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Compression and Archiving

  • 7-Zip

    Archive manager supporting 7z, ZIP, and other formats. 🪟 🟢 ⭐

  • Bandizip

    Fast, lightweight archive manager with extensive format support. 🪟

Audio

  • ABCjsMusic Notation

    Tool for writing and playing ABC music notation. 🪟 🍎 🐧

  • akouAudio Recording

    Call and meeting recorder with on-device transcription, speaker labels, timestamped notes, and an MCP server for terminal agents. 🍎

  • Ambie

    Use white noise, nature sounds, & more to boost your productivity. 🪟 🟢

  • ArdourMusic Production

    DAW for recording, editing, and mixing audio with professional features. 🪟 🍎 🐧

  • AudaciousAudio Players

    Lightweight audio player for simple music playback. 🪟 🐧 🟢

  • AudacityAudio Recording

    Audio editor for recording and editing sounds. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐

Download Managers

  • AB Download Manager

    Easily download files from anywhere. 🪟 🐧

  • Aria2

    Lightweight, command-line download utility supporting multiple protocols. 🪟 🍎 🐧

  • Arroxy

    Video and audio downloader built on yt-dlp for YouTube and other supported sites, with playlist, channel, subtitle and SponsorBlock support. 🪟 🍎 🐧

  • Download Master

    Download manager by WestByte. 🪟

  • FluxDown

    Multi-protocol download manager with IDM-style dynamic segmentation, covering HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, eD2K, HLS and DASH. 🪟 🍎 🐧

  • Free Download Manager

    Modern download accelerator. 🪟 🍎 🐧 ⭐

Utility

  • Abendrot

    Menu bar screen warmer that cuts blue light on every display with a sunset-based schedule. 🍎

  • Advanced IP Scanner

    Network scanner for detecting and analyzing devices on LAN. 🪟

  • AI Dictation

    Voice-to-text with configurable shortcuts, offline recognition on supported devices, and optional cloud transcription and cleanup. 🪟 🍎

  • AirStats

    Lightweight menu bar system monitor for CPU, memory, GPU, network, disk, battery, and temperature, with 24-hour history graphs and a desktop widget. 🍎

  • AltSnapWindow Management

    Snap windows to positions using keyboard shortcuts. 🪟 🟢

  • AltTabWindow Management

    Window switcher that brings Windows-style alt-tab previews and controls to macOS. 🍎

Video

  • AdapterVideo Converters and Compressors

    Media converter app for video, audio, and images on Mac and Windows. 🪟 🍎

  • Any Video ConverterVideo Converters and Compressors

    Supports batch conversion and output to various formats. 🪟 🍎

  • AvidemuxVideo Editors

    Video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. 🪟 🍎 🐧

  • Bomi PlayerVideo Players

    Advanced media player that supports a variety of video formats. 🐧

  • Capcut DesktopVideo Editors

    Simple video editor with many builtin effects. 🪟 🍎

  • Clementine PlayerVideo Players

    Music and video player with a user-friendly interface. 🪟 🍎 🐧

Graphics Tools

  • Affinity

    Professional creative suite for photo editing, graphic design, and desktop publishing. 🪟 🍎

  • Alchemy

    Experimental drawing application focused on conceptual art creation. 🪟 🍎 🐧

  • Amadine

    Intuitive vector drawing app aimed at graphic designers. 🍎

  • Aspect

    Photo organizer with peer-to-peer synchronization for secure image storage. 🪟 🍎 🐧

  • BlockMosaic

    Convert images into buildable Minecraft pixel art with block counts and schematic export. 🪟 🍎 🐧

  • Colorpicker

    Color manipulation tool for picking and modifying colors. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Developer Tools

  • Agent Island

    Status companion for AI coding agents. Shows live session state for Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Grok, and Cursor, alerts you when a run is waiting on your turn, and computes quota and cost locally. No account, no telemetry. 🪟 🍎

  • Amazon LumberyardGame Engines

    Free, cross-platform 3D game engine integrated with AWS and Twitch for multiplayer games. 🪟 🍎

  • Android Studio

    Official IDE for Android development with emulator, code editor, and build tools. 🪟 🍎 🐧

  • ApidogAPI Development

    All-in-one workspace for API design, testing, and documentation. 🪟 🍎 🐧

  • AppGameKitGame Engines

    Flexible game engine for 2D and 3D games with simple scripting. 🪟 🍎 🐧

  • Atomic Agent

    Local-first CLI and TUI coding assistant that runs open-weight models entirely on your machine. Includes 56 built-in tools for browser, filesystem, git, memory, and vision, MCP support, and a five-layer local memory system. No account or API key required. 🪟 🍎 🐧

Text Editors

  • AI Novel Writer

    Organizes characters, worldbuilding, outlines, chapters, review, and revision for long-form fiction, with Ollama support. 🪟 🍎

  • Atom

    Highly customizable editor with Git integration, real-time collaboration, and extensive plugins. 🪟 🍎 🐧

  • Bluefish

    Web developer editor supporting HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP with built-in preview. 🪟 🍎 🐧

  • Brackets

    Web-focused editor with live preview, CSS preprocessor support, and inline editing for HTML. 🪟 🍎 🐧

  • Cate

    Code editor on an infinite zoomable canvas where editors, terminals, browsers, and AI agent panels float in a spatial workspace, with docking, detachable windows, and per-project layout persistence. 🪟 🍎 🐧

  • CodeEdit

    Native macOS editor with live preview, Git integration, and Markdown support. 🍎

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