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The best of macOS
Apps worth a spot in your dock.
A hand-picked directory of Mac apps that get the details right. Scroll the feed — every app comes with the screenshots to prove it.
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A tiny, fully native macOS launcher — fuzzy app search, clipboard history, an inline calculator, snippets, and window management, with no Electron and no telemetry.
Clean, uninstall, optimize, and monitor your Mac from one lightweight native app — a visual dashboard, a disk treemap, and a live menu-bar HUD, all on-device.
A native Mac personal finance app that tracks spending, budgets, investments, and net worth in one place with AI-powered auto-categorization and no ads.
Native macOS network investigation, from packets to explainable sessions
Native macOS proxy for modern API debugging
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A fast, private Mac clipboard manager with ordered multi-paste, local OCR and translation, notes, and custom on-device AI transformations
Draws real-material borders around your Mac windows: walnut, marble, brushed aluminum, leather and more.
DynamicHorizon brings the Dynamic Island experience to macOS by turning the Mac notch into an interactive part of the system.
The task manager other task managers are measured against — a two-time Apple Design Award winner built on calm typography and zero friction.
Die-cut stickers you can peel, drag and press down anywhere on your Mac desktop, like real vinyl.
Google Calendar for macOS
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Cinematic live wallpapers for your Mac.
A focused Markdown notes app with a gorgeous editor, hashtag organization, and an Apple Design Award on the shelf.
A GPU-accelerated code editor from the team behind Atom — it opens instantly, stays at your display's refresh rate, and has collaboration built in.
The terminal, rebuilt with editable input, command output grouped into blocks, and an AI agent that can run tasks for you.
Screenshot and screen-recording done right — hide desktop clutter, annotate, capture scrolling pages, record GIFs, and get a shareable link.
A full image editor that is 100% native, Metal-accelerated, and packed with machine-learning tools — and an Apple Design Award winner.
The definitive outbound firewall for macOS — see every connection your apps make, and decide what is allowed to leave your machine.
Drag in audio or video and get an accurate, speaker-labelled transcript — running OpenAI's Whisper models entirely on your Mac.
Take control of a crowded menu bar — hide items you rarely need, reveal them on a trigger, and style the whole bar to taste.
The calendar app that set the bar for the category — natural-language event entry, a beautiful week view, and every calendar account in one place.
A blazing-fast, keyboard-first launcher that folds clipboard history, window management, snippets, an extension store, and AI into one command bar.
A date-focused note-taking app that ties your notes to your calendar — an Apple Design Award winner with a timeline running through everything.
Mind mapping that stays out of the way — start with one thought, branch outward, and watch the layout organize itself as you type.
The writing app that made focused, plain-text Markdown a genre — a fixed mono typeface, a tuned measure, and nothing else to fiddle with.
Seven dots, seven scratch pads — a tiny, gorgeous place to hold the text you would otherwise lose in a pile of untitled files.
The PDF app that feels native — read, annotate, edit text and images, fill and sign forms, and redact, all at a speed the incumbents never manage.
Panic's file-transfer classic — a fast, dual-pane client for SFTP, S3, Backblaze, WebDAV, and a dozen more, with the craft you expect from Panic.
Contacts, finally made useful — a search-first address book where you type what you want to do and it happens.
A better menu-bar clock — tap the date for a mini calendar with your events and world clocks, and join the next call in one click.
Find what is eating your disk with a scan that turns your drive into an interactive sunburst map you can drill into and clean up.
A native macOS Quick Look extension and viewer for Markdown — instant, WebView-free rendering with Mermaid diagrams, LaTeX math, tables, and code highlighting.
One dashboard for revenue across Stripe, Gumroad, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle, Polar, and RevenueCat — with a menu-bar total, desktop widgets, and live sales notifications.
Control external monitors from your Mac's menu bar — brightness, contrast, volume, and input switching over DDC/CI, with presets, schedules, and multi-display sync.
Track your App Store Top Charts positions across 175 countries and 54 categories, with hourly history and alerts when your app moves — no App Store Connect access needed.
The reference example of a truly native Mac app — a fast, free, open-source RSS reader with no account, no tracking, and no clutter between you and your feeds.
A modern, genuinely native database client — connect to Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, Redis, SQL Server and more in one fast window that actually feels like a Mac app.
A native macOS email client built specifically for Gmail — the speed and system integration of Apple Mail, with the labels, filters, and search Gmail users actually rely on.
A private, fully native AI workspace for Mac — bring your own keys for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and local models, and use them in a proper app instead of a browser tab.
A notepad that does math as you type — write calculations in plain language, reference earlier lines by name, and watch every answer update when a number changes.
The long-running, beautifully restrained RSS reader for macOS — sync with a feed service or read entirely on-device, with typography and gestures done right.
A lightweight, open-source clipboard manager for macOS — search your clipboard history from a keystroke, with no account and no background bloat.
The Mac's benchmark diagramming app — wireframes, flowcharts, network maps, and org charts with precise layout tools and a deep automation model.
Converts video to high-quality GIF on the Mac using a per-frame palette encoder that keeps gradients smooth at surprisingly small file sizes.
A zero-config mesh VPN built on WireGuard — connect your Macs, servers, and phones into one private network that works behind any NAT or firewall.
Keeps your Mac awake on your terms — precise triggers for time, running apps, network, battery, or an attached display, all from the menu bar.
The macOS archiver that handles everything — 7z, Zip, and Tar to create, RAR and a dozen others to extract, with real AES-256 encryption.
Adds satisfying mechanical-keyboard sound feedback to your Mac's typing — pick a switch profile, tune the volume, and every keystroke gets a tactile click.
A menu-bar clock that shows the local time of the specific people you work with — teammates, clients, family — each with a name and a face.
One-click reminders and tasks that live on your desktop as small cards, right where you'll actually see them instead of buried in a notification.
A native tracker for every recurring charge you're signed up for — see what renews this week, what it costs per month and per year, and what to cancel.
A lightweight screen recorder built on ScreenCaptureKit — record a screen, window, app, or region with system audio, no kernel extension required.
A clipboard manager from Tapbots — searchable copy history, reusable pasteboards, and filters that transform text on the way out.
An offline Swiss-army knife for developers — 50-plus small tools (JSON, JWT, base64, regex, timestamps, hashing) in one native window that reads your clipboard.
A native HTTP/HTTPS debugging proxy — inspect and decrypt traffic, rewrite requests and responses in flight, and point iOS or Android devices at it in a few clicks.
A recipe manager from the developer of Reeder — import recipes from any site, cook from a distraction-free step view with timers pulled out of the text, and plan the week.
Drag a box over anything on screen — an image, a PDF, a video frame, an app that blocks copying — and the text inside it lands on your clipboard.
A native Swift launcher that bundles Raycast-compatible extensions, on-device dictation, AI chat and agents, window management, and a terminal behind one hotkey.
A native C++ command palette — app launcher, clipboard history, calculator, emoji picker, and window management — that runs Raycast extensions without Electron.
A free, open-source native database client for macOS supporting 29 database engines, with a SQL editor, inline-editable data grid, and a built-in AI assistant.
The modern video player for macOS — a free, open-source player built on mpv with a native interface, Force Touch, and full Touch Bar support.
A native, from-scratch Swift code editor for macOS that's still being built in the open — lightweight, fast, and unapologetically Mac-native.
An AI-native macOS video editor that hands your timeline to Claude, Codex, or Cursor — generate, edit, and automate video production end to end.
An open-source menu bar manager for macOS 26 — hide, arrange, and search your menu bar items with a floating bar and full glass styling.
A free, open-source SoundSource alternative — per-app volume, multi-device output, and a 10-band EQ, all from the menu bar.
A native, CodeMirror-powered Markdown editor for macOS — as simple as TextEdit, purpose-built for Markdown, and genuinely fast.
A powerful, cross-platform port manager for developers — monitor every open port, kill processes, and manage Kubernetes forwards and Cloudflare Tunnels.
The neatest Pomodoro timer in your menu bar — minimal, keyboard-friendly, and free and open source.
An open-source colour picker for macOS — pick any on-screen colour in Hex, RGB, HSB, HSL, LAB, or OKLCH, with full keyboard control.
Turn your own photos into native macOS dynamic wallpapers that shift with the time of day, the sun's position, or light/dark mode.
An offline toolbox of 100+ developer utilities for Mac — timestamp conversion, regex testing, key generation, and more, with nothing ever leaving your machine.
A modern, native, privacy-first clipboard manager for macOS — with built-in AI to search, transform, and manage what you copy.
A self-hostable Loom + CleanShot X alternative for macOS — screenshots, screen recording, and shareable clips, on your own infrastructure.
A native Markdown editor for Mac, iPhone, and iPad — with live Mermaid diagrams, KaTeX math, and GFM tables, no cloud required.
Brings iPhone-style Continuity features — clipboard sync, notification mirroring, file transfer — to Android and Mac.
A native SwiftUI dashboard for Apple's container CLI — Docker Desktop, without Docker.
A native menu bar app for tracking and planning across timezones.
A fast, native Markdown viewer that opens .md files instantly without launching an editor.
A beautiful native download manager for direct links, magnet links, and torrents.
A native GUI for browsing, installing, and managing Homebrew Casks.