The Mac has a long tradition of independent devs and small teams working to make high-quality native apps for it.
Lightweight, polished, often single-purchase licenses.
Good software.
The lovingly crafted Bluesky app designed and built for Mac.
Mac-native design language and interface for Blueksy, including DMs, bookmarks, lists, and separate inboxes for like and mention notifications.
The classic Spotlight upgrade.
Launch applications and find files, clipboard history, hotkeys and workflows, snippet expansion, themes, shell integration.
Beautiful productivity scratchpad.
Floating plaintext notes, with inline math, variables and conversions. Timers and checklists. Auto paste (Automatically paste anything that gets copied).
Manage bookmarks like a pro.
Native app for webpage bookmarking. Quick add, fast search, all kinds of tagging and filtering. Saves both full archives and cleaned-up copies of webpages.
Bear is a beautiful, powerfully simple Markdown note taking app to capture, write, and organize your life.
Markdown. Tags. Export/import as multiple formats. Resize or crop images. Themes.
An unusually fast writing app designed for your Mac. Use Bike to think, write, organize. Make lists, take notes, create documents.
Innovative rich text editor. Live word counts and other text statistics. Keyboard based navigation. Deeplinks.
Refined Finder Experience, Reimagined for Productivity.
A file browser for Mac with split pane layouts and improved search. Add Workspaces to preserve your most-used folder layouts. Allows you to copy-paste images from anywhere with your clipboard.
Use spatial memory to put your desired app in focus more quickly
Open a radial menu around your mouse pointer to switch between apps. Paid version unlocks more menu items.
Capture your Mac’s screen like a pro.
Add annotations and backgrounds. Scrolling capture, screen recording. Built-in OCR.
Your space for notes, tasks, and big ideas.
First-class yet lightweight tasks features. Custom themes and collaboration. Publish to the web.
Easily download videos from thousands of different sites.
Supports upto 1000 sites. 4k video downloads. Postprocessing/conversion.
Open-source media browser for macOS
Browse images and videos in your local folders as a visual grid or masonry layout.
Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
The only serious terminal that integrates fully with MacOS.
The modern media player for macOS
Plays local files, Youtube playlists, or online streams. Customizable UI. Music amd picture-in-picture modes. Plugin system.
Free and open source RSS reader for Mac, iPhone, and iPad
Custom themes. Syncing via iCloud. Single-key keyboard shortcuts. Folders. Importing and exporting OPML feed lists.
Hold down the right CMD key and press the first letter of the app name to focus apps instantly.
Optional switching view GUI. Launch unopened apps too.
Move and resize windows in macOS using (customizable) keyboard shortcuts or snap areas
RSS reader and read later client in one native app, now with support for iCloud syncing.
Bionic reading. Mark as read on scroll. Reader View. Built-in iCloud sync.
Your inbox for reading, watching and listening to content from various sources.
Unified timeline. Content filters (leywords, media and feed types). Save links. Built-in iCloud sync.
A virtual sheet of paper that lets you make notes anywhere and connect them using lines or arrows.
Double-click anywhere to create note. Export/print. Groups. Connect with drag and drop. Compeletely freeform.
Shottr is a tiny and fast mac screenshot tool, optimized for Apple silicon.
Annotations. Scrolling screenshots. Cloud upload. OCR. Color picker. Overlay images.
SideNotes keeps your notes on the side of the screen. Appears when you click a little bar or move your cursor to the screen side.
Markdown. Themes. Search. Keyboard shortcuts. Hex code color rendering. Image support.
Create local copies of entire websites, by pasting in a link.
Route-based downloading. Saves images, PDFs, style sheets, etc. Pause and resume downloads.
Design, prototype and illustrate.
Stack layout. Plugins and extensions. Create prototypes. Export to multiple formats.
MacOS system monitor in your menu bar
CPU, GPU, memory usage, disk, network utilization. Sensors information (temperature, voltage, power).
Database management made easy.
Edit rows, filter, query editor for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite & more.
A native, beautiful, and blazing-fast GUI to explore CSVs
Built-in filters. Custom SQL queries over multiple CSV files.
Plain text to-do lists for Mac.
Tags, formatting and scheduling. Command palette. Custom cripting and styling.
Full-featured Telegram client written in Swift.
Probably last messaging app with a first-class MacOS experience, including haptics, swipe gestures, and excellent keyboard shortcuts.
Award-winning personal task manager
Todo app with just the right amount of organization to keep things in order, but not so much that you waste time ontologizing.
The gold standard of macOS file transfer apps. Upload and manage files on tons of servers with an intuitive UI. Cyberduck is a free alternative.
Dual pane interface. Compatible with FFTP, SFTP, WebDAV, B2, and S3. Key management. Local-local sync. Tags.
A truly minimal Markdown editor.
Local files, export to mulitple formats, WYSIWYG editing experience, custom themes, LaTeX, HTML, and code highlighting support.
Better drag and drop on your Mac. Yoink offers a “shelf" for files and app-content you want to move or copy.
Customize location. Quick look. Handoff. Clipboard history.