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
NotenikNotenik is a note-taking app for the Mac that does more than record notes. Each note is its own plain text file, and a folder of notes becomes a Collection, so you can keep as many Collections as you like wherever you like, including iCloud Drive or Dropbox for syncing. Because the files are plain text, you can open and edit them in any text editor or Markdown editor, and your notes are never locked inside the app.Productivity
PestyPesty is a clipboard manager for macOS, inspired by Paste. It keeps a history of everything you copy, including plain text, rich text, links, images, files and colours. Press Command-Shift-V and a full-width strip slides up from the bottom of the screen. Each clip is a card tinted by the app it came from, showing the app icon, the type of content, a preview and when it was copied. Pick one with the arrow keys or Command-1 to Command-9, press Return, and it goes straight into the app you were using.Productivity
BeanBean is a small, easy-to-use word processor for macOS, designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. It starts up quickly, keeps a live word count on screen and stays out of the way with an uncluttered window.Productivity
baRSSbaRSS is an RSS and Atom feed reader that lives in the macOS menu bar. It updates your feeds automatically and tells you when there is new content, and the new articles are one menu away. There is no built-in article viewer on purpose: when you pick an article, it opens in your browser of choice, so you see the real page with no rendering problems and no broken links.Productivity
LogueLogue is a local-first workspace for documents, tasks and meetings on macOS. It has nested spaces, a block editor, typed properties, relations, wiki links with backlinks and saved views, so it will feel familiar if you have used Notion or Obsidian. It also records meetings, transcribes them, separates the speakers, writes the minutes and turns what people committed to into tasks. An AI agent works across all of it.Productivity
StikStik is a quick-capture note app for macOS. Press Cmd+Shift+S from any app and a floating post-it appears. Type your thought, close it, and you are back at work. Every note is saved as a plain Markdown file in ~/Documents/Stik/, with no account and no sync setup. Folders in Stik are real folders on disk, so you can open, move or back up your notes with any other tool.Productivity
WhaleWhale is an unofficial desktop app for Trello. It opens Trello in its own window, so your boards sit in the Dock and the app switcher instead of in a browser tab. It is built with Electron and shows the Trello website itself, so you sign in with your Trello account and everything you do happens on Trello. Whale remembers its window size and position, reopens the page you had open, and has keyboard shortcuts for going Home, Back and Forward. Links to other sites open in your normal browser.Productivity
OpenHabitTrackerOpenHabitTracker brings notes, tasks and habits together in one app. Notes use Markdown and are shown rendered in the list. Tasks have a planned date and time, a duration, a checklist and a timer. Habits work differently from most trackers: instead of a streak that breaks, each habit has a repeat interval and the app shows how overdue it is, so a habit with a 10-day interval that is 2 days overdue reads 120%. Classic streaks are available but off by default.Productivity
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
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
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
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
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
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
TeXShopTeXShop is a Mac app for writing and typesetting TeX and LaTeX documents. It gives you a source window and a preview window, and in its default setup it typesets with pdfTeX and pdfLaTeX, so the result is a PDF you can read straight away. It is a long-running project, first released in 2000, and it is written natively for the Mac in Cocoa.Productivity
LaTeXiTLaTeXiT is a small equation editor for the Mac. It is a graphical interface on top of a LaTeX engine: instead of creating a .tex file, compiling it, cropping the result and pasting it into your document, you type the equation and LaTeXiT does the rest. Equations come out as PDF by default and can be converted to images or exported as SVG or MathML (MathML is experimental). As far as possible, the LaTeX code is kept inside the result, so you can reopen an equation later and change it.Productivity
SimplenoteSimplenote is an easy way to keep notes, lists and ideas on your Mac. The app is built around speed: open it, write down a thought, and you are done. Your notes sync across your devices for free, and as the collection grows you can search it instantly and keep it in order with tags and pins.Productivity
JumpcutJumpcut is a lightweight clipboard manager for macOS. Every time you cut or copy text, it adds that text to a stack of clippings, so a phone number, URL or code snippet you had a few minutes ago is still within reach even after you have copied something else. It lives in the menu bar as a scissors icon, and you can pick a clipping from its menu or press a global hotkey to flip through the stack in a pop-up bezel, much like the macOS application switcher. When you choose a clipping, Jumpcut puts it on the pasteboard and pastes it into the app you are using.Productivity
UeliUeli is a free, open-source keystroke launcher for macOS, Windows and Linux, in the same family as Spotlight and Alfred. Press Option+Space, start typing what you are looking for, move through the results with the arrow keys and press Return to launch the selected item. Cmd+K opens extra actions for a result, such as adding it to your favorites so that it always comes first in the list.Productivity
TeXstudioTeXstudio is a free, open-source writing environment for creating LaTeX documents on macOS, Windows and Linux. Its goal is to make writing LaTeX as easy and comfortable as possible. It highlights syntax, completes and checks LaTeX commands, checks references and citations as you type, and shows the result in an integrated PDF viewer next to your text. A Quick Start wizard sets up the configuration code a new document needs.Productivity
SigilSigil is an editor for ebooks in the EPUB format, for both EPUB 2 and EPUB 3. It was designed to make it easy to create good ebooks, whether you are formatting books for your own use or you are a professional editor publishing on several platforms. You work in Code View, with complete control over the EPUB syntax, and see the result in Preview View. Sigil can import EPUB and HTML files, images and style sheets, and it can mend the formatting of imported files.Productivity
SkimSkim is a PDF reader and note-taker for macOS. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers, but it is also great for viewing any PDF file. You can add and edit notes, highlight important text with one-swipe highlight modes, and make snapshots for easy reference. All your notes and highlights can be viewed together and exported as text, so what you marked stays easy to find.Productivity
AlfredAlfred is an award-winning productivity app for macOS that lets you launch apps and find files from the keyboard, without reaching for the mouse. Type a keyword into its search box to open an app, find a file, search your favourite websites, do a quick calculation or look up a word. The developer describes the core of Alfred as free to download and use forever.Productivity
Standard NotesStandard Notes is an end-to-end encrypted note-taking app for keeping your notes, files and life's work in one secure place. Your notes are encrypted on your device before they are synced, so only you can read them, and sync across your devices is free, fast and works on an unlimited number of them. It runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, Android and the web, so your notes are with you everywhere.Productivity