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383 apps
- mkcertmkcert is a free, open-source command-line tool that makes locally trusted HTTPS certificates for development. Run mkcert -install once and it creates your own local certificate authority and adds it to your Mac's trust store; after that, one command makes a certificate for localhost, 127.0.0.1 or any development name such as example.test, and your browsers trust it with no warnings. mkcert is made by Filippo Valsorda and released under the BSD-3-Clause license.Developer Tools
MacWhisperMacWhisper turns audio and video files into text on your Mac. Drag in a recording of an interview, a lecture, a podcast or a meeting and MacWhisper writes out what was said, using OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition. The transcription runs on your own Mac, so no audio leaves your computer, which makes it suitable for private recordings. MacWhisper is made by Jordi Bruin and Good Snooze in the Netherlands.AI
Macs Fan ControlMacs Fan Control shows the temperature sensors and fan speeds of your Mac in real time and lets you take control of the fans. You can set a fixed fan speed in RPM, or have a fan speed up and slow down with the temperature of a sensor you choose, which helps with a MacBook Pro that runs hot or a noisy iMac after a hard drive replacement. Macs Fan Control is made by CrystalIDEA.System Utilities
LuLuLuLu is a free, open-source firewall for Mac. Almost every app connects to the internet, and so does malware; LuLu watches outgoing network connections and asks you whenever a program it doesn't know tries to connect, so you can allow it or block it. Your decisions become rules, and LuLu applies them from then on. LuLu is made by Objective-See, a non-profit foundation for Mac security tools, and is released under the GPL-3.0 license.Security- Little SnitchLittle Snitch shows you where your Mac connects to on the internet and lets you decide what is allowed. Whenever an app wants to connect, a connection alert asks you to allow or deny it, so no data leaves your Mac without your consent. Its Network Monitor shows all connections in real time, on a world map and in a traffic chart, grouped by app, domain or country. Little Snitch is made by Objective Development and has been protecting Macs for more than 20 years.Security
- lazygitlazygit is a free, open-source terminal interface for Git. Instead of typing long Git commands, you see your files, branches, commits and stashes in panels in Terminal and work with them using a few keys: stage single lines, write commits, switch branches, rebase, cherry-pick and resolve conflicts. lazygit was created by Jesse Duffield, is developed with many contributors, and is released under the MIT license.Developer Tools
- KeyCastrKeyCastr is a free, open-source keystroke visualizer for Mac. It shows the keys you press, and optionally your mouse clicks, on the screen, so viewers can follow along when you record a screencast, give a presentation or work with others. You choose whether it shows only command keys, all modified keys or every keystroke. KeyCastr is developed by its open-source contributors and released under the BSD-3-Clause license.Video
Karabiner-ElementsKarabiner-Elements is a free, open-source keyboard customizer for Mac. It can change any key into another, such as Caps Lock into Control or Escape, and with complex modifications it can do much more: make a key act as Escape when tapped and Control when held, add a "hyper" key, or set different rules for different apps and keyboards. Karabiner-Elements is made by Takayama Fumihiko (pqrs.org) and released into the public domain.Customization
KapKap is a free, open-source screen recorder for Mac. Choose the whole screen, a window or any area you draw, record, and then export the clip as a GIF, an MP4 or WebM video, or an animated PNG. You can include audio, highlight your mouse clicks and trim the recording before you export it, which makes Kap handy for bug reports, tutorials and short demos. Kap is made by Wulkano and released under the MIT license.Video
iTerm2iTerm2 is a free, open-source replacement for the Mac's Terminal app. It does everything Terminal does and adds a long list of features: split panes, a hotkey window that drops down from anywhere, powerful search, autocomplete, a paste history, instant replay of erased text, triggers that react to output, and deep integration with tmux. iTerm2 is made by George Nachman and released under the GPL-2.0 license.Developer Tools
iStat MenusiStat Menus puts everything about your Mac into the menu bar. It shows CPU and GPU load, memory, disk space and activity, network traffic, temperatures and fans, battery and power, the weather and the time, each as a small menu bar item that opens a detailed menu with history graphs and the apps using the most resources. It is made by Bjango, has been around for nearly 20 years, and has no ads, analytics or tracking.System Utilities
IceIce is a free, open-source menu bar manager for Mac. It hides the menu bar icons you rarely use and brings them back with a click, a hover or a scroll, so a crowded menu bar stays tidy and nothing is lost behind the notch on a MacBook. Ice is made by Jordan Baird and released under the GPL-3.0 license.Customization
Hidden BarHidden Bar is a free, open-source utility that hides menu bar icons to give your Mac a cleaner look. It adds an arrow and a separator to the menu bar: icons to the left of the separator are hidden, and one click on the arrow shows or hides them again. It is very small and simple, and is made by the Dwarves Foundation under the MIT license.Customization- fzffzf is a free, open-source fuzzy finder for the command line. Give it any list, such as files, command history, Git branches or running processes, and type a few letters: fzf shows the closest matches instantly, even when the letters are not next to each other, and returns the one you pick. It is a single small program that handles millions of items in milliseconds. fzf is made by Junegunn Choi and released under the MIT license.Developer Tools
ForkLiftForkLift is a dual-pane file manager and file transfer client for Mac. It shows two folders side by side, so you can copy and move files between them, and it connects to remote servers and cloud storage as easily as to your own disks: SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, SMB, AFP, NFS and more. It can compare and sync folders, rename many files at once and preview almost any file. ForkLift is made by Binarynights.Internet Utilities- fdfd is a free, open-source command-line program for finding files and folders. It does the same job as the built-in find command, but with a much simpler syntax: type fd followed by part of a name, and it lists every match in the current folder and below, in color. It is fast because it searches folders in parallel, and by default it skips hidden files and anything in your .gitignore. fd is made by David Peter and is dual-licensed under the MIT license and the Apache License 2.0.Developer Tools
DownieDownie downloads videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and more than a thousand other websites, in up to 4K resolution. Paste a link or click the browser extension, and Downie saves the video, or converts it to MP4 for your iPhone or iPad, or extracts only the audio. For sites it does not support directly, its built-in browser lets you open the page and grab the video yourself. Downie is made by Charlie Monroe Software.Internet Utilities
Docker DesktopDocker Desktop is the official way to run Docker on a Mac. It installs everything you need to build, run and share containers: Docker Engine, the docker command-line tool, Docker Compose for multi-container apps, an optional Kubernetes cluster, and a dashboard to manage your containers, images and volumes. Containers run inside a lightweight virtual machine that Docker Desktop manages for you. Docker Desktop is made by Docker, Inc.Developer Tools- CrossOverCrossOver lets you run many Windows programs and games on your Mac without installing Windows. There is no virtual machine and no Windows license to buy: CrossOver translates what a Windows program asks for into what macOS understands, so the program opens in its own window like a Mac app. It is made by CodeWeavers, whose work is built on the open-source Wine project; CrossOver 26 includes Wine 11.0.Games
coconutBatterycoconutBattery shows how healthy the battery in your Mac, iPhone or iPad is. It reads the battery's original design capacity and its full charge capacity today, so you can see at a glance how much it has worn, along with the number of charge cycles, the current charge, temperature and live charging information. It has been made by coconut-flavour.com since 2005 and is only available from its own website, not from any App Store.System Utilities- BlackHoleBlackHole is a free virtual audio driver for Mac that passes sound from one app to another. It appears in macOS as an extra audio device: send any app's output to BlackHole and pick BlackHole as the input in another app, and the audio flows between them with no added latency. That makes it possible to record your Mac's sound, play music or a DAW into a video call, or route audio between music apps. BlackHole is made by Existential Audio, and its source code is released under the GPL-3.0 license.Music & Audio
Beyond CompareBeyond Compare compares files and folders and shows you exactly what is different. Compare two versions of a text file line by line, two folders file by file, or tables, images and binary data, then merge the changes or synchronize the folders. It works with local folders, FTP sites, cloud storage and zip files, and integrates with most version control systems. Beyond Compare is made by Scooter Software and runs on Mac, Windows and Linux.Developer Tools
BetterZipBetterZip opens, browses and creates archives the Mac way. It extracts more than 30 formats, including ZIP, RAR, 7-Zip, TAR and ISO, and creates archives in ZIP, DMG, TAR, 7-Zip, Zstandard, XAR, ISO and more. You can look inside an archive before extracting it, take out only the files you need, and even add, delete or rename files inside an archive without unpacking it. BetterZip is made by MacItBetter, an independent developer since 2006.System Utilities
BetterDisplayBetterDisplay gives you control over your Mac's displays from the menu bar. It can make external monitors fully scalable with sharp HiDPI resolutions, adjust brightness, volume and input on monitors that support DDC, create virtual screens, and disconnect or reconnect displays without unplugging a cable. Some of these are Pro features. BetterDisplay is developed by waydabber at Kodeon Software.System Utilities