Education Apps for MAC
9 free Mac apps in Education, including Burette, Golly, and BOINC. Each app page lists its version, size, macOS requirement and what’s new, and the download button leads to the developer’s official source.
9 apps
BuretteBurette brings molecular previews, structure inspection and collection browsing into one Mac workspace. Select a molecular file in Finder and press Space, and its Quick Look extension shows the structure in 3D, ready to rotate and zoom. Open the app itself for a full workspace with tabs, a project sidebar, a command palette and side panels, where you can explore a protein and its ligand, step through a trajectory, filter compounds by their properties or sketch a molecule.Education
GollyGolly is an application for exploring John Conway's Game of Life and many other types of cellular automata. It supports bounded and unbounded universes with cells of up to 256 states, and several algorithms, including Bill Gosper's very fast hashlife. It stays responsive while generating, and it comes with a state-of-the-art collection of patterns to open straight away.Education
BOINCBOINC lets you donate your Mac's idle time to scientific research. The app downloads computing jobs from the projects you choose and runs them in the background. About 30 science projects use it, including Climateprediction.net, Rosetta@home and GPUGrid, and they investigate diseases, study climate change, discover pulsars and do many other types of research.Education
PraatPraat is a tool for doing phonetics by computer. It can analyse, synthesize and manipulate speech, and it creates high-quality pictures for publications. You can measure the pitch, formants, intensity and voice quality of a recording, view spectrograms and cochleagrams, and change the pitch, intensity and duration of an utterance.Education
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
MactrackerMactracker is a free reference app with detailed information on every Apple Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro ever made. For each model it lists items such as processor speed, memory, graphics cards, supported OS versions, price, colour, storage and expansion options. It also covers early Apple systems, Newton, Apple TV, accessories, audio, displays, modems, printers, scanners, storage, Wi-Fi products, Mac pro apps and operating systems.Education
KiwixKiwix lets you read Wikipedia and other websites offline. It opens ZIM files, a compact open format that packs a whole website into a single file, so you can download Wikipedia, Wiktionary and many other collections once and then read them anywhere, on a plane, in the countryside or wherever the connection is slow or expensive. The built-in library lets you browse and download ZIM files, and you can open several at once, search their contents and follow links just as you would online.Education
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
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