MusicBrainz Picard is a music tagger for Mac that fixes the metadata in your audio files. It matches albums and tracks against the MusicBrainz database. AcoustID audio fingerprints identify songs even when the tags are missing or wrong. Picard then writes artist, album, track number, and cover art into the files. It also renames files and sorts the...
TwistedWave is an audio editor for Mac that records, edits, and converts sound files. It works with WAV, AIFF, MP3, M4A, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis, among other formats. Speech recognition lets you select words in a transcript to select the matching audio. Silence detection splits long recordings into named parts. Batch processing applies effects and con...
Smultron is a text editor for Mac from Peter Borg Apps. It handles plain text, notes, and source code in one tidy window. Syntax highlighting covers more than 200 languages, including Swift, Python, JavaScript, and Markdown. Advanced Find supports regular expressions. Compare shows color-coded differences between two files. Snippets, Commands, and ...
OwlOCR is an OCR app for Mac that turns screenshots, images, and scanned PDFs into editable text. Press a shortcut, drag a box over any part of the screen, and the recognized text lands on your clipboard. It uses Apple's Vision framework on your Mac, so no document is sent to an online service. An optional local OCR AI model gives difficult scans a...
GoToFile is a keyboard-driven file finder for Mac. Type a few characters and matching files and folders appear instantly, even when letters are skipped. Results come from a small in-memory index, so they show up in under 50 milliseconds across 300,000 items on an M1 Max Mac Studio. Regular expressions, metadata queries, and file kinds narrow the li...
Cisdem VideoPaw is an all-in-one video toolkit for Mac. It started as Cisdem Video Converter and now covers more jobs. It converts video and audio in batches between MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, and many other formats. It handles 4K and 8K files with codecs such as H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1, and ProRes. A compressor shrinks large files. Batch mode and device p...
Melodics is a practice app for Mac that teaches you to play keys, drums, and pad controllers. You plug in a MIDI keyboard, drum pad, or electronic kit. The app then guides you through interactive lessons and scores your timing and accuracy in real time. Lessons cover rhythms, chords, melodies, and rudiments. Guided learning paths queue up your next...
Smart Zipper Pro is an archive manager for Mac that opens, previews, and creates compressed files. It extracts RAR, 7z, ZIP, ISO, CAB, TAR, and more than twenty other formats. You can browse an archive and pull out only the files you need. Quick Look previews let you check a photo or document without extracting it first. The app also builds 7z, ZIP...
Refindo is a data recovery app for Mac that brings back deleted or lost files. It scans internal drives, external drives, USB sticks, and SD cards that macOS can detect. Quick Scan checks file system metadata for recent deletions. Deep Scan reads the drive sector by sector for formatted or damaged volumes. You can preview photos, PDFs, text files, ...
OnyX for Mac is a free macOS maintenance and optimization utility that helps you verify system files, clean unnecessary data, rebuild system databases, and customize various macOS settings. Developed specifically for Apple computers, it's trusted by Mac users who want to improve system performance, perform routine maintenance, and troubleshoot comm...
AltTab is a free, open source window switcher for Mac that brings Windows-style Alt+Tab behavior to macOS. It lists every open window individually, not just running apps, so switching to one specific document or browser window takes a single keystroke instead of hunting through Mission Control. Thumbnail previews show a live view of each window, an...
Spotify for Mac streams a massive catalog of songs, podcasts, and audiobooks, all synced across every device you own. If you're wondering whether you can get Spotify on a Mac at all: yes, it's a full native desktop app, not just a browser tab, and it's free to start. Free accounts can now search for a specific song and play it directly instead of s...
MountMate for Mac is a lightweight native macOS menu bar utility for managing external drives without repeatedly opening Finder, Disk Utility, or Terminal. It lets you mount and unmount connected drives from one menu bar interface while showing their current mount status and available storage. The app is especially useful for Macs that regularly us...
Monolingual removes unused language files from macOS to reclaim disk space. macOS ships with resources for dozens of languages most people never use. Each one sits on your drive, spread across System folders and installed apps. Monolingual finds these files and deletes them. It often frees up several hundred megabytes, without touching the one lang...
OmniFocus is a task manager for Mac from The Omni Group. It handles projects, tags, due dates, and repeating tasks in one place. Perspectives let you build custom views of your work. Forecast shows what is due and what is coming. A weekly review keeps projects from going stale. A keyboard shortcut sends a new thought straight to the Inbox. Your dat...
