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BibDeskBibDesk is a bibliography manager for the Mac. It keeps track of your bibliographic information and of the files and web links that go with it, and its services make it simple to use your bibliography in other applications. It is particularly well suited to LaTeX users, and it works with citation autocompletion in most LaTeX editors.Education
SlimHUDSlimHUD replaces the overlays macOS shows when you change the volume, the screen brightness or the keyboard backlight. Instead of the system graphic you get a slim bar on the edge of the screen, and you decide how it looks. To open its settings window, start SlimHUD again while it is already running.Customization
CrossMacroCrossMacro records your mouse and keyboard actions and replays them whenever you need them, without writing a script. It captures mouse movements, clicks, scrolling and keyboard events, together or separately. You can adjust playback speed, countdowns, repeat counts and delays, pause and resume a running macro, and save recordings as .macro files in a library.Productivity
CloakerCloaker protects a file with a password in as few steps as possible. Drop a file onto the window, set a password and choose where to save the encrypted copy. To decrypt, drop the encrypted file on the window, enter the password and choose the output location. There is nothing to install on the Mac, because Cloaker comes as a single app bundle. Be careful with your password: if you lose or forget it, your data cannot be recovered, so keep it in a password manager or another secure backup.Security
sttsstts is a small macOS menu bar app for monitoring the status of cloud services. With a click of the menu bar icon you can see how your favorite services are doing, and you can also be notified when a service goes down or gets restored. It is designed to be unobtrusive: it gives you only the information you need and opens a service's status page with a single click.Developer Tools
SeashoreSeashore is an easy-to-use image editor for macOS with support for layers. Its developer describes it as a light GIMP or Photoshop, with most of the features non-professionals need to create images. It has brushes, a pencil, an eraser, clone and smudge tools, gradients, a fill bucket, a text tool, cropping and several selection tools, plus effects such as blur, bloom and crystallize.Graphic Design
LyXLyX is a document processor that encourages you to write based on the structure of your documents rather than their appearance. You say what each part is, such as a section or a caption, and LyX, working on top of LaTeX, takes care of the layout. It is well suited to scientific writing: its formula editor lets you enter equations with the mouse or with LaTeX commands and shows them rendered on screen right away, and you can insert plain LaTeX anywhere.Productivity
Satellite EyesSatellite Eyes is a small macOS app that sits in the menu bar, next to the clock, and automatically changes your desktop wallpaper to the satellite or map view directly overhead. Take your laptop somewhere new and the desktop changes to the view from above that place. You choose from a number of map styles, from aerial photography to abstract watercolors, and with more than one monitor the picture spans across the full width of your screens.Customization
redis-proredis-pro is a simple Redis management app for macOS, written in SwiftUI. You connect to a Redis server, keep connections as favorites, work with your data in a table and delete entries in batches. The design borrows from Sequel Ace, the MySQL client for Mac, and from Aliyun DMS. It also shows the connected clients, lets you kill a client, opens the slow log and updates the server's configuration, and it has a dark mode.Developer Tools
Prefs EditorPrefs Editor is a free macOS app that edits application and system preferences in a simple table. Its developer describes it as a graphical version of the Terminal's defaults command, or a Registry Editor for macOS. You choose a preferences domain, filter the list by typing part of an app's name, or drag in a plist file or an app. You then see its keys and values, and you can edit values, add or delete entries, copy and paste, and undo.System Utilities
TexmakerTexmaker is a free LaTeX editor for macOS, Windows and Linux that puts the tools for writing LaTeX documents in one application. You write in a Unicode editor with spell checking, auto-completion and code folding, compile with one click, and read the result in a built-in PDF viewer with SyncTeX support and continuous view mode.Productivity
ClearDiskClearDisk is a macOS menu bar app that monitors and cleans the caches developer tools leave behind. It scans 79 known cache paths, including Xcode, Swift PM, CocoaPods, Homebrew, npm, pip, Cargo, Go, Gradle and Docker, and shows how much space you could get back. It also looks through your project folders for stale build files such as node_modules, and it explains what each cache is before you remove it.System Utilities
AppBoxAppBox is a Mac app for iOS developers who want to get test builds onto devices without a separate distribution service. It deploys Development, Ad-Hoc and In-house (Enterprise) apps directly to devices from your Dropbox account. You link Dropbox, select or drag in an IPA file and click upload, then send the link to testers or clients. They open it in the browser on the device and tap install.Developer Tools
TeXworksTeXworks is a free, open-source environment for writing TeX documents, including LaTeX and ConTeXt. It combines a Unicode-based, TeX-aware editor with an integrated PDF viewer in a clean, simple interface meant for casual and non-technical users. The project's aim is lowering the entry barrier to the TeX world, and it is modeled on Dick Koch's TeXShop for the Mac.Productivity
Stargate DAWStargate DAW is a free, open-source digital audio workstation for making music on a Mac. It comes as one package with a pattern-based sequencer, its own instrument and effect plugins and a basic wave editor, so you can start a track without installing anything else. The project says its focus is on unique and innovative features, especially for EDM production.Music & Audio
Jupyter Notebook ViewerJupyter Notebook Viewer is a small, free, native macOS application for reading Jupyter and IPython notebooks. It stands alone thanks to the nbviewer.js library, so a notebook can be opened like any other document, and it includes a Quick Look generator for previewing notebooks in Finder.Developer Tools
Pasteboard ViewerPasteboard Viewer is a developer utility that lets you inspect the various system pasteboards. It helps you make sure that your app is putting the correct data on NSPasteboard or UIPasteboard. The contents refresh live, and the app can preview text, RTF, images and anything that has a Quick Look preview.Developer Tools
ChipmunkChipmunk is a native desktop application, written in Rust, for viewing and analyzing log files. It has no limit on file size beyond your disk space, and because it avoids unnecessary copying, files of any size open with the same speed. It can also collect logs as they happen, over TCP, UDP or a serial port, or from the output of a command or program that you launch from the app.Developer Tools
CartCutCartCut is a video editor designed for motion effects and versatility. It was formerly called Nugget, and its GitHub repository still uses the name nugget-app. Alongside cut editing, it offers animation, sound mixing, text, external extensions and project files. It uses layer-based editing instead of traditional tracks, which makes it easier to apply several effects to a single asset. Its makers say their goal is to let creators produce motion graphics without relying on heavy software like After Effects.Video
TimeScribeTimeScribe is a time tracker for people who want to keep a record of their working hours without paying for a subscription, creating an account or sending their data to a cloud. You start, pause and stop the timer with one click from the menu bar, and the app shows your day and your week as work patterns. It can also start and pause by itself, based on screen time and idle status.Productivity
Open in CodeOpen in Code is a small native Mac utility that lives in the Finder toolbar. One click takes you from the folder or file you are looking at to the matching workspace in Visual Studio Code, without opening a terminal or navigating to the folder again. If a folder is selected, it opens that folder. If a file or Finder package is selected, it opens the folder containing it. With several items selected it uses the first one, and with nothing selected it opens the folder shown in the front Finder window.Developer Tools
GitXGitX is a native Mac app that gives the git version control system a graphical interface. It has a history view for browsing commits and a staging view for choosing what goes into the next commit, with real diffs of your changes, and a sidebar for moving between branches. It also comes with a gitx command-line tool, so you can open it from the terminal.Developer Tools
SublerSubler is a Mac app for muxing and tagging MP4 files. It puts video, audio, chapters, subtitles and closed captions from MOV, MP4 and MKV files together into one MP4, and it also accepts raw H.264, AAC, AC3, Scenarist and VobSub files. It creates TX3G and WebVTT subtitle tracks that work on Apple devices such as iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, and in QuickTime.Video
FreeterFreeter is an organizer for people who work on their computer. It gathers what you need for work into one place, sorted by projects and workflows, so you can switch between tasks without hunting through windows. You pick a project from a drop-down menu and build each workflow from widgets. Open Freeter at any time with Cmd+Shift+F or from its tray icon.Productivity