Productivity for Mac

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FotoMagico is a slideshow maker for Mac from Boinx Software. It combines photos, videos, music, and animated maps into one layered project. Storyboard mode handles quick arranging, while Timeline mode fine-tunes transitions, animations, and up to 6 stacked layers per slide. Finished shows play instantly at full resolution, with no rendering wait. A...

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Neon Vision Editor for Mac is a native Swift editor for code, Markdown, and text files, built to open instantly and stay minimal rather than growing into a full IDE. It supports syntax highlighting across dozens of languages and formats, including Swift, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, and TeX/LaTeX, alongside Markdown, HTML, and SVG previews ...

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VSCodium for Mac is a community-built binary of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, compiled directly from Microsoft's own open-source repository but without the telemetry, tracking, and proprietary branding Microsoft adds to its official release. The underlying vscode source code has always been MIT-licensed, but the Visual Studio Code app you'd norma...

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cyberWriter for Mac is a native Markdown editor built entirely in SwiftUI, designed for documents people actually have to send: reports with images, captions, references, and page breaks that land exactly where you put them. It combines plain Markdown editing with an optional rich-text view, LaTeX and Vega-Lite chart rendering, and Mermaid diagrams...

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Pages for Mac is Apple's free word processor and page layout app, built for everything from a simple report to a visually rich newsletter, brochure, or resume. It combines standard document editing with lightweight desktop publishing, so images, tables, charts, and shapes drop directly onto the page instead of fighting a rigid text-only layout. Pag...

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Grammarly Desktop for Mac is a writing assistant that checks grammar, spelling, and tone directly inside whatever app you're already using, instead of requiring a separate browser tab. Once you download Grammarly on your Mac, whether it's a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, or Mac Studio, it works across more than one million apps and programs, including W...

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TeXMaker for Mac is a complete LaTeX editing environment that combines a unicode source editor with an integrated PDF viewer, so you write and preview a document in the same window. SyncTeX links the two together: click anywhere in the PDF and the editor jumps to the matching line in your source, and clicking a line in the editor does the reverse. ...

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PastePal for Mac saves everything you copy, then lets you search, filter, and reuse it whenever you need it again. It runs from the menu bar with a flexible side window you can dock to any edge of your screen, and it's built natively in AppKit and Swift rather than wrapped through Catalyst, so it feels like part of macOS instead of a bolted-on util...

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BusyContacts for Mac is a contact manager built for people who need more than what Apple's built-in Contacts app offers. It syncs directly with iCloud, Google, Exchange, Office 365, Fastmail, and other CardDAV servers, no middleman service required, and pairs every contact with an Activity List showing recent emails, meetings, and social posts in o...

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Zavala for Mac is a free, native outliner built for organizing ideas, notes, and structured documents entirely offline or synced through iCloud. It behaves like a real Mac app should: multiple windows, a full menu bar, a customizable toolbar, and a keyboard shortcut for nearly everything you'd want to do. Outlines can be locked and encrypted, share...

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Applite for Mac is a free, open-source graphical user interface designed by Milan Varady to manage third-party software through Homebrew Casks. Built with Swift and SwiftUI, it delivers a native App Store experience for desktop applications that are not available on the official Mac App Store. The software allows non-technical users to discover, in...

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Zight Screen Recorder for Mac is a menu bar app that captures your screen, webcam, or both, then hands you a shareable link in seconds. Formerly known as CloudApp, it's built for people who'd rather show something than type it out. Beyond raw recording, Zight adds AI transcripts, auto-generated titles, and a built-in editor, so a rough capture beco...

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Final Draft for Mac is screenwriting software built specifically for movie scripts, TV episodics, and stage plays. It automatically paginates and formats your script to industry standards as you write. This removes the need to learn screenplay formatting rules yourself. It combines word processing with professional formatting in one self-contained ...

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Focus for mac is a productivity timer by Meaningful Things built to help you plan, execute, and track work sessions on Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Version 2026.2.1 rebuilt the app on a modern Swift 6 codebase, added a new in-app Learning section, and redesigned its Settings from the ground up. It combines a timer with integrated task manage...

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InstaRemind is a macOS menu bar app by Apps2Create that lets you create Apple Reminders instantly using a global keyboard shortcut, without switching away from whatever you're working on. Version 3.0.0 added recurring reminders and a natural language mode that understands words like "today," "tomorrow," or "every Monday" when typed directly into a ...

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Notenik is a free, open-source note-taking app built by Herb Bowie specifically for Mac. Version 19.4.0, the current release, added an optional Image-Class field for styling images and support for author titles within Quote-From citations. Every note is stored as a plain text file, which stays fully readable and editable outside the app, and syncs ...

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LibreOffice for Mac is a free, open source office suite built by The Document Foundation, covering word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing, and databases in one download. It opens and saves Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files directly, so switching away from a paid subscription rarely means losing compatibility with files you ...

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Microsoft OneNote for Mac is a free digital notebook that lets you type, draw, or paste content anywhere on an open canvas instead of a fixed page. You can insert pictures, crop whiteboard photos, and even convert rough hand drawn shapes into clean polygons and circles. Notes organize into notebooks, sections, and pages, with color coding and tabs ...

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Evernote for Mac is a note taking and organization app that brings notes, to do tasks, and calendar events together in one workspace. It runs as a universal app on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, and every note syncs automatically across your other devices once you sign in. The AI Assistant can search across all your notebooks, list reminders by...

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