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
means open source. click the icon to see the item's repository;
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:
Applications to edit text, I suggest the open-source editors
/etc/hosts
editor on Mac App Store.
cd
with an intelligent autojump to easily navigate directories from the command line.
cat(1)
clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
Node.js
modules directly from DOM and enables a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies. I recommend using online storage with Mac clients
(Or you could just use the Mac OS built-in dictionary)
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.
Atomic - A habit tracker app to build good habits, break bad ones, and stay on top of your daily routines.
BetterMouse - Smooth scroll, cursor acceleration prohibition, and powerful button/gesture remapping in one utility for 3rd-party mice. Aims for replacing those bulky and intrusive official drivers.
BetterTouchTool - Great, feature-packed app that allows you to configure many gestures for your Magic Mouse, Macbook Trackpad, Magic Trackpad and also Mouse Gestures for normal mice.
BoltAI - A beautiful & powerful ChatGPT app for Mac. Stay ahead by integrating AI into your workflow today.
Cerebro - Open-source productivity booster with a brain.
Choosy - UI, URL API and a browser extension set for managing rules where and how to open links.
CursorSense - Mouse & trackpad driver that lets you tweak the acceleration curve and more.
Day Progress - Time remaining today in your menu bar.
Dropzone - Create a popup grid of customizable actions. Scriptable in Ruby & Python.
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!
Hook for Mac - Hook files together fast and easily, enabling you to find anything related with a simple keyboard shortcut.
Hungrymark - Useful app to bookmark your files, folders, and webs, quick access your bookmarks through menu bar
Hyperkey - Lets you convert the caps lock key or any modifier key to the hyper key, all four modifiers combined: ⌃⌥⌘⇧.
iCMD - Fuzzy menubar search and vim/easymotion emulation which works globally for every native MacOS app.
Journey Navigation - A powerful route planning app with weather along your route, traffic alerts, turn by turn directions, and more.
Karabiner - Powerful and stable keyboard customizer for OS X.
Keyboard Cowboy - The missing keyboard shortcut utility for macOS.
Keyboard Maestro - Automate routine actions based on triggers from keyboard, menu, location, added devices, and more.
Keytty - App to keep your hands on the keyboard. Move, click, scroll, drag and more with a few strokes.
Lazy - Keyboard-driven commands to manage your surroundings directly from your mac.
Linear Mouse - Full control of mouse. Change the speed, scrolling direction, pointer type and much more.
Macaify - Fast use of ChatGPT, lightweight, clean, keyboard-first.
Memo Widget - Sticky notes on your desktop.
MindMac - Feature-rich & privacy-first native ChatGPT app to use OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, OpenRouter all in one place.
Mos - Simple tool can offer the smooth scrolling and reverse the mouse scrolling direction on your Mac.
nnScreenshots - A super easy way to keep a visual record of your productivity to make it easier to fill out timesheets or just to help you review the day. Built in timesheet editor.
OmniPlan - The best way to visualize, maintain, and simplify your projects. Project Management made easy.
OpenIn - Take control of installed apps on your Mac
PaletteBrain - Access the power of ChatGPT across all your Mac applications with the press of a shortcut.
Parrotflow - Copilot for your Mac.
Pie Menu – Control your tools with a radial menu customized for your active app.
Perplexity - Search and discovery with AI.
Pomodoro Cycle - Pomodoro tracker
Qbserve - Time tracking automation: freelance project tracking, timesheets, invoicing & real-time productivity feedback.
Raycast - Raycast lets you control your tools with a few keystrokes. It’s designed to keep you focused.
RecurseChat - RecurseChat is a personal, local-first and private AI Chat App. Features a simple interface, powerful customizations and blazingly-fast speed.
RescueTime - Personal analytics service that shows you how you spend your time and provides tools to help you be more productive.
Rize - A.I. powered time tracker that automatically improves your focus and helps you build better work habits.
Selectric - Private personal search engine for your emails, documents and messages. Search across Gmail, Outlook, Drive, Dropbox, Teams, Slack and more applications right from your computer.
SensibleSideButtons - Use the side buttons on your mouse to move forward and backward in many apps, like in Windows.
nnScreenshots - A super easy way to keep a visual record of your productivity to make it easier to fill out timesheets or just to help you review the day. Built in timesheet editor.
skhd - Simple hotkey daemon for macOS.
Strategr - No-fuss time management app. Stategr helps you maximize your productivity, giving you the quickest and most effective way to time-box your day.
Time Out - Easy break reminders, with micro-break and flexible customization if you want it.
Timing - Automatic time and productivity tracking for Mac. Helps you stay on track with your work and ensures no billable hours get lost if you are billing hourly.
Trello - A collaboration tool that organizes your projects into Kanban boards.
Ukelele - Unicode Keyboard Layout Editor.
Velja - Browser picker that lets you open links in a specific browser or a desktop app.
xScope - Powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, inspecting & testing on-screen graphics and layouts.
Z - Powerful way to navigate easily by typing only a string of directory name in terminal instead of typing exact location of director.
If you come across websites offering pirated software or cracks, please post HERE. We love apps, but only authentic ones. :)
Here are some of the major software download sites, there are a number of OSX Mac software sites
Here are some of the major software download sites, there are a number of OSX Mac software sites
Refuse piracy from me. Software vendors can go to these places rights.
http://www.macbed.com
https://softasm.com/
http://appstorrent.ru/
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