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This project is dedicated to collecting high-quality macOS software and organizing them systematically by different categories for easy search and use. As it continues to grow, the project has far exceeded our initial expectations and has become more comprehensive and refined.

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Awesome Mac
Contents
Reading and Writing Tools
- Text Editors
- Office
- Markdown Tools
- Note-taking
- Journaling
- Writing
- Ebooks
- RSS
- Others
Developer Tools
- IDEs
- Developer Utilities
- Regular Expression Editors
- API Development and Analysis
- Network Analysis
- Frameworks For Hybrid Applications
- Version Control
- Virtualization
- Databases
- Terminal Apps
Design and Product
- Design Tools
- Prototyping and Mind-Mapping Tools
- Screenshot Tools
- Screen Recording
- Other Tools
AI Tools
Communication
- Collaboration and Team Tools
- Email Clients
- File Sharing
Data Recovery Tools
Audio and Video Tools
- Audio Record and Process
Download Management Tools
Cloud Storage
Input Methods
Voice-to-Text
Browsers
Translation Tools
Education
Finance
Encryption
Security Tools
Proxy and VPN Tools
Utilities
- Clipboard Tools
- Menu Bar Tools
- Cleanup and Uninstall
- File Organization Tools
- General Tools
- To-Do Lists
- Productivity
- Window Management
- Password Management
- Finder Tools
- Quality of Life Improvements
- System Related Tools
Gaming Software
Remote Login Software
QuickLook Plugins
Third Party App Markets
- Package Managers
Mac App Download Sites
- Genuine Sites
- Pirated software download site blocklist
Contributors
License

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 code editor with autocomplete, chat, and coding agent features.
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.
Itsypad - A tiny, fast scratchpad and clipboard manager for macOS.
Lapce - Lightning-fast and powerful code editor.
LightTable - The next generation code editor.
LiteEdit - Fast, native macOS code editor under 1 MB — Swift and AppKit, no Electron.
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 - Text editor with a fast interface and plugin ecosystem. 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 with agentic coding, autocomplete, 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 - Office suite with document, spreadsheet, and presentation editors.
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.
Edmund - Minimal, native macOS Markdown editor with live preview; works with your existing files, no vault.
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.
MacDown - Open source Markdown editor for macOS with live preview and HTML/PDF export.
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.
MarkViewer - Markdown viewer and editor for macOS with AI-assisted editing.
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.
Pixley Reader - Reader for Markdown specs, docs, and changelogs generated by AI tools.
Scratch - Lightweight, offline-first markdown notes app with WYSIWYG editing and local AI agent support.
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 - Local-first note-taking and knowledge management app.
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.
Knopo - Native macOS outliner for local-first notes stored as plain Markdown files.
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 - Local-first note-taking app for turning notes into structured knowledge.
Notion - All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
OATS - Open-source local-first meeting-notes app for macOS with live transcription, speaker labels, AI summaries, and a fully offline on-device mode.
OneNote - Note-taking app by Microsoft.
OutlineEdit 3 - Fully-featured outline editor, for everyone who loves great structured notes.
Revu - Local-first spaced repetition app with FSRS scheduling and Anki import.
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.
Stik - Quick-capture markdown notes app with hotkeys and AI semantic search.
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 - Open-source Markdown note-taking app with a polished editor.
Zettel - Minimal, distraction-free note-taking app with Markdown and hashtag-based organization.

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.
BookShelves - Ebook reader and library manager with public-domain books and sync.
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 - Open-source ebook reader with a clean interface and powerful reading tools.
ReadAny - AI-powered e-book reader with semantic search, chat, and note management.
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.
Papr - RSS reader with adjustable typography, keyboard-driven navigation, and highlight export to Readwise, Notion and Obsidian.
ReadKit - Bookmark and RSS management client.
Reeder 5 - News reader for Feedbin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler and so on.
Saga Reader - AI-powered web and RSS reader.
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 Auditor - PDF inspection tool for analyzing metadata, structure, and security risks.
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.
SmoothCSV - Fast, full-featured CSV editor with SQL queries.
Spillo - Powerful, beautiful and amazingly fast Pinboard client for OS X.
TabType - Free, open-source AI autocomplete for every Mac app — on-device ghost-text suggestions powered by a local LLM (MLX); nothing leaves your Mac.
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 - All-in-one PDF tool for editing, converting, merging, compressing, and OCR.
TableTool - Effortless CSV Browser!
Heynote - A dedicated scratchpad for developers.

Developer Tools

IDEs

Android Studio - The official IDE for Android, based on Intellij IDEA.
Cate - Open-source IDE on an infinite zoomable canvas, with editor, terminal, browser, and AI agent panels arranged in a spatial workspace.
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.
Fletch - Native IDE for AI coding agents, giving each agent a sandboxed clone of your repository plus a shared symbol and call-graph index, with diff review before merge.
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.
Nimbalyst - A visual workspace for managing AI coding sessions, tasks, and project files.
Nova - Beautiful, fast, flexible Mac code editor from Panic.
Orca - An open-source IDE for running parallel AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, OpenCode), each in its own isolated git worktree.
Trae - AI-powered IDE for coding and software development.
Visual Studio Code - Microsoft's free & open-source editor, TypeScript friendly, VSCode Plugins.
VSCodium - Community-driven libre binaries of VS Code.
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

AXe - CLI tool for controlling iOS Simulators through Accessibility APIs and HID automation.
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.
CoilPad - Native macOS Python scratchpad designed for instant prototyping and interactive learning.
Conduktor - Kafka desktop client.
Swifka - Read-only Kafka monitor for safely inspecting topics, messages, and consumer state.
Configs - Configuration file manager for quickly viewing, editing and managing config files.
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.
Tintpad - Menu bar launcher that opens your terminal at the right repo with a coding agent (Claude Code, Codex) already running.
FlyEnv - Local development environment manager for languages, databases, and services.
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.

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