Audio

• Ableton Live
  Ableton Live
  Ableton Live is a loop-based software music sequencer and DAW for Mac OS and Windows by Ableton. The latest major release of Live, Version 8, was released in April 2009. In contrast to many other software sequencers, Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for...
  
   – music production
• Adobe Soundbooth
  Adobe Soundbooth
  Adobe Soundbooth was a digital audio editor by Adobe Systems Incorporated for Mac OS X, Windows Vista and 7. Adobe has described it as being "in the spirit of SoundEdit 16 and Cool Edit 2000". Adobe also has a more powerful program called Adobe Audition, which replaced Soundbooth as of Adobe...
  
   – music and soundtrack editing
• Ardour
  Ardour (audio processor)
  Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. It runs on Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. Its primary author is Paul Davis, who is also responsible for the JACK Audio Connection Kit...
  
   – hard disk recorder
  Hard disk recorder
  A hard disk recorder is a type of direct to disk recording system that uses a high-capacity hard disk to record digital audio or digital video. Hard disk recording systems represent an alternative to more traditional reel-to-reel tape or cassette multitrack systems, and provide editing...
  
   and digital audio workstation
  Digital audio workstation
  A digital audio workstation is an electronic system designed solely or primarily for recording, editing and playing back digital audio. DAWs were originally tape-less, microprocessor-based systems such as the Synclavier and Fairlight CMI...
  
   program
• Audacity
  Audacity
  Audacity is a free software, cross-platform digital audio editor and recording application. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD.Audacity was created by Dominic Mazzoni while he was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University...
  
   – digital audio editor
• Audion
  Audion (software)
  Audion is an audio player by Panic. It was originally a commercial program, but with the dominance of Apple's iTunes, development was halted and it was released as freeware.-Design:...
  
   – (development ceased)
• Audio Hijack – audio recorder
• baudline
  Baudline
  The baudline time-frequency browser is a signal analysis tool designed for scientific visualization. It runs on several Unix operating systems under the X Window System...
  
   - signal analyzer
• BIAS Peak
  BIAS Peak
  Peak is a digital audio editing application for the Macintosh, used primarily for stereo/mono recording, sample editing, creating loops, and CD mastering...
  
   - mastering
• Cog
  Cog (software)
  Cog is an open source audio player for Mac OS X. The basic layout is a single-paned playlist interface with two retractable drawers, one for navigating the user's music folders and another for viewing audio file properties, like bitrate...
  
   – open source audio player, supports multiple formats
• Cubase – professional music production program
• djay
  Djay (software)
  djay is a digital music mixing software program for Mac OS X, iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch created by the German company algoriddim. It allows playback and mixing of digital audio files with a user interface that tries to simulate the concept of "two turntables and a microphone" on a computer...
  
   – digital music mixing software
• Digital Performer
  Digital Performer
  Digital Performer is a full-featured Digital Audio Workstation/Sequencer software package published by Mark of the Unicorn of Cambridge, Massachusetts for the Apple Macintosh platform.-Ancestry:...
  
   – MIDI sequencer with audio tracking
• Final Cut Express
  Final Cut Express
  Final Cut Express is a discontinued video editing software created by Apple Inc. It is the consumer version of Final Cut Pro and is designed for advanced editing of digital video as well as high-definition video, which is used by many amateur and professional videographers...
  
  /Pro
  Final Cut Pro
  Final Cut Pro is a non-linear video editing software developed by Macromedia Inc. and then Apple Inc. The most recent version, Final Cut Pro X, runs on Mac personal computers powered by Mac OS X version 10.6.7 or later and using Intel processors...
  
   – movie editor
• Finale – scorewriter
  Scorewriter
  A scorewriter, or music notation program, is software used for creating sheet music.A scorewriter is to music notation what a word processor is to text.-Comparison with multitrack sequencer software:...
  
   program
• GarageBand
  GarageBand
  GarageBand is a software application for Mac OS X and iOS that allows users to create music or podcasts. It is developed by Apple Inc. as a part of the iLife software package on Mac OS X.-Audio recording:...
  
   – music/podcast production
• HyperNext
  HyperNext
  HyperNext is a freeware visual software development system aimed at beginner programmers that runs on Macintosh and Windows computers. It was inspired by HyperCard and includes a GUI having controls such as buttons and listboxes, and an interpreted English-like programming language. HyperNext also...
  
   – freeware software development
• iTunes
  ITunes
  iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
  
   – audio/video Jukebox
• iVolume
  IVolume
  iVolume is an application for Mac OS X and Windows that implements ReplayGain for iTunes by updating the metadata that iTunes uses for Sound Check volume normalization....
  
   - volume normalization
• ixi software
  Ixi software
  Experimental Music Software.ixi is a small international collective of musicians that work mainly with improvisation and live music.The aim with ixi software is to explore abstract screen based interfaces as controllers for synth...
  
   – free improvisation and sketching tools
• Jaikoz
  Jaikoz
  Jaikoz is a Java program used for editing and mass tagging music file tags. Jaikoz generates acoustic fingerprints of your files and looks up the PUID and the existing metadata from the MusicBrainz or Discogs service...
  
   – mass tagger
• Kontakt – sampler, sample editor
• LilyPond – A scorewriter
  Scorewriter
  A scorewriter, or music notation program, is software used for creating sheet music.A scorewriter is to music notation what a word processor is to text.-Comparison with multitrack sequencer software:...
  
   program
• Logic Express
  Logic Express
  Logic Express is a "light" version of Logic Pro, a MIDI sequencer and digital audio workstation software application maintained by Apple that runs on the Mac OS X platform. It was announced on 15 January 2004 for release in March 2004....
  
   – Prosumer
  Prosumer
  Prosumer is a portmanteau formed by contracting either the word professional or less often, producer with the word consumer. For example, a prosumer grade digital camera is a "cross" between consumer grade and professional grade...
  
   music production
• Logic Studio
  Logic Studio
  Logic Studio is a music production suite by Apple Inc. The first version of Logic Studio was unveiled on September 12, 2007.It claims to be the largest collection of modeled instruments, sampler instruments, effect plug-ins, and audio loops ever put in a single box.The package contains Logic Pro,...
  
   – music writing studio package by Apple Inc.
  • Apple Loops Utility
    Apple Loops Utility
    The Apple Loops Utility software is a small companion utility to Soundtrack Pro, GarageBand, Logic Express, and Logic Pro, all made by Apple Inc. Apple Loops Utility allows users to create loops of audio that can be time-stretched...
    
     – production and organisation of Apple Loops
  • Apple Qmaster
    Apple Qmaster
    Apple Qmaster is a system made by Apple Inc. that provides automated work distribution and processing for high-volume projects created with certain digital visual effects software packages: Shake, Autodesk Maya, Final Cut Pro, Compressor, DVD Studio Pro and any UNIX command-line program...
    
     and Qadministrator
    Apple Qadministrator
    Apple Qadministrator is a utility for creating and managing Qmaster clusters, which are used for distributing encoding, rendering and compression processes throughout a Mac-based network. The program is included with Shake - Apple's compositing software, Final Cut Studio and Logic Pro.- External...
    
    
  • Logic Pro
    Logic Pro
    Logic Pro is a hybrid 32 / 64 bit digital audio workstation and MIDI sequencer software application for the Mac OS X platform. Originally created by German software developer Emagic, Logic Pro became an Apple product when Apple bought Emagic in 2002...
    
     – digital audio workstation
  • Mainstage
    Mainstage (software)
    MainStage is a software developed by Apple Inc. Its primary purpose is to serve as a method of centralizing any virtual instruments that users might have installed on their computers that are normally used in Apple's DAW software Logic Pro for use in live performance.The instruments can then be...
    
     – program to play software synthesizer
    Software synthesizer
    A software synthesizer, also known as a softsynth is a computer program or plug-in for digital audio generation. Computer software which can create sounds or music is not new, but advances in processing speed are allowing softsynths to accomplish the same tasks that previously required dedicated...
    
    s live
  • QuickTime Pro – pro version of QuickTime
  • Soundtrack Pro
    Soundtrack Pro
    Soundtrack Pro was a music composing and audio editing application made by Apple Inc., which includes a collection of just over 5000 royalty free professional instrument loops and sound effects...
    
     – post production audio editor
  • WaveBurner – CD mastering and production software
• Max – free software CD ripper and audio transcoder
• Mixxx
  Mixxx
  Mixxx is open source digital DJ'ing software that allows an individual to mix music using a personal computer, as a DJ would with a pair of physical turntables. It is specifically suited to the style of mixing known as beatmatching. - Overview :...
  
   - DJ mix software available for the mac in the App Store
• Max
  Max (software)
  Max is a visual programming language for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling '74. During its 20-year history, it has been widely used by composers, performers, software designers, researchers, and artists for creating innovative recordings,...
  
   – Cycling 74's visual programming language for MIDI, audio, video; with MSP, Jitter
• Nuendo
  Nuendo
  Nuendo is a music software product developed by Steinberg for music recording, arranging, editing and post-production as part of a Digital Audio Workstation. The package is aimed at audio and video post-production market segments, but it also contains optional modules that can be used for...
  
   – audio and post production editor
• ReBirth
  Rebirth
  -Spiritual:* Reincarnation, the migration of a deceased person's spirit to a newborn body** Rebirth * Baptism, a Christian ritual representing spiritual cleansing* Resurrection of the Dead-Music:* Rebirth Brass Band* Rebirth...
  
   – virtual synth program simulates Roland TR-808, TB-303
• REAPER
  REAPER
  REAPER is a digital audio workstation created by Cockos. It is distributed with an uncrippled evaluation license with a nag screen explaining the license cost. It is currently available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X...
  
   – digital audio workstation
• Reason
  Reason (program)
  Reason is a music software program developed by Swedish software developers Propellerhead Software. It emulates a rack of hardware synthesizers, samplers, signal processors, sequencers, and mixers, all of which can be freely interconnected in an arbitrary manner...
  
   – digital audio workstation
• Recycle
  ReCycle (program)
  ReCycle is a music loop editor designed and developed by Swedish software developers Propellerhead Software. It runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh based PCs. The software debuted in 1994....
  
   – sample editor
• RiffWorks
  RiffWorks
  RiffWorks is a guitar recording and online song collaboration program for MacOS and Windows. RiffWorks is designed and developed by Sonoma Wire Works...
  
   – guitar recording and online song collaboration software
• Senuti
  Senuti
  Senuti is a Mac OS X computer application written by Whitney Young. It was released on April 19, 2006 for copying songs from an iPod to a Macintosh computer running Mac OS X 10.3 or later...
  
   – transfers music from iPod to computer
• Sibelius – scorewriter
  Scorewriter
  A scorewriter, or music notation program, is software used for creating sheet music.A scorewriter is to music notation what a word processor is to text.-Comparison with multitrack sequencer software:...
  
   program
• Sound Studio
  Sound Studio
  Sound Studio is multitrack audio recording software for Mac OS X. It was developed by Felt Tip Software. Sound Studio 3 was previously distributed by Freeverse.Now it is being distributed by .-External links:**...
  
   – digital audio analyzer and editor
• Wiretap – digital audio recorder

CD and DVD authoring

• Disco
  Disco (software)
  Disco is an application for Apple's Mac OS X developed by Austin Sarner, Jasper Hauser and Jason Harris.The software is an optical disc authoring utility, which allows users to burn CDs and DVDs with multisession support, disc duplication, burning VIDEO_TS folders, disc spanning as well as a...
  
  
• DVD Studio Pro
  DVD Studio Pro
  DVD Studio Pro was a high-end software tool published by Apple Inc. to allow users to create DVD masters to be sent out for replication at production houses. Its tight integration with other Apple applications allows users to take Final Cut Pro and Motion projects and render them into the DVD...
  
  , for professionals
• iDVD
  IDVD
  iDVD is a DVD creation software application made by Apple Inc. for Mac OS X. iDVD allows the user to add QuickTime Movies, MP3 music, and digital photos to a DVD that can then be played on a commercial DVD player. It is often considered the last step of Apple's iLife suite, bringing together all...
  
  , a basic DVD
  DVD
  A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
  
  -authoring application

• Roxio Toast
  Roxio Toast
  Roxio Toast is an Optical disc authoring and media conversion software application for Mac OS X. Its name is a play on the word burn, a term used for the writing of information onto a disc through the use of a laser....
  
  

Chat (text, voice, video)

• Adium
  Adium
  Adium is a free and open source instant messaging client for Mac OS X that supports multiple IM networks, including Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ, and XMPP. It supports many protocols through the libraries libezv , MGTwitterEngine , and libpurple...
  
   – multi-protocol IM client
• aMSN
  AMSN
  aMSN is a free Windows Live Messenger clone. aMSN attempts to emulate the look and feel of Windows Live Messenger, and supports many of its features...
  
  
• AOL Instant Messenger
  AOL Instant Messenger
  AOL Instant Messenger is an instant messaging and presence computer program which uses the proprietary OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow registered users to communicate in real time. It was released by AOL in May 1997...
  
  
• ChitChat
  ChitChat
  ChitChat was an open source instant messaging client for Mac OS X supporting the Yahoo! Messenger protocol. It enabled users to chat with each other over the global Yahoo! chat system. The last version, ChitChat 1.2, had a more refined user interface, speed improvements, Address Book support, IM...
  
  
• Colloquy
  Colloquy (IRC client)
  Colloquy is an open-source IRC, SILC, ICB and XMPP client for Mac OS X. Colloquy uses its own core, known as Chat Core, although in the past it used Irssi as its IRC protocol engine. One of the primary goals behind Colloquy was to create an IRC, SILC and ICB client with Mac OS X visuals...
  
   – freeware advanced IRC
  Internet Relay Chat
  Internet Relay Chat is a protocol for real-time Internet text messaging or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message as well as chat and data transfer, including file...
  
   and SILC
  SILC (protocol)
  SILC is a protocol that provides secure synchronous conferencing services over the Internet.- Components :...
  
   client
• Fire – open source, multiprotocol IM client
• FaceTime
  FaceTime
  FaceTime is a video calling software application and related protocol developed by Apple for supported mobile devices running the iOS, in addition to Macintosh computers running Mac OS X 10.6.6 and higher...
  
   - videoconferencing
  Videoconferencing
  Videoconferencing is the conduct of a videoconference by a set of telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously...
  
   between Mac
  Macintosh
  The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...
  
  , iPhone
  IPhone
  The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
  
  , iPad
  IPad
  The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. The iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010 by Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs. Its size and...
  
   and iPod touch
  IPod touch
  The iPod Touch is a portable media player, personal digital assistant, handheld game console, and Wi-Fi mobile device designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPod Touch adds the multi-touch graphical user interface to the iPod line...
  
  
• iChat AV – instant messaging
  Instant messaging
  Instant Messaging is a form of real-time direct text-based chatting communication in push mode between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared clients. The user's text is conveyed over a network, such as the Internet...
  
   and videoconferencing
  Videoconferencing
  Videoconferencing is the conduct of a videoconference by a set of telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously...
  
  
• Ircle
  Ircle
  Ircle is an IRC client developed by Onno Tijdgat for the Macintosh computer platform. Ircle is shareware, with free upgrades...
  
  
• Irssi
  Irssi
  Irssi is an IRC client program for Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X. It was originally written by Timo Sirainen, and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License in January 1999.-Features:...
  
   – IrssiX and MacIrssi
• Kopete
  Kopete
  Kopete is a multi-protocol, free software instant messaging client. Although it can run in numerous environments, it was designed for and integrates with the KDE desktop environment...
  
  
• Microsoft Messenger for Mac
  Microsoft Messenger for Mac
  Microsoft Messenger for Mac is the official Mac OS X instant messaging client for use with Microsoft's .NET Messenger Service and is developed by the Macintosh Business Unit, a division of Microsoft. However, the feature list is limited in comparison to that of its counterpart Windows Live Messenger...
  
  
• Palringo
  Palringo
  Palringo is a server-based instant messaging client for various platforms. It supports several protocols such as AOL Instant Messenger , Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, XMPP/Jabber, Google Talk, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, MobileMe/iChat and Facebook IM....
  
  
• Proteus (instant messenger)
• Psi (instant messenger)
• Skype
  Skype
  Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls and chat over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phones can be made for a fee using a debit-based user account system...
  
  
• Snak
  Snak
  Snak is a popular shareware Internet Relay Chat client written by Kent Sorensen for the Macintosh platform. Snak is distributed as shareware and can be freely used and evaluated for 30 days at no charge. After the 30-day evaluation period has ended, the program will quit after 15 minutes of use,...
  
  
• Ventrilo
  Ventrilo
  Ventrilo is a proprietary VoIP software which includes text chat.The Ventrilo client and server are both available as freeware for use with fewer than 8 people on the same server . The server software is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, or Unix variants such as Linux, Kopi, Solaris,...
  
   – audio chatroom application
• X-Chat Aqua
• Yahoo! Messenger
  Yahoo! Messenger
  Yahoo! Messenger is an advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!...
  
  
• Photo Booth
  Photo Booth
  Photo Booth is a small software application for taking photos and videos with an iSight camera by Apple Inc. for Mac OS X and iOS .-Photo Booth:...
  
  

Children's software

• Kid Pix
  Kid Pix
  Kid Pix is a bitmap drawing program aimed at children. Originally created by Craig Hickman, it was first released for the Macintosh in 1989 and subsequently published in 1991 by Brøderbund...
  
   Deluxe 3X – bitmap drawing program
• Stagecast Creator
  Stagecast Creator
  Stagecast Creator is a visual programming language intended for use in teaching programming to children. It is based on the programming by demonstration concept, where rules are created by giving examples of what actions should take place in a given situation...
  
   – programming and internet authoring for kids

Developer tools and IDEs

Integrated development environment

An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...

 

• Apache Web Server
• Aptana
  Aptana
  Aptana, Inc. is a company making web application development tools for Web 2.0 and Ajax for use with programming languages such as JavaScript, Ruby, PHP and Python. Aptana's main products are Aptana Studio, Aptana Cloud and Aptana Jaxer...
  
   – an open source
  Open source
  The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
  
   integrated development environment
  Integrated development environment
  An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...
  
   (IDE) for building Ajax web applications
• Code::Blocks
  Code::Blocks
  Code::Blocks is a free and open source, cross-platform IDE which supports multiple compilers including GCC and MSVC. It is developed in C++ using wxWidgets as the GUI toolkit. Using a plugin architecture, its capabilities and features are defined by the provided plugins.Currently, Code::Blocks is...
  
   – open source IDE for C++
  C++
  C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...
  
  
• CodeWarrior
  CodeWarrior
  CodeWarrior is an integrated development environment for the creation of software that runs on a number of embedded systems. Prior to the acquisition of the product by Freescale Semiconductor, versions existed for Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube,...
  
   – development environment, framework
• Coldstone game engine
  Coldstone game engine
  The Coldstone game engine is a game creation suite for the Macintosh developed by Beenox Studios and Ambrosia Software.-Functionality:Although the Coldstone game creation software itself only runs on the Mac OS platform, it is capable of compiling stand-alone games that run on the Mac OS 9...
  
  
• Dylan (programming language)
• Eclipse – open source Java-based IDE for developing rich-client applications, includes SWT library, replaces Swing by using underlying OS native windowing abilities
• Fink
  Fink
  The Fink project is an effort to port and package open-source Unix programs to Mac OS X. Fink uses dpkg and APT , as well as its own frontend program, fink ....
  
   – Debian package manager
  Deb (file format)
  deb is the extension of the Debian software package format and the most often used name for such binary packages. Like the "Deb" part of the term Debian, it originates from the name of Debra, erstwhile girlfriend and now ex-wife of Debian's founder Ian Murdock.Debian packages are also used in...
  
   for ported
  Porting
  In computer science, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed...
  
   Unix
  Unix
  Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
  
   software
• Free Pascal
  Free Pascal
  Free Pascal Compiler is a free Pascal and Object Pascal compiler.In addition to its own Object Pascal dialect, Free Pascal supports, to varying degrees, the dialects of several other compilers, including those of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, and some historical Macintosh compilers...
  
   – Object Pascal compiler, XCode plugin available
• GNU Compiler Collection
  GNU Compiler Collection
  The GNU Compiler Collection is a compiler system produced by the GNU Project supporting various programming languages. GCC is a key component of the GNU toolchain...
  
  
• Glasgow Haskell Compiler
  Glasgow Haskell Compiler
  The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, more commonly known as the Glasgow Haskell Compiler or GHC, is an open source native code compiler for the functional programming language Haskell. The lead developers are Simon Peyton Jones and Simon Marlow...
  
  
• HotSpot
  HotSpot
  HotSpot is a Java virtual machine for desktops and servers, maintained and distributed by Oracle Corporation. It features techniques such as just-in-time compilation and adaptive optimization designed to improve performance.-History:...
  
   – Sun's Java Virtual Machine
• Komodo
  ActiveState Komodo
  Komodo Edit is a highly regarded free text editor for dynamic programming languages. Introduced in January 2007, with the release of version 4.3, Komodo Edit is built on top of the Open Komodo project...
  
   – commercial multi-language IDE from ActiveState
  ActiveState
  ActiveState is a Canadian software company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. It develops, sells, and supports cross-platform development tools for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, as well as language distributions and enterprise services...
  
  
• Lazarus
  Lazarus (software)
  Lazarus is a free cross-platform IDE which provides a Delphi-like development experience for Pascal and Object Pascal developers. It is developed for, and supported by, the Free Pascal compiler. Since early 2008, Lazarus has been available for Microsoft Windows, several Linux distributions,...
  
   – cross-platform IDE to develop software with Free Pascal
  Free Pascal
  Free Pascal Compiler is a free Pascal and Object Pascal compiler.In addition to its own Object Pascal dialect, Free Pascal supports, to varying degrees, the dialects of several other compilers, including those of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, and some historical Macintosh compilers...
  
  , specialized in graphical software
• MacApp
  MacApp
  MacApp was Apple Computer's primary object oriented application framework for the Mac OS for much of the 1990s. First released in 1985, it is arguably the first such system to be widely used, notably on a microcomputer platform...
  
   – application development framework Pascal
  Pascal (programming language)
  Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968/9 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.A derivative known as Object Pascal...
  
   and C++
  C++
  C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...
  
  
• Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
  Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
  Macintosh Programmer's Workshop or MPW, is a software development environment for the Classic Mac OS, written by Apple Computer. For Macintosh developers, it was one of the primary tools for building applications for System 7.x and Mac OS 8.x and 9.x. Initially, MPW was sold as a commercial product...
  
   (MPW)
• Macromedia Authorware
  Macromedia Authorware
  Macromedia Authorware was an interpreted, flowchart based, graphical programming language. Authorware is used for creating interactive programs that can integrate a range of multimedia content, particularly e-learning applications...
  
   – application (CBT, eLearning) development, no Mac development environment since version 4, though can still package applications with the 'Mac Packager' for OS 8 through 10 playback
• MacZoop
  MacZoop
  MacZoop was a popular application framework for the Apple Macintosh, based on Carbon. Written exclusively in C++, it was designed as a much smaller and manageable alternative to the popular, but now defunct Think Class Library from Symantec, and later, PowerPlant framework from Metrowerks. MacZoop...
  
   – C++ application framework
  Application framework
  In computer programming, an application framework consists of a software framework used by software developers to implement the standard structure of an application for a specific development environment ....
  
  
• Mono
  Mono (software)
  Mono, pronounced , is a free and open source project led by Xamarin to create an Ecma standard compliant .NET-compatible set of tools including, among others, a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime....
  
   – open source implementation of Microsoft .NET Framework
  .NET Framework
  The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...
  
   with a C# compiler
• NetBeans
  NetBeans
  NetBeans refers to both a platform framework for Java desktop applications, and an integrated development environment for developing with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Groovy, C, C++, Scala, Clojure, and others...
  
   – modular, open source, multi-language platform and IDE for Java written in pure Java
• Omnis Studio
  Omnis Studio
  Omnis Studio is a rapid application development tool that allows programmers and application developers to create enterprise, web, and mobile applications for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X personal computers and servers across all business sectors....
  
   – cross-platform development environment for creating enterprise and web applications for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Solaris
• Panorama (database engine)
  Panorama (database engine)
  Panorama is a database engine and development environment for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows.-Overview:Panorama is database software for the Apple Inc. Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. It is a product of ProVUE Development...
  
  
• Perl
  Perl
  Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
  
  
• PHP
  PHP
  PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
  
  
• Python
  Python (programming language)
  Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...
  
  
• Qt
  Qt (toolkit)
  Qt is a cross-platform application framework that is widely used for developing application software with a graphical user interface , and also used for developing non-GUI programs such as command-line tools and consoles for servers...
  
   Creator – an IDE for C++ GUI applications, by Trolltech
  Trolltech
  Qt Development Frameworks is an Oslo, Norway-based software company best known for its Qt toolkit and application framework. Qt Development Frameworks is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nokia Corporation...
  
  
• Real Studio
  REAL Studio
  Real Studio is a programming environment developed andcommercially marketed by Real Software, Inc of Austin, Texasfor Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, 32-bit x86 Linux and the...
  
   – cross-platform compiled REALbasic
  REALbasic
  Realbasic is the object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language used in Real Studio, a programming environment, developed and commercially marketed by Real Software, Inc of Austin, Texas for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, 32-bit x86 Linux and the web.- Language features :RB is a strongly...
  
   BASIC
  BASIC
  BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use - the name is an acronym from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code....
  
   programming language IDE
• ResEdit
  ResEdit
  ResEdit was a developer tool application for the Apple Macintosh, used to create and edit resources directly in the Mac's resource fork architecture. It was an alternative to tools such as REdit, and the resource compiler Rez. For the average user, ResEdit was generally easier to use, because it...
  
   – resource editor
• Revolution
  Revolution (development environment)
  Revolution is a software development environment/multimedia authoring software in the tradition of HyperCard and is based on the MetaCard engine. Its primary focus is on providing a relatively accessible development tool set and scripting language that enable the creation of software programs that...
  
   – high-level cross-platform IDE
• Script Debugger
  Script Debugger
  Script Debugger is a Macintosh computer source code editor and debugging environment for the AppleScript programming language, and other languages based on Apple Inc.'s Open Scripting Architecture...
  
   – an AppleScript
  AppleScript
  AppleScript is a scripting language created by Apple Inc. and built into Macintosh operating systems since System 7. The term "AppleScript" may refer to the scripting system itself, or to particular scripts that are written in the AppleScript language....
  
   and Open Scripting Architecture IDE
• SuperCard
  SuperCard
  SuperCard is a high-level development environment that runs on Macintosh computers, under OS 8 and 9, and OS X. It is inspired by HyperCard, but includes a richer language, a full GUI toolkit, and native color .The programming language used by SuperCard is called SuperTalk, and is largely based on...
  
   – high-level IDE
• Tcl/tk - A scripting shell & GUI utility that allows cross platform development. Included With Mac OS X.
• TextMate
  TextMate
  TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X created by Allan Odgaard. Popular with programmers, some notable features include declarative customizations, tabs for open documents, recordable macros, folding sections and snippets, shell integration, and an extensible bundle...
  
   – very type-efficient multipurpose text editor supports Ruby, PHP, Python, many more
• Torque (game engine) – powerful professional game creation software
• WebKit
  WebKit
  WebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages. WebKit powers Google Chrome and Apple Safari and by October 2011 held over 33% of the browser market share between them. It is also used as the basis for the experimental browser included with the Amazon Kindle ebook...
  
   – open source application framework for Safari (web browser)
  Safari (web browser)
  Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. and included with the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther". Safari is also the...
  
  
• WebObjects
  WebObjects
  WebObjects was a Java web application server from Apple Inc., and a web application framework that ran on the server. It was available at no additional cost. Its hallmark features were its object-orientation, database connectivity, and prototyping tools...
  
  
• wxPython
  WxPython
  -External links:* * at showmedo...
  
   – IDE merging Python
  Python (programming language)
  Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...
  
   and wxWidgets
  WxWidgets
  wxWidgets is a widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces for cross-platform applications. wxWidgets enables a program's GUI code to compile and run on several computer platforms with minimal or no code changes...
  
  
• Xcode
  Xcode
  Xcode is a suite of tools, developed by Apple, for developing software for Mac OS X and iOS. Xcode 4.2, the latest major version, is available on the Mac App Store for free for Mac OS X 10.7 , and on the Apple Developer Connection website for free to registered developers Xcode is a suite of tools,...
  
   – IDE made by Apple, which comes as a part of Mac OS X
  Mac OS X
  Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
  
   and is available as a download, was called Project Builder

E-mail clients

• Apple Mail
  Mail (application)
  Mail is an email program included with Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system. Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it was adapted, following Apple's acquisition of NeXT, to become OS X's Mail application.Mail uses the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols,...
  
   – the bundled e-mail client
• Claris Emailer – classic Mac OS only, no longer available
• Entourage
  Microsoft Entourage
  Microsoft Entourage was an e-mail client and personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8.5 and higher. Microsoft first released Entourage in October 2000 as part of the Microsoft Office 2001 office suite; Office 98, the previous version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS included...
  
   – e-mail client by Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
  ; analogous to Microsoft Outlook
  Microsoft Outlook
  Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite...
  
  
• Eudora
  Eudora (e-mail client)
  Eudora is an e-mail client used on the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It also supports several palmtop computing platforms, including Newton and the Palm OS....
  
  
• Lotus Notes
  Lotus Notes
  Lotus Notes is the client of a collaborative platform originally created by Lotus Development Corp. in 1989. In 1995 Lotus was acquired by IBM and became known as the Lotus Development division of IBM and is now part of the IBM Software Group...
  
  
• Mailplane – a WebKit-based client for Gmail
• Mailsmith – free e-mail client with extensive mail filtering, HTML-free, but no IMAP support
• Microsoft Outlook
  Microsoft Outlook
  Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite...
  
  
• Mozilla Thunderbird
  Mozilla Thunderbird
  Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser...
  
  
• Mulberry
  Mulberry (e-mail client)
  Mulberry is a formerly proprietary, now open sourced email client marketed by Cyrusoft from approximately 1995 to 2005. On October 1, 2005, Cyrusoft International, Inc./ISAMET, declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy and went out of business...
  
   – open-source software for e-mail, calendars and contacts
• Opera Mail
• Outlook Express
  Outlook Express
  Outlook Express is an email and news client that is included with Internet Explorer versions 4.0 through 6.0. As such, it is also bundled with several versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 98 to Windows Server 2003, and is available for Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95 and Mac OS 9...
  
  

FTP clients

• Captain FTP
  Captain FTP
  Captain FTP is an FTP client for Mac OS X, developed by Xnet Communications. Version 4.5 includes automated uploading/downloading, file sharing, synchronizing and a tabbed interface. Captain FTP also provides a Dashboard widget for uploading files, the virtual folders feature can also be used to...
  
  
• Classic FTP
• Cyberduck
  Cyberduck
  Cyberduck is an open source FTP and SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files, Google Docs, and Amazon S3 client for Mac OS X and Windows licensed under the GPL. Cyberduck is written in the Java language and using the Cocoa user interface framework. It supports FTP/TLS , using AUTH TLS as well as directory...
  
  
• Fetch
  Fetch (FTP client)
  Fetch is a full-featured GUI-based Mac OS-only FTP client made by Fetch Softworks. The latest version of Fetch is 5.6; the long-awaited version 5 was released on May 24, 2005. In addition to basic FTP functionality, Fetch includes such features as editing files without having to download them and...
  
  
• Fugu
  Fugu (software)
  -External links:* *...
  
  
• FileZilla
  FileZilla
  FileZilla is free, open source, cross-platform FTP software, consisting of FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. Binaries are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS . As of 18 April 2011, FileZilla Client was the 7th most popular download of all time from...
  
  
• Interarchy
  Interarchy
  Interarchy is a file transfer application for Mac OS X. It is engineered by Nolobe Pty Ltd.-Features:Interarchy is an RFC standards compliant TCP/IP file transfer client...
  
  
• Transmit
  Transmit (FTP client)
  Transmit is an FTP client for Mac OS X and Mac OS Classic . Developed by Panic, Transmit is shareware – after a seven-day trial period, the product can only be used for seven-minute sessions until it has been purchased....
  
  

CAD

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided design , also known as computer-aided design and drafting , is the use of computer technology for the process of design and design-documentation. Computer Aided Drafting describes the process of drafting with a computer...

, 3D graphics

• Ashlar-Vellum
  Ashlar-Vellum
  Ashlar-Vellum, a dba of Ashlar Incorporated, is a developer of Computer-aided design and 3D modeling software for both the Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms. Ashlar-Vellum’s interface, designed in 1988 by Dr...
  
   – organic 2D/3D drafting, 3D modeling
• ArchiCAD
  ArchiCAD
  ArchiCAD is an architectural BIM CAD software for Macintosh and Windows developed by the Hungarian company Graphisoft. ArchiCAD offers specialized solutions for handling all common aspects of aesthetics and engineering during the whole design process of the built environment — buildings, interiors,...
  
  
• AutoCAD
  AutoCAD
  AutoCAD is a software application for computer-aided design and drafting in both 2D and 3D. It is developed and sold by Autodesk, Inc. First released in December 1982, AutoCAD was one of the first CAD programs to run on personal computers, notably the IBM PC...
  
  
• Blender
  Blender (software)
  Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software product used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications or video games. The current release version is 2.60, and was released on October 19, 2011...
  
  
• Cinema 4D
  Cinema 4D
  CINEMA 4D is a 3D modeling, animation and rendering application developed by MAXON Computer GmbH of Friedrichsdorf, Germany. It is capable of procedural and polygonal/subd modeling, animating, lighting, texturing, rendering, and common features found in 3d modelling applications.- Overview:The...
  
  
• Google SketchUp – 3D modeling software
• HighDesign
  HighDesign
  -Description:HighDesign is a 2D CAD program developed by Ilexsoft for Mac OS X. It offers a streamlined user interface, innovative project organization and an abundant palette of drawing and editing tools as well as advanced tools like photogrammetry and slide creation....
  
  
• Houdini (software)
  Houdini (software)
  Houdini is a high-end 3D animation package developed by Side Effects Software which is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. It is a rewrite of the PRISMS ecosystem of standalone tools. Its chief distinction from other packages is that it has been designed as a purely procedural environment...
  
  
• Lightwave
  LightWave
  LightWave 3D is a high end computer graphics program developed by NewTek. The latest release of LightWave runs on Windows and Mac OS X.- Overview:...
  
  
• Maya
  Maya (software)
  Autodesk Maya , commonly shortened to Maya, is 3D computer graphics software that runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and Linux, originally developed by Alias Systems Corporation and currently owned and developed by Autodesk, Inc. It is used to create interactive 3D applications, including video...
  
  
• Modo
  Modo (software)
  modo is a polygon and subdivision surface modeling, sculpting, 3D painting, animation and rendering package developed by Luxology, LLC. The program incorporates features such as n-gons, 3D painting and edge weighting, and runs on Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows platforms.-History:modo was created...
  
  
• PowerCADD
  PowerCADD
  PowerCADD is a computer-aided design and drafting software program for the Apple Macintosh platform developed from out of the PowerDraw platform of the mid 1980s by Greensboro, North Carolina-based Engineered Software....
  
  
• VectorWorks
  VectorWorks
  Vectorworks is a computer-aided design and Building Information Modeling software program developed by Nemetschek Vectorworks that is used for drafting, technical drawing and 3D modeling. Vectorworks offers 2D, 3D, production management, and presentation capabilities for all phases of the design...
  
  
• ZBrush
  ZBrush
  ZBrush is a digital sculpting tool that combines 3D/2.5D modeling, texturing and painting. It uses a proprietary "pixol" technology which stores lighting, color, material, and depth information for all objects on the screen...
  
  
• Siemens NX

Distributed document authoring

• Adobe Acrobat
  Adobe Acrobat
  Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format . All members of the family, except Adobe Reader , are commercial software, while the latter is available as freeware and can be downloaded...
  
  
• Adobe Version Cue
  Adobe Version Cue
  Adobe Version Cue is a computer program sold by Adobe Systems, only available as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite. Version Cue enables users to track and manipulate file versions and metadata. Users can see previews of older versions and can restore or delete versions at any time...
  
  
• Preview

Icon editors, viewers

• IconBuilder
  IconBuilder
  IconBuilder is a popular plugin for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements and Macromedia Fireworks for the editing and creation of computer icons created and used by The Iconfactory. It supports all icon sizes for both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows...
  
  
• Icon Composer part of Apple Developer Tools

File conversion and management

• Adobe Bridge
  Adobe Bridge
  Adobe Bridge is an organizational software application created and released by Adobe Systems as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite, beginning with CS2. Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using an interface similar to the file browser found in previous versions...
  
  
• Font Book
  Font Book
  Apple's Font Book is a font manager that comes with Mac OS X since version 10.3 .The program enables users to:* Preview and install font files, avoiding multiple instances of the same font....
  
   – font management tool
• GraphicConverter
  GraphicConverter
  GraphicConverter is computer software that displays and edits computer graphics files. It also converts files between different formats. For example, one can convert a GIF file to a JPEG file....
  
   - graphics editor, open/converts a wide range of file formats
• iPhoto
  IPhoto
  iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. and released with every Macintosh personal computer as part of the iLife suite of digital life management applications...
  
   - a photo management application

Layout and desktop publishing

• Adobe InDesign
  Adobe InDesign
  Adobe InDesign is a software application produced by Adobe Systems. It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers and books. In conjunction with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite InDesign can publish content suitable for tablet devices...
  
   – page layout
• Pages
  Pages
  Pages is a word processor and page layout application developed by Apple. It is part of the iWork productivity suite and runs on the Mac OS X & iOS operating systems. The first version of Pages was announced on January 11, 2005, and was released one month later. The most recent Macintosh version,...
  
   – part of iWork
  IWork
  iWork is an office suite of desktop applications created by Apple for the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. The first version of iWork, iWork '05, was released in 2005. The suite originally bundled Keynote, a presentation program which had previously been sold as a standalone application, and...
  
  
• QuarkXPress
  QuarkXPress
  QuarkXPress is a computer application for creating and editing complex page layouts in a WYSIWYG environment. It runs on Mac OS X and Windows. It was first released by Quark, Inc...
  
   – page layout
• RagTime
  RagTime (computer program)
  RagTime is a computer program primarily used for desktop publishing. The software combines spreadsheet features with word processing and embedded multimedia....
  
  
• Ready,Set,Go!
  Ready,Set,Go!
  Ready,Set,Go! is a software package for desktop publishing. It was originally developed for Apple Computer's Macintosh by Manhattan Graphics, and it was one of the earliest desktop publishing packages available for that platform...
  
  
• Scribus
  Scribus
  Scribus is a desktop publishing application, released under the GNU General Public License as free software. It is based on the free Qt toolkit, therefore native versions are available for Linux, Unix-like operating systems, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and OS/2...
  
   – page layout
• TeX
  TeX
  TeX is a typesetting system designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth and released in 1978. Within the typesetting system, its name is formatted as ....
  
   – publishing
  • MacTeX
    MacTeX
    MacTeX is a redistribution of TeX Live. While TeX Live is designed to be cross-platform , MacTeX includes Mac-specific utilities and front-ends...
    
     - TeX redistribution of TeX Live
    TeX Live
    TeX Live is a TeX distribution which is the replacement of its no-longer supported counterpart teTeX.It is now the default TeX distribution for several Linux distributions such as Fedora, Debian, Ubuntuand Gentoo....
    
     for Mac
  • Comparison of TeX Editors
    Comparison of TeX editors
    This page shows a table contrasting the features of the text editors that interface to TeX .-Table of editor properties:- See also :* Comparison of word processors* Comparison of text editors...
    
    
• The Print Shop
  The Print Shop
  The Print Shop is a basic desktop publishing software package developed in the early 1980s by Brøderbund. It was unique in that it provided libraries of clip-art and templates through a simple interface to build signs, posters and banners with household dot-matrix printers...
  
   – page layout

Raster and vector graphics

• Adobe Fireworks – supports GIF animation.
• Adobe Illustrator
  Adobe Illustrator
  Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. Illustrator is similar in scope, intended market, and functionality to its competitors, CorelDraw, Xara Designer Pro and Macromedia FreeHand....
  
   – vector graphics editor
  Vector graphics editor
  A vector graphics editor is a computer program that allows users to compose and edit vector graphics images interactively on a computer and save them in one of many popular vector graphics formats, such as EPS, PDF, WMF, SVG, or VML....
  
  
• Adobe Photoshop
  Adobe Photoshop
  Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated.Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the 12th major release of Adobe Photoshop...
  
   – also offers some vector graphics features
• Aperture - Apple's pro photo management, editing, publishing application
• Corel Painter
  Corel Painter
  Corel Painter is a raster-based digital art application created to simulate as accurately as possible the appearance and behavior of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking. It is intended to be used in real-time by professional digital artists as a functional creative...
  
  
• Fontographer
  Fontographer
  Fontographer , is a software application used to create digital fonts, available for both Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh platforms. It was originally developed by Altsys but is now owned by FontLab Ltd.-Fontastic:...
  
  
• GIMP
  GIMP
  GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...
  
   – free bitmap graphics editor
• GIMPShop
  GIMPshop
  GIMPshop is a modification of the free and open source graphics program GNU Image Manipulation Program , with the intent to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP...
  
   – a free, open source, cross-platform bitmap graphics editor
• Inkscape
  Inkscape
  Inkscape is a free software vector graphics editor, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to implement full support for the Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1 standard....
  
   – a free vector graphics editor
  Vector graphics editor
  A vector graphics editor is a computer program that allows users to compose and edit vector graphics images interactively on a computer and save them in one of many popular vector graphics formats, such as EPS, PDF, WMF, SVG, or VML....
  
  
• MacPaint
  MacPaint
  MacPaint was a bitmap-based graphics painting software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 22, 1984. It was sold separately for US$195 with its word processor counterpart, MacWrite. MacPaint was notable because it could generate...
  
   – painting software by Apple (discontinued)
• Macromedia FreeHand
  Macromedia FreeHand
  Macromedia FreeHand is a computer application for creating two-dimensional vector graphics that are oriented primarily to professional illustration, desktop publishing and content creation for the Web. FreeHand is similar in scope, intended market, and functionality to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw...
  
   – vector graphics editor
  Vector graphics editor
  A vector graphics editor is a computer program that allows users to compose and edit vector graphics images interactively on a computer and save them in one of many popular vector graphics formats, such as EPS, PDF, WMF, SVG, or VML....
  
  
• Paintbrush
  Paintbrush (software)
  Paintbrush is an image editor for Mac OS X. It aims to replace MacPaint, an image editor for older versions of Mac OS last released in 1988.-See also:* GIMP* Pixelmator* Seashore* Comparison of raster graphics editors-External links:* *...
  
   – a free simple bitmap graphics program
• Photo Booth
  Photo Booth
  Photo Booth is a small software application for taking photos and videos with an iSight camera by Apple Inc. for Mac OS X and iOS .-Photo Booth:...
  
   – photo camera, video recorder
• Pixelmator
  Pixelmator
  Pixelmator is a graphic editor developed for Mac OS X, by Pixelmator Team Ltd built upon a combination of open source and Mac OS X technologies...
  
   – hardware-accelerated integrated photo editor
• Seashore
  Seashore (software)
  Seashore is an image editor for Mac OS X, which was influenced by the GIMP and written using the Cocoa API. Seashore uses GIMP's native file format, XCF, and has support for a handful of other graphics file formats, including full support for TIFF, PNG, and JPEG, and read-only support for BMP, PDF...
  
   – open source, based around the GIMP's technology, but with native Mac OS X (Cocoa) UI
  User interface
  The user interface, in the industrial design field of human–machine interaction, is the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs. The goal of interaction between a human and a machine at the user interface is effective operation and control of the machine, and feedback from the...
  
  

Integrated software technologies

• Macintosh Finder
  Macintosh Finder
  The Finder is the default file manager used on Mac OS and Mac OS X operating systems; it is responsible for the overall user-management of files, disks, network volumes and the launching of other applications...
  
  
• MultiFinder
  MultiFinder
  MultiFinder was the name of an extension software for the Apple Macintosh, introduced on August 11, 1987 and included with System Software 5. It added the ability to co-operatively multitask between several applications at once – a great improvement over the previous systems, which could only...
  
  
• Path Finder
  Path Finder
  Path Finder is a Macintosh file browser developed by Cocoatech. First released simultaneously with the public release of Mac OS X...
  
  
• QuickTime
  QuickTime
  QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and...
  
  
• Terminal (software)
• X11.app
  X11.app
  XQuartz is Apple Inc.'s version of the X server, a component of the X Window System, for Mac OS X. The current version of XQuartz is a DDX included in the X.Org Server and implements support for hardware-accelerated 2D graphics , hardware OpenGL acceleration and integration with Aqua, the Mac OS...
  
  

Language and Reference Tools

• Dictionary (software)
  Dictionary (software)
  Dictionary is an application developed by Apple for its Macintosh computers. It was introduced with Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger", and provides definitions and synonyms from the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition and Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus, 2nd Edition...
  
  
• Cram (software)
  Cram (software)
  Cram is an application for Apple's Mac OS X and iPhone OS developed by Patrick Chukwura and Ashli Norton of SimpleLeap Software.The software is a flashcard application which allows users to prepare for various types of subject matter using flashcards and multiple choice tests...
  
  
• World Book Encyclopedia
  World Book Encyclopedia
  The World Book Encyclopedia is an encyclopedia published in the United States. It is self-described as "the number-one selling print encyclopedia in the world." The encyclopedia is designed to cover major areas of knowledge uniformly, but it shows particular strength in scientific, technical, and...
  
   – multimedia
• Encyclopædia Britannica
  Encyclopædia Britannica
  The Encyclopædia Britannica , published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia that is available in print, as a DVD, and on the Internet. It is written and continuously updated by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 expert...
  
  
• Rosetta Stone (software)
  Rosetta Stone (software)
  Rosetta Stone is proprietary computer-assisted language learning software developed by Rosetta Stone Inc. Both its title and logo refer to the Rosetta Stone, an artifact inscribed in multiple languages that helped Jean-François Champollion to decipher Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs...
  
   – proprietary, a language learning software
• Ultralingua
  Ultralingua
  Ultralingua is a single-click and drag-and-drop multilingual translation dictionary, thesaurus, and language reference utility. The full suite of Ultralingua language tools is available free online without the need for download and installation....
  
   – proprietary, electronic dictionaries and language tools

Mathematics software

• Fityk
  Fityk
  Fityk is a curve fitting and data analysis application, predominantly used to fit analytical,bell-shaped functions to experimental data.It is positioned to fill the gap between general plotting softwareand programs specific for one field, eg...
  
  
• Grapher
  Grapher
  Grapher is a software program bundled with Mac OS X since version 10.4 that is able to create 2D and 3D graphs from simple and complex equations. It includes a variety of samples ranging from differential equations to 3D-rendered Toroids and Lorenz attractors. It is also capable of dealing with...
  
  
• Maple (software)
  Maple (software)
  Maple is a general-purpose commercial computer algebra system. It was first developed in 1980 by the Symbolic Computation Group at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada....
  
  
• Mathematica
  Mathematica
  Mathematica is a computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing...
  
  
• MATLAB
  MATLAB
  MATLAB is a numerical computing environment and fourth-generation programming language. Developed by MathWorks, MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages,...
  
  
• Octave (software) – open source
• R (programming language)
  R (programming language)
  R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The R language is widely used among statisticians for developing statistical software, and R is widely used for statistical software development and data analysis....
  
  
• Sysquake
  Sysquake
  Sysquake is a numerical computing environment based on a programming language mostly compatible with MATLAB. It offers facilities for interactive graphics which give insights into the problems being analyzed...
  
  
• SciLab
  Scilab
  Scilab is an open source, cross-platform numerical computational package and a high-level, numerically oriented programming language. Itcan be used for signal processing, statistical analysis, image enhancement, fluid dynamics simulations, numerical optimization, and modeling and simulation of...
  
   – open source

Media Center

• Boxee
  BOXEE
  Boxee is a cross-platform freeware HTPC software application with a 10-foot user interface and social networking features designed for the living-room TV...
  
   – Mac and Apple TV
• Front Row
  Front Row
  Front Row is a media center software for Apple's Macintosh computers and Apple TV for navigating and viewing video, photos, podcasts, and music from a computer, optical disc, or the Internet through a 10-foot user interface . The software relies on iTunes and iPhoto and is controlled by an Apple...
  
  
• iTheater
  ITheater
  iTheater: Mac Media Center, now obsolete, was an open source media center application for Mac OS X.Active development and support of iTheater is no longer underway in lieu of other media application availability....
  
  
• XBMC now Plex
• Centerstage
  Centerstage
  CenterStage, now obsolete, was a media center software application with a 10-foot user interface design for the living-room TV that allows digital content stored on an Apple Macintosh computer running Mac OS X to be played on a standard television set....
  
  
• MythTV
  MythTV
  MythTV is a free and open source home entertainment application with a simplified "10-foot user interface" design for the living-room TV, and turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a network streaming digital video recorder, a digital multimedia home entertainment system, or home theater...
  
  
• SageTV
  SageTV
  SageTV Media Center was a proprietary, commercial DVR and HTPC software for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It requires that the host computer have a hardware based TV tuner card. The SageTV software has an integrated Electronic Programming Guide that is updated via the Internet...
  
  
• Mira
  Mira
  Mira also known as Omicron Ceti , is a red giant star estimated 200-400 light years away in the constellation Cetus. Mira is a binary star, consisting of the red giant Mira A along with Mira B. Mira A is also an oscillating variable star and was the first non-supernova variable star discovered,...
  
  

Multimedia authoring

• Adobe Flash
  Adobe Flash
  Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...
  
   – vector animation
• iLife
  ILife
  iLife is a suite of software applications developed by Apple for organizing, editing, and publishing photos, movies, and music. The suite comprises five applications: iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, and iWeb, all of which run on the Mac OS X operating system....
  
  , a creative media suite by Apple
• Adobe Director
  Adobe Director
  Adobe Director is a multimedia application authoring platform created by Macromedia—now part of Adobe Systems. It allows users to build applications built on a movie metaphor, with the user as the "director" of the movie...
  
   – animation/application development
• Unity
  Unity (game engine)
  Unity is an integrated authoring tool for creating 3D video games or other interactive content such as architectural visualizations or real-time 3D animations. Unity's development environment runs on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, and the games it produces can be run on Windows, Mac, Xbox 360,...
  
   – 3D authoring

Networking and telecommunications

• Apple Remote Desktop
  Apple Remote Desktop
  Apple Remote Desktop is a Macintosh application produced by Apple Inc., first released on March 14, 2002, that replaced a similar product called Apple Network Assistant...
  
  
• Google Earth
  Google Earth
  Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a Central Intelligence Agency funded company acquired by Google in 2004 . It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite...
  
  
• iStumbler
  IStumbler
  iStumbler is an open source utility for finding wireless networks and devices with AirPort- or Bluetooth-enabled Macintosh computers.iStumbler was originally based on MacStumbler source code...
  
   – find wireless networks and devices
• Karelia Watson
  Karelia Watson
  Watson is a software program released by Karelia Software for the Apple Macintosh on November 27, 2001, which provided Internet content through a familiar Mac OS X-like interface through the use of plug-ins....
  
   (defunct)
• KisMAC
  KisMAC
  KisMAC is a wireless network discovery tool for Mac OS X. It has a wide range of features, similar to those of Kismet...
  
  
• Timbuktu
  Timbuktu (software)
  Timbuktu is a remote control software product developed by WOS Datasystems. Remote control software allows a user to control another computer across the local network or the Internet, viewing its screen and using its keyboard and mouse as if he or she were sitting in front of it...
  
   – remote control

News aggregators

• NetNewsWire
  NetNewsWire
  NetNewsWire is a news aggregator for Mac OS X and iOS, and was one of the first desktop RSS readers on any platform.- History :NetNewsWire was developed by Brent and Sheila Simmons for their company Ranchero Software. It was introduced on July 12, 2002, with NetNewsWire Lite, a free version missing...
  
  
• NewsFire
  NewsFire
  NewsFire is an RSS newsreader developed by David Watanabe for Mac OS X. It supports Atom, RSS, and Podcasting. NewsFire features groups, labels, smart groups, search, and integration with iTunes, Spotlight, and weblog editors...
  
  
• RSSOwl
  RSSOwl
  RSSOwl is a news aggregator for RSS and Atom News feeds. It is written in Java, and is built on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform which uses SWT as a widget toolkit to allow it to fit in with the look and feel of different operating systems while remaining cross-platform...
  
  
• Safari (web browser)
  Safari (web browser)
  Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. and included with the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther". Safari is also the...
  
   - with built-in RSS support
• Apple Mail – with built-in RSS support

Office and productivity

• AbiWord
  AbiWord
  AbiWord is a free and open source software word processor. It was originally started by SourceGear Corporation as the first part of a proposed AbiSuite. Development stopped when SourceGear changed their focus to Internet appliances. AbiWord was adopted by some open source developers and AbiWord...
  
  
• Adobe Acrobat
  Adobe Acrobat
  Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format . All members of the family, except Adobe Reader , are commercial software, while the latter is available as freeware and can be downloaded...
  
  
• Address Book – bundled with OS X
• AppleWorks
  AppleWorks
  AppleWorks refers to two different office suite products, both of which are now discontinued. Originally, AppleWorks was an integrated software package for the Apple II platform, released in 1984 by Apple Computer...
  
   (discontinued)
• Bean (word processor)
  Bean (word processor)
  Bean is an open source, free software word processor currently available for Mac OS X only. According to its creator James Hoover, it is not meant to replace Microsoft Word, but to be a lean word processor that was beautiful and user friendly...
  
   – free TXT/RTF/DOC word processor
• Celtx
  Celtx
  Celtx is free media pre-production software designed for creating and organizing media projects like screenplays, films, videos, stageplays, audio plays, documentaries, machinima, comics, games and podcasts....
  
  
• Circus Ponies NoteBook
  Circus Ponies NoteBook
  Circus Ponies NoteBook is Macintosh software offered by Circus Ponies Software, Inc. that can be used for taking class notes, documenting research, journaling, scrapbooking, creating photo albums, making to-do lists, organizing projects, creating travel guides, and other things.In late 2008 Circus...
  
  
• Contactizer
  Contactizer
  Contactizer Pro is a contact manager, task manager, event manager, communication manager and project manager developed exclusively for Mac OS X, in Cocoa....
  
   – a personal information manager
  Personal information manager
  A personal information manager is a type of application software that functions as a personal organizer. The acronym PIM is now, more commonly, used in reference to Personal information management as a field of study...
  
  , was called OD4Contact
• Delicious Library
  Delicious Library
  Delicious Library is a media cataloguing application for Mac OS X, developed by Delicious Monster to allow users to manage collections of books, movies, CDs, and video games....
  
  
• FileMaker
  FileMaker
  FileMaker Pro is a cross-platform relational database application from FileMaker Inc., formerly Claris, a subsidiary of Apple Inc. It integrates a database engine with a GUI-based interface, allowing users to modify the database by dragging new elements into layouts, screens, or forms...
  
  
• iCal
  ICal
  iCal is a personal calendar application made by Apple Inc. that runs on the Mac OS X operating system. iCal was the first calendar application for Mac OS X to offer support for multiple calendars and the ability to publish/subscribe calendars to WebDAV server....
  
   – calendar
  Calendar
  A calendar is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial, or administrative purposes. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months, and years. The name given to each day is known as a date. Periods in a calendar are usually, though not...
  
   management – bundled with OS X
• iDocument
  IDocument
  iDocument is a software application made by IcyBlaze. It’s designed for Mac OS X operating system. Its released date was in Feb 2010. iDocument is the first software application made by IcyBlaze. iDocument is a document management software for Mac. It supports import, organize, search, tag,...
  
  , document management software
• iWork
  IWork
  iWork is an office suite of desktop applications created by Apple for the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. The first version of iWork, iWork '05, was released in 2005. The suite originally bundled Keynote, a presentation program which had previously been sold as a standalone application, and...
  
  , consisting of
  • Keynote
    Keynote (software)
    Keynote is a presentation software application developed as a part of the iWork productivity suite by Apple Inc. Keynote 5 was announced on January 6, 2009, and is the most recent version for the Macintosh. It adds new themes, transitions and animations, and the ability to control the slideshow...
    
    
  • Pages
    Pages
    Pages is a word processor and page layout application developed by Apple. It is part of the iWork productivity suite and runs on the Mac OS X & iOS operating systems. The first version of Pages was announced on January 11, 2005, and was released one month later. The most recent Macintosh version,...
    
    
  • Numbers
    Numbers (software)
    Numbers is a spreadsheet application developed by Apple Inc. as part of the iWork productivity suite alongside Keynote and Pages. Numbers 1.0 was announced on August 7, 2007 and thus it is the newest application in the iWork Suite. Numbers runs on Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" or newer...
    
    
• iSync
  ISync
  iSync is a software application published by Apple Inc. It runs only under Mac OS X and is used to synchronize contact and calendar data from Address Book and iCal with many non-Apple SyncML-enabled mobile phones via a Bluetooth or USB connection. Support for many devices is built-in, with newer...
  
   – bundled with OS X
• KOffice
  KOffice
  Calligra Suite is a graphic art and office suite by KDE created from KOffice in 2010. It is available for desktop PCs, tablet computers, and smartphones...
  
  
• LibreOffice
  LibreOffice
  LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite developed by The Document Foundation as a fork of OpenOffice.org. It is largely compatible with other major office suites, including Microsoft Office, and available on a variety of platforms...
  
  
• MarinerPak
  Mariner Software
  Mariner Software is an American corporation with a focus on designing and publishing computer software products. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mariner develops, sells, and supports professional and personal software for the productivity, writing and creative markets...
  
   for Mac, consisting of
  • Mariner Write
    Mariner Software
    Mariner Software is an American corporation with a focus on designing and publishing computer software products. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mariner develops, sells, and supports professional and personal software for the productivity, writing and creative markets...
    
    
  • Mariner Calc
    Mariner Software
    Mariner Software is an American corporation with a focus on designing and publishing computer software products. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mariner develops, sells, and supports professional and personal software for the productivity, writing and creative markets...
    
    
• Mellel
  Mellel
  Mellel is a word processor for Mac OS X, developed since 2002 and marketed as especially suited for technical and academic writers. It is made by RedleX, a small software company from Israel. New features are added to the program every few months, many of which come from user suggestions...
  
  
• Microsoft Office
  Microsoft Office
  Microsoft Office is a non-free commercial office suite of inter-related desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft in August 1, 1989. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of...
  
   for Mac, consisting of
  • Microsoft Word
    Microsoft Word
    Microsoft Word is a word processor designed by Microsoft. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS , the Apple Macintosh , the AT&T Unix PC , Atari ST , SCO UNIX,...
    
    
  • Microsoft Excel
    Microsoft Excel
    Microsoft Excel is a proprietary commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications...
    
    
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
    Microsoft PowerPoint
    Microsoft PowerPoint, usually just called PowerPoint, is a non-free commercial presentation program developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Office suite, and runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X operating system...
    
    
  • Entourage
    Microsoft Entourage
    Microsoft Entourage was an e-mail client and personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8.5 and higher. Microsoft first released Entourage in October 2000 as part of the Microsoft Office 2001 office suite; Office 98, the previous version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS included...
    
    
  • Microsoft Outlook
    Microsoft Outlook
    Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite...
    
    
• Montage
  Montage (software)
  Montage is screenwriting software developed for Mac OS X. Montage allows the creation, editing, and management of screenplays on Macintosh computers. Montage can import Final Draft documents...
  
   – screenwriting software
• NeoOffice
  NeoOffice
  NeoOffice is an office suite for Mac OS X. It is a fork of the free/open source OpenOffice.org that implements nearly all of the features of the corresponding OpenOffice.org version, including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, and graphics program...
  
  
• Nisus Writer
  Nisus Writer
  Nisus Writer, originally Nisus, is a word processing program for the Apple Macintosh. The program is available in two varieties: Nisus Writer Express, and Nisus Writer Pro....
  
  
• OmniFocus
  OmniFocus
  OmniFocus is a personal task manager by The Omni Group for Mac OS X and iOS. The declared goal of the program is to be able to capture thoughts and ideas into to do lists....
  
  
• OpenOffice.org
  OpenOffice.org
  OpenOffice.org, commonly known as OOo or OpenOffice, is an open-source application suite whose main components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases. OpenOffice is available for a number of different computer operating systems, is distributed as free software...
  
  
• WriteNow
  WriteNow
  WriteNow was one of the two original word processor applications developed for the launch of the Apple Macintosh in 1984, and was the primary word processor for computers manufactured by NeXT....
  
  
• Taste
  Taste (software)
  Taste is a Macintosh word processor that combined a number of basic features from page layout software, just a "taste" of it, to build a unique solution to preparing documents. Taste was originally offered by DeltaPoint, the publishers of the famed MindWrite, but was eventually spun off to a 3rd...
  
   – word processor (defunct)

Operating systems

• Darwin
  Darwin (operating system)
  Darwin is an open source POSIX-compliant computer operating system released by Apple Inc. in 2000. It is composed of code developed by Apple, as well as code derived from NeXTSTEP, BSD, and other free software projects....
  
  , the BSD-licensed core of Mac OS X
• Mac OS X
  Mac OS X
  Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
  
  
• Mac OS X Server
  Mac OS X Server
  Mac OS X Server is a Unix server operating system from Apple Inc. The server edition of Mac OS X is architecturally identical to its desktop counterpart, except that it includes work group management and administration software tools...
  
  

Peer-to-peer file sharing

• Acquisition
  Acquisition (software)
  Acquisition is a Gnutella-based peer-to-peer client that is also capable of supporting BitTorrent designed specifically for Mac OS X. It is based on LimeWire and is a shareware product, priced from $25...
  
  
• aMule
  AMule
  aMule is a free peer-to-peer file sharing application that works with the EDonkey network and the Kad Network, offering similar features to eMule and adding others such as GeoIP . It was forked from the xMule source code on August 18, 2003, which itself is a fork of the lMule project, which was the...
  
  
• BitTorrent client
• BitTyrant
  BitTyrant
  BitTyrant is a BitTorrent client modified from the Java-based Azureus 2.5 code base. BitTyrant is designed to give preference to clients uploading to it fastest and limiting slower uploaders...
  
  
• Blog Torrent
  Blog Torrent
  Blog Torrent was a free, open source BitTorrent client and computer aimed at bloggers and other people with web hosting but little technical knowledge....
  
  
• Cabos
  Cabos
  Cabos is a free gnutella file sharing program. It is based on LimeWire's source code, and has a similar feel in terms of interface. However, it lacks the chat and library features found in LimeWire...
  
  
• FrostWire
  FrostWire
  FrostWire is a free, open source BitTorrent client first released in September 2004, as a fork of LimeWire. It was initially very similar to LimeWire in appearance and functionality, but over time developers added more features, including BitTorrent support. In version 5, Gnutella support was...
  
  
• LimeWire
  LimeWire
  LimeWire is a free peer-to-peer file sharing client program that runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and other operating systems supported by the Java software platform. LimeWire uses the gnutella network as well as the BitTorrent protocol. A free software version and a purchasable "enhanced"...
  
  
• Poisoned
• rTorrent
  RTorrent
  rTorrent is a text-based ncurses BitTorrent client written in C++, based on the libTorrent libraries for Unix, whose author's goal is “a focus on high performance and good code”...
  
  
• Tomato Torrent
  Tomato Torrent
  Tomato Torrent is a BitTorrent client for computers running Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating system. Tomato Torrent is currently built on the 4.2 branch of the original BitTorrent client, with the program structured to separate the BitTorrent code from the Macintosh code...
  
  
• Transmission (BitTorrent)
  Transmission (BitTorrent)
  Transmission is a BitTorrent client which features a simple interface on top of a cross-platform back-end. Transmission is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License , with parts under the MIT License.-Features:...
  
  
• μTorrent
• Vuze
  Vuze
  Vuze is a BitTorrent client used to transfer files via the BitTorrent protocol. Vuze is written in Java, and uses the Azureus Engine. In addition to downloading data linked to by .torrent files, Azureus allows users to view, publish and share original DVD and HD quality video content...
  
   – Bittorrent client, was Azureus
• XNap
  XNap
  XNap is a free peer-to-peer client licensed under the GNU General Public License. XNap is written purely in Java. The client features a modern Swing based user interface and console support that will run well on every platform with a recent Java Runtime Environment . The XNap client was designed to...
  
  

Text Editors

• ACE
  ACE (editor)
  ACE - a collaborative editor is a platform-independent, collaborative real-time editor. It is a real-time cooperative editing system that allows multiple geographically dispersed users to view and edit a shared text document at the same time.-Introduction:...
  
  
• Aquamacs
  Aquamacs
  Aquamacs is an Emacs text editor for Mac OS X. It is based on GNU Emacs from the GNU project, currently tracking the version 23 branch, although its user interface is designed to conform with Mac OS X UI standards....
  
  
• BBEdit
  BBEdit
  BBEdit is a proprietary text editor made by Bare Bones Software. It was originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6 and is now available for Mac OS X.BBEdit is marketed under the trademark slogan, "It doesn't suck."-History:...
  
  
• BBEdit Lite
  BBEdit Lite
  BBEdit Lite is a freeware text editor by Bare Bones Software, created as a low-cost, stripped-down or "lightweight" version of their flagship product BBEdit. BBEdit Lite had many of the same features as BBEdit such as regular expressions, a plug-in architecture and the same text editing engine...
  
  
• Coda
  Coda (web development software)
  Coda is a commercial and proprietary web development application for Mac OS X, developed by Panic. It was released on April 23, 2007. It won the 2007 Apple Design Award for Best User Experience. It is available for $99. - Concept and idea :...
  
  
• Emacs
  Emacs
  Emacs is a class of text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. GNU Emacs has over 1,000 commands. It also allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work.Development began in the mid-1970s and continues actively...
  
  
• jEdit
  JEdit
  jEdit is a text editor for programmers, available under the GNU General Public License version 2.0. It is written in Java and runs on any operating system with Java support, including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and BSD.-Development:...
  
  
• Nano
  Nano (text editor)
  nano is a text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface. It emulates the Pico text editor, part of the Pine email client, and also provides additional functionality....
  
  
• SimpleText
  SimpleText
  SimpleText is the native text editor for the Classic Mac OS. SimpleText allows editing including text formatting , fonts, and sizes. It can be considered similar to Windows' WordPad application...
  
  
• Smultron
  Smultron
  Smultron is a text editor for Mac OS X that is designed for both beginners and advanced users; it was originally published as open source and is now sold through the Mac App Store It is written in Objective-C using the Cocoa API...
  
  
• SubEthaEdit
  SubEthaEdit
  SubEthaEdit is a collaborative real-time editor designed for Mac OS X. The name comes from the Sub-Etha communication network in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series....
  
  
• TeachText
  TeachText
  The TeachText application is a simple text editor made by Apple Computer bundled with System 7.1 and earlier, and was one of the only applications included with the Mac system software, leading to its most frequent role as the application to open "ReadMe" files. It was named "TeachText" as a nod to...
  
  
• TextEdit
  TextEdit
  TextEdit is a simple, open source word processor and text editor, first featured in NeXT's NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. It is now distributed with Mac OS X since Apple Inc.'s acquisition of NeXT, and available as a GNUstep application for other Unix-compatible operating systems such as Linux...
  
  
• TextMate
  TextMate
  TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X created by Allan Odgaard. Popular with programmers, some notable features include declarative customizations, tabs for open documents, recordable macros, folding sections and snippets, shell integration, and an extensible bundle...
  
  
• TextWrangler
  TextWrangler
  TextWrangler is a text editor for Mac OS X from Bare Bones Software. It was originally a commercial product, but has become the freeware alternative to their flagship editor, BBEdit, and the successor to their previous freeware editor, BBEdit Lite.Like BBEdit, TextWrangler is not a word processor...
  
  
• vim
  Vim (text editor)
  Vim is a text editor written by Bram Moolenaar and first released publicly in 1991. Based on the vi editor common to Unix-like systems, Vim is designed for use both from a command line interface and as a standalone application in a graphical user interface...
  
  
• XEmacs
  XEmacs
  XEmacs is a graphical- and console-based text editor which runs on almost any Unix-like operating system as well as Microsoft Windows. XEmacs is a fork, based on a version of GNU Emacs from the late 1980s...
  
  

Outliners and MindMapping

• 2-plan Desktop
  2-plan project management software
  2-plan project management software consists of two project management tools. One is the 2-plan Desktop, "a free program for desktop scheduling" and other project manager related tasks...
  
  , free project management software with integrated mind maps.
• Inspiration
  Inspiration Software
  Inspiration® Software, Inc. is an education technology software company based in Portland, Oregon, which provides several visual thinking and learning products for the K-12 education and business markets including Inspiration®, InspireData®, Kidspiration®, Webspiration Classroom™ service and...
  
  
• FreeMind
  FreeMind
  FreeMind is a free mind mapping application written in Java. FreeMind is licensed under the GNU General Public License. It provides extensive export capabilities. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X via the Java Runtime Environment....
  
  
• Mindjet
• NovaMind
  NovaMind
  NovaMind is a commercial mind mapping application for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. It was first released in 2002.It features flexible layout, native interface for both Mac and Windows , and a strong emphasis on the visual aspects of Mind Mapping...
  
  
• OmniOutliner
  OmniOutliner
  OmniOutliner is commercial outlining software for Mac OS X produced by The Omni Group. OmniOutliner has most features of a conventional outliner, allowing the user to create nested lists of topics for almost any purpose, but has additional features extending its functionality beyond simple...
  
  
• OmniGraffle
  OmniGraffle
  OmniGraffle is a diagramming application made by The Omni Group. OmniGraffle is built only for Mac OS X and the iPad. It may be used to create diagrams, flow charts, org charts, and illustrations. It features a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG interface...
  
  
• XMind
  XMIND
  XMind is a brainstorming and mind mapping software tool developed by XMind Ltd. The program is intended to assist users in capturing ideas, organizing various charts, and share them with collaboration. It supports mind maps, Ishikawa diagrams , tree diagrams, organization charts, and spreadsheets...
  
  

Utilities

• Activity Monitor
  Activity Monitor
  Activity Monitor is a task manager, a utility for performing different tasks to a computer processes, in the Mac OS X operating system. Some of its functions include:*Quitting or "killing" a computer process*Viewing the computer's CPU load...
  
   – Default system monitor for hardware and software
• AppZapper
  AppZapper
  AppZapper is an application for Apple's Mac OS X developed by Austin Sarner and Brian Ball.The software is an uninstall utility which extends the method of uninstalling in Mac OS X, which is dragging the application one wants to uninstall to the trash...
  
   – uninstaller (shareware)
• Automator
  Automator (software)
  Automator is an application developed by Apple for Mac OS X that implements point-and-click creation of workflows for automating repetitive tasks into batches for quicker alteration, thus saving time and effort over human intervention to manually change each file separately...
  
   – built-in, utility to automate repetitive tasks
• Backup – built-in
• BitDefender Antivirus 2009 for Mac OS
  BitDefender
  BitDefender is an antivirus software suite developed by Romania-based software company Softwin. It was launched in November 2001, and is currently in its 15 build version...
  
   – antivirus software
  Antivirus software
  Antivirus or anti-virus software is used to prevent, detect, and remove malware, including but not limited to computer viruses, computer worm, trojan horses, spyware and adware...
  
  
• Butler
  Butler (software)
  Butler is a utility for automating repetitive tasks in Mac OS X by Peter Maurer.It is similar to other command centered applications like Quicksilver and LaunchBar.-External links:*...
  
   – free, launcher and utility to automate repetitive tasks
• CandyBar
  CandyBar
  CandyBar is a Mac OS X application by Panic and The Iconfactory that replaces system icons with icons/docks of the user's choosing. The latest release, CandyBar 3, runs on Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" and 10.6 "Snow Leopard" and supports high-resolution 512-by-512 Leopard icons, as well as changing the...
  
   – system customization software (commercial)
• CDFinder
  CDFinder
  CDFinder is an application for Apple's Mac OS X developed by Norbert M. Doerner since 1995.The software is a digital asset management utility, which offers a wide variety of music, photo, video, and other meta data, including thumbnails and XMP , that is being read while cataloging a disk or data...
  
   – disk cataloging software (commercial)
• Compact Pro
  Compact Pro
  Compact Pro is a software data compression utility for archiving and compressing files on the Apple Macintosh platform. It was a major competitor to StuffIt in the early 1990s, producing smaller archives in less time, as well as being distributed via shareware which greatly helped its popularity...
  
   – data compression
  Data compression
  In computer science and information theory, data compression, source coding or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation would use....
  
  
• Dashboard – built-in Mac OS X widgets
• Duplicate Annihilator
  Duplicate Annihilator
  Duplicate Annihilator is a shareware iPhoto duplicate detection application for Mac OS X, developed by Brattoo Propaganda Software. Duplicate Annihilator is also available in a version for Aperture 3 by Apple Inc..- Concept :...
  
   - detects and removes duplicates in iPhoto
  IPhoto
  iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. and released with every Macintosh personal computer as part of the iLife suite of digital life management applications...
  
   or Aperture
• Grab (software)
  Grab (software)
  Grab is an application created by Apple Computer for Mac OS X, used to take screenshots. Grab is also present in OS X's progenitors NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. It supports capturing a marquee selection, whole window, whole screen, and timed screen. Grab can be found in the Utilities folder under...
  
   – built-in Mac OS X screenshot utility
• Growl – global notifications system, free
• iArchiver
  IArchiver
  iArchiver is a software utility for handling file archives on the Apple Macintosh. It is now renamed Rucksack.iArchiver was designed as a universal tool for working with archives, and can be used to create, extract and convert a large number of common and legacy archive formats with a drag-and-drop...
  
   – handles archives, commercial
• Intego VirusBarrier
  Intego
  Intego is a software company founded in 1997. They create backup, antivirus, anti-spam, firewall and data protection software for Mac OS X. The company's slogan is "we protect your world." In September 2007, Intego launched The Mac Security Blog, which provides articles about Mac security issues,...
  
   for Mac - antivirus software
  Antivirus software
  Antivirus or anti-virus software is used to prevent, detect, and remove malware, including but not limited to computer viruses, computer worm, trojan horses, spyware and adware...
  
  
• LaunchBar
  LaunchBar
  LaunchBar is a launch application for Mac OS X. It provides access to user's applications and files, by entering short abbreviations of the searched item's name. It uses an adaptive algorithm that 'learns' a user's preferred abbreviations for a particular application...
  
   – provides instant access to local data, search engines and more by entering abbreviations of search item names, commercial
• Little Snitch
  Little Snitch
  Little Snitch is a software outgoing firewall for Mac OS X. It can be used to monitor applications, preventing or permitting them to connect to the Internet through advanced rules...
  
   - network monitor and outgoing connection firewall
• Mac Data Recovery Guru – Deleted File Recovery
• MacScan
  MacScan
  MacScan is an application for Apple's Mac OS X developed by SecureMac.The software is an anti-malware utility, aimed at removing malware . It was the first anti-spyware program released for Mac OS X...
  
   – malware
  Malware
  Malware, short for malicious software, consists of programming that is designed to disrupt or deny operation, gather information that leads to loss of privacy or exploitation, or gain unauthorized access to system resources, or that otherwise exhibits abusive behavior...
  
   removal program
• MarcoPolo (software)
  MarcoPolo (software)
  MarcoPolo is an application which brings context-aware computing to computers running Mac OS X. It allows the computer to determine its context through gathering evidence from the environment , using flexible rule-based fuzzy matching to make an educated guess , and then performing arbitrary...
  
   – context-aware computing
• Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
  Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
  Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an application software program for teaching touch typing. The typing program was initially released in late 1987 by The Software Toolworks and has been published regularly ever since. It was originally created by a team of developers from Software Toolworks...
  
   – proprietary, typing tutor
• Norton Antivirus
  Norton AntiVirus
  Norton AntiVirus, developed and distributed by Symantec Corporation, provides malware prevention and removal during a subscription period. It uses signatures and heuristics to identify viruses. Other features include e-mail spam filtering and phishing protection.Symantec distributes the product as...
  
   for Mac – an antivirus program specially made for Mac
• OnyX
  OnyX
  Developed by French developer Joël Barrière, OnyX is a popular freeware utility for Mac OS X and is compatible with both PowerPC and Intel processors. As a multifunctional tool for maintenance and optimization, it can control many basic Unix programs already built into OS X, including setting...
  
   – a freeware system maintenance and optimization tool for Mac OS X
• Quicksilver
  Quicksilver (software)
  Quicksilver is a computer utility software program for Mac OS X, originally developed by Blacktree Software and distributed freely. It is essentially a graphical shell for the Mac OS X operating system, allowing users to use the keyboard to rapidly perform tasks such as launching...
  
   – A framework for accessing and manipulating many forms of data
• Screen Sharing
  Screen Sharing
  Screen Sharing is a VNC client by Apple Inc. included as part of Mac OS X v10.5. It allows remote observance or control of any Macintosh machine on the local network that has Screen Sharing activated. It may also be used over the Internet via iChat...
  
  
• SheepShaver
  SheepShaver
  SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator originally designed for BeOS and Linux. The name is a play on ShapeShifter, a Macintosh II emulator for AmigaOS , which is in turn not to be confused with a third-party preference pane for Mac OS X with the same name...
  
   – PowerPC emulator, allows, among other things, running Mac OS 9
  Mac OS 9
  Mac OS 9 is the final major release of Apple's Mac OS before the launch of Mac OS X. Introduced on October 23, 1999, Apple positioned it as "The Best Internet Operating System Ever," highlighting Sherlock 2's Internet search capabilities, integration with Apple's free online services known as...
  
   on Intel Macs
• Sherlock
  Sherlock (software)
  Sherlock, named after Sherlock Holmes, was a file and web search tool created by Apple Inc. for the Mac OS, introduced with Mac OS 8.5 as an extension of the Mac OS Finder's file searching capabilities. Like its predecessor, it can search for local files and file contents, which it does using the...
  
   – file searching (version 2), web services (version 3)
• Sophos
  Sophos
  Sophos is a developer and vendor of security software and hardware, including anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, network access control, encryption software and data loss prevention for desktops, servers, email systems and other network gateways....
  
   Antivirus for Mac
• Stuffit
  StuffIt
  StuffIt is a family of computer software utilities for archiving and compressing files on the Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms: it was originally produced for the Macintosh. An old version for Linux and Sun Solaris 2.7 or later is also available...
  
   – data compression
  Data compression
  In computer science and information theory, data compression, source coding or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation would use....
  
  
• Stickies – put Post-It Note
  Post-it note
  A Post-it note is a piece of stationery with a re-adherable strip of adhesive on the back, designed for temporarily attaching notes to documents and other surfaces. Although now available in a wide range of colours, shapes, and sizes, Post-it notes are most commonly a square, canary yellow in colour...
  
  -like notes on the desktop
• System Preferences
  System Preferences
  System Preferences is an application included with the Mac OS X operating system that allows users to modify various system settings which are divided into separate preference panes...
  
   – default Mac system option application
• Time Machine (Apple software)
  Time Machine (Apple software)
  Time Machine is a backup utility developed by Apple. It is included with Mac OS X and was introduced with the 10.5 "Leopard" release of Mac OS X. The software is designed to work with the Time Capsule as well as other internal or external drives.-Overview:...
  
  
• UUTool
  UUTool
  UUTool was a freeware application written for the Apple Macintosh by Bernie Wieser. The purpose of UUTool was to uuencode and uudecode files, however, the application functionality grew to translate uLaw encoded files to AIFF format, segment large uuencoded files, and recombine multiple uuencoded...
  
   – uuencoded/uudecode and other transcoding
• VirusScan for Mac
• WinZip
  WinZip
  WinZip is a proprietary file archiver and compressor for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, developed by WinZip Computing...
  
   for Mac
• Xsan
  Xsan
  Xsan is Apple Inc.'s storage area network or clustered file system for Mac OS X. Xsan enables multiple Mac desktop and Xserve systems to access shared block storage over a Fibre Channel network. With the Xsan file system installed, these computers can read and write to the same storage volume at...
  
   – storage network
• Yahoo! Widget Engine
  Yahoo! Widget Engine
  Yahoo! Widgets is a free application platform for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. The software was previously called Konfabulator, but after being acquired by computer services company Yahoo! it was rebranded. The name Konfabulator was subsequently reinstated as the name of the underlying rendering...
  
   – JavaScript
  JavaScript
  JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....
  
  -based widget system

Support for non-Macintosh software

• Bochs
  Bochs
  Bochs is a portable x86 and x86-64 IBM PC compatible emulator and debugger mostly written in C++ and distributed as free software under GNU Lesser General Public License...
  
  
• Boot Camp included with Mac OS X from v.10.5
• CrossOver
  Crossover
  -Fiction and media:* Fictional crossover, a storyline combining characters or settings from separate fictional properties** Fictional crossovers in video games* Crossover , a 2002 documentary by Justin Lin...
  
  - commercial implementation of Wine
  Wine (software)
  Wine is a free software application that aims to allow computer programs written for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like...
  
  
• DaisyDisk
  DaisyDisk
  DaisyDisk is a shareware software program for Mac OS X. It displays a sunburst diagram of files on a hard drive to help with the location and deletion of large files in order to free up disk space. It allows the user to view previews of the file from within the application, by using Quick Look to...
  
   – Disk visualization tool
• DOSBox
  DOSBox
  DOSBox is emulator software that emulates an IBM PC compatible computer running MS-DOS. It is intended especially for use with old PC games. DOSBox is free software....
  
   – DOS emulator
• Hercules emulator
  Hercules emulator
  Hercules is a computer emulator which allows software designed for IBM mainframe computers and for plug-compatible mainframes to run on other types of computer hardware: notably on low-cost personal computers...
  
  
• pcAnywhere
  PcAnywhere
  pcAnywhere is a suite of computer programs by Symantec which allows a user of the pcAnywhere remote program on a computer to connect to a personal computer running the pcAnywhere host if both are connected to the internet or the same LAN and the password is known...
  
   – VNC-style Remote control
• Parallels Workstation
  Parallels Workstation
  Parallels Workstation is the first commercial software product released by Parallels, Inc., a developer of desktop and server virtualization software...
  
   – full virtualization
  Full virtualization
  In computer science, full virtualization is a virtualization technique used to provide a certain kind of virtual machine environment, namely, one that is a complete simulation of the underlying hardware...
  
   software for desktop
  Parallels Desktop for Mac
  Parallels Desktop for Mac by Parallels, Inc., is software providing hardware virtualization for Macintosh computers with Intel processors.-Overview:Parallels, Inc...
  
   and server
  Parallels Server for Mac
  Parallels Server for Mac is a server virtualization product built for the Mac OS X Server platform and is developed by Parallels, Inc., a developer of desktop and server virtualization software...
  
  , commercial
• Q
  Q (emulator)
  Q is a free emulator software that runs on Mac OS X, including OS X on PowerPC. Q is Mike Kronenberg's port of the open source and generic processor emulator QEMU. Q uses Cocoa and other Apple technologies, such as Core Image and Core Audio, to achieve its emulation...
  
   – emulates an IBM-compatible PC on a Mac, allows running PC operating systems
• VMware
  VMware
  VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary ....
  
   – virtualisation software
• Wine
  Wine (software)
  Wine is a free software application that aims to allow computer programs written for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like...
  
   – Windows API reimplementation
• Virtual PC, full virtualization
  Full virtualization
  In computer science, full virtualization is a virtualization technique used to provide a certain kind of virtual machine environment, namely, one that is a complete simulation of the underlying hardware...
  
   software allows running other operating systems, such as Windows and GNU/Linux, on PowerPC Macs (discontinued in 2007)
• VirtualBox
  VirtualBox
  Oracle VM VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package, originally created by software company Innotek GmbH, purchased by Sun Microsystems, and now developed by Oracle Corporation as part of its family of virtualization products...
  
  
• vMac
  VMac
  vMac was an open source emulator for Mac OS, Windows, MS-DOS, OS/2, NeXTSTEP, Linux / Unix, and other platforms. Although vMac has been abandoned, Mini vMac, an improved spinoff of vMac, is currently developed. vMac and Mini vMac emulate a Macintosh Plus and can run Apple Macintosh System versions...
  
   – emulates a Macintosh Plus and can run Apple Macintosh System versions 1.1 to 7.5.5.

Video

• Adobe After Effects
  Adobe After Effects
  Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software published by Adobe Systems, used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production. Its main uses are the origination of 2D and 2.5D animation, visual effects compositing and finishing...
  
  
• Adobe Premiere Pro
  Adobe Premiere Pro
  Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application. It is part of the Adobe Creative Suite, a suite of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications developed by Adobe Systems, though it can also be purchased separately. When purchased separately, it comes...
  
  
• Avid
  AVID
  AVID stands for:* Advancement Via Individual Determination, a college-readiness system designed to increase the number of students who enroll in four-year colleges in the U.S....
  
  
• Chroma
  Chroma
  Chroma, the Greek word for color, may refer to:* Colorfulness or chroma, the perceived intensity of a specific color* Chrominance or chroma, one of the two components of a television signal* Chroma, a measure of color purity in the Munsell color system...
  
  
• Debut - video capture and screen recording from NCH Software
  NCH Software
  NCH Software is a software development company founded in 1993 in Canberra, Australia. The Denver office was started in April 2008 due to the large U.S. customer base...
  
  
• DivX
  DivX
  DivX is a brand name of products created by DivX, Inc. , including the DivX Codec which has become popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality.There are two DivX codecs; the regular MPEG-4 Part 2 DivX codec and the...
  
  
• DivX Player
• DVD Player (Apple) – DVD player software built into Mac OS X
• FFmpeg
  FFmpeg
  FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line...
  
   – heavy-duty audio/video converter
• Final Cut Express
  Final Cut Express
  Final Cut Express is a discontinued video editing software created by Apple Inc. It is the consumer version of Final Cut Pro and is designed for advanced editing of digital video as well as high-definition video, which is used by many amateur and professional videographers...
  
  
• Final Cut Studio
  Final Cut Studio
  Final Cut Studio is a professional video and audio production suite for Mac OS X from Apple Inc., and a direct competitor to Avid Media Composer in the high-end movie production industry...
  
  , a professional audio-video editing suite, consisting of
  • Apple Qmaster
    Apple Qmaster
    Apple Qmaster is a system made by Apple Inc. that provides automated work distribution and processing for high-volume projects created with certain digital visual effects software packages: Shake, Autodesk Maya, Final Cut Pro, Compressor, DVD Studio Pro and any UNIX command-line program...
    
    
  • Cinema Tools
    Cinema Tools
    Cinema Tools is a software program for filmmakers, to use in conjunction with Final Cut Pro. It facilitates the creation of an integrated film database, allowing the management of film material through telecine.-Overview:...
    
    
  • Compressor
    Compressor (software)
    Compressor is a video and audio media compression and encoding application for use with Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio on Mac OS X. It can be used with Qmaster for clustering.-History:...
    
    
  • DVD Studio Pro
    DVD Studio Pro
    DVD Studio Pro was a high-end software tool published by Apple Inc. to allow users to create DVD masters to be sent out for replication at production houses. Its tight integration with other Apple applications allows users to take Final Cut Pro and Motion projects and render them into the DVD...
    
    
  • Final Cut Pro
    Final Cut Pro
    Final Cut Pro is a non-linear video editing software developed by Macromedia Inc. and then Apple Inc. The most recent version, Final Cut Pro X, runs on Mac personal computers powered by Mac OS X version 10.6.7 or later and using Intel processors...
    
    
  • LiveType
    LiveType
    LiveType was a software program developed by Apple Inc. to create animated title sequences for video projects. It was discontinued with the release of Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, and Compressor 4.-History:...
    
    
  • Motion 2
    Apple Motion
    Motion is a software application produced by Apple Inc. for their Mac OS X operating system. It is used to create and edit motion graphics, titling for video production and film production, and 2D and 3D compositing for visual effects.-History:...
    
    
  • Soundtrack Pro
    Soundtrack Pro
    Soundtrack Pro was a music composing and audio editing application made by Apple Inc., which includes a collection of just over 5000 royalty free professional instrument loops and sound effects...
    
    
• HandBrake
  HandBrake
  HandBrake is a general-purpose, open-source, cross-platform, multithreaded video transcoder software application. HandBrake was originally developed by titer in 2003 as a general-purpose video transcoder to make ripping a film from a DVD to a data storage device easier...
  
   – DVD to MPEG-4 and other formats converter
• iMovie
  IMovie
  iMovie is a proprietary video editing software application which allows Mac, iPod Touch 4th generation, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and iPad 2 users to edit their own home movies. It was originally released by Apple in 1999 as a Mac OS 8 application bundled with the first FireWire-enabled consumer Apple...
  
  , a basic video editing
  Non-linear editing system
  In video, a non-linear editing system is a video editing or audio editing digital audio workstation system which can perform random access non-destructive editing on the source material...
  
   application
• Miro Media Player
• MPlayer
  MPlayer
  MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor...
  
  
• Perian
  Perian
  Perian is an open source QuickTime component that enables Apple Inc.’s QuickTime to play several popular video formats not supported natively by QuickTime on Mac OS X...
  
  
• Prism - video converter from NCH Software
  NCH Software
  NCH Software is a software development company founded in 1993 in Canberra, Australia. The Denver office was started in April 2008 due to the large U.S. customer base...
  
  
• QuickTime
  QuickTime
  QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and...
  
  , including its Player and QuickTime Pro
• Real Player
• Shake
  Shake (software)
  Shake is a discontinued image compositing package used in the post-production industry. Shake was widely used in visual effects and digital compositing for film, HD and commercials. Shake exposes its node graph architecture graphically. It enables complex image processing sequences to be designed...
  
  
• Total video converter
  Total video converter
  Total Video Converter is a shareware video and audio converter utility from EffectMatrix. It is commonly used to convert most fashionable video formats for various video players as well as show photos slide and burn the converted video to DVD/SVCD/VCD. Started from version 2.21, Total Video...
  
   – audio/video converter
• Windows media player
  Windows Media Player
  Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices...
  
  
• VLC media player
  VLC media player
  VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to...
  
  

Web browsers

• Amaya
  Amaya (web browser)
  Amaya is a free and open source WYSIWYG web authoring tool with browsing abilities, created by a structured editor project at the INRIA, a French national research institution, and later adopted by the World Wide Web Consortium . Amaya is used as a testbed for web standards and replaced the Arena...
  
   – free
• Camino
  Camino
  Camino is a free, open source, GUI-based Web browser based on Mozilla's Gecko layout engine and specifically designed for the Mac OS X operating system...
  
   – open source
• Flock
  Flock (web browser)
  Flock was a web browser that specialized in providing social networking and Web 2.0 facilities built into its user interface.Earlier versions of Flock used the Gecko HTML rendering engine by Mozilla....
  
   – free, Mozilla Firefox based
• Google Chrome
  Google Chrome
  Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or...
  
   – free, proprietary
• iCab
  ICab
  iCab is a web browser for the Macintosh by Alexander Clauss, derived from Crystal Atari Browser for Atari TOS compatible computers. It is the most recently actively developed browser for 68k-based Macintoshes that features tabbed browsing and one of a very few browsers that was still updated in...
  
   – free
• Konqueror
  Konqueror
  Not to be confused with the Conqueror web browser.Konqueror is a web browser and file manager that provides file-viewer functionality for file systems such as local files, files on a remote ftp server and files in a disk image. It is a core part of the KDE desktop environment...
  
   – open source
• Lynx
  Lynx (web browser)
  Lynx is a text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals and is very configurable.-Usage:Browsing in Lynx consists of highlighting the chosen link using cursor keys, or having all links on a page numbered and entering the chosen link's number. Current versions support...
  
   – free
• Mozilla
  Mozilla
  Mozilla is a term used in a number of ways in relation to the Mozilla.org project and the Mozilla Foundation, their defunct commercial predecessor Netscape Communications Corporation, and their related application software....
  
   – open source, combines browser, email client, WYSIWYG editor
• Mozilla Firefox
  Mozilla Firefox
  Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers...
  
   – open source
• Netscape Navigator
  Netscape Navigator
  Netscape Navigator was a proprietary web browser that was popular in the 1990s. It was the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corporation and the dominant web browser in terms of usage share, although by 2002 its usage had almost disappeared...
  
   – free, proprietary
• OmniWeb
  OmniWeb
  OmniWeb is a proprietary Internet web browser developed and marketed by The Omni Group. It is available exclusively for Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system...
  
   – free, proprietary
• Opera
  Opera (web browser)
  Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by Opera Software with over 200 million users worldwide. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting on IRC, downloading files via BitTorrent,...
  
   – free
• Safari (web browser)
  Safari (web browser)
  Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. and included with the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther". Safari is also the...
  
   – built-in from Mac OS v.10
• SeaMonkey
  SeaMonkey
  SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code...
  
   – open source Internet application suite
• Shiira
  Shiira
  Shiira is an open source web browser for the Mac OS X operating system. According to its website, the goal of Shiira was "to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari". Shiira uses WebKit for rendering and scripting.Shiira Project was led by Makoto Kinoshita. The latest release...
  
   – open source
• Internet Explorer for Mac
  Internet Explorer for Mac
  Internet Explorer for Mac was a proprietary web browser developed by Microsoft for the Macintosh platform. Initial versions were developed from the same code base as Internet Explorer for Windows...
  
   – free, by Microsoft
• WebKit
  WebKit
  WebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages. WebKit powers Google Chrome and Apple Safari and by October 2011 held over 33% of the browser market share between them. It is also used as the basis for the experimental browser included with the Amazon Kindle ebook...
  
   – Safari application framework, also in the form of an application

Web design and content management

• Adobe Contribute
  Adobe Contribute
  Adobe Contribute is a web publishing and website management tool that integrates authoring, reviewing, and publishing in a WYSIWYG HTML editor...
  
  
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Adobe GoLive
  Adobe GoLive
  Adobe GoLive was a WYSIWYG HTML editor and web site management application from Adobe Systems. It replaced Adobe PageMill as Adobe's primary HTML editor and was itself discontinued in favour of Dreamweaver...
  
  

• Claris Homepage
  Claris Homepage
  Claris Home Page was one of the earliest true what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editors. The project was code-named Loma Prieta. Claris purchased it from San Andreas Systems, reworked it to use their corporate user interface, and released it in 1996.- History :Home Page supported all of the...
  
  
• Coda
  Coda (web development software)
  Coda is a commercial and proprietary web development application for Mac OS X, developed by Panic. It was released on April 23, 2007. It won the 2007 Apple Design Award for Best User Experience. It is available for $99. - Concept and idea :...
  
  
• Freeway
  Freeway (software)
  Freeway is a WYSIWYG web design application for Mac OS X , developed by the English company Softpress Systems. There are two flavours of Freeway: Pro and Express, both currently at version 5...
  
  
• iWeb
  IWeb
  iWeb was a template-based website creation tool developed by Apple Inc. The first version of iWeb was announced at the Macworld Conference & Expo on January 10, 2006 as part of the iLife '06 suite of digital lifestyle applications...
  
  
• NVu
  Nvu
  Nvu is a WYSIWYG HTML editor, based on the Composer component of Mozilla Application Suite and Gecko 1.7. It is a common WYSIWYG editor for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh, intended to be an open source equivalent to proprietary software like Microsoft Expression Web and Adobe Dreamweaver...
  
  
• Rapidweaver
  RapidWeaver
  RapidWeaver is a template-based website creation tool, from Realmac Software, available for Mac OS X.It uses user-selectable templates to define a website's complete appearance...
  
  

Miscellaneous applications

• Steam (Software) – Digital distribution software for Video Games and related media
• Breve
  Breve (software)
  Breve is a free, GPL software package that enables users to build 3D simulations of decentralized systems and artificial life...
  
   – Artificial life simulator
• Celestia
  Celestia
  Celestia is a 3D astronomy program created by Chris Laurel. The program is based on the Hipparcos Catalogue and allows users to travel through an extensive universe, modeled after reality, at any speed, in any direction and at any time in history...
  
   – 3D astronomy program
• Stellarium
  Stellarium
  Stellarium is a free software planetarium, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It uses OpenGL to render a realistic sky in real time....
  
  – 3D astronomy program