pockyzhang/awesome-mac

 This repo is a collection of awesome Mac applications and tools for developers and designers.

Awesome Mac

 This repo is a collection of AWESOME Mac applications and tools for developers and designers. Feel free to Star and Fork. Any comments, suggestions? Let us know. we love PRs :), please follow the awesome format.

Explanation

English | 中文

means open source, click to enter open source repo;
means free to use, or free personal license;
means hot app;
means recommended app;
means must have app;
means App store hyperlink;
means highly recommended must have app, the number of stars represents how strong I recommend;

You may come across some non-English characters. Don't worry, those apps doesn't have an English version yet. So you might not wanna step into it.

Contents

• Editors and IDE
• Development Tools
• Test Tools
• Command Line Tools
• Version Control
• Database
• Design and Product
• Virtual Machines
• Communication
• Data Recovery
• Audio and Video
• Reading and Writing
• FTP Clients
• Application package tool
• Web Development
• Ebooks
• Download Tools
• Online Storage
• Input Method
• Web Browsers
• Translation Tools
• Proxy and VPN Tools
• Utilities
• Remote Login
• Third-Party App Markets
• Mac App Download Sites

Editors and IDE

applications to edit text, suggest open source editors

Editors

• Atom - A hackable text editor for the 21st Century by GitHub.Atom Plugins.
• Sublime Text - A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance, Sublime Text Plugins.
• Brackets - A modern, open source text editor that understands web design by Adobe.
• Visual Studio Code - Microsoft's free & open source editor, TypeScript friendly.
• Emacs - A popular text editor used mainly on Unix-based systems by programmers, scientists, engineers, students, and system administrators.
• LightTable - The next generation code editor.
• TextMate - An editor that brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors.
• BBEdit - An editor that doesn’t suck.
• Vim - A highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient.
  • Vundle.vim - Vim plugin manager.
  • vim-plug - A minimalist Vim plugin manager.
  • WebVim - Vim-based distribution targeting JavaScript and Web development
  • vim-web - Based on WebVim, Vim for front-end developers (docs are in Chinese).
  • Neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and agility.
  • Spacevim - The use of imitation Spacemacs way。
  • spf13 - A set of comprehensive configuration items。
• Vimr - Refined Vim Experience for OS X.
• HBuilder - An IDE for web development (Support HTML5), built by DCloud. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• Tincta - Tincta is a text editor for Mac OS X.
• CotEditor - Lightweight plain-text editor for macOS.

IDE

• Xcode - The essential IDE for iOS/macOS development.
• IntelliJ IDEA - A powerful Java IDE. (Free for Students)
• Coda2 - A fast, clean and powerful text editor.
• Eclipse - Popular open-source IDE, mainly for Java but with plugin support for a wide array of languages and platforms.
• WebStorm - The smartest JavaScript IDE by JetBrains.
  • FREE for Students, check here for more info
  • Some good-to-have Plugins
    • NodeJS - Node.js integration. You definitely need this, quite a few features require it.
    • EditorConfig - A JetBrains IDE plugin supporting the EditorConfig standard.
    • Material Theme UI - Provides 3 modes, nice and clean.
• Deco IDE - The best IDE for building React Native apps.
• Xamarin Studio - Free cross platform C# IDE. Xamarin Studio supports iOS, Android and .Net development
• NetBeans IDE - A free and open source IDE, mainly used for Java development, but supports many other languages and frameworks.

Development Tools

• WeFlow - A development tools for front-end workflows based on tmt-workflow. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• Koala - A GUI application for Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript compilation.
• CodeKit - Automatically compile, such as Less, Sass, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Jade, JavaScript. Auto-refresh browsers. And so on.
• Hosts.prefpane - A system preference pane to manage your hosts file.
• iHosts - The only /etc/hosts editor on Mac App Store.
• SwitchHosts - is an App for hosts management & switching. It is a free and open source software.
• Gas Mask - A simple hosts file manager for Mac OS X.
• DiffMerge - An application to visually compare and merge files.
• PPRows - It Can Calculate how many lines of code you write on Mac.
• Beyond Compare - Compare files and folders using simple, powerful commands that focus on the differences you are interested in and ignore those you are not.
• Kaleidoscope - A powerful compare tool for text, images and folders. It works perfectly with git, svn or other version control tools.
• Fanvas - Convert swf to animation of html canvas. (Missing English Docs)
• EnvPane - An OS X preference pane for environment variables.
• Dash - Awesome API documentation browser and code snippet manager.
• DLite - The simplest way to use Docker on OS X.
• SnippetsLab - Easy-to-use code snippets manager.
• StarUML - Powerful UML app.
• Vagrant Manager - Manage local services.
• zeplin - Collaboration tool between designers and developers.
• Go2Shell - Open terminal from Finder.
• SecureCRT - A terminal emulation which supports SSH, Telnet or other protocols.
• Finicky - An application that allows you to set up rules that decide which browser is opened for every link that would open the default browser.
• MJML - Simplify the way people design responsive emails. The only framework that makes responsive-email easy.
• TeXstudio - An integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents.
• Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.
• FinderGo 🐢 Open terminal quickly from Finder
• Localname - Provide Access to Your Local Development Server

Editor of regular expression

• Patterns - Regular Expression editor.
• Reginald - Regular Expression test application, using RegexKitLite.
• Regex - It might be the prettiest app for testing regular expressions.
• Reggy - Regular Expression editor.
• RegExRX - Development tool for regular expressions.

Test Tools

• Wireshark - The world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer.
• Charles - A proxy tool which supports checking all the requests with http or https protocol.
• James - Open source proxy tool for checking and mapping requests with http as well as https.
• mitmproxy - An interactive intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers
• Insomnia 3.0 - A beautiful HTTP testing tool.
• Cocoa Rest Client - Test HTTP/REST endpoints and it's more beautiful than PostMan.
• Paw - An advanced HTTP client.
• Cellist - HTTP debugging proxy for OS X.
• Integrity - finds invalid links.
• Postman - Postman, helps test APIs quickly.

Command Line Tools

• iTerm2 - iTerm2 is an amazing terminal emulator for OS X.
• tmux tmux is a "terminal multiplexer", it enables a number of terminals (or windows) to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal. tmux is intended to be a simple, modern, BSD-licensed alternative to programs such as GNU screen.
• mas - A simple command line interface for the Mac App Store.
• cool-retro-term - A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display.
• Oh my zsh - It comes bundled with a ton of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes, and a few things that make you shout.
• Prezto — Instantly Awesome Zsh - Prezto is the configuration framework for Zsh; it enriches the command line interface environment with sane defaults, aliases, functions, auto completion, and prompt themes.
• Glances - Glances is a cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool.
• Cakebrew - Client of Homebrew. You have the GUI to install, check or remove app, no command-line needed.
• ndm - Manage npm straight from the couch.
• Black Screen - A terminal emulator for the 21st century.
• Fish Shell - A smart and user-friendly terminal, which is similar with zsh
• oh-my-fish - Alternative to oh-my-zsh，on fishShell framework
• bash-it - Shameless ripoff of oh-my-zsh for bash.
• color-retro-term - A the end of style restoring ancient ways, very cool。
• HyperTerm - A terminal based on Node development software, pretend bility is very high。
• itunes-remote - Control iTunes via your terminal
• mycli - A command line client for MySQL that can do auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
• lnav - Log file navigator.
• cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.

Version control

• Git - The Version Control Tool, Official website provides dozens of GUI clients for Mac.
• SVN - The Version Control Tool.

GUI

• Fork - a fast and friendly git client for Mac.
• Gitbar - Open Source，display Github contribution statistics on your menu bar.
• GitHub Desktop - Github official GUI.
• Oh My Star - The best way to organize your Github Stars.
• GitUp - A simple and powerful git client.
• Hub -Hub is a command-line wrapper for git that makes you better at GitHub.
• SourceTree - A free Git & Mercurial client for Windows or Mac.
• Tower2 - The most powerful Git client for Mac and Windows.
• Versions - Mac Subversion Client (SVN).
• Cornerstone - Best Mac SVN Client.
• SmartGit - is a Git client with support.
• GitKraken - The most popular Git GUI for Windows, Mac AND Linux.

Version control system

• GitLab open source git repo management software.
• Github Lot code hosting, project management, presentation deployment, look, you can visit to making now。
• Coding.net - A one-stop cloud platform for developers, free for repository hosting, project collaboration, code quality assurance and Page service.
• phabricator Open software engineering platform and fun adventure game.
• Gogs - Gogs (Go Git Service) is a painless self-hosted Git service.
• Gerrit Code Review for Git.
• Gitblit pure java git solution.

Database

• Sequel Pro - MySQL database management for Mac OS X.
• MySQL Workbench - MySQL Official GUI.
• SQLPro Studio - A simple, powerful database manager for macOS.
• Bdash - A modern SQL client application,support MySQL、 PostgreSQL (Redshift)、 BigQuery.
• Postico - A Modern PostgreSQL Client for the Mac.
• ElectroCRUD - Modern MySQL CRUD Application.
• Base 2 - Base is an application for creating, designing, editing and browsing SQLite 3 database files.
• Postgres.app - The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac.
• PSequel - PostgreSQL GUI tool for Mac OS X.
• Robomongo - Native and cross-platform MongoDB management tool (Admin UI).
• MongoBooster - Shell-centric and cross-platform GUI tool for MongoDB. It provides update-in-place, fluent query builder, ES6 syntax support and True IntelliSense experience.
• Mongo Management Studio - The simple MongoDB GUI.
• MongoChef - The GUI for MongoDB.
• Mongotron - A Mongo DB GUI built using Electron, and Angular Js.
• Chrome MySQL Admin - A powerful Chrome app to manage your MySQL.
• JackDB - Direct SQL access to all your data, no matter where it lives.
• Medis - GUI Manager for Redis.
• RedisDesktopManager - Cross-platform GUI management tool for Redis.
• MDB Explorer - MDB tool to open, read, export your MDB files to other formats and databases.
• Datum - SQLite - Unlock all the power of your databases in an instant. Datum is a full featured, modern, and fast SQLite manager.
• mongoDB.app - The easiest way to get started with mongoDB on the Mac.
• DataGrip - A database management by JetBrains. FREE for Students, check here for more info
• Tableau Public - Free data-visualization.

Design and Product

Design tools

• Acorn - A great Mac OS X picture and photo editor, built for humans.
• Affinity Designer - Professional graphic design software for Mac.
• Affinity Photo - Professional image editing software for Mac.
• Blender - Free and open 3D creation software.
• Pixelmator - Full-featured image editor for Mac.
• Sketch - Professional Digital Design for Mac.
  • Sketch Toolbox - A super simple plugin manager for Sketch.
• FLINTO - Flinto lets designers quickly make interactive prototypes of their mobile, desktop, or web apps.
• Kite - A powerful animation and prototyping application for Mac & iOS.
• inklet - Turn your Mac trackpad into drawing board.
• Alchemy - Alchemy is an open drawing project aimed at exploring how we can sketch, draw, and create on computers in new ways.
• GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program.
• Monodraw - Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac.
• SketchBook - Drawing software for concept design, comic art, and digital sketching.
• Tayasui Sketches - Professional drawing software.
• FontForge - Free (libre) font editor.
• Nik Collection - Google Nik collection.
• Paintbrush - The Bitmap image editor.
• Krita - Open Source software for Concept Artists, Digital Painters, and Illustrators.
• Vectr - Free graphics editor used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively. It's a simple yet powerful web and desktop cross-platform tool to bring your designs into reality.
• Principle - Makes it easy to design animated and interactive user interfaces. Whether you're designing the flow of a multi-screen app, or new interactions and animations, Principle lets you create designs that look and feel amazing.
• MagicaVoxel - A free lightweight 8-bit voxel editor and interactive path tracing renderer.
• ScreenToLayers - Easily export your screen into a layered PSD file.

Prototype workflow

• Justinmind - Prototyping platform for web and mobile apps.
• MockFlow - Online prototyping suite for web design and usability testing.
• Axure RP 8 - Prototypes, Specifications, and Diagrams in one tool.
• pencil - The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.
• Mockplus - Prototype faster, smarter and easier.
• OmniGraffle - OmniGraffle - diagramming and graphic design for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
• XMind - The Most Popular Mind Mapping Tool on The Planet.
• Lighten - The best way to clarify thinking, boost productivity, brainstorm, and visualize concepts.
• Scapple - A practical mind mapping software.
• Framer - Tools for interactive prototyping.
• Balsamiq Mockups - A rapid wireframing tool that helps you work faster and smarter.
• Marvel - Simple design, prototyping and collaboration.
• MindNode - MindNode makes mind mapping delightful.

Other tools

• Notes - A clean simple note taking app.
• TinyPNG4Mac - Open source tool to compress image.
• Image2icon - Create and personalize icons from your pictures.
• ImageAlpha - Compress image with PNG format and remove the useless transparent.
• ImageOptim - Compress image and remove EXIF information.
• Sip - The best way to collect, organize & share your colors.
• Mark Man - Measure & Spec Fast.
• Frank DeLoupe - Color-picking tool, support Retina.
• ColorSchemer - A professional color matching application for your Mac.
• IconKit - App icon generator.
• Snagit - All-in-one screenshot app. Supports scrolling capture, panoramic capture, even video and audio capture.
• GifCapture Gif capture app for macOS.
• APNGb - .apng image assembler/disassembler app.
• LICEcap - Record the screen and export to GIF. You can change the recording area anytime during recording.
• Kap - An open-source screen recorder built with web technology。
• GIPHY Capture - Capture and share screen with GIF.
• Skitch - Screen shot with a powerful annotation capabilities.
• 截图(Jietu) - Screenshot with a powerful annotation capabilities, by Tencent. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• Snip - Efficient tool for screenshot. Supports scrolling windows capture. By Tencent.
• iPic - Easily Upload Images With Markdown Supported. (Missing English UI and Docs. Alternative of imgur)
• Iconjar - Icon management tool to organize or search your icons.
• RightFont - Preview, sync, install and manage fonts on Mac, Dropbox or Google Drive.
• Solarized - clean and beautiful color theme. Work well with iTerm, JetBrains products, Vim etc.

Virtual Machines

• Parallels - Powerful and easy-to-use VM. No free upgrade for each new Mac OS.
• Virtual Box - A powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product.
• VMWare Fusion - A powerful commercial VM developed by VMware.
• Veertu - The lightest VM on Mac. Responsive, Sandboxed & Native way to run VM on your Mac.

Communication

Team communication and collaboration tools recommendation

• Franz - An Electron based multi protocol wrapper for web-based chat client. One application, 23 messenger services.
• QQ - Official QQ app for Mac. (Missing English Docs)
• WeChat - Official WeChat app for Mac.
• Electronic WeChat - An open source WeChat client, build with Electron.
• Skype - A cross-platform application that provides video chat and voice call services. Users can exchange images, text, video and any other digital documents.
• Maipo - A third-party Weibo client for Mac OS. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• 御飯 - A third-party FanFou client for Mac OS. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• ChitChat - Unofficial WhatsApp.
• Telegram - A new era of messaging.
• Messenger For Mac - A third-party Facebook messenger for Mac.
• Adium - A free instant messaging application for Mac OS X, connecting to AIM, MSN, SMPP, Yahoo and more.
• Textual - Textual is the world's most popular application for interacting with Internet Relay Chat (IRC) chatrooms on OS X.
• Gitter - An instant messaging and chat room system for developers as well as GitHub users. Developer friendly with Markdown syntax support.
• 简聊 - A communication tool for enterprise. You can build your own service with its open source version. (Missing English Docs)
• 钉钉 - A free office communication platform for enterprise. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• LimeChat - An open source IRC client for Mac OS X.
• Slack - Awesome tool for team collaboration and communication.
• 零信 - Work anywhere at anytime. Cross platform. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• 今目标 - An internet work platform for small-medium sized enterprises. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• BearyChat - Team collaboration and communication tool for internet team. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• Bitpost - A private decentralized messaging system. Instead of connecting to centralized servers(like Facebook, Gmail etc) or federated servers(like email, IRC, Jabber), it uses P2P protocol to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers.
• Teambition - A team collaboration tool, including many features like task plan, schedule, file sharing, instant discussion and everything you need when collaborating with other team members.
• WeeChat - The extensible command-line chat client.

Email

• Spark - A fast email client. For both Mac OS and iOS.
• Airmail - A fast email client. For both Mac OS and iOS.
• Foxmail - A fast email client.
• MailTags - Use tags to organize email and schedule
• N1 - An extensible, open source mail app, free for developers and $7/month for Pro.
• Postbox - A powerful, simple and beautiful email client, need to pay for a license.
• Polymail - Simple, beautiful and powerful email client.
• CloudMagic Email - An excellent email client with concise interface.
• ThunderBird - Software made to make email easier.。

Data Recovery

• DiskWarrior -The world’s most advanced repair and recovery tool for Mac.
• Data Rescue - A comprehensive and professional data recovery tool for most cases.
• Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery - A powerful recovery tool for Mac file recovery, Time machine recovery, Encrypted Disk recovery and much more.
• R-Studio for Mac - A powerful tool which recovers data on disks, even if their partitions are formatted, damaged or deleted.

Audio and Video

• Kodi - An award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more.
• mpv - A free, open source, and cross-platform media player.
• IINA - The modern video player for macOS, Based on mpv, the powerful media player project.
• VOX Player - #1 high-definition audio player for Mac and iPhone. Music just sounds better!
• Radiant Player - Third party Google Play Music client.
• Sonora - A minimal, beautifully designed music player.
• Audacity - A free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.
• Natron - Open-source compositing software. Node-graph based. Similar in functionalities to Adobe After Effects and Nuke by The Foundry.
• Ardour - cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.
• Hydrogen - It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.
• Audio Hijack - Record any application's audio, including VoIP calls from Skype, web streams from Safari, and much more.
• Stringed 2 - The perfect tool for every musician.
• Mixxx - The most advanced free DJ software.
• MuseScore - is an open source and free music notation software.
• Cog - A free open source audio player.
• VLC - A free and open source cross-platform multimedia player as well as framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
• XLD - A tool to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files.
• HandBrake - A tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
• MPlayerX - A simple, powerful, beautiful media player.
• ScreenFlow - Screencasting and video editing software.
• Shotcut - Free open-source video editor.
• ArcTime - A simple, powerful, efficient subtitle creation software. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• Perian - (Retired, no longer supported) Let QuickTime play all the common formats of free plug-ins.
• Adapter - Adapter Converts Video, Audio and Images.
• Synfig Studio - Synfig Studio is a free and opensource animation software available.

Reading and Writing

• OpenOffice - Compatible with other major office suites, Apache OpenOffice is free to download, use, and distribute. 。
• LibreOffice - LibreOffice is Free and Open Source Software. Development is open to new talent and new ideas, and our software is tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community.
• KOffice - KOffice contains a word processor (KWord), a spreadsheet (KSpread), a presentation program (KPresenter), and a number of other components that varied over the course of KOffice’s development.
• Spillo - Powerful, beautiful and amazingly fast Pinboard client for OS X.
• iChm - An ebook reader for CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML help) files.
• Chmox - Read CHM documents on your Mac.
• CHM Reader - Read your CHM documents.
• Skim - is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X.
• Kindle App - Amazon official reading app of kindle.
• RSS
  • Feeds 2 - Keep tabs on your favorite website and RSS feeds from your Mac's menubar.
  • ReadKit - Have all your reading in one place.
  • Reeder 3 - A news reader for Feedbin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler and so on.
  • Leaf - An amazing news reader dedicated to help you enjoy your daily news and easily manage your subscriptions.
  • Vienna - An RSS/Atom reader for Mac OS X.
  • texpad - Research is hard, writing should be easy.
• Markdown
  • Mou - A Markdown editor for developers, on Mac OS X.
  • Marp - A Markdown presentation writer with cross-platform support.
  • TextNut - A rich-format editor featuring Markdown export and Markdown syntax hint.
  • MWeb - Pro Markdown writing, note taking and static blog generator App.
  • Typora - A truly minimal Markdown editor featuring seamless live preview.
  • MacDown - An open source Markdown editor for OS X.
  • EME - Recently launched a Markdown editor, interface is like Chrome browser interface, very simple。
  • LightPaper - Simple, beautiful, yet powerful text editor for your Mac
  • Marked 2 - Markdown previewer, reviewer, and exporter. Great for people that already have a preferred way of editing Markdown, but want to get a live preview of the document they are working on.
  • iA Writer - iA Writer is designed to provide the best writing experience
  • Cmd Markdown - Cmd Markdown Open the journey of excellence.
• Note-taking
  • Quiver - The Programmer's Notebook.
  • Evernote - Famous note-taking app.
  • OneNote - Note-taking app by Microsoft.
  • Inkdrop - The notebook app for Markdown lovers built on top of Electron.
  • 有道云笔记 - A note-taking app. It features multi-level notebook structure，Markdown syntax and iWork/Office preview. (Missing English UI and Docs)
  • 为知笔记 - A note-taking app. It features multi-level notebook structure, multi tags, Markdown syntax and unlimited cloud storage space. (Missing English UI and Docs)
  • Leanote - A note-taking app. Features Markdown syntax and blog export. (Missing English Docs)

Ebooks

• Calibre - A free and open-source e-book computer software application suite which runs on multiple platforms, allows users to manage e-book collections as well as create, edit, and read e-books.
• Sigil - A multi-platform EPUB ebook Editor.

FTP Clients

• Transmit - A highly flexible and intuitive FTP client, supports SFTP, S3 and iDisk/WebDAV.
• Flow - An award-winning, beautiful, fast, and reliable FTP + SFTP client.
• Yummy FTP - Pro-level, fast, reliable FTP/S + SFTP + WebDAV/S file transfer app.
• Cyberduck - A libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure and OpenStack Swift browser.
• FileZilla - A free software, cross-platform FTP application. Supports FTP, SFTP and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS).

Frameworks for Hybrid App

• create-dmg - Create a good-looking DMG for your macOS app in seconds.
• nw.js - Build desktop application with HTML and JavaScript. It lets you call all Node.js modules directly from DOM and enables a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies.
• Electron - Build cross platform desktop application with JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
• react-desktop - React UI Components for macOS Sierra.
• React Native Desktop - Build OS X desktop apps using React Native and Cocoa.
• React Native for Ubuntu - Build Ubuntu desktop apps using React Native。
• AppJS - Build desktop application for Linux, Windows and Mac using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• HEX - Build cross-platform desktop application with HTML and JavaScript. Made by YouDao. (Broken official website)
• AlloyDesktop - Build cross-platform desktop application with HTML and JavaScript. Made by Tencent (Not very recommended). (Missing English Docs)
• MacGap - 桌面WebKit打包HTML、CSS、JS应用。
• ionic - Build amazing native and progressive web apps with Angular and open web technologies. One app running on everything.

Download Tools

• Transmission - A Fast, Easy, Free BitTorrent Client.
• aria2 - A lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility.
• JDownloader - A free, open-source download management tool with a huge community of developers that makes downloading as easy and fast as it should be.
• You-Get - A tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the web.
• Free Download Manager - A powerful, modern download accelerator and organizer for Windows and Mac. (FREE)
• FOLX - Folx is a free download manager for Mac OS X with a true Mac-style interface.

Online Storage

Recommend some online storage with Mac client.

• Dropbox - A file hosting serviced that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud and collaborative edit.
• Baidu cloud - Baidu cloud official client. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• Tecent cloud - Tencent cloud client. (Require Tencent Account, Missing English UI and Docs)
• Jianguo cloud - Jianguo cloud client. (Not recommended)
• 115 - 115 cloud client. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• 360 - 360 cloud client. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• ownCloud Cloud storage.
• NextCloud - Nextcloud is an actively maintained fork of ownCloud, faster and completely open source
• Mega - Free cloud service, offers 50GB free storage.
• Seafile - Reliable and High Speed File Sync and Share.

Input Method

• QQ Input for Chinese - Produced by Tencent. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• Sogou Input for Chinese - Sogou input. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• Baidu Input for Chinese - Baidu input. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• Qingge Wubi Input - Wubi input produced for iOS and Mac. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• WBIM - Wubi input method.
• Rocket - Emoji input method.
• Emoticon Input - Emoticons icons or characters input method. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• RIME - Rime input method. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• hallelujahIM - hallelujah English input method.

Web Browsers

Browsers on Mac OS

• Safari - Built-in browser of Mac OS.
• Chrome - Chrome, produced by Google
• Firefox - Firefox.
• Opera - Opera.
• QQ Browser - QQ browser, produced by Tencent.
• 傲游云浏览器 - (Missing English UI and Docs)
• Vivaldi - Vivaldi, new browser from Opera's developers.
• Ōryōki - Ōryōki, small web browser with a thin interface. This is an experimental project, currently in development.
• Brave - Browse faster and safer with Brave.

Translation Tools

(Or you could just use Mac OS built-in dictionary)

• iTranslate - Translate entire website instantly with its built-in browser or with iTranslate Safari extension into over 40 languages.
• YouDao Translate - (Missing English UI and Docs)
• 海词词典 - (Missing English UI and Docs)
• Eudic - (Missing English UI and Docs)
• Grammarly - Refine your english

Proxy and VPN Tools

• SpechtLite - A rule-based proxy app for macOS.
• ShadowsocksX - A secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your internet traffic.
• ShadowsocksX-NG - Next generation of ShadowsocksX.
• Lantern - Lantern is a free application that delivers fast, reliable and secure access to the open internet.
• 鱼摆摆 - An application for the access to open internet.
• Tunnelbear - Really simple VPN to browse the web privately & securely. Unblock websites around the world with applications for Mac, PC, iOS, Android & Chrome.
• Tunnelblick - A free, open source graphic user interface for OpenVPN on OS X.
• GoAgentX - An application for the access to open internet. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• Surge - Surge is a web developer tool and proxy utility for iOS 9.
• srocket - An application for the access to open internet. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• LoCoVPN - An application for the access to open internet. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• 二师兄VPN - An application that connects you to the VPN. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• GTX加速器 - An application that connects you to the VPN. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• GreenVPN - A powerful and fun tools that helps you to solve any network issues. (Mainly used for the access to open internet)
• 风驰VPN - An application that connects you to the VPN. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• 开眼 - A Chrome plugin for the access to open internet.
• PlutoX - An application that connects you to the VPN.
• tinc - Secure mesh VPN software.
• Shimo - An application that connects to a lot of VPNs.

Utilities

General Tools

• Alfred - An award-winning app for Mac OS X which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more. Search your Mac and the web, and be more productive with custom actions to control your Mac.
• BetterZip 3 - An archive tool supports ZIP, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TXZ (new), 7-ZIP, RAR。
• Keka - A free file archiver for macOS. Compression formats supported:7z, Zip, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, DMG, ISO. Extraction formats supported: RAR, 7z, Lzma, xz, Zip, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, ISO, EXE, CAB, PAX.
• Numi - A beautiful calculator app for Mac.
• Itsycal - A tiny calendar for your Mac's menu bar.
• BitBar - An app lets you put the output from any script or program right in your Mac OS X menu bar. Good community.
• ClipMenu - A clipboard manager for Mac OS X.
• Paste - smart clipboard history & snippets manager.
• ControlPlane - Manages configuration profiles for your Mac based on where you are or what you are doing based on a number of available evidence sources and then automatically reconfigures your Mac.
• AirServer - is the most advanced screen mirroring software receiver for Mac.
• Hazel - Automated file organization for your Mac. Responsibly and beautifully designed.

GTD (Getting Things Done)

• Todoist - A cross-platform todo list app.
• TaskPaper - Plain text to-do lists.
• Fantastical - The calendar app you won't be able to live without.
• Day-O 2 - Menu bar clock replacement with built-in calendar.
• Things - A delightful and easy to use task manager. (Award-winning App)
• OmniFocus - A nice GTD app, made by OmniGroups.
• 2Do - A nice todo app.
• Wunderlist - The easiest way to get stuff done.
• OnyX - Multifunction utility to verify disks and files, run cleaning and system maintenance tasks, configure hidden options and more.
• Focus - A beautiful pomodoro-based time manager.

Productivity

• xScope - A powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, inspecting & testing on-screen graphics and layouts.

• Karabiner - A powerful and stable keyboard customizer for OS X.

• Ukelele - Unicode Keyboard Layout Editor.

• Keytty - A app to keep your hands on the keyboard. Move, click, scroll, drag and more with a few strokes.

• BetterTouchTool - A great, feature-packed app that allows you to configure many gestures for your Magic Mouse, Macbook Trackpad, Magic Trackpad and also Mouse Gestures for normal mice.

• Hammerspoon - A tool for powerful automation of OS X, programmable by Lua scripting engine.

• Window Management

  • ShiftIt - Managing window size and position in OSX.
  • Moom - Allows you to easily move and zoom windows, or to another display—using either the mouse or the keyboard.
  • Divvy - Window management at its finest with its amazing Divvy Grid system.
  • Slate - A window management application similar to Divvy and SizeUp (except better and free!). (Needs config file)
  • SizeUp - Powerful, keyboard-centric window management.
  • Spectacle - Move and resize windows with simple and customizable keyboard shortcuts.
  • Amethyst - A tiling window manager.
  • Magnet - A window manager that keeps your workspace organized.

• Password Management

  • 1Password - A cross-platform password management tool.
  • LastPass - A password management tool for Mac OS and browser.
  • KeePassX - A light-weight and open-source password management app.
  • MacPass - An open-source KeePass Mac OS client.

• Finder

  • Quicklook-Plugins - A list of useful "Quick Look" plugins for developers.
  • ForkLift - The most advanced dual pane file manager and file transfer client for macOS.
  • Path Finder - An all-around file management app.
  • TotalFinder - A Chrome-like app as finder substitute.
  • XtraFinder - Adds tabs and cut to Mac Finder.

Nice to have

• CheatSheet - An application to show the current shortcuts.
• KeyCastr - An open-source keystroke visualizer.
• f.lux - An application makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day.

System Related

• AppCleaner - A small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps.
• iStats - iStats is a command-line tool that allows you to easily grab the CPU temperature, fan speeds and battery information on OS X.
• Juice - Make your battery information a bit more interesting.
• Monity - A system monitoring widget for OS X.
• SSH Tunnel - An application to manage your SSH.
• Mounty - A tiny tool to re-mount write-protected NTFS volumes under Mac OS X 10.9+ in read-write mode.
• Paragon NTFS - Read/write access to NTFS in macOS Sierra.
• Tuxera NTFS - Full read-write compatibility with NTFS-formatted drives on a Mac.
• gfxCardStatus - An unobtrusive menu bar app for OS X that allows MacBook Pro users to see which apps are affecting their battery life by using the more power-hungry graphics.
• DaisyDisk - An app gives you a great overview of all connected disks. It also make more spaces for you by cleaning up your disk.
• OmniDiskSweeper - Showing you the files on your drive, in descending order by size, and letting you decide what to do with them. Delete away, but exercise caution.
• iStat Menus - An advanced Mac system monitor on the menubar.
• HTML5 Player - An HTML 5 video player. Keep your mac from "burning".
• InsomniaX - Disable either lid and/or idle sleep (so you can play music with your lid closed, for example).
• Caffeine - An app that doesn't let your mac to fall asleep.
• KeepingYouAwake – Alternative to Caffeine with better support for dark mode in Mac.
• NoSleep NoSleep makes closing of your MacBook lid possible without going into sleep mode.
• Coolant - A menubar app that lets you know when an app is consuming 100% CPU or more than a gigabyte of memory (or any arbitrary limits you choose).

For Gamers

• OpenEmu - A great simulator of console. (e.g. Sony PSP, GameBoy, NDS and so on)

Other

• WWDC - The Mac OS unofficial WWDC app.

Remote Login

• TeamViewer - A proprietary computer software package for remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers.
• RealVNC The original and best for remote access across desktop and mobile.
• AnyDesk remote access across desktop.

Third Party App Markets

If you came across some websites offering pirate software or cracks, please post HERE. We love apps, authentic only :)

Get Apps

Here are some of the major software download sites, there are a number of OSX Mac software to share the site

• MacUpdate Desktop - Change the way you install and update apps with the all new.
• Homebrew Cask - Homebrew Cask extends Homebrew and brings its elegance, simplicity, and speed to Mac OS applications and large binaries alike. Again, if you are familiar with Terminal.
• Homebrew - The missing package manager for macOS.
• MacPorts - The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system.

Black-List

Third party app market black list

• 腾讯电脑管家 - 电脑管家for Mac 带应用市场。
• 迅雷Thunder Store - 迅雷Thunder for Mac 带应用市场。
• Mac软件宝箱 - Macx推出软件宝箱。
• MacHunter - Mac应用市场。

Mac App Download Sites

Here are some of the major software to download the site, there are a number of OSX Mac software to share the site.

Genuine / Introduction

• Slant - I personally recommend this. This is a platform where you can compare apps side-by-side. You might get an idea by seeing other users recommendations. Please contribute if you find an application from this list!
• alternativeTo - Also a very nice community. If you are looking for some alternative apps FOR Windows or another platform, check this site.
• Other sites like MacStories, LifeHacker, ProductHunt are great resources.
• Also, Quora, Reddit, you know the drill.
• MacUpdate：https://www.macupdate.com/
• App Shopper：http://appshopper.com/
• HackStore it is an amazing free alternative of App Store for side developers and apps for Mac OS which Apple doesn't accept.
• Chinese community
  • 少数派：http://sspai.com/tag/Mac
  • Mac玩儿法：http://www.waerfa.com

Pirated software download site blacklist

Refuse piracy from me. Software vendors can go to these places rights.

• 玩转苹果：http://www.ifunmac.com
• Mac软件下载站：http://www.pshezi.com
• MacPeers：http://www.macpeers.com
• Mac志：http://www.isofts.org
• Mac软件分享：http://www.waitsun.com
• AppKed：http://www.macbed.com
• 苹果软件园：http://www.maczapp.com
• Mac精品软件：http://xclient.info/
• Macx：http://www.macx.cn/
• 腾牛网：http://www.qqtn.com/mac/r_17_1.html

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