Productivity Apps for MAC
77 free Mac apps in Productivity, including MarkEdit, Cluxo, and Time to Leave. Each app page lists its version, size, macOS requirement and what’s new, and the download button leads to the developer’s official source.
77 apps
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
CluxoWhen you share your screen or record a tutorial, the mouse pointer is easy to lose. Cluxo is a small menu bar app that puts a colored ring around the cursor and shows every click, drag and scroll, so viewers always know where to look. It also has a spotlight that dims everything except the area around the pointer, a live magnifier, an on-screen keystroke display and a drawing mode for marking up the screen while you talk.Productivity
Time to LeaveTime to Leave is a desktop app for keeping track of your working time, laid out much like a time-card system. You log the time you started work, and the app works out when you should leave, taking into account the time you spent on breaks such as lunch, then notifies you when that moment comes. It needs no database setup: you install it and start punching in. You can log your day in a Day view or a whole Month view, and see your running balance of hours.Productivity
ColuracetamColuracetam is a Markdown reader and editor for Mac that shows the same rendered preview everywhere. Press the spacebar on a .md file in Finder and Quick Look shows it rendered in color, and Finder shows generated thumbnails of your Markdown files. Open a file in the app and you get a live split: plain monospace source on one side and the rendered page on the other, with text selection and search that work across the whole rendered document.Productivity
MimerMimer is a clipboard manager that lives in the menu bar and remembers everything you copy. Press Shift-Command-V and a command palette opens with your history, newest first; type to search, press Return to paste. Mimer recognizes what each clip is, such as a link, code, a color, a git commit SHA, an issue key or a file path, and shows a matching symbol, with a live swatch for colors. Command-K transforms a clip on the spot with a live preview, for example changing case, Base64 or URL encoding, pretty-printing JSON, turning JSON into TypeScript or decoding a JWT.Productivity
MassReplaceItMassReplaceIt is a find and replace utility for many files at once. You choose the files or folders, type what to look for and what to put in its place, and MassReplaceIt searches either the file contents or the file names, such as changing the extension of hundreds of files in one go. Before anything is written you can preview the changes, and each search gives detailed results. Searches can be saved and used again, filters leave out files you do not want touched, and regular expressions handle patterns that plain text cannot.Productivity
HangarHangar is a menu bar app for the workflows you keep running all day: a build or watch command in one project, a terminal tool in another, an editor opened on a certain folder. You save each one as a snippet, and a toggle in the menu bar opens iTerm2 or Terminal and runs the command; switch it off and the window closes. A status dot shows which snippets are running, and snippets marked for auto-start come back by themselves after you log in.Productivity
TypeCueTypeCue takes the typing out of screen recordings, tutorials, webinars and live presentations. You write your demo as an ordered list of text blocks. During the take, each press of a global hotkey (Control-Option-X by default) types the next block into whatever field has focus, as real keystrokes at a human pace, with no typos and the same result on every take. Press the hotkey again while it types to stop it.Productivity
TameoTameo is a clipboard manager that lives in the menu bar and keeps a history of what you copy. Press Command-Shift-V and a palette opens at your cursor; press a number key from 1 to 0 to paste an item straight into the app you were using, or just start typing to search the whole history. Tameo keeps text, rich text, PDF, images, file paths, links and colour codes, and it can read the text inside copied images and screenshots with on-device OCR, so you can find a screenshot by its words.Productivity
MonosnapMonosnap is a screenshot and screen recording tool that lives in the Mac menu bar. Capture the full screen, part of it or a single window, line up your selection with an 8x magnifier, or take a delayed screenshot. The built-in editor lets you point things out with pens, text, arrows and shapes and blur private information before you share the picture. You can also record screencasts, highlight details while recording, and open any snapshot in your favourite external editor.Productivity
MarkoutMarkout is a native Markdown editor for macOS, built as a spiritual successor to the no longer maintained MacDown. You write plain text on one side and see the rendered result on the other, with a live preview that follows your scrolling. The preview supports GitHub-Flavored Markdown, syntax-highlighted code, TeX math with KaTeX and diagrams with Mermaid, and everything runs offline: the rendering engines are built into the app, so your documents are never sent anywhere.Productivity
ClipFlowClipFlow adds a clipboard history to the Mac, much like the Win+V history Windows users know. It sits in the menu bar and remembers the last 50 things you copied, text and images alike. Press Command-Shift-V and a small popup appears just above your cursor. Move through older and newer items with the up and down arrow keys, the way you move through commands in a terminal, then press Return or simply let go of Command to paste the selected item.Productivity
AutoDocAutoDoc is a free, open-source meeting notes app that keeps the whole process on your computer. It records your screen, your microphone and the system audio of a meeting, transcribes them on the device and turns the transcript into editable notes with a summary and conversation topics. Click a timestamp in the notes and the screen recording jumps back to that moment. An Ask AI feature answers questions across all your meetings, also on the device.Productivity
ScreenHintScreenHint is a free, open-source Mac app that turns any part of your screen into a floating sticky note, called a hint. Press its keyboard shortcut, select a region, and the capture appears as a small window that stays on top of everything else. Hints keep the information you need a glance away: a reference while you write, a reminder of what you are working on, a figure you want to compare with a newer version, or anything else you do not want to lose behind other windows.Productivity
TetherShotTetherShot is a free, open-source Mac app that captures your iPhone or Android screen with one click. A trusted iPhone connected by cable is captured at full resolution through macOS's own AVFoundation, with no setup, and Android phones are captured through ADB over USB or wireless debugging. Each screenshot is saved as a PNG to a folder you choose and copied to the clipboard, and a global shortcut, Command-Shift-7, captures every connected device or one preferred phone from anywhere.Productivity
MarkupMarkup is a free, open-source Markdown editor for the Mac that is built around reading. Open a folder of notes and each file is rendered as a clean document, with KaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams, syntax-highlighted code, tables and task lists, instead of a plain text box. Press E to edit in WYSIWYG mode or Command-/ for the raw Markdown source, so reading, editing and source view are always one keystroke apart.Productivity
PresspeechPresspeech is a free, open-source dictation app for Apple Silicon Macs. Hold a key, speak, let go, and your words appear at the cursor in whatever app you were typing in. Speech recognition runs entirely on your computer: Presspeech uses NVIDIA's multilingual Parakeet TDT v3 model through FluidAudio on the Apple Neural Engine, and once the model is warm a typical sentence is transcribed in about a tenth of a second. It recognises 25 European languages and detects the language automatically.Productivity
mxMarkEditmxMarkEdit is a free, open-source Markdown editor for the Mac, inspired by Emacs Org-mode and aimed at writers, students, academics and managers. It formats Markdown as you type: headings, italics, bold, code and quotes are shown formatted with their markers hidden, while footnotes, links and pictures appear in colours you choose. Each document can hold to-do items, which the app gathers in a summary, and an Excel-like grid for sets of data. A file manager searches for a sentence in every document and grid in a folder, and the app can also show a document as a simple presentation.Productivity
LangSwitcherLangSwitcher is a free, open-source menu bar app that fixes text typed in the wrong keyboard layout. If you meant to type привет but your Mac was set to English and you got ghbdtn, press Shift twice and LangSwitcher replaces the text with the right characters. It works out which layout the text was typed in and maps each character through its physical key position, so punctuation such as ? and ! stays as it is. It supports English, Russian, German, French and Spanish layouts, taken from the input sources you already use.Productivity
NimclipNimclip is a clipboard history manager that lives in the macOS menu bar. The Mac clipboard keeps only the last thing you copied; Nimclip remembers what came before, so you can press Command-Shift-V, find an earlier item and paste it again. It records text, links, code, images and rich text, keeps the name and icon of the app each item came from, and lets you filter the history by text, links, code or images.Productivity
DownrightDownright is a native Markdown editor and reader for macOS. It opens the Markdown files you already have, wherever they live, and shows them as polished Mac documents, with no library to import, vault to maintain or account to create. You can switch between a rendered Document view and the exact source at any time, and both views share the same position and selection. The original text on disk stays authoritative: the rendering decorates it rather than rewriting or normalizing it.Productivity
ScreenTranslateScreenTranslate is a menu bar app that translates text anywhere on your Mac screen. Press Cmd + E, drag a rectangle around the text, and the app reads it with OCR and shows the translation in a popup next to your selection. You can also select text in any app and press Cmd + Option + Z to translate it directly without OCR, or press Cmd + Shift + E to open a small Quick Translate panel and type or paste text. All shortcuts can be changed in Settings.Productivity
oatsoats is a meeting notes app that lives in the Mac menu bar. You hit record, carry on with your meeting, and when you stop it hands you a transcript and a tidy Markdown summary of what was said. There is no bot to invite into the call and no browser tab to keep open: recording, pausing and stopping all happen from the menu bar.Productivity
ImarkImark is a native Markdown reader for macOS. Double-click a .md file and it opens rendered, reloads itself while you edit in another program, and previews in the Finder when you press the space bar. It opens in reading mode because reading is what it is for, and a switch in the toolbar turns the page into a plain editor for the file you already have open, with line numbers, Markdown in colour and a bar beside every changed line.Productivity