All Mac Apps & Software

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Cytoscape is an open source platform for visualizing and analyzing complex networks on Mac. Load interaction data, and it builds a visual network you can explore. Zoom into a cluster. Trace a path between two nodes. Overlay data like gene expression right on top of the network structure. It started in molecular biology, and biology is still its big...

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NetNewsWire is a free and open source RSS reader for Mac. Point it at your favorite blogs and news sites. It pulls in new articles automatically. It keeps track of what you've already read. No algorithm decides what you see. You do. Feeds can be added through a Safari extension or by typing in a URL directly. Sync works through iCloud, or through s...

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GoodTask is a task manager for Mac built directly on top of Apple's Reminders and Calendar, rather than a separate proprietary database. Tasks added through Siri or the Reminders app show up inside GoodTask automatically, and every change stays synced back through iCloud. Smart Lists filter and combine tasks by dates, priorities, and tags, surfacin...

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Stellarium is a free, open source planetarium application for Mac that renders a realistic 3D view of the night sky. It shows stars, planets, and deep-sky objects exactly as they'd appear with the naked eye, binoculars, or a telescope, from any location and any point in time. A default catalogue of more than 600,000 stars expands to over 220 millio...

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Shottr is a fast screenshot and annotation app for Mac built for designers, developers, and anyone who cares about pixels. It captures scrolling screenshots of long web pages or chat conversations, extracts text and QR codes with built-in OCR, and measures on-screen distances with a screen ruler. A color picker copies exact pixel values, including ...

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SpaceLauncher turns the Space key into a shortcut launcher for Mac. Hold Space, press a key, and an action runs. Space then S opens Safari, and Space then F then D opens Downloads. Actions cover apps, folders, URLs, menu commands, keystrokes, AppleScript, and shell commands. Tapping Space still types a normal space. A hint window lists what you can...

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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...

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WALTR PRO for mac is a file transfer and conversion tool from Softorino that moves music, video, books, and more directly onto an iPhone or iPad, without needing iTunes. Files can transfer wirelessly over Wi-Fi through the app's Universal Connection Bridge, skipping a cable connection entirely. AI-powered metadata filling adds missing artwork, titl...

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Anki is a free, open source flashcard app for Mac that uses spaced repetition to schedule reviews right before you're statistically likely to forget something. FSRS, a modern scheduling algorithm, adapts to how an individual actually forgets, available alongside the classic algorithm long-time users may already know. Flashcards support audio, image...

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TickTick is a task management and to-do list app for Mac that syncs across more than 10 platforms, including iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and the web. Quick capture works through a browser plugin, email, a global desktop shortcut, or voice input, and natural language processing sets a task's date and time just by typing it in plain language. Tasks or...

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MacOSCleaner is a free, native SwiftUI system cleaner and app uninstaller built specifically for Apple Silicon Macs. Smart Cleanup scans 1,887 known path definitions across 55 categories, covering caches, browsers, package managers, and developer tools from 275-plus apps and 86 toolchains, showing a risk badge for each item before anything gets rem...

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BiblioteQ is a free, open source library management and cataloging suite for Mac, built with a Qt interface and connecting to PostgreSQL or SQLite databases. It catalogs far more than books, covering DVDs, journals, magazines, music CDs, video games, and photograph collections in one system. The SRU and Z39.50 protocols retrieve bibliographic data ...

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XnView MP is a media browser, viewer, and converter for Mac from XnSoft that supports more than 500 image formats, including camera RAW, HEIC, JPEG-XL, AVIF, and DICOM. Photos display in Thumbnail, FullScreen, or FilmStrip view, with a slideshow mode and side-by-side comparison of up to four images. Batch Convert exports selected photos to around 7...

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Agena is a free, open source procedural programming language for Mac, built on the ANSI C source code of Lua with syntax influenced by Algol 68, Maple, and SQL. It ships with AgenaEdit, a bundled editor featuring syntax highlighting and an integrated environment, so nothing extra needs installing to start writing code. Rich data types include ratio...

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Moodle is a free, open source course management system that can be downloaded and run on a Mac, though it works as server software rather than a typical standalone app. It scales from a single teacher's class to a university serving 50,000 students, all on the same underlying software. Course content, lessons, and resources organize into structured...

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MiaoYan is a free, open source Markdown editor for Mac built natively in Swift instead of Electron. Files save directly to a folder chosen on the Mac, with no note data collected by the developer, and cross-device sync left to a tool like iCloud Drive or Nutstore. A three-column layout keeps folders, notes, and the editor together, with Split mode ...

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Outline is a note-taking app for Mac that works like paper: type anywhere on a page and move blocks around freely, organized into notebooks, sections, and pages. It opens Microsoft OneNote files directly, including .one, .onepkg, and .onetoc2 formats from OneNote 2010 and later, without needing Microsoft's own app installed. Pages support text, to-...

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OpenNumismat is a free, open source coin collection management app for Mac with more than 80 customizable fields for describing each coin. Every entry can hold up to 11 photos, added from a file, the clipboard, a webcam, a USB microscope, or downloaded directly from a URL. Grouping, filtering, and sorting make retrieving a specific coin fast even i...

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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...

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Recordia is a free audio recording app for Mac from Sindre Sorhus, accessible directly from the menu bar or a global keyboard shortcut. It records from the microphone, system audio, or both mixed into a single file. Recordings save as compressed M4A or uncompressed WAV, both at 48kHz, matching the standard used in modern video production. Input mon...

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PCSX2 is a free, open source PlayStation 2 emulator for Mac that replicates PS2 hardware using CPU interpreters, recompilers, and a virtual machine. It runs most of the PS2 library at full speed, with custom resolutions, upscaling, and texture filtering that make older games look sharper than the original console ever could. Unlimited virtual memor...

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OmniGraffle Pro is diagramming and vector graphics software for Mac from The Omni Group, used for flowcharts, wireframes, and technical illustrations. An Infinite Canvas expands automatically as a diagram grows, and a Point Editor Tool gives direct access to every point on a shape's path. Pro-specific tools add Visio import and export for VSD, VSDX...

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Folder Peek is a menu bar utility for Mac from Sindre Sorhus that puts one or more folders directly in the menu bar. Each folder gets its own customizable icon, letting you browse its contents, preview files, and open anything without switching to Finder. Image and video dimensions can be viewed and copied straight from the menu, and files can be d...

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