A list of useful (mostly) free / open-source mac applications. Please support the devs of the listed apps if you have the means.
- Raycast Speed up your workflow with macOS Spotlight on superpowers, inspired by command line interfaces.
- Clockify Cross platform time tracking and timesheet manager for teams.
- itsycal Your calendar in the menubar! Awesome!
- Browserosaurus The browser prompter for Mac.
- Tyke Notes in your menubar.
- Franz Franz is the app for all your messaging services.
- Station All your web services in one app. (Free for personal use)
- App Cleaner Uninstall unwanted apps properly.
- Keka The macOS file archiver. Thank you aone!
- Clipger Ultimate clipboard manager!
- Forklift Advanced dual pane file manager. (There's no time limit in trial mode!)
- EasyFind Find any file easily, even on a server! Beware it's fast!
- QuickLock Lock your Mac quickly, mind your privacy!
- Gas Mask The only host manager you need.
- Steven Black Hosts By the way hosts. The only host collection you need.
- Tunnelblick It provides easy control of OpenVPN client and/or server connections.
- LuLu Control the remote server communication of your apps.
- Adapter Converts Video, Audio and Images.
- ImageOptim Compressing images without losing quality.
- Pngyu A simple PNG compression tool, that use pngquant as a compression engine.
- Handbrake Multi-platform video transcoder.
- OBS Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
- Keycastr Open-source keystroke visualizer.
- Balance Lock Prevents Audio balance from drifting L or R when you connect to your bluetooth headphones.
- KAP An open-source screen recorder built with web-technologies.
- LANDrop Drop any files to any devices on your LAN. Win <> macOS <> Android <> iOS.
- Helium Floating browser window that allows you to watch media on top of anything.
- Rectangle Move and resize windows in macOS using keyboard shortcuts or snap areas.
- Spectacle Move and resize windows with ease.
- InVisible Take control of your hidden files, Desktop clutter and the Apple® Color Picker.
- Coconut Battery Battery and system info check on any iDevice.
- Monolingual Removes unnecessary language resources and saves space.
- Monitorcontrol Open-source, external monitor control via DDC protocol.
- Menu Meters Activity monitor that lives in your menubar.
- MTMR The Touch Bar Customisation App for your MacBook Pro.
- Atom Atom is a hackable text editor for the 21st century, built on Electron.
- Notable "The markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck."
- Visual Studio Code editing, redefined. From Microsoft!
- Runner Commands to supercharge Sketch workflow.
- Figma The Collaborative interface design tool.
- DaVinci Resolve Professional 8K video editing, coloring, visual effects, and post-production in one "free" tool.
- Blender Open source 3D creation. Free for any purpose forever.
- FontBase FontBase is the font manager of the new generation, built by designers, for designers.
- PenPot Web-based open source design and prototyping platform
- iFunbox File and App Management Tool for iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch.
- HEIC Converter Let's you convert iOS new photo format to JPG.
The focus is on macOS apps. This is just a tiny addition to the guide.
- Hemingway Editor It makes your writing bold and clear.
- DeepL The world's most accurate translator. Try German, French, Spanish - your text will read like a native speaker.
- Gramara The AI powered grammar checker
- Fathom Websites stats without tracking or storing personal data of your users.
- DuckDuckGo The search engine that doesn't track you.
- Clicky White label web analytics.
- Design System Checklist An open-source checklist to help you plan, build and grow your design system.
- Color Review What you need to know about colors & accessibility.
- Type Scale A visual calculator - easy steps to create great typography.
- Heroicons Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons, by the makers of Tailwind CSS.
- Hero Patterns A collection of repeatable SVG background patterns for you to use on your web projects.
- unDraw Open-source illustrations for any idea you can imagine and create.
- Shotcuts.design Every shortcuts for designers in one place.
- Animockup Free animated mockup maker.