Productivity for Mac

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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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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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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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CopyQ is a free, open-source clipboard manager for Mac. It saves everything you copy and keeps it in a searchable history. You can sort items into tabs, tag them, pin the important ones, and paste any entry back with a keystroke. It handles plain text, HTML, images, and custom formats. The app sits in the menu bar and stays out of the way. It suits...

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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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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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Fantastical is a calendar and tasks app for Mac. Type an event the way you'd say it, such as lunch with Sarah at 1pm tomorrow. It lands on your calendar. A mini window opens from the menu bar with one click or keystroke. It pulls iCloud, Google, Microsoft 365, Exchange, and other CalDAV accounts into one view. Events and tasks share the same list. ...

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CotEditor is a free, open source plain-text editor for Mac. It highlights syntax for more than 70 programming and markup languages, from HTML and Python to Markdown and Swift. Find and replace runs on the ICU regular-expression engine, powerful enough for serious search-and-replace work. Every setting lives in a standard settings window instead of ...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Smooze Pro is a scroll and mouse enhancement app for Mac from Segev Sherry. It animates scrolling in every app, turning the abrupt jumps of a plain scroll wheel into smooth, trackpad-like motion. Grab & Drag & Throw lets you scroll by grabbing anywhere on screen, with momentum that carries on after you let go, just like flicking a trackpad. Mouse b...

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DjVu Reader Pro is a document reader for Mac that opens the DjVu format, something Preview and most Mac apps can't read at all. It handles large DjVu files quickly, with text selection and full-text search built in. A batch converter turns multiple DjVu files into PDFs at once, preserving bookmarks in the process according to user reviews. Seven di...

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