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The following is a list of Macintosh Software – notable computer applications for current macOS operating systems.
For software designed for the classic Mac OS, see List of old Macintosh software.
Anti-malware software
The software listed in this section is antivirus software and malware removal software.
- BitDefender Antivirus for Mac – antivirus software
- Intego VirusBarrier – antivirus software
- MacScan – malware removal program
- Norton Antivirus for Mac – an antivirus program specially made for Mac
- Sophos – antivirus software
- VirusScan – antivirus software
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
- Backup – built-in
- Compact Pro – data compression
- Disk Drill Basic – data recovery software for macOS
- iArchiver – handles archives, commercial
- Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery – Data Recovery Software for Mac Computers
- Stellar Phoenix Video Repair – Repair corrupt of damaged videos
- Stuffit – data compression
- The Unarchiver
- Time Machine (macOS) – built-in backup software
- BetterZip – file archiver and compressor utility
- WinZip – file archiver and compressor utility
Audio-specific software
- Ableton Live – digital audio workstation
- Adobe Soundbooth – music and soundtrack editing
- Ardour – hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation program
- Audacity – digital audio editor
- Audion – media player (development ceased)
- Audio Hijack – audio recorder
- baudline – signal analyzer
- BIAS Peak – mastering
- Cog – open source audio player, supports multiple formats
- Cubase – music production program
- djay – digital music mixing software
- Digital Performer – MIDI sequencer with audio tracking
- Final Cut Express/Pro – movie editor
- Finale – scorewriter program
- fre:ac – open source audio converter and CD ripper
- GarageBand – music/podcast production
- Impro-Visor – educational notation and playback for music improvisation
- iTunes – audio/video Jukebox
- ixi software – free improvisation and sketching tools
- Jaikoz – mass tagger
- LilyPond – scorewriter program
- Logic Express – prosumer music production
- Logic Studio – music writing studio package by Apple Inc.
- Apple Loops Utility – production and organisation of Apple Loops
- Apple Qmaster and Qadministrator
- Logic Pro – digital audio workstation
- 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
- Mixxx – DJ mix software
- Max – Cycling 74's visual programming language for MIDI, audio, video; with MSP, Jitter
- Nuendo – audio and post production editor
- Overture – scorewriter program
- ReBirth – virtual synth program simulates Roland TR-808, TB-303
- REAPER – digital audio workstation
- Reason Studios – digital audio workstation
- Recycle – sample editor
- Renoise – contemporary digital audio workstation, based upon the heritage and development of tracker software.
- RiffWorks – guitar recording and online song collaboration software
CD and DVD authoring
- Disco
- DVD Studio Pro – DVD authoring application
- Adobe Encore
- iDVD – a basic DVD-authoring application
- Roxio Toast – DVD authoring application
Chat (text, voice, image, video)
Active
- Adium – multi-protocol IM client
- aMSN
- ChitChat
- Colloquy – freeware advanced IRC and SILC client
- Discord
- Fire – open source, multiprotocol IM client
- FaceTime – videoconferencing between Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
- iMessage – instant messaging between Mac, and iDevices
- Ircle
- Irssi – IrssiX and MacIrssi
- Kopete
- LiveChat
- Microsoft Messenger for Mac
- Microsoft Teams
- Palringo
- Psi (instant messenger)
- Skype
- Snak
- Ventrilo – audio chatroom application
- X-Chat Aqua
- Yahoo! Messenger
- Telegram
Discontinued
- AOL Instant Messenger – discontinued as of December 15, 2017[1]
- iChat – instant messaging and videoconferencing (discontinued since OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion in favour of FaceTime and iMessage)
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
- 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
- Dylan
- 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
- 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
- HyperNext – freeware software development
- 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 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
- Perl
- PHP
- Python
- 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
- WebKit – open source application framework for Safari (web browser)
- WebObjects
- 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 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
- Opera Mail
- Outlook Express
- Postbox
- Sparrow – as well as Sparrow Lite
Other email software
FTP clients
- Classic FTP
- Cyberduck
- Fetch
- Fugu
- FileZilla
- ForkLift
- Interarchy
- Transmit
- WebDrive – FTP and cloud client
- Yummy FTP
Games
- Steam – digital distribution software for video games and related media
Graphics, layout, desktop publishing
CAD, 3D graphics
- 3D-Coat
- Autodesk Alias
- Ashlar-Vellum – 2D/3D drafting, 3D modeling
- ArchiCAD
- AutoCAD
- Blender
- BricsCAD
- Cheetah3D
- Cinema 4D
- SketchUp – 3D modeling software
- Houdini
- Lightwave
- Maya
- Modo
- PowerCADD
- ZBrush
Distributed document authoring
Icon editors, viewers
- Icon Composer – part of Apple Developer Tools
- IconBuilder
- 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, open/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 Fireworks – supports GIF animation
- 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
- EazyDraw – vector graphics editor; versions available that can convert old formats such as MacDraw files
- Fontographer
- GIMP – free bitmap graphics editor
- GIMPShop – free open source cross-platform bitmap graphics editor
- GraphicConverter – displays and edits raster graphics files
- Inkscape – free vector graphics editor
- Luminar
- Macromedia FreeHand – vector graphics editor
- 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
- Seashore – open source, based around the GIMP's technology, but with native macOS (Cocoa) UI
Discontinued
- Aperture – Apple's pro photo management, editing, publishing application
- MacPaint – painting software by Apple (discontinued)
Integrated software technologies
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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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:
- 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
- MoneyWiz – personal finance application
- Montage – screenwriting software
- NeoOffice
- Nisus Writer
- OmniFocus
- OpenOffice.org
- WriteNow
- Taste – word processor (discontinued)
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
Peer-to-peer file sharing
- aMule
- BitTorrent client
- 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
- Aquamacs
- 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
- AppZapper – uninstaller (shareware)
- Automator – built-in, utility to automate repetitive tasks
- Butler – free, launcher and utility to automate repetitive tasks
- CleanGenius – free system optimization tool for macOS, disk cleaner, uninstaller, device ejector, disk monitor. (freeware)
- CandyBar – system customization software (commercial)
- CDFinder – disk cataloging software (commercial)
- DaisyDisk – disk visualization tool
- Dashboard – built-in macOS widgets
- Grab (software) – 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
- Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing – proprietary, typing tutor
- OnyX – a freeware system maintenance and optimization tool for macOS
- Quicksilver – a framework for accessing and manipulating many forms of data
- Screen Sharing
- 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-like notes on the desktop
- System Preferences – default Mac system option application
- UUTool – uuencoded/uudecode and other transcoding
- Xsan – storage network utility
- Yahoo! Widget Engine – JavaScript-based widget system
Support for non-Macintosh software
- Bochs
- Boot Camp – a multi-boot utility built into macOS from 10.5
- 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 – 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.
Video
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe Presenter Video Express
- 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:
- HandBrake – DVD to MPEG-4 and other formats converter
- iMovie – basic video editing application
- mimoLive – Video Mixing and Streaming Studio
- Miro Media Player
- MPlayer
- Perian
- QuickTime – including its Player and QuickTime Pro
- RealPlayer
- Shotcut - An open source rich video editor
- Shake
- Windows Media Player
- VLC media player
- 4K Video Downloader – free video downloader
Web browsers
- Amaya – free
- Camino – open source
- Flock – free, Mozilla Firefox based
- Google Chrome – free, proprietary
- iCab – free
- Konqueror – open source
- Lynx – free
- Mozilla – open source, combines browser, email client, WYSIWYG editor
- Mozilla Firefox – open source
- Microsoft Edge – free
- Netscape Navigator – free, proprietary
- OmniWeb – free, proprietary
- Opera – free
- 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.
- 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
See also
References
- ^ "AIM has been discontinued as of December 15, 2017". help.aol.com/. Archived from the original on October 6, 2017. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
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