Links to free Mac apps
Scrimpy
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Free Mac apps
thriftmac
- Audio
- Backup
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Clipboards
- Compression
- Converters
- Deletion
- Drawing
- Education
- File Sharing
- Finance
- FTP
- Functionality
- Graphics Tools
- Health
- iTunes
- Journals
- Launchers
- Maintenance
- Markdown
- Media Hubs
- Media Players
- Menu Bar
- Messaging
- Miscellaneous
- News
- Notes
- Outliners
- Painting
- Photo Editing
- Screenshots
- Search
- Security
- System Monitors
- Terminal
- Text Editors
- Text Tools
- Three Dimensional
- Timers
- To-Do
- Utilities Misc
- Video
- Web Browsing
- Window Management
- Word Processors
Stando
Gentle notifications remind you to sit, stand or adjust your posture based on your preferences. Gain insights with sitting and standing habits tracked over time.
Firefly III
Double-entry bookkeeping system supports budgets, categories, tags, and multiple currencies. Reports show expenses by week, month or year.
Boop
Paste in some text, hit Command-B, and choose what you want done with it. Made for developers, but you can import you own scripts to extend its capabilities.
BreakTimer
Set up customizable breaks with reminders. Decide how often and how long your breaks are, configure your work hours, opt for skip or snooze.
Super Productivity
Create time sheets and work summaries to track and document your work. Connects with Jira, GitLab and GitHub. Features include a pomodoro timer, a break reminder and an anti-procrastination page.
ProNotes
Apple Notes extension gives you two great improvements: Format text by highlighting it and choosing from a bar or create headings and lists with markdown syntax.
MarkText
A markdown editor with support for tables, diagrams, math formulas and code blocks. Supports CommonMark and GitHub flavoured specs.
PanWriter
A markdown text editor with support for pandoc, which allows for converting from and to markdown, HTML webpages, Word .docx, EPUB eBooks, LaTeX for academic publishing, and more. Work flows can be automated from the command line.
Pearcleaner
Uninstall your apps, along with associated files, just like AppCleaner — but with some additional features such as a Sentinel monitor helper and differentiation between regular apps and web apps.
Lulu
Keep track of apps, or even malware, on you Mac that are communicating with a remote server. Block anything that looks suspicious or unnecessary.
Reminders MenuBar
A nifty way of accessing — and adding to — what’s in your Reminders app from the menu bar. Has a choice of icons and an option to include today’s count.
PDFgear
Read, edit, convert, merge, split, annotate, fill out, compress, OCR, organize, and sign PDF files across devices. Free for now, but will charge for premium services in the future.