Awesome Mac

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Contents

Applications to edit text, I suggest the open-source editors

Text Editors

Office

LibreOffice - LibreOffice is free and open-source software office software. Software is tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community.

OpenOffice - Compatible with other major office suites, Apache OpenOffice is free to download, use and distribute.

WPS - Is a cross-platform office software suite.

Pages Documents that stand apart.

Keynote Build stunning presentations.

Numbers Create impressive spreadsheets.

Microsoft Office Unmistakably Office, designed for Mac.

SoftMaker Office A complete office suite that aims for full compatibility with Microsoft Office documents

EME - Open-source Markdown editor with an interface like Chrome.

iA Writer - Writing app with an emphasis on simplicity and design.

LightPaper - Simple, beautiful, yet powerful text editor for your Mac.

MacDown - Open-source Markdown editor for OS X.

Marked 2 - This is the Markdown preview with an elegant and powerful set of tools for all writers.

MarkText - Next generation markdown editor, running on platforms of MacOS Windows and Linux.

Marp - Markdown presentation writer with cross-platform support.

Marxico - Delicate Markdown editor for Evernote. Reliable storage and sync.

MWeb - Pro Markdown writing, and static blog generator App.

TextNut - Rich-format editor featuring Markdown export and Markdown syntax hints.

Typora - Truly minimal Markdown editor featuring seamless live preview.

Ulysses - The Ultimate Writing App for Mac, iPad and iPhone.

Note-taking

Agenda - Date-focused note taking app for both planning and documenting your projects.

Boostnote - Note-taking app made for programmers.

Dnote - A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and a web interface.

Evernote - Infamous note-taking app, available on many platforms.

FSNotes - File System Notes is a modern notes manager, native on macOS and iOS.

Gooba - Writing app and task managerwith a simple and interactive design.

Inkdrop - Notebook app for Markdown lovers built on top of Electron.

Joplin - Cross platform open-source notepad with markdown support and todo list manager with synchronisation capabilities.

MarginNote - In-depth PDF and EPUB reading, learning, managing and note taking app.

Notable - The markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck.

Notebook Note-taking app.

Notes - Clean, simple note-taking app.

Notion -Notion is the all-in-one workspace. From notes, tasks, wikis, to database, Notion is all you need. Works great for teams and individuals.

OneNote - Note-taking app by Microsoft.

QOwnNotes - Open-source notepad with markdown support and todo list manager.

Quiver - The Programmer's Notebook, lets you easily mix text, code, Markdown and LaTeX within one note, edit code with an awesome code editor and live preview Markdown and LaTeX.

Journaling

Day One - Excellent journaling app using text, photos, video, audio, location data, and more.

Journey - Journaling app with many features and with apps for every platform available.

Ebooks

Calibre - Free and open-source e-book computer software application suite which runs on multiple platforms, allows users to manage e-book collections as well as create, edit, and read e-books.

Clearview - Tabbed style e-book reader for PDF, EPUB (DRM free), CHM, and MOBI.

iChm - Ebook reader for CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML help) files.

Kindle App - Amazon official reading app of kindle.

Klib - New way to manage highlights for Kindle and iBooks.

Scribus - Professional layout and publishing software supporting EPS and SVG import/export, and PDF support.

Sigil - Multi-platform EPUB ebook Editor.

RSS

Leaf - Amazing news reader dedicated to help you enjoy your daily news and easily manage your subscriptions.

NetNewsWire - It’s a free and open source feed reader for macOS.

ReadKit - Mac read-later client supporting all major providers: Instapaper, Pocket and Readability. Even more, ReadKit is a full-featured RSS reader as well.

Reeder 4 - News reader for Feedbin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler and so on.

Vienna - RSS/Atom reader for Mac OS X.

Others

bindPDF - Combine multiple PDF files into a single PDF file using a friendly UI.

CHM Reader - Read Compiled HTML (.chm) documents on your Mac.

Chmox - Read CHM documents on your Mac.

PDF Expert - Read, annotate and edit PDFs, change text and images.

PDF Reader Pro - You Can view, create, sign, convert and compress any PDF documents.

Skim - PDF reader and note-taker for OS X.

SkyFonts - The simplest way to try, install, and manage fonts.

Spillo - Powerful, beautiful and amazingly fast Pinboard client for OS X.

Tad - Application for viewing and analyzing tabular data such as CSV files.

texpad - Great LaTeX editor for Mac with auto-update PDF and autocomplete LaTeX commands.

IDEs

Developer Utilities

API Development and Analysis

Cocoa Rest Client - Free, open-source, native Apple OS X app for testing HTTP/REST endpoints.

Insomnia - The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client.

Paw - Advanced HTTP client.

Postman - Powerful GUI platform to make your API development faster & easier, from building API requests through testing, documentation and sharing.

Katalon Studio - Simplify API, Web, Mobile Automation Tests Free. Robust. Cross-platform. Automation testers from 160 countries with YouTube channels, GitHub repositories.

Network Analysis

Charles - HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet.

James - Open-source proxy tool for checking and mapping requests with http as well as https.

Little Snitch - Network monitor with a world map for visualizing network connections.

mitmproxy - Interactive intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.

Proxie - HTTP debugging proxy.

Proxyman - Modern and intuitive HTTP debugging proxy for macOS.

Wireshark - The world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer.

Frameworks For Hybrid Applications

AppJS - Lightweight JavaScript UI library for creating mobile webapps that behave like native apps.

create-dmg - Create a good-looking DMG for your macOS app in seconds.

Electrino - Desktop runtime for apps built on web technologies, using the system's own web browser engine.

Electron - Build cross platform desktop application with JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

ionic - Build amazing native and progressive web apps with Angular and open web technologies. One app running on everything.

MacGap - Provides a lightweight JavaScript API for OS X integration, such as displaying native notifications or writing data to a file.

nw.js - Build desktop application with HTML and JavaScript. It lets you call all Node.js modules directly from DOM and enables a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies.

modules directly from DOM and enables a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies. Qt - Cross-platform application framework.

React Native for Ubuntu - Build Ubuntu desktop apps using React Native.

React Native macOS - Build OS X desktop apps using React Native and Cocoa.

react-desktop - React UI Components for macOS Sierra.

ReactXP - Microsoft official production, support platform Web, iOS, Android and Windows UWP is still an ongoing work.

Version Control

Cornerstone - Powerful version control with a gorgeous interface.

Fork - Fast and friendly Git client for Mac.

Git Cola - Powerful, Fast, Lightweight and Friendly Git GUI. For those caffeine adicting users.

Gitbar - Open-source，display Github contribution statistics on your menu bar.

GitFinder - Fast and lightweight Git client for Mac with Finder integration.

Gitfox - Commit faster, improve your code quality with superior diffs - and look good doing it.

GitHub Desktop - The official GitHub GUI.

GitKraken - The most popular Git GUI for Windows, Mac and Linux.

GitX-dev - Fork of Pieter's nice git GUI for OS X. Includes branch/tag sidebar and various fixes.

Hub - Command-line wrapper for Git that makes you better at GitHub.

OhMyStar Beautiful and efficient way to manage, explore and share your Github Stars.

SmartGit - Git client with support.

SourceTree - Free Git & Mercurial client for Windows or Mac.

Sublime Merge - Git client, from the makers of Sublime Text.

Tower2 - The most powerful Git client for Mac and Windows.

Versions - Mac Subversion (SVN) Client.

GitUp - A simple & powerful Git client。

Virtualization

Docker - Powerful, performs operating-system-level virtualization.

Parallels - Powerful, easy-to-use VM. No free upgrade for each new Mac OS.

Vagrant - Tool for building and distributing development environments.

Veertu - The lightest VM on Mac. Responsive, sandboxed & native way to run VM on your Mac.

Virtual Box - Powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product.

VMware Fusion - Powerful, commercial VM developed by VMware.

Databases

Design and Product

Screencapturing Software

CleanShot - Discover a superior way to capture your Mac's screen.

CloudApp - Work at the speed of sight.

Gifox - Gif Recording and Sharing.

Kap - Open-source screen-recorder built with web technology.

KeyCastr - KeyCastr, an open-source keystroke visualizer.

Kyapchar - Simple screen and microphone audio recorder for Mac.

Licecap - Record your screen and export to GIF. You can change the recording area anytime during recording.

Lightshot - The fastest way to take a customizable screenshot.

Monosnap - Make screenshots. Draw on it. Shoot video and share your files. It's fast, easy and free.

ScreenShot PSD - Capture the screen as a layered PSD for easy editing.

Skitch - Screen capture application with a powerful annotation capabilities.

Snip - Application for sharing captured images on QQ Mail.

Snipaste - Simple but powerful snipping tool.

Teampaper Snap - Let your screenshots speak up.

Xnip - Handy Screenshot App.

Dropbox - Dropbox app offers easy screenshot capturing and sharing

Communication

Adium - Free instant messaging application for Mac OS X. Connect to AIM, MSN, SMPP, Yahoo and more.

Caprine - Third-party privacy-focused Facebook Messenger app.

DingTalk - Free, powerful and professional office tool used by over 5 million enterprises and organizations globally.

Discord - All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that's free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone.

Franz - Electron based, multi-protocol wrapper for web-based chat. One application, 23 messenger services.

Gitter - Instant messaging and chat room system for developers as well as GitHub users. Developer friendly with Markdown syntax support.

Keybase - Secure groups, files, and chat for everyone!

Krisp - An AI-powered noise cancelling app that mutes background noise during calls.

LimeChat - Open-source IRC client for Mac OS X.

Messenger For Mac - Third-party Facebook messenger for Mac.

Muzzle - A simple mac app to silence embarrassing notifications while screensharing.

Rambox - Messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.

Riot - Create, share communicate. Chat and call securely.

Signal Desktop - Fast, simple, secure. Privacy that fits in your pocket.

Skype - Cross-platform application that provides video chat and voice call services. Users can exchange images, text, video and any other digital documents.

Shift - De-clutter your desktop workspace and streamline your accounts, apps, and workflows.

Slack - Awesome tool for team collaboration and communication.

Stack - Open, organize and use multiple web apps on a single screen. Stack your apps by categories or projects.

Teambition - Team collaboration tool, including many features like task plan, schedule, file sharing, instant discussion and everything you need when collaborating with other team members.

Telegram - Messaging app with a focus on speed and security.

Textual - Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.

WeChat - Official WeChat app for Mac.

WeeChat - The extensible command-line chat client.

WhatsApp Desktop - Available in the Mac App Store, Whatsapp for Desktop.

Email Clients

Airmail - Fast email client. For both Mac OS and iOS.

Foxmail - Fast email client.

MailTags - Use tags to organize email and schedule.

N1 - Extensible, open-source mail app, free for developers and $7/month for Pro.

Nylas Mail - Extensible desktop mail app built on the modern web.

Polymail - Simple, beautiful and powerful email client.

Postbox - Powerful, simple and beautiful email client, need to pay for a license.

Spark - Fast email client. For both Mac OS and iOS.

ThunderBird - Software that makes email easier.

File Sharing

Cyberduck - Free FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure and OpenStack Swift browser.

Flow - Award-winning, beautiful, fast, and reliable FTP + SFTP client.

Transmit - Highly flexible and intuitive FTP client, supports SFTP, S3 and iDisk/WebDAV.

Data Rescue - Comprehensive and professional data recovery tool for most cases.

DiskWarrior - The world’s most advanced repair and recovery tool for Mac.

R-Studio for Mac - Powerful tool for recovering data on disks, even if their partitions are formatted, damaged or deleted.

SuperDuper! - Painless fully bootable disk backups.

aria2 - Lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility.

Downie - Video downloader for macOS with support for YouTube and other 1200 sites.

Deluge - Deluge is a lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client.

FOLX - Free download manager for Mac OS X with a true Mac-style interface.

Free Download Manager - Powerful, modern download accelerator and organizer for Windows and Mac. (FREE)

JDownloader - Free, open-source download management tool with a huge community of developers that makes downloading as easy and fast as it should be.

Motrix - Motrix is a full-featured download manager that supports downloading HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, Baidu Net Disk, etc.

qBittorrent - A project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to µTorrent.

Shuttle - Easy Download Manager for any links.

Transmission - Fast, easy, free BitTorrent Client.

You-Get - Tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the web.

youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

Cloud Storage

I recommend using online storage with Mac clients

Arq - Cloud storage backup client that supports AWS, GCP, DropBox, and more.

Carbonite - Carbonite can protect your Mac from all of the most common forms of data loss.

Dropbox - File hosting service that offers cloud storage and file synchronization with collaborative edit features.

Mega - Free cloud service, offers 50GB free storage.

NextCloud - Actively maintained fork of ownCloud, faster and completely open-source

ownCloud - Cloud storage.

Seafile - Reliable and High Speed File Sync and Share.

Input Methods

Kawa - Better input source switcher for OS X.

Rocket - Makes typing emoji faster and easier using Slack-style shortcuts.

Touch Emoji - emoji picker for MacBook Pro Touch Bar.

Type2Phone - Use Your Mac as Keyboard for iPhone, iPad & Apple TV.

Browsers

Brave - Web browser with an emphasis on privacy and speed.

Chrome - Chrome, developed by Google

Chromium - Open-source, free web browser project by Google, to provide the source code for Google Chrome.

Microsoft Edge — Microsoft Edge, based on Chromium, but built by MS

Firefox - Meet Firefox Quantum. Fast, free, open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation.

Safari - Native browser for Macs.

TorBrowser - Anonymity Online. Protect your privacy. Defend against network surveillance and traffic analysis.

Vivaldi - The browser that puts you in control.

(Or you could just use the Mac OS built-in dictionary)

Grammarly - Refine your english

iTranslate - Translate entire website instantly with its built-in browser or with iTranslate Safari extension into over 40 languages.

Ludwig - Linguistic search engine that helps you to write better in English.

Mate Translate - Translate in Safari and any app on macOS between 103 languages.

Encryption

Deadbolt - The easiest file encryption tool you'll ever use. macOS-compatible, and open-source so you can trust it.

BlockBlock - Me: "Please alert me whenever anything is persistently installed." BlockBlock: "You got it"

Dylib Hijack Scanner - Simple utility that will scan your computer for applications that are either susceptible to dylib hijacking or have been hijacked.

KextViewer - View all modules on that are loaded in the OS kernel.

KnockKnock - See what's persistently installed on your Mac.

LinkLiar - Link-Layer MAC spoofing GUI for macOS.

LockDown - Open-source tool for El Capitan that audits and remediates security configuration settings.

LuLu - is the free macOS firewall that aims to block unauthorized (outgoing) network traffic.

MalwareBytes - Malwarebytes crushes the growing threat of Mac malware, so you are protected and your machine keeps running silky smooth. Cybersecurity smart enough for the Mac.

OverSight - Monitor mic and webcam, alerting you when the internal mic is activated, or whenever a process accesses the webcam.

RansomWhere? - Generic Ransomware Detection.

stronghold - Easily configure MacOS security settings from the terminal.

TaskExplorer - Explore all processes running on your Mac with TaskExplorer.

What's Your Sign? - Adds menu item to Finder.app to display the cryptographic signing information for any file.

Algo - Personal IPSEC VPN in the cloud.

tigerVPN - VPN Client for Mac.

Lantern - Free application that delivers fast, reliable and secure access to the open internet.

ShadowsocksX-NG - Next generation of ShadowsocksX.

ShadowsocksX - Secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your internet traffic.

Shimo - VPN Client for Mac.

SpechtLite - Rule-based proxy app for macOS.

Surge - Web developer tool and proxy utility for iOS 9.

tinc - Secure mesh VPN software.

Tunnelbear - Really simple VPN to browse the web privately & securely. Unblock websites around the world with applications for Mac, PC, iOS, Android & Chrome.

Tunnelblick - Free, open-source graphic user interface for OpenVPN on OS X.

V2rayU - Macos client based on v2ray.

Windscribe - Gives 10gb per month free on the spot and gives limited(on free) location control. Connection also takes very less time.

ClashX - A rule based proxy For Mac base on Clash.

Utilities

ClipMenu - Clipboard manager for Mac OS X.

Clipy - Clipy is a Clipboard extension app for macOS. Based on ClipMenu.

CopyQ - Clipboard Manager with Advanced Features.

iPaste - Lightweight and efficient clipboard tool.

Paste - Smart clipboard history & snippets manager.

PasteBot - Powerful clipboard manager.

Flycut - Clean and simple clipboard manager for developers.

Maccy - Lightweight clipboard manager for macOS.

Anvil - Anvil is a beautiful menubar app for managing local websites. Serve up static sites and Rack apps with simple URLs and zero configuration.

Bartender - Organize or hide menu bar icons on your Mac.

BeardedSpice - Allows you to control web based media players (SoundCloud, YouTube, etc) and some native apps with the media keys on Mac keyboards.

BitBar - Place the output from any script or program right in your Mac OS X menu bar.

Dato - A better menu bar clock with calendar, events, and time zones.

Dozer - Hide MacOS menubar items.

Eye Timer - Take Breaks to prevent Eye Strain timer for Mac.

Hidden - A ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons.

iGlance - macOS System Monitor for the Status Bar.

Itsycal - Tiny calendar for your Mac's menu bar.

MeetingBar - Menu bar app for your calendar meetings

Streaker - GitHub contribution streak tracking menubar app.

Vanilla - Hide menu bar icons on your Mac.

Jiffy - Discover and share the best GIFs on GIPHY.

BetterZip 3 - Archive tool supports ZIP, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TXZ (new), 7-ZIP, RAR.

eZip - An easy to use, feature-rich archiver for macOS. Supports popular formats such as RAR, ZIP, 7Z, BZ2, GZ etc. Works great with Mojave dark-mode and QuickLook.

Hazel - Automated file organization for your Mac. Responsibly and beautifully designed.

Keka - file archiver for macOS. Compression: 7Z, ZIP, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ LZIP, DMG, ISO. Extraction: 7Z, ZIP, RAR, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ, LZIP, DMG, ISO, LZMA, EXE, CAB, WIM, PAX, JAR, APK, APPX, CPGZ, CPIO.

muCommander - Lightweight file manager with a dual-pane interface.

PDF Archiver - Nice tool for tagging and archiving tasks.

The Unarchiver - Unarchive many different kinds of archive files.

AirServer - Most advanced screen mirroring software receiver for Mac, PC and Xbox One.

ControlPlane - Manages configuration profiles for your Mac. Determines where you are or what you are doing based on a number of available evidence sources and then automatically reconfigures your Mac based on your preferences.

DNS Heaven - Unifies macOS DNS so applications using glibc can resolve DNS with the native stack. Mainly for use with VPNs.

HTTrack - Useful tool for downloading a whole website and offline browsing.

Lungo - Prevent your Mac from going to sleep.

Mac Cache Cleaner - Cache cleaner for Mac

MacAssistant - Google Assistant for macOS

Manta - Flexible invoicing desktop app with beautiful & customizable templates.

Memo - Simple and elegant app. Unlock memos even more quickly using Touch ID.

Numi - Beautiful calculator app for Mac.

Plash - Make any website your desktop wallpaper.

SlowQuitApps - An OS X app that adds a global delay of 1 second to the Cmd-Q shortcut.

Torimori Sweeper - MacOS app that lets you declutter your Downloads, one file at a time.

Ultra TabSaver - The Open Source Tab Manager for Safari

To-Do Lists

2Do - Nice todo app.

Day-O 2 - Menu bar clock replacement with built-in calendar.

Fantastical - The calendar app you won't be able to live without.

Focus - Beautiful pomodoro-based time manager.

Microsoft To-Do - Microsoft's successor to Wunderlist.

Nozbe - Powerful GTD app for individuals and teams, with support for every Apple device (Mac, iPhone, iPad, Watch).

OmniFocus - Nice GTD app, made by OmniGroups.

Taskade - Real-time collaborative editor for teams.

TaskPaper - Plain text to-do lists.

Things - Delightful and easy to use task manager. ( Award-winning App )

) Todoist - Cross-platform todo list app.

Tomato 2 - Beautiful and simple Pomodoro timer.

TickTick - Simple and effective to-do list and task manager that helps you organize all aspects of life.

Productivity

1440 Minutes Left Today - Keep a track of how many minutes you have left until the day is over, right in your menu bar.

Alfred - Award-winning app which boosts efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more. Search your Mac and the web, and be more productive with custom actions to control your Mac.

BetterTouchTool - Great, feature-packed app that allows you to configure many gestures for your Magic Mouse, Macbook Trackpad, Magic Trackpad and also Mouse Gestures for normal mice.

Choosy - UI, URL API and a browser extension set for managing rules where and how to open links.

Hammerspoon - Tool for powerful OSX automation with the Lua scripting engine.

HapticKey - A simple utility application for MacBook with Touch Bar that triggers a haptic feedback when tapping Touch Bar.

HazeOver App that dims your background app windows so you can focus more on your main task!

Hungrymark - Useful app to bookmark your files, folders, and webs, quick access your bookmarks through menu bar

iCMD - Fuzzy menubar search and vim/easymotion emulation which works globally for every native MacOS app.

Karabiner - Powerful and stable keyboard customizer for OS X.

Keyboard Maestro - Automate routine actions based on triggers from keyboard, menu, location, added devices, and more.

Keytty - App to keep your hands on the keyboard. Move, click, scroll, drag and more with a few strokes.

Lazy - Keyboard-driven commands to manage your surroundings directly from your mac.

Mos - Simple tool can offer the smooth scrolling and reverse the mouse scrolling direction on your Mac.

Mouseless - Master all of the magic keystrokes for your favorite apps & tools.

OmniPlan - The best way to visualize, maintain, and simplify your projects. Project Management made easy.

Qbserve - Time tracking automation: freelance project tracking, timesheets, invoicing & real-time productivity feedback.

RescueTime - Personal analytics service that shows you how you spend your time and provides tools to help you be more productive.

SensibleSideButtons – Use the side buttons on your mouse to move forward and backward in many apps, like in Windows.

nnScreenshots - a super easy way to keep a visual record of your productivity to make it easier to fill out timesheets or just to help you review the day. Built in timesheet editor.

skhd - Simple hotkey daemon for macOS.

Strategr – No-fuss time management app. Stategr helps you maximize your productivity, giving you the quickest and most effective way to time-box your day.

Time Out - Easy break reminders, with micro-break and flexible customization if you want it.

Timing - Automatic time and productivity tracking for Mac. Helps you stay on track with your work and ensures no billable hours get lost if you are billing hourly.

Trello - A collaboration tool that organizes your projects into Kanban boards.

Ukelele - Unicode Keyboard Layout Editor.

xScope - Powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, inspecting & testing on-screen graphics and layouts.

Z - Powerful way to navigate easily by typing only a string of directory name in terminal instead of typing exact location of director.

Pomodoro Cycle - Pomodoro tracker

Window Management

AltTab - Open source window switcher with window previews.

Amethyst - Tiling window manager.

contexts - Provides more power than the native Mac Dock. Especially when you have multiple screens, it can help you switch more quickly.

Divvy - Window management at its finest with its amazing Divvy Grid system.

Hummingbird - Easily move and resize windows without mouse clicks, from anywhere within a window.

Magnet - Window manager that keeps your workspace organized.

Moom - Allows you to easily move and zoom windows, or to another display—using either the mouse or the keyboard.

Rectangle - Window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift.

ShiftIt - Managing window size and position in OSX.

SizeUp - Powerful, keyboard-centric window management.

Slate - Window management application similar to Divvy and SizeUp (except better and free!). ( Needs config file )

) Total Spaces - Provides window management much like ubuntu. Creates hotkeys for workspaces which allows you to easily move around.

yabai - Tiling window manager for macOS. A rewrite of chunkwm, it provides a more seamless integration with the operating system.

Password Management

1Password - Cross-platform password management tool.

Authy - Two-factor authentication token manager that backs up and syncs across your devices.

Bitwarden - Open source password management tool for Mac OS, iOS and browsers.

Buttercup - The Password Manager You Deserve

Dashlane - Cloud-based password manager with award-winning design.

Enpass - Cross-platform password management tool with cloud integration.

Keeweb - Free, cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass.

LastPass - Password management tool for Mac OS and browser.

MacPass - Open-source KeePass Mac OS client.

SafeInCloud - Cross Platform password management, low cost app!

fman - The first dual-pane file manager to integrate features from Sublime Text.

ForkLift - The most advanced dual pane file manager and file transfer client for macOS.

Path Finder - File management app.

QSpace - A clean and efficient Multi-view File Manager.

TotalFinder - Chrome-styled Finder substitute.

XtraFinder - Adds tabs and cut to Mac Finder.

Quality of Life Improvements

CheatSheet - Hold the ⌘-Key to get a list of all active shortcuts of the current application. It's as simple as that.

f.lux - Makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day.

Grayscale Mode - An open source macOS app that lets you quickly toggle grayscale filter right from your menu bar or using a keyboard shortcut (⌥⌘G).

KeyCastr - Open-source keystroke visualizer.

NightOwl - Automatically switch between macOS Mojave's light and dark themes by time of day or with a menu bar or keyboard shortcut.

One Switch - Mac menu bar app that adds various switches to the Mac's menu bar.

Shifty - A macOS menu bar app that gives you more control over Night Shift.

Snap - Launch an app in a snap. Ridiculously easy shortcut management.

Gaming Software

OpenEmu - A great video game console emulator, supports many different emulators in a single application. (e.g. Sony PSP, GameBoy, NDS and so on)

PPSSPP - A awesome PSP emulator for any OS you can dream of!

Remote Login Software

AnyDesk - Provides Remote access across multiple machines.

RealVNC - The original and best software for remote access across desktop and mobile.

TeamViewer - Proprietary computer software package for remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers.

Social Networking

Chirper - A simple and tiny menu bar app for Buffer/Twitter that helps you tweet your thoughts without opening anything.

Flume - A beautiful Instagram experience for your Mac. The free version is good enough if you only want to do the browsing instead of posting.

QuickLook Plugins

QuicklookStephen - Preview plain text files without or with unknown file extension. such as README、INSTALL、Capfile、CHANGELOG... brew cask install qlstephen

Third Party App Markets

If you come across websites offering pirated software or cracks, please post HERE. We love apps, but only authentic ones. :)

Setapp - The best apps for Mac in one suite.

Package Managers

Here are some of the major software download sites, there are a number of OSX Mac software sites

Cakebrew - GUI client for Homebrew. Install, check or remove apps, no command-line needed.

Homebrew Cask - Command line installation manager which extends Homebrew and brings its elegance, simplicity, and speed to Mac OS applications and large binaries alike.

Homebrew - The missing package manager for macOS.

MacPorts - Open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system.

MacUpdate Desktop - Simplifies finding, buying and installing apps for your Mac.

Mac App Download Sites

Here are some of the major software download sites, there are a number of OSX Mac software sites

Genuine Sites

alternativeTo - Also a very nice community. If you are looking for some alternative apps FOR Windows or another platform, check this site.

Windows or another platform, check this site. Slant - I personally recommend this. This is a platform where you can compare apps side-by-side, you might get an idea by seeing other users recommendations. Please contribute if you find an application from this list!

Also, Quora, Reddit, you know the drill.

App Shopper：http://appshopper.com/

MacUpdate：https://www.macupdate.com/

Other sites like MacStories, LifeHacker, ProductHunt are great resources.

Pirated software download site blacklist

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