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The following is a list of Mac software – notable computer applications for current macOS operating systems.

For software designed for the Classic Mac OS, see List of Classic Mac OS software.

Audio software

Digital audio workstations

Audio editing

DJing

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

Notation software

Misc audio tools

  • Audio Hijack – audio recorder
  • baudline – signal analyzer
  • BeaTunes - BPM analyzer and iTunes companion tool
  • Cog – open source audio player, supports multiple formats
  • fre:ac – open source audio converter and CD ripper
  • ixi software – free improvisation and sketching tools
  • Jaikoz – music file mass tagger
  • Max – Cycling 74's visual programming language for MIDI, audio, video; with MSP, Jitter
  • Music MiniPlayer - miniplayer for Apple Music
  • ReBirth – virtual synth program simulates Roland TR-808, TB-303
  • Recycle – music loop editor

Discontinued audio apps

Chat (text, voice, image, and video)

Active

Adium on Mac OS X

Discontinued

  • aMSN – free Windows Live Messenger clone
  • AOL Instant Messenger – discontinued as of December 15, 2017[1]
  • ChitChat – open-source IM client supporting the Yahoo! Messenger protocol
  • HexChat – IRC client, discontinued as of February 9, 2024[2]
  • Skype – telecommunications application supporting IM and VoIP-based videotelephony retired as of May 5, 2025[3]
  • Ircle – IRC client (shareware)
  • Microsoft Messenger for Mac – cross-platform IM client
  • Yahoo! Messenger – IM client, also supporting VoIP, file transfers and webcam hosting

Children's software

Developer tools and IDEs

See also: Software:Apple Developer Tools
  • Apache Web Server – free and open-source web server software
  • AppCode – an Objective-C IDE by JetBrains for macOS and iOS development
  • Aptana – an open source integrated development environment (IDE) for building Ajax web applications
  • Clozure CL – an open source integrated development environment (IDE) for building Common Lisp applications
  • Software:Code::Blocks – open source IDE for C++
  • CodeWarrior – development environment, framework
  • Coldstone game engine – game engine specializing in role-playing and adventure-style games
  • Cursor – code editor integrating advanced artificial intelligence features
  • Dylan – programming language
  • Eclipse – open source Java-based IDE for developing rich-client applications, includes SWT library, replaces Swing by using underlying OS native windowing abilities
  • Fink – Debian package manager for ported Unix software
  • Free Pascal – Object Pascal compiler, XCode plugin available
  • GNU Compiler Collection – collection of compilers for different programming languages, hardware architectures and operating systems
  • Glasgow Haskell Compiler
  • Helix – relational database IDE
  • Homebrew - Package manager for installing many open source, mostly terminal based, utilities. Includes Apache, PHP, Python and many more.
  • HotSpot – Sun's Java Virtual Machine
  • IntelliJ IDEA – a JAVA IDE by JetBrains (free limited community edition)
  • Komodo – commercial multi-language IDE from ActiveState
  • Lazarus – cross-platform IDE to develop software with Free Pascal, specialized in graphical software
  • LiveCode – high-level cross-platform IDE
  • MacApp – application development framework for Pascal and C++
  • Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (MPW)
  • Macports – a package management system that simplifies the installation of free/open source software on the macOS.
  • Macromedia Authorware – application (CBT, eLearning) development, no Mac development environment since version 4, though can still package applications with the 'Mac Packager' for OS 8 through 10 playback
  • Mono – open source implementation of Microsoft .NET Framework with a C# compiler
  • NetBeans – modular, open source, multi-language platform and IDE for Java written in pure Java
  • Omnis Studio – cross-platform development environment for creating enterprise and web applications for macOS, Windows, Linux, Solaris
  • Panorama – database engine
  • Perl – programming language
  • PHP – programming language
  • Python – programming language
  • Qt Creator – an IDE for C++ GUI applications, by Trolltech
  • Real Studio – cross-platform compiled REALbasic BASIC programming language IDE
  • ResEdit – resource editor
  • Script Debugger – an AppleScript and Open Scripting Architecture IDE
  • SuperCard – high-level IDE
  • Tcl/tk – scripting shell & GUI utility that allows cross platform development. Included with macOS.
  • TextMate – multipurpose text editor that supports Ruby, PHP, and Python
  • Torque (game engine) – game creation software
  • Visual Studio Code – code editor and IDE with debugging features
  • WebKit – open source application framework for Safari (web browser)
  • WebObjects – Java web application server and a server-based web application framework
  • wxPython – API merging Python and wxWidgets
  • Xcode – IDE made by Apple, which comes as a part of macOS and is available as a downloadon, was called Project Builders of Florida tech

Email

Email clients

Other email software

  • Gmail Notifier

FTP clients

Games

Main article: Software:List of Macintosh games
  • Steam – digital distribution software for video games and related media

Graphics, layout, and desktop publishing

CAD, 3D graphics

Distributed document authoring

Icon editors, viewers

File conversion and management

Active

  • Adobe Bridge – digital asset management app
  • BibDesk – free bibliographic database app that organizes linked files
  • Font Book – font management tool
  • GraphicConverter – graphics editor, opens/converts a wide range of file formats
  • Photos – photo management application

Discontinued

  • iPhoto – discontinued photo management application

Layout and desktop publishing

Active

Discontinued

Raster and vector graphics

This section lists bitmap graphics editors and vector graphics editors.

Active

Discontinued

  • Aperture – Apple's pro photo management, editing, publishing application
  • GIMPShop – free open source cross-platform bitmap graphics editor
  • MacPaint – painting software by Apple (discontinued)

Integrated software technologies

Main article: Engineering:List of macOS components

Language and reference tools

Mathematics software

Media center

Multimedia authoring

Networking and telecommunications

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

Operating systems

Main article: Software:Macintosh operating systems
  • Darwin – the BSD-licensed core of macOS
  • macOS – originally named "Mac OS X" until 2012 and then "OS X" until 2016
  • macOS Server – the server computing variant of macOS

Outliners and mind-mapping

Peer-to-peer file sharing

Sciences

Text editors

Utilities

  • Activity Monitor – default system monitor for hardware and software
  • After Dark – computer screensaver software
  • AppZapper – uninstaller (shareware)
  • Automator – built-in, utility to automate repetitive tasks
  • Butler – free, launcher and utility to automate repetitive tasks
  • CandyBar – system customization software (commercial)
  • CDFinder – disk cataloging software (commercial)
  • CleanMyMac – maintenance and optimisation utility
  • DaisyDisk – disk visualization tool
  • Dashboard – built-in macOS widgets
  • Grab – built-in macOS screenshot utility
  • Growl – global notifications system, free
  • iSync – syncing software, bundled with Mac OS X up to 10.6
  • LaunchBar – provides instant access to local data, search engines and more by entering abbreviations of search item names, commercial
  • MacKeeper – cleanup utility
  • Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing – proprietary, typing tutor
  • OnyX – a freeware system maintenance and optimization tool for macOS
  • Path Finder – replacement for Apple's Finder
  • Quicksilver – a framework for accessing and manipulating many forms of data
  • Sherlock – file searching (version 2), web services (version 3)
  • Stickies – put Post-It Note-like notes on the desktop
  • System Settings – default Mac system option application
  • UUTool – uuencoded/uudecode and other transcoding
  • Xsan – storage network utility
  • Yahoo! Widget Engine – JavaScript-based widget system

Anti-malware software

macOS includes the built-in XProtect antimalware as part of GateKeeper. The software listed in this section is antivirus software and malware removal software.

  • BitDefender Antivirus for Mac – antivirus
  • Intego VirusBarrier – antivirus
  • MacScan – malware removal
  • Malwarebytes — malware removal
  • McAffee VirusScan – antivirus
  • Norton Antivirus for Mac – antivirus
  • Sophos – antivirus

Archiving, backup, restore, recovery

This section lists software for file archiving, backup and restore, data compression and data recovery.

Discontinued archiving apps

  • Backup – discontinued Apple backup utility, part of MobileMe
  • Stuffit – data compression

Disc burning apps

Discontinued disc burning apps

  • Adobe Encore
  • Disco – disc burning
  • DVD Studio Pro – DVD authoring application
  • iDVD – a basic DVD-authoring application

Video

Virtualization, emulation, and dual-booting

Web browsers

Firefox
Camino

Web design and content management

Weblog clients

Other

See also

References

  1. ↑ "AIM has been discontinued as of December 15, 2017". https://help.aol.com/articles/aim-discontinued. 
  2. ↑ "2.16.2, The Final Release – HexChat". https://hexchat.github.io/news/2.16.2.html. 
  3. ↑ Hernandez, Joe; Neuman, Scott (2025-05-05). "It's last call for Skype as the once-popular video calling app shuts down" (in en). NPR. https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5387436/skype-shutting-down. 
  4. ↑ "MacDraft Professional | Powerful 2D CAD, drafting, technical illustration and more for Mac | Microspot Ltd". https://www.microspot.com/products/macdraft/. 
  5. ↑ "Retouch4me — Advantages of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Retouching" (in en-us). https://retouch4.me/arams. 



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