Macs are already amazing machines that offer many useful features built right into the operating system. However, if you want to make your Mac experience more worthwhile and productive, take a look at this comprehensive list of 100 useful and free Mac apps.

In this list, you’ll find apps sorted under different categories such as productivity, entertainment, lifestyle, design and development, and a lot more. I’m sure you’ll find some very interesting apps for your Mac. Let’s take a look.

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Developers and Designers

Visual Studio Code is a code editor from Microsoft that’s been gaining massive popularity among web developers. It features a built-in Git manager, and debugger, yet surprisingly run fast. It provides a vast selection of first-party or third-party extensions to power-up the editor.

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An image editor that allows you to produce both bitmap and vector graphics. It has an intuitive user interface and is compatible with macOS, Windows, and Linux. Check out the gallery from the artists and designers using Krita.

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MAMP is an easy to use application to run a localhost environment in macOS. The latest version now includes Nginx aside from Apache as an option to run the localhost webserver.

Cyberduck provides an easy way to transfer your files to servers and clouds. It supports many types of servers and connections, including FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3, OneDrive, GoogleDrive, Dropbox, etc.

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Built by designers for designers, FontBase brings a whole new experience to manage fonts in macOS.

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Allows you to quickly reduce the size of most type of image formats, including JPG, PNG, GIF, and even SVG by simply drag-n-drop.

This is an app for designers and developers’ team to manage their icon collection. It’s compatible with both macOS and Windows and works together seamlessly with many designing apps like Photoshop, Sketch, Figma, etc.

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Convert any video file, a screen-recording, or webcam video into an animated Gif. GIFBrewer makes creating an animated Gif a breeze.

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Productivity

Utorrent allows you to manage, download, or stream files like video and audio from Torrent network fast and safely with an intuitive interface.

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A lightweight task management app that can help you to stay organized to whatever tasks you need to do, from grocery lists, housecleaning routines, or manage your side-hustle project.

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Want to switch alt-tab switching apps like Windows in Mac? Now you can, with this app. So instead of Cmd+Tab to switch between the application window, you can press Alt + Tab. A great utility app if you’ve just migrated from Windows to macOS.

A full-featured note-taking app that enables you to organize ideas, lists, reminders, clip anything from the web and manage your project all in one place from any device, whether you’re online or offline.

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Grammarly has revolutionized spell-checking and auto-correction that corrects not only word-by-word but also suggests a better selection of words, phrases, and tones in real-time. A must-have app for bloggers, editors, or any professional writers.

Share files or folders safely and seamlessly for up to 2Gbs for free. Once you’ve uploaded files through the app, it will provide you with the download link you can share with anyone.

Manage and organize tasks or ideas on the Kanban board. Trello allows you to have a customized workflow based on the type of the project. For software development, for example, it’s common to have multiple columns like “Backlog”, “Coding”, “Testing”, “Approval”, and “Done”.

Seamlessly stores and sync any files across multiple devices for free. It can also generate a link that you can share with anyone to download.

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A free cross-platform email client app with full supports on IMAP and SMTP mail connection. It brings handy features like calendar, address book, reminder, and tabbed-interface, which makes managing email a whole lot better.

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Simple-to-use mind mapping applications for the macOS that help to visually collect, classify, and structure ideas as well as organize, study, and solve problems.

Folx is a free app for macOS which to manage your downloads. It also offers browser extensions that offer more convenience when downloading files from any websites.

Forgot to bring your laptop? Not to worry. Use this app to connect to a remote Windows PC, apps, desktops, or resources like files and directory from macOS and virtually any device as it’s also available in iOS and Android.

Beyond just a chat application, Slack allows you to integrate it with external services like Github, Zapier, and IFTTT with the Apps to streamline your workflows. Could not find the App you need? You can create your App or Slack bot through the API.

Entertainment

A favorite Mac video player that supports almost all video formats!

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Discover any song playing around you and explore all the music, lyrics, and video that you love within seconds through Shazam.

An app that allows you to read eBooks on a simple and easy-to-use interface. It can sync with your phone, tablet, and e-Reader so you can pick up where you left off.

Lifestyle

Track the status of all your deliveries in one app. You get notified of your parcel’s delivery status.

For regular eBay users, this app will keep track of your biddings and searches on eBay and notify you whenever there’s a change in any items that you’re interested in.

Get access to more than 40,000 radio stations all over the world right through your mac.

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Google Chrome is a simple, secure, and robust browser used by millions around the globe. You can get all of Google’s smart apps built-in the browser.

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Music and Video Editing

For the DJ in you, this is a powerful music-mixing software that allows you to edit and create new music.

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Audacity is a free app to record sounds or edit your recorded audio and music through a simple interface.

Handbrake is an open-source video converter to transcode videos from nearly any format to a number of widely supported codecs.

DaVinci Resolve is an innovative tool that features professional editing, color correction, visual effects, and audio post-production all in once software.

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Studio One 4 Prime is a digital audio workstation with many native effect plugins and unlimited tracks.

News and Reading

An RSS reader that collects articles from your favorite blogs and also keeps track of what you’re reading to send recommendations.

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Universal software to view, print, and edit PDF documents.

Photography

A powerful and feature-filled photo editing app that can cater to all your photo editing and manipulation needs.

An open-source photography workflow application and raw developer that manages your digital photography database.

Social Network

Simple and free messaging app to connect with your friends or teammates for personal or business use respectively.

Official Twitter app that allows you to tweet, search and get notification right at the comfort of your desktop.

Skype is a useful and popular vide calling app that you can use to connect with one or many contacts. You can even share your screen with others and record your calls.

Related: Zoom, Uz Meet

What’s more useful than having the Whatsapp application on your phone is to have it on your mac desktop as well.

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Utilities

Recovers memory for your applications to use and helps avoid the performance hit you get when running low on Free memory.

Think of it as WinZIP for Mac. Supported file formats include Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, Rar, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other more or less obscure formats.

A useful anti-malware that blocks malware, adware, spyware, and other threats from affecting your mac.

A tool to convert your audiobooks from MP3 format to M4B making them iPod compatible.

An app that shows you what is going on behind the scenes on your network.

A password manager tool that makes it easy for you to manage all your passwords that come under your personal or business use.

An interesting app that gives you all the information you need on every Apple Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and iPad ever made, including all the hardware and technical knowledge.

A fast video converter that can convert videos in almost any format to an array of other compatible formats.

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Check the speed of your internet connection with this app. The results that it provides are accurate everywhere, thanks to their global network.

A beautiful collection of high-quality wallpapers for your macOS desktop.

An app that keeps your mac or its displays awake for a long time – all through a simple on-off switch.

Explore hundreds of amazing places in the world in 3D right through your mac.

Monolingual removes unnecessary language resources from your macOS so you can have several hundred megabytes of disk space at your disposal.

A useful tool that allows you to thoroughly uninstall space-hogging apps from your Mac and free up more space.

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