List of Mac software

The following is a list of Mac software – notable computer applications for current macOS operating systems.

For software designed for the Classic Mac OS, see List of old Macintosh software.

Audio software

Digital audio workstations

Audio editing

DJing

  • djay – digital music mixing software
  • Mixxx – DJ mix software

Notation software

Misc audio tools

  • Audio Hijack – audio recorder
  • baudline – signal analyzer
  • BeaTunes - BPM analyzer and iTunes companion tool
  • Cog – open source audio player, supports multiple formats
  • fre:ac – open source audio converter and CD ripper
  • ixi software – free improvisation and sketching tools
  • Jaikoz – music file mass tagger
  • Max – Cycling 74's visual programming language for MIDI, audio, video; with MSP, Jitter
  • Music MiniPlayer - miniplayer for Apple Music
  • ReBirth – virtual synth program simulates Roland TR-808, TB-303
  • Recycle – music loop editor

Discontinued audio apps

  • Adobe Soundbooth – music and soundtrack editing
  • Audion – media player
  • BIAS Peak – mastering
  • iTunes – audio/video Jukebox by Apple
  • Logic Expressprosumer music production by Apple
  • Logic Studio – music writing studio package by Apple
    • Apple Loops Utility – production and organisation of Apple Loops
    • Apple Qmaster and Qadministrator
    • Mainstage – program to play software synthesizers live
    • QuickTime Pro – pro version of QuickTime
    • Soundtrack Pro – post production audio editor
    • WaveBurner – CD mastering and production software
  • RiffWorks – guitar recording and online song collaboration software

Chat (text, voice, image, video)

Active

Adium on Mac OS X

Discontinued

Children's software

  • Kid Pix Deluxe 3X – bitmap drawing program
  • Stagecast Creator – programming and internet authoring for kids

Developer tools and IDEs

Email

Email clients

Other email software

FTP clients

Games

  • Steam – digital distribution software for video games and related media

Graphics, layout, desktop publishing

CAD, 3D graphics

Distributed document authoring

Icon editors, viewers

Active

  • Adobe Bridge – digital asset management app
  • BibDesk – free bibliographic database app that organizes linked files
  • Font Book – font management tool
  • GraphicConverter – graphics editor, open/converts a wide range of file formats
  • Photos – photo management application

Discontinued

  • iPhoto – discontinued photo management application

Active

Discontinued

Raster and vector graphics

This section lists bitmap graphics editors and vector graphics editors.

Active

  • Adobe Fireworks – supports GIF animation
  • Adobe Illustrator – vector graphics editor
  • Adobe Photoshop – also offers some vector graphics features
  • Affinity Designer – vector graphics editor for Apple macOS and Microsoft Windows
  • Anime Studio – 2D based vector animation
  • Collabora Online - enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice
  • Corel Painter
  • EazyDraw – vector graphics editor; versions available that can convert old formats such as MacDraw files
  • Fontographer
  • GIMP – free bitmap graphics editor
  • GIMPShop – free open source cross-platform bitmap graphics editor
  • GraphicConverter – displays and edits raster graphics files
  • Inkscape – free vector graphics editor
  • Luminar
  • Macromedia FreeHand – vector graphics editor
  • Paintbrush – free simple bitmap graphics program
  • Photos – official photo management and editing application developed by Apple
  • Photo Booth – photo camera, video recorder
  • Pixelmator – hardware-accelerated integrated photo editor
  • Polarr – photo editing app
  • Seashore – open source, based around the GIMP's technology, but with native macOS (Cocoa) UI

Discontinued

  • Aperture – Apple's pro photo management, editing, publishing application
  • MacPaint – painting software by Apple (discontinued)

Integrated software technologies

Language and reference tools

Mathematics software

Media center

Multimedia authoring

  • Adobe Director – animation/application development
  • Adobe Flash – vector animation
  • Adobe LiveMotion – a discontinued competitor to Flash, until Adobe bought Macromedia
  • Apple Media Tool – a discontinued multimedia authoring tool published by Apple
  • Dragonframe - stop motion animation and time-lapse
  • iBooks Author – created interactive books for Apple Books (discontinued)
  • iLife – media suite by Apple
  • Unity – 3D authoring

Networking and telecommunications

  • Apple Remote Desktop
  • Google Earth
  • iStumbler – find wireless networks and devices
  • Karelia Watson (defunct)
  • KisMAC
  • Little Snitch – network monitor and outgoing connection firewall
  • NetSpot – software tool for wireless network assessment, scanning, and surveys, analyzing Wi-Fi coverage and performance
  • Timbuktu – remote control
  • WiFi Explorer – a wireless network scanner tool

News aggregators

  • Feedly – news aggregator, and news aggregator reading application
  • NetNewsWire – news aggregator reading application
  • NewsFire – news aggregator reading application
  • RSSOwl – news aggregator reading application
  • Safari (web browser) - news aggregation via built-in RSS support
  • Apple Mail – news aggregation via (discontinued) built-in RSS support

Office and productivity

Operating systems

  • Darwin – the BSD-licensed core of macOS
  • macOS – originally named "Mac OS X" until 2012 and then "OS X" until 2016
  • macOS Server – the server computing variant of macOS

Outliners and mind-mapping

Peer-to-peer file sharing

Science

  • Celestia – 3D astronomy program
  • SimThyr – Simulation system for thyroid homeostasis
  • Stellarium – 3D astronomy program

Text editors

Utilities

  • Activity Monitor – default system monitor for hardware and software
  • AppZapper – uninstaller (shareware)
  • Automator – built-in, utility to automate repetitive tasks
  • Butler – free, launcher and utility to automate repetitive tasks
  • CandyBar – system customization software (commercial)
  • CDFinder – disk cataloging software (commercial)
  • DaisyDisk – disk visualization tool
  • Dashboard – built-in macOS widgets
  • Grab – built-in macOS screenshot utility
  • Growl – global notifications system, free
  • iSync – syncing software, bundled with Mac OS X up to 10.6
  • LaunchBar – provides instant access to local data, search engines and more by entering abbreviations of search item names, commercial
  • Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing – proprietary, typing tutor
  • OnyX – a freeware system maintenance and optimization tool for macOS
  • Path Finder – replacement for Apple's Finder
  • Quicksilver – a framework for accessing and manipulating many forms of data
  • SheepShaver – PowerPC emulator, allows, among other things, running Mac OS 9 on Intel Macs
  • Sherlock – file searching (version 2), web services (version 3)
  • Stickies – put Post-It Note-like notes on the desktop
  • System Settings – default Mac system option application
  • UUTool – uuencoded/uudecode and other transcoding
  • Xsan – storage network utility
  • Yahoo! Widget EngineJavaScript-based widget system

Anti-malware software

macOS includes the built-in XProtect antimalware as part of GateKeeper. The software listed in this section is antivirus software and malware removal software.

Archiving, backup, restore, recovery

This section lists software for file archiving, backup and restore, data compression and data recovery.

Discontinued archiving apps

Disc burning apps

  • Roxio Toast – DVD authoring application

Discontinued disc burning apps

Video

Virtualization, emulation, dual-booting

  • Bochs
  • Boot Camp – a multi-boot utility built into macOS from 10.5 on Intel Macs only
  • CrossOver – commercial implementation of Wine
  • DOSBox – DOS emulator
  • Hercules emulator
  • pcAnywhere – VNC-style remote control
  • Parallels Workstation – commercial full virtualization software for desktop and server
  • Q – emulates an IBM-compatible PC on a Mac, allows running PC operating systems
  • VMware Fusion – virtualization software
  • Wine – Windows API reimplementation
  • Virtual PC – full virtualization software allows running other operating systems, such as Windows and Linux, on PowerPC Macs (discontinued in 2007)
  • VirtualBox
  • vMac – emulates a Macintosh Plus and can run Apple Macintosh System versions 1.1 to 7.5.5.

Web browsers

Web design and content management

Weblog clients

  • ecto
  • MarsEdit

See also

References

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