awesome-macOS

A curated list of awesome applications, software, tools and shiny things for macOS.

Items marked with ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] are open-source software and link to the source code. Items marked with ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] are free (as in free beer).

Applications
- Audio
- Backup
- Chat Clients
- Data Recovery
- Developers
- E-Book Utilities
- Editors
- Email Utilities
- Finder
- Games
- Graphics
- News Readers
- Productivity
- Sharing Files
- Terminal
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- Video
- Window Management
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Applications

Audio

Audio Hijack - Record audio from any application like iTunes, Skype or Safari, or from hardware devices like microphones and mixers.
Audio Profile Manager - Allows you to pin input/output devices for each particular combination of connected devices. May suppress HDMI displays from being chosen.
BackgroundMusic - Record system audio, control audio levels for individual apps, and automatically pauses your music player when other audio starts playing and unpauses it afterwards. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
krisp - AI-powered app that removes background noise and echo from meetings leaving only human voice.
Plug - Discover and listen to music from Hype Machine. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Recordia - Record audio directly from the menu bar or with a global keyboard shortcut.
VOX Player - Play numerous lossy and lossless audio formats.
XLD - Rip/Decode/convert/play various "lossless" audio files. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]

Backup

Arq - Encrypted backups to Amazon, Dropbox, Google, OneDrive, etc.
Carbon Copy Cloner - Create incremental and fully bootable backups of your Mac to external storage.

Chat Clients

ChitChat - A native Mac app wrapper for WhatsApp Web. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Telegram - A messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super fast, simple and free. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Textual - An Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]

Data Recovery

Data Rescue - Comprehensive and professional data recovery for a multitude of scenarios.
DiskWarrior - Recover from filesystem corruptions when Disk Utility is out of options.

Developers

Anvil - Serve up static sites and Rack apps with simple URLs and zero configuration. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Base 2 - A GUI for managing SQLite databases.
CocoaRestClient - An app for testing REST endpoints. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Cork - A fast, intuitive Homebrew GUI ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
Dash - An API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager.
Decode - Converts Xcode Interface Builder files (Xib and Storyboard files) to Swift source code.
Fork - a fast and friendly git client for Mac.
DevUtils - All-in-one toolbox for developers. 42+ beautifully crafted useful developer tools, native macOS app, work offline.
Gas Mask - A simple hosts file manager which allows editing of host files and switching between them. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
gitbar - Open source github contribution stats on your Menu Bar. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
GitUp - A simple but powerful Git macOS app. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
GitX-dev - A fork (variant) of GitX, maintained and enhanced with productivity oriented changes. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Hopper Dissassembler - A Dissassembler for MacOS and Linux. Has a Demo option for 30 minutes of productivity.
Hosts - Edit hosts file. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Iconology - Edit Icons and then Export to Xcode, Icns, Ico, Favicon, Mac Iconset, or a Custom List of Sizes. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
ImageAlpha - Apply lossy compression on PNG files with or without transparency for more efficient files. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
ImageOptim - Makes images take up less disk space and load faster. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Integrity - Easily find your website's broken links. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Kaleidoscope - Powerful diff and merge application supporting text, images, and folders.
Knuff - The debug application for Apple Push Notification Service (APNs). ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Medis - A modern GUI for Redis.
Pasteboard Viewer - Inspect the system pasteboards. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Paw - The ultimate REST client.
pgMagic - A PostgreSQL client that lets you talk to your database in SQL or natural language.
Pods Updater - A macOS app which helps you manage dependency releases in your Podfile. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Postico - A modern PostgreSQL client.
Postgres.app - The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Proxyman - High-performance man-in-the-middle proxy to observe and manipulate HTTP/HTTPS requests. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Pusher - A free tool to do sandbox push notifications. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
PSequel - A PostgreSQL GUI tool. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
QorumLogs - Swift Logging Utility for Xcode & Google Docs. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Quiver - A delightful notebook for programmers that allows mixing rich text, code, markdown, LaTeX, and graphs.
Sequel Ace - A MySQL & MariaDB database manager. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Sequel Pro - A MySQL database manager. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
SnippetsLab - Manage and organise snippets of code.
SourceTree - A free Git & Mercurial client. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Swiftify - Objective-C to Swift code converter and Xcode & Finder extensions.
TablePlus - A modern, native GUI for multiple databases.
Touch Bar Simulator - The macOS Touch Bar Simulator as a standalone app. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Tower - The most powerful Git client.
Trailer - Configurable menubar Git notifications with accompanying native iOS app. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
Unused - An app for checking Xcode projects for unused resources. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Vagrant Manager - Manage your vagrant machines in one place with Vagrant Manager for macOS. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Versions - SVN GUI client for Mac.
WWDC - The WWDC app. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
Xcodes - Install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]

E-Book Utilities

Kindle App - Amazon Kindle App for macOS.

Editors

CotEditor - Lightweight plain-text editor for macOS. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Emacs - Port of Emacs to work as an macOS app. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
MacVim - Vim, the text editor. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Nova - The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.
Sublime Text 3 - The sophisticated text editor.
TextMate - A graphical text editor. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
VimR - Vim, refined. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]

Email Utilities

Airmail - Lightning fast email client designed for El Capitan.
MailMate - Advanced IMAP email client, featuring extensive keyboard control and Markdown support.
Mailplane - A tightly integreted client for Google Mail, Inbox, Calender, and Contacts.

Finder

ForkLift - File Manager and FTP/SFTP/WebDAV/Amazon S3 client.
Path Finder - A powerful dual-pane browser alternative to Finder.
Quicklook-Plugins - List of extra quicklook plugins to enable previewing more filetypes in the Finder.
TotalFinder - A powerful alternative to Finder.
XtraFinder - Adds useful features to Finder. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]