A curated list of awesome applications, software, tools and shiny things for macOS.
Items marked with
are open-source software and link to the source code. Items marked with
are free (as in free beer).
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- Command Line Utilities
- macOS Utilities
- Setup
- Security
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- Audio Hijack - Record audio from any application like iTunes, Skype or Safari, or from hardware devices like microphones and mixers.
- Audio Profile Manager - Allows you to pin input/output devices for each particular combination of connected devices. May suppress HDMI displays from being chosen.
- BackgroundMusic - Record system audio, control audio levels for individual apps, and automatically pauses your music player when other audio starts playing and unpauses it afterwards.
- Fader - Menu bar volume mixer with per-app volume, one-click audio output switching, and Bluetooth headphone control.
- krisp - AI-powered app that removes background noise and echo from meetings leaving only human voice.
- Murmur - On-device text-to-speech studio with 860+ voices, voice cloning, and four AI models running entirely on Apple Silicon via MLX.
- Plug - Discover and listen to music from Hype Machine.
- Recordia - Record audio directly from the menu bar or with a global keyboard shortcut.
- VOX Player - Play numerous lossy and lossless audio formats.
- XLD - Rip/Decode/convert/play various "lossless" audio files.
- Arq - Encrypted backups to Amazon, Dropbox, Google, OneDrive, etc.
- Carbon Copy Cloner - Create incremental and fully bootable backups of your Mac to external storage.