Best Freeware for macOS

Code combines the streamlined UI of a modern editor with rich code assistance and navigation, and an integrated debugging experience – without the need for a full IDE.

Opera is a browser with innovative features, speed and security. Opera’s vision is to deliver the best Internet experience on any device and the company is committed to support and contribute to open standards.

The browser delivers a highly customizable start page (Speed Dial) where you can set your top sites and bookmarks, Off-road mode for data saving and faster browsing in slow networks such as 3G/2G and public Wi-Fi, a "Discover" page for getting the best of the web's content; and in the desktop version Stash, a tool for comparing pages and "read it later".

Resume, save and rename the media files you keep on your phone with the download manager.

For iOS, Blackberry and other devices, Opera Mini is available: compared with Opera Mobile, it provides similar features and browsing experience, but its peculiar feature is that pages are compressed before being sent to your phone.
In this way you can:

• Save time, because pages and tabs will load faster;
• Save data and money, because Opera Mini uses up to 90% less data from your prepaid data plan than other web browsers.

Gas Mask is simple hosts file manager for Mac OS X. It allows editing of host files and switching between them.

Stay up to date with all the latest podcasts (or netcasts if you're Leo) with one easy to use app. Simply add your favourite podcasts, and you'll be able to stream or download new episodes as they become available.

Features:

• Instant refresh (our server monitors your feeds, so your phone doesn't have to. Save your data & your time!)
• Stream or download without file size limits, over 3G or WIFI.
• Background downloading on supported devices (so you can do other things while your podcasts download)
• 3 different themes to choose from
• Push badge when new episodes are available
• Quick skip feature, one tap of the screen and you can jump forward or back through your podcasts
• Supports Air Play for both audio and video podcasts (so you can stream them to your speakers, or Apple TV)
• Supports headphone controls & multi-tasking toolbar
• Playlist for continuos playback
• Watch video podcasts as video or audio
• Variable playback speed

At Shifty Jelly we're die hard podcast fans, and this is the app we use every day, so why not join us? We can't solve the eternal dilemma of who is better to listen to Tom or Molly...but maybe now you can...

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework. Owned by the non-profit organization VideoLAN.

HandBrake is an open-source, multithreaded video transcoder: it converts digital media from one format to another, compressing the files in the process.

The Unarchiver is a small and easy to use program that can unarchive many different kinds of archive files. It will open common formats such as Zip, RAR (including v5), 7-zip, Tar, Gzip and Bzip2. It will also open many older formats, such as StuffIt, DiskDoubler, LZH, ARJ and ARC. It will even open other kinds of files, like ISO and BIN disc images, some Windows .EXE installers. The list is actually much longer - see the program homepage for the full list.

The Unarchiver also tries to detect and correctly handle the filename encoding in the archives it opens, allowing you to open files from every part of the world without getting garbled filenames.

Flycut is a clean and simple clipboard manager for developers. It based on open source app called Jumpcut.

Every time you when you copy code pieces Flycut stores it in history. Later you can past it using Shift-Command-V even if you have something different in your current clipboard. You can change hotkey and other settings in preferences.

Developed by developers for developers.

Using Spectacle you can view multiple documents side-by-side, move windows to other displays, or even focus your full attention to a single task.

Modern email and calendar apps for Mac, iOS, Android, Slack and Alexa, powered by Artificial Intelligence. Astro keeps you focused on what's most important.

Facebook Messenger is a faster way to message. Reach friends right on their phones, get and send messages fast, message everyone at once and more.

Top Features:
• Message friends, groups of friends or anyone in your mobile contacts
• Map your location, find your friends and make plans on the go
• Get mobile notifications so you never miss a message
• Include photos so friends can see what you're doing

Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service which enables user cloud storage, file sharing and collaborative editing.

Google Drive incorporates the Google Docs suite, a collaborative office suite of productivity applications that offers:

• Google Docs , a word processor;
• Google Drive - Sheets , a spreadsheet application;
• Google Slides , a presentation program;
• Google Drive - Drawings , a graphics application;
• Google Drive - Forms , a form designer.

Google Drive gives you access to your work from anywhere, across your Mac, PC, mobile devices and on the web. Simply download Drive on your Mac or PC to sync files from your computer to the cloud. Update a file on one device and changes are automatically saved to Drive and your other device, so you have the most up-to-date version of your files wherever you need them.

Bring your work to life :
Share files or whole folders with individuals, your entire team or even customers and partners. In the Docs, Sheets and Slides editors multiple people can work on the same document at the same time

Buy what you need & grow flexibly :
Start with up to 15 GB of included storage for each of your users. Need more? For as little as $4/month for 20GB, administrators can centrally purchase and manage up to 16TB (Yes, that’s 16,000 GB!) of additional storage for each user.

Backup and Sync is an app for Mac and PC that backs up files and photos safely in Google Drive and Google Photos , so they're no longer trapped on your computer and other devices. Just choose the folders you want to back up, and we’ll take care of the rest.

Web-based time management tool that tracks the activities and duration of a user's computer usage.