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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

• Audio editing

• DJing

• Notation software

• Misc audio tools

• Discontinued audio apps

• Chat (text, voice, image, and video)

• Active

• Discontinued

• Children's software

• Developer tools and IDEs

• Email

• Email clients

• Other email software

• FTP clients

• Games

• Graphics, layout, and desktop publishing

• CAD , 3D graphics

• Distributed document authoring

• Icon editors, viewers

• File conversion and management

• Layout and desktop publishing

• Raster and vector graphics

• Integrated software technologies

• Language and reference tools

• Mathematics software

• Media center

• Multimedia authoring

• Networking and telecommunications

• News aggregators

• Office and productivity

• Operating systems

• Outliners and mind-mapping

• Peer-to-peer file sharing

• Sciences

• Text editors

• Utilities

• Anti-malware software

• Archiving, backup, restore, recovery

• Disc burning apps

• Video

• Virtualization, emulation, and dual-booting

• Web browsers

• Web design and content management

• Weblog clients

• See also

• References

• Ableton Live

• Ardour

• Cubase

• Digital Performer

• GarageBand

• Logic Pro and MainStage

• REAPER

• Reason

• Renoise

• Steinberg 2019 Mac Pro

• Audacity – digital audio editor

• djay – digital music mixing software

• Mixxx – DJ mix software

• Impro-Visor – notation software with a particular orientation towards jazz solos

• LilyPond

• Overture

• MuseScore

• 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

• 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

• Adium – multi-protocol IM client

• Colloquy – freeware advanced IRC and SILC client

• Discord – IM and VoIP social platform

• FaceTime – videoconferencing between Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

• iMessage – instant messaging between Mac, and iDevices

• Irssi – IrssiX and MacIrssi

• Kopete – free multi-protocol IM client

• LiveChat – online customer service software

• Microsoft Teams – team collaboration application

• Palringo

• Psi (instant messenger) – free IM client for the XMPP protocol

• Signal – open-source, encrypted messaging service for IM, voice calls and video calls

• Snak – IRC client (shareware)

• Ventrilo – audio chatroom application

• Telegram – cross-platform, encrypted IM client

• aMSN – free Windows Live Messenger clone

• AOL Instant Messenger – discontinued as of December 15, 2017cite-ref-1[1]

• ChitChat – open-source IM client supporting the Yahoo! Messenger protocol

• HexChat – IRC client, discontinued as of February 9, 2024cite-ref-2[2]

• Skype – telecommunications application supporting IM and VoIP-based videotelephony retired as of May 5, 2025cite-ref-3[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

• Kid Pix Deluxe 3X – bitmap drawing program

• Stagecast Creator – programming and internet authoring for kids

• 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

• 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

• Outlook Express

• Postbox

• Proton Mail

• Sparrow – as well as Sparrow Lite

• Gmail Notifier

• Classic FTP

• Cyberduck

• Fetch

• Fugu

• FileZilla

• ForkLift

• Interarchy

• Transmit

• WebDrive – FTP and cloud client

• Yummy FTP

• Steam – digital distribution software for video games and related media

• 3D-Coat

• Autodesk Alias

• Ashlar-Vellum – 2D/3D drafting, 3D modeling

• ArchiCAD

• AutoCAD

• Blender

• BricsCAD

• Cheetah3D

• Cinema 4D

• FreeCAD

• SketchUp – 3D modeling software

• Houdini

• Lightwave

• MacDraft - 2D CADcite-ref-4[4]

• Maya

• Modo

• PowerCADD

• ZBrush

• Adobe Acrobat – software to view, create, manipulate, print and manage PDF files

• Preview – built-in image viewer and PDF viewer of the macOS operating system

• Icon Composer – part of Apple Developer Tools

• IconBuilder – plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Fireworks for the editing and creation of icons

• Microsoft Office

• 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

• iPhoto – discontinued photo management application

• 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

• iBooks Author – created interactive books for Apple Books

This section lists bitmap graphics editors and vector graphics editors.

• 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 editorcite-ref-5[5]

• Seashore – open source, based around the GIMP's technology, but with native macOS (Cocoa) UI

• Adobe Fireworks – supports GIF animation

• Adobe FreeHand – vector graphics editor

• Aperture – Apple's pro photo management, editing, publishing application

• GIMPShop – free open source cross-platform bitmap graphics editor

• MacPaint – painting software by Apple (discontinued)

• Bonjour – service discovery on a local area network

• Finder

• QuickTime

• Terminal

• X11.app

• Cram (software)

• Dictionary (software)

• Encyclopædia Britannica

• Rosetta Stone (software) – proprietary language learning software

• Ultralingua – proprietary electronic dictionaries and language tools

• World Book Encyclopedia – multimedia

• Fityk

• Grapher

• Maple (software)

• Mathematica

• MATLAB

• MathMagic

• Octave (software) – open source

• R (programming language)

• Sysquake

• SciLab – open source

• Boxee – Mac and Apple TV

• Front Row

• Mira

• MythTV

• SageTV

• Plex

• Kodi

• 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

• 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

• 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

• AbiWord

• Adobe Acrobat – PDF viewer and editor

• 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

• Bear – markdown note-taking application

• 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:

• Pages – word processor application

• Numbers – spreadsheet application

• Keynote – presentation application

• 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

• Microsoft Publisher – desktop publishing application

• MoneyWiz – personal finance application

• Montage – screenwriting software

• NeoOffice - discontinued

• Nisus Writer

• OmniFocus

• OpenOffice.org - discontinued

• WriteNow

• Taste – word processor (discontinued)

• 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

• FreeMind

• Mindjet

• OmniOutliner

• OmniGraffle

• XMind

• aMule

• BitTorrent client

• FrostWire

• LimeWire

• Poisoned

• rTorrent

• Transmission (BitTorrent)

• μTorrent

• Vuze – Bittorrent client, was Azureus

• Celestia – 3D astronomy program

• SimThyr – Simulation system for thyroid homeostasis

• Stellarium – 3D astronomy program

• ACE

• BBEdit

• BBEdit Lite

• Coda

• Emacs

• jEdit

• iA Writer

• Komodo Edit

• Nano

• SimpleText

• Smultron

• SubEthaEdit

• TeachText

• TextEdit

• TextMate

• TextWrangler

• vim

• XEmacs

• Ulysses

• 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

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

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

• Archive Utility – built-in archive file handler

• Archiver – paid, file archiving

• BetterZip – file archiver and compressor

• Compact Pro – data compression

• Disk Drill – data recovery

• Stellar Data Recovery – data recovery

• The Unarchiver — file archiving

• Time Machine (macOS) – built-in backup software

• WinZip – file archiver and compressor utility

• Backup – discontinued Apple backup utility, part of MobileMe

• Stuffit – data compression

• Roxio Toast – DVD authoring application

• Adobe Encore

• Disco – disc burning

• DVD Studio Pro – DVD authoring application

• iDVD – a basic DVD-authoring application

• Adobe After Effects – digital visual effects, motion graphics and compositing application

• Adobe Premiere Pro – timeline-based video editing software

• Adobe Presenter Video Express – screencasting and video editing software

• 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:

• Apple Qmaster

• Cinema Tools

• Compressor

• DVD Studio Pro

• Final Cut Pro

• LiveType

• Motion 2

• Soundtrack Pro

• HandBrake – DVD to MPEG-4 and other formats converter

• iMovie – basic video editing application

• Miro Media Player

• MPlayer

• Perian

• QuickTime – including its Player and QuickTime Pro

• RealPlayer

• Shotcut – open source rich video editor

• Shake

• Windows Media Player

• VLC media player – free and open-source media player

• Bochs

• Boot Camp – a multi-boot utility built into macOS from 10.5 on Intel Macs only

• 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 Fusion – 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.

• Amaya – free

• Brave – free and open-source, Chromium-based

• Camino – open source

• Flock – free, Mozilla Firefox based

• Google Chrome – free, proprietary, Chromium-based

• iCab – free

• Konqueror – open source

• Lynx – free

• Mozilla – open source, combines browser, email client, WYSIWYG editor

• Mozilla Firefox – open source

• Microsoft Edge – free, proprietary, Chromium-based

• Netscape Navigator – free, proprietary

• OmniWeb – free, proprietary

• Opera – free, proprietary, Chromium-based

• 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.

• Vivaldi – free, proprietary, Chromium-based

• Internet Explorer for Mac – free, by Microsoft

• WebKit – Safari application framework, also in the form of an application

• Adobe Contribute

• Adobe Dreamweaver

• Adobe GoLive

• Claris Homepage

• Coda

• Freeway

• iWeb

• NVu

• RapidWeaver – a template-based website editor

• ecto

• MarsEdit

• List of Macintosh software published by Microsoft

• List of Unix commands

cite-note-11. ↑ "AIM has been discontinued as of December 15, 2017". help.aol.com/. Archived from the original on October 6, 2017. Retrieved 2018-01-17.

cite-note-22. ↑ "2.16.2, The Final Release – HexChat". hexchat.github.io. Archived from the original on 2024-03-10. Retrieved 2024-06-11.

cite-note-33. ↑ citerefhernandezneuman2025Hernandez, 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.

cite-note-44. ↑ "MacDraft Professional | Powerful 2D CAD, drafting, technical illustration and more for Mac | Microspot Ltd".

cite-note-55. ↑ "Retouch4me — Advantages of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Retouching". retouch4me.oxem.dev. Retrieved 2024-10-28.