This is my simplified awesome mac list for my personal use. Feel free to star and fork.
Any comments, suggestions? Let us know!.
- Reading and Writing Tools
- Developer Tools
- Design and Product
- Communication
- Audio and Video Tools
- Download Management Tools
- Browsers
- Encryption
- Proxy and VPN Tools
- Utilities
- Gaming Software
- Remote Login Software
- Third Party App Markets
Applications to edit text, I suggest the open-source editors
- TextLab - Developer's Swiss Army Knife
- Vim - Highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient, Vim Plugins.
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- Visual Studio Code - Microsoft's free & open-source editor, TypeScript friendly, VSCode Plugins.
- Pages Documents that stand apart.
- Keynote Build stunning presentations.
- Numbers Create impressive spreadsheets.
- MacDown - Open-source Markdown editor for OS X.
- Evernote - Infamous note-taking app, available on many platforms.
an awesome code editor and live preview Markdown and LaTeX.
- Eclipse - Popular open-source IDE, mainly for Java but with plugin support for a wide array of languages and platforms.
- IntelliJ IDEA - Powerful IDE for JVM languages. (Free for Students)
- Xcode - Essential IDE for iOS/macOS development.
- Visual Studio Code Java Extension Pack - Java Extension Pack is a collection of popular extensions that can help write, test and debug Java applications in Visual Studio Code.
- Java Development Kit 8 - The JDK includes tools useful for developing and testing programs written in the Java programming language and running on the Java platform.
- Gemini - Intelligent duplicate file finder.
- Hex Fiend - Fast and clever open source hex editor.
- Postman - Powerful GUI platform to make your API development faster & easier, from building API requests through testing, documentation and sharing.
- Wireshark - The world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer.
- htop - htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'.
- m-cli - Swiss Army Knife for macOS.
- Mac-CLI - The ultimate tool to manage your Mac. Automatize the usage of your OS X system.
- Saxon - Open Source Saxon XSLT & XQuery processor developed by Saxonica Limited.
- Wkhtmltopdf - Convert html to pdf or image
- Zsh - Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language.
- Docker - Powerful, performs operating-system-level virtualization.
- Parallels - Powerful, easy-to-use VM. No free upgrade for each new Mac OS.
- Vagrant - Tool for building and distributing development environments.
- Virtual Box - Powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product.
- mongoDB.app - The easiest way to get started with mongoDB on the Mac.
- MongoDB - MongoDB is a document database with the scalability and flexibility that you want with the querying and indexing that you need.
- Robo 3T - Robo 3T 1.3 brings you support for MongoDB 4.0 and SCRAM-SHA-256, an upgraded mongo shell, support for importing from MongoDB SRV connection strings, among many other fixes and improvements.
- Nosqlclient - MongoDB client with great functionality
- ArtRage - ArtRage, stylish and easy to use painting software. Get creative with digital art tools that feel just like the real thing. Create natural art.
- Blender - Free and open 3D creation software.
- GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program.
- Paintbrush - Bitmap image editor.
- Sketch - Professional digital design for mac.
- Tayasui Sketches - Professional drawing software.
- Balsamiq Mockups - Wire-framing tool that helps you work faster and smarter.
- Draw IO - Online tool to draw UML, System Architectures and Infrastructur Diagrams.
- Kap - Open-source screen-recorder built with web technology.
- Skitch - Screen capture application with a powerful annotation capabilities.
- Discord - All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that's free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone.
- Krisp - An AI-powered noise cancelling app that mutes background noise during calls.
- Skype - Cross-platform application that provides video chat and voice call services. Users can exchange images, text, video and any other digital documents.
- Slack - Awesome tool for team collaboration and communication.
- Telegram - Messaging app with a focus on speed and security.
- WhatsApp Desktop - Available in the Mac App Store, Whatsapp for Desktop.
- ThunderBird - Software that makes email easier.
- Cyberduck - Free FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure and OpenStack Swift browser.
- HandBrake - Tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
- Spotify - Spotify is a digital music service.
- VLC - Free, open-source, cross-platform multimedia player as well as framework that plays most multimedia files, DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs and various streaming protocols.
- Deluge - Deluge is a lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client.
- Chrome - Chrome, developed by Google
- Microsoft Edge — Microsoft Edge, based on Chromium, but built by MS
- Firefox - Meet Firefox Quantum. Fast, free, open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
- Safari - Native browser for Macs.
- macOS Quick Lock - The easiest file encryption tool you'll ever use. Tightly integrated with macOS, and open-source so you can trust it.
- Tunnelblick - Free, open-source graphic user interface for OpenVPN on OS X.
- Keka - the macOS file archiver. Archive tool supports 7z, Zip, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, DMG, ISO.
- BetterZip 3 - Archive tool supports ZIP, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TXZ (new), 7-ZIP, RAR.
- The Unarchiver - Unarchive many different kinds of archive files.
- 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.
- Karabiner - Powerful and stable keyboard customizer for OS X.
- Logitech Options - Specialize your logitech mouse buttons.
- CheatSheet - Hold the ⌘-Key to get a list of all active shortcuts of the current application. It's as simple as that.
- InsomniaX - Keeps your mac awake. Discontinued and archived but working. Seeking for alternatives... [
- AppCleaner - Small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps.
- OnyX - Multifunction utility to verify disks and files, run cleaning and system maintenance tasks, configure hidden options and more.
- Paragon NTFS - Read/write access to NTFS in macOS Sierra.
- DosBox - DOSBox is a DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library which makes DOSBox very easy to port to different platforms. DOSBox has already been ported to many different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X...
- AnyDesk - Provides Remote access across multiple machines.
- TeamViewer - Proprietary computer software package for remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers.
- Microsoft RDP for Mac - Microsoft's RDP app for Mac
- Zoom - Zoom video conferencing app.
Here are some of the major software download sites, there are a number of OSX Mac software sites
- Homebrew - The missing package manager for macOS.
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