awesome-mac
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This repo is a collection of awesome Mac applications and tools for developers and designers.
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Awesome Mac
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
![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] means open source. click the icon to see the item's repository;
![Freeware][Freeware Icon] means free to use, or free personal license;
![App Store][app-store Icon] means App store hyperlink;
![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon] means hyperlink to a corresponding Awesome list for the item;
✦ My macOS application:
Contents
- Awesome Mac
- Contents
- Reading and Writing Tools
- Developer Tools
- Design and Product
- Communication
- Data Recovery Tools
- Audio and Video Tools
- Download Management Tools
- Cloud Storage
- Input Methods
- Browsers
- Translation Tools
- Education
- Finance
- Encryption
- Security Tools
- Proxy and VPN Tools
- Utilities
- Gaming Software
- Remote Login Software
- QuickLook Plugins
- Third Party App Markets
- Mac App Download Sites
- Podcasts
- Contributors
- Backers
- Sponsors
- 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. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- 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. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- CotEditor - Lightweight plain-text editor for macOS. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Emacs - A popular text editor used mainly on Unix-based systems by programmers, scientists, engineers, students, and system administrators. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- Helix - A post-modern modal text editor. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Lapce - Lightning-fast and powerful code editor. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- LightTable - The next generation code editor. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- micro - Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Nova - The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.
- Plain Text Editor - Simple distraction-free notepad. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Sublime Text - Sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance, Sublime Text Plugins. ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- SubEthaEdit - Powerful Text Editing. Write articles, code, notes or meeting minutes with friends – wherever they are. Ideal for extreme programming sessions, tutoring and creative writing [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]]
- TextMate - Editor that brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Tot - Tot is an elegant, simple way to collect & edit text. It’s your tiny text companion! ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Vim - Highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient, Vim Plugins. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- Vimr - Refined Vim Experience for OS X. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Zed - A high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Office
- LibreOffice - LibreOffice is free and open-source software office software. Software is tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- WPS - Is a cross-platform office software suite. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Pages - Documents that stand apart. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Keynote - Build stunning presentations. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Numbers - Create impressive spreadsheets. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Microsoft Office - Unmistakably Office, designed for Mac. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- OnlyOffice - An office suite that combines text, spreadsheet and presentation editors allowing to create, view and edit local documents. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- SoftMaker Office - A complete office suite that aims for full compatibility with Microsoft Office documents
Markdown Tools
- Archimedes - Native macOS Markdown editor geared toward mathematical writing with inline LaTeX support.
- EME - Open-source Markdown editor with an interface like Chrome. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- 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 OS X. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- 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. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Marp - Markdown presentation writer with cross-platform support. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- 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.
- TextNut - Rich-format editor featuring Markdown export and Markdown syntax hints. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- 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. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Note-taking
- Affine - Affine is the next-generation collaborative knowledge base for professionals. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Agenda - Date-focused note taking app for both planning and documenting your projects. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- AppFlowy - Open-source alternative to Notion. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Bear Writer - Beautiful, flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Boostnote - Note-taking app made for programmers. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Craft - Notetaking and writing made beautiful. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Dnote - A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and a web interface. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Email Me - Email yourself and much more with just one tap, native on macOS, iOS and WatchOS. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Evernote - Infamous note-taking app, available on many platforms. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- FSNotes - File System Notes is a modern notes manager, native on macOS and iOS. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- 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 todo list manager with synchronisation capabilities. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Logseq - Privacy-first, open-source knowledge base that works on top of local plain-text Markdown and Org-mode files. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- MarginNote - In-depth PDF and EPUB reading, learning, managing and note taking app.
- massCode - Cross platform open-source code snippets manager for developers with markdown and mermaid support. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- 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. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Notes - Clean, simple note-taking app. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- NotePlan 3 - Your tasks, notes, and calendar, plain-text markdown files. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Noteship - Turn notes into knowledge (spreadsheet view, heading summaries, etc.). Works offline, everything is saved locally. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Notion - Notion is the all-in-one workspace. From notes, tasks, wikis, to database, Notion is all you need. Works great for teams and individuals.
- Obsidian - Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
- OneNote - Note-taking app by Microsoft. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- OutlineEdit 3 - Fully-featured outline editor, for everyone who loves great structured notes. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Saber - Cross platform stylus and text notetaking app. Supports image and pdf imports, can sync. ![App Store][app-store Icon]![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- SideNotes - Quick notes on the screen side. Take notes while working with other apps. Use Markdown for text formatting.
- Standard Notes - An end-to-end encrypted notes app for digitalists and professionals. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- QOwnNotes - Open-source notepad with markdown support and todo list manager. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Quiver - The Programmer's Notebook, lets you easily mix text, code, Markdown and LaTeX within one note, edit code with an awesome code editor and live preview Markdown and LaTeX.
- AliYuQue - Cloud note-taking knowledge management, collaboration platform, Markdown based writing, support embedded flow chart, brain diagram, timing sequence, code rendering, Sketch board creation, personal knowledge sharing, etc. Compared to youdao cloud note and evernote similar products, which include all of its functions, support knowledge sharing and more powerful creation, collaboration and editor, it comes from alibaba ant financial.![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- VNote - A Qt-based application designed to provide a pleasant note-taking platform with excellent editing experience. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Journaling
- Day One - Excellent journaling app using text, photos, video, audio, location data, and more. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Journey - Journaling app with many features and with apps for every platform available. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- linked - Link your thoughts to days, distraction free. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
Writing
- Scrivener - The quintessential word processor for writers.
- THORN - All you need to power personal writing and website building.
Ebooks
- Calibre - Free and open-source e-book computer software application suite which runs on multiple platforms, allows users to manage e-book collections as well as create, edit, and read e-books. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Clearview - Tabbed style e-book reader for PDF, EPUB (DRM free), CHM, and MOBI. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- iChm - Ebook reader for CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML help) files. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Kindle App - Amazon official reading app of kindle.
- Klib - New way to manage highlights for Kindle and iBooks. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Scribus - Professional layout and publishing software supporting EPS and SVG import/export, and PDF support. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Sigil - Multi-platform EPUB ebook Editor. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Simple Comic - EBook reader for graphic novels in PDF, CBZ, CBR format. Find command powered by Live Text on recent Macs ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
RSS
- Elytra - A Simple & Private RSS Feed Reader with native rendering for macOS & iOS ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Feedy - An elegant and lightweight RSS client and news reader for your Mac. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Leaf - Amazing news reader dedicated to help you enjoy your daily news and easily manage your subscriptions.
- NetNewsWire - It’s a free and open source feed reader for macOS. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Doughnut - Beautiful, open-source podcast catcher for Mac. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ReadKit - Mac read-later client supporting all major providers: Instapaper, Pocket and Readability. Even more, ReadKit is a full-featured RSS reader as well.
- Reeder 5 - News reader for Feedbin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler and so on. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Vienna - RSS/Atom reader for Mac OS X. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Others
- SwifDoo PDF - The best PDF Editor/converter that’ll help you transform your PDF file, edit it, compress, or password-protect it in just a couple of simple steps
- bindPDF - Combine multiple PDF files into a single PDF file using a friendly UI. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- CHM Reader - Read Compiled HTML (.chm) documents on your Mac. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Chmox - Read CHM documents on your Mac. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Highlights - The PDF Reader for Research on Mac, iPad & iPhone. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- PDF Expert - Read, annotate and edit PDFs, change text and images.
- PDFgear - AI-integrated PDF editor providing view, edit, annotate, protect, convert, Copilot assistant, and more possibilities. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- PDF Reader Pro - You Can view, create, sign, convert and compress any PDF documents. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Skim - PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- SkyFonts - The simplest way to try, install, and manage fonts.
- Spillo - Powerful, beautiful and amazingly fast Pinboard client for OS X.
- Tad - Application for viewing and analyzing tabular data such as CSV files. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- texifier - Great LaTeX editor for Mac with auto-update PDF and autocomplete LaTeX commands.
- UPDF - Free PDF editor that makes it possible to read, annotate and edit PDFs, change text and images on Mac. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Zotero - Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Developer Tools
IDEs
- Android Studio - The official IDE for Android, based on Intellij IDEA. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- CodeRunner - A lightweight, multi-language programming text editor and IDE for quickly building, running and debugging code.
- Deco IDE - The best IDE for building React Native apps. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Eclipse - Popular open-source IDE, mainly for Java but with plugin support for a wide array of languages and platforms. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Espresso - The web editor for Mac is back. For people who make delightful, innovative and fast websites.
- JetBrains Toolbox App - Manage installed JetBrains tools, download new ones and open recent projects. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- 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. It is an alternative to Visual Studio by Microsoft with the additional benefit of getting Resharper features that are not available on Visual Studio for Mac.
- WebStorm - The smartest JavaScript IDE by JetBrains. FREE for Students, check here for more info.
- Haskell for Mac - A Modern Development Environment for Haskell. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- NetBeans IDE - Free and open-source IDE, mainly used for Java development, but supports many other languages and frameworks. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Nova - From the creators of Coda and Transmit, bring you a beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.
- Visual Studio Community for Mac - Free version. It supports classroom learning, individual developers and small companies. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Visual Studio Code - Microsoft's free & open-source editor, TypeScript friendly, VSCode Plugins. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- Xamarin Studio - Free cross platform C# IDE. Xamarin Studio supports iOS, Android and .Net development ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- Xcode - Essential IDE for iOS/macOS development. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Zed - A high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Spyder - Powerful scientific environment written in Python, for Python.
Developer Utilities
- BetterRename - The most powerful and complete Mac file renaming application on the market. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Beyond Compare - Compare files and folders using simple, powerful commands that focus on the differences you are interested in and ignore those you are not. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Bidbar - Manage bash commands from the menu bar and run them with keyboard shortcuts.
- Cacher - Cloud-based, team-enabled code snippet manager with Gist sync, VSCode/Atom/Sublime packages and Mac/Windows/Linux/Web clients.
- canSnippet - Powerful snippet management tool that works across the whole operating system, always accessible via simple keyboard shortcut.
- CodeKit - Web development tool which can automatically compile Less, Sass, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Jade and JavaScript, auto-refresh browsers and much more.
- CodeMenu - An advanced snippets manager with features like side window, access in IDEs using Suggestions app, natural language search, placeholders, code running, HTML preview and more.
- Conduktor - Kafka desktop client. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- CubicBezier - CubicBezier Generator for macOS. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Cutter - Powerful multi-platform reverse engineering tool. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- DevHub - A feature-rich offline application, meticulously crafted to support developers in their daily tasks. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Dash - Awesome API documentation browser and code snippet manager. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Deeplink Buddy - Deeplink managers, made by developer for developers.
- DiffMerge - Application to visually compare and merge files. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- EnvPane - OS X preference pane for environment variables. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- FinderGo - Open terminal quickly from Finder. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Finicky - Application that allows you to set up rules that decide which browser is opened for every link that would open the default browser. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Gas Mask - Simple hosts file manager for Mac OS X. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Gemini - Intelligent duplicate file finder.
- Hex Fiend - Fast and clever open source hex editor. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- Hosts.prefpane - System preference pane to manage your hosts file. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Icon Preview - Preview your app icon and menu bar icon. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- iHosts - The only
/etc/hosts
editor on Mac App Store. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon] - ILLA Cloud - Low-code internal tool builder. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- ImHex - A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Integrity - Free website link checker for Mac. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Kaleidoscope - Powerful compare tool for text, images and folders. Works perfectly with git, svn or other version control tools.
- Koala - GUI application for Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript compilation. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Loca Studio - Analyze, review, and edit app translations. Supports Xcode Localization Catalog (xcloc) and XLIFF 1.2 file formats. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- MacSystemColors - Mac app that shows all system colors in light and dark mode for Cocoa developers. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- MJML - Framework that utilizes a semantic syntax and a rich standard components library, which allow users to easily create responsive emails. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- PaintCode - PaintCode is a unique vector drawing app that generates Objective-C or Swift code in real time, acting as a bridge between developers and graphic designers.
- Pasteboard Viewer - Inspect the system pasteboards. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- PPRows - Application to calculate how many lines of code you write. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- PushMate - PushMate is a MacOS app that solves common push notification problems by ensuring your push payloads are correct.
- Responsively - A must-have devtool for web developers for quicker responsive web development. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- SCM Breeze - Set of shell scripts (for bash and zsh) that enhance your interaction with git. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- SecureCRT - Terminal emulation which supports SSH, Telnet or other protocols.
- Site Sucker - SiteSucker is a Macintosh application that automatically downloads websites from the Internet. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- SnippetsLab - Easy-to-use code snippets manager.
- Solarized - Clean and beautiful color theme. Works well with iTerm, JetBrains products, Vim etc.
- StarUML - Powerful UML app.
- Swiftify - Objective-C to Swift code converter and Xcode & Finder extensions.
- SwiftPlantUML - Generate and view class diagrams from Xcode for Swift code. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- SwitchHosts - Free and open-source app for hosts management & switching. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- SYM - GUI Application to symbolicate iOS crash log. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- TeXstudio - Integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Timelane - Visually profile your asynchronous code. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Touch Bar Simulator - Use the Touch Bar on any Mac. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Visual Paradigm - All-in-one UML, SysML, BPMN Modeling Platform for Agile, EA TOGAF ADM Process Management.
- Woodpecker - View iOS app's Sandbox files, UserDefaults, Keychain items on a Mac. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- WWDC - The Mac OS unofficial WWDC app. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Xcodes - Install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- XCSnippetsApp - Explore code snippets from the Swift and iOS community, view and edit the snippets before adding them conveniently to Xcode. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- zeplin - Collaboration tool for work between designers and developers. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ZOC Terminal - Terminal emulator which supports SSH, telnet, connections and other protocols.
- Nib Unlocker - .nib to .xib converter ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- He3 - Free and Modern Developer Utilities Toolbox. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Regular Expression Editors
- Patterns - Regular expression editor.
- Regex - Regular expression testing tool with an emphasis on simplicity.
- RegExRX - Development tool for regular expressions.
API Development and Analysis
- Cocoa Rest Client - Free, open-source, native Apple OS X app for testing HTTP/REST endpoints. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Insomnia - The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Paw - Advanced HTTP client.
- Postman - Powerful GUI platform to make your API development faster & easier, from building API requests through testing, documentation and sharing.![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Katalon Studio - Simplify API, Web, Mobile Automation Tests Free. Robust. Cross-platform. Automation testers from 160 countries with channels, GitHub repositories.![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- HTTPie - HTTPie is making APIs simple and intuitive for those building the tools of our time.![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- bruno - Bruno is a offline-only, fast and git-friendly opensource API client.![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Network Analysis
- Charles - HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet.
- James - Open-source proxy tool for checking and mapping requests with http as well as https. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Little Snitch - Network monitor with a world map for visualizing network connections.
- mitmproxy - Interactive intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Proxie - HTTP debugging proxy.
- Proxyman - Modern and intuitive HTTP debugging proxy for macOS. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Sniffnet - Application to comfortably monitor your network traffic. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Wireshark - The world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Apidog - All-in-One workspace for API Design, Documentation, Debug, Mock, Test.
Command Line Tools
- ack - A tool like grep, optimized for programmers. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- alacritty - A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- archey-osx - An archey script for OS X. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- asciinema - Easily record terminal sessions and replay them in a terminal as well as in a web browser. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- autojump - Replace
cd
with an intelligent autojump to easily navigate directories from the command line. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] - bash-it - Shameless ripoff of oh-my-zsh for bash. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- bat - A
cat(1)
clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] - ccat - The colorizing cat which works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ClamAV - A cross-platform, open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- cmatrix - CMatrix is based on the screensaver from The Matrix website. It shows text flying in and out in a terminal like as seen in "The Matrix" movie. It can scroll lines all at the same rate or asynchronously and at a user-defined speed. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- cool-retro-term - Good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- dark-mode - Control dark mode from the command-line. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- eureka - CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Fish - Smart and user-friendly shell, which is similar with zsh. ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- fselect - Find files with SQL-like queries. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- GitHub CLI - gh is GitHub on the command line. It brings pull requests, issues, and other GitHub concepts to the terminal next to where you are already working with git and your code. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Glances - Glances is a cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Go2Shell - Go2Shell opens a terminal window to the current directory in Finder. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- htop - htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- httpie - Modern command line HTTP client – user-friendly curl alternative with intuitive UI, JSON support, syntax highlighting, wget-like downloads, extensions, etc. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- hyper - A terminal built on web technologies. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- iTerm2 - iTerm2 is an amazing terminal emulator for OS X. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- itunes-remote - Software for controlling iTunes via the terminal. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- job - JOB, make your short-term command as a long-term job. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- kitty - A cross-platform, fast, feature full, GPU based terminal emulator. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- lnav - A log file navigator. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- m-cli - Swiss Army Knife for macOS. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Mac-CLI - The ultimate tool to manage your Mac. Automatize the usage of your OS X system. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Magic Wormhole - Get Things From One Computer To Another, Safely. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- mas - Simple command line interface for the Mac App Store. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Miller - Like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- mycli - CLI for MySQL that can do auto-completion and syntax highlighting. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ndm - Manage npm straight from the couch. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- nushell - nushell is a modern, GitHub-era shell written in Rust. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- nvm - Node Version Manager is a POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- pgcli - Pgcli is a command line interface for Postgres with auto-completion and syntax highlighting. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Rebound - Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ripgrep (rg) - Very fast text searching tool similar to (but faster than) ack, ag or grep ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Serial - Full-featured serial terminal for the Mac.
- shallow-backup - Easily create text documentation of installed applications, dotfiles, and more. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ShellHistory - Backup, sync and organize your shell history ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- silver searcher (ag) - A code searching tool similar to ack, with a focus on speed. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- spaceship - A Zsh prompt for Astronauts. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Tabby (formerly Terminus) - Free terminal tool, built with TypeScript, heavily inspired by Hyper. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Taskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Termius - A beautiful SSH and SFTP client for Mac. It is also available for mobile. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- TextQL - Execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- thefuck - A interesting software that corrects errors in previous console commands. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- tldr - Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- tmux - "Terminal multiplexer", it enables a number of terminals (or windows) to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal. tmux is intended to be a simple, modern, BSD-licensed alternative to programs such as GNU screen. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- tmuxinator - Manage complex tmux sessions easily. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- trash - Move files and directories to the trash. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- VisiData - Terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Warp - Warp is a blazingly fast, rust-based terminal reimagined from the ground up to work like a modern app.
- WezTerm - A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer implemented in Rust. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- xonsh - Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Zsh - Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Awesome List][awesome-list Icon]
- ohmyzsh - A delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- xcodes - A command-line tool to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- xxh - Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- x-cmd - x-cmd is a vast and interesting collection of tools guided by the Unix philosophy.![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Frameworks For Hybrid Applications
- AppJS - Lightweight JavaScript UI library for creating mobile webapps that behave like native apps. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- create-dmg - Create a good-looking DMG for your macOS app in seconds. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Electrino - Desktop runtime for apps built on web technologies, using the system's own web browser engine. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Electron - Build cross platform desktop application with JavaScript, HTML and CSS. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ionic - Build amazing native and progressive web apps with Angular and open web technologies. One app running on everything. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- MacGap - Provides a lightweight JavaScript API for OS X integration, such as displaying native notifications or writing data to a file. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- nw.js - Build desktop application with HTML and JavaScript. It lets you call all
Node.js
modules directly from DOM and enables a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] - Qt - Cross-platform application framework.
- React Native for Ubuntu - Build Ubuntu desktop apps using React Native. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- React Native macOS - Build OS X desktop apps using React Native and Cocoa. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- react-desktop - React UI Components for macOS Sierra. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- ReactXP - Microsoft official production, support platform Web, iOS, Android and Windows UWP is still an ongoing work. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
Version Control
- Cornerstone - Powerful version control with a gorgeous interface.
- Fork - Fast and friendly Git client for Mac.
- Git Cola - Powerful, Fast, Lightweight and Friendly Git GUI. For those caffeine adicting users. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- Gitbar - Open-source,display GitHub contribution statistics on your menu bar. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- GitFinder - Fast and lightweight Git client for Mac with Finder integration.
- Gitfox - Commit faster, improve your code quality with superior diffs - and look good doing it. ![App Store][app-store Icon]
- GitHub Desktop - The official GitHub GUI. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon] ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
- GitKraken - The most popular Git GUI for Windows, Mac and Linux.
- GitUp - A simple & powerful Git client。![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- GitX-dev - Fork of Pieter's nice git GUI for OS X. Includes branch/tag sidebar and various fixes. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- Hub - Command-line wrapper for Git that makes you better at GitHub. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
- RelaGit - The elegant solution to graphical versi