Best Free Mac Apps

Move and resize windows using keyboard shortcuts or snap areas. An essential free tool for anyone who multitasks across multiple apps.

A blazing-fast launcher that replaces Spotlight with powerful extensions for searching, running scripts, and managing your workflow.

Prevent your Mac from sleeping on demand or on a schedule. Perfect for presentations, downloads, or long-running tasks.

A powerful markdown-based note-taking app that stores everything locally. Highly extensible with a huge library of community plugins.

An all-in-one workspace for notes, databases, wikis, and project management. The free tier is generous for personal use.

A fully-featured, free and open-source office suite covering word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and more.

Simple and intuitive time tracking app. Start a timer with one click and get clear reports on where your hours are going.

An open-source app to instantly share files between your Mac, iPhone, Android, or Windows device over the local network, no internet needed.

An elegant and fluid window management app for macOS featuring a unique radial menu triggered by a hotkey.

Thoroughly uninstall apps and all their associated files including preferences and caches that would otherwise be left behind.

Open virtually any compressed archive format including RAR, 7-zip, and many others that macOS cannot handle natively.

A detailed, customizable system monitor that lives in your menu bar showing CPU, RAM, GPU, network, disk, and battery stats.

Control the brightness and volume of external monitors directly from your Mac keyboard, just as you would with a built-in display.

The go-to free and open-source video transcoder for converting video files to almost any format with hardware-accelerated encoding.

A solid file archiver for macOS that creates and extracts ZIP, 7-Zip, TAR, and more. Clean, modern interface that just works.

Fine-tune your mouse and trackpad behavior including scroll speed, pointer acceleration, and button remapping for any connected device.

Limit your MacBook's battery charge to a set percentage to reduce wear and significantly extend the long-term health of your battery.

Quickly reduce the file size of PDF documents by compressing images and removing unnecessary data without losing noticeable quality.

A fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS, and SFTP client with an intuitive graphical user interface.

A wonderful utility for your displays. It lets you create custom resolutions, unlock HiDPI scaling, and control screen brightness.

The legendary, completely free media player that handles virtually every video and audio format imaginable without installing extra codecs.

A powerful, free and open-source image editor with professional-grade tools for photo retouching, compositing, and design.

A free, open-source audio editor for recording, editing, and exporting multi-track audio. Excellent for podcasts and basic music editing.

A capable, free and open-source video editor with multi-track editing, effects, transitions, and proxy workflow support.

The industry-recognized, free and open-source 3D creation suite covering modeling, animation, rendering, compositing, and video editing.

A free, professional vector graphics editor for creating logos, illustrations, and icons. A strong open-source alternative to Adobe Illustrator.

An open-source photography workflow and RAW developer. Acts as a virtual lighttable and darkroom for managing and editing photos.

The world's most popular music streaming service with a solid free tier offering access to millions of songs, podcasts, and playlists.

The gold standard free tool for screen recording and live streaming. Highly flexible with scene management, overlays, and plugin support.

Microsoft's free, open-source code editor that dominates the developer world with its rich extension ecosystem and built-in Git support.

The missing package manager for macOS. Easily install and manage command-line tools, applications, and developer dependencies from the terminal.

A feature-packed terminal emulator that replaces the default macOS Terminal with split panes, search, autocomplete, and profile support.

Run containerized applications in isolated environments without complex setup. The free personal tier is more than sufficient for most developers.

A fully-featured, open-source password manager. The free tier covers unlimited passwords across all your devices with secure cloud sync.

A lightweight, native environment manager that's best for local PHP development. The free version allows up to 3 local sites.

A trusted security scanner that detects and removes malware, adware, and potentially unwanted programs that may slip past built-in Mac defenses.

A fast, privacy-respecting browser backed by Mozilla's non-profit mission. Excellent developer tools and a vast extension library.

A Chromium-based browser with built-in ad and tracker blocking. Noticeably faster page loads and better privacy than Chrome out of the box.

An end-to-end encrypted messaging app considered the gold standard for private communication, available as a free native Mac desktop app.