The following is a list of Mac software – notable computer applications for current macOS operating systems.

For software designed for the Classic Mac OS, see List of old Macintosh software.

Audio software

Digital audio workstations

Audio editing

DJing

  • djay – digital music mixing software
  • Mixxx – DJ mix softwareJejnsnsjr

Notation software

Misc audio tools

  • Audio Hijack – audio recorder
  • baudline – signal analyzer
  • Cog – open source audio player, supports multiple formats
  • fre:ac – open source audio converter and CD ripper
  • ixi software – free improvisation and sketching tools
  • Jaikoz – music file mass tagger
  • Max – Cycling 74's visual programming language for MIDI, audio, video; with MSP, Jitter
  • ReBirth – virtual synth program simulates Roland TR-808, TB-303
  • Recycle – music loop editor

Discontinued audio apps

Chat (text, voice, image, video)

Active

Adium on Mac OS X

Discontinued

Children's software

Developer tools and IDEs

Email

Email clients

Other email software

FTP clients

Games

  • Steam – digital distribution software for video games and related media

Graphics, layout, desktop publishing

CAD, 3D graphics

Distributed document authoring

Icon editors, viewers

File conversion and management

Active

  • Adobe Bridge – digital asset management app
  • BibDesk – free bibliographic database app that organizes linked files
  • Font Book – font management tool
  • GraphicConverter – graphics editor, open/converts a wide range of file formats
  • Photos – photo management application

Discontinued

  • iPhoto – discontinued photo management application

Layout and desktop publishing

Active

Discontinued

Raster and vector graphics

This section lists bitmap graphics editors and vector graphics editors.

Active

Discontinued

  • Aperture – Apple's pro photo management, editing, publishing application
  • MacPaint – painting software by Apple (discontinued)

Integrated software technologies

Language and reference tools

Mathematics software

Media center

Multimedia authoring

Networking and telecommunications

News aggregators

  • Feedly – news aggregator, and news aggregator reading application
  • NetNewsWire – news aggregator reading application
  • NewsFire – news aggregator reading application
  • RSSOwl – news aggregator reading application
  • Safari (web browser) - news aggregation via built-in RSS support
  • Apple Mail – news aggregation via (discontinued) built-in RSS support

Office and productivity

Operating systems

  • Darwin – the BSD-licensed core of macOS
  • macOS – originally named "Mac OS X" until 2012 and then "OS X" until 2016
  • macOS Server – the server computing variant of macOS

Outliners and mind-mapping

Peer-to-peer file sharing

Science

Text editors

Utilities

  • Activity Monitor – default system monitor for hardware and software
  • AppZapper – uninstaller (shareware)
  • Automator – built-in, utility to automate repetitive tasks
  • Butler – free, launcher and utility to automate repetitive tasks
  • CandyBar – system customization software (commercial)
  • CDFinder – disk cataloging software (commercial)
  • DaisyDisk – disk visualization tool
  • Dashboard – built-in macOS widgets
  • Grab (software) – built-in macOS screenshot utility
  • Growl – global notifications system, free
  • iSync – syncing software, bundled with Mac OS X up to 10.6
  • LaunchBar – provides instant access to local data, search engines and more by entering abbreviations of search item names, commercial
  • Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing – proprietary, typing tutor
  • OnyX – a freeware system maintenance and optimization tool for macOS
  • Path Finder – replacement for Apple's Finder
  • Quicksilver – a framework for accessing and manipulating many forms of data
  • SheepShaver – PowerPC emulator, allows, among other things, running Mac OS 9 on Intel Macs
  • Sherlock – file searching (version 2), web services (version 3)
  • Stickies – put Post-It Note-like notes on the desktop
  • System Settings – default Mac system option application
  • UUTool – uuencoded/uudecode and other transcoding
  • Xsan – storage network utility
  • Yahoo! Widget EngineJavaScript-based widget system

Anti-malware software

macOS includes the built-in XProtect antimalware as part of GateKeeper. The software listed in this section is antivirus software and malware removal software.

Archiving, backup, restore, recovery

This section lists software for file archiving, backup and restore, data compression and data recovery.

Discontinued archiving apps

Disc burning apps

Discontinued disc burning apps

Video

Virtualization, emulation, dual-booting

Web browsers

Web design and content management

Weblog clients

See also

References

  1. "AIM has been discontinued as of December 15, 2017". help.aol.com/. Archived from the original on October 6, 2017. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
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