Mac OS Software Overview
Adapter
Adapter Converts Video, Audio and Images.
Combine an FFmpeg powered back-end with VLC rendered previews, then add in file size estimation, a gorgeous user interface and make it entirely free. That is Adapter - the ultimate converter app for Mac and PC.
AlterEgo
Alter/Ego :: real-time singing synthesizer
Alter/Ego is based on the award winning technology featured in chipspeech but instead of targeting Vintage voice technology, it focuses on more ‘modern’ (1990+) singing synthesis algorithms and research. It is specially tailored for musical needs – simply type in your lyrics, and then play on your MIDI keyboard. It’s a true synthesizer, the sound can be extensively modified for easy and expressive performances.
plogue.com/products/alter-ego.html
AnyDesk
Access & Control
AnyDesk’s high-performance Remote Desktop Software enables latency-free Desktop Sharing, stable Remote Control and fast and secure data transmission between devices.
audapolis
An editor for spoken-word media with transcription.
github.com/bugbakery/audapolis
BA connected
BrightAuthor:connected. Software for BrightSign Players.
brightsign.biz/resources/software-downloads
balenaEtcher
Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.
- Create USB installation media from bootable ISOs
- Install almost any OS to almost any flash drive
- Offer an easy way for your users to flash your OS using our ‘Flash with Etcher’ feature
BambuStudio
Bambu Studio is an open-source, cutting-edge, feature-rich slicing software. It contains project-based workflows, systematically optimized slicing algorithms, and an easy-to-use graphical interface, bringing users an incredibly smooth printing experience.
BibDesk
Use BibDesk to edit and manage your bibliography. It will keep track of both the bibliographic information and the associated files or web links for you.
bibdesk.sourceforge.io{target=blank}
Bidule
Bidule: The new standard in modular audio software.
Use the DSP bidules to create your own tools. The building blocks modules of Bidule can be connected/linked to create unique instruments and effects.
- Create unique textures using our spectral manipulation tools
- Mix multichannel audio files offline or online, for complex ambisonic / surround mixes
- Save Bidule constructs as groups for later re-use
plogue.com/products/bidule.html
Blender
Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.
BlueHarvest
The most powerful way to keep your disks clean of macOS metadata. BlueHarvest automatically removes .DS_Store and ._ AppleDouble files from your USB keys, SD cards, music players, file servers or any non Mac disk. BlueHarvest removes these items as they’re created or modified so you’ll always be metadata free without you needing to lift a finger.
Bridgehead
Supperware Head tracker resources. Head Tracker 1: a USB device that quickly and precisely captures your head orientation up to 100 times per second. It’s comfortable, affordable, and leaves your eyes in the real world.
Bruno
Bruno is a Fast and Git-Friendly Opensource API client, aimed at revolutionizing the status quo represented by Postman, Insomnia and similar tools out there. Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem. We use a plain text markup language, Bru, to save information about API requests. You can use git or any version control of your choice to collaborate over your API collections. Bruno is offline-only. There are no plans to add cloud-sync to Bruno, ever. We value your data privacy and believe it should stay on your device. Read our long-term vision here.
butt
BUTT - broadcast using this tool.
BUTT (Broadcast Using This Tool) is an easy to use, multi OS streaming tool. It supports Icecast, Shoutcast and WebRTC and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. The main purpose of BUTT is to stream live audio from your computers microphone or line input to an Icecast, Shoutcast or WebRTC (WHIP) server. If you want you can also record your broadcast locally on your computer. With BUTT you can not directly stream audio files. However, with the help of tools like Voicemeeter (Windows), Blackhole (macOS) and PulseAudio (Linux) you can also stream audio files directly from your favorite music player.
cables
You can now create next generation interaction, motion and 3D online or offline!
Whether you're a seasoned developer or a creative with little to no coding experience. Create interaction, motion and 3D content with our new open-source, offline version that puts the full power of cables in your hands.
Cap
Beautiful, shareable screen recordings. Cap is the open source alternative to Loom. Lightweight, powerful, and stunning. Record and share in seconds.
Chataigne
Artist-friendly Modular Machine for Art and Technology.
Chataigne is a free, open-source software made with one goal in mind : create a common tool for artists, technicians and developers who wish to use technology and synchronize software for shows, interactive installations or prototyping. It aims to be as simple as possible for basic interactions, but can be easily extended to create complex interactions.
benjamin.kuperberg.fr/chataigne
Cisdem Duplicate Finder
Doppelte Dateien schnell und präzise finden und löschen. Cisdem Duplicate Finder hilft dabei, doppelte Dateien zu finden, die unabhängig vom Namen den gleichen Inhalt haben, und zeigt sie in einem leicht verständlichen Bericht an. Sie können die beste Version jedes doppelten Objekts behalten und mehr Speicherplatz auf Ihrem Mac zurückgewinnen. Das Programm gewährleistet 100%ige Genauigkeit.
cisdem.com/de/duplicate-finder
Cyberduck
Cyberduck is a libre server and cloud storage browser for Mac and Windows with support for FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, OpenStack Swift, Backblaze B2, Microsoft Azure & OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox.
darktable
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
DaVinci Resolve
Professional Editing, Color, Effects and Audio Post! DaVinci Resolve is the world’s only solution that combines editing, color correction, visual effects, motion graphics and audio post production all in one software tool!
blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/davinciresolve
Deckset
Deckset designs your slides, so you can focus on your ideas. Write down your thoughts in your favourite text editor, and Deckset will turn them into beautiful presentations.
Descript
Descript is the AI-powered, fully featured, end-to-end video editor that you already know how to use.
DiffusionBee
The Ultimate Suite of Creative AI Tools. DiffusionBee is the fastest and easiest toolbox to run AI apps locally with Stable Diffusion.
digiKam
Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source.
FreeTube
The Private YouTube Client.
GIMP
The Free & Open Source Image Editor. GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows and more operating systems.
Glaze
Glaze is a system designed to protect human artists by disrupting style mimicry. The cloaks needed to prevent AI from stealing the style are different for each image.
HandBrake
HandBrake is a open-source tool, built by volunteers, for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
HISE
The open source toolkit for building virtual instruments and audio effects.
IINA
The modern media player for macOS.
Inkscape
Inkscape is a Free and open source vector graphics editor for GNU/Linux, Windows and macOS. It offers a rich set of features and is widely used for both artistic and technical illustrations such as cartoons, clip art, logos, typography, diagramming and flowcharting.
kdenlive
Free and Open Source Video Editor.
KeyCastr
KeyCastr enables you to share your keystrokes when creating screencasts, presenting, or collaborating with others. You can choose to display command keys, all modified keys, or all keystrokes, and there is also an option to include mouse clicks.
krita
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program.
Liner
Machine learning in a few clicks. Liner is a free tool that lets you train your ML models easily. It takes your training data and gives you an easy-to-integrate ML model. No coding or expertise in machine learning required.
LM Studio
Discover, download, and run local LLM
menuBUS
Capture audio from multiple system sources. Detect and process all system audio. Analyze the sources of individual signals and create a database of captured samples, add custom effects from the AudioUnit library, transfer the sounds for further processing. Select the output parameters, control the volume, etc.
de.freedownloadmanager.org/Mac-OS/menuBUS-Pro
Mixxx
Powerful Features For All DJs. Mixxx integrates the tools DJs need to perform creative live mixes with digital music files. Whether you are a new DJ with just a laptop or an experienced turntablist, Mixxx can support your style and techniques of mixing.
Modern CSV
A Sophisticated CSV Editor/Viewer for Windows, Mac, and Linux
Monodraw
Monodraw allows you to easily create text-based art (like diagrams, layouts, flow charts) and visually represent algorithms, data structures, binary formats and more.
MuseScore
The world's most popular notation app.
OBS
OBS Studio. Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux.
Obsidian
Obsidian is the private and flexible writing app.
Ollama
Get up and running with large language models.
Open Stage Control
Free and modular OSC / MIDI controller.
Pure Data
plugdata
plugdata is a free/open-source visual programming environment based on pure-data. It is available for a wide range of operating systems, and can be used both as a standalone app, or as a VST3, LV2, CLAP or AU plugin.
Plash
Make any website your Mac desktop wallpaper.
Protokol
MIDI logging, OSC monitoring, and more... Protokol is a new utility by hexler for the creator's toolbox: A lightweight, responsive console app for monitoring and logging control protocols.
QLC+
Free and open source lighting console.
REAPER
Digital Audio Workstation. REAPER is a complete digital audio production application for computers, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset.
Shortcat
Manipulate macOS masterfully, minus the mouse. Shortcat indexes your Mac's user interface and makes them available to you in a powerful command palette. Click buttons, focus text fields, invoke menu commands, switch windows, and more; no mouse required. Shortcat enables you to operate your Mac faster, and with less cognitive overhead.
ShowMIDI
ShowMIDI is a multi-platform GUI application to effortlessly visualize MIDI activity.
Shutter Encoder
A audio video media converter designed by video editors.
Sitala
Sitala is a drum plugin and standalone app.
Skim
Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.
SonoBus
High Quality Network Audio Streaming. SonoBus is an easy to use application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.
soundjack
Soundjack is an R&D low-latency communication system (free of charge but donations are welcome). It works in p2p and/or server streaming mode.
Sublime Text
Text Editing, Done Right.
SysEx Librarian
SysEx Librarian is an app to let your Mac communicate with MIDI devices using System Exclusive messages, also known as SysEx. The most common use is to backup patch data from synthesizers, although there are others (such as sending firmware updates).
TouchOSC
Next generation modular control surface.
Transnomino
A free batch rename utility for the Mac. Rename many files at once, simple, powerful.
Typora
Typora is a cross-platform minimal markdown editor, providing seamless experience for both markdown readers and writers.
Ultra Grid uv-qt
UltraGrid brought by CESNET's Laboratory of Advanced Networking Technologies (Sitola) is a software implementation of high-quality low-latency video and audio transmissions using commodity hardware. Supported resolutions range through HD (1920x1080) up to 8K (7680x2160) with up to 60 frames per second.
VCV Rack
VCV Rack is a software that simulates a Eurorack modular synthesizer system. It features a variety of modules, plugins, effects, and instruments that can be combined and customized to create your own sounds and music.
VLC
VLC media player. VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
Wekinator
The Wekinator is free, open source software. It allows anyone to use machine learning to build new musical instruments, gestural game controllers, computer vision or computer listening systems, and more.
Zotero
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research. Download. Available for Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS.