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Awesome Mac

This project is now very large, and is very different from the original idea. Here, we collect awesome macOS software and arrange them into various categories. Feel free to star and fork.

Any comments, suggestions? Let us know! We love PRs :) Please take a look at the contributing guidelines before opening one. Follow the awesome list.

Explanation

中文 | Awesome Command Line Apps

Open-Source Software means open source. click the icon to see the item's repository;
Freeware means free to use, or free personal license;
means App store hyperlink;
means hyperlink to a corresponding Awesome list for the item;

✦ My macOS application:

Reading and Writing Tools

Applications to edit text, I suggest the open-source editors

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.
Cursor - AI-powered code editor built to make you extraordinarily productive. Features include AI autocomplete, chat, and an autonomous coding agent.
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.
MacVim - the text editor Vim - for macOS.
micro - Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor.
Neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability.
Nova - The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.
Plain Text Editor - Simple distraction-free notepad.
Sublime Text - A popular, clean, and sleek editor with a plugin management system. For more plugins, check 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.
Windsurf - AI code editor featuring Cascade, an agentic AI experience that writes and edits code autonomously. Includes AI autocomplete, memories, and MCP support.
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.
SoftMaker Office - A complete office suite that aims for full compatibility with Microsoft Office documents.
WPS - Is a cross-platform office software suite.

Markdown Tools

Archimedes - Native macOS Markdown editor geared toward mathematical writing with inline LaTeX support.
EME - Open-source Markdown editor with an interface like Chrome.
iA Writer - Writing app with an emphasis on simplicity and design.
LightPaper - Simple, beautiful, yet powerful text editor for your Mac.
Marked 2 - This is the Markdown preview with an elegant and powerful set of tools for all writers.
MarkText - Next generation markdown editor, running on platforms of MacOS Windows and Linux.
Marp - Markdown presentation writer with cross-platform support.
Marxico - Delicate Markdown editor for Evernote. Reliable storage and sync.
MWeb - Pro Markdown writing, and static blog generator App.
Obsidian - A second brain, for you, forever.
Typora - Truly minimal Markdown editor featuring seamless live preview.
Ulysses - The Ultimate Writing App for Mac, iPad and iPhone.
Zettlr - A markdown editor for the 21st century.

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.
Anytype - Privacy-focused Notion alternative with local storage, optional sync, and self-hosted server support.
AppFlowy - Open-source alternative to Notion.
Bear Writer - Beautiful, flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose.
Boostnote - Note-taking app made for programmers.
Craft - Notetaking and writing made beautiful.
Dnote - A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and a web interface.
Email Me - Email yourself and much more with just one tap, native on macOS, iOS and WatchOS.
Evernote - Infamous note-taking app, available on many platforms.
FSNotes - File System Notes is a modern notes manager, native on macOS and iOS.
Gooba - Writing app and task manager with a simple and interactive design.
Inkdrop - Notebook app for Markdown lovers built on top of Electron.
Joplin - Cross-platform open-source notepad with markdown support and to-do list management.
Logseq - Privacy-first, open-source knowledge base.
MarginNote 4 - In-depth PDF and EPUB reading, learning, managing and note taking app.
massCode - Cross-platform open-source code snippets manager with markdown and mermaid support.
MiaoYan - Lightweight Markdown app to help you write great sentences.
Notable - The markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck.
Notebook - Note-taking app.
Notes - Clean, simple note-taking app.
NotePlan 3 - Your tasks, notes, and calendar, plain-text markdown files.
NotePlus - True Native Note and LLM Client
Noteship - Turn notes into knowledge (spreadsheet view, heading summaries, etc.). Works offline, everything is saved locally.
Notion - All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
OneNote - Note-taking app by Microsoft.
OutlineEdit 3 - Fully-featured outline editor, for everyone who loves great structured notes.
Saber - Cross platform stylus and text notetaking app. Supports image and pdf imports, can sync.
SideNotes - Quick notes on the screen side with Markdown support.
Standard Notes - An end-to-end encrypted notes app for digitalists and professionals.
QOwnNotes - Open-source notepad with markdown support and todo list manager.
Quick Note - Colorful sticky notes in the Menu bar.
Quiver - Mix text, code, Markdown, and LaTeX in one note with live preview.
VNote - A Qt-based application designed to provide a pleasant note-taking platform with excellent editing experience.

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

Retrotype - A fun and minimalist writing app that feels like a real typewriter.
novelWriter - Open-source plain text editor for writing novels with minimal markdown-like syntax.
Scrivener - The quintessential word processor for writers.
THORN - All you need to power personal writing and website building.

Ebooks

Calibre - Free, open-source e-book manager and reader.
Clearview - Tabbed style e-book reader for PDF, EPUB (DRM free), CHM, and MOBI.
iChm - Ebook reader for CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML help) files.
Kindle App - Amazon official reading app of kindle.
Klib - New way to manage highlights for Kindle and iBooks.
Koodo Reader - All-in-one eBook reader supporting over 15 formats.
Readest - Readest is an ebook reader with cross-platform access, powerful tools, and an intuitive interface.
Scribus - Professional layout and publishing software.
Sigil - Multi-platform EPUB ebook Editor.
Simple Comic - EBook reader for PDF, CBZ, and CBR formats with Live Text search.

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.
Folo 🧡 Next generation information browser.
Leaf - A news reader for managing subscriptions and enjoying daily news.
NetNewsWire - It’s a free and open source feed reader for macOS.
Doughnut - Beautiful, open-source podcast catcher for Mac.
ReadKit - Bookmark and RSS management client.
Reeder 5 - News reader for Feedbin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler and so on.
Saga Reader - Blazing-Fast and Extremely-Lightweight Internet Reader driven by AI.Supports fetching of search engine information and RSS.
Unread - RSS reader with beautiful typography that supports Feedbin, Feedly and so on.
Vienna - RSS/Atom reader for Mac OS X.

Others

SwifDoo PDF - PDF editor/converter for editing, compressing, and password-protecting PDFs.
bindPDF - Combine multiple PDF files into a single PDF file using a friendly UI.
CHM Reader - Read Compiled HTML (.chm) documents on your Mac.
Chmox - Read CHM documents on your Mac.
Highlights - The PDF Reader for Research on Mac, iPad & iPhone.
PDF Expert - Read, annotate and edit PDFs, change text and images.
PDF Pals - Chat with PDF app for Mac. No file size limits!
PDFgear - AI-integrated PDF editor.
PDF Reader Pro - You Can view, create, sign, convert and compress any PDF documents.
Skim - PDF reader and note-taker for OS X.
SkyFonts - The simplest way to try, install, and manage fonts.
Spillo - Powerful, beautiful and amazingly fast Pinboard client for OS X.
Tad - Application for viewing and analyzing tabular data such as CSV files.
texifier - Great LaTeX editor for Mac with auto-update PDF and autocomplete LaTeX commands.
UPDF - Free PDF editor for reading, annotating, and editing PDFs.
Zotero - Free tool to collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research.
Collate - Free tool to collect, summarize and query PDFs with AI. All offline and free.
PDFsail - PDFsail offers free online PDF tools for editing, converting, merging, compressing, and OCR. No download required. Try this AI-powered all-in-one PDF solution now!.
TableTool - Effortless CSV Browser!
Heynote - A dedicated scratchpad for developers.

Developer Tools

IDEs

Android Studio - The official IDE for Android, based on Intellij IDEA.
CodeRunner - Lightweight, multi-language programming text editor and IDE.
Deco IDE - The best IDE for building React Native apps.
Eclipse - Popular open-source IDE for Java with plugin support for many languages.
Espresso - The web editor for Mac is back. For people who make delightful, innovative and fast websites.
BeagleEditor - A "beagleful" editor with features like syntax highlighting, plugins and... - A bit ugly, but it works
JetBrains Toolbox App - Manage installed JetBrains tools, download new ones and open recent projects.
- AppCode - Smart IDE for iOS/macOS development
- RustRover - A brand new JetBrains IDE for Rust Developers.
- CLion - Powerful C and C++ IDE. (Free for Students)
- DataGrip - Cross-Plaform IDE for Databases and SQL. FREE for Students, check here for more info.
- DataSpell - The IDE for Professional Data Scientists
- GoLand - Provides ergonomic environment for Go development.
- IntelliJ IDEA - Powerful IDE for JVM languages. (Free for Students)
- PHPStorm - The Lightning-Smart PHP IDE.
- PyCharm - Powerful Python IDE, which has professional version and community version.
- Rider - Cross-platform C# IDE with Resharper features.
- WebStorm - The smartest JavaScript IDE by JetBrains. FREE for Students, check here for more info.
Haskell for Mac - A Modern Development Environment for Haskell.
NetBeans IDE - Free, open-source IDE for Java and other languages.
Nova - Beautiful, fast, flexible Mac code editor from Panic.
Trae - An IDE by ByteDance with advanced AI capabilities, including two modes: SOLO for fully AI-driven development and IDE for a more traditional editing experience.
Visual Studio Code - Microsoft's free & open-source editor, TypeScript friendly, VSCode Plugins.
Windsurf - The first agentic IDE where developers and AI flow together for a magical coding experience.
Xcode - Essential IDE for iOS/macOS development.
Zed - A high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
Spyder - Powerful scientific environment written in Python, for Python.

Developer Utilities

BetterRename - The most powerful and complete Mac file renaming application on the market.
Beyond Compare - Compare files and folders with powerful commands.
Bidbar - Manage bash commands from the menu bar and run them with keyboard shortcuts.
Cacher - Cloud-based code snippet manager with Gist sync and multi-platform support.
CodeKit - Web development tool for compiling and auto-refreshing.
CodeMenu - Advanced snippets manager with IDE integration, natural language search, and more.
Conduktor - Kafka desktop client.
CubicBezier - CubicBezier Generator for macOS.
Cutter - Powerful multi-platform reverse engineering tool.
DevHub - Feature-rich offline app for developers.
Dash - Awesome API documentation browser and code snippet manager.
Deeplink Buddy - Deeplink managers, made by developer for developers.
DiffMerge - Application to visually compare and merge files.
EnvPane - OS X preference pane for environment variables.
FinderGo - Open terminal quickly from Finder.
FlyEnv - An all-in-one tool integrating languages, databases, and services to quickly set up your local full-stack development environment.
Finicky - Set rules to decide which browser opens each link.
Gas Mask - Simple hosts file manager for Mac OS X.
Gemini - Intelligent duplicate file finder.
Hex Fiend - Fast and clever open source hex editor.
Hosts.prefpane - System preference pane to manage your hosts file.
Icon Preview - Preview your app icon and menu bar icon.
iHosts - The only /etc/hosts editor on Mac App Store.
ILLA Cloud - Low-code internal tool builder.
ImHex - Hex Editor for reverse engineers and programmers.
Integrity - Free website link checker for Mac.
Kaleidoscope - Compare text, images, and folders.
Koala - GUI application for Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript compilation.
Loca Studio - Analyze, review, and edit app translations.
LINQPad - Scratchpad for .NET development with instant feedback, LINQ query support, and database connectivity.
MacSystemColors - Mac app that shows all system colors in light and dark mode for Cocoa developers.
Medio - A native, lightweight text diff tool with a clean UI and real-time highlighting.
MJML - Create responsive emails with a semantic syntax and rich components.
NameQuick - AI-powered file renaming tool for macO
PaintCode - Vector drawing app that generates Objective-C or Swift code in real time.
Pasteboard Viewer - Inspect the system pasteboards.
PPRows - Application to calculate how many lines of code you write.
ProcessSpy - A clean and powerful process monitor.
PushMate - Solves common push notification problems on macOS.
Responsively - A must-have devtool for web developers for quicker responsive web development.
SCM Breeze - Set of shell scripts (for bash and zsh) that enhance your interaction with git.
SecureCRT - Terminal emulation which supports SSH, Telnet or other protocols.
Site Sucker - Automatically downloads websites.
SnippetsLab - Easy-to-use code snippets manager.
Solarized - Clean and beautiful color theme. Works well with iTerm, JetBrains products, Vim etc.
StarUML - Powerful UML app.
Swiftify - Objective-C to Swift code converter and Xcode & Finder extensions.
SwiftPlantUML - Generate and view class diagrams from Xcode for Swift code.
SwitchHosts - Free and open-source app for hosts management & switching.
SYM - GUI Application to symbolicate iOS crash log.
Testpiler - Testpiler is an app that allows you to easily convert unit tests written in Swift from XCTest to the new Swift Testing framework.
TeXstudio - Integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents.
Touch Bar Simulator - Use the Touch Bar on any Mac.
Visual Paradigm - All-in-one UML, SysML, BPMN modeling platform.
Woodpecker - View iOS app's Sandbox files, UserDefaults, Keychain items on a Mac.
WWDC - The Mac OS unofficial WWDC app.
Xcodes - Install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode.
XCSnippetsApp - Explore, view, and edit Swift and iOS code snippets for Xcode.
zeplin - Collaboration tool for work between designers and developers.
ZOC Terminal - Terminal emulator which supports SSH, telnet, connections and other protocols.
Nib Unlocker - .nib to .xib converter
He3 - Free and Modern Developer Utilities Toolbox.

Regular Expression Editors

Patterns - Regular expression editor.
Regex - Regular expression testing tool with an emphasis on simplicity.
RegExRX - Development tool for regular expressions.
RegexMate - A regular expression testing tool with a built-in quick reference guide.

API Development and Analysis

bruno - Bruno is a offline-only, fast and git-friendly opensource API client.
Cocoa Rest Client - Free, open-source, native Apple OS X app for testing HTTP/REST endpoints.
HTTPie - HTTPie is making APIs simple and intuitive for those building the tools of our time.
Hoppscotch - A lightweight, fast, and full-featured API debugging tool.
Insomnia - The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client.
Katalon Studio - Simplify API, Web, and Mobile Automation Tests.
Maestro - End-to-end testing for Mobile and Web apps. Supports iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter and more.
Paw - Advanced HTTP client.
Postman - GUI platform for API development.
Reqable - Next-Gen API Development Tool, Advanced API Debugging Proxy and REST Client.
ReqRes - Native macOS app to monitor, debug, and mock HTTP(S) requests and responses.
Requestly - Open-source, lightweight Git-Friendly API Client built for modern developers.
Trayce - Lightweight tool to monitor Docker container traffic with a built-in .bru HTTP client.
Yaak - A modern API client supporting multiple protocols, offline usage, and Git integration.

Network Analysis

Charles - HTTP proxy/monitor to view HTTP and HTTPS traffic.
James - Open-source proxy tool for checking and mapping requests with http as well as https.
Little Snitch - Network monitor with a world map for visualizing network connections.
mitmproxy - Interactive intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.
Proxie - HTTP debugging proxy.
Proxyman - Modern and intuitive HTTP debugging proxy for macOS.
Sniffnet - Application to comfortably monitor your network traffic.
Wireshark - The world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer.
Apidog - All-in-One workspace for API Design, Documentation, Debug, Mock, Test.

Frameworks For Hybrid Applications

AppJS - Lightweight JavaScript UI library for creating mobile webapps that behave like native apps.
create-dmg - Create a good-looking DMG for your macOS app in seconds.
Electrino - Desktop runtime for web apps using the system's browser engine.
Electron - Build cross platform desktop application with JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
ionic - Build native and web apps with Angular and open web technologies.
MacGap - Lightweight JavaScript API for OS X integration.
nw.js - Build desktop apps with HTML and JavaScript.
Qt - Cross-platform application framework.
React Native for Ubuntu - Build Ubuntu desktop apps using React Native.
React Native macOS - Build OS X desktop apps using React Native and Cocoa.
react-desktop - React UI Components for macOS Sierra.
ReactXP - Microsoft platform for Web, iOS, Android, and Windows UWP.
Tauri - Create small, fast, secure, cross-platform applications

Version Control

Cornerstone - Powerful version control with a gorgeous interface.
Fork - Fast and friendly Git client for Mac.
Git Cola - Powerful, Fast, Lightweight and Friendly Git GUI. For those caffeine adicting users.
Gitbar - Open-source，display GitHub contribution statistics on your menu bar.
GitButler - Change management with parallel and stacked branches, unlimited undo, agent integrations.
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 Pieter's 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.
Tempo - GUI Git client. Replace the Git CLI with a clear UI and AI assist.
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.

Virtualization

Docker - Powerful, performs operating-system-level virtualization.
MacVirtue - Run free and unlimited Virtual Machines on your Mac.
Multipass - Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workstation.
OrbStack - Fast, light, and simple way to run Docker containers and Linux machines on macOS.
Parallels - Powerful, easy-to-use VM. No free upgrade for each new Mac OS.
Podman Desktop - Open-source graphical tool for managing containers and Kubernetes.
Rancher Desktop - Container management and Kubernetes on the desktop.
Lima - Lima launches Linux virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding.
QEMU - A free and open-source emulator and virtualizer that can perform hardware virtualization.
UTM - UTM is an easy-to-use GUI for QEMU and can run ARM64, x64 and other VMs on M1 Macs.
Vagrant - Tool for building and distributing development environments.
Veertu - The lightest VM on Mac. Responsive, sandboxed & native way to run VM on your Mac.
Virtual Box - Powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product.
VMware Fusion - Powerful, commercial VM developed by VMware.

Databases

Apache Directory Studio - LDAP browser and Active Directory client.
Another Redis Desktop Manager - A faster, better and more stable redis desktop manager.
Base 2 - Application for creating, designing, editing and browsing SQLite 3 database files.
Beekeeper Studio - Smooth SQL editor and database manager
Bdash - Modern SQL client application, supports MySQL, PostgreSQL (Redshift) and BigQuery.
Chrome MySQL Admin - Powerful Chrome app to manage your MySQL.
Core Data Editor - Core Data Editor lets you easily view, edit and analyze applications‘ data.
Dataflare - Simple database client supporting Postgres, MySQL, DuckDB, libSQL, Cloudflare D1, and more.
DB Browser for SQLite - Official home of the DB Browser for SQLite.
DBeaver - Universal SQL Client.
ElectroCRUD - Modern MySQL CRUD application.
FastoNoSQL - Cross-platform GUI client for various key-value databases.
FastoRedis - Cross-platform professional GUI management tool for Redis.
JackDB - Secure, collaborative environment for your queries and data-driven insights.
Keylord - Desktop GUI client for Redis, Bolt, LevelDB and Memcached key-value databases.
MDB Explorer - MDB tool to open, read, export your MDB files to other formats and databases.
Medis - GUI Manager for Redis.
Mingo - Easy to use MongoDB GUI with mind-blowing features.
mongoDB.app - The easiest way to get started with mongoDB on the Mac.
MongoDB - Scalable, flexible document database with querying and indexing.
MySQL Workbench - The official MySQL GUI.
Navicat Data Modeler - Cost-effective database design tool for high-quality data models.
neo4j - The leading graph database!
pgMagic🪄 - Chat to Postgres in natural language or SQL.
pgModeler - pgModeler is an open source data modeling tool designed for PostgreSQL.
Postgres.app - The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac.
Postico - Modern PostgreSQL client for Mac.
PSequel - PostgreSQL GUI tool for Mac OS X.
RedisClient - Redis client application on mac, windows and linux.
RedisDesktopManager - Cross-platform GUI management tool for Redis.
Sequel Pro - MySQL database management for Mac OS X.
Sequel Ace - The maintained "sequel" to the longtime macOS tool Sequel Pro.
SQLight - SQLite database manager tool.
SQLPro Studio - Simple, powerful database manager for macOS.
Studio 3T - the Ultimate GUI for MongoDB.
SurrealDB - A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web.
Tableau Public - Free data-visualization software.
TablePlus - Supports: PostgreSQL, MySQL, RedShift, MariaDB... High-end security ensured.
TrailBase - Open, sub-millisecond, single-executable FireBase alternative with type-safe APIs, notifications, builtin JS/TS runtime, auth & admin UI built on SQLite, Rust & V8.
redis-pro - Small, easy to use Redis management, written with SwiftUI, support Dark mode.

Terminal Apps

alacritty - A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
electerm - A free, multi-platform Terminal and SSH/SFTP tool with a beautiful interface that is the perfect alternative to XShell for Windows!
Ghostty - A fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
hyper - A terminal built on web technologies.
iTerm2 - iTerm2 is an amazing terminal emulator for OS X.
kitty - A cross-platform, fast, feature full, GPU based terminal emulator.
KubeSwitch - The fastest way to switch between Kubernetes contexts and namespaces on macOS.
Tabby (formerly Terminus) - Free terminal tool, built with TypeScript, heavily inspired by Hyper.
Termius - A beautiful SSH and SFTP client for Mac. It is also available for mobile.
Warp - Warp is a blazingly fast, rust-based terminal reimagined from the ground up to work like a modern app.
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.

Design and Product

Design Tools

Acorn - Great Mac OS X picture and photo editor, built for humans.
Affinity Designer - Professional graphic design software for Mac.
Affinity Photo - Professional image editing software for Mac.
Alchemy - Experimental, open-source drawing application with an emphasis on creating conceptual art.
Amadine - Vector drawing app with an intuitive interface for graphic designers.
Art Text 3 - Graphic design software for lettering, typography, and text effects.
Blender - Free and open 3D creation software.
Colorpicker - Colorpicker is a complete open-source colors manipulation tool with picking!
darktable - darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer.
Droply - A native macOS app for one-click offline batch image background removal with exceptional edge quality.
Draw.io Drawio is a diagramming and whiteboarding desktop app
Figma - The collaborative interface design tool, for vector graphics and UI prototyping.
FontForge - Free, open-source font editor.
GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program.
inklet - Turn your Mac trackpad into drawing board.
Inkscape - Professional vector graphics editor.
Krita - Open-source digital painting software for concept artists, digital painters, and illustrators.
macSVG - Designing HTML5 SVG art and animation.
MagicaVoxel - Free, lightweight 8-bit voxel editor and interactive path tracing renderer.
MakeHuman - Powerful and free 3D human modeler.
Monodraw - Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac.
Nik Collection - Nik Collection by DxO.
Paintbrush - Bitmap image editor.
Pencil2D - A easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations.
Pixelmator - Full-featured image editor for Mac.
Pixen - Native pixel art and animation editor for Mac.
Principle - Application for designing animated and interactive user interfaces.
Pika - An open-source color picker app.
RawTherapee - A powerful cross-platform raw photo processing program!
ScreenToLayers - Easily export your screen into a layered PSD file.
Sketch - Professional digital design for mac.
- 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.
Sparkle - Pro visual web design.
System Color Picker - 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.
Nugget - Video editing software designed for motion effects and versatility.
Lunacy - A vector graphic design tool for UI/UX with offline support, built-in assets, and real-time collaboration.

Prototyping and Mind-Mapping Tools

Adobe XD - Tool for designing and prototyping websites and mobile apps.
Axure RP 8 - Prototypes, specifications and diagrams in one tool.
Balsamiq Mockups - Wire-framing tool that helps you work faster and smarter.
Flinto - Quickly create interactive prototypes of mobile, desktop, or web apps.
Framer - Tool for interactive prototyping.
Justinmind - Prototyping platform for web and mobile apps.
Kite - Powerful animation and prototyping application for Mac & iOS.
Lighten - The best way to clarify thinking, boost productivity, brainstorm, and visualize concepts.
Marvel - Simple design, prototyping and collaboration.
MindNode - Mind-mapping software with an emphasis on simplicity and ease-of-use.
MockFlow - Online prototyping suite for web-design and usability testing.
Mockplus - Prototype faster, smarter and easier.
OmniGraffle - Diagramming and graphic design for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Origami Studio - Tool for designing modern interfaces, built and used by designers at Facebook.
pencil - Free, open-source tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping.
ProtoPie - Create the most advanced prototypes as easy as Pie.
QuikFlow - Create flowcharts with a mind-mapping workflow.
Scapple - Practical mind-mapping software with free whiteboard-like layout.
SimpleMind - The world leader in cross platform Mind Mapping tools.
WriteMapper - Get from idea to final draft in no time.
XMind - The most popular mind-mapping tool on the planet.
Simple Diagrams - A desktop app for creating hand-drawn-like, fast, clear sketches of problems, processes, workflows, ideas and more!
yGraph Editor - High quality diagrams made easy.

Screencapturing Software

CleanShot X - Discover a superior way to capture your Mac's screen.
CloudApp - Work at the speed of sight.
Flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software.
Gifox - Gif Recording and Sharing.
Kap - Open-source screen-recorder built with web technology.
KeyCastr - KeyCastr, an open-source keystroke visualizer.
Kyapchar - Simple screen and microphone audio recorder for Mac.
Licecap - Record your screen and export to GIF. You can change the recording area anytime during recording.
Lightshot - The fastest way to take a customizable screenshot.
Monosnap - Make screenshots. Draw on it. Shoot video and share your files. It's fast, easy and free.
OBS Studio - A free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording.
Shottr - Screen capture application with features like Scrolling capture, OCR and markup.
Skitch - Screen capture application with a powerful annotation capabilities.
Snip - Application for sharing captured images on QQ Mail.
Snipaste - Simple but powerful snipping tool.
Teampaper Snap - Let your screenshots speak up.
Tight Studio - Record impressive screens in minutes, with smart zooms, AI voice overs, easy captions, text overlays, and lots more, all in simple clicks.
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.

Other Tools

Amazing AI - Generate images from text using Stable Diffusion.
APNGb - PNG image assembler/disassembler app.
Aspect - Photo organization app with peer-to-peer sync.
Assetizr - Resizing images and optimising them for web and mobile applications.
Couleurs - Simple app for grabbing and tweaking the colors you see on your screen.
Diffusion Bee - The easiest way to generate AI art on your computer with Stable Diffusion.
Eagle App - Simple and intuitive file manager with tag and annotaion for all your design files. Supports all major source, image, RAW, video, 3D, audio, font, and office files.
ExifCleaner - Remove exif metadata from images and videos with drag and drop.
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.
Snagit - Simple, Powerful Screen Capture Software and Screen Recorder.
svgus - Organize, clean and transform your SVGs.
TinyPNG4Mac - Open-source tool to compress images.
Tropy - Research Photo Management.
PicGo - Support for common cdn image hosting tool.
AppIconBuilder - Export icons for multi-platform
uPic - macOS native app, powerful terse image hosting client.

AI Client

AppleAi - Access multiple AI assistants from your menu bar with one shortcut.
BoltAI - A beautiful & powerful ChatGPT app for Mac. Stay ahead by integrating AI into your workflow today.
ChatGPT - A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges
Claude - Your AI partner on desktop. Fast, focused, and designed for deep work.
Cherry Studio - A desktop client that supports multiple large language model (LLM) providers.
Chatbox - User-friendly Desktop Client App for AI Models/LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Ollama...).
Fluent - Native AI assistant that brings 450+ models (BYOK) into any macOS app with instant app & browser context, customizable actions, shortcuts, and local models support.
RecurseChat - RecurseChat is a personal, local-first and private AI Chat App. Features a simple interface, powerful customizations and blazingly-fast speed.
Runtime - AI taskmate and take control of the web & your office tools
Jan - An open-source alternative to ChatGPT that runs entirely offline on your computer.
Witsy - desktop AI assistant / universal MCP client.
remio - A personal ChatGPT that responds based on your knowledge. Lastest LLMs, Local first, and BYOK supported.

Communication

Collaboration and Team Tools

Adium - Free instant messaging application for Mac OS X. Connect to AIM, MSN, SMPP, Yahoo and more.
BlurScreen App - Blur sensitive data instantly anywhere on screen, while recording or screen sharing. No post editing required.
Caprine - Third-party privacy-focused Facebook Messenger app.
DingTalk - Free, powerful and professional office tool used by over 5 million enterprises and organizations globally.
Discord - All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that's free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone.
Element - Create, share communicate. Chat and call securely.
Ferdium - Desktop app that helps you organize how you use your favourite apps by combining them into one application. It is based on Franz with the difference that Ferdium gives you many additional features and doesn't restrict its usage.
Franz - Electron based, multi-protocol wrapper for web-based chat. One application, 23 messenger services.
Gitter - Instant messaging and chat room system for developers as well as GitHub users. Developer friendly with Markdown syntax support.
Keybase - Secure groups, files, and chat for everyone!
Krisp - An AI-powered noise cancelling app that mutes background noise during calls.
Lark - The Next-Gen Collaboration Suite. All your chats, meetings, calendars, docs, and emails in one place.
LimeChat - Open-source IRC client for Mac OS X.
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
Matrix - An open network for secure, decentralised communication!
Mattermost - Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.
Misskey - 🌎 A completely free and open interplanetary microblogging platform 🚀
Muzzle - A simple mac app to silence embarrassing notifications while screensharing.
Presentify - A mac app to draw on your screen while on calls, highlight your cursor, and more.
Rambox - Messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.
Signal Desktop - Fast, simple, secure. Privacy that fits in your pocket.
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.
Teams - Free online meetings and video calls
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.
Mezon - A new way to communicate with your team. It's free, faster, better organized, better for WFH.

Email Clients

Airmail - Fast email client. For both Mac OS and iOS.
CanaryMail - Secure email app for Mac and iPhone with built-in PGP Support and AI assistance.
ElectronMail - An Electron-based unofficial desktop client for ProtonMail.
Foxmail - Fast email client.
MailTags - Use tags to organize email and schedule.
Mailspring - A beautiful, fast, and fully open source mail client.
N1 - Extensible, open-source mail app, free for developers and $7/month for Pro.
Nylas Mail - Extensible desktop mail app built on the modern web.
Polymail - Simple, beautiful and powerful email client.
Postbox - Powerful, simple and beautiful email client, need to pay for a license.
Spark - Fast email client. For both Mac OS and iOS.
ThunderBird - Software that makes email easier.
Tutanota - Encrypted email focused on security and privacy.
Edison Mail - A customisable, simple, and beautiful email client.
Skiff Mail - Encrypted & Decentralized Email -- available on web, iOS/Android, and macOS.

Cyberduck - Free FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure and OpenStack Swift browser.
Dropshare - Powerful menu bar application for sharing screen shots, screen recordings and all other files with over 27 storage providers.
Flow - Award-winning, beautiful, fast, and reliable FTP + SFTP client.
LocalSend - An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop.
NearDrop - An unofficial Google Nearby Share/Quick Share app for macOS.
Transmit - Highly flexible and intuitive FTP client, supports SFTP, S3 and iDisk/WebDAV.

Data Recovery Tools

Data Rescue - Comprehensive and professional data recovery tool for most cases.
DiskWarrior - The world’s most advanced repair and recovery tool for Mac.
R-Studio for Mac - Powerful tool for recovering data on disks, even if their partitions are formatted, damaged or deleted.
SuperDuper! - Painless fully bootable disk backups.
Disk Drill - Free data recovery tool. Also has a PRO version.

Audio and Video Tools

Adapter - Free audio, video and image conversion software.
Aegisub - Free, cross-platform open source tool for creating and modifying subtitles. Aegisub makes it quick and easy to time subtitles to audio, and features many powerful tools for styling them, including a built-in real-time video preview.
VoiceInk - Real-time speech-to-text app.
Audio Profile Manager - Allows you to pin input/output devices for each particular combination of connected devices. May suppress HDMI displays from being chosen.
Aiko - High-quality on-device transcription.
Ardour - Cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.
Audacity - Free, open-source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.
Audio Hijack - Record any application's audio, including VoIP calls from Skype, web streams from Safari, and much more.
BeMyEars - Free for hearing impaired, System wide on-device live caption, multi language support, just like you have YouTube subtitles everywhere.
BlackHole - Freemium, open-source virtual output/input audio driver for recording/routing internal audio.
buzz - Transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper.
Camera Preview - Preview your webcam, take photos, and use it as a mirror.
Carol - A minimal and beautiful lyrics app for macOS.
Cog - Free, open-source audio player.
DaVinci Resolve - Free, cross-platform video editing, color grading, video effects and audio editing software.
Elmedia Player - This media player is a super versatile app for any file format you probably may think of: FLV, MP4, AVI, MOV, DAT, MKV, MP3, FLAC, M4V are all supported as well as many others.
FreeTube - Open source desktop YouTube client built with privacy in mind.
Gifski - Convert videos to high-quality GIFs.
HandBrake - Tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
Hydrogen - Professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming for GNU/Linux.
ffWorks - Comprehensive Media Tool for macOS. Making High Quality Video Encoding Accessible for Everyone.
IINA - The modern video player for macOS. Based on mpv, the powerful media player project.
Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System.
Kodi - Award-winning free and open-source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more.
LMMS - Formerly "Linux MultiMedia Studio", LMMS is a powerful Digital Audio Workstation designed like FL Studio (formerly Fruity Loops).
LosslessCut - Cross platform tool for quick and lossless video and audio trimming using ffmpeg.
LyricGlow - Synchronized lyrics player with word-by-word glow effects for Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.
LyricsX - Lyrics for iTunes, Spotify and Vox.
MacMusicPlayer - A clean, lightweight music player for macOS users.
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.
MyMedia - Display and watch your local movie and TV show library.
Playback - Experimental video player.
Plug - Discover and listen to music from Hype Machine.
Popcorn Time - Watch torrent movies instantly, This Popcorn Time service will never be taken down. Download and enjoy.
Potplayer X- a Video Audio Player.
Pulp - Audio sample manager.
ScreenFlow - Screencasting and video editing software.
Shotcut - Free open-source video editor.
Sonora - Minimal, beautifully designed music player.
SpotMenu - Spotify and iTunes in your menu bar.
Stremio - Movies, TV shows, series, live television or web channels like YouTube and Twitch.tv - you can find all this on Stremio.
Stringed 2 - Music practice software designed to help users learn how to play their favorite songs.
Synfig Studio - Synfig Studio is free, open-source 2D animation software.
trax - Free, open-source music library management tool with audio conversion and tag management functionalities.
Tiny Player - As the name suggests, a tiny player.
Tuneful - Control your Spotify and Apple Music from the notch, menu bar or mini player. Efortlessly and natively.
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!
VidCrop - A simple video cropping tool that supports multiple formats and precise trimming.
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 for live captions, audio/video transcription, and subtitle translation.
Musicer - A lightweight local music player that supports multiple formats for enjoying music anytime.
Fmusic - A fmusic is a open source music player on SwiftUI.

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.