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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 old Macintosh software.

    Audio software

    Digital audio workstations

    Further information: Digital audio workstation

    Audio editing

    DJing

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

    Notation software

    Further information: Scorewriter
    • Impro-Visor – notation software with a particular orientation towards jazz solos
    • LilyPond
    • Overture
    • MuseScore

    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

    • Adobe Soundbooth – music and soundtrack editing
    • Audion – media player
    • BIAS Peak – mastering
    • Finale – proprietary music notation software
    • iTunes – audio/video Jukebox by Apple
    • Logic Express – prosumer music production by Apple
    • Logic Studio – music writing studio package by Apple
      • Apple Loops Utility – production and organisation of Apple Loops
      • Apple Qmaster 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 on Mac OS X

    Discontinued

    Children's software

    • Kid Pix Deluxe 3X – bitmap drawing program
    • Stagecast Creator – programming and internet authoring for kids

    Developer tools and IDEs

    See also: 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
    • 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

    FTP clients

    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

    • Icon Composer – part of Apple Developer Tools
    • IconBuilder – plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Fireworks for the editing and creation of icons
    • 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, 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

    • 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
    • GraphicConverter – displays and edits raster graphics files
    • Inkscape – 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[5]
    • 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
    • GIMPShop – free open source cross-platform bitmap graphics editor
    • MacPaint – painting software by Apple (discontinued)

    Integrated software technologies

    Main article: List of macOS components

    Language and reference tools

    Mathematics software

    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

    Main article: News aggregator
    • 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: 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

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

    Text editors

    Utilities

    • 4 Paws of Crab
    • 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
    • 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 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.

    Archiving, backup, restore, recovery

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

    Discontinued archiving apps

    Disc burning apps

    • Roxio Toast – DVD authoring application

    Discontinued disc burning apps

    Video

    Virtualization, emulation, and dual-booting

    Web browsers

    Firefox
    Camino

    Web design and content management

    Weblog clients

    • ecto
    • MarsEdit

    See also

    References

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    2. ^ "2.16.2, The Final Release – HexChat". hexchat.github.io. Archived from the original on 2024-03-10. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
    3. ^ Hernandez, Joe; Neuman, Scott (2025-05-05). "It's last call for Skype as the once-popular video calling app shuts down". NPR. Retrieved 2025-05-08.
    4. ^ "MacDraft Professional | Powerful 2D CAD, drafting, technical illustration and more for Mac | Microspot Ltd".
    5. ^ "Retouch4me — Advantages of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Retouching". retouch4me.oxem.dev. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
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