Education for Mac

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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...

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Calibre for Mac is a free, open-source e-book library manager that organizes, converts, and syncs digital books across virtually every e-reader format and device. Whatever format a book arrives in, there's a good chance it can leave in a completely different one, ready for whichever device you actually own. It manages metadata and covers for an ent...

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FET is free, open source software that builds a school timetable automatically. It works for schools, high schools, and universities. Enter your teachers, subjects, student groups, and rooms. Add the rules each one has to follow. Click generate, and FET produces a conflict-free schedule. A complicated timetable usually solves in 5 to 20 minutes. Si...

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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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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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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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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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AstroGrav for Mac simulates the solar system, and any other gravity-driven system, by calculating the actual gravitational interactions between every object rather than relying on pre-scripted orbital paths. That makes it noticeably more accurate than typical planetarium software when it comes to asteroids, comets, and other bodies whose trajectori...

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