System Utilities for MAC
50 free Mac apps in System Utilities, including Amphetamine, MonitorControl, and BetterDisplay. Each app page lists its version, size, macOS requirement and what’s new, and the download button leads to the developer’s official source.
50 apps
far2lfar2l is a two-panel file manager for Mac, Linux and BSD, based on FAR Manager v2 for Windows. If you know that style of tool, you get the same keyboard-driven way of working: two file panels side by side, a built-in viewer and editor, a command line and plugins. On the Mac it runs as a graphical app through wxWidgets, and it can also run inside a terminal.System Utilities
MenuMetersMenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk and network monitors that live in the Mac menu bar, where document windows cannot cover them. It was originally written by Alex Harper. Apple's changes in OS X El Capitan stopped the original from working, so Yuji Tachikawa ported it, and this version has since taken in contributions from many people. It is now an independent app rather than a preference pane.System Utilities
LatestLatest is a small utility that checks whether the apps on your Mac are up to date. It gives you a quick overview of which apps have updates and what changed in them, and you can update them right away. It also shows release notes for apps that are already up to date, so you can look up what was new in an update you installed yesterday.System Utilities
OnyXOnyX is a multifunction utility for macOS from Titanium Software. You can use it to verify the structure of the system files, perform cleaning and computer maintenance tasks, uninstall applications, and configure parameters in the Finder, Dock, Safari and some Apple applications. It can also delete caches, remove certain problematic folders and files, and rebuild various databases and indexes. It gives you a clean interface to many tasks that would otherwise require complex commands typed in a command-line interface.System Utilities
GrandPerspectiveGrandPerspective is a small utility for macOS that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It uses a tree map for visualization: each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to its size, and files in the same folder appear together. That makes it easy to spot which files and folders take up the most space and to manage your disk.System Utilities
VortaVorta is a backup client for the Mac that brings the power of BorgBackup to your desktop, protecting your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft. Your backups are encrypted, deduplicated and compressed, so they are private and take up little space. You can back up to local drives, your own server or BorgBase, a hosting service for Borg backups, so there is no vendor lock-in.System Utilities
FannyFanny lets you keep an eye on your Mac's fans and temperatures without cluttering your workspace. It is a small menu bar app and Notification Center widget that shows the current, target, minimum and maximum speed of each fan, how many fans your Mac has, and the CPU and GPU temperature. Just open the menu bar app or Notification Center to glance at your fan stats.System Utilities
PeaZipPeaZip is a free file archiver and file manager that opens and creates archives in a huge number of formats. It supports more than 240 file extensions as archives, including 7Z, RAR, ZIP, TAR, GZ, XZ and many others, so you can extract almost any compressed file you come across. You can also create your own archives and protect them with encryption, all from a file browser that refreshes automatically.System Utilities
MonolingualMost people use their Mac in one or two languages, yet apps and macOS carry translation files for dozens more. Monolingual removes the language files you do not need and gives that space back to you. Pick the languages to remove, and Monolingual clears them from your apps; it can also remove processor architectures you do not need from universal apps. English can no longer be selected for removal, because deleting it would break macOS.System Utilities
AdrafinilAdrafinil keeps a Mac awake while an AI coding agent is working, even with the lid closed, and lets it sleep again as soon as the work is done. Hooks tell it when agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Aider, Cline and others start and finish a task. It tracks several agents at once, and your Mac only goes to sleep after the last one ends. You can also hold the Mac awake for a set time, or let it sleep at any moment.System Utilities
Mac SaiMac Sai is a free, open-source cleaner, optimizer and malware scanner for the Mac, made as an alternative to CleanMyMac. One click on Smart Scan runs its cleanup, protection and performance tools together and shows exactly what it freed. It finds system junk in more than 16 categories, such as caches, logs, unused language files, old iOS backups and Xcode leftovers, and it also cleans mail attachments, Trash bins and regenerable build folders like node_modules.System Utilities
SlothSloth shows all the open files, folders, network sockets, pipes and devices in use by every process running on your Mac. That makes it easy to find out which app is holding on to a file you cannot delete or eject, which programs are talking to the network, and on which ports. You can filter by name, access mode, volume, type or location, use regular expressions, and sort by process, file count, type and more. An inspection window gives detailed information about any file, socket or process, and a contextual menu offers handy file actions.System Utilities
MacPackerMacPacker lets you browse archives like folders. Open a ZIP, RAR, 7z or one of more than 40 other formats and you see everything inside without extracting a single byte, even archives nested inside other archives. Drag out just the files you need instead of unpacking gigabytes for one file, preview files with Quick Look, and right-click in Finder to extract or compress without opening the app. When you do extract everything, several top-level items land neatly in a folder named after the archive.System Utilities
PureMacPureMac is a free Mac care app that cleans up junk, removes apps completely and shows where your storage goes, with no subscription and no telemetry. Smart Scan checks system caches, logs and temporary files, your user caches, mail attachments, the Trash bins, and developer caches from Homebrew, npm, yarn, pnpm, Docker and Xcode, then shows what it found before anything is removed. Large and old files are listed but never selected automatically, and you can exclude any path you want to keep.System Utilities
LunarLunar controls your external monitors from your Mac. Instead of dimming the picture with a dark overlay, as some apps do, it sends commands straight to the monitor over the Display Data Channel, so it changes the monitor's real brightness and contrast. That keeps colours closer to reality, uses less power and reduces backlight bleed. The familiar keys work too: the brightness keys adjust every display at once, the volume keys change the volume of the active monitor, and you can set hotkeys to switch the monitor's input to another HDMI, DisplayPort or USB-C port. Apple displays, such as the Studio Display and Pro Display XDR, get smooth native control.System Utilities
OpenCore Legacy PatcherOpenCore Legacy Patcher brings new life to Macs that Apple no longer supports. It lets you install and run newer versions of macOS on machines as old as 2007, using the OpenCore boot manager and the Lilu framework from the Acidanthera project. Its patches are applied in memory at start-up, so no firmware is changed, and once your Mac is set up, system updates can be installed from System Settings with only a couple of extra steps. It also restores support for older graphics cards, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips, and can unlock features such as Sidecar, AirPlay to Mac, Night Shift and Universal Control, even on supported Macs.System Utilities
KeepingYouAwakeKeepingYouAwake is a small menu bar app that prevents your Mac from going to sleep. Click its coffee cup icon and your Mac stays awake, which is handy during a long download, a presentation, a video call or a backup. Click again and your normal energy settings return. You can also choose how long it should stay active, from a few minutes to a few hours or indefinitely, and it can switch itself off when your battery runs low so a MacBook is never drained by accident.System Utilities
AppliteApplite is an app store for the Mac apps that are not on the App Store. It lets you browse thousands of Mac apps by category or search for them by name, then install, update or uninstall them with one click: no more dragging to the Applications folder and no installer windows to click through. Behind the scenes Applite uses Homebrew, the trusted open-source package manager, but you do not need to know anything about it. Applite brings its own copy and sets it up quietly the first time you open it.System Utilities
balenaEtcherbalenaEtcher writes operating system images to USB drives and SD cards in three simple steps: choose an image, choose a drive, and flash. It is the easy way to make a bootable Linux USB stick or to prepare an SD card for a Raspberry Pi. Etcher checks every write when it finishes, so you do not end up with a broken drive, and it hides your Mac's own system drives so you cannot erase them by mistake. Etcher is made by Balena.System Utilities
MoleMole is a free, open-source command-line tool that cleans and looks after your Mac. One command, mo, brings together jobs you would otherwise need several apps for: deep cleaning of caches, logs and leftovers, uninstalling apps together with their hidden files, analyzing what fills your disk, refreshing system services and showing live system stats. Mole is made by Tw93 and released under the GPL-3.0 license.System Utilities
Macs Fan ControlMacs Fan Control shows the temperature sensors and fan speeds of your Mac in real time and lets you take control of the fans. You can set a fixed fan speed in RPM, or have a fan speed up and slow down with the temperature of a sensor you choose, which helps with a MacBook Pro that runs hot or a noisy iMac after a hard drive replacement. Macs Fan Control is made by CrystalIDEA.System Utilities
iStat MenusiStat Menus puts everything about your Mac into the menu bar. It shows CPU and GPU load, memory, disk space and activity, network traffic, temperatures and fans, battery and power, the weather and the time, each as a small menu bar item that opens a detailed menu with history graphs and the apps using the most resources. It is made by Bjango, has been around for nearly 20 years, and has no ads, analytics or tracking.System Utilities
coconutBatterycoconutBattery shows how healthy the battery in your Mac, iPhone or iPad is. It reads the battery's original design capacity and its full charge capacity today, so you can see at a glance how much it has worn, along with the number of charge cycles, the current charge, temperature and live charging information. It has been made by coconut-flavour.com since 2005 and is only available from its own website, not from any App Store.System Utilities
BetterZipBetterZip opens, browses and creates archives the Mac way. It extracts more than 30 formats, including ZIP, RAR, 7-Zip, TAR and ISO, and creates archives in ZIP, DMG, TAR, 7-Zip, Zstandard, XAR, ISO and more. You can look inside an archive before extracting it, take out only the files you need, and even add, delete or rename files inside an archive without unpacking it. BetterZip is made by MacItBetter, an independent developer since 2006.System Utilities