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A curated list of amazingly awesome Mac OS X tools, applications and games.

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Security

  • 1Password

    A comprehensive password manager.

  • Boxcryptor

    A tool to encript your sensitive files in your cloud storage.

  • Dashlane

    An another password manager & secure digital wallet.

  • Lockpaw

    A menu bar screen guard that lets you lock and unlock your Mac with a hotkey, with Touch ID fallback.

  • Pareto Security

    A MenuBar app to automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene.

E-Mail

  • Airmail

    Lightning Fast Mail Client for Mac and iPhone.

  • HeyRobyn

    Native Mac unified inbox for email, Slack, and GitHub in one window.

  • N1

    The extensible, open source mail client.

  • Postbox

    Another powerful Mail Client for Mac.

Utilities

  • Alfred

    Search your Mac and the web effortlessly, and control your Mac using customised actions with the Alfred.

  • Amphetamine

    Don't let you mac sleep.

  • Android File Transfer

    Browse and transfer files upto 4 GB between Mac and Android device.

  • AppCleaner

    A small application to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps.

  • Battery Guardian

    Battery Guardian offers an easy way to remember to deplete your MacBook battery. Depleting your battery helps extend the battery's life.

  • BetterTouchTool

    BetterTouchTool is a great, feature packed app that allows you to customize various input devices on your Mac.

Window/Tiling managers

  • Amethyst

    Tiling window manager for macOS along the lines of xmonad.

  • Divvy

    Window management at its finest.

  • Magnet

    Magnet keeps your workspace organized.

  • Moom

    Move and zoom windows.

  • Mosaic

    Save Time | Boost Productivity.

  • Spectacle

    Move and resize windows with ease.

IDE (Integrated development environment)

  • Android Studio

    Android Studio is the official integrated development environment (IDE) for Android platform development.

  • AppCode

    Swift execution of your bright ideas.

  • CLion

    intelligent cross-platform C/C++ IDE.

  • Eclipse

    A project aiming to provide a universal toolset for development.

  • Intellij IDEA

    The Most Intelligent Java IDE.

  • PhpStorm

    The Most Intelligent PHP IDE.

Text Editors

  • Atom

    A hackable text editor for the 21st Century.

  • BBEdit

    It doesn’t suck.®

  • Coda2

    Your code for the web.

  • Emacs

    Emacs is console based editor and highly customizable.

  • Sublime Text 3

    A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.

  • TextMate

    The Missing Editor for Mac OS X.

Finance

Productivity

  • Cerebro

    One-input productivity booster.

  • MindMac

    Feature-rich & privacy-first native ChatGPT app to use OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, OpenRouter all in one place.

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