macOS is nice… But.
Open-source browser with Gecko engine, supporting HTML add-ons and providing privacy features like Enhanced Tracking Protection and third-party cookie blocking.
Main browser
The best browser for your Mac is the one that comes with your Mac. Safari is faster and more energy efficient than other browsers. Handy tools help you save, find, and share your favorite sites. Built-in privacy features help keep your browsing your business.
Secondary browser (macOS), Main browser (iOS)
Firefox Developer Edition brings you latest features, fast performance, and the development tools you need to build for the open web. Its powerful development tools will extend your ability to work across multiple platforms from one place.
For web-dev
Web browser built on an open-source platform featuring multiple account support, integrated password manager, dark mode, real-time translation, and seamless cross-device syncing.
For compatibility reasons
Command line text editor
A simple programmer's editor with a tightly-integrated console.
It's excellent for rapidly prototyping code with its super fast edit-run-edit -run-save workflow, and its Cocoa integration gives it a real edge over the command line.
It has syntax highlighting and code co.
As a general IDE for small projects
IntelliJ IDEA is the JetBrains IDE for pro development in Java and Kotlin. Built for your comfort, it unlocks productivity, ensures quality code, supports cutting-edge tech, and protects your privacy.
For Java code
The intelligent cross-platform C/C++ IDE. CLion is a new IDE that helps you be more productive while developing apps with C and C++ for Windows, Linux and OS X. Take advantage of proven JetBrains expertise in code quality, efficient code navigation, smart code completion...
For C++ code
Xcode offers the tools you need to develop, test, and distribute apps for Apple platforms, including predictive code completion, generative intelligence powered by the best coding models and agents, advanced profiling and debugging tools, and simulators for Apple devices.
For Swift and C++ code
Terminal emulator for macOS supporting split panes, session restoration, advanced search, inline images, SSH connections, automation, and tmux integration.
Terminal emulator
Homebrew is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn’t include with macOS. Also available for Linux.
Package manager/installer
Cakebrew is the most convenient way to use Homebrew for your daily tasks! It does for Homebrew what Synaptics does to Linux package managers. From the Cakebrew UI, you can:
GUI for Homebrew
Paste stores everything you copy on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad, so it's always there whenever you need it again.
Clipboard Management
Graphical interface for macOS keyboard layouts, enabling drag-and-drop editing, dead key creation, Unicode support, and mapping multiple characters to keys.
Custom key maps
WordService provides a large number of commands in any Service-aware for working with selected text.
Useful text manipulation tool
Enhances audio with 3D surround sound, volume boosting, equalizer presets, audio player, and app-level controls via Boom Remote.
Volume controls per app and global equalizer
Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts. Rectangle is a window management app based on 
Spectacle Wndow Manager, written in 
Swift (programming language).
Cross-platform, free media player supports multimedia files, DVDs, streaming, offers hardware acceleration, 4K, lossless audio, and more.
To watch videos
An open-source multithreaded video transcoder, HandBrake compresses and converts digital media, supporting MP4, MKV formats, and offers hardware-accelerated conversion.
Video format conversion
ImageOptim is excellent for publishing images on the web (easily shrinks images “Saved for Web” in Photoshop). It's useful for making Mac and iPhone/iPad applications smaller (if you configure Xcode to allow better optimization).
Strip metadata and compress images
To add metadata to videos
Apple Music is all about the music, with the highest audio quality; exclusive, in-depth content and unparalleled access to the artists you love–all ad-free.
To listen to music
Textual is the world's most popular application for interacting with Internet Relay Chat (IRC) chatrooms on macOS.
IRC
Transmission has the features you expect in a BitTorrent client: encryption, a web-based interface, peer exchange, UPnP and NAT-PMP port forwarding, web seed support, watch directories, tracker editing, global and per-torrent speed limits, and more.
BitTorrent Client
Open-source UCI chess engine that evaluates positions and searches for best moves, running through compatible desktop and mobile chess interfaces.
To analyze chess positions
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