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 This repo is a collection of AWESOME Mac applications and tools for developers and designers. Feel free to Star and Fork. Any comments, suggestions? Let us know. we love PRs :), please follow the awesome format.

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Open-Source Software means open source, click to enter open source repo;
Freeware means free to use, or free personal license;
hot means hot app;
tuijian means recommended app;
must-have means must have app;
App Store means App store hyperlink;
1 star means highly recommended must-have app, the number of stars represents how strong I recommend it;

You may come across some non-English characters. Those apps don't have an English version yet, so you might want steer clear of them.

• Editors and IDE
• Development Tools
• Test Tools
• Command Line Tools
• Version Control
• Database
• Design and Product
• Virtual Machines
• Communication
• Data Recovery
• Audio and Video
• Reading and Writing
• FTP Clients
• Application package tool
• Web Development
• Ebooks
• Download Tools
• Online Storage
• Input Method
• Web Browsers
• Translation Tools
• Proxy and VPN Tools
• Utilities
• Remote Login
• Third-Party App Markets
• Mac App Download Sites

applications to edit text, suggest open source editors

• Atom - A hackable text editor for the 21st Century by GitHub.Atom Plugins. star 4 Open-Source Software Freeware hot tuijian must-have
• Sublime Text - A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance, Sublime Text Plugins. hot tuijian must-have
• Brackets - A modern, open-source text editor that understands web design by Adobe. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Visual Studio Code - Microsoft's free & open-source editor, TypeScript friendly. Open-Source Software Freeware hot
• Emacs - A popular text editor used mainly on Unix-based systems by programmers, scientists, engineers, students, and system administrators.
• LightTable - The next generation code editor. Open-Source Software Freeware
• TextMate - An editor that brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. Freeware
• BBEdit - An editor that doesn’t suck.
• Vim - A highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. Freeware hot
  • Vundle.vim - Vim plugin manager. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • vim-plug - A minimalist Vim plugin manager.Open-Source Software Freeware
  • WebVim - Vim-based distribution targeting JavaScript and Web development
  • vim-web - Based on WebVim, Vim for front-end developers (docs are in Chinese). Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and agility. Open-Source Software Freeware hot
  • Spacevim - The use of imitation Spacemacs way。
  • spf13 - A set of comprehensive configuration items。
• Vimr - Refined Vim Experience for OS X. Open-Source Software Freeware
• HBuilder - An IDE for web development (Support HTML5), built by DCloud. (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware hot
• Tincta - Tincta is a text editor for Mac OS X. Freeware
• CotEditor - Lightweight plain-text editor for macOS. Open-Source Software Freeware

• Xcode - The essential IDE for iOS/macOS development. must-have App Store
• IntelliJ IDEA - A powerful Java IDE. (Free for Students) hot tuijian
• Coda2 - A fast, clean and powerful text editor.
• Eclipse - Popular open-source IDE, mainly for Java but with plugin support for a wide array of languages and platforms. Open-Source Software Freeware hot
• WebStorm - The smartest JavaScript IDE by JetBrains. hot tuijian
  • FREE for Students, check here for more info
  • Some good-to-have Plugins
    • NodeJS - Node.js integration. You definitely need this, quite a few features require it.
    • EditorConfig - A JetBrains IDE plugin supporting the EditorConfig standard.
    • Material Theme UI - Provides 3 modes, nice and clean.
• Deco IDE - The best IDE for building React Native apps. Open-Source Software Freeware hot tuijian
• Xamarin Studio - Free cross platform C# IDE. Xamarin Studio supports iOS, Android and .Net development Open-Source Software Freeware
• NetBeans IDE - A free and open-source IDE, mainly used for Java development, but supports many other languages and frameworks. Open-Source Software Freeware

• WeFlow - A development tools for front-end workflows based on tmt-workflow. (Missing English UI and Docs) Open-Source Software Freeware
• Koala - A GUI application for Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript compilation. Open-Source Software Freeware
• CodeKit - Automatically compile, such as Less, Sass, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Jade, JavaScript. Auto-refresh browsers. And so on.
• Hosts.prefpane - A system preference pane to manage your hosts file. Open-Source Software Freeware
• iHosts - The only /etc/hosts editor on Mac App Store. App Store Freeware
• SwitchHosts - is an App for hosts management & switching. It is a free and open-source software.Open-Source Software Freeware
• Gas Mask - A simple hosts file manager for Mac OS X. Open-Source Software Freeware hot must-have
• DiffMerge - An application to visually compare and merge files. Freeware
• PPRows - It Can Calculate how many lines of code you write on Mac. Freeware Open-Source Software
• Beyond Compare - Compare files and folders using simple, powerful commands that focus on the differences you are interested in and ignore those you are not. Freeware
• Kaleidoscope - A powerful compare tool for text, images and folders. It works perfectly with git, svn or other version control tools.
• Fanvas - Convert swf to animation of html canvas. (Missing English Docs) Open-Source Software
• EnvPane - An OS X preference pane for environment variables. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Dash - Awesome API documentation browser and code snippet manager. Freeware hot tuijian must-have star 5
• DLite - The simplest way to use Docker on OS X. Open-Source Software Freeware
• SnippetsLab - Easy-to-use code snippets manager.
• StarUML - Powerful UML app.
• Vagrant Manager - Manage local services. Open-Source Software Freeware
• zeplin - Collaboration tool between designers and developers. Freeware hot
• Go2Shell - Open terminal from Finder. Freeware hot
• SecureCRT - A terminal emulation which supports SSH, Telnet or other protocols.
• Finicky - An application that allows you to set up rules that decide which browser is opened for every link that would open the default browser. Open-Source Software Freeware
• MJML - Simplify the way people design responsive emails. The only framework that makes responsive-email easy. Open-Source Software Freeware
• TeXstudio - An integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments. Open-Source Software Freeware star 5
• FinderGo 🐢 Open terminal quickly from Finder Open-Source Software
• Localname - Provide Access to Your Local Development Server Freeware hot

• Patterns - Regular Expression editor.
• Reginald - Regular Expression test application, using RegexKitLite. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Regex - It might be the prettiest app for testing regular expressions.
• Reggy - Regular Expression editor. Open-Source Software Freeware
• RegExRX - Development tool for regular expressions. hot

• Wireshark - The world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Charles - A proxy tool which supports checking all the requests with http or https protocol.
• James - Open source proxy tool for checking and mapping requests with http as well as https. Open-Source Software Freeware
• mitmproxy - An interactive intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers Open-Source Software Freeware
• Insomnia 3.0 - A beautiful HTTP testing tool. Freeware
• Cocoa Rest Client - Test HTTP/REST endpoints and it's more beautiful than PostMan. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Paw - An advanced HTTP client.
• Cellist - HTTP debugging proxy for OS X.
• Integrity - finds invalid links. Freeware
• Postman - Postman, helps test APIs quickly. star 4 Freeware hot must-have

• iTerm2 - iTerm2 is an amazing terminal emulator for OS X. Open-Source Software Freeware hot tuijian must-have star 4
• tmux A "terminal multiplexer", it enables a number of terminals (or windows) to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal. tmux is intended to be a simple, modern, BSD-licensed alternative to programs such as GNU screen. Open-Source Software
• mas - A simple command line interface for the Mac App Store. Open-Source Software Freeware
• cool-retro-term - A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Oh my zsh - It comes bundled with a ton of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes, and a few things that make you shout. Open-Source Software Freeware hot tuijian must-have
• Prezto — Instantly Awesome Zsh Open-Source Software Freeware - Prezto is the configuration framework for Zsh; it enriches the command line interface environment with sane defaults, aliases, functions, auto completion, and prompt themes.
• Glances - Glances is a cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Cakebrew - Client of Homebrew. You have the GUI to install, check or remove app, no command-line needed. Open-Source Software Freeware
• ndm - Manage npm straight from the couch. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Black Screen - A terminal emulator for the 21st century. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Fish Shell - A smart and user-friendly terminal, which is similar with zshhot tuijian
• oh-my-fish - Alternative to oh-my-zsh,on fishShell frameworkhot tuijian
• bash-it - Shameless ripoff of oh-my-zsh for bash.Open-Source Software Freeware
• color-retro-term - A the end of style restoring ancient ways, very cool。
• HyperTerm - A terminal based on Node development software, pretend bility is very high。Open-Source Software Freeware
• itunes-remote - Control iTunes via your terminal Open-Source Software Freeware
• mycli - A command line client for MySQL that can do auto-completion and syntax highlighting. star 5 Open-Source Software Freeware tuijian
• lnav - Log file navigator. Open-Source Software Freeware
• cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. Open-Source Software Freeware

• Git - The Version Control Tool, Official website provides dozens of GUI clients for Mac. Open-Source Software Freeware hot tuijian must-have
• SVN - The Version Control Tool. Freeware

• Fork - a fast and friendly git client for Mac. Freeware
• Gitbar - Open Source,display Github contribution statistics on your menu bar. Open-Source Software Freeware
• GitHub Desktop - Github official GUI. Freeware
• Oh My Star - The best way to organize your Github Stars.
• GitUp - A simple and powerful git client. star 3 Open-Source Software Freeware
• Hub -Hub is a command-line wrapper for git that makes you better at GitHub. Open-Source Software Freeware
• SourceTree - A free Git & Mercurial client for Windows or Mac. Freeware hot
• Tower2 - The most powerful Git client for Mac and Windows.
• Versions - Mac Subversion Client (SVN).
• Cornerstone - Best Mac SVN Client.
• SmartGit - is a Git client with support.
• GitKraken - The most popular Git GUI for Windows, Mac AND Linux. hot tuijian

• GitLab Open source git repo management software. Freeware hot tuijian must-have
• Github Lot code hosting, project management, presentation deployment, look, you can visit to making now。Freeware hot tuijian 必备
• Coding.net - A one-stop cloud platform for developers, free for repository hosting, project collaboration, code quality assurance and Page service. Freeware
• phabricator Open software engineering platform and fun adventure game. Freeware
• Gogs - Gogs (Go Git Service) is a painless self-hosted Git service. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Gerrit Code Review for Git. Freeware
• Gitblit Pure java git solution. Open-Source Software Freeware must-have hot

• Sequel Pro - MySQL database management for Mac OS X. Open-Source Software Freeware hot must-have
• MySQL Workbench - MySQL Official GUI.
• SQLPro Studio - A simple, powerful database manager for macOS.
• Bdash - A modern SQL client application,support MySQL、 PostgreSQL (Redshift)、 BigQuery.Open-Source Software Freeware
• Postico - A Modern PostgreSQL Client for the Mac.
• ElectroCRUD - Modern MySQL CRUD Application. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Base 2 - Base is an application for creating, designing, editing and browsing SQLite 3 database files. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Postgres.app - The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac. Open-Source Software Freeware
• PSequel - PostgreSQL GUI tool for Mac OS X. Freeware
• Robomongo - Native and cross-platform MongoDB management tool (Admin UI). Open-Source Software Freeware
• MongoBooster - Shell-centric and cross-platform GUI tool for MongoDB. It provides update-in-place, fluent query builder, ES6 syntax support and True IntelliSense experience. Freeware
• Mongo Management Studio - The simple MongoDB GUI.
• MongoChef - The GUI for MongoDB. Freeware
• Mongotron - A Mongo DB GUI built using Electron, and Angular Js. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Chrome MySQL Admin - A powerful Chrome app to manage your MySQL. Open-Source Software Freeware
• JackDB - Direct SQL access to all your data, no matter where it lives. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Medis - GUI Manager for Redis. Open-Source Software
• RedisDesktopManager - Cross-platform GUI management tool for Redis. Open-Source Software Freeware
• MDB Explorer - MDB tool to open, read, export your MDB files to other formats and databases.
• Datum - SQLite - Unlock all the power of your databases in an instant. Datum is a full featured, modern, and fast SQLite manager.
• mongoDB.app - The easiest way to get started with mongoDB on the Mac. Open-Source Software Freeware
• DataGrip - A database management by JetBrains. FREE for Students, check here for more info
• Tableau Public - Free data-visualization. Freeware

• Acorn - A great Mac OS X picture and photo editor, built for humans.
• Affinity Designer - Professional graphic design software for Mac.
• Affinity Photo - Professional image editing software for Mac.
• Blender - Free and open 3D creation software. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Pixelmator - Full-featured image editor for Mac.
• Sketch - Professional Digital Design for Mac. star 5 hot tuijian must-have
  • Sketch Toolbox - A super simple plugin manager for Sketch. Open-Source Software Freeware tuijian
• FLINTO - Flinto lets designers quickly make interactive prototypes of their mobile, desktop, or web apps. tuijian
• Kite - A powerful animation and prototyping application for Mac & iOS. tuijian
• inklet - Turn your Mac trackpad into drawing board. tuijian
• Alchemy - Alchemy is an open drawing project aimed at exploring how we can sketch, draw, and create on computers in new ways. Open-Source Software
• GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program. Open-Source Software
• Monodraw - Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac. Freeware
• SketchBook - Drawing software for concept design, comic art, and digital sketching. Freeware
• Tayasui Sketches - Professional drawing software.
• FontForge - Free (libre) font editor. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Nik Collection - Google Nik collection. Freeware tuijian
• Paintbrush - The Bitmap image editor. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Krita - Open Source software for Concept Artists, Digital Painters, and Illustrators. star 4 Open-Source Software Freeware
• Vectr - Free graphics editor used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively. It's a simple yet powerful web and desktop cross-platform tool to bring your designs into reality. Freeware
• Principle - Makes it easy to design animated and interactive user interfaces. Whether you're designing the flow of a multi-screen app, or new interactions and animations, Principle lets you create designs that look and feel amazing.
• MagicaVoxel - A free lightweight 8-bit voxel editor and interactive path tracing renderer.
• ScreenToLayers - Easily export your screen into a layered PSD file. Open-Source Software Freeware

• Justinmind - Prototyping platform for web and mobile apps. tuijian
• MockFlow - Online prototyping suite for web design and usability testing.
• Axure RP 8 - Prototypes, Specifications, and Diagrams in one tool. hot
• pencil - The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Mockplus - Prototype faster, smarter and easier.
• OmniGraffle - OmniGraffle - diagramming and graphic design for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
• XMind - The Most Popular Mind Mapping Tool on The Planet. hot must-have
• Lighten - The best way to clarify thinking, boost productivity, brainstorm, and visualize concepts.
• Scapple - A practical mind mapping software. hot
• Framer - Tools for interactive prototyping. star 5 hot
• Balsamiq Mockups - A rapid wireframing tool that helps you work faster and smarter.
• Marvel - Simple design, prototyping and collaboration.Freeware
• MindNode - MindNode makes mind mapping delightful.

• TinyPNG4Mac - Open-source tool to compress images. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Image2icon - Create and personalize icons from your pictures. Freeware
• ImageAlpha - Compress images with PNG format and remove transparency. Open-Source Software Freeware
• ImageOptim - Compress images and remove EXIF information. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Sip - The best way to collect, organize & share your colors. tuijian
• Mark Man - Measure & Spec Fast. tuijian star 4
• Frank DeLoupe - A color-picking tool, supports Retina.
• ColorSchemer - A professional color matching application for your Mac.
• IconKit - An App icon generator. App Store
• Snagit - An All-in-one screenshot app. Supports scrolling capture, panoramic capture, even video and audio capture. tuijian
• GifCapture GIF capture app for macOS. Open-Source Software Freeware
• APNGb - A png image assembler/disassembler app. Open-Source Software Freeware
• LICEcap - Record your screen and export to GIF. You can change the recording area anytime during recording. star 4 Open-Source Software Freeware hot must-have
• Kap - An open-source screen-recorder built with web technology. star 5 Open-Source Software Freeware hot 必备
• GIPHY Capture - Capture and share your screen as a GIF. Freeware
• Skitch - A screen capture application with a powerful annotation capabilities. Freeware hot
• 截图(Jietu) - Screenshot with a powerful annotation capabilities, by Tencent. (Missing English UI and Docs) star 5 Freeware tuijian must-have
• Snip - An application for sharing captured images on QQ Mail. Freeware tuijian
• iPic - Easily upload images and save markdown links. (Missing English UI and Docs. Alternative of imgur) Freeware
• Iconjar - Icon management tool to organize or search your icons. star 5 Freeware tuijian
• RightFont - Preview, sync, install and manage fonts on Mac, Dropbox or Google Drive. star 4 tuijian
• Solarized - Clean and beautiful color theme. Works well with iTerm, JetBrains products, Vim etc. tuijian

• Parallels - Powerful, easy-to-use VM. No free upgrade for each new Mac OS. hot
• Virtual Box - A powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product. star 4 Freeware tuijian
• VMWare Fusion - A powerful, commercial VM developed by VMware.
• Veertu - The lightest VM on Mac. A responsive, sandboxed & native way to run VM on your Mac. Freeware tuijian

Team communication and collaboration tools

• Franz - An Electron based, multi-protocol wrapper for web-based chat client. One application, 23 messenger services. hot Freeware
• QQ - Official QQ app for Mac. (Missing English Docs) Freeware
• WeChat - Official WeChat app for Mac. Freeware
• Electronic WeChat - An open-source WeChat client, build with Electron. Open-Source Software Freeware hot
• Skype - A cross-platform application that provides video chat and voice call services. Users can exchange images, text, video and any other digital documents.
• Maipo - A third-party Weibo client for Mac OS. (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware tuijian App Store star 5
• 御飯 - A third-party FanFou client for Mac OS. (Missing English UI and Docs) star 3 Freeware
• ChitChat - Unofficial WhatsApp. Open-Source Software
• Telegram - A messaging app with a focus on speed and security.
• Messenger For Mac - A third-party Facebook messenger for Mac. Open-Source Software
• Adium - A free instant messaging application for Mac OS X, connecting to AIM, MSN, SMPP, Yahoo and more. Freeware
• Textual - Textual is the world's most popular application for interacting with Internet Relay Chat (IRC) chatrooms on OS X.
• Gitter - An instant messaging and chat room system for developers as well as GitHub users. Developer friendly with Markdown syntax support.
• 简聊 - A communication tool for enterprise use. You can build your own service with its open-source version. (Missing English Docs) Open-Source Software Freeware
• 钉钉 - A free office communication platform for enterprise use. (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware
• LimeChat - An open-source IRC client for Mac OS X. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Slack - Awesome tool for team collaboration and communication. Freeware hot tuijian
• 零信 - Work anywhere at anytime. Cross platform. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• 今目标 - An internet work platform for small-to-medium sized enterprises. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• BearyChat - Team collaboration and communication tool for internet-based teams. (Missing English UI and Docs)
• Bitpost - A private decentralized messaging system. Instead of connecting to centralized servers(like Facebook, Gmail etc.) or federated servers(like email, IRC, Jabber), it uses P2P protocol to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. Open-Source Software
• Teambition - A team collaboration tool, including many features like task plan, schedule, file sharing, instant discussion and everything you need when collaborating with other team members. Freeware
• WeeChat - The extensible command-line chat client. Freeware

• Spark - A fast email client. For both Mac OS and iOS.Freeware
• Airmail - A fast email client. For both Mac OS and iOS.
• Foxmail - A fast email client. Freeware hot tuijian
• MailTags - Use tags to organize email and schedule
• N1 - An extensible, open-source mail app, free for developers and 7ドル/month for Pro.
• Postbox - A powerful, simple and beautiful email client, need to pay for a license.
• Polymail - Simple, beautiful and powerful email client. Freeware
• Newton(formerly Cloudmagic) - An excellent email client with concise interface.
• ThunderBird - Software made to make email easier.。Freeware

• DiskWarrior - The world’s most advanced repair and recovery tool for Mac.
• Data Rescue - A comprehensive and professional data recovery tool for most cases.
• Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery - A powerful recovery tool for Mac file recovery, Time machine recovery, Encrypted Disk recovery and much more.
• R-Studio for Mac - A powerful tool which recovers data on disks, even if their partitions are formatted, damaged or deleted.

• Kodi - An award-winning free and open-source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more. Open-Source Software Freeware
• mpv - A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player. star 4 Open-Source Software Freeware
• IINA - The modern video player for macOS, Based on mpv, the powerful media player project. Open-Source Software Freeware star 5
• VOX Player - #1 high-definition audio player for Mac and iPhone. Music just sounds better! star 5 Freeware hot tuijian must-have
• Radiant Player - Third party Google Play Music client. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Sonora - A minimal, beautifully designed music player. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Audacity - A free, open-source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing. Open-Source Software
• Natron - Open-source compositing software. Node-graph based. Similar in functionalities to Adobe After Effects and Nuke by The Foundry. Open-Source Software
• Ardour - Cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing. Open-Source Software
• Hydrogen - Professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming for GNU/Linux. Open-Source Software
• Audio Hijack - Record any application's audio, including VoIP calls from Skype, web streams from Safari, and much more.
• Stringed 2 - Music practice software designed to help users learn how to play their favorite songs.
• Mixxx - The most advanced free DJ software. Open-Source Software Freeware
• MuseScore - Free, open-source music notation software. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Cog - A free, open-source audio player. Open-Source Software Freeware
• VLC - A free, open-source, cross-platform multimedia player as well as framework that plays most multimedia files, DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs and various streaming protocols. Open-Source Software Freeware
• XLD - A tool to decode, convert and play various 'lossless' audio files. Open-Source Software Freeware tuijian
• HandBrake - A tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. Open-Source Software
• MPlayerX - A simple, powerful, beautiful media player. star 3 Open-Source Software
• ScreenFlow - Screencasting and video editing software.
• Shotcut - Free open-source video editor. Open-Source Software Freeware
• ArcTime - A simple, powerful, efficient subtitle creation software. (Missing English UI and Docs) hot tuijian must-have
• Perian - (Retired, no longer supported) (削除) Let QuickTime play all the common formats of free plug-ins (削除ここまで). star 5 Open-Source Software hot tuijian 必备
• Adapter - Free audio, video and image conversion software. Freeware tuijian
• Synfig Studio - Synfig Studio is free, open-source 2D animation software. Open-Source Software Freeware

• OpenOffice - Compatible with other major office suites, Apache OpenOffice is free to download, use, and distribute. 。Open-Source Software hot tuijian 必备 Freeware
• LibreOffice - LibreOffice is Free and Open Source Software. Development is open to new talent and new ideas, and our software is tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community. Open-Source Software Freeware
• KOffice - KOffice contains a word processor (KWord), a spreadsheet (KSpread), a presentation program (KPresenter), and a number of other components that varied over the course of KOffice’s development. Freeware
• Spillo - Powerful, beautiful and amazingly fast Pinboard client for OS X.
• iChm - An ebook reader for CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML help) files. Freeware
• Chmox - Read CHM documents on your Mac. Freeware
• CHM Reader - Read Compiled HTML (.chm) documents on your Mac. Freeware tuijian
• Skim - A PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Kindle App - Amazon official reading app of kindle.
• RSS
  • Feeds 2 - Keep tabs on your favorite website and RSS feeds from your Mac's menubar. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • ReadKit - A Mac read later client supporting all major providers: Instapaper, Pocket and Readability. Even more, ReadKit is a full-featured RSS reader as well.
  • Reeder 3 - A news reader for Feedbin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler and so on. hot tuijian 必备
  • Leaf - An amazing news reader dedicated to help you enjoy your daily news and easily manage your subscriptions. hot
  • Vienna - An RSS/Atom reader for Mac OS X. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • texpad - Research is hard, writing should be easy.
• Markdown
  • Mou - A Markdown editor for developers, on Mac OS X. Freeware hot
  • Marp - A Markdown presentation writer with cross-platform support. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • TextNut - A rich-format editor featuring Markdown export and Markdown syntax hints. Freeware
  • MWeb - Pro Markdown writing, note taking and static blog generator App. hot
  • Typora - A truly minimal Markdown editor featuring seamless live preview. Freeware hot tuijian
  • MacDown - An open-source Markdown editor for OS X. Open-Source Software tuijian Freeware
  • EME - Recently launched a Markdown editor, interface is like Chrome browser interface, very simple.
  • LightPaper - Simple, beautiful, yet powerful text editor for your Mac.
  • Marked 2 - Markdown previewer, reviewer, and exporter. Great for people that already have a preferred way of editing Markdown, but want to get a live preview of the document they are working on.
  • iA Writer - Writing app with an emphasis on simplicity and design.
  • Ultimate - The Ultimate Writing App for Mac, iPad and iPhone.
  • Cmd Markdown - Cmd Markdown Open the journey of excellence. Freeware
• Note-taking
  • Quiver - The Programmer's Notebook, lets you easily mix text, code, Markdown and LaTeX within one note, edit code with an awesome code editor and live preview Markdown and LaTeX. tuijian
  • Evernote - Infamous note-taking app, available on many platforms. Freeware hot tuijian 必备
  • OneNote - Note-taking app by Microsoft. Freeware hot tuijian 必备
  • Inkdrop - The notebook app for Markdown lovers built on top of Electron.
  • Notes - A clean, simple note-taking app. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • 有道云笔记 - A note-taking app. It features multi-level notebook structure,Markdown syntax and iWork/Office preview. (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware hot
  • 为知笔记 - A note-taking app. It features multi-level notebook structure, multi tags, Markdown syntax and unlimited cloud storage space. (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware hot
  • Leanote - A note-taking app. Features Markdown syntax and blog export. (Missing English Docs) Open-Source Software Freeware

• Calibre - A free and open-source e-book computer software application suite which runs on multiple platforms, allows users to manage e-book collections as well as create, edit, and read e-books. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Sigil - A multi-platform EPUB ebook Editor. Open-Source Software Freeware

• Transmit - A highly flexible and intuitive FTP client, supports SFTP, S3 and iDisk/WebDAV.
• Flow - An award-winning, beautiful, fast, and reliable FTP + SFTP client.
• Yummy FTP - Pro-level, fast, reliable FTP/S + SFTP + WebDAV/S file transfer app.
• Cyberduck - A libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure and OpenStack Swift browser. Freeware
• FileZilla - A free software, cross-platform FTP application. Supports FTP, SFTP and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS). hot

• create-dmg - Create a good-looking DMG for your macOS app in seconds. Open-Source Software Freeware
• nw.js - Build desktop application with HTML and JavaScript. It lets you call all Node.js modules directly from DOM and enables a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies. Open-Source Software Freeware hot
• Electron - Build cross platform desktop application with JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Open-Source Software Freeware hot
• react-desktop - React UI Components for macOS Sierra. Open-Source Software Freeware
• ReactXP - Microsoft official production, support platform Web, iOS, Android and Windows UWP is still an ongoing work. Open-Source Software Freeware
• React Native Desktop - Build OS X desktop apps using React Native and Cocoa. Open-Source Software Freeware tuijian
• React Native for Ubuntu - Build Ubuntu desktop apps using React Native. Open-Source Software Freeware tuijian
• AppJS - A lightweight JavaScript UI library for creating mobile webapps that behave like native apps. Open-Source Software Freeware
• HEX - Build cross-platform desktop application with HTML and JavaScript. Made by YouDao. (Broken official website) Open-Source Software Freeware
• AlloyDesktop - Build cross-platform desktop application with HTML and JavaScript. Made by Tencent (Not very recommended). (Missing English Docs) Open-Source Software Freeware
• MacGap - Provides a lightweight JavaScript API for OS X integration, such as displaying native notifications or writing data to a file. Open-Source Software Freeware
• ionic - Build amazing native and progressive web apps with Angular and open web technologies. One app running on everything. Open-Source Software Freeware

• Transmission - A Fast, Easy, Free BitTorrent Client. Open-Source Software Freeware
• aria2 - A lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility. Open-Source Software Freeware
• JDownloader - A free, open-source download management tool with a huge community of developers that makes downloading as easy and fast as it should be. Freeware
• You-Get - A tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the web. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Free Download Manager - A powerful, modern download accelerator and organizer for Windows and Mac. (FREE) Freeware
• FOLX - A free download manager for Mac OS X with a true Mac-style interface. Freeware

Recommended online storage for Mac clients.

• Dropbox - A file hosting service that offers cloud storage and file synchronization with collaborative edit features. Freeware hot tuijian
• Baidu cloud - Baidu cloud official client. (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware
• Tecent cloud - Tencent cloud client. (Require Tencent Account, Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware
• Jianguo cloud - Jianguo cloud client. (Not recommended) Freeware
• 115 - 115 cloud client. (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware
• (削除) 360 - 360 cloud client. (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware (削除ここまで)
• ownCloud Cloud storage.
• NextCloud - An actively maintained fork of ownCloud, faster and completely open-source Open-Source Software
• Mega - Free cloud service, offers 50GB free storage. Freeware
• Seafile - Reliable and High Speed File Sync and Share.Freeware

• (削除) QQ Input for Chinese - Produced by Tencent. (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware (削除ここまで)
• Sogou Input for Chinese - Sogou input. (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware
• Baidu Input for Chinese - Baidu input. (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware
• Qingge Wubi Input - Wubi input produced for iOS and Mac. (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware
• WBIM - Wubi input method. Freeware
• Rocket - Emoji input method. Freeware
• Emoticon Input - Emoticons icons or characters input method. (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware
• RIME - Rime input method. (Missing English UI and Docs) Open-Source Software Freeware tuijian must-have
• hallelujahIM - hallelujah English input method. Freeware

Browsers on Mac OS

• Safari - Built-in browser of Mac OS. Freeware
• Chrome - star 4 Chrome, produced by Google Freeware
• Firefox - Firefox is a free, open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Freeware
• Opera - Opera. Freeware
• QQ Browser - QQ browser, produced by Tencent. Freeware
• 傲游云浏览器 - (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware
• Vivaldi - Vivaldi, new browser from Opera's developers. Freeware
• Ōryōki - Ōryōki, small web browser with a thin interface. This is an experimental project, currently in development. Freeware
• Brave - Web browser with an emphasis on privacy and speed. Freeware

(Or you could just use Mac OS built-in dictionary)

• iTranslate - Translate entire website instantly with its built-in browser or with iTranslate Safari extension into over 40 languages. Freeware
• YouDao Translate - (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware
• 海词词典 - (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware
• Eudic - (Missing English UI and Docs)
• Grammarly - Refine your english

• SpechtLite - A rule-based proxy app for macOS. Open-Source Software Freeware hot
• ShadowsocksX - A secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your internet traffic. Open-Source Software Freeware hot
• ShadowsocksX-NG - Next generation of ShadowsocksX. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Lantern - Lantern is a free application that delivers fast, reliable and secure access to the open internet. Open-Source Software Freeware tuijian must-have hot
• 鱼摆摆 - An application for the access to open internet.
• Tunnelbear - Really simple VPN to browse the web privately & securely. Unblock websites around the world with applications for Mac, PC, iOS, Android & Chrome.
• Tunnelblick - A free, open-source graphic user interface for OpenVPN on OS X. Freeware
• GoAgentX - An application for the access to open internet. (Missing English UI and Docs) Open-Source Software Freeware
• Surge - Surge is a web developer tool and proxy utility for iOS 9. Freeware
• srocket - An application for the access to open internet. (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware
• LoCoVPN - An application for the access to open internet. (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware
• 二师兄VPN - An application that connects you to the VPN. (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware
• GTX加速器 - An application that connects you to the VPN. (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware
• GreenVPN - A powerful and fun tools that helps you to solve any network issues. (Mainly used for the access to open internet) Freeware
• 风驰VPN - An application that connects you to the VPN. (Missing English UI and Docs) Freeware
• 开眼 - A Chrome plugin for the access to open internet. Freeware
• PlutoX - An application that connects you to the VPN. App Store
• tinc - Secure mesh VPN software. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Shimo - VPN Client for Mac, provides many features related to VPN usage.

• Alfred - An award-winning app for Mac OS X which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more. Search your Mac and the web, and be more productive with custom actions to control your Mac. tuijian hot
• BetterZip 3 - An archive tool supports ZIP, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TXZ (new), 7-ZIP, RAR。 Freeware hot tuijian 必备
• Keka - A free file archiver for macOS. Compression formats supported:7z, Zip, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, DMG, ISO. Extraction formats supported: RAR, 7z, Lzma, xz, Zip, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, ISO, EXE, CAB, PAX. Open-Source Software Freeware tuijian
• Numi - A beautiful calculator app for Mac. Freeware
• Itsycal - A tiny calendar for your Mac's menu bar. Open-Source Software Freeware
• BitBar - An app lets you put the output from any script or program right in your Mac OS X menu bar. Has a good community. Open-Source Software Freeware
• ClipMenu - A clipboard manager for Mac OS X. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Paste - Smart clipboard history & snippets manager. Freeware App Store
• ControlPlane - Manages configuration profiles for your Mac. Determines where you are or what you are doing based on a number of available evidence sources and then automatically reconfigures your Mac based on your preferences. Open-Source Software Freeware
• AirServer - The most advanced screen mirroring software receiver for Mac, PC and Xbox One.
• Hazel - Automated file organization for your Mac. Responsibly and beautifully designed.

• Todoist - A cross-platform todo list app. Freeware
• TaskPaper - Plain text to-do lists.
• Fantastical - The calendar app you won't be able to live without. tuijian
• Day-O 2 - Menu bar clock replacement with built-in calendar. Freeware
• Things - A delightful and easy to use task manager. (Award-winning App) hot
• OmniFocus - A nice GTD app, made by OmniGroups. hot
• 2Do - A nice todo app.
• Wunderlist - The easiest way to get stuff done.
• OnyX - Multifunction utility to verify disks and files, run cleaning and system maintenance tasks, configure hidden options and more. Freeware
• Focus - A beautiful pomodoro-based time manager. App Store

• xScope - A powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, inspecting & testing on-screen graphics and layouts.

• Karabiner - A powerful and stable keyboard customizer for OS X. Open-Source Software Freeware tuijian

• Ukelele - Unicode Keyboard Layout Editor.

• Keytty - A app to keep your hands on the keyboard. Move, click, scroll, drag and more with a few strokes.

• BetterTouchTool - A great, feature-packed app that allows you to configure many gestures for your Magic Mouse, Macbook Trackpad, Magic Trackpad and also Mouse Gestures for normal mice. Freeware

• Hammerspoon - A tool for powerful automation of OS X, programmable by Lua scripting engine. Open-Source Software Freeware tuijian

• Window Management

  • ShiftIt - Managing window size and position in OSX.star 4 Open-Source Software Freeware hot tuijian 必备
  • Moom - Allows you to easily move and zoom windows, or to another display—using either the mouse or the keyboard.
  • Divvy - Window management at its finest with its amazing Divvy Grid system.
  • Slate - A window management application similar to Divvy and SizeUp (except better and free!). (Needs config file) Open-Source Software Freeware
  • SizeUp - Powerful, keyboard-centric window management.
  • Spectacle - Move and resize windows with simple and customizable keyboard shortcuts.
  • Amethyst - A tiling window manager. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Magnet - A window manager that keeps your workspace organized. App Store

• Password Management

  • 1Password - A cross-platform password management tool. hot tuijian 必备
  • LastPass - A password management tool for Mac OS and browser.
  • KeePassX - A light-weight and open-source password management app. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • MacPass - An open-source KeePass Mac OS client. Open-Source Software Freeware

• Finder

  • Quicklook-Plugins - A list of useful "Quick Look" plugins for developers.
  • ForkLift - The most advanced dual pane file manager and file transfer client for macOS.
  • Path Finder - An all-around file management app.
  • TotalFinder - A Chrome-like app as finder substitute.
  • XtraFinder - Adds tabs and cut to Mac Finder. Freeware

• CheatSheet - Hold the ⌘-Key to get a list of all active shortcuts of the current application. It's as simple as that. star 4 Freeware
• KeyCastr - An open-source keystroke visualizer. Open-Source Software Freeware
• f.lux - An application makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day. Freeware

• AppCleaner - A small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps. Freeware tuijian
• iStats - iStats is a command-line tool that allows you to easily grab the CPU temperature, fan speeds and battery information on OS X. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Juice - Make your battery information a bit more interesting by making your own measurement scale instead of a boring battery indicator. Open-Source Software Freeware
• Monity - A system monitoring widget for OS X. star 3
• SSH Tunnel - An application to manage your SSH.
• Mounty - A tiny tool to re-mount write-protected NTFS volumes under Mac OS X 10.9+ in read-write mode. Freeware
• Paragon NTFS - Read/write access to NTFS in macOS Sierra.
• Tuxera NTFS - Full read-write compatibility with NTFS-formatted drives on a Mac.
• gfxCardStatus - An unobtrusive menu bar app for OS X that allows MacBook Pro users to see which apps are affecting their battery life by using the more power-hungry graphics. Freeware tuijian
• DaisyDisk - Gives you a great overview of disk usage. Can also make more disk-space available by cleaning up your disk.
• OmniDiskSweeper - Shows you the files on your drive, ordered by size. It can be used to find and remove unused files. Freeware tuijian
• iStat Menus - An advanced Mac system monitor on the menubar. tuijian
• HTML5 Player - An HTML 5 video player. Keep your Mac from "burning".
• InsomniaX - Disable either lid and/or idle sleep (so you can play music with your lid closed, for example).
• Caffeine - An app that doesn't let your Mac to fall asleep.
• KeepingYouAwake – Alternative to Caffeine with better support for dark mode in Mac. OSS Icon
• NoSleep NoSleep makes closing of your MacBook lid possible without going into sleep mode.
• Coolant - A menubar app that lets you know when an app is consuming 100% CPU or more than a gigabyte of memory (or any arbitrary limits you choose).
• HandShaker - Mac on the management of Android mobile phone content. Freeware

• OpenEmu - A great video game console emulator, supports many different emulators in a single application. (e.g. Sony PSP, GameBoy, NDS and so on) Open-Source Software Freeware tuijian

• WWDC - The Mac OS unofficial WWDC app. Open-Source Software Freeware

• TeamViewer - A proprietary computer software package for remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers. Freeware tuijian must-have star 4
• RealVNC The original and best software for remote access across desktop and mobile.
• AnyDesk An application which provides Remote access across multiple machines.

If you came across some websites offering pirated software or cracks, please post HERE. We love apps, but only authentic ones. :)

Here are some of the major software download sites, there are a number of OSX Mac software to share the site

• MacUpdate Desktop - Change the way you install and update apps with the all new. star 4
• Homebrew Cask - Homebrew Cask extends Homebrew and brings its elegance, simplicity, and speed to Mac OS applications and large binaries alike. Again, if you are familiar with Terminal.
• Homebrew - The missing package manager for macOS. star 4 Freeware Open-Source Software
• MacPorts - The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system. Freeware Open-Source Software

Third party app market black list

• (削除) 腾讯电脑管家 (削除ここまで) - 电脑管家for Mac 带应用市场。
• (削除) 迅雷Thunder Store (削除ここまで) - 迅雷Thunder for Mac 带应用市场。
• (削除) Mac软件宝箱 (削除ここまで) - Macx推出软件宝箱。
• (削除) MacHunter (削除ここまで) - Mac应用市场。

Here are some of the major software download sites, there are a number of OSX Mac software to share the site

• Slant - I personally recommend this. This is a platform where you can compare apps side-by-side. You might get an idea by seeing other users recommendations. Please contribute if you find an application from this list! tuijian hot
• alternativeTo - Also a very nice community. If you are looking for some alternative apps FOR Windows or another platform, check this site.
• Other sites like MacStories, LifeHacker, ProductHunt are great resources.
• Also, Quora, Reddit, you know the drill.
• MacUpdate:https://www.macupdate.com/
• App Shopper:http://appshopper.com/
• HackStore An amazing free alternative of App Store for side developers and apps for Mac OS which Apple doesn't accept.
• Chinese community
  • 少数派:http://sspai.com/tag/Mac
  • Mac玩儿法:http://www.waerfa.com Freeware tuijian hot star 5

Refuse piracy from me. Software vendors can go to these places rights.

• 玩转苹果:(削除) http://www.ifunmac.com (削除ここまで)
• Mac软件下载站:(削除) http://www.pshezi.com (削除ここまで)
• MacPeers:(削除) http://www.macpeers.com (削除ここまで)
• Mac志:(削除) http://www.isofts.org (削除ここまで)
• Mac软件分享:(削除) http://www.waitsun.com (削除ここまで)
• AppKed:(削除) http://www.macbed.com (削除ここまで)
• 苹果软件园:(削除) http://www.maczapp.com (削除ここまで)
• Mac精品软件:(削除) http://xclient.info/ (削除ここまで)
• Macx:(削除) http://www.macx.cn/ (削除ここまで)
• 腾牛网:(削除) http://www.qqtn.com/mac/r_17_1.html (削除ここまで)

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