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
QOwnNotesQOwnNotes is an open-source notepad with Markdown support and a to-do list manager. Your notes are stored as plain-text Markdown files in a folder on your Mac, so they stay yours and work with any other app. QOwnNotes works together with Nextcloud Notes and ownCloud Notes: the files are synced by Nextcloud or ownCloud, and you can also use Syncthing, Dropbox or any other sync service. That way you can write on your Mac and read or edit your notes later on your phone or in the web.Productivity
NoteGenNoteGen is a local-first Markdown app built around one idea: capture first, organise later. Save a thought, a voice recording, a screenshot, an image, a link, a file or a to-do the moment it comes up, without choosing a title or folder. Later, filter your records by tag, time or type, pick the ones that belong together, and NoteGen organises them into a structured note, such as a summary, report or article, that you then edit in your own words.Productivity
ZettlrZettlr is a Markdown editor made for writing and research, from notes to theses and books. It works with the plain Markdown files in your own folders, so your notes stay yours. Zettlr connects to reference managers such as Zotero and JabRef, so you can cite sources as you write, and it exports your work through Pandoc and LaTeX to Word, PDF and other formats, with templates for professional documents. A powerful full-text search finds anything across your files.Productivity
Xournal++Xournal++ is a note-taking app for handwriting, made for flexibility and speed. It supports pressure-sensitive styluses and drawing tablets such as Wacom, Huion and XP-Pen, and gives you paper backgrounds for notes, scratch paper or a whiteboard. Open a PDF and write on top of it: you can select, highlight, underline or strike through text in the PDF, follow its links, and export your notes as PDF, SVG or PNG.Productivity
Super ProductivitySuper Productivity is an advanced to-do list with timeboxing and time tracking. Plan and organize your tasks with subtasks, projects and tags, lay out your day on a schedule next to your calendar events, and sort tasks on boards such as Kanban and the Eisenhower Matrix. Track the time you spend on each task and create time sheets and work summaries to export to your company's time tracking system. A planner helps you look ahead, and reminders and repeating tasks keep routines on track.Productivity
NotesnookNotesnook is a note-taking app focused on privacy and ease of use. Everything you write is encrypted on your device before it is synced, using XChaCha20-Poly1305 and Argon2, so only you can read your notes. It is made as a private alternative to Evernote, with notebooks, tags and a rich editor, and it syncs your notes across your Mac, phone and the web.Productivity
MarkTextMarkText is a simple, elegant Markdown editor focused on speed and ease of use. It shows your formatting in real time as you type, in a clean, distraction-free window, so you write and see the result in one place. It supports the CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown standards, with extras such as KaTeX maths, front matter and emoji, and shortcuts for paragraphs and inline styles help you write faster. You can export your documents as HTML or PDF.Productivity
CopyQCopyQ is an advanced clipboard manager with powerful editing and scripting features. It watches the system clipboard and saves what you copy in tabs you can organise, so you can copy and paste any earlier item straight into any app. It keeps text, HTML, images and other formats, and you can quickly browse and filter your history, sort, edit, remove and drag items, and add notes and tags to them.Productivity
ActivityWatchActivityWatch records what you do on your computer so you can see how you spend your time. It runs in the background and automatically tracks the app you are using and its window title, the active browser tab with its title and address, and whether you are at the keyboard or away. Then it shows you how your day was spent, with categories you can set up, so you can spot where the hours go without starting and stopping timers by hand.Productivity
YapYap is a fast voice dictation app for the Mac that works anywhere you can type. Press its shortcut, talk, and press it again: your words are pasted into the text field you were using. While you speak, a small window near the bottom of the screen shows a live waveform and a running preview of what you have said. The default shortcut is Command-Shift-D, and you can change it or use a single key such as the right Shift key.Productivity
EdmundEdmund is a minimal, native Markdown editor for macOS with inline live preview: the formatting appears as you type, in the style of Typora and Obsidian. It is file-based, so you open .md files from anywhere on your Mac, with no vaults or special folders. Edmund is written fully in Swift with AppKit and TextKit 2, so it starts quickly and handles files of one or two megabytes with ease. It works alongside a Markdown notes folder or on its own.Productivity
ClipbaraClipbara keeps a history of everything you copy on your Mac. Press Command-Shift-V and a panel slides up at the bottom of the screen, without taking focus from the app you are working in. Click a clip once and it is back on your clipboard, ready to paste. Clipbara saves text, rich text, HTML, images, links, files and colours, and you can search by content or title, filter by type and date, and move between clips with the arrow keys.Productivity
BarTranslateBarTranslate puts a translator in your Mac's menu bar. Click its icon or press your hotkey and a small panel opens with Google Translate, with the cursor already in the text field so you can start typing straight away. A Quick Translate hotkey instantly translates whatever is on your clipboard. BarTranslate remembers your last source and target languages between launches, and you can choose light, dark or system appearance for the app and the translation page.Productivity
ViennaVienna is a free news reader for the Mac that follows RSS, Atom and JSON Feed subscriptions. Its layout is modeled on Apple Mail: you quickly scan the summaries of new articles, then open any of them for reading in a simple built-in browser view. Vienna can fetch your feeds directly from the websites you follow, or sync them with an online service that supports the Open Reader API, such as BazQux, so your reading stays in step across devices.Productivity
TRexTRex copies text you cannot select. Press its shortcut, drag over any part of the screen as if taking a screenshot, and the text in that area is recognized and placed on your clipboard, ready to paste. It works on PDFs with non-selectable text, screenshots, images, YouTube videos, Zoom screen shares and anything else you can see. TRex also reads QR codes and barcodes, lives quietly in the menu bar, and does all its text recognition offline.Productivity
TimerTimer is a simple, good-looking countdown timer for the Mac. Drag the blue arrow around the dial to set the time and release it to start; click to pause. When the time is up, a notification appears with a pleasant sound. You can also type the time: enter digits for minutes, and use a decimal point for seconds, so 2.30 is two minutes and thirty seconds. Need more than one? Press Command-N for a new timer, each in its own small window.Productivity
ClockerClocker is a menu bar app that keeps track of the time where your friends and colleagues are. Add cities, places or time zones from thousands of choices, and their times appear in a panel under the menu bar, or right in the menu bar itself with several clocks. Give each place your own label and notes, see sunrise and sunset times, and sort places by time difference. The Time Scroller lets you slide into the past or future to see what time it will be everywhere, which makes planning a call across time zones easy.Productivity
QuicksilverQuicksilver is a fast productivity app that lets you control your Mac from the keyboard. Press its hotkey, type a few letters and launch applications, open files and folders or reach your bookmarks in an instant. It goes further than a launcher: pick a file and an action to move, copy, email or compress it, send messages and control music. Quicksilver learns your habits, so the things you use most come up first, and plugins add many more actions and sources.Productivity
FSNotesFSNotes is a fast, native notes app for Mac that keeps every note as a portable Markdown or plain-text file instead of locking it in a database. You can open and edit your notes with any other app, now or years from now. It stays quick even with more than 10,000 notes, and it fits your way of working with multiple folders, external editors, iCloud Drive or Dropbox, and optional Git backups. Connect ideas with tags and [[links]], protect private notes with AES-256 encryption, and see code, Mermaid diagrams and MathJax rendered.Productivity
TomatoBarTomatoBar is a neat Pomodoro timer for the macOS menu bar. The Pomodoro technique helps you focus by working in short, timed blocks with breaks in between, and TomatoBar keeps track of them for you. Start the timer from the menu bar or with a global hotkey, and it counts down your work interval, then your short or long rest, with discreet notifications you can act on and optional ticking and alarm sounds with their own volume controls.Productivity
ItsycalItsycal is a tiny calendar for your Mac's menu bar. Click its icon and a small, clean calendar drops down, with your events from the Mac Calendar app listed below. You can create new events, join virtual meetings straight from an event, and copy a meeting link from the right-click menu. ISO week numbers, a configurable shortcut to open it, and plenty of keyboard controls, including jumping to a date and Vim-style motions, make it quick to use.Productivity
Input Source ProInput Source Pro is made for people who type in more than one language. It switches your input source automatically depending on the app you are using, or even the website you are browsing, so you no longer start typing in the wrong language. Set a default input source for each app, and for each website in browsers such as Safari, Chrome, Arc, Edge, Firefox and Brave, and Input Source Pro changes it as you move between them. A clean on-screen indicator shows which input source is active.Productivity
ClipyClipy is a clipboard extension for macOS. It remembers what you copy, so you can paste something you copied earlier instead of only the last item, and it keeps snippets: pieces of text you use often, organised in folders. Everything is reached from the menu bar or with keyboard shortcuts: Shift-Command-V opens the main menu, Control-Command-V opens your clipboard history, and Shift-Command-B opens your snippets. Settings let you choose how much history to keep, delete old history automatically and leave out items you do not want saved.Productivity
NetNewsWireNetNewsWire is a free and open-source RSS reader for Mac, iPhone and iPad. It shows you new articles from your favourite blogs and news sites and keeps track of what you have read. Instead of going from site to site in your browser, or relying on social media algorithms, you subscribe to the feeds you want and NetNewsWire brings the news to you. It is fast, stable and accessible, with a clean three-pane window that feels at home on the Mac.Productivity