Amazon Prime Video for Mac is a streaming app for watching movies, TV shows, live sports, and Amazon Originals included with a Prime subscription. It doesn't have a native macOS desktop app. Mac users instead watch through the Prime Video website in a browser, or by downloading Amazon's iPad app directly from the Mac App Store on Apple Silicon Macs...
HoudahGeo for Mac is a photo and video geotagging app by Houdah Software that embeds GPS coordinates directly into your media files, the same way a GPS-enabled camera would. It organizes the process into three steps: Load, Process, and Output, so you add your files and track logs, verify or adjust locations, then write the final data back to your f...
Krita for Mac is a free, open-source digital painting app built for concept artists, illustrators, and texture artists working in VFX. It includes nine distinct brush engines, each tuned for a different job, from color smudging to particle-based effects. Brush stabilizers smooth out shaky strokes using three different methods, plus a dedicated Dyna...
Dolphin Emulator for mac is a free, open-source emulator that lets you play GameCube and Wii games on your Mac, including Wii's WiiWare and Virtual Console titles. It also emulates the Triforce arcade board, the hardware Sega, Namco, and Nintendo co-developed for cabinets like F-Zero AX. Dolphin runs natively on Apple Silicon, using Metal as its gr...
League of Legends for Mac is a free-to-play 5v5 MOBA where two teams of champions battle to destroy the enemy Nexus. It has a native Mac client, so no Boot Camp, Parallels, or CrossOver is needed to play. The Mac client runs on Apple's Metal graphics engine for smooth performance, even on Apple Silicon. It includes more than 140 champions, along wi...
XQuartz for Mac is an open-source implementation of the X Window System (X11) for macOS. It allows users to run X11-based Linux and Unix applications on a Mac while maintaining seamless integration with the macOS desktop. The current version is 2.8.6. Whether you're a developer, researcher, or system administrator, XQuartz provides a reliable envir...
ChatGPT for Mac is OpenAI's official desktop app, bringing chat, voice conversations, and image generation to your menu bar. The desktop app now includes Codex, OpenAI's coding agent, directly inside the same application, along with ChatGPT Work for delegated business tasks. It can pull context from your email, screenshots, files, and anything curr...
Cursor for Mac is an AI-powered code editor built by Anysphere that lets you hand off coding tasks to an autonomous agent instead of writing every line yourself. It indexes your entire codebase to understand context before making changes. Its Tab feature predicts your next edit with fast, specialized autocomplete. Cloud agents can work independentl...
Final Draft for Mac is screenwriting software built specifically for movie scripts, TV episodics, and stage plays. It automatically paginates and formats your script to industry standards as you write. This removes the need to learn screenplay formatting rules yourself. It combines word processing with professional formatting in one self-contained ...
Adobe Lightroom Classic for Mac is a desktop-only photo editing and organization app. It stores your original files locally rather than in the cloud. This gives photographers full manual control over their library. It's part of Adobe's broader Lightroom ecosystem, sitting alongside the standard cloud-based Lightroom as the desktop-focused option. R...
Cosmos Video for Mac is a virtual office app for remote teams, replacing the standard video call grid with a shared spatial workspace where team members appear as avatars. Walking your avatar up to a colleague's starts a proximity-based conversation instantly, recreating the spontaneity of a physical office instead of requiring a scheduled call. Be...
Focus for mac is a productivity timer by Meaningful Things built to help you plan, execute, and track work sessions on Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Version 2026.2.1 rebuilt the app on a modern Swift 6 codebase, added a new in-app Learning section, and redesigned its Settings from the ground up. It combines a timer with integrated task manage...
Bartender for mac is a menu bar management app by Applause Group that has helped Mac users control their menu bar for more than 10 years. Version 6.6.2, focuses heavily on performance, reducing memory creep during long sessions and fixing a longstanding issue where icons could disappear from the layout page. It lets you hide, rearrange, or group me...
OnlySwitch for mac is a free, open-source menu bar app by developer jacklandrin that puts dozens of quick toggle switches in one place, including dark mode, hidden desktop icons, AirPods control, and hiding the notch on newer MacBook Pro models. Version 2.7.2, the current release, keeps the app lightweight at just 27.6MB. It's built with SwiftUI, h...
Tor Browser for Mac is a free, privacy-focused browser built by The Tor Project, a nonprofit organization, that routes your traffic through three layers of relays to protect against tracking and surveillance. Version 15.0.19, the current release, updates the browser's Firefox base to 140.13.0esr and backports security fixes from Firefox 153. Origin...
