The macOS setup for everyone (with freeware only)

Fast, secure browser with built-in ad block, privacy controls, and global tracking protections. Optimizes data, speed, and battery life.

The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in a collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It’s designed to minimize tracking and fingerprinting. You could say it’s a Tor Browser to use without the Tor Network.

Browserosaurus is an open-source (MIT license), Electron-based app for macOS. It works by setting itself as the default browser; any clicked links in non-browser apps are now sent to Browserosaurus where it’ll present you with a menu of all your installed browsers.

Native macOS media player with retina video, extensive format support, gesture controls, Touch Bar features, Picture-in-Picture mode, and open source customization.

Koodo Reader is a powerful ebook reader designed to provide a simple and easy-to-use reading experience.

Free, lightweight PDF viewer available on multiple platforms. Features include annotation, form-filling, signing, cloud integration, and more.

Keka is the macOS file archiver.

Apple Music client for Windows, Linux, and macOS offering Discord and Last.fm integration, spatial audio, remote control, and a customizable equalizer.

Fast Spotify Premium client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust. Very early in development, lacking in features, stability, and general user experience. It is being tested only on Mac so far, but aims for full Windows and Linux...

Nuage is an independent and open-source project to build a native SoundCloud client for macOS using SwiftUI. Its overall goal is to make listening to tracks on SoundCloud more enjoyable by providing a light-weight and beautiful interface.

Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation. It is used to distribute a wide range of games and related media entirely over the internet, stretching from one-man independent efforts to some of...

Enjoy ad-free gaming in 1080p at 120fps on PC blockbusters, streaming via cloud supercomputers. Supports automatic updates and two-factor authentication.

Open Emu is an open source project to bring game emulation to OS X as a first class citizen, leveraging modern OS X technologies such as Cocoa, Core Animation and Quartz, and 3rd party libraries like Sparkle for auto-updating.

Enables running iOS apps and games on Apple Silicon Macs with support for mouse, keyboard, and controller input, advanced keymapping, and macOS 12 or newer.

Ludusavi is a tool for backing up your PC video game save data, written in Rust. It is cross-platform and supports multiple game stores.

Enjoyable is an application for Mac OS X which allows you to use controller inputs like a mouse or keyboard.

An open-source Epic Games Launcher alternative and normal game launcher for macOS written in Swift. We started this project to create a GUI frontend for Legendary and to play Windows games using game porting toolkit by Apple.

A versatile platform for text and voice communication, featuring topic-specific channels, customizable moderation, and smooth low latency interactions.

Android emulator delivering high-performance emulation, suitable for gamers and developers, allowing seamless app and game execution on desktop platforms.

Browser-based editing supports complex layers, masks, and adjustment tools, opens PSD, XCF, Sketch files, and exports in over 40 formats, all client-side for privacy.

Open source non-destructive RAW photo editor and image database with lighttable and darkroom views, real-time editing, HDR and scientific image support.

Vector design app for Mac supporting intricate illustrations, SVG conversion, artboards, advanced typography, Auto Trace, and AI-powered background removal.

This free font editor allows creation of vector graphics and exports TTF, OTF, EOT, and SVG fonts, providing multiple formats for your designs.

Pika (pronounced pi·kuh, like picker) is an easy to use, open-source, native colour picker for macOS. Pika makes it simple to quickly find colours on screen, in the format you need, so you can get on with being a speedy, successful designer.

A free, open-source painting program for professional artists offering customizable UI, 9 brush engines, layer support, and color management.

Pixelorama is a free and open source sprite editor, ideal for pixel art. In this page you'll be learning about the latest added features, as well as its features in general. It's made with Godot Engine, using GDScript.

MagicaVoxel is a free lightweight 8-bit voxel editor and path tracing renderer.

Free open-source 3D software for modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, rendering, compositing, video editing, and simulation.

Unreal Engine is a professional suite of tools and technologies used for building high-quality games across a range of platforms. Unreal Engine’s rendering architecture enables developers to achieve stunning visuals and also scale elegantly to lower-end systems.

A smooth yet powerful writing experience for devoted authors. With only wanted features and native workflow it runs faster than all your previous apps combined.

Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures. Quickly draw to test if a story idea works. Create and show animatics to others. Express your story idea without making a movie.

With iMovie for iOS and macOS, you can enjoy your videos like never before. It’s easy to browse your clips and create Hollywood-style trailers and stunning 4K-resolution movies. You can even start editing on iPhone or iPad, then finish on your Mac.

Natron is an open source, cross platform nodal compositing application. It is built around industry standard open source tech such as OpenFX, OpenEXR, OpenColorIO and OpenImageIO. The feature set includes realtime playback/RAM cache, multi-threaded rendering, 2d tracking...

Full-featured music studio offering sound library, virtual drummers, and instrument presets available on Mac and iOS. Ideal for all skill levels.

Free and open-source 2D animation software for vector and bitmap artwork, featuring tweening, bone rigging, timeline editing, and advanced layer types across all major platforms.

Free open-source multi-track audio editor and recorder with 32-bit float processing. Supports many formats and plugins for Windows, macOS, Linux.

Create, notate, and playback music with free, open-source software for Windows, Mac, and Linux supporting MIDI, MusicXML, PDF export, and community sharing.

Mixxx integrates the tools DJs need to perform creative live mixes with digital music files.

A versatile open-source 3D CAD modeler with modular architecture, suitable for engineering applications across multiple platforms, supporting Python scripting.

Simple macOS menu bar application to view and interact with reminders. Open Source and using Apple Reminders as a source.

Just columns and tasks.

Open source Dropover alternative.

Local AI agents on your Mac. Private, offline, free. Open models run on Apple Silicon; add ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini only when you choose.