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SwiftBarSwiftBar lets you add your own programs to the macOS menu bar. Write a script in any language, such as shell, Python, Ruby or JavaScript, put it in SwiftBar's plugin folder, and its output appears in the menu bar, refreshing as often as you like. A plugin can show anything from the weather, a stock price or the status of a server to your unread messages, with a dropdown menu of actions underneath. You can also get ready-made plugins from SwiftBar's built-in plugin repository and from the large collection written for BitBar.Customization
OpenCore Legacy PatcherOpenCore Legacy Patcher brings new life to Macs that Apple no longer supports. It lets you install and run newer versions of macOS on machines as old as 2007, using the OpenCore boot manager and the Lilu framework from the Acidanthera project. Its patches are applied in memory at start-up, so no firmware is changed, and once your Mac is set up, system updates can be installed from System Settings with only a couple of extra steps. It also restores support for older graphics cards, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips, and can unlock features such as Sidecar, AirPlay to Mac, Night Shift and Universal Control, even on supported Macs.System Utilities
NetNewsWireNetNewsWire is a free and open-source RSS reader for Mac, iPhone and iPad. It shows you new articles from your favourite blogs and news sites and keeps track of what you have read. Instead of going from site to site in your browser, or relying on social media algorithms, you subscribe to the feeds you want and NetNewsWire brings the news to you. It is fast, stable and accessible, with a clean three-pane window that feels at home on the Mac.Productivity
MeetingBarMeetingBar shows your current or next calendar meeting in the Mac menu bar and lets you join it in one click. It finds the meeting link in your calendar events and works with more than 50 meeting services, including Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex and Discord. The menu lists your upcoming events for today and tomorrow, a global keyboard shortcut joins the nearest meeting, and notifications or full-screen reminders make sure you are on time.Productivity
LoopLoop makes window management on the Mac quick and elegant. Hold down a trigger key and move your cursor in a direction: a radial menu appears and Loop moves and resizes the window to match, for example to the left half, a corner or full screen. A preview shows the new size before you let go. If you prefer the keyboard, you can give every action its own shortcut together with the trigger key, and cycles let you step through several sizes by pressing the same shortcut again.Customization
KeepingYouAwakeKeepingYouAwake is a small menu bar app that prevents your Mac from going to sleep. Click its coffee cup icon and your Mac stays awake, which is handy during a long download, a presentation, a video call or a backup. Click again and your normal energy settings return. You can also choose how long it should stay active, from a few minutes to a few hours or indefinitely, and it can switch itself off when your battery runs low so a MacBook is never drained by accident.System Utilities
FinickyFinicky makes sure every link opens in the right browser. Set it as your default browser and it decides, for each link you click in any app, which browser should open it. You might send work tools such as Google Meet or LinkedIn to one browser and social sites to another, or open everything from a work chat in a separate profile. Finicky can also change links before opening them, for example to force HTTPS or remove tracking parameters.Internet Utilities
CotEditorCotEditor is a lightweight plain-text editor made just for macOS. It looks and behaves the way a Mac app should, and it launches so quickly that you can start writing the moment you need to. It is equally good for notes, code and plain text files: syntax highlighting covers more than 60 languages, such as HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby and Markdown, and a powerful find and replace uses regular expressions. Every setting, including syntax definitions and themes, lives in a normal settings window, with no configuration files to edit.Developer Tools
Background MusicBackground Music is a free audio utility for macOS that adds what the Mac is missing. It gives every app its own volume slider and mute button, so you can turn a noisy browser tab down without touching your music, and even boost quiet apps above their normal maximum. It also pauses your music player automatically when another app starts playing sound, such as a video or a call, and resumes the music when the other sound stops. Auto-pause works with music players such as Spotify, VLC and the Music app.Music & Audio
AppliteApplite is an app store for the Mac apps that are not on the App Store. It lets you browse thousands of Mac apps by category or search for them by name, then install, update or uninstall them with one click: no more dragging to the Applications folder and no installer windows to click through. Behind the scenes Applite uses Homebrew, the trusted open-source package manager, but you do not need to know anything about it. Applite brings its own copy and sets it up quietly the first time you open it.System Utilities
OpenEmuOpenEmu is a free, open-source video game emulator made for the Mac. Instead of a separate emulator for every console, it brings dozens of systems together in one app with a clean, native Mac interface. Drag a game file onto OpenEmu and it identifies the game, sorts it into the right system and adds it to a library that looks like your music or photo collection. Plug in a gamepad, pick it from the list and press start. Under the hood, OpenEmu uses well-known emulation engines, which it calls cores, such as Nestopia, Snes9x, mGBA, Genesis Plus GX, Mupen64Plus and Mednafen.Games
HammerspoonHammerspoon is a free tool for powerful automation of macOS. At its core it is a bridge between the operating system and the Lua scripting language: you write short scripts, and Hammerspoon turns them into actions on your Mac. Scripts can work with applications, windows, the mouse pointer, files, audio devices, batteries, screens, low-level keyboard and mouse events, the clipboard, location services, Wi-Fi and more. That makes it possible to build your own hotkeys, window layouts, menu bar items, alerts and automations, exactly the way you want them.Customization
AerialAerial plays Apple's aerial videos, from cities and deserts to the view from the International Space Station, as your Mac's screensaver and as a live wallpaper. It brought the Apple TV screensaver to the Mac in 2015, and it goes well beyond what macOS offers on its own: you choose exactly what plays and when, put a clock, the weather or location captions on top, stretch one video across all your displays, add your own videos, or watch a live camera feed instead. The whole Apple TV catalogue is available at native quality, including the 4K 240 fps set.Customization
StellariumStellarium is a free planetarium that shows a realistic sky in 3D, just as you would see it with your eyes, binoculars or a telescope. Pick any place on Earth and any date and time, and Stellarium shows the stars, planets, Moon, constellations and nebulae for that moment, with a realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset and the Milky Way. It has a catalogue of hundreds of thousands of stars, sky cultures from around the world, and tools for telescopes and eclipses. Stellarium is developed by a worldwide team of volunteers and is used in planetariums, schools and by amateur astronomers.Education
Sequel AceSequel Ace is a fast, native Mac app for working with MySQL and MariaDB databases. Connect to a local or remote server, including through an SSH tunnel, then browse tables, edit rows, change table structure, run SQL queries with syntax highlighting and auto-completion, and import or export data. It is the community-maintained successor to the popular Sequel Pro, which is no longer developed, and it can import Sequel Pro favourites.Developer Tools
MarkEditMarkEdit is a free, lightweight Markdown editor for Mac. It describes itself as TextEdit for Markdown: it opens instantly, edits plain .md files without importing them into a library, and stays out of your way with a clean, native interface. It highlights Markdown syntax as you type, supports large files, and has strong search and replace, a table of contents, typewriter mode and many themes. Extra features, such as a live preview, can be added with extensions. MarkEdit is developed by the MarkEdit-app team.Productivity
KekaKeka is the macOS file archiver. Drag files and folders onto Keka to compress them into a smaller archive, or double-click an archive to extract it. It creates 7z, ZIP, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ, LZIP, DMG and ISO files, and opens many more formats, including RAR, 7z, ZIP, TAR, ISO, DMG, LZH and CAB. You can protect archives with a password using AES-256 encryption, split large archives into parts, and exclude Mac-only files such as .DS_Store. Keka is made by Jorge García in Barcelona.System Utilities
GifskiGifski turns your videos into beautiful animated GIFs. Drop in a video, such as a screen recording, and Gifski converts it using the gifski encoder, which picks thousands of colours for every frame instead of the usual few hundred, so GIFs look smooth and sharp. You can trim the video, crop it, change the size, frame rate and quality, and see the result and the file size before saving. Gifski is made by Sindre Sorhus, using the gifski encoder by Kornel Lesiński.Video
espansoespanso is a free text expander that works in every app. You set up short triggers, such as ":sig" or ":addr", and when you type one, espanso replaces it with the full text: an email signature, an address, a standard reply, a code snippet or today's date. Matches are written in simple text files, can include forms with fields to fill in, shell commands and dynamic values, and can be shared through the espanso package hub. espanso is created by Federico Terzi and runs on Mac, Windows and Linux.Productivity
CyberduckCyberduck is a free file browser for servers and cloud storage. It connects to FTP, SFTP, WebDAV and SMB servers, and to cloud services such as Amazon S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint, Backblaze B2, Azure, Nextcloud and many more. Files are shown in a simple browser window, and you can upload, download, sync folders, and edit remote files in your usual text editor. With built-in Cryptomator support, files can be encrypted before they reach the cloud. Cyberduck is made by iterate GmbH in Switzerland.Internet Utilities
CryptomatorCryptomator encrypts your files before they go to the cloud. You create a vault inside your iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive or any other synced folder, and everything you put in it is encrypted on your Mac. The cloud provider only ever sees scrambled files, while on your Mac the unlocked vault appears as a normal drive you can use from any app. Even file and folder names are encrypted. Cryptomator is made by Skymatic in Germany and has been independently audited.Security
AnkiAnki is a flashcard program that helps you remember things with far less effort. It uses spaced repetition: cards you know well come back after longer and longer gaps, while cards you struggle with are shown more often, so your study time goes where it is needed. Anki is used for languages, medicine, law, programming, exams and much more. Cards can contain text, images, audio, video and maths, and thousands of ready-made shared decks are available. Anki is developed by Ankitects.Education
AmethystAmethyst is a tiling window manager for macOS, inspired by xmonad on Linux. Instead of dragging and resizing windows by hand, Amethyst arranges them automatically so they fill the screen without overlapping. You choose a layout, such as a tall main window with others stacked beside it, a grid or full screen, and switch between layouts, move windows and change their sizes with keyboard shortcuts. Each screen and each Space can have its own layout. Amethyst is developed by Ian Ybarra and a community of contributors.Customization
TabbyTabby, formerly called Terminus, is a highly configurable terminal emulator that also works as an SSH, Telnet and serial client. It replaces several tools at once: a local terminal with tabs and split panes, a connection manager for your servers, and a serial terminal for devices such as routers and microcontrollers. Your SSH passwords and keys can be kept in an encrypted vault, files can be transferred over SSH, and the look and features can be changed with themes and plugins. Tabby is developed by Eugene Pankov and runs on Mac, Windows and Linux.Developer Tools