macOS software
Software that runs on macOS. Every link goes to the official website, download page or app store.
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Krita
A free digital painting program built for illustrators, with over a hundred brushes ready to use.
LibreWolf
A Firefox build with the privacy settings already turned up and uBlock Origin included.
LM Studio
A polished desktop app for downloading, running and chatting with local language models, with an OpenAI-compatible server built in.
LocalSend
Sends files between nearby devices over your own network, with no account, server or internet connection.
LosslessCut
Trims and joins video and audio without re-encoding, so a cut takes seconds instead of an hour.
Mp3tag
A tag editor that fixes the metadata of a whole music folder at once, with online database lookups.
mpv
A minimal, scriptable media player with high quality video output and no real interface to get in the way.
Mullvad VPN
A flat-rate VPN service with anonymous account numbers instead of usernames, and open source apps.
Neovim
A modern rewrite of Vim with a built-in language server client, Lua configuration and an embeddable API.
Nmap
The network mapper: find out which hosts are up, which ports are open and what is listening on them.
Obsidian
A notes app that works on a folder of plain Markdown files on your own disk, with links between them.
Ollama
The simplest way to pull down an open language model and run it on your own machine, from one command or a desktop app.
ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors
A free desktop office suite built around close compatibility with DOCX, XLSX and PPTX.
OpenSCAD
A 3D modeller you write rather than draw: a script describes the object, and the program compiles it into a solid.
PCSX2
The PlayStation 2 emulator, twenty years in development, now running most of the library at full speed.
PeaZip
A cross-platform archive manager that reads over two hundred formats and has a real file manager built in.
Picocrypt
A tiny, single-purpose file encryption tool using XChaCha20 and Argon2id. Archived by its author, but still working.
Plex Media Server
A polished media server for your own library, free on the home network, with a paid pass for remote streaming.
PPSSPP
A PSP emulator that needs no BIOS file and runs handheld games in HD on phones and PCs.
PuTTY
The small, stubbornly reliable SSH and Telnet client that has been on every Windows admin’s desktop for twenty-five years.
QEMU
The machine emulator and virtualiser that most of the Linux virtualisation stack is built on.
RawTherapee
A raw processor built around demosaicing and colour accuracy, with a 32-bit floating point engine and unusually deep controls.
Rclone
A command line tool that syncs, copies and mounts files across more than seventy cloud storage services.
restic
A single-executable backup program that makes encrypted, deduplicated snapshots and can send them almost anywhere.
RetroArch
One front end for dozens of emulators, with unified settings, shaders and a controller setup you only do once.
RustDesk
An open-source remote desktop tool you can point at your own relay server instead of somebody else’s cloud.
Shotcut
A free cross-platform video editor with a multi-track timeline that edits most formats without importing them first.
Spek
Drops an audio file on the window and draws its spectrogram, so you can see where the quality really stops.
Sweet Home 3D
Interior design software for drawing a floor plan, arranging furniture on it, and walking through the result in 3D.
Thunderbird
Mozilla’s desktop mail client, with calendar, contacts and a unified inbox, funded by donations rather than ads.
