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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.

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Open-Source Software means open source. click the icon to see the item's repository;\ Freeware means free to use, or free personal license;\ means App store hyperlink;\ means hyperlink to a corresponding Awesome list for the item;

✦ My macOS application:

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.
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.
Lapce - Lightning-fast and powerful code editor.
LightTable - The next generation code editor.
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 - A popular, clean, and sleek editor with a plugin management system. 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.
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 - An office suite that combines text, spreadsheet and presentation editors allowing to create, view and edit local documents.
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.
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 OS X.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Noteship - Turn notes into knowledge (spreadsheet view, heading summaries, etc.). Works offline, everything is saved locally.
Notion - All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
OneNote - Note-taking app by Microsoft.
OutlineEdit 3 - Fully-featured outline editor, for everyone who loves great structured notes.
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.
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 - A Qt-based application designed to provide a pleasant note-taking platform with excellent editing experience.

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

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.
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 - Readest is an ebook reader with cross-platform access, powerful tools, and an intuitive interface.
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.
Follow 🧡 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.
ReadKit - Bookmark and RSS management client.
Reeder 5 - News reader for Feedbin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler 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 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.
Spillo - Powerful, beautiful and amazingly fast Pinboard client for OS X.
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

Developer Tools

IDEs

Android Studio - The official IDE for Android, based on Intellij IDEA.
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.
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.
Nova - Beautiful, fast, flexible Mac code editor from Panic.
Visual Studio Code - Microsoft's free & open-source editor, TypeScript friendly, VSCode Plugins.
Xamarin Studio - Free cross-platform C# IDE for iOS, Android, and .Net.
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

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.
Conduktor - Kafka desktop client.
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.
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.
ILLA Cloud - Low-code internal tool builder.
ImHex - Hex Editor for reverse engineers and programmers.
Integrity - Free website link checker for Mac.
Kaleidoscope - Compare text, images, and folders.
Koala - GUI application for Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript compilation.
Loca Studio - Analyze, review, and edit app translations.
MacSystemColors - Mac app that shows all system colors in light and dark mode for Cocoa developers.
MJML - Create responsive emails with a semantic syntax and rich components.
PaintCode - Vector drawing app that generates Objective-C or Swift code in real time.
Pasteboard Viewer - Inspect the system pasteboards.
PPRows - Application to calculate how many lines of code you write.
PushMate - Solves common push notification problems on macOS.
Responsively - A must-have devtool for web developers for quicker responsive web development.
SCM Breeze - Set of shell scripts (for bash and zsh) that enhance your interaction with git.
SecureCRT - Terminal emulation which supports SSH, Telnet or other protocols.
Site Sucker - Automatically downloads websites.
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.
SwitchHosts - Free and open-source app for hosts management & switching.
SYM - GUI Application to symbolicate iOS crash log.
TeXstudio - Integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents.
Timelane - Visually profile your asynchronous code.
Touch Bar Simulator - Use the Touch Bar on any Mac.
Visual Paradigm - All-in-one UML, SysML, BPMN modeling platform.
Woodpecker - View iOS app's Sandbox files, UserDefaults, Keychain items on a Mac.
WWDC - The Mac OS unofficial WWDC app.
Xcodes - Install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode.
XCSnippetsApp - Explore, view, and edit Swift and iOS code snippets for Xcode.
zeplin - Collaboration tool for work between designers and developers.
ZOC Terminal - Terminal emulator which supports SSH, telnet, connections and other protocols.
Nib Unlocker - .nib to .xib converter
He3 - Free and Modern Developer Utilities Toolbox.

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.
Insomnia - The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client.
Paw - Advanced HTTP client.
Postman - GUI platform for API development.
Katalon Studio - Simplify API, Web, and Mobile Automation Tests.
HTTPie - HTTPie is making APIs simple and intuitive for those building the tools of our time.
bruno - Bruno is a offline-only, fast and git-friendly opensource API client.

Network Analysis

Charles - HTTP proxy/monitor to view HTTP and HTTPS traffic.
James - Open-source proxy tool for checking and mapping requests with http as well as https.
Little Snitch - Network monitor with a world map for visualizing network connections.
mitmproxy - Interactive intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.
Proxie - HTTP debugging proxy.
Proxyman - Modern and intuitive HTTP debugging proxy for macOS.
Sniffnet - Application to comfortably monitor your network traffic.
Wireshark - The world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer.
Apidog - All-in-One workspace for API Design, Documentation, Debug, Mock, Test.

Command Line Tools

ack - A tool like grep, optimized for programmers.
Airlift - Upload & Merge Data with Attachments to Airtable.
alacritty - A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
archey-osx - An archey script for OS X.
asciinema - Easily record terminal sessions and replay them in a terminal as well as in a web browser.
autojump - Replace cd with intelligent autojump.
bash-it - Shameless ripoff of oh-my-zsh for bash.
bat - A cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
bclm - macOS command-line utility to limit max battery charge.
ccat - The colorizing cat which works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting.
ClamAV - Cross-platform, open-source antivirus engine.
cmatrix - Terminal screensaver inspired by "The Matrix" movie.
cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
cool-retro-term - Good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display.
CSV2Notion Neo - Upload & Merge CSV or JSON Data with Images to Notion Database.
dark-mode - Control dark mode from the command-line.
eureka - CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal.
Fish - Smart and user-friendly shell, which is similar with zsh.
fselect - Find files with SQL-like queries.
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.
Ghostty - A fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
Glances - Glances is a cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool.
Go2Shell - Go2Shell opens a terminal window to the current directory in Finder.
htop - htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'.
httpie - Modern command line HTTP client.
hyper - A terminal built on web technologies.
iTerm2 - iTerm2 is an amazing terminal emulator for OS X.
job - JOB, make your short-term command as a long-term job.
kitty - A cross-platform, fast, feature full, GPU based terminal emulator.
lnav - A log file navigator.
m-cli - Swiss Army Knife for macOS.
Mac-CLI - The ultimate tool to manage your Mac. Automatize the usage of your OS X system.
Magic Wormhole - Get Things From One Computer To Another, Safely.
MarkersExtractor - Marker metadata extraction and conversion tool and library for Final Cut Pro.
mas - Simple command line interface for the Mac App Store.
Miller - Like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON.
mycli - CLI for MySQL that can do auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
ndm - Manage npm straight from the couch.
nushell - nushell is a modern, GitHub-era shell written in Rust.
nvm - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions.
pgcli - Pgcli is a command line interface for Postgres with auto-completion and syntax
OpenRecall - Access your digital history, enhance memory and productivity, while maintaining privacy. highlighting.
Rebound - Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error.
ripgrep (rg) - Very fast text searching tool similar to (but faster than) ack, ag or grep
Serial - Full-featured serial terminal for the Mac.
shallow-backup - Easily create text documentation of installed applications, dotfiles, and more.
ShellHistory - Backup, sync and organize your shell history
silver searcher (ag) - A code searching tool similar to ack, with a focus on speed.
spaceship - A Zsh prompt for Astronauts.
Tabby (formerly Terminus) - Free terminal tool, built with TypeScript, heavily inspired by Hyper.
Taskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.
Termius - A beautiful SSH and SFTP client for Mac. It is also available for mobile.
TextQL - Execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV.
thefuck - A interesting software that corrects errors in previous console commands.
tldr - Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands.
tmux - Terminal multiplexer to manage multiple terminals from a single terminal.
tmuxinator - Manage complex tmux sessions easily.
trash - Move files and directories to the trash.
VisiData - Terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data.
Warp - Warp is a blazingly fast, rust-based terminal reimagined from the ground up to work like a modern app.
Wave - An open-source terminal that combines traditional terminal features with graphical capabilities like file previews, web browsing, and AI assistance.
WezTerm - A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer implemented in Rust.
xonsh - Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt.
Zsh - Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language.
ohmyzsh - A delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.
xcodes - A command-line tool to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode.
xxh - Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH.
x-cmd - x-cmd is a vast and interesting collection of tools guided by the Unix philosophy.
zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included (modern replacement for tmux and more).

Frameworks For Hybrid Applications

AppJS - Lightweight JavaScript UI library for creating mobile webapps that behave like native apps.
create-dmg - Create a good-looking DMG for your macOS app in seconds.
Electrino - Desktop runtime for web apps using the system's browser engine.
Electron - Build cross platform desktop application with JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
ionic - Build native and web apps with Angular and open web technologies.
MacGap - Lightweight JavaScript API for OS X integration.
nw.js - Build desktop apps with HTML and JavaScript.
Qt - Cross-platform application framework.
React Native for Ubuntu - Build Ubuntu desktop apps using React Native.
React Native macOS - Build OS X desktop apps using React Native and Cocoa.
react-desktop - React UI Components for macOS Sierra.
ReactXP - Microsoft platform for Web, iOS, Android, and Windows UWP.
Tauri - Create small, fast, secure, cross-platform applications

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.
Gitbar - Open-source，display GitHub contribution statistics on your menu bar.
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.
GitHub Desktop - The official GitHub GUI.
GitKraken - The most popular Git GUI for Windows, Mac and Linux.
GitUp - A simple & powerful Git client。
GitX-dev - Fork of Pieter's nice git GUI for OS X. Includes branch/tag sidebar and various fixes.
Hub - Command-line wrapper for Git that makes you better at GitHub.
RelaGit - The elegant solution to graphical version control. Built by developers, for developers.
SmartGit(http://www.syntevo.com/sm