{{Short description|none}} {{macOS topics}} {{Incomplete list|date=July 2022}} 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 Classic Mac OS software.
==Audio software== <!-- sorted by importance (i.e. DAWs first), not alphabetically -->
=== Digital audio workstations === {{Further information|Digital audio workstation}} *Ableton Live *Ardour *Cubase *Digital Performer *GarageBand *Logic Pro and MainStage *REAPER *Reason *Renoise *Steinberg Nuendo
=== Audio editing ===
* Audacity – digital audio editor
=== DJing ===
* djay – digital music mixing software * Mixxx – DJ mix software
=== Notation software === {{Further information|Scorewriter}}
* Dorico * Impro-Visor – notation software with a particular orientation towards jazz solos * LilyPond * Overture * MuseScore
=== Misc audio tools ===
* Audio Hijack – audio recorder * baudline – signal analyzer * BeaTunes - BPM analyzer and iTunes companion tool * 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 * Music MiniPlayer - miniplayer for Apple Music * ReBirth – virtual synth program simulates Roland TR-808, TB-303 * Recycle – music loop editor
=== Discontinued audio apps ===
* Adobe Soundbooth – music and soundtrack editing * Audion – media player * BIAS Peak – mastering * Finale – proprietary music notation software * iTunes – audio/video Jukebox by Apple * Logic Express – prosumer music production by Apple * Logic Studio – music writing studio package by Apple ** Apple Loops Utility – production and organisation of Apple Loops ** Apple Qmaster and Qadministrator ** Mainstage – program to play software synthesizers live ** QuickTime Pro – pro version of QuickTime ** Soundtrack Pro – post production audio editor ** WaveBurner – CD mastering and production software * RiffWorks – guitar recording and online song collaboration software
==Chat (text, voice, image, and video)== ===Active=== thumb|right|160px|Adium on Mac OS X *Adium – multi-protocol IM client *Colloquy – freeware advanced IRC and SILC client *Discord – IM and VoIP social platform *FaceTime – videoconferencing between Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch *iMessage – instant messaging between Mac, and iDevices *Irssi – IrssiX and MacIrssi *Kopete – free multi-protocol IM client *LiveChat – online customer service software *Microsoft Teams – team collaboration application *Palringo *Psi (instant messenger) – free IM client for the XMPP protocol *Signal – open-source, encrypted messaging service for IM, voice calls and video calls *Snak – IRC client (shareware) *Ventrilo – audio chatroom application *Telegram – cross-platform, encrypted IM client *WhatsApp
===Discontinued=== *aMSN – free Windows Live Messenger clone *AOL Instant Messenger – discontinued as of December 15, 2017<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://help.aol.com/articles/aim-discontinued|title=AIM has been discontinued as of December 15, 2017|website=help.aol.com/|access-date=2018-01-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006155404/https://help.aol.com/articles/aim-discontinued|archive-date=October 6, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> *ChitChat – open-source IM client supporting the Yahoo! Messenger protocol *HexChat – IRC client, discontinued as of February 9, 2024<ref>{{Cite web |title=2.16.2, The Final Release – HexChat |url=https://hexchat.github.io/news/2.16.2.html |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=hexchat.github.io |archive-date=2024-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310215749/https://hexchat.github.io/news/2.16.2.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *Skype – telecommunications application supporting IM and VoIP-based videotelephony retired as of May 5, 2025<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hernandez |first=Joe |last2=Neuman |first2=Scott |date=2025-05-05 |title=It's last call for Skype as the once-popular video calling app shuts down |url=https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5387436/skype-shutting-down |access-date=2025-05-08 |work=NPR |language=en}}</ref> *Ircle – IRC client (shareware) *Microsoft Messenger for Mac – cross-platform IM client *Yahoo! Messenger – IM client, also supporting VoIP, file transfers and webcam hosting
==Children's software== *Kid Pix Deluxe 3X – bitmap drawing program *Stagecast Creator – programming and internet authoring for kids
==Developer tools and IDEs== {{see also|Apple Developer Tools}} *Apache Web Server – free and open-source web server software *AppCode – an Objective-C IDE by JetBrains for macOS and iOS development *Aptana – an open source integrated development environment (IDE) for building Ajax web applications *Clozure CL – an open source integrated development environment (IDE) for building Common Lisp applications *Code::Blocks – open source IDE for C++ *CodeWarrior – development environment, framework *Coldstone game engine – game engine specializing in role-playing and adventure-style games *Cursor – code editor integrating advanced artificial intelligence features *Dylan – programming language *Eclipse – open source Java-based IDE for developing rich-client applications, includes SWT library, replaces Swing by using underlying OS native windowing abilities *Fink – Debian package manager for ported Unix software *Free Pascal – Object Pascal compiler, XCode plugin available *GNU Compiler Collection – collection of compilers for different programming languages, hardware architectures and operating systems *Glasgow Haskell Compiler *Helix – relational database IDE *Homebrew - Package manager for installing many open source, mostly terminal based, utilities. Includes Apache, PHP, Python and many more. *HotSpot – Sun's Java Virtual Machine *IntelliJ IDEA – a JAVA IDE by JetBrains (free limited community edition) *Komodo – commercial multi-language IDE from ActiveState *Lazarus – cross-platform IDE to develop software with Free Pascal, specialized in graphical software *LiveCode – high-level cross-platform IDE *MacApp – application development framework for Pascal and C++ *Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (MPW) *Macports – a package management system that simplifies the installation of free/open source software on the macOS. *Macromedia Authorware – application (CBT, eLearning) development, no Mac development environment since version 4, though can still package applications with the 'Mac Packager' for OS 8 through 10 playback *Mono – open source implementation of Microsoft .NET Framework with a C# compiler *NetBeans – modular, open source, multi-language platform and IDE for Java written in pure Java *Omnis Studio – cross-platform development environment for creating enterprise and web applications for macOS, Windows, Linux, Solaris *Panorama – database engine *Perl – programming language *PHP – programming language *Python – programming language *Qt Creator – an IDE for C++ GUI applications, by Trolltech *Real Studio – cross-platform compiled REALbasic BASIC programming language IDE *ResEdit – resource editor *Script Debugger – an AppleScript and Open Scripting Architecture IDE *SuperCard – high-level IDE *Tcl/tk – scripting shell & GUI utility that allows cross platform development. Included with macOS. *TextMate – multipurpose text editor that supports Ruby, PHP, and Python *Torque (game engine) – game creation software *Visual Studio Code – code editor and IDE with debugging features *WebKit – open source application framework for Safari (web browser) *WebObjects – Java web application server and a server-based web application framework *wxPython – API merging Python and wxWidgets *Xcode – IDE made by Apple, which comes as a part of macOS and is available as a downloadon, was called Project Builders of Florida tech
==Email== ===Email clients=== *Apple Mail – the bundled email client *Claris Emailer – classic Mac OS only, no longer available *Entourage – email client by Microsoft; analogous to Microsoft Outlook *Eudora *Foxmail *Lotus Notes *Mailbird *Mailplane – a WebKit-based client for Gmail *Microsoft Outlook *Mozilla Thunderbird *Mulberry – open-source software for e-mail, calendars and contacts *Outlook Express *Postbox *Proton Mail *Sparrow – as well as Sparrow Lite
===Other email software=== *Gmail Notifier
==FTP clients== *Classic FTP *Cyberduck *Fetch *Fugu *FileZilla *ForkLift *Interarchy *Transmit *WebDrive – FTP and cloud client *Yummy FTP
==Games== {{main|List of Macintosh games}} <!-- all games are listed in List of Macintosh games --> *Steam – digital distribution software for video games and related media
== Graphics, layout, and desktop publishing == ===CAD, 3D graphics=== *3D-Coat *Autodesk Alias *Ashlar-Vellum – 2D/3D drafting, 3D modeling *ArchiCAD *AutoCAD *Blender *BricsCAD *Cheetah3D *Cinema 4D *FreeCAD *SketchUp – 3D modeling software *Houdini *Lightwave *MacDraft - 2D CAD<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.microspot.com/products/macdraft/ | title=MacDraft Professional | Powerful 2D CAD, drafting, technical illustration and more for Mac | Microspot Ltd }}</ref> *Maya *Modo *PowerCADD *ZBrush
===Distributed document authoring=== *Adobe Acrobat – software to view, create, manipulate, print and manage PDF files *Preview – built-in image viewer and PDF viewer of the macOS operating system
===Icon editors, viewers=== *Icon Composer – part of Apple Developer Tools *IconBuilder – plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Fireworks for the editing and creation of icons *Microsoft Office
===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, opens/converts a wide range of file formats *Photos – photo management application
====Discontinued==== *iPhoto – discontinued photo management application
===Layout and desktop publishing=== ====Active==== *Adobe InDesign – page layout *iCalamus – page layout *iStudio Publisher – page layout *Pages – part of iWork *QuarkXPress – page layout *Ready, Set, Go! – page layout *Scribus – page layout *TeX – publishing **MacTeX – TeX redistribution of TeX Live for Mac **Comparison of TeX Editors *The Print Shop – page layout
====Discontinued==== *iBooks Author – created interactive books for Apple Books
===Raster and vector graphics=== This section lists bitmap graphics editors and vector graphics editors. ====Active==== *Adobe Illustrator – vector graphics editor *Adobe Photoshop – also offers some vector graphics features *Affinity Designer – vector graphics editor for Apple macOS and Microsoft Windows *Anime Studio – 2D based vector animation *Collabora Online – enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice *Corel Painter *Fontographer *GIMP – free bitmap graphics editor *GraphicConverter – displays and edits raster graphics files *Inkscape – free vector graphics editor *Luminar *Paintbrush – free simple bitmap graphics program *Photos – official photo management and editing application developed by Apple *Photo Booth – photo camera, video recorder *Pixelmator – hardware-accelerated integrated photo editor *Polarr – photo editing app *Retouch4me Arams – AI-based photo editor<ref>{{Cite web |title=Retouch4me — Advantages of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Retouching |url=https://retouch4.me/arams |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=retouch4me.oxem.dev |language=en-us}}</ref> *Seashore – open source, based around the GIMP's technology, but with native macOS (Cocoa) UI
==== Discontinued ==== *Adobe Fireworks – supports GIF animation *Adobe FreeHand – vector graphics editor
*Aperture – Apple's pro photo management, editing, publishing application *GIMPShop – free open source cross-platform bitmap graphics editor *MacPaint – painting software by Apple (discontinued)
== Integrated software technologies == {{main|List of macOS components}} *Bonjour – service discovery on a local area network *Finder *QuickTime *Terminal *X11.app
==Language and reference tools== *Cram (software) *Dictionary (software) *Encyclopædia Britannica *Rosetta Stone (software) – proprietary language learning software *Ultralingua – proprietary electronic dictionaries and language tools *World Book Encyclopedia – multimedia
==Mathematics software== *Fityk *Grapher *Maple (software) *Mathematica *MATLAB *MathMagic *Octave (software) – open source *R (programming language) *Sysquake *SciLab – open source
==Media center== *Boxee – Mac and Apple TV *Front Row *Mira *MythTV *SageTV *Plex *Kodi
==Multimedia authoring== *Adobe Director – animation/application development *Adobe Flash – vector animation *Adobe LiveMotion – a discontinued competitor to Flash, until Adobe bought Macromedia *Apple Media Tool – a discontinued multimedia authoring tool published by Apple *Dragonframe - stop motion animation and time-lapse *iBooks Author – created interactive books for Apple Books (discontinued) *iLife – media suite by Apple *Unity – 3D authoring
==Networking and telecommunications== *Apple Remote Desktop *Google Earth *iStumbler – find wireless networks and devices *Karelia Watson (defunct) *KisMAC *Little Snitch – network monitor and outgoing connection firewall *NetSpot – software tool for wireless network assessment, scanning, and surveys, analyzing Wi-Fi coverage and performance *Timbuktu – remote control *WiFi Explorer – a wireless network scanner tool
==News aggregators== {{main|News aggregator}} *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== *AbiWord *Adobe Acrobat – PDF viewer and editor *Address Book – bundled with macOS *AppleWorks – word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation applications (discontinued) *Banktivity – personal finance, budgeting, investments *Bean (word processor) – free TXT/RTF/DOC word processor *Bear – markdown note-taking application *Celtx *Collabora Online enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice *CricketGraph – graphmaker *Delicious Library *FileMaker *FlowVella *Fortora Fresh Finance *Helix (database) *iBank – personal finance application *iCal – calendar management, bundled with macOS *iWork – suite: **Pages – word processor application **Numbers – spreadsheet application **Keynote – presentation application *Journler – diary and personal information manager with personal wiki features *KOffice *LibreOffice *MacLinkPlus Deluxe – file format translation tool for PowerPC-era Mac OS X, converting and opening files created in other operating systems *Mellel *Microsoft Office – office suite: **Microsoft Word – word processor application **Microsoft Excel – spreadsheet application **Microsoft PowerPoint – presentation application **Microsoft Entourage – email application (replaced by Microsoft Outlook) **Microsoft Outlook – email application **Microsoft OneNote – note-taking application **Microsoft Publisher – desktop publishing application *MoneyWiz – personal finance application *Montage – screenwriting software *NeoOffice - discontinued *Nisus Writer *OmniFocus *OpenOffice.org - discontinued *WriteNow *Taste – word processor (discontinued)
==Operating systems== {{main|Macintosh 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== *FreeMind *Mindjet *OmniOutliner *OmniGraffle *XMind
==Peer-to-peer file sharing== *aMule *BitTorrent client *FrostWire *LimeWire *Poisoned *rTorrent *Transmission (BitTorrent) *μTorrent *Vuze – Bittorrent client, was Azureus
==Sciences == *Celestia – 3D astronomy program *SimThyr – Simulation system for thyroid homeostasis *Stellarium – 3D astronomy program
==Text editors== <!-- Pure text editors only here, please. Word processors go under "Office and productivity". --> *ACE *BBEdit *BBEdit Lite *Coda *Emacs *jEdit *iA Writer *Komodo Edit *Nano *SimpleText *Smultron *SubEthaEdit *TeachText *TextEdit *TextMate *TextWrangler *vim *XEmacs *Ulysses
==Utilities== *Activity Monitor – default system monitor for hardware and software *After Dark – computer screensaver 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) *CleanMyMac – maintenance and optimisation utility *DaisyDisk – disk visualization tool *Dashboard – built-in macOS widgets *Grab – 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 *MacKeeper – cleanup utility *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 *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 Engine – JavaScript-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. *BitDefender Antivirus for Mac – antivirus *Intego VirusBarrier – antivirus *MacScan – malware removal *Malwarebytes — malware removal *McAffee VirusScan – antivirus *Norton Antivirus for Mac – antivirus *Sophos – antivirus
=== Archiving, backup, restore, recovery === This section lists software for file archiving, backup and restore, data compression and data recovery. * Archive Utility – built-in archive file handler *Archiver – paid, file archiving *BetterZip – file archiver and compressor * Compact Pro – data compression *Disk Drill – data recovery *Stellar Data Recovery – data recovery *The Unarchiver — file archiving *Time Machine (macOS) – built-in backup software *WinZip – file archiver and compressor utility
==== Discontinued archiving apps ==== * Backup – discontinued Apple backup utility, part of MobileMe * Stuffit – data compression
=== Disc burning apps === * Roxio Toast – DVD authoring application
==== Discontinued disc burning apps ==== * Adobe Encore * Disco – disc burning * DVD Studio Pro – DVD authoring application * iDVD – a basic DVD-authoring application
==Video== *Adobe After Effects – digital visual effects, motion graphics and compositing application *Adobe Premiere Pro – timeline-based video editing software *Adobe Presenter Video Express – screencasting and video editing software *ArKaos – VJ software *Avid *DaVinci Resolve – video editing suite *DivX *DivX Player *DVD Player (Apple) – DVD player software built into macOS *FFmpeg – audio/video converter *Final Cut Express *Final Cut Studio – audio-video editing suite: **Apple Qmaster **Cinema Tools **Compressor **DVD Studio Pro **Final Cut Pro **LiveType **Motion 2 **Soundtrack Pro *HandBrake – DVD to MPEG-4 and other formats converter *iMovie – basic video editing application *Miro Media Player *MPlayer *Perian *QuickTime – including its Player and QuickTime Pro *RealPlayer *Shotcut – open source rich video editor *Shake *Windows Media Player *VLC media player – free and open-source media player
== Virtualization, emulation, and dual-booting == *Bochs *Boot Camp – a multi-boot utility built into macOS from 10.5 on Intel Macs only *CrossOver – commercial implementation of Wine *DOSBox – DOS emulator *Hercules emulator *pcAnywhere – VNC-style remote control *Parallels Workstation – commercial full virtualization software for desktop and server *Q – emulates an IBM-compatible PC on a Mac, allows running PC operating systems *VMware Fusion – virtualization software *Wine – Windows API reimplementation *Virtual PC – full virtualization software allows running other operating systems, such as Windows and Linux, on PowerPC Macs (discontinued in 2007) *VirtualBox *vMac – emulates a Macintosh Plus and can run Apple Macintosh System versions 1.1 to 7.5.5.
==Web browsers== {{Multiple image|direction=vertical|align=right|image1=Firefox 12 Mac.png|image2=Camino screenshot.png|width=300|caption1=Firefox|caption2=Camino}} *Amaya – free *Brave – free and open-source, Chromium-based *Camino – open source *Flock – free, Mozilla Firefox based *Google Chrome – free, proprietary, Chromium-based *iCab – free *Konqueror – open source *Lynx – free *Mozilla – open source, combines browser, email client, WYSIWYG editor *Mozilla Firefox – open source *Microsoft Edge – free, proprietary, Chromium-based *Netscape Navigator – free, proprietary *OmniWeb – free, proprietary *Opera – free, proprietary, Chromium-based *Safari (web browser) – built-in from Mac OS X 10.3, available as a separate download for Mac OS X 10.2 *SeaMonkey – open source Internet application suite *Shiira – open source *Sleipnir – free, by Fenrir Inc *Tor (anonymity network) – free, open source *Torch (web browser) – free, by Torch Media Inc. *Vivaldi – free, proprietary, Chromium-based *Internet Explorer for Mac – free, by Microsoft *WebKit – Safari application framework, also in the form of an application
==Web design and content management== *Adobe Contribute *Adobe Dreamweaver *Adobe GoLive *Claris Homepage *Coda *Freeway *iWeb *NVu *RapidWeaver – a template-based website editor
==Weblog clients== *ecto *MarsEdit
==Other== *20th Century Video Almanac *4 Paws of Crab *75 Seasons: The History of the NFL *Algebra Smart *Tonka Workshop Playset
==See also== *List of Windows software *List of Macintosh software published by Microsoft *List of Unix commands
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