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A curated list of awesome mac applications and utilities
Audio & Transcription
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
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Aiko | AI-powered audio transcription. From Sindre Sorhus. | Free |
BlackHole | Route Audio Between Apps | Free |
Just Press Record | Just Press Record is the award-winning audio recorder for mac & ios that brings one-tap recording, transcription and iCloud syncing to all your devices. | Paid |
Loopback | Cable-free audio routing for Mac | Freemium |
MacWhisper | Quickly and easily transcribe audio files into text with OpenAI’s state-of-the-art transcription technology Whisper. A gem from Jordi Bruin, MacGpt Developer. | Freemium |
Voices | High Quality Text to Speech with OpenAI. | $5 |
SoundSource | Per-App & System-wide volume control, output redirection, audio effects & more. | Paid |
Automation
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
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EventScripts | Run Apple or shell scripts on variouis system events. Has support for in app events like goinng in/out full screen . Other events includes: Mobile & Location Events Application & Browser Events Network Events Volume, USB & Time Machine Events Apple Music Events Apple Remote Events Bluetooth & iBeacon Events Chromecast & Google Home Events Computer & Power Events Screen Events |
Paid |
Hammerspoon | It uses the Lua scripting language to control macOS. It can detect various system events like power on off, displsy on off, application starts quit, audio device connected disconnected, pasteboard changes, change in spaces etc. Very Powerful. | Free |
Hazel | Hazel is a file organization tool that watches designated folders and performs actions based on rules you set. It can automatically sort, tag, rename, move, and delete files based on criteria like name, date, type, and more. | Paid |
Keyboard Maestro | Best macro based Automation tool. Already explained in Pheripherals section. | Paid |
Keyboard Cowboy | Automate repetitive actions, launch applications and scripts, control system settings, manipulate files and folders, and perform a wide range of actions – all without ever having to take their hands off the keyboard. | Free |
Lingon | Cron (Launhd) for Mac. And much more. | Paid |
Power Manager | Power Manager lets you automate sophisticated tasks based on power/battery/screen related events. | Paid |
Shortery | Run Apple shortcuts based on system events or triggers. Some examples of such triggers are: App starts stop, Audio starts stop, Calendar events starts ends, Device connects disconnects, Wifi on off, folder content changes, login logout, power on off, locking/unlocking etc. |
Free |
Bookmarks
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
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Raindrop.io | Visual bookmarks, tag organization, cross-device synchronization, support for various content types. | Freemium |
Goodlinks | A alternative to Raindrop. Beautifully designed. Native. | Paid |
Couch (Pocket) | A cool pocket client for mac & ios. | Free |
Linkeeper | A newcomer. Free. | Free |
Bookmarks | A simple bookmark manager. | Freemium |
PackPack | 1-Click to save everything with AI. It saves every post with meticulous design and best possible view. | Freemium |
Anybox | A native client. Asthetic. Subscription model. | Paid |
Calculator
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
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Numi | Numi combines a calculator and a text editor, allowing for natural language calculations and more complex computations. | Free |
Soulver | Beautiful expressive calculator. | Paid |
Calca | A simple sketch pad for match. Understands variables and formulas | Paid |
Calendar (Menubar)
Application | Description | Paid/Free |
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Itsycal | Cool & Beautiful little menubar claendar. Create/edit/view from menubar itself. Open source | Free |
Calendr | Itsycal alternative. Just as brilliant. | Free |
Dato | Another clean & simple app from Sindre Sorhus. | Free |
Chat-GPT
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
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MacGPT | Best native chat-gpt app. Sits on your menubar. Can be summoned from anywhere with a keyword \gpt . |
$20 |
MacBot | A free native client. Can generate imsge through DALL-E. Sonoma + only. | Free |
QuickGPT | Another clean & simple gpt app from Sindre Sorhus. | Free |
Clipboard Manager
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
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Maccy | Simple and efficient clipboard manager. Sits on menubar. Open source. | Free |
Cleanclip | Most beautiful. Stunning design. Powerful. | Freemium |
Clipbook | A keyboard centric clipboard manager. Offers full preview. Sonoma + | Free |
Color Picker
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
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ColorSlurp | Best little color picker. Save color palettes you like. | Free |
Couleurs | A simple but free color picker. | Free |
System Color Picker | Mac’s own inbuilt color picker. Use as a seperate app. Another little gem from Sindre Sorhus. | Free |
Pika | Pika (pronounced pi·kuh, like picker) is an easy to use, open-source, native colour picker for macOS | Free |
Sip Color for Mac | Color palettes on the menu bar. | Paid |
Developer Tools
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
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Captain | Manage docker container instantly from menubar. Open source. | Free |
Fork | A native, clean, poerful git/github client. Fast and lightweight, visual commit history, user-friendly interface. | Paid |
Hopper | A stunning disassembler & reverse engineering tool that lets you disassemble, decompile and debug your applications. |
Paid |
IconJar | Best for managing Icon library. Drag icons into your apps in any size or color, Bulk export icons in the sizes you need, Optimize SVGs and make them production ready. | Paid |
JuxtaText | A native alternative for Kaleidoscope or Meld for comparing text files. Newcomer. Free for now. | Free |
Peek | Quick look for coders. Preview anything! | Paid |
Paw/Rapid API | Native macOS app, visually appealing interface, advanced request scripting, dynamic values, response visualization, and support for REST | Paid |
ProxyMan | Open source alternative for Paw. Capture any request. Open source | |
Proxie | Another native client for debugging http traffic. Available only in selected countries. | Paid |
HTTPie | Command-line interface, human-friendly and easy to use. | Free |
Kaleidoscope | Meld for mac. Powerful diff and merge application supporting text, images, and folders. | Paid |
Meld | Gnome’s Meld. A simple yet effective diff tool. Free alternative for Kaleidoscope. A native build for apple silicon is available here. | Free |
DevUtils | All-in-one toolbox for developers. 42+ beautifully crafted useful developer tools, native macOS app, work offline. | Paid |
DevToys | Open sdource and free DevUtils alternative. | Free |
Red Lines Tools | Advanced Ruler for your desktop. add lines, grid, layout, image overlays, zoom tools, and measure tools on top of your windows. | Free |
Screenshot Studio | Create stunning screenshots in AppStore for you app. | Freemium |
SnippetsLab | Gist client. Native, clean snippet manager for mac. Support syntax highlighting. Integrates with github gist. | Paid |
Dash | An API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager | Paid |
Display & Monitors
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
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BetterDisplay | Must have if you external monitor. Flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR extra brightness, virtual screens, DDC control, extra dimming, PIP/streaming, EDID override and lots more! | Free |
MonitorControl | Control your display’s brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs. | Free |
Dock Replacement
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
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InfyniDock | Scrollable Dock. | Paid |
Dockx | It allows users to create multiple custom docks, each with its own set of applications, documents, and folders for easy access. | Paid |
DockDoor | Window peeking for macOS | Free |
Taskbar | Windows style taskbar for mac Free for V1. | Free |
Cdock | cDock gives you full control over the Dock. Powerful. Some advanced features requires disabling system integrety protection. | Paid |
Sidebarapp | Taskbar alternative | Paid |
Dockview (Beta) | ActiveDock2/Hyperdock alternative. | Freemium |
Extensions & Services
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
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Actions | Supercharge shortcuts app with lots of additional actions. | Free |
Data Jar | Data store for Shortcuts. Stores key value pairs | Free |
FinderFix | Open finder windows every time with same size ! | Free |
Hush | Noiseless Browsing.Block nags to accept cookies and privacy invasive tracking in Safari on Mac, iPhone and iPad. | Free |
Manila: | A Finder extension for changing folder colors from context menu | Free |
Music Decoy | Stop launching the Music app whenever you press ▶ Play | Free |
OpenInTerminal | Finder Toolbar app for macOS to open the current directory in Terminal, iTerm, Hyper or Alacritty. | Free |
PowerPhotos | Merge Mac Photos libraries, find duplicate photos, and more | Paid |
ProNotes | Popclip for Apple Notes. ProNotes shows an easy-to-reach formatting bar above selected text. Supports markdows and slash commands. Press ⌘ P in Notes to quickly search for notes using a keyboard-friendly interface. Has paid AI feature. 💡If you want to use this with with popclip, make sure to add Notes and ProNotes into excluded list in popclip settings. |
Freemium |
Sink It | Browser Extension. Supercharge your Reddit experience with improved comments navigation, adaptive dark mode, easier upvoting, and more. | Free |
SymbolicLinker | A contextual menu plugin for Finder that allows users to make symbolic links in the Finder. | Free |
SyntaxHighlight | A Quick Look extension for highlight source code files on macOS. Has support for many themes. A free alternative to Peek | Free |
Toolbox Pro | Powerful New Actions For Apple Shortcuts. | Paid |
TunesArt | Display a gorgeous album cover on your desktop | Freemium |
Finder Alternative
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
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QSpace | A better Finder. Multilayout. | Paid |
Forklift | Best for mounting cloud storage. | Paid |
Folders | A tree-style file manager on their Mac. Clean, functional UI. | Freemium |
Gif Recorder
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
---|---|---|
Gfisk | A small little utility to convert video to gif. Also has a cli version. | Free |
Gifox | Offers high-quality GIF recordings, supports various recording modes (fullscreen, window, selection), includes a built-in organizer for your GIFs, and offers sharing options. | Paid |
LICEcap | Lightweight and easy to use, allows you to adjust the capture area | Free |
Hide Menubar Icons
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
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ICE | - Hide menu bar items. - Always Hidden menu bar section. - Show hidden items when hovering over the menu bar. - Show hidden items when an empty area in the menu bar is clicked. - Show hidden items by scrolling or swiping in the menu bar. Automatically rehide. |
Free |
Vannila | A simple menubar icons manager. | Freemium |
Hiddenbar | Easily toggle the visibility Customizable Sections Free and Lightweight. Open Source |
Free |
Dozer | Another Simple and lightweight mac menubar manager. | Free |
Barbee | Powerful. The enhanced mode offers you a separate menu bar under the original one. | Paid |
Bartender | Paid alternative for ICE. | Paid |
Image Compression
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
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Clop | As long as the Clop app is running, every time you copy an image to your clipboard, Clop will optimise it to the smallest possible size. | Freemium |
ImageOptim | Best image compressor | Free |
Permute | Best video/audio/image converter. Has inbuilt compression option. | Paid |
TinyPNG | Simple little tool to compress PNG. Lightweight. Open source. | Free |
Image Viewers & Managers
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
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ApolloOne | Image Viewer with somewhat complex UI | Paid |
FlowVision | Waterfall-style image viewer for macOS, offering a smooth and immersive browsing experience. | Free |
Lyn | No1. Lightweight, and fast media browser and viewer for designed for Photographers, Graphic Artists and Web Designers | Paid |
Pixea | Newcomer. Open source. | Free |
Markdown Editor
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
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Bear | A clean & beatiful note taking app. Meticulously designed. When using as a new window, it can act as a standalone editor. One of the best markdown editor & viewer. |
Freemium |
Typora | A clean and minimal markdown editor | Paid |
MarkText | If you want GFM code block, Math formula, Flowchart support, Sequence diagram etc in clean inteface, then this is it. Cool themes. Open source. | Free |
MacDown | Around since ages. Same old Macdown. | Free |
MarkEdit | TextEdit, but with Markdown. Simple. Leightweight. | Free |
Notary | Fast, desktop-first & Vim-friendly markdown editor | Free |
Media Player
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
---|---|---|
IINA | Built on mpv, Picture-in-Picture Mode, Subtitle support, Mouse & Trackpad guesture, Keyboard shortcuts, Low system resources. Open Source. | Free |
Miscellaneous Apps
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
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ABetterFinderRename | A Better Finder Rename’s huge array of renaming options is organized into 15 intuitive categories that cover all the text, character, position, conversion and truncation features | Paid |
AirBuddy | AirBuddy lives in your menu bar and provides a quick look at your wireless devices’ battery statuses, supports quick action shortcuts for connecting or disconnecting your devices | Paid |
Badgeify | Add any app to your mac menu bar with notifications & badges. | Paid |
Confectionery | A browser to take cleaner screenshots of websites | Free |
Clyde | Prevents your Mac from being stolen while you’re away. | Free |
Dropover | Ingenious. Just shake your cursor and drop whatever you are dragging onto the shelf. Then it disappears. Appears again on demand from menubar or with keyboard shortcut. Keeps desktop clean. | Paid |
Homerow | Navigate mac UI with just keyboard without mouse! Keyboard shortcuts for every button in macOS. | Paid |
HocusFocus | A Mac menu bar utility that hides your inactive windows. | Free |
Image2Icon | Easy, drag&drop icon creation | Freemium |
Irvue | Stunning wallpapers from unsplash | Free |
Keepitshot | Say Goodbye to “Scrrenshot.png. Welcome Searchable,Meaningful renames with AI for all your screenshots. |
Freemium |
KeyClu | Overview of all shortcuts of an app. | Free |
Klack | Satisfying sound with every keystroke | Paid |
LyricsX | Ultimate lyrics app for macOS. Now revived by new dev. Open source. | Free |
MacTube | Native Streaming Video Player for macOS. Without ads. | Free |
MediaMate | Fresh visuals for Volume, Brightness and Now Playing. Get a quick look at which media is currently playing. Tucked away in the notch! | Paid |
Mela | Award winning recipe app. Native | Paid |
Motrix | A all in all one download managers thar Support downloading HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, etc. Open source | Free |
Multi | Create custom, lightweight macOS apps from websites | Free |
Paletro | Search within menu bar by pressing ⇧⌘P, you have access to all of the functionality of current focused app, including keyboard shortcuts for the most common operations. | Paid |
PopClip | Must have. PopClip appears when you select text with your mouse, floating, providing instant access to useful actions. Avoids extra right or left clicks. Huge collection of extensions. Some examples are- - Text selction -> Formatting:Bold, italic and underline. - Text selction -> Send to Email/Messages - Text selction -> copy as markdown - Text selction -> Send to dropover - Text selction -> Google search - Text selction -> Send/appens to Notes, Evernote - Text selction -> Code block - Text selction -> Create github gist (With SnippetsLab) - Url selction -> Bookmark url (Raindrop, anybox, etc) 📦 You can easily create your extension with PopMaker |
Paid |
Progressive Downloader | Download manager for your Mac. Native | Free |
Receipts | Scan documents, organize by category, date, or payment status, set payment reminders, and export flexibly. All-in-one finance management, right on your Mac. | Paid |
Rocket | Shows emoji picker when you type colon [ : ] |
Freemium |
Rocket Typist | Create snippets to automatically expand into longer text, saving time on repetitive typing. | Freemium |
Shortcat | A free alternative for Homerow | Free |
Subtitlr | The easiest way to get subtitles on a Mac. | Free |
Text Shot | Text Shot is a universal (iOS/iPadOS/macOS) application that lets you take text snippets and create beautiful shareable images (text shots). | Only $2 |
Transnomino | A free & effective batch rename utility for the Mac. | Free |
Unclutter | A alternative to dropover. Appears from behind the top menubar. | Paid |
Ulysses | Amazing writing app, with grammar check. Expensive. | $50/year |
Music Player
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
---|---|---|
Sleeve2 | A floating cool music player with unlimited themes, artwork & typography ! Simply Stunning. | $5 |
Mikron | A content oriented mini music player. | Free |
Museeks | A simple, clean and cross-platform music player | Free |
Neptunes | Control your music from menu bar with Apple Music or Spotify. | Free |
Elmedia Player | Plays both video and audio. Adaptive interface. | Freemium |
Vox Music Player | Mac Music Player for Hi-Res music | Freemium |
Doppler Music Player | Built for people who buy music | Paid |
Swinsian | A doppler alternative. Expensive | Paid |
Tuneful | Not really a stansalone player, but to control music playback for both Spotify and Apple Music and see the currently playing song directly in the menu bar. Lots of themes, cool looking, customizable, open source. | Free |
Notch
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
---|---|---|
BoringNotch | Best free Dynamic Island like capability for Mac. Smooth music control & battery indicator. color themes. Support for Macbook Air. More features on the roadmap. Not so boring notch? Yeah ? | Free |
Forehead | Hide the Notch and round the corners | Free |
NotchNook | Widgets, live actions, files shelf, a thousand options, NotchNook is a true center of utilities. Little buggy. | Paid |
NotchDrop | Use your MacBook’s notch like Dynamic Island for temporary storing files and AirDrop | Free |
Peripherals (Mouse & Keyboard)
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
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BetterTouchTool | No 1 must have app on any new mac. Custom Gestures: Create custom touchpad, Magic Mousen gesture. Keyboard Shortcuts: Assign custom keyboard shortcuts to virtually any action or sequence of actions including running applescript or javascript. Mouse Customization: Assign mouse button to keyboard shortcuts with predefined condition. Some examples are: 1. Orange traffic button to hide and Green traffic button to maximise. 2. Middle button hold on an app to app expose 3. Button 4 + Scroll to -> Fn + Cmd + F4 -> app switching 4. Button 5 + scroll -> Cmd + ` (backtick) -> window switching 5. Trigger with double modifier key press like shift + shift, Fn +Fn 6. Mission Control but with hidden windows |
only $ 12 |
CustomShortcuts | Develop keyboard shortcuts for most Mac programs to streamline navigating menu hierarchies and ensure accurate titles. This functionality integrates with KeyClu, which displays all active shortcuts for the current application. | Free |
Hyperkey | Remap the Caps Lock key to function as a combination of Shift, Control, Option, and Command, creating a new modifier key. This is perfect for users who rarely use Caps Lock for its original purpose. | Free |
LinearMouse | A free alternative to SteerMouse | Free |
MacMouseFix | Essential, if you use normal mouse. Provides smooth scroll. 💡Note: For BTT, all mouse button actions needs to be disabled (Keeping only smooth scroll enabled) so that Button events are recognized in BTT. |
Freemium. |
SteerMouse | Smooth scrolling + Adjustable Acceleration Curves + Customizable Button Mapping + Cursor Speed Adjustment + Wheel Customization etc. | Paid |
BetterMouse | SteerMouse on steriods! It provides some additional option like Macros, DPI switching, Customizable acceleration curve etc. | Paid |
Karabiner-Elements | Remap any key with any other keys, Easily configure a single key (like Caps Lock) to act as a combination of keys ( like ctrl + opt+ cmd = capslock), layered key mappings etc. | Free |
Keyboard Maestro | Primarily an automation tool. Powerful Macro Creation. Launch, quit, or switch between applications as part of your macros, streamlining multitasking.Activate macros using a variety of triggers, including hotkeys, timers, USB device connections, and more. Over 100 built-in actions for manipulating files, controlling applications, managing windows, and more | Paid |
SuperKey | Keyboard Shortcuts, Macro creation + Hyperkey, Text Expansion and much more. | Paid |
Remote Desktop
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
---|---|---|
Duet | Remote Desktop, Second Display, Screen Mirroring Drawing Tablet, and More. | Paid |
Jump Desktop | Securely connect to and control other computers from your Mac.Cross-Platform Support, RDP freindly, Multi-Monitor Support, SSH Tunnel, File Transfer, Clipboard Sharing & more. | Paid |
Screens | Seamlessly control your computer from your iPhone, iPad, Mac or Vision Pro. Has support encrypted connection (SSH tunnel) to connect back to your computer. | Paid |
Rss Feed Reader
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
---|---|---|
Lire | Native. Clean. Meticulously designed. Can fetch full article for various feeds including reddit. | Paid |
Reeder | Sleek and intuitive interface, supports multiple services (Feedly, Feedbin, Feed Wrangler, and more), customizable themes, and sync across devices. | Paid |
NewsExplorer | Native macOS app, iCloud sync across Apple devices, offline reading, customizable interface, support for notifications. Can fetch full article from almost anywhere. | Paid |
Vienna | Free and open-source, customizable interface, smart folders, article tagging, offline reading, and integration with various sharing services. | Free |
Unread | An RSS Reader with best typography and color themes. | Freemium |
Screenshot
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
---|---|---|
CleanShotx | No1. Makes your screenshots better. Adds cool gradients to backgrounds. | Paid |
Shottr | Best open source screenshot tool. | Freemium |
Xnip | Interesting concept. | Freemium |
Xnapper | Beautiful screenshots for social media and marketting. | Freemium |
Social-Media & News
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
---|---|---|
HacKit | A native macOS Cocoa app for reading Hacker News. Beautifully Designed. | Free |
IceCubesApp | The best mastadon client available for Mac and iOS among all. Cool themes, cutomizable. Sonoma only. | Free |
Monal | A native xmpp client for ios & macos. Offers rich image previews. Open source. | Free |
System Admin Tools
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
---|---|---|
EnvPane | An preference pane for environment variables. | Free |
Hosts | Hosts - A sys pref pane for /etc/hosts | Free |
Platypus | Platypus is a developer tool that creates native Mac applications from command line scripts such as shell scripts or Python, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, JavaScript and PHP programs. | Free |
ProcessSpy | View macOS processes with command line arguments. | Free |
PLIST Editor | A gem from VDT Labs, great Xcode alternative to visualise and edit PLIST files. Native. | Paid |
ShellHistory | A native app to backup, sync and organize your shell (bash, zsh etc) history. | Paid |
SSH Config Editor | All in one ssh config manager. One any remote host in your fevorite terminal with just click from toolbar. Beautifully designed. It can read from ~/.ssh/config, group them, give them cool icons. Supports jump hosts, local and remote port forwading, key pair generation. It has inbuilt known-hosts viewer where one can easily manipulate them. Must have for system admins. |
Paid |
SwiftDialog | Create native dialogs with title, text, images & action buttions for easy user-notifications on macOS. Format text with markdown. | Free |
System Utilities
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
---|---|---|
AppCleaner | Remove apps along with it’s leftover data. Simple. From freemacsoft. | Free |
App Tamer | Control heat and fan noise, extend your battery time and increase the amount of CPU power available for you frontmost application. App Tamer comes preconfigured to automatically reduce the CPU and battery usage of many other applications when they are idle. | Paid |
Archify | Save space by turning universal binaries to native | |
BetterZip | Doesn’t automatically extract zip. Can browse inside zip file. Gnome’s File Roller for mac. | Paid |
Command X | Cut and paste files in Finder | Free |
DaisyDisk | Award winning design. Analyze disk usage and free up disk space. Must have. | Paid |
Find Any File | FAF can find files that Spotlight doesn’t, e.g. on network (NAS) and other external volumes, hidden ones inside bundles and package. Search with name, extension, date range, size, kind etc. Has hierarchical view and image preview. | Free |
FiScript | Add option to Finder context menu. | Free |
Gapplin | Must Have. Preview any svg file with ease. Can scale and export as well. | Free |
HoudahSpot | A paid alternative for Find any file. Many search criteria can be combined in many ways. Powerful & asthetic. | Paid |
Latest | A free and open source app for macOS that checks if all your apps are up to date. | Free |
Mac-Monitor | Red Canary Mac Monitor is an advanced, stand-alone system monitoring tool tailor-made for macOS security research. Cleaner UI and more powerful than Activity Monitor. | Free |
MacPacker | Archive manager for macOS. A free alternative to BetterZip - Preview and navigate through archives - Support for nested archives - Drag & drop files from the archive to any other app. - Open source |
Free |
MacUpdater | Track the latest updates of all applications installed on your Mac. Updating, downloading, installing & cleaning up, everything in one app. | Paid |
Memory Cleaner | Find the most memory consuming apps and free up RAM with one click from menu bar. | Free |
Middle | Add middle click to your Mac. For magic mouse & trackpad. | Free |
Mist | A Mac utility that automatically downloads macOS Firmwares / Installers. | Free |
One Switch | Toogle anything from menubat. All of your powerful switches at one place | Paid |
Only Switch | Free alternative of One Switch. Has shortcut actions as well. | Free |
PearCleaner | A beautifully designed appcleaner. Can find lot more than Appcleaner. | Free |
Shareful | Another gem from Sindre Sorhus. Add extra powers to the share menu: copy, save as, open in, and more. Available in any app that has a share button. | Free |
Speediness | Check your internet speed in little native app. | Free |
Squirreldisk | What’s taking your hard disk space? A free alternative for DaisyDisk | Free |
SuperDuper! | Create exact, bootable backups of your Mac’s hard drive & restore from it. | Paid |
Swiftbar | Easily add custom menu bar programs with just shell scripts ! | Free |
SwiftQuit | Automatic quitting of macOS apps when closing their last window (clicking the red x). It can be configured to quit when the last window of any app closed, or restricted to a specific list of apps. Additionally, you can exclude apps you dont want to quit automatically. | Free |
Tembo | Another friendly file search assistant for Mac. Very Fast. | Paid |
TrashMe 3 | Clean your Mac and uninstall apps. A paid alternative for Appcleaner & PearCleaner | Paid |
Text Editors
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
---|---|---|
CotEditor | gEdit for Mac. | Free |
TextMate | Lightweight, supports various programming languages, syntax highlighting, | Free |
Watt | A high performance text editor for macOS. | Free |
Bean | Rich text processor for mac. | Free |
Tot | Lighweight tiny sycky note editor. Has popclip extension. | Free |
VPN Services
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
---|---|---|
Mullavad VPN | It delivers excellent connection speeds, making it suitable for streaming, gaming, and browsing. It doesn’t require an email address maintains a strict no-logs policy, | $5/month |
IVPN | - Open source. Available for Mac and iOS. - Supports WireGuard or OpenVPN protocols. - Supports GUI or CLI (command-line interface). - AntiTracker that blocks ads, adware, malicious websites and data harvesting trackers. - Firewall / killswitch - Ability to configure as on-demand or always-on. - Pause VPN for when disabling VPN connection temporarily is required. - Auto-connect on launch / on joining insecure Wi-Fi. |
$2/week |
TunnelBear | Asthetic design. Sits on the menubar. Strong encryption. 2000 MB of data per month | Freemium |
Wrap | If you want a simple vpn without all the bells and whistles just to unblock a website temporarily then this is it. Provided by popular cloudflare service. | Free |
Window Managers
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
---|---|---|
Swish | Create magic with touchpad! Out of the world. Works with keyboard shortcuts as well. Smoothest of them all. | Paid |
Moom | Around since ages. Lightweight. | Paid |
Wins.cool | Does lot more than snapping windows. Show app preview in dock. Lightweight. | Paid |
Magnet | Simple and intuitive, allows you to snap windows to edges and corners, supports custom shortcuts, and offers multiple screen support. | Paid |
Penc | Trackpad-oriented window manager for macOS. Double press and hold command key to activate Penc. Perform two-finger gestures to move or resize any window. Then release command key to take effect. A free alternative to swish. | Free |
Rectangle | Magnet Alternative. Open source. Free | Free |
Amethyst | Free and open-source, tiling window manager, supports multiple layouts (e.g., tall, wide, fullscreen). | Free |
Divvy | Grid-based window resizing, customizable grid size, supports keyboard shortcuts, easy drag-and-drop interface, and multiple monitor support. | Paid |
BetterSnapTool | Sister of BetterTouchTool. Feature Rich. | $3 |
Window Switchers
Applications | Description | Paid/Free |
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1Piece | Application switcher, window manager, keyboard/mouse utility app and much more. - It redefines cmd + tab with window previews and lots of customization. Does better than alt+tab or any other apps. - It has its own window switchers which can be activated with keyboard shortcut, hot corner, mouse button press or even mouse gesture. Customizable appearence, app exclusion. - Powerful hot corner with many customization options. - Powerful use of mouse wheel. For example, you can switch tabs on safari just by scrolling. - Apart from that it has many other options like Focus Window, Adjust Windows, Split Assist, Hide/Wrap Mouse Cursor, Modifier Key Twice, App Menu Bar, Switch Active App, Hide/Show Dock, Multi-Display Support, Stage Manager Extensions, Reboot Apps, Quit All Apps etc. |
Free |
Alt+Tab | Windows style Alt+Tab for mac | Free |
Context | List, search & scroll based window switchers, that shows windows not apps. An auto-hiding Sidebar lists your windows grouped by Space. To switch just bring the cursor over to the one you want and click. Its basically a Dock — for your windows. | Paid |
Command-Tab Plus | Applications and Windows Switcher for Mac, Witch, Context Alternative. | Paid |
DocFlipper | Cmd+Tab switcher with bookmarks. Asthetic & beautifully designed. | Paid |
Rcmd | Switch apps instantly using the ⌘ Right Command key. | Paid |
Witch | List style window switcher. Lots of customization. | Paid |
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