hard drive and that you would probably never use
Measure Plugin Make it a fun to create spec for developers and teammates
Sketch Toolbox Plugin Manager Simple plugin manager for Sketch
User Flows Plugin Generating flow diagrams from Artboards

Awesome Mac / Design and Product / Design Tools

SketchBook Drawing software for concept design, comic art, and digital sketching
Sparkle Pro visual web design
System Color Picker 1,183 5 months ago The macOS color picker as an app with more features
Tayasui Sketches Professional drawing software
Vectornator: Design Software The Most Intuitive and Precise Illustration Software in the Galaxy
Vectr Free graphics editor used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively

Awesome Mac / Design and Product / Prototyping and Mind-Mapping Tools

Adobe XD (Experience Design) First all-in-one cross-platform tool for designing and prototyping websites and mobile apps
Axure RP 8 Prototypes, specifications and diagrams in one tool
Balsamiq Mockups Wire-framing tool that helps you work faster and smarter
Flinto Quickly create interactive prototypes of mobile, desktop, or web apps
Framer Tool for interactive prototyping
Justinmind Prototyping platform for web and mobile apps
Kite Powerful animation and prototyping application for Mac & iOS
Lighten The best way to clarify thinking, boost productivity, brainstorm, and visualize concepts
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

Awesome Mac / Design and Product / Screencapturing Software

CleanShot Discover a superior way to capture your Mac's screen
CloudApp Work at the speed of sight
Flameshot 25,024 11 days ago Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software
Gifox Gif Recording and Sharing
Kap Open-source screen-recorder built with web technology
KeyCastr 12,769 3 months ago KeyCastr, an open-source keystroke visualizer
Kyapchar 68 over 6 years ago 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 60,355 6 days ago 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

Awesome Mac / Design and Product / Other Tools

Amazing AI Generate images from text using Stable Diffusion
APNGb 314 about 5 years ago PNG image assembler/disassembler app
Aspect Photo organization application with support for peer-to-peer based synchronization across devices
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 550 about 1 month ago 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 3,517 4 days ago Open-source tool to compress images
Tropy Research Photo Management
PicGo 24,170 about 2 months ago Support for common cdn image hosting tool
AppIconBuilder Export icons for multi-platform
uPic 3,468 24 days ago macOS native app, powerful terse image hosting client

Awesome Mac / Communication / Collaboration and Team Tools

Adium Free instant messaging application for Mac OS X. Connect to AIM, MSN, SMPP, Yahoo and more
Caprine 7,041 3 months ago 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
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
Muzzle A simple mac app to silence embarrassing notifications while screensharing
BlurScreen App Blur sensitive data instantly anywhere on screen, while recording or screen sharing. No post editing required
Rambox Messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one
Element Create, share communicate. Chat and call securely
Presentify A mac app to draw on your screen while on calls, highlight your cursor, and more
Mattermost Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle
Mastodon Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
Matrix An open network for secure, decentralised communication!
Misskey 🌎 A completely free and open interplanetary microblogging platform 🚀
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
Shift De-clutter your desktop workspace and streamline your accounts, apps, and workflows
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

Awesome Mac / 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 1,507 14 days ago 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

Awesome Mac / 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 4,447 2 months ago An unofficial Google Nearby Share/Quick Share app for macOS
Transmit Highly flexible and intuitive FTP client, supports SFTP, S3 and iDisk/WebDAV

Awesome Mac / 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

Awesome Mac / Audio and Video Tools

Adapter Free audio, video and image conversion software
Aegisub 3,125 over 1 year ago 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 15,269 4 months ago Freemium, open-source virtual output/input audio driver for recording/routing internal audio
buzz 12,547 11 days ago 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 113 almost 4 years ago 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 7,799 3 months ago 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 35,106 4 days ago 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 28,071 10 days ago Cross platform tool for quick and lossless video and audio trimming using ffmpeg
LyricsX 4,778 about 2 months ago Lyrics for iTunes, Spotify and Vox
MacYTDL 537 about 1 month ago A macOS GUI front-end for the youtube-dl video downloader
Marker Data 39 7 days ago 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 ( )
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 35 4 months ago Audio sample manager
ScreenFlow Screencasting and video editing software
Shotcut Free open-source video editor
Sonora 935 over 9 years ago Minimal, beautifully designed music player
SpotMenu 2,942 10 months ago 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 8 7 months ago Free, open-source music library management tool with audio conversion and tag management functionalities
VLC Free, open-source, cross-platform multimedia player as well as framework that plays most multimedia files, DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs and various streaming protocols
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

Awesome Mac / 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 679 5 months ago An all-in-one digital audio workstation (DAW) and plugin suite
Quick Recorder A lightweight and high-performance screen recorder for macOS

Awesome Mac / 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 132,410 about 1 month ago Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

Awesome Mac / 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

Awesome Mac / Input Methods

Kawa 1,419 over 2 years ago Better input source switcher for OS X
Rocket Makes typing emoji faster and easier using Slack-style shortcuts
Touch Emoji 52 over 5 years ago Emoji picker for MacBook Pro Touch Bar
Type2Phone Use Your Mac as Keyboard for iPhone, iPad & Apple TV
betterglobekey 51 7 days ago Make macOS Globe key great again!
InputSourcePro A tool for multi-language users. Automatically switch input language for different applications

Awesome Mac / 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

Awesome Mac / Browsers / Chromium

ungoogled-chromium 20,774 7 days ago A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency

Awesome Mac / Browsers

Firefox A free and open-source web browser developed by Mozilla

Awesome Mac / Browsers / Firefox

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

Awesome Mac / 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

Awesome Mac / 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

Awesome Mac / 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

Awesome Mac / Translation Tools

DeepL Best quality translations
Easydict 7,340 5 days ago 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
Lingvanex
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 23,908 5 days ago 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

Awesome Mac / Education

Wokabulary Collect, practice, and organize your individual foreign language vocabulary

Awesome Mac / 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

Awesome Mac / Encryption

Cryptomator Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud
Deadbolt 341 over 1 year ago The easiest file encryption tool you'll ever use. macOS-compatible, and open-source so you can trust it

Awesome Mac / 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 1,102 about 5 years ago Easily configure MacOS security settings from the terminal
Suspicious Package An application for inspecting macOS installer packages
swiftGuard 332 about 1 year ago 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

Awesome Mac / Proxy and VPN Tools

Algo 28,977 3 months ago Personal IPSEC VPN in the cloud
Cloudflare WARP Replaces the connection between your device and the Internet with a modern, optimized, protocol
Hiddify 17,588 3 days ago 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 32,452 23 days ago Next generation of ShadowsocksX
ShadowsocksX Secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your internet traffic
Shimo VPN Client for Mac
SpechtLite 2,939 over 4 years ago 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

Awesome Mac / 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

Awesome Mac / 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
PasteBot Powerful clipboard manager
Pure Paste Paste as plain text by default
Flycut 2,489 almost 2 years ago Clean and simple clipboard manager for developers
Maccy Lightweight clipboard manager for macOS
Yippy 362 9 months ago Clipboard manager with user-friendly UI

Awesome Mac / 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 2,830 over 3 years ago 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 8,248 12 months ago 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 11,465 over 1 year ago 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 13,925 23 days ago A free, open source, alternative to Bartender. Helps to hide menu items and gives options for different layouts
iGlance 2,427 over 1 year ago 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 27,989 28 days ago 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 4,109 18 days ago ⚙️ All-in-One menu bar app, hide 💻MacBook Pro's notch, dark mode, AirPods, Shortcuts
Pandan Time awareness in your menu bar
PowerMeister Conserve energy and improve Battery-Life on your MacBook
Reminders MenuBar 2,618 2 months ago 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 6,382 13 days ago A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement
Spaced Organize your menu bar items into groups
Streaker 184 about 1 year ago GitHub contribution streak tracking menubar app
SwiftBar 2,933 8 months ago 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 2,310 4 months ago 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 67 over 1 year ago 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

Awesome Mac / 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 114 8 days ago 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 305 15 days ago 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

Awesome Mac / 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 263 over 1 year ago Unifies macOS DNS so applications using glibc can resolve DNS with the native stack. Mainly for use with VPNs
DevToysMac 9,237 7 months ago 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 1,233 2 months ago Create dynamic wallpapers for macOS
HTTrack Useful tool for downloading a whole website and offline browsing
Latest 3,141 about 1 month ago 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 230 over 4 years ago 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
SlowQuitApps 1,169 almost 4 years ago An OS X app that adds a global delay of 1 second to the Cmd-Q shortcut
Speediness Check your internet speed
Ultra TabSaver 270 about 4 years ago The Open Source Tab Manager for Safari
CapsLockNoDelay 426 3 months ago Removes caps-lock key activation delay for fast typers

Awesome Mac / 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

Awesome Mac / 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
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
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
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 1,648 6 months ago 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 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
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
Pie Menu – Control your tools with a radial menu customized for your active app
Perplexity Search and discovery with AI
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 6,389 7 months ago 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 16,368 5 months ago Powerful way to navigate easily by typing only a string of directory name in terminal instead of typing exact location of director
Parrotflow Copilot for your Mac
Pomodoro Cycle 82 about 1 year ago Pomodoro tracker
Workspaces Workspaces gives you the ability to quickly switch between different types of tasks. It allows you to select which apps to open and close when selecting a workspace
BoltAI A beautiful & powerful ChatGPT app for Mac. Stay ahead by integrating AI into your workflow today
PDF Pals Chat with PDF app for Mac. No file size limits!
Keyboard Cowboy 785 5 days ago The missing keyboard shortcut utility for macOS
Atomic A habit tracker app to build good habits, break bad ones, and stay on top of your daily routines

Awesome Mac / 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
Loop 7,018 6 days ago Window management made elegant
Lasso Intuitive and easy to use grid-based window manager
Magnet Window manager that keeps your workspace organized
MakeItHome 27 4 months ago 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 25,977 7 days ago 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 5,535 about 1 year ago Managing window size and position in OSX
Sidebar The modern Dock replacement for your Mac
SizeUp Powerful, keyboard-centric window management
Slate 7,842 over 2 years ago Window management application similar to Divvy and SizeUp (except better and free!). ( )
Tiles Easily reorganize windows by either dragging them to the edges of the screen, using keyboard shortcuts, or the menu bar
Total Spaces Provides window management much like ubuntu. Creates hotkeys for workspaces which allows you to easily move around
yabai 24,040 20 days ago Tiling window manager for macOS. A rewrite of chunkwm, it provides a more seamless integration with the operating system

Awesome Mac / 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

Awesome Mac / 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
TotalFinder Chrome-styled Finder substitute
XtraFinder Adds tabs and cut to Mac Finder

Awesome Mac / Utilities / Quality of Life Improvements

Actions 2,667 about 1 month ago 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 97 about 3 years ago 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 12,769 3 months ago 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 16,284 2 months ago 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 1,357 10 months ago 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 1,345 over 2 years ago 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 2,408 almost 2 years ago Command-line tool that allows you to easily grab the CPU temperature, fan speeds and battery information on OSX
Juice 762 8 months ago Make your battery information a bit more interesting
KeepingYouAwake 5,619 22 days ago Alternative to Caffeine with better support for dark mode in Mac
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 25,900 5 days ago 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 307 over 1 year ago 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 90 4 months ago Find out what's hogging up your Time Machine backups
Tuxera NTFS Full read-write compatibility with NTFS-formatted drives on a Mac
Overkill 517 7 months ago Stop iTunes from opening when you connect your iPhone

Awesome Mac / 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 8,643 16 days ago 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)

Awesome Mac / Remote Login Software

AnyDesk Provides remote access across multiple machines
Moonlight 10,839 8 days ago 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 19,783 5 days ago 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

Awesome Mac / QuickLook Plugins

QLMarkdown 1,365 3 months ago Quick Look extension for Markdown files. -
quick-look-plugins 18,075 12 months ago List of useful plugins for developers
Syntax Highlight 2,980 about 2 months ago Quick Look extension for highlight source code files. -

Awesome Mac / Third Party App Markets

Setapp The best apps for Mac in one suite

Awesome Mac / 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

Awesome 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
http://appshopper.com/ App Shopper:
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
https://www.macupdate.com/ MacUpdate:
MacStories Other sites like , , are great resources

Awesome Mac / Podcasts

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

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