jaywcjlove/awesome-mac

Input Methods

Gaming Software

Porting Kit - Install Windows® Games inside your Mac.

RPCS3 - The Open-source PlayStation 3 Emulator

Input Methods

betterglobekeystars5 - Make macOS Globe key great again!

Utilities

Window Management

Dissolv - Hide and close inactive apps.

Developer Tools

API Development and Analysis

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

Communication

Email Clients

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

Audio and Video Tools

Audio and Video Tools

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

Potplayer X- a Video Audio Player.

Utilities

General Tools

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.

Utilities

General Tools

NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet.

Developer Tools

Command Line Tools

tldr - Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands.

Audio and Video Tools

YouTube Music Desktop - Free cross platform Desktop Player for YouTube Music.

Reading and Writing Tools

Note-taking

AppFlowy - Open-source alternative to Notion.

Utilities

Password Management

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

Utilities

General Tools

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

Communication

Email Clients

Tutanota - Encrypted email focused on security and privacy.

Utilities

Productivity

Cerebro - Open-source productivity booster with a brain.

Reading and Writing Tools

Text Editors

Lapce - Lightning-fast and powerful code editor.

Reading and Writing Tools

Markdown Tools

Zettlr - A markdown editor for the 21st century.

Communication

Email Clients

Mailspring - A beautiful, fast, and fully open source mail client.

ElectronMailstars1.2k - An Electron-based unofficial desktop client for ProtonMail.

Browsers

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

Min - Fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy.

Utilities

Productivity

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

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

Utilities

General Tools

Cloudflare WARP - Replaces the connection between your device and the Internet with a modern, optimized, protocol.

Developer Tools

API Development and Analysis

Katalon Studio - Simplify API, Web, Mobile Automation Tests Free. Robust. Cross-platform. Automation testers from 160 countries with channels, GitHub repositories.

Audio and Video Tools

FreeTube - Open source desktop YouTube client built with privacy in mind.

MusicBrainz Picard - Cross-platform music tagger written in Python.

MacYTDLstars217 - A macOS GUI front-end for the youtube-dl video downloader.

Reading and Writing Tools

Note-taking

Logseq - Privacy-first, open-source knowledge base that works on top of local plain-text Markdown and Org-mode files.

Reading and Writing Tools

Office

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

Audio and Video Tools

Museeks - A simple, clean and cross-platform music player.

Nuclear - Streaming music player that finds free music for you.

Reading and Writing Tools

Markdown Tools

Developer Tools

Developer Utilities

CubicBezierstars127 - CubicBezier Generator for macOS.

Reading and Writing Tools

Note-taking

massCodestars3.9k - Cross platform open-source code snippets manager for developers with markdown and mermaid support.

Reading and Writing Tools

Others

UPDF - Free PDF editor that makes it possible to read, annotate and edit PDFs, change text and images on Mac.

Reading and Writing Tools

Office

Pages - Documents that stand apart.

Keynote - Build stunning presentations.

Numbers - Create impressive spreadsheets.

Microsoft Office - Unmistakably Office, designed for Mac.

Reading and Writing Tools

Note-taking

Notebook - Note-taking app.

Developer Tools

Developer Utilities

Developer Tools

Command Line Tools

GitHub CLIstars30k - 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.

Developer Tools

Version Control

Gitbarstars344 - Open-source，display GitHub contribution statistics on your menu bar.

OhMyStar - Beautiful and efficient way to manage, explore and share your GitHub Stars.

Developer Tools

Virtualization

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

Developer Tools

Databases

pgModeler - pgModeler is an open source data modeling tool designed for PostgreSQL.

Design and Product

Design Tools

ScreenToLayersstars118 - Easily export your screen into a layered PSD file.

Audio and Video Tools

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

Mp3tag - A powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files.

Audio and Video Tools

Audio Record and Process

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

Logic Pro X - A professional Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) from Apple，providing complete audio production functions along with high quality native plugins and soundtracks. With native Apple Silicon support.

Input Methods

Touch Emojistars45 - Emoji picker for MacBook Pro Touch Bar.

Browsers

Microsoft Edge - Microsoft Edge, based on Chromium, but built by MS

Translation Tools

DeepL - Best quality translations

Security Tools

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

Utilities

File Organization Tools

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.

Marta - File Manager for macOS written entirely in Swift

Utilities

Productivity

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

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

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.

Reading and Writing Tools

Text Editors

Developer Tools

Virtualization

Multipass - Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workstation.

Utilities

Finder Tools

FinderFix - Finally, a lasting solution for Finder windows size and position.

Developer Tools

Command Line Tools

Termius - Free terminal tool,comparable to xshell on windows platform.

Translation Tools

Lingvanex

Developer Tools

Developer Utilities

XCSnippetsAppstars110 - Explore code snippets from the Swift and iOS community, view and edit the snippets before adding them conveniently to Xcode.

Utilities

System Related Tools

Time Machine Inspectorstars35 - Find out what's hogging up your Time Machine backups.

Developer Tools

Virtualization

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

Reading and Writing Tools

Note-taking

NotePlan 3 - Your tasks, notes, and calendar, plain-text markdown files.

Communication

Collaboration and Team Tools

Developer Tools

Command Line Tools

thefuckstars73.6k - A interesting software that corrects errors in previous console commands.

Reading and Writing Tools

RSS

Reeder 5 - News reader for Feedbin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler and so on.

Utilities

Productivity

Data Recovery Tools

Reading and Writing Tools

Note-taking

Bear Writer - Beautiful, flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose.

Craft - Notetaking and writing made beautiful.

Utilities

Productivity

Workspaces - Workspaces gives you the ability you to quickly switch between different types of tasks. It allows you to select which apps to open and close when selecting a workspace.

Security Tools

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

Utilities

Menu Bar Tools

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

Utilities

System Related Tools

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

Utilities

Productivity

Developer Tools

Command Line Tools

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

Developer Tools

Databases

Sequel Acestars5k - The maintained "sequel" to the longtime macOS tool Sequel Pro.

Utilities

Menu Bar Tools

Fishing Funds - Display real-time trends of Chinese funds in the menubar.

Developer Tools

Version Control

Design and Product

Screencapturing Software

Flameshotstars18.9k - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software.

Utilities

Menu Bar Tools

One Thing - Put a single task or goal in your menu bar.

Developer Tools

Command Line Tools

Fig - Fig adds autocomplete to your terminal.

Developer Tools

IDEs

Developer Tools

Command Line Tools

ripgrep (rg)stars33.4k - Very fast text searching tool similar to (but faster than) ack, ag or grep

Communication

Collaboration and Team Tools

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

Design and Product

Screencapturing Software

Shottr - Screen capture application with features like Scrolling capture, OCR and markup.

Communication

Collaboration and Team Tools

Security Tools

Mana Security - vulnerability management app for individuals.

Utilities

To-Do Lists

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

Utilities

Quality of Life Improvements

Actionsstars1k - Provides many useful actions for the Shortcuts app. []

Design and Product

Design Tools

System Color Pickerstars705 - The macOS color picker as an app with more features. []

Utilities

General Tools

Speediness - Check your internet speed.

Utilities

Menu Bar Tools

Work Hoursstars36 - Simple app that tracks your work hours from the menu bar.

Utilities

General Tools

Equinoxstars621 - Create dynamic wallpapers for macOS.

Communication

Collaboration and Team Tools

Telegram - Messaging app with a focus on speed and security.

Utilities

Productivity

Utilities

Password Management

KeepassXC - Free, open source, cross-platform password manager.

Utilities

Password Management

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

Utilities

Window Management

rcmd - Use the ⌘ Right Command key to switch applications based on their name.

Utilities

File Organization Tools

Reading and Writing Tools

Note-taking

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

Developer Tools

Version Control

GitUp - A simple & powerful Git client。

Vershd - The free for personal use effortless Git GUI, for Windows, Mac, & Linux.

Utilities

Menu Bar Tools

Pandan - Time awareness in your menu bar.

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.

Utilities

File Organization Tools

Unarchive One - Quickly decompress multiple different types of compressed files/compressed files to various scene compression formats.

Utilities

System Related Tools

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.

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.

Utilities

Productivity

Developer Tools

Developer Utilities

Pasteboard Viewerstars427 - Inspect the system pasteboards.

Utilities

Productivity

Utilities

Clipboard Tools

Yippy - Clipboard manager with user-friendly UI.

Developer Tools

Developer Utilities

SwiftPlantUMLstars225 - Generate and view class diagrams from Xcode for Swift code.

Utilities

To-Do Lists

Focused Work: Focus Timer - A simple, flexible Focus Timer.

Developer Tools

Command Line Tools

Tabby (formerly Terminus)stars38.1k - Free terminal tool, built with TypeScript, heavily inspired by Hyper.

Utilities

Menu Bar Tools

SwiftBarstars1.8k - Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool.

Communication

Collaboration and Team Tools

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

Developer Tools

IDEs

Visual Studio Community for Mac - Free version. It supports classroom learning, individual developers and small companies.

Developer Tools

Databases

redis-prostars571 - Small, easy to use Redis management, written with SwiftUI, support Dark mode.

Utilities

General Tools

Google Assistant (Unofficial Desktop Client)stars3.1k - A cross-platform desktop client for Google Assistant based on Google Assistant SDK.

Utilities

Quality of Life Improvements

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

Audio and Video Tools

BlackHolestars9.5k - Freemium, open-source virtual output/input audio driver for recording/routing internal audio.

Developer Tools

IDEs

Reading and Writing Tools

Journaling

linkedstars583 - Link your thoughts to days, distraction free.

Remote Login Software

RustDesk - Yet another remote desktop software.

Reading and Writing Tools

Ebooks

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

Design and Product

Other Tools

Developer Tools

Command Line Tools

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

Utilities

Productivity

Clovery - Integrate all your favorite Google services tightly with your Mac, let you access these services quickly and work more productively.

Developer Tools

Developer Utilities

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

Design and Product

Design Tools

Vectornator: Design Software - The Most Intuitive and Precise Illustration Software in the Galaxy.

Utilities

Productivity

Audio and Video Tools

Translation Tools

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

Utilities

Menu Bar Tools

UTC Time - Show the time in UTC in the menu bar or a widget.

Audio and Video Tools

Plug - Discover and listen to music from Hype Machine.

Remote Login Software

RoyalTSX - Royal TSX is an ideal tool for system engineers and other IT professionals who need remote access to system with different protocols.

Developer Tools

Virtualization

Docker - Powerful, performs operating-system-level virtualization.

Audio and Video Tools

Omniplayer - Best media player on Mac, support almost all format.

Utilities

To-Do Lists

Tomato 2 - Beautiful and simple Pomodoro timer.

Remote Login Software

Microsoft Remote Deskto‪p - Connect to a remote PC or virtual apps and desktops made available by your admin.

Utilities

Menu Bar Tools

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

Developer Tools

Developer Utilities

Xcodesstars4k - Install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode.

Developer Tools

Command Line Tools

xcodesstars2k - A command-line tool to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode.

Utilities

System Related Tools

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

Developer Tools

Databases

Another Redis Desktop Managerstars22.8k - A faster, better and more stable redis desktop manager.

Utilities

Window Management

Utilities

File Organization Tools

Utilities

Menu Bar Tools

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

Developer Tools

Developer Utilities

Timelane - Visually profile your asynchronous code.

Developer Tools

Databases

Beekeeper Studio - Smooth SQL editor and database manager

Developer Tools

Databases

Chrome MySQL Adminstars136 - Powerful Chrome app to manage your MySQL.

Reading and Writing Tools

Note-taking

Developer Tools

IDEs

Visual Studio Code - Microsoft's free & open-source editor, TypeScript friendly, VSCode Plugins.

QuickLook Plugins

Reading and Writing Tools

Note-taking

Utilities

Quality of Life Improvements

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

Audio and Video Tools

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

Communication

Collaboration and Team Tools

Element - Create, share communicate. Chat and call securely.

Developer Tools

Command Line Tools

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

xxhstars3.8k - Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH.

Communication

Email Clients

Edison Mail - A customisable, simple, and beautiful email client.

Reading and Writing Tools

RSS

Feedy - An elegant and lightweight RSS client and news reader for your Mac.

Utilities

Productivity

Utilities

Menu Bar Tools

MeetingBar - Menu bar app for your calendar meetings

Utilities

Window Management

AltTab - Open source window switcher with window previews.

Utilities

Clipboard Tools

Maccy - Lightweight clipboard manager for macOS.

Utilities

Window Management

Rectangle - Window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift.

Developer Tools

Version Control

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

Developer Tools

Command Line Tools

eurekastars560 - CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal.

Utilities

General Tools

Ultra TabSaverstars223 - The Open Source Tab Manager for Safari

Utilities

Menu Bar Tools

Jiffy - Discover and share the best GIFs on GIPHY.

Encryption

Deadboltstars251 - The easiest file encryption tool you'll ever use. macOS-compatible, and open-source so you can trust it.

Browsers

Brave - Web browser with an emphasis on privacy and speed.

Design and Product

Screencapturing Software

Dropbox - Dropbox app offers easy screenshot capturing and sharing

Design and Product

Other Tools

ExifCleaner - Remove exif metadata from images and videos with drag and drop.

Utilities

Productivity

Utilities

Quality of Life Improvements

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).

Utilities

General Tools

Plash - Make any website your desktop wallpaper.

Translation Tools

Proxy and VPN Tools

tigerVPN - VPN Client for Mac.

Utilities

To-Do Lists

Todoist - Cross-platform todo list app.

Developer Tools

Developer Utilities

iHosts - The only /etc/hosts editor on Mac App Store.

Developer Tools

Databases

Apache Directory Studio - LDAP browser and Active Directory client.

Utilities

Menu Bar Tools

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