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Contents
Reading and Writing Tools
Text Editors
Aurora Editor - Lightweight Code Editor (IDE) for macOS.
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.
Plain Text Editor - Simple distraction-free notepad.
Sublime Text - A popular, clean, and sleek editor with a plugin management system. For more plugins, check Sublime Text Plugins.
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 Vim Common Plugins.
Vimr - Refined Vim Experience for OS X.
Zed - A high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
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.
WPS - Is a cross-platform office software suite.
Markdown Tools
EME - Open-source Markdown editor with an interface like Chrome.
MacDown - Open-source Markdown editor for OS X.
MarkText - Next generation markdown editor, running on platforms of MacOS Windows and Linux.
Marp - Markdown presentation writer with cross-platform support.
Zettlr - A markdown editor for the 21st century.
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.
Joplin - Cross-platform open-source notepad with markdown support and to-do list management.
Logseq - Privacy-first, open-source knowledge base.
massCode - Cross-platform open-source code snippets manager with markdown and mermaid support.
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.
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.
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.
VNote - A Qt-based application designed to provide a pleasant note-taking platform with excellent editing experience.
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.
Writing
novelWriter - Open-source plain text editor for writing novels with minimal markdown-like syntax.
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.
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.
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.
NetNewsWire - It’s a free and open source feed reader for macOS.
Doughnut - Beautiful, open-source podcast catcher for Mac.
Reeder 5 - News reader for Feedbin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler and so on.
Vienna - RSS/Atom reader for Mac OS X.
Others
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.
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.
Tad - Application for viewing and analyzing tabular data such as CSV files.
UPDF - Free PDF editor for reading, annotating, and editing PDFs.
Zotero - Free tool to collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research.
Collate - Free tool to collect, summarize and query PDFs with AI. All offline and free
Developer Tools
IDEs
Android Studio - The official IDE for Android, based on Intellij IDEA.
Deco IDE - The best IDE for building React Native apps.
Eclipse - Popular open-source IDE for Java with plugin support for many languages.
JetBrains Toolbox App - Manage installed JetBrains tools, download new ones and open recent projects.
Haskell for Mac - A Modern Development Environment for Haskell.
NetBeans IDE - Free, open-source IDE for Java and other languages.
Visual Studio Code - Microsoft's free & open-source editor, TypeScript friendly, VSCode Plugins.
Xcode - Essential IDE for iOS/macOS development.
Zed - A high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
Developer Utilities
BetterRename - The most powerful and complete Mac file renaming application on the market.
Beyond Compare - Compare files and folders with powerful commands.
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.
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.
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
/etc/hostseditor 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.
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.
Pasteboard Viewer - Inspect the system pasteboards.
PPRows - Application to calculate how many lines of code you write.
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.
Site Sucker - Automatically downloads websites.
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.
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.
Nib Unlocker - .nib to .xib converter
He3 - Free and Modern Developer Utilities Toolbox.
Regular Expression Editors
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.
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.
Network Analysis
James - Open-source proxy tool for checking and mapping requests with http as well as https.
mitmproxy - Interactive intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.
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.
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
cdwith intelligent autojump. bash-it - Shameless ripoff of oh-my-zsh for bash.
bat - A
cat(1)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.
Ghostty - A fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
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.
nushell - nushell is a modern, GitHub-era shell written in Rust.
nvm - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions.
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
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.
Wave - An open-source terminal that combines traditional terminal features with graphical capabilities like file previews, web browsing, and AI assistance.
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).
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.
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.
Tauri - Create small, fast, secure, cross-platform applications
Version Control
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.
Gitfox - Commit faster, improve your code quality with superior diffs - and look good doing it.
GitHub Desktop - The official GitHub GUI.
GitUp - A simple & powerful Git client。
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.
SourceTree - Free Git & Mercurial client for Windows or Mac.
Vershd - The free for personal use effortless Git GUI, for Windows, Mac, & Linux.
Virtualization
Docker - Powerful, performs operating-system-level virtualization.
Multipass - Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workstation.
OrbStack - Fast, light, and simple way to run Docker containers and Linux machines on macOS.
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.
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.
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.
DB Browser for SQLite - Official home of the DB Browser for SQLite.
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.
Medis - GUI Manager for Redis.
mongoDB.app - The easiest way to get started with mongoDB on the Mac.
MongoDB - Scalable, flexible document database with querying and indexing.
neo4j - The leading graph database!
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.
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.
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
Alchemy - Experimental, open-source drawing application with an emphasis on creating conceptual art.
Blender - Free and open 3D creation software.
Colorpicker - Colorpicker is a complete open-source colors manipulation tool with picking!
darktable - darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer.
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.
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.
MakeHuman - Powerful and free 3D human modeler.
Monodraw - Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac.
Paintbrush - Bitmap image editor.
Pencil2D - A easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations.
RawTherapee - A powerful cross-platform raw photo processing program!
ScreenToLayers - Easily export your screen into a layered PSD file.
Sketch Cache Cleaner - Deletes hidden Sketch history files.
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.
SketchBook - Drawing software for concept design, comic art, and digital sketching.
System Color Picker - The macOS color picker as an app with more features.
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.
Prototyping and Mind-Mapping Tools
Marvel - Simple design, prototyping and collaboration.
pencil - Free, open-source tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping.
Screencapturing Software
CloudApp - Work at the speed of sight.
Flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
qView - qView is an image viewer designed with minimalism and usability in mind.
Resize Master - Batch resize and watermark your images fast and easy.
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.
Caprine - Third-party privacy-focused Facebook Messenger app.
DingTalk - Free, powerful and professional office tool used by over 5 million enterprises and organizations globally.
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.
Keybase - Secure groups, files, and chat for everyone!
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 🚀
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.
Slack - Awesome tool for team collaboration and communication.
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.
WeChat - Official WeChat app for Mac.
WeeChat - The extensible command-line chat client.
WhatsApp Desktop - Available in the Mac App Store, Whatsapp for Desktop.
Email Clients
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.
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.
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.
File Sharing
Cyberduck - Free FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure and OpenStack Swift browser.
LocalSend - An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop.
NearDrop - An unofficial Google Nearby Share/Quick Share app for macOS.
Data Recovery Tools
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.
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.
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.
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 - (No longer under active development)
Let QuickTime play all the common formats of free plug-ins.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.
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.
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.
Audio Record and Process
CapSoftware - An open-source alternative to Loom. Beautiful, shareable screen recording tool.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
betterglobekey - Make macOS Globe key great again!
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.
ungoogled-chromium - A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency.
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.
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.
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
iTranslate - Translate entire website instantly with its built-in browser or with iTranslate Safari extension into over 40 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.
SpechtLite - Rule-based proxy app for macOS.
tinc - Secure mesh VPN software.
Tunnelblick - Free, open-source graphic user interface for OpenVPN on OS X.
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.
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.
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.
BeardedSpice - Allows you to control web based media players (SoundCloud, YouTube, etc) and some native apps with the media keys on Mac keyboards.
DayBar - An application that can display the local date and reminder events in the menu bar.
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.
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.
Reminders MenuBar - Simple macOS menu bar app to view and interact with reminders.
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.
File Organization Tools
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.
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
General Tools
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.
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.
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.
To-Do Lists
Day-O 2 - Menu bar clock replacement with built-in calendar.
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).
One Task - Conquer one task at a time.
Super Productivity - Cross-platform todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities.
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.
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.
Cerebro - Open-source productivity booster with a brain.
Day Progress - Time remaining today in your menu bar.
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!
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: ⌃⌥⌘⇧.
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.
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.
Mos - Simple tool can offer the smooth scrolling and reverse the mouse scrolling direction on your Mac.
OpenIn - Take control of installed apps on your Mac
RightMenu Master - An excellent Finder right-click menu enhancement tool to make your right-click menu more powerful.
SensibleSideButtons - Use the side buttons on your mouse to move forward and backward in many apps, like in Windows.
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.
Trello - A collaboration tool that organizes your projects into Kanban boards.
Velja - Browser picker that lets you open links in a specific browser or a desktop app.
Window Management
AltTab - Open source window switcher with window previews.
Amethyst - Tiling window manager.
Assignee - Simple, instant app switcher.
Dissolv - Hide and close inactive apps.
Hummingbird - Easily move and resize windows without mouse clicks, from anywhere within a window.
JankyBorders - A lightweight window border system for macOS.
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.
rcmd - Use the ⌘ Right Command 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.
Slate - Window management application similar to Divvy and SizeUp (except better and free!). (Needs config file)
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
(https://github.com/lihaoyun6/Topit)yabai - Tiling window manager for macOS. A rewrite of chunkwm, it provides a more seamless integration with the operating system.
Password Management
Bitwarden - Open source password management tool for Mac OS, iOS and browsers.
Buttercup - The Password Manager You Deserve
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.
Finder Tools
Command X - Cut and paste files in Finder.
FinderFix - Finally, a lasting solution for Finder windows size and position.
QSpace - A clean and efficient Multi-view File Manager.
RClick - Add new functionality to the macOS Finder context menu.
XtraFinder - Adds tabs and cut to Mac Finder.
Quality of Life Improvements
Actions - Provides many useful actions for the Shortcuts app.
AI Actions - AI actions for the Shortcuts app.
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.
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.
System Related Tools
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.
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.
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.
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.
stats - free Mac system monitor for the menubar.
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.
Time Machine Inspector - Find out what's hogging up your Time Machine backups.
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
Ryujinx- The Open-source Nintendo Switch EmulatorSuyu - A familiar, open source, and powerful Nintendo Switch emulator.
Whisky - Wine wrapper that supports GPTK (Game Porting Toolkit)
Remote Login Software
Moonlight - GameStream client for PCs (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Steam Link).
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
QLMarkdown - Quick Look extension for Markdown files. -
Syntax Highlight - Quick Look extension for highlight source code files. -
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.
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