macOS Apps

I maintain a big list of apps I use on my system here together with why and how I use them.
And here is a full list of the apps I have inside my /Applications folder.
Nice OSS macOS Swift/ObjC apps
​Pine - Modern, native macOS markdown editor.
​Twig - Modern macOS markdown editor.
​Sloth - Displays all open files and sockets in use by all running processes on your system.
​TelegramSwift macOS​
​Workbench - Seamless, automatic, “dotfile” sync to iCloud.
​LuLu - Free macOS firewall. (Web) (HN)
​Conferences.digital - Watch the latest and greatest conference videos on your Mac.
​Gifski - Convert videos to high-quality GIFs on your Mac.
​Sourceful - Native source editor for iOS and macOS.
​Shifty - MacOS menu bar app that gives you more control over Night Shift.
​Seashore - Easy to use mac osx image editing application, gimp light.
​Linked Ideas - MacOS/iOS apps to treat ideas as links of concepts.
​HotKey - Simple global shortcuts in macOS.
​Latest - Small utility app for macOS that makes sure you know about all the latest updates to the apps you use.
​Hidden Bar - Ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons. (HN)
​NetNewsWire - RSS reader for macOS and iOS.
​macos-key-cast - Log keys pressed on macOS. Useful for screen recordings and presentations.
​Rectangle - Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas. (Web)
​Plash - Make any website your Mac desktop wallpaper.
​Swindler - Swift window management library for macOS.
​Lunar - Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external display.
​Tinkle - Appends a visual effect for the focused window changes.
​Maccy - Lightweight clipboard manager for macOS.
​Pasteboard Viewer - Inspect the system pasteboards on macOS.
​Vimac - Vimium for macOS. (Web) (HN)
​LinkLiar - Link-Layer MAC spoofing GUI for macOS.
​Crescendo - Swift based, real time event viewer for macOS. It utilizes Apple's Endpoint Security Framework.
​Blurred - macOS utility that helps reduce distraction by dimming your inactive noise.
​HackerNews.app - macOS HackerNews client that aims to be a Mac-assed Mac app. Written in Swift + AppKit. (HN)
​BluetoothConnector - Simple macOS CLI to connect/disconnect a Bluetooth device. Useful for AirPods or other Bluetooth headphones.
​Universal Tip - Programmable tooltip that can be used with any macOS app.
​NWPusher - macOS and iOS application and framework to play with the Apple Push Notification service.
​MacCacheCleaner​
​Timer App - Simple Stopwatch App for macOS.
​Cameo - Small utility based on CMIOKit to explore installed CMIO DAL plugins and their properties.
​Pock - Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar.
​Akku - Missing macOS bluetooth headset battery indicator app.
​SubEthaEdit - General purpose plain-text editor for macOS. Widely known for its live collaboration feature. (Web) (HN)
​RegEx+ - Nifty RegEx test tool built with SwiftUI.
​Glance - Provides Quick Look previews for files that macOS doesn't support out of the box.
​MonitorControl - Control your external monitor brightness & volume on your Mac.
​Up Next - Meetings at a glance from your macOS menu bar.
​Multi - Create a custom, lightweight macOS app from a group of websites. (HN)
​Face Data - macOS application used to auto-annotate landmarks from a video.
​Bluetility - General-purpose Bluetooth Low-Energy utility.
​Gray - Tailor your macOS Mojave experience.
​Milestones - App to count down the days until upcoming milestones. Built to try out the Swift Composable Architecture, SwiftUI and Combine.
​j2s - macOS app to convert JSON to Swift structs.
​Timer - Simple Timer app for Mac.
​Mach-O Explorer - Graphical Mach-O viewer for macOS.
​Clipy - Clipboard extension app for macOS.
​AltTab - Windows alt-tab on macOS.
​MeetingBar - Menu bar app for your calendar meetings. (HN)
​Boop - Scriptable scratchpad for developers. In slow yet steady progress. (Code)
​Boom3D - Volume Booster & Equalizer for Mac and Windows.
​Fanny - Monitor your Mac's fan speed and CPU/GPU temperature from your Notification Center.
​Diurna - Basic/Classic Hacker News app, used as a Cocoa & Swift learning platform.
​eqMac - macOS System-wide Audio Equalizer.
​SensibleSideButtons - Side navigation for third-party mice in macOS. (HN)
​DevUtils - Developer Utilities for macOS. (Code) (HN) (HN)
​5 GUIs - Tiny macOS app that can detect the GUI technologies used in other apps.
​Stats - macOS system monitor in your menu bar.
​Stackline - Visualize yabai window stacks on macOS. Works with yabai & hammerspoon.
​mirror-displays - Mac app and command-line tool for fiddling with display mirroring: on/off/toggle.
​eul - macOS status monitoring app written in SwiftUI.
​VirtualKVM - Automatically toggles Bluetooth and Target Display Mode when you connect a Macbook to your iMac via Thunderbolt.
​Keycastr - Open-source keystroke visualizer.
​Brooklyn - Screensaver inspired by Apple's Event on October 30, 2018.
​stts - macOS app for monitoring the status of cloud services.
​Auto DND - Mac app that keeps notifications stays right where it should.
​Virtual - Boot Linux VMs in a single command on macOS using the new Virtualization.framework.
​CloudyTabs - Menu bar application that lists your iCloud Tabs and Reading List.
​Xbar - Put anything in your macOS menu bar. (Code) (HN)
​SwiftBar - Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool.
​Clean Me - macOS system analyzer and cleaner.
​ImageOptim - GUI image optimizer for Mac. (Code)
​Pika - Open-source colour picker app for macOS. (Web)
​Syncthing macOS - Native macOS Syncthing tray application bundle.
​FSNotes - Modern notes manager for macOS and iOS. (Web) (HN)
​Suspicious Package - Application for Inspecting macOS Installer Packages.
​CleanShot X - Capture your Mac’s screen like a pro.
​Contexts - Simple & fast window switcher for Mac.
​DevDocs macOS - DevDocs API Documentation viewer for macOS.
​Finder built in SwiftUI for macOS​
​Spotter - Productivity tool to launch everything. Alfred alternative.
​keyrace - Daily multiplayer keyboard races for macOS.
​DarkModeBuddy - Automatically switch your Mac between light and dark modes based on the ambient light sensor.
​Nuage - Native SoundCloud app for macOS, written in SwiftUI.
​OpenHaystack - App for tracking personal Bluetooth devices via Apple's massive Find My network.
​Script Kit - Automate Anything. (Code)
​Vitals - Tiny macOS process monitor.
​Patchman - MacOS application to test APIs with HTTP methods (Decluttered Postman).
​System Color Picker - macOS color picker as an app with more features. (Code)
​Unexpectedly - macOS utility to browse crash logs. (Web)
​Auxl - Modular API Client for macOS. (HN)
​TRex - Easy to use text extraction tool for macOS.
​Yippy - macOS open source clipboard manager. (Web)
​Download Full Installer - macOS application written in SwiftUI that downloads installer pkgs for the Install macOS Big Sur application.
​Notational Velocity - Modeless, mouseless Mac OS X note-taking application. (Web)
​Ambar - MacOS Menu Bar app built with SwiftUI. Can be used as a template project.
​YT Music - Mac app wrapper for music.youtube.com. (Code)
​Informant - Inspect files with a single click. (Code)
​Podman for macOS - Start and stop both the Podman Machine and its running containers.
​Airpass - Status bar Mac app to overcome time constrained WiFi networks. (Web)
​Lantern - Mac app for website auditing and crawling. (Web)
​TrackerZapper - Mac app that sits in your menubar and silently removes tracking parameters from any links you copy. (Code)
​Zavala - Dedicated outliner for macOS, iPadOS, and iOS.
​Pareto Mac - Automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene.
​Quick Draw - macOS app for drawing over the screen.
​Ultra for Music - Music Client for macOS.
Other interesting apps
​Finicky - MacOS app for customizing which browser to start.
​OpenQuickly - Custom 'open quickly' window that imitates macOS' Spotlight.
​Flotato - Turn any web page into a Mac app.
​Autumn - MacOS window manager built for JavaScript hackers.
​Zappy - Screen capture tool. (HN)
​BlockBlock - Provides continual protection by monitoring persistence locations.
​VimMotion - Access macOS UI elements with your fingers stay on keyboard. Inspired by vim-easymotion & avy-mode.
​Entity Pro - Glyph & Emoji Finder.
​Glyphfinder - Missing character search for designers, developers and writers.
​Contrast - macOS app for quick access to WCAG color contrast ratios.
​Mouseless​
​Codye - Allows you to present code in more than 180 languages and 80 themes.
​Coppice - Cultivate Your Thoughts.
​Hook - Find without searching.
​Twenttty - Give your eyes a break.
​PopClip - Appears when you select text with your mouse on your Mac. (PopClip Extensions)
​ClashX - Rule based proxy For Mac base on Clash.
​Lacona - Command launcher.
​Numi - Beautiful calculator app for Mac. (Code) (HN)
​ViDL - Download videos from YouTube and hundreds of other websites for offline viewing.
​FSMonitor - macOS app that monitors all changes to the file system.
​LaunchBar - Application launcher for macOS. (Assimilated Theme)
​Irradiated Software macOS apps​
​Freeze - Save your open windows and tabs for later.
​FastScripts - Powerful script management utility. (3.0 release)
​LaunchControl - Fully-featured launchd GUI allowing you to create, manage and debug system- and user services on your Mac.
​HextEdit - Fast and native hex editor for macOS.
​Shortcat - Keyboard productivity app for macOS.
​MacUpdater - Keep all your apps up-to-date effortlessly.
​Flume - Beautiful Instagram experience for your Mac.
​Aqua Swatch - Match Color, Material & Icons.
​Screenotate - Recognize text in your screenshots.
​Hera - macOS app to prepare, join and take notes in meetings. (HN)
​Mumu X - Handy emoji picker on macOS, using GPT-3.
​Narrated - Screen Recordings That Include Your Camera.
​Monodraw - Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac.
​TextSniper - Capture and extract any text from your Mac's screen.
​Lunar - Control your monitors.
​Keystroke Pro - Visualize Your Keypresses.
​Pulse - Network Inspector and Logger for Apple Platforms. (Twitter)
​Keka - macOS file archiver. (Twitter)
Links
​Awesome macOS apps​
​Open Source macOS apps (HN)
​Hyperlink and Deep Linking URLs​
​Ship app open source code - Amazing GitHub native client that was closed down.
​Mac Open Web - Collection of open and indie Mac, iOS, and web apps that help promote the open web. (Code)
​Dashing - Generate Dash documentation from HTML.
​yabai - Tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning.
​3 Advanced Workflows for "Things" Power User​
​Apps & services (Russian)​
​List of most "well-crafted" piece of macOS software you use? (2020)​
​Awesome macOS Software​
​Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide (2021) (HN)
​Awesome Mac - Premium software sorted by category.
​Releasecast - Tool to help you get from app to release.
​Use Mac APIs and build Mac apps with Go (2021)​
​The Best Mac Duplicate Finders (2021)​
​What Makes a Great Mac App? (2021)​
​Sparkle - Open source software update framework for macOS. (Code)
​Bump - Easy way to release & update indie Mac apps. (Web) (Why we built Bump)
​Bump Core - CLI tool that powers the Bump deploy pipeline.
​Signing a Mac Application (2015)​
​Advanced Catalyst Example - Example of a Catalyst app using a three-column layout, with a primary toolbar.
​Amazing macOS apps list (2021)​
​Dynamic Universal App - Size efficient alternative to macOS universal binaries.
​Microverse - macOS virtualization app for M1/Apple Silicon.
​Run MacOS Software On Linux Using Darling (2021) (Lobsters)
​Pacifist - Powerful multi-tool for working with macOS package files, disk images, and file archives.
​macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good (2021)​
​IconSur - macOS Big Sur Adaptive Icon Generator.
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Nice OSS macOS Swift/ObjC apps
Other interesting apps
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