The following is a list of Mac

software Software consists of computer programs that instruct the Execution (computing), execution of a computer. Software also includes design documents and specifications. The history of software is closely tied to the development of digital comput ...

– notable computer applications for current

macOS macOS, previously OS X and originally Mac OS X, is a Unix, Unix-based operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple since 2001. It is the current operating system for Apple's Mac (computer), Mac computers. With ...

operating systems. For software designed for the

Classic Mac OS Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Mac (computer), Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and end ...

, see List of old Macintosh software.

Audio software

Digital audio workstations

* Ableton Live * Ardour * Cubase * Digital Performer *

GarageBand GarageBand is a software application by Apple Inc., Apple for macOS, iPadOS, and iOS devices that allows users to create music or Podcast, podcasts. It is a lighter, amateur-oriented offshoot of Logic Pro. GarageBand was originally released for ...

* Logic Pro and MainStage * REAPER *

Reason Reason is the capacity of consciously applying logic by drawing valid conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth. It is associated with such characteristically human activities as philosophy, religion, scien ...

* Renoise * Steinberg 2019 Mac Pro

Audio editing

* Audacity – digital audio editor

DJing

* djay – digital music mixing software * Mixxx – DJ mix software

Notation software

* Impro-Visor – notation software with a particular orientation towards jazz solos *

LilyPond LilyPond is a computer program and file format for music engraving. One of LilyPond's major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand. LilyPond is cross-pla ...

Overture Overture (from French ''ouverture'', "opening") is a music instrumental introduction to a ballet, opera, or oratorio in the 17th century. During the early Romantic era, composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn composed overtures which ...

MuseScore MuseScore Studio (branded as MuseScore before 2024) is a Free and open-source software, free and open-source music notation program for Microsoft Windows, Windows, macOS, and Linux under the Muse Group, which owns the associated online score-s ...

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 A CD ripper is software that ripping, extracts raw digital audio in Compact Disc Digital Audio format tracks on a compact disc to standard computer sound files, such as WAV or MP3. A more formal term used for the process of ripping audio CDs i ...

* 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 Apple Music is an audio and video streaming service developed by Apple Inc. Users can select music to stream to their device on-demand, or listen to existing playlists. The service also includes the sister internet radio stations Apple Musi ...

* ReBirth – virtual synth program simulates Roland TR-808, TB-303 *

Recycle ReCycle is a music loop editor designed and developed by Sweden, Swedish software developers Propellerhead Software. It runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh based Personal Computer, PCs. The software debuted in 1994. The principal idea ...

– music loop editor

Discontinued audio apps

* Adobe Soundbooth – music and soundtrack editing * Audion – media player * BIAS Peak – mastering * Finale – proprietary music notation software *

iTunes iTunes is a media player, media library, and mobile device management (MDM) utility developed by Apple. It is used to purchase, play, download and organize digital multimedia on personal computers running the macOS and Windows operating s ...

– audio/video Jukebox by Apple * Logic Express –

prosumer A prosumer is an individual who both consumes and produces. The term is a portmanteau of the words '' producer'' and ''consumer''. Research has identified six types of prosumers: DIY prosumers, self-service prosumers, customizing prosumers, co ...

music production by Apple * Logic Studio – music writing studio package by Apple ** Apple Loops Utility – production and organisation of Apple Loops **

Apple Qmaster Apple Qmaster is a system made by Apple Inc. that provides automation, automated work distribution and processing for high-volume projects created with certain Visual effects, digital visual effects software packages: Shake (software), Shake, May ...

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

* Adium – multi-protocol IM client * Colloquy – freeware advanced

IRC IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for group communication in discussion forums, called '' channels'', but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages as well as chat ...

and SILC client * Discord – IM and VoIP social platform *

FaceTime FaceTime is a proprietary videotelephony product developed by Apple. FaceTime is available on supported iOS mobile devices running iOS 4 and later and Mac computers that run and later. FaceTime supports any iOS device with a forward-facin ...

–

videoconferencing Videotelephony (also known as videoconferencing or video calling) is the use of audio signal, audio and video for simultaneous two-way communication. Today, videotelephony is widespread. There are many terms to refer to videotelephony. ''Vide ...

between Mac,

iPhone The iPhone is a line of smartphones developed and marketed by Apple that run iOS, the company's own mobile operating system. The first-generation iPhone was announced by then–Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, at ...

iPad The iPad is a brand of tablet computers developed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple that run the company's mobile operating systems iOS and later iPadOS. The IPad (1st generation), first-generation iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010. ...

and

iPod Touch The iPod Touch (stylized as iPod touch) is a discontinued line of iOS-based mobile devices designed and formerly marketed by Apple Inc. with a touchscreen-controlled user interface. As with other iPod models, the iPod Touch can be used as a po ...

* iMessage – instant messaging between Mac, and iDevices *

Irssi Irssi ( ) is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Client (computing), client program for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Microsoft Windows. It was originally written by Timo Sirainen, and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, GNU GPL-2.0- ...

– IrssiX and MacIrssi * Kopete – free multi-protocol IM client * LiveChat – online customer service software *

Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams is a team collaboration platform developed by Microsoft as part of the Microsoft 365 suite. It offers features such as workspace chat, video conferencing, file storage, and integration with both Microsoft and third-party applicat ...

– team collaboration application * Palringo * Psi (instant messenger) – free IM client for the

XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (abbreviation XMPP, originally named Jabber) is an Open standard, open communication protocol designed for instant messaging (IM), presence information, and contact list maintenance. Based on XML (Ext ...

protocol *

Signal A signal is both the process and the result of transmission of data over some media accomplished by embedding some variation. Signals are important in multiple subject fields including signal processing, information theory and biology. In ...

– open-source, encrypted messaging service for IM, voice calls and video calls * Snak – IRC client (shareware) * Ventrilo – audio chatroom application *

Telegram Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus flag semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas pi ...

– cross-platform, encrypted IM client

Discontinued

* aMSN – free Windows Live Messenger clone *

AOL Instant Messenger AOL Instant Messenger (AIM, sometimes stylized as aim) was an instant messaging and presence information computer program created by AOL. It used the proprietary OSCAR protocol, OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow us ...

– discontinued as of December 15, 2017 * ChitChat – open-source IM client supporting the Yahoo! Messenger protocol * HexChat – IRC client, discontinued as of February 9, 2024 *

Skype Skype () was a proprietary telecommunications application operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft, best known for IP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls. It also had instant messaging, file transfer, ...

– telecommunications application supporting IM and VoIP-based

videotelephony Videotelephony (also known as videoconferencing or video calling) is the use of audio signal, audio and video for simultaneous two-way communication. Today, videotelephony is widespread. There are many terms to refer to videotelephony. ''Vide ...

retired as of May 5, 2025 * Ircle – IRC client (

shareware Shareware is a type of proprietary software that is initially shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost. Often the software has limited functionality or incomplete documentation until the user sends payment to the software developer. ...

) * 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

Apache Web Server The Apache HTTP Server ( ) is a free and open-source cross-platform web server, released under the terms of Apache License 2.0. It is developed and maintained by a community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation. ...

– free and open-source web server software *

AppCode JetBrains s.r.o. (formerly IntelliJ Software s.r.o.) is a Czech software development private limited company which makes tools for software developers and project managers. The company has its headquarters in Amsterdam, and has offices in Ch ...

– an Objective-C IDE by JetBrains for macOS and iOS development * Aptana – an

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...

integrated development environment An integrated development environment (IDE) is a Application software, software application that provides comprehensive facilities for software development. An IDE normally consists of at least a source-code editor, build automation tools, an ...

(IDE) for building Ajax web applications * Clozure CL – an

(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 An eclipse is an astronomical event which occurs when an astronomical object or spacecraft is temporarily obscured, by passing into the shadow of another body or by having another body pass between it and the viewer. This alignment of three ...

– 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 Unix (, ; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, a ...

software *

Free Pascal Free Pascal Compiler (FPC) is a compiler for the closely related programming-language dialects Pascal and Object Pascal. It is free software released under the GNU General Public License, witexception clausesthat allow static linking against it ...

– Object Pascal compiler, XCode plugin available *

GNU Compiler Collection The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a collection of compilers from the GNU Project that support various programming languages, Computer architecture, hardware architectures, and operating systems. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) distributes ...

– 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

, 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 Open-source software (OSS) is Software, computer software that is released under a Open-source license, license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and Software distribution, distribute the software an ...

on the macOS. *

Macromedia Authorware Adobe Authorware (previously Macromedia Authorware, originally Authorware) is a discontinued e-learning authoring tool with its own interpreted, flowchart-based, graphical programming language. Authorware was used for creating interactive e-le ...

– 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 NetBeans is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Java (programming language), Java. NetBeans allows applications to be developed from a set of modular software components called ''modules''. NetBeans runs on Microsoft Windows, Windows, ...

– 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 A panorama (formed from Greek language, Greek πᾶν "all" + ὅραμα "view") is any Obtuse angle, wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography (panoramic photography), film, seismic image ...

– database engine *

Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, including "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language". Perl was developed ...

– programming language * PHP – programming language * Python – programming language * Qt Creator – an IDE for C++ GUI applications, by

Trolltech Qt Group Plc (Qt is pronounced "cute") is a software company headquartered in Espoo, Finland. It was formed following the acquisition of Qt by Digia, but was later spun off into a separate, publicly traded company. The company oversees the de ...

* Real Studio – cross-platform compiled REALbasic

BASIC Basic or BASIC may refer to: Science and technology * BASIC, a computer programming language * Basic (chemistry), having the properties of a base * Basic access authentication, in HTTP Entertainment * Basic (film), ''Basic'' (film), a 2003 film ...

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 Visual Studio Code, commonly referred to as VS Code, is an integrated development environment developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, macOS and web browsers. Features include support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code comp ...

– code editor and IDE with debugging features *

WebKit WebKit is a browser engine primarily used in Apple's Safari web browser, as well as all web browsers on iOS and iPadOS. WebKit is also used by the PlayStation consoles starting with the PS3, the Tizen mobile operating systems, the Amazon K ...

– open source application framework for

Safari (web browser) Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc., Apple. It is built into several of List of Apple operating systems, Apple's operating systems, including macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS, and uses Apple's open-source software, open-source bro ...

* WebObjects – Java web application server and a server-based web application framework * wxPython – API merging Python and

wxWidgets wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows) is a widget toolkit and tools library for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for cross-platform applications. wxWidgets enables a program's GUI code to compile and run on several computer platforms with no s ...

Xcode Xcode is a suite of developer tools for building apps on Apple devices. It includes an integrated development environment (IDE) of the same name for macOS, used to develop software for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS. It w ...

– IDE made by

Apple An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus'' spp.). Fruit trees of the orchard or domestic apple (''Malus domestica''), the most widely grown in the genus, are agriculture, cultivated worldwide. The tree originated ...

, which comes as a part of

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 Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...

; analogous to

Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager software system from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft 365 software suites. Primarily popular as an email client for businesses, Outlook also includes functions such as Calendari ...

* Eudora * Foxmail * Lotus Notes * Mailbird * Mailplane – a WebKit-based client for Gmail *

Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source email client that also functions as a personal information manager with a Digital calendar, calendar and contactbook, as well as an RSS feed reader, chat client (IRC/XMPP/Matrix (protocol), Matrix), ...

Mulberry ''Morus'', a genus of flowering plants in the family Moraceae, consists of 19 species of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, growing wild and under cultivation in many temperate world regions. Generally, the genus has 64 subordinat ...

– open-source software for e-mail, calendars and contacts * Outlook Express *

Postbox A post box (British English; also written postbox; also known as pillar box), also known as a collection box, mailbox, letter box or drop box (American English), is a physical box into which members of the public can deposit outgoing mail intend ...

* Proton Mail * Sparrow – as well as Sparrow Lite

Other email software

* Gmail Notifier

FTP clients

* Classic FTP * Cyberduck * Fetch * Fugu * FileZilla *

ForkLift A forklift (also called industrial truck, lift truck, jitney, hi-lo, fork truck, fork hoist, and forklift truck) is a powered industrial truck used to lift and move materials over short distances. The forklift was developed in the early 20th c ...

* Interarchy * Transmit * WebDrive – FTP and cloud client * Yummy FTP

Games

Steam Steam is water vapor, often mixed with air or an aerosol of liquid water droplets. This may occur due to evaporation or due to boiling, where heat is applied until water reaches the enthalpy of vaporization. Saturated or superheated steam is inv ...

– 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 AutoCAD is a 2D and 3D computer-aided design (CAD) software application developed by Autodesk. It was first released in December 1982 for the CP/M and IBM PC platforms as a desktop app running on microcomputers with internal graphics control ...

* Blender * BricsCAD * Cheetah3D * Cinema 4D * FreeCAD * SketchUp – 3D modeling software * Houdini * Lightwave * MacDraft - 2D CAD *

Maya Maya may refer to: Ethnic groups * Maya peoples, of southern Mexico and northern Central America ** Maya civilization, the historical civilization of the Maya peoples ** Mayan languages, the languages of the Maya peoples * Maya (East Africa), a p ...

* Modo * PowerCADD * ZBrush

Distributed document authoring

Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and web services developed by Adobe Inc. to view, create, manipulate, print and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The family comprises Acrobat Reader (formerly Reader), Acrobat (former ...

– software to view, create, manipulate, print and manage

PDF Portable document format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe Inc., Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, computer hardware, ...

files * Preview – built-in image viewer and PDF viewer of the

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 Microsoft Office, MS Office, or simply Office, is an office suite and family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. The first version of the Office suite, announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at CO ...

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 iPhoto is a discontinued image editing software application developed by Apple Inc. for use on its Mac OS X operating system. It was included with every Mac computer from 2002 to 2015, when it was replaced with Apple's Photos application in ...

– discontinued photo management application

Layout and desktop publishing

Active

Adobe InDesign Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing and page layout designing software application software, application produced by Adobe Inc., Adobe and first released in 1999. It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, ...

– page layout * iCalamus – page layout * iStudio Publisher – page layout * Pages – part of

iWork iWork is an office suite of applications created by Apple Inc., Apple for its macOS, iPadOS, and iOS operating systems, and also available cross-platform through the iCloud website. iWork includes the presentation program, presentation applicat ...

* QuarkXPress – page layout * Ready, Set, Go! – page layout * Scribus – page layout *

TeX Tex, TeX, TEX, may refer to: People and fictional characters * Tex (nickname), a list of people and fictional characters with the nickname * Tex Earnhardt (1930–2020), U.S. businessman * Joe Tex (1933–1982), stage name of American soul singer ...

– publishing ** MacTeX – TeX redistribution of

TeX Live TeX Live is a cross-platform, free software, free software distribution for the TeX typesetting system that includes major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts. It is the replacement of its no-longer supported counterpart teTeX. It is ...

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 editor A raster graphics editor (also called bitmap graphics editor) is a computer program that allows users to Computer graphics, create and image editing, edit images interactively on the computer screen and save them in one of many raster graphics I ...

s and vector graphics editors.

Active

Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor and Computer-aided design, design software developed and marketed by Adobe Inc., Adobe. Originally designed for the Apple Inc., Apple Mac (computer), Macintosh, development of Adobe Illustrator began ...

– vector graphics editor *

Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Inc., Adobe for Microsoft Windows, Windows and macOS. It was created in 1987 by Thomas Knoll, Thomas and John Knoll. It is the most used tool for professional digital ...

– 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 * EazyDraw – vector graphics editor; versions available that can convert old formats such as MacDraw files *

Fontographer Fontographer is a font editor for Windows and macOS; it is used to create digital fonts. It was originally developed by Altsys but is now owned by FontLab Ltd. History Altsys Corporation In December 1984, James R. Von Ehr II founded the Alt ...

GIMP Gimp or GIMP may refer to: Clothing * Bondage suit, also called a gimp suit, a type of suit used in BDSM * Bondage mask, also called a gimp mask, often worn in conjunction with a gimp suit Embroidery and crafts * Gimp (thread), an ornamental tr ...

– free bitmap graphics editor * GraphicConverter – displays and edits raster graphics files *

Inkscape Inkscape is a vector graphics editor. It is used for both artistic and technical illustrations such as cartoons, clip art, logos, typography, diagrams, and flowcharts. It uses vector graphics to allow for sharp printouts and renderings at ...

– 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 * Seashore – open source, based around the GIMP's technology, but with native macOS (Cocoa) UI

Discontinued

Adobe Fireworks Adobe Fireworks (formerly Macromedia Fireworks) was a bitmap and vector graphics editor, which Adobe acquired in 2005. Fireworks was made for web designers for rapidly creating website prototypes and application interfaces. Its features includ ...

– supports GIF animation *

Adobe FreeHand Adobe FreeHand (formerly Macromedia FreeHand and Aldus FreeHand) is a discontinued computer application for creating two-dimensional vector graphics oriented primarily to professional illustration, desktop publishing and content creation for the W ...

– vector graphics editor * Aperture – Apple's pro photo management, editing, publishing application *

GIMPShop GIMPshop was a modification of the Free software, free and Open-source software, open source graphics program GIMP, GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), with the intent to imitate the look and feel of Adobe Photoshop. History GIMPshop was cre ...

– free open source cross-platform bitmap graphics editor * MacPaint – painting software by Apple (discontinued)

Integrated software technologies

* Bonjour – service discovery on a

local area network A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, campus, or building, and has its network equipment and interconnects locally managed. LANs facilitate the distribution of da ...

* Finder * QuickTime * Terminal * X11.app

Language and reference tools

* Cram (software) * Dictionary (software) *

Encyclopædia Britannica The is a general knowledge, general-knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It has been published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. since 1768, although the company has changed ownership seven times. The 2010 version of the 15th edition, ...

Rosetta Stone (software) Rosetta Stone Language Learning is proprietary software, proprietary, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) software published by Rosetta Stone (company), Rosetta Stone Inc, part of the IXL Learning family of products. The software uses ima ...

– proprietary language learning software * Ultralingua – proprietary electronic dictionaries and language tools *

World Book Encyclopedia The ''World Book Encyclopedia'' is an American encyclopedia. ''World Book'' was first published in 1917. Since 1925, a new edition of the encyclopedia has been published annually. Although published online in digital form for a number of years, ...

– multimedia

Mathematics software

* Fityk * Grapher *

Maple (software) Maple is a symbolic and numeric computing environment as well as a multi-paradigm programming language. It covers several areas of technical computing, such as symbolic mathematics, numerical analysis, data processing, visualization, and other ...

Mathematica Wolfram (previously known as Mathematica and Wolfram Mathematica) is a software system with built-in libraries for several areas of technical computing that allows machine learning, statistics, symbolic computation, data manipulation, network ...

MATLAB MATLAB (an abbreviation of "MATrix LABoratory") is a proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementat ...

* MathMagic * Octave (software) – open source *

R (programming language) R is a programming language for statistical computing and Data and information visualization, data visualization. It has been widely adopted in the fields of data mining, bioinformatics, data analysis, and data science. The core R language is ...

* Sysquake *

SciLab Scilab is a free and open-source, cross-platform numerical computational package and a high-level, numerically oriented programming language. It can be used for signal processing, statistical analysis, image enhancement, fluid dynamics simul ...

– open source

Media center

* Boxee – Mac and Apple TV * Front Row * Mira * MythTV * SageTV * Plex *

Kodi Kodi may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * KODI, a radio station in Cody, Wyoming, USA * Kodi (film), ''Kodi'' (film), India, 2016 * Kodi, a dog in the 2004 film ''Balto III: Wings of Change'' Other uses * Kodi (software), an open sour ...

Multimedia authoring

Adobe Director Adobe Director (formerly Macromedia Director, MacroMind Director, and MacroMind VideoWorks) was a multimedia application authoring platform created by Macromedia and managed by Adobe Systems until its discontinuation. Director was the primary ed ...

– animation/application development *

Adobe Flash Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash and FutureSplash) is a mostly discontinuedAlthough it is discontinued by Adobe Inc., for the Chinese market it is developed by Zhongcheng and for the international enterprise market it is developed by Ha ...

– 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 iLife is a discontinued software suite for macOS and iOS developed by Apple Inc. It consists of various programs for media creation, organization, editing and publishing. At various times, it included: iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, iWeb, an ...

– media suite by Apple * Unity – 3D authoring

Networking and telecommunications

* Apple Remote Desktop *

Google Earth Google Earth is a web mapping, web and computer program created by Google that renders a 3D computer graphics, 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposition, superimposing satelli ...

* 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 Timbuktu ( ; ; Koyra Chiini: ; ) is an ancient city in Mali, situated north of the Niger River. It is the capital of the Tombouctou Region, one of the eight administrative regions of Mali, having a population of 32,460 in the 2018 census. ...

– remote control * WiFi Explorer – a wireless network scanner tool

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 *

- news aggregation via built-in RSS support * Apple Mail – news aggregation via (discontinued) built-in RSS support

Office and productivity

* AbiWord *

–

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 Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family (biology), family Ursidae (). They are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans. Although only eight species of bears are extant, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats ...

– 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 A calendar is a system of organizing days. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. A calendar date, date is the designation of a single and specific day within such a system. A calendar is ...

management, bundled with

– suite: ** Pages – word processor application **

Numbers A number is a mathematical object used to count, measure, and label. The most basic examples are the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and so forth. Numbers can be represented in language with number words. More universally, individual numbers can ...

– spreadsheet application ** Keynote – presentation application * Journler – diary and personal information manager with personal wiki features * KOffice *

LibreOffice LibreOffice () is a free and open-source office productivity software suite developed by The Document Foundation (TDF). It was created in 2010 as a fork of OpenOffice.org, itself a successor to StarOffice. The suite includes applications ...

* MacLinkPlus Deluxe – file format translation tool for PowerPC-era Mac OS X, converting and opening files created in other operating systems * Mellel *

– office suite: **

Microsoft Word Microsoft Word is a word processor program, word processing program developed by Microsoft. It was first released on October 25, 1983, under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platf ...

– word processor application **

Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet editor developed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows, Windows, macOS, Android (operating system), Android, iOS and iPadOS. It features calculation or computation capabilities, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a ...

– spreadsheet application **

Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program, developed by Microsoft. It was originally created by Robert Gaskins, Tom Rudkin, and Dennis Austin at a software company named Forethought, Inc. It was released on April 20, 1987, initially ...

– presentation application ** Microsoft Entourage – email application (replaced by 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 The gustatory system or sense of taste is the sensory system that is partially responsible for the perception of taste. Taste is the perception stimulated when a substance in the mouth biochemistry, reacts chemically with taste receptor cells l ...

– word processor (discontinued)

Operating systems

* Darwin – the BSD-licensed core of 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 The following is a general comparison of Glossary of BitTorrent terms#Client, BitTorrent clients, which are computer programs designed for peer-to-peer file sharing using the BitTorrent, BitTorrent protocol. The BitTorrent protocol coordinates se ...

* FrostWire * LimeWire * Poisoned * rTorrent * Transmission (BitTorrent) * μTorrent * Vuze – Bittorrent client, was Azureus

Science

* Celestia – 3D astronomy program * SimThyr – Simulation system for thyroid homeostasis * Stellarium – 3D astronomy program

Text editors

* ACE *

BBEdit BBEdit is a Proprietary software, proprietary text editor made by Bare Bones Software, originally developed for Macintosh System 6, System Software 6, and currently supporting macOS. History The first version of BBEdit was created as a "bare bon ...

* BBEdit Lite * Coda *

Emacs Emacs (), originally named EMACS (an acronym for "Editor Macros"), is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility. The manual for the most widely used variant, GNU Emacs, describes it as "the extensible, customizable, s ...

* jEdit * iA Writer * Komodo Edit * Nano *

SimpleText SimpleText is the native text editor for the Apple classic Mac OS. SimpleText allows text editing and text formatting (underline, italic, bold, etc.), fonts, and sizes. It was developed to integrate the features included in the different versio ...

* Smultron * SubEthaEdit * TeachText *

TextEdit TextEdit is an open-source software, open-source word processor and text editor, first featured in NeXT's NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. It is now distributed with macOS since Apple Inc.'s acquisition of NeXT, and available as a GNUstep application fo ...

* TextMate * TextWrangler * vim * XEmacs * Ulysses

Utilities

* Activity Monitor – default system monitor for hardware and software * After Dark –

computer A computer is a machine that can be Computer programming, programmed to automatically Execution (computing), carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (''computation''). Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic set ...

screensaver A screensaver (or screen saver) is a computer program that blanks the display screen or fills it with moving images or patterns when the computer has been idle for a designated time. The original purpose of screensavers was to prevent phosphor s ...

* 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 A dashboard (also called dash, instrument panel or IP, or fascia) is a control panel (engineering), control panel set within the central console of a vehicle, boat, or cockpit of an aircraft or spacecraft. Usually located directly ahead of the ...

– built-in macOS widgets * Grab – built-in macOS screenshot utility *

Growl Growling is a low, guttural vocalization produced by predatory animals; producing ''growls''. Growling or growl may also refer to: Sounds * Death growl, the dominant singing style in death metal music * Stomach rumble, Stomach growl, or borborygm ...

– 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 Path Finder (originally SNAX) is a Macintosh file browser developed by Cocoatech. First released in 2001 simultaneously with the public release of Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah), it replicates or integrates most of the features of the Finder, but i ...

– 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 A Post-it note (or sticky note) is a small piece of paper with a re-adherable strip of glue on its back, made for temporarily attaching notes to documents and other surfaces. A low-adhesion, tack pressure-sensitive adhesive allows the notes to ...

-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 JavaScript (), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. Ninety-nine percent of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior. Web browsers have ...

-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 Antivirus software (abbreviated to AV software), also known as anti-malware, is a computer program used to prevent, detect, and remove malware. Antivirus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses, hence the name ...

and

malware Malware (a portmanteau of ''malicious software'')Tahir, R. (2018)A study on malware and malware detection techniques . ''International Journal of Education and Management Engineering'', ''8''(2), 20. is any software intentionally designed to caus ...

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 In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. Any particular compression is either lossy or lossless. Lossless compressi ...

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 In information technology, a backup, or data backup is a copy of computer data taken and stored elsewhere so that it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form, referring to the process of doing so, is "wikt:back ...

– 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 Disco is a music genre, genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightclub, nightlife, particularly in African Americans, African-American, Italian-Americans, Italian-American, LGBTQ ...

– disc burning * DVD Studio Pro – DVD authoring application *

iDVD iDVD is a discontinued Mac (computer), Mac application made by Apple Inc., Apple, which can be used to DVD authoring, create DVDs. iDVD lets users design DVD menus (like a main menu and chapter selection menu) and burn movies, slideshows, and ...

– a basic DVD-authoring application

Video

Adobe After Effects Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed by Adobe Inc.; it is used for animation and in the post-production process of film making, video games and television production. Amo ...

– digital visual effects, motion graphics and compositing application *

Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe Premiere Pro is a video editing application developed by Adobe Inc. and is distributed as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. It is primarily used for producing high-quality videos across various industries. History Original A ...

– timeline-based video editing software * Adobe Presenter Video Express – screencasting and video editing software * ArKaos – VJ software * Avid *

DaVinci Resolve DaVinci Resolve is a proprietary color grading, color correction, visual effects, and audio post-production video editing application for macOS, Windows, and Linux, developed by Australian company Blackmagic Design. It was originally deve ...

– video editing suite *

DivX DIVX (Digital Video Express) is a discontinued digital video format. Created in part by Circuit City, it was an unsuccessful attempt to create an alternative to video rental in the United States. The format's poor reception from consumers resu ...

* DivX Player * DVD Player (Apple) – DVD player software built into macOS *

FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting of a suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams. At its core is the command-line ffmpeg tool itself, designed for processing vide ...

– audio/video converter * Final Cut Express * Final Cut Studio – audio-video editing suite: **

** Cinema Tools **

Compressor A compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. An air compressor is a specific type of gas compressor. Many compressors can be staged, that is, the gas is compressed several times in steps o ...

** DVD Studio Pro ** Final Cut Pro ** LiveType ** Motion 2 ** Soundtrack Pro * HandBrake – DVD to MPEG-4 and other formats converter *

iMovie iMovie is a free video editing software, video editing application made by Apple Inc., Apple for the Mac (computer), Mac, the iPhone, and the iPad. It includes a range of video effects and tools like color correction and image stabilization, b ...

– basic

video editing Video editing is the post-production and arrangement of video shots. To showcase excellent video editing to the public, video editors must be reasonable and ensure they have a thorough understanding of film, television, and other sorts of videog ...

application * Miro Media Player *

MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open-source media player software application. It is available for Linux, OS X and Microsoft Windows. Versions for OS/2, Syllable Desktop, Syllable, AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS Research Operating System are also available. A ...

* Perian * QuickTime – including its Player and QuickTime Pro *

RealPlayer RealPlayer, formerly RealAudio Player, RealOne Player and RealPlayer G2, is a cross-platform media player (software), media player app, developed by RealNetworks. The media player is compatible with numerous container file formats of the multimed ...

* Shotcut – open source rich video editor * Shake *

Windows Media Player Windows Media Player (WMP, officially referred to as Windows Media Player Legacy to retronym, distinguish it from Windows Media Player (2022), the new Windows Media Player introduced with Windows 11) is the first media player (application soft ...

VLC media player VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client) is a free and open-source software, free and open-source, software portability, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media Server (computing), server developed by the Vide ...

– 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 Wine is an alcoholic drink made from Fermentation in winemaking, fermented fruit. Yeast in winemaking, Yeast consumes the sugar in the fruit and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide, releasing heat in the process. Wine is most often made f ...

DOSBox DOSBox is a free and open-source MS-DOS emulator. It supports running programs primarily video games that are otherwise inaccessible since hardware for running a compatible disk operating system (DOS) is obsolete and generally unavailab ...

– DOS emulator * Hercules emulator *

pcAnywhere pcAnywhere is a discontinued suite of computer programs by NortonLifeLock, Symantec which allowed a user of the pcAnywhere remote program on a computer to connect to a personal computer running the pcAnywhere host if both are connected to interc ...

– VNC-style remote control * Parallels Workstation – commercial full virtualization software for

desktop A desktop traditionally refers to: * The surface of a desk (often to distinguish office appliances that fit on a desk, such as photocopiers and printers, from larger equipment covering its own area on the floor) Desktop may refer to various compu ...

and server * Q – emulates an IBM-compatible PC on a Mac, allows running PC operating systems * VMware Fusion – virtualization software *

– 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 Oracle VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and InnoTek VirtualBox) is a hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization developed by Oracle Corporation. VirtualBox was originally created by InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, which was ac ...

* vMac – emulates a Macintosh Plus and can run Apple Macintosh System versions 1.1 to 7.5.5.

Web browsers

* Amaya – free * Brave – free and open-source,

Chromium Chromium is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Cr and atomic number 24. It is the first element in Group 6 element, group 6. It is a steely-grey, Luster (mineralogy), lustrous, hard, and brittle transition metal. Chromium ...

-based * Camino – open source * Flock – free, Mozilla Firefox based *

Google Chrome Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google. It was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Versions were later released for Linux, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, an ...

– free, proprietary, Chromium-based * iCab – free * Konqueror – open source *

Lynx A lynx ( ; : lynx or lynxes) is any of the four wikt:extant, extant species (the Canada lynx, Iberian lynx, Eurasian lynx and the bobcat) within the medium-sized wild Felidae, cat genus ''Lynx''. The name originated in Middle Engl ...

– free *

Mozilla Mozilla is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. The Mozilla community uses, develops, publishes and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting free software and open standards. The community is supported institution ...

– open source, combines browser, email client, WYSIWYG editor * Mozilla Firefox – open source *

Microsoft Edge Microsoft Edge is a Proprietary Software, proprietary cross-platform software, cross-platform web browser created by Microsoft and based on the Chromium (web browser), Chromium open-source project, superseding Edge Legacy. In Windows 11, Edge ...

– free, proprietary, Chromium-based *

Netscape Navigator The 1990s releases of the Netscape (web browser), Netscape line referred to as Netscape Navigator were a series of now discontinued web browsers. from versions 1 to 4.08. It was the Core product, flagship product of the Netscape, Netscape Comm ...

– free, proprietary * OmniWeb – free, proprietary *

Opera Opera is a form of History of theatre#European theatre, Western theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by Singing, singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically ...

– free, proprietary, Chromium-based *

– 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) Tor is a free overlay network for enabling anonymous communication. It is built on free and open-source software run by over seven thousand volunteer-operated relays worldwide, as well as by millions of users who route their Internet traf ...

– free, open source * Torch (web browser) – free, by Torch Media Inc. *

Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist, impresario of Baroque music and Roman Catholic priest. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lif ...

– free, proprietary, Chromium-based *

Internet Explorer for Mac Internet Explorer for Mac (also referred to as Internet Explorer for Macintosh, Internet Explorer Macintosh Edition, Internet Explorer:mac or IE:mac) is a discontinued proprietary web browser developed by Microsoft for the Macintosh platform to b ...

– free, by Microsoft *

– 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 A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated. Common English terms are freeway, motorway, and expressway. Other similar terms ...

* iWeb * NVu * RapidWeaver – a template-based website editor

Weblog clients

* ecto * MarsEdit

References

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Audio software

Digital audio workstations

Audio editing

DJing

Notation software

Misc audio tools

Discontinued audio apps

Chat (text, voice, image, and video)

Active

Discontinued

Children's software

Developer tools and IDEs

Email

Email clients

Other email software

FTP clients

Games

Graphics, layout, and desktop publishing

CAD, 3D graphics

Distributed document authoring

Icon editors, viewers

File conversion and management

Active

Discontinued

Layout and desktop publishing

Active

Discontinued

Raster and vector graphics

Active

Discontinued

Integrated software technologies

Language and reference tools

Mathematics software

Media center

Multimedia authoring

Networking and telecommunications

News aggregators

Office and productivity

Operating systems

Outliners and mind-mapping

Peer-to-peer file sharing

Science

Text editors

Utilities

Anti-malware software

Archiving, backup, restore, recovery

Discontinued archiving apps

Disc burning apps

Discontinued disc burning apps

Video

Virtualization, emulation, and dual-booting

Web browsers

Web design and content management

Weblog clients

See also

References