| Scite | A free source code editor for Win32 and X. | GPL | Programming |
| Audacity | Wave/Audio editor. Will export to mp3 using Lame and takes vst plugins, plus other effects plugins. Highly recommended. | GPL | Audio |
| Flac | Lossless audio compression tool. Rips tracks without the quality loss like you find in mp3 format. | GPL | Audio |
| MacKeySynth | Very cool synth with 128 sounds + drums, octave changes and it can be played directly from your computer keys. OS X version soon to come. | Freeware | Audio |
| MidiKeys | Keybord to midi virtual midi board. | Freeware | Audio |
| LameBrain | MP3 ripper, very nice ripper. | Freeware | Audio |
| Mixx | Dj software. | GPL | Audio |
| Fluidsynth | FluidSynth is a real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications. FluidSynth can read MIDI events from a MIDI input device and render them to an audio device using SoundFont instruments. | GPL | Audio |
| IVideo | Digital video editing and processing. | GPL | Video |
| Jahshaka | Nice video editor. Really worth the download. Under a new name of CineFX | GPL | Video |
| VideoLan | Movie player, plays most everything including AVI and DVD. | GPL | Video |
| Cinepaint | Image editor geared for video production. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| EOS Image Manager | Really kick ass image manager and viewer. Highly recommended. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Quickview | Image viewer for Finder. | Freeware | 2D Graphics |
| Pixen2 | This is a pixel artist's wet dream. Nice for icon creation too. Highly recommended. | MIT | 2D Graphics |
| Xaos | Fractal generator. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Fractal Trees | Fractal tree generator. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| The Gimp | Image editor much like Photoshop packaged for OS X. Highly recommended. Also see Gimp official site | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Gimpshop | Gimp organized more like Photoshop. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Seashore | Image editor for OS X. Similar to Photoshop. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Mac PovRay | Open 3-D design for OS X. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| Blender 3-D | 3-D design, animation, game development for OS X. Highly recommended. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| Dusty | Dusty is a nice realtime 3D Smoke Simulator. It allowes to simulate smoke and fire in realtime. | Freeware | 3D Graphics |
| Arbaro | Make 3-D trees. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| Daz Studio | 3-D app for Poser type figures - very nice! | Freeware | 3D Graphics |
| Wings3d | Wings 3D is a 3-D subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| UVMapper | Map textures to 3-D objects. | Freeware/Other | 3D Graphics |
| White_Dune | White_dune is a low level VRML97 tool. | GPL | Programming |
| Hugin - Panorama Tools | Make panoramic photos out of normal images. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| X-ColorZ | Helps web designers to obtain hexadecimal color codes. | Freeware | Web |
| YuBurner | cd/dvd burner. | GPL | Utility |
| OSEx | DVD Backup/ripping. Encrypted=yes. | Freeware | Video |
| JBidWatcher | Track eBay bidding/selling. | GPL | Misc |
| AMule | Peer2peer file sharing app. | GPL | Peer2Peer |
| Chicken Of the VNC | Remote Desktop tool for MAC. | GPL | Utility |
| OSX2x | osx2x is like dual monitors, a kvm switch, and vnc on speed! If you want to operate multiple machines with one keyboard and mouse, move files between them, and have both screens at your disposal this is for you. Works between platforms also! See Synergy, more mature project. | BSD | Utility |
| Synergy | osx2x is like dual monitors, a kvm switch, and vnc on speed! If you want to operate multiple machines with one keyboard and mouse, move files between them, and have both screens at your disposal this is for you. Works between platforms also! | GPL | Utility |
| Books2burn | Converts text into voice audio. | GPL | Utility |
| ReadItToMe | Have your Mac read the news to you. Uses RSS feeds. | GPL | Web |
| Adium | Chat client. Supported protocols AOL (Including ICQ and .Mac), Jabber (Including Google Talk), MSN Messenger, Yahoo! (Including Yahoo! Japan), etc. Also has file transfer and encryption. | GPL | Chat |
| WSManager | Multiple desktops in OS X. | GPL | Utility |
| XShelf | XShelf enhances drag and drop in MacOS X by letting you "pause" drag and drop operations, as well as have multiple drag and drop operations in flight at once. | Freeware | Utility |
| DiskInventoryX | File/Disk management. | GPL | Utility |
| Tinker Tool | Get more tweeking in the Sys Pref. | Freeware | Utility |
| Nice iPhoto plugin | Add more functionality to iPhoto. | Freeware | Utility |
| Yemuzip | Nice zip utility for MAC. Free for non-commercial use. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
| Bzip2 | Open source zip utility for mac. | GPL | Utility |
| MenuMeters | A majorly awesome sys metering app! Highly recommended. | GPL | Utility |
| Gauchosoft | XRG is a majorly awesome sys metering app! | GPL | Utility |
| MacTelnet | Telnet utility | LGPL | Network |
| Aqualess | View terminal output in a separate window. | GPL | Utility |
| Abiword | Word processor, with spell check, formatting, translation, etc. Highly recommended. | GPL | Office |
| OpenOffice.org | Office suite, like Microsoft Office and compatable with MS Office formats. Word processor, Spreadsheets, Publisher, Presentation, HTML, and Powerful database (like Access) products. Impress (Like Powerpoint) exports to many formats including SWF (Flash). All can be exported as PDF. | GPL/LGPL/SISSL | Office |
| NeoOffice | Port for Open Office to run native on OS X! This is easier to deal with than Open Office at the moment. A must have if you need Office products on your Mac. | GPL | Office |
| Quasar | Nice replacement for Quickbooks. | Freeware/Other | Finance |
| QCad | Autocad application. See community edition. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| UEdit | Text and code editor. | Freeware | Text/Programming |
| IJournal | The Official LiveJournal Client for Mac OS X. | BSD | Web |
| Phoenix | Update your LiveJournal with ease. Highly recommended. | GPL | Web |
| Mozilla |
Web applications like Thunderbird mail client, Camino web browser, and Sunbird Calendar. Highly recommended. | MPL | Web |
| Eclipse | Eclipse java IDE for OS X. | EPL | Programming |
| OpenLaszlo | Easy, Powerful and Free Flash creation, plus much more. For everything you need for this visit my Laszlo article. This isn't a OS X article, but it has links to other things you need to get the full power of Laszlo. | CPL | Programming |
| NVU | HTML wysiwyg editor, supports CSS, Javascript, etc. Highly recommended. | MPL/LGPL/GPL | Programming |
| SimpleCSS | CSS Editor. | Freeware | Programming |
| SPE | If your a Python programmer working on Mac or Windows and your looking for a kick ass IDE Spe is for you! Highly recommended. | GPL | Programming |
| FScript | IDE for the lightweight object-oriented interactive and scripting layer specifically designed for the Mac OS X object system (i.e. Cocoa). | GPL | Programming |
| DotGNU | Free .Net for Linux/Mac; C#, web services, and all that jazz... | GPL | Programming |
| Fink | Get the Linux software easily, lists, downloads, and installs or compiles it! | GPL | Utility |
| Fink Commander | Screw using the command line! Graphical frontend for Fink. | GPL | Utility |
| WDFink | Another gui frontend for Fink. | GPL | Utility |
| Hydrogen | Drum and synth application like Fruityloops. If you have a Linux box try LMMS. Hell, LMMS might build on OS X. | GPL | Audio |
| Konfabulator II | Desktop widgets and toys. Now owned by Yahoo. | Freeware | Utility |
| Quicksilver | Launcher and much more, too much to list here... | Freeware | Utility |
| Jackosx | Audio server. If you plan to make music you will want this eventually. | GPL | Audio |
| Ardour | Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. Produce your own CD's. Mix video soundtracks. | GPL | Audio |
| Cyberduck | Cyberduck is a open source FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) browser licenced under the GPL with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript. Highly recommended. | GPL | Web |
| JEdit | Jedit is a mature and well-designed programmer's text editor with a big focus on Java. Has nice Jython support! | BSD/GPL | Text/Programming |
| Sepy | Flash Actionscript IDE. This is really nice! Has class list, auto complete, and compiler. Highly recommended. | GPL | Programming |
| Handbrake | DVD Ripper and transcoder. In conjunction with iDVD you can't find a better solution for backing up your movies. | GPL | Video |
| Inkscape | Illustration (vector) application, similar to Illustrator. The interface may be more friendly to an Adobe person than Sodipodi. Highly recommended. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Sodipodi | Illustration (vector) application, similar to Illustrator. Available via Fink, you will not find an installer at Sodipodi website. Requires x11. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Shiira | Web browser - VERY COOL AND FAST. Highly recommended. | BSD | Web |
| Transmission | Bitorrent client. | GPL | Peer2Peer |
| MPlayer | Video player. | GPL | Video |
| RSS Owl | RSS news reader. | CPL | Web |
| MLDonkey | Multi-platform, multi-network peer-to-peer client. It supports several large networks such as eDonkey, Overnet, Bittorrent, Gnutella (Bearshare, Limewire, etc.), Gnutella2 (Shareaza), Fasttrack (Kazaa, Imesh, Grobster), Soulseek, Direct-Connect, and Opennap. | GPL | Peer2Peer |
| OpenTaxSolver | Free program for calculating Tax Form entries and tax-owed or refund-due, such as Federal or State personal income taxes. Optional OTS_GUI | GPL | Finance |
| Flame | Fractal Flames are algorithmically generated images and animations. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| SFLphone | The SFLphone project aims to provide a multi-platform, multi-protocol (SIP/IAX2), and multi-GUI desktop VoIP phone. | GPL | Web |
| IStumbler | IStumbler is a small utility for finding local wireless networks and services. iStumbler combines a compact Aqua user interface with advanced wireless scanning and reporting. | BSD | Utility |
| CALAMAR | Calamar is a multiple client general ledger accounting program for small companies. | GPL | Finance |
| PlanetGenesis | PlanetGenesis is a tool that generates 16-bit PNG height fields, Wavefront OBJ files, and POV-RAY mesh2 files for use as landscapes and planets. | BSD | 3D Graphics |
| OSXNews | OSXnews is a small, fast Cocoa news reader. | BSD | Web |
| Pegasus Mail | Email client, very mature and feature rich. | Freeware | Web |
| Grisbi | Personnal accounting application. | GPL | Finance |
| Divx | DivX player. | Freeware | Video |
| Macam | Web cam drivers/software. | GPL | Video |
| BlitzMax IDE | Basic programming IDE for use with the Blitz game development environment. | Public Domain | Programming |
| FreeWRL | VRML web browser. | GPL | Web |
| Colloquy | IRC Client. Traditionally, chat clients on the Mac have been anything but glamorous. Colloquy is an advanced IRC & SILC client which aims to fill this void. | GPL | Chat |
| Joustedit | HTML editor with really nice features. | GPL | Programming |
| Applejack | Troubleshooting assistant for Mac OS X. With AppleJack you can troubleshoot a computer even if you can't load the GUI, or don't have a startup CD handy. | GPL | Utility |
| Hexfiend | Hex Editor. | BSD | Utility |
| Simply Burns | Really nice cd/dvd burner for OS X 10.9+ | GPL | Utility |
| Flash 4 Linux | You will most likely need to compile this. There may be a Fink package, but I haven't looked. | GPL | Programming |
| Fugu | Secure FTP frontend. | GPL | Web |
| Goliath | Goliath is an application that creates and edits websites. It uses a technology called WebDAV (frequently called Web Folders) to make changes to the files stored on web servers. | GPL | Programming |
| ProFTPd | FTP Server. | GPL | Server |
| PureFTPd | FTP Server where the focus is on simplicity. Manager Software Here | GPL | Server |
| Onebutton FTP | FTP Client, very simple. | GPL | Web |
| Avidemux | Video editor. | GPL | Video |
| Fontforge | Font creation application. | GPL | Font |
| Doubletype | Font creation application. | GPL | Font |
| Scribus | Desktop publishing application similar to Pagemaker. Look here if you have trouble finding the OS X binary. | GPL | Office |
| Ogg Vorbis | Ogg is like an open source version of mp3. They list many ripping, playing, and utilities on their site also for use with this format. I like it better than mp3. | GPL | Audio |
| Mucommander | File Explorer replacement. If you liked Norton Commander you will love this. | Freeware | Utility |
| Locomotive | Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL. | GPL | Server |
| Apache Tomcat | Apache Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (jsp) technologies. | ASF/GPL/Other | Server |
| Apache Web Server | Web Server, the best imo. Acache is most likely already installed on OS X. | ASF/GPL/Other | Server |
| MySQL | SQL Database. | GPL/Other | Database |
| Postgresql | SQL database. Heavy duty relational database. | BSD | Database |
| PHP | Web programming language used to make PHP
server pages. | PHP | Programming |
| Pidgin | Chat client. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks. | GPL | Chat |
| Skype | Internet phone. Skype is a little program for making free calls over the internet to anyone else who also has Skype. Its free and easy to download and use, and works with most computers so your not limited to call friends using the same operating system. Skype also has other services that allow the calling of actual phone number and cells, plus video options for a small price. | Freeware | Web |
| Limewire | Peer2peer software. | Freeware/Other | Peer2Peer |
| Synfig | Cartoon animation - industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources. Highly Recommended. | GPL | Video |
| PGP | A free encryption software program that is the de-facto global standard for E-mail and file privacy. Pretty Good Privacy (or PGP) offers full-strength, 128-bit encryption. PGP has constantly been upgraded over the years and now offers loads of useful features, including secure file wiping; advanced keyserver searching; and seamless integration with Qualcomm's popular Eudora E-mail client. | Freeware/Other | Security |
| Swami | Sampled Waveforms And Musical Instruments - is an advanced instrument editor for MIDI music composition and a sampler frontend. Currently SoundFont files can be browsed, edited and saved and new instrument formats are being added (DLS and GigaSampler) in the Swami development version. Requires x11. | GPL | Audio |
| ClamAV | Anti virus program. | GPL | Utility |
| Vex | Vex is an editor for XML documents. The "visual" part comes from the fact that Vex hides the raw XML tags from the user, providing instead a wordprocessor-like interface. Because of this, Vex is best suited for "document-style" XML documents such as XHTML and DocBook rather than "data-style" XML documents. | GPL | Programming |
| Celtx | Celtx is a comprehensive software package designed for people who work in the film, TV, theatre, and new media industries. It combines full-feature scriptwriting with media rich pre-production support and enables online collaboration. | MPL | Video |
| Jgraphpaper | Graph paper creator. My wife actually needed something to do this easily maybe you do too. | GPL | Utility |
| Xerlin | XML editor. | GPL | Programming |
| Juice | If you want to listen to podcasts, this program is for you. | GPL | Web |
| Delineate | Raster to Vector coverter. Nice | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Preferential Treatment | Preference file checker/fixer. | GPL | Utility |
| Jap | Anonymous proxy. JAP makes it possible to surf the internet anonymously and unobservably. | GPL | Security |
| Chimoo | Timer, can be used to time many things. | Freeware | Utility |
| Speak-freely | Voice over ip, Internet phone. | GPL | Web |
| Freeguide-tv | FreeGuide is a TV guide. Download TV listings from the Internet, view them offline, create a personalised TV guide and choose favourites. It uses the XMLTV tools to grab listings for lots of different countries. | GPL | Misc |
| Ktoon | Cartoon drawing and animation software. | GPL | Video |
| K3D | 3-D design, illustration, modelling, and animation which can utilize Renderman engine as well as others. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| Sketch It Up | 3-D design, illustration, and modelling brought to by Google. | Freeware/other | 3D Graphics |
| Selenium | Web application test tool. Tests run directly in a browser, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Firefox. Supported platforms Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. Languages include C#, Python, PHP, Ruby, etc. | GPL | Programming |
| Equinox3d | 3-D illustration, modeling, rendering, and animation application. | Shareware | 3D Graphics |
| LiveQuartz | Image editor. | Unknown | 2D Graphics |
| Gardensketch | Lanscape designer. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Jpatch | Spline based 3D modeling tool (a patch modeler). It can be used to create 3D models for POV-Ray or RenderMan compatible renderers (e.g. Aqsis). | GPL |
3D Graphics |
| Junkmatcher | Spam filter for Apple's Mail client. | GPL | Utility |
| Aptana | Development environment geared towards web development, Ajax style! Autocomplete and assistance for HTML, CSS, Java Script. | EPL | Programming |
| Max | Max is an application for creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files. | GPL | Audio |
| Mamp | The abbreviation MAMP stands for: Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP. With just a few mouse-clicks, you can install Apache, PHP and MySQL for Mac OS X! | GPL | Server |
| ClamXav | ClamXav is a free virus checker for Mac OS X. It uses the tried, tested and very popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end. | GPL | Utility |
| Miro | Internet Video/podcast oraginizer player -Quicktime, WMV, MPEG, AVI, XVID, and more. Video blog, YouTube, hell it does everything including BitTorrent. | GPL | Video |
| BitTyrant | BitTorrent protocol compatible client. Faster than traditional BitTorrent. | GPL | Peer2Peer |
| Hymn | The purpose of the Hymn Project is to allow you to exercise your fair-use rights under copyright law. The various software provided on this web site allows you to free your iTunes Music Store purchases (protected AAC / .m4p) from their DRM restrictions with no loss of sound quality. These songs can then be played outside of the iTunes environment, even on operating systems not supported by iTunes and on hardware not supported by Apple. | GPL | Audio |
| EmailXT | EmailXT is an open, patent-free protocol that replaces your current email with a more secure, full-featured system. EmailXT is a relationship-based email system where unauthorized bulk emailing is no longer possible. No more spam and mass mailing viruses. You don't need spam filters or service subscriptions any more. COMING SOON. | GPL | Web |
| Monodevelop | C# IDE that runs on OS X and Linux. | GPL | Programming |
| XAMPP | Apache, MySQL, PHP web development environment install. Takes care of most configs and setup issues so you don't have to. Also see MAMP, which maybe a bit more stable at this point. | APL | Server |
| MegaPOV | MegaPOV is a custom unofficial version of POV-Ray with a lot of additional features. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| BRL-CAD | The BRL-CAD package is a powerful Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system with over 20 years development and production use by the U.S. military. Visit the project page for downloads. | LGPL | 3D Graphics |
| Frostwire | Peer2Peer and BitTorrent client. | GPL | Peer2Peer |
| Desktop Manager | Multiple desktops (virtual desktops) on OS X. OS X Leopard will havea built in desktop manager. | GPL | Utility |
| Aqsis | Renderman (as in Pixar) rendering engine, used in 3D apps like K-3D. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| XMM | MeD's Movie Manager is a simple to use, yet customizable, movie manager. Info is automatically retrieved from IMDb and tv.com.
Technical info can also be retrieved from media files like AVI, OGM, MPEG and DVD (ifo). It's written in Java and should therefore run on most desktop systems supporting Java. | GPL | Video |
| Skim | Really cool PDF reader with amazing features. Read and annotate scientific papers in PDF. Stop printing and start skimming. | BSD | Utility |
| Lazarus | Delphi/Kylix like programming environment using Pascal, compiles to exe, gui designer. | GPL | Programming |
| ITerm | Terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. Features include tabs, bookmarks, anti-idle,complete VT100 emulation, with additional support for most common xterm and ANSI escape sequences. | GPL | Utility |
| Macgpg | File, email encryption and other encryption utilites, like a file shredder. | GPL | Security |
| Password Gorilla | Password manager. | GPL | Security |
| QT | GUI designer used on multiple platforms, highly used in open source projects. IMPORTANT: QT can be used for free for open source projects only! For commercial projects you must pay to distribute your QT based application. | Freeware/other | Programming |
| AOLServer | Web server created by AOL. | MPL | Server |
| Aria Maestosa | Really nice midi tracker/editor. It lets you compose, edit and play midi files with a few clicks in a user-friendly interface offering keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views. | GPL | Audio |
| MPEG Streamclip | Video converter/editor. May require a purchase of MPEG-2 addon for Quicktime on some Macs. | Freeware | Video |
| Smultron | Smultron is a free text editor for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger which is both easy to use and powerful. | APL | Text/Programming |
| Kju | Run Windows, Linux and a lot more Systems on your Mac. Q is a feature packed cocoa port of QEMU. | CC/NC | Virtualization |
| Groovy | Groovy is an agile, dynamic programming language for the Java Virtual Machine. Groovy includes features found in Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk, but uses syntax similar to the Java programming language. | APL | Programming |
| MacGPG | Mac GNU Privacy Guard (Mac GPG for short) is, after a fashion, the Mac OS X port of GnuPG, licensed under the GNU GPL. The aims of the project are to make GnuPG easy to install, develop a framework to make it easy for other developers to incorporate GnuPG functionality into their applications, write services to allow for the use of GnuPG functions in most Cocoa applications, and write a Mac GPG Keys type application so that you no longer have to go to the commandline to manage your keys. For those who don't know, GnuPG is a free OpenPGP client (PGP == Pretty Good Privacy). | GPL | Security |
| Borkpad | BorkPad is a faithful replica (within reason) of the classic Mac OS 9 NotePad, originally developed by Light Software. It stores multiple pages of plain text notes. It is designed to be fast launching and unobtrusive. | Freeware/Other | Text/Utility |
| Sequel-pro | Manage MySQL databases (locally or over the internet). It lets you add and remove databases and tables, change fields and indexes, view and filter the content of tables, add, edit and remove rows, perform custom queries and dump tables or entire databases plus more. | GPL | Utility |
| Cosmos3d | 3-D Mandelbrot Fractal generator. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| Bean | Text/HTML editor. Bean is lean, fast, and uncluttered. If you get depressed at the thought of firing up MS Word or OpenOffice, try Bean. If you use Text Edit but have to jump through hoops just to get a word count or change the margins, try Bean. If you're pining away for Write Now-esque simplicity or just want a low-pressure writing environment, try Bean. | GPL | Office |
| Spket | IDE for JavaScript, XUL/XBL and Yahoo! Widget development. It provides features like code completion, syntax highlighting and content outline that helps developers productively create efficient JavaScript code. Supports Laszlo and Silverlight. Requires Java. | Freeware/Other | Programming |
| Songbird | Desktop Web player, digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox®, it is built from Mozilla®, cross-platform and open source. Reminds me a bit of Amarok. Also runs on Windows and Linux. Very nice player indeed! | MPL/Other | Audio |
| FFmpegX |
ffmpegX is a Mac OS X graphic user interface designed to easily operate more than 20 powerful Unix open-source video and audio processing tools including ffmpeg the "hyper fast video and audio encoder. Convert, read, encode, and author video. | GPL | Video |
| Komodo Edit | Free, feature-rich editor for JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl, on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. | Freeware | Programming |
| Macstumbler |
MacStumbler is a utility to display information about nearby 802.11b and 802.11g wireless access points. It is mainly designed to be a tool to help find access points while traveling, or to diagnose wireless network problems. Additionally, MacStumbler can be used for "wardriving", which involves co-ordinating with a GPS unit while traveling around to help produce a map of all access points in a given area. | Freeware | Utility |
| IPhoney |
Looking for a way to see how your web creations will look on iPhone? Look no further. iPhoney gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment—powered by Safari—that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It's the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development. And it's free. | Freeware | Programming |
| VeohTV | VeohTV is a free specialized video browser that turns online video into Internet Television. Watch video from thousands of web sites, in one easy-to-use full screen application. Watch streaming video from major television networks such as Fox and CBS, to independently-produced content available on sites such as YouTube, Google Video, Veoh.com and MySpace.
| Freeware | Video |
| Joost | What's Joost? It's video – more than 15,000 shows, with more added daily. It's online – all you need is a broadband internet connection. And it's free. Between this and VeohTV I hardly turn on the television anymore.
| Freeware | Video |
| StopMojo | StopMojo is cross-platform stop-motion animation suite designed to aid in the creation of stop-motion animations. Currently it includes a capture program supporting capture of image files from various video capture devices, overlay of previous frames (onion skinning), and export to AVI and QUICKTIME video formats. | GPL | Video |
| Floola |
Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes). Floola supports all common used iPod features including artwork, podcasts and smart playlists! It's also able to convert audio or video incompatible with the iPod so that you can copy almost any file to it. It even allows adding youtube and myspace videos just entering the page url! | Freeware | Utility |
| Yamipod | YamiPod is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation. Take a look at the feature list to find out what it can do and feel free to suggest anything that might be missing. | Freeware | Utility |
| Freyja | Freyja 3d is a modeler and animator focusing on low polygon game content with wide range of model import/export plugins. Freyja has some unique features such as Lua macros, tools for reverse engineering, and use of GLSL shaders while editing. | GPL | 3D Graphics |
| VirtualBox | VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Intel Macs only unfortunately. | Freeware/Other | Virtualization |
| GNUMail | GNUMail is a fully featured mail application running on Linux (or FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc) and Apple Mac OS X. It uses the GNUstep development framework or Apple Cocoa, which is based on the OpenStep specification provided by NeXT, Inc.. GNUMail is licensed under the GPL, and the full sources of the application are available. | GPL | Web |
| Macports | The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system. Also see Fink. | BSD | Utility |
| HomeBank | HomeBank is free software. Use it to manage your personal accounts. It is designed to easy to use. Analyse your finances in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs. Requires X11 | GPL | Finance |
| Tomato Torrent | BitTorrent promotes the accessibility of data on the Internet by allowing anyone to share information with a large audience. For more information, take a look at the pretty images over at BitTorrent.com. | BSD/Other | Peer2Peer |
| Zipeg | Zipeg allows you to open and explore content of zip, rar and other archives, preview files and images before you extract/unzip them. Extract only the files you want. Zip thru photo archives. See image thumbnails. Zipeg allows you to decide what do you want to extract. You can choose what to extract and where to put extracted files or just drag and drop them. | Freeware/Other | Utility |
| Netbeans | IDE with the following features and language support Ajax | C/C++ | Databases | Debugger | Desktop | Editor | GUI Builder | Java EE | Java ME | Java SE | Javascript | Mobile | Profiler | Refactor | REST | Rich Client Platform | Ruby | SOA | SOAP | UML | Web | WSDL | XML. | GPLv2/CDDL | Programming |
| NetNewsWire | RSS Feed reader. Get your news and information instantly. Customize the way you read and organize feeds. Feeds are stored on NewsGator. I highly recommend this and NewsGator. | Freeware | Web |
| Traverso | Cross platform multitrack audio recording and editing suite, with an innovative and easy to master User Interface. It's suited for both the professional and home user, who needs a robust and solid DAW. | GPL | Audio |
| Hotspot Shield | Hotspot Shield creates a virtual private network (VPN) between your laptop and the wireless router. This impenetrable tunnel prevents snoopers and hackers from viewing your email, instant messages, credit card information or anything else you send over a wireless network. Which means you remain anonymous and protect your privacy. | Freeware | Security |
| Truecrypt | Open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP , Mac OS X, and Linux. TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. Entire file system is encrypted (e.g.., file names, folder names, contents of every file, free space, meta data, etc). | GPL | Security |
| Pencil | Pencil is an animation/drawing software that lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| The Unarchiver | Unzip about anything and everything. I consider this the best open source replacement for Stuffit Expander. | GPL | Utility |
| Cord | Windows Remote Desktop (terminal services) client. | GPL | Utility |
| Code:Blocks | The IDE with all the features you need, having a consistent look, feel and operation across platforms. | GPL | Programming |
| XBMC | XBMC media center is a free cross-platform media-player jukebox and entertainment hub. | GPL | Multimedia |
| Lilypond | Music notation for everyone. | GPL | Audio |
| Musescore | Music notation with midi support and plugins. Highly recommended. | GPL | Audio |
| ReBirth RB-338 | Software simulation of the classic Roland devices TB-303 bassline, TR-808/909 rythym composers (Mac OS9 only). iPhone version here (not freeware) | Freeware | Audio |
| Buddi | Financial and banking app. | GPL | Finance |
| Tor | Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. | BSD | Security |
| Freemind | FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. | GPL | Utility |
| Kapling | simple little standalone physical modeling synthesizer. | GPL | Audio |
| Meteo | Meteorologist is a free weather program for Mac OS X. | MIT | Utility |
| Qumana | Blog editor supporting most blogs. | Freeware | Utility |
| Clipmenu | Clipboard utility and history. | Freeware | Utility |
| MacTube | Watch and download videos, YouTube, etc. | Freeware | Video |
| Anxiety | Lightweight ToDo list. Utilizes the calender/Mail app. Very nice… | Freeware | Utility |
| xPad | xPad is the ultimate notepad, TextEdit and Stickies replacement for Apple's OS X. | Freeware | Utility |
| SketchBox | SketchBox is a new – multifunctional yet uncluttered – Sticky Notes Manager for your Mac Desktop. | Freeware | Utility |
| Winebottler | Wine + a really nice interface to Wine. | GPL | Utility |
| SQLiteBrowser | SQLite browser and utility. | Public Domain | Utility |
| Boxer | Kick ass easy interface to DosBox. | GPL | Utility |
| Drawberry | Very lightweight Vector graphics editor. For more power see Inkscape. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| Lyx | LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG).
LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX. | GPL | Office |
| AppTrap | With AppTrap, when you move an application to the trash, you're automatically asked if you want to move the associated preference files as well. Now that's uninstallation, the Mac way. | GPL | Utility |
| Task Coach | Nice Task/ToDo tool created in Python. Also has a commercial iPhone app. | GPL | Utility |
| Calibre | EBook manager, converter. Syncs with Stanza. | GPL | Utility |
| Wireshark | Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. | GPL | Network |
| Nessus | The Nessus® vulnerability scanner is the world-leader in active scanners, featuring high-speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery and vulnerability analysis of your security posture. | GPL | Security |
| OpenVPN | VPN clients. | GPL | Network |
| Plex | Multimedia home theater, I highly recommend this. | GPL | Multimedia |
| Perian | Codecs that allow Quicktime to play various unsupported video features. | GPL | Video |
| MeasuringCup | Cooks recipe manager. | Freeware | Utility |
| uApp | App uninstaller like iTrash, AppZapper, ect. Discontinued, but still available and works alright. | Freeware | Utility |
| Mu.LAB | MU.LAB is a hi-quality music application for Mac OSX and Windows, transforming your computer into a complete music studio! | Freeware | Audio |
| Wavemaker | WaveMaker lets everyone visually & rapidly build great-looking open source web & cloud applications that deploy to a standard Java .war file. | APL | Programming |
| NoloPro | Quickbooks replacement with Payroll and Quickbooks to Nolo conversion, which isn't free. Software client for Windows and web-based version, which works for OS X, Linux, and Windows using Apache, PHP, etc... | Freeware | Finance |
| MacInformer | Track, Update, and comment on OS X software installed on your machine. | Freeware | Utility |
| AppFresh | Track, Update, and comment on OS X software installed on your machine. Interfaces with I Use This. | Freeware | Utility |
| MD5App | Easily Generate and Verify MD5 Hashes. | Freeware | Utility |
| Mumble | Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software primarily intended for use while gaming. | BSD | Utility |
| Flock | Web browser built off of Firefox geared towards social networking. | GPL | Web |
| Hulu Desktop | Hulu client. | Freeware | Video |
| AppCleaner | Really nice uninstaller for the Mac. This should have been included with OS X IMO. Also, while you're there check out the disk encryption app that lets you encrypt your data and an icon switcher. Really good stuff. | Freeware | Utility |
| GarageBuy | Application that looks the way it should (using the Mac's native interface) to help you find and purchase items on eBay. | Freeware | Utility |
| Himmelbar | HimmelBar provides an icon in the menu bar to quickly access your installed applications by scanning standard locations such as local, user, network and developer applications. | Freeware | Utility |
| Think | Lets you put apps and windows in focus quickly. | Freeware | Utility |
| Macloc | Logout keeping all you apps and data in place. | Freeware | Utility |
| Silverskin | Have instant access to all of your web server, domain name, and hosting accounts. Serverskine allows you to keep everything straight in a way that's intuitive, easy and useful. | Freeware | Server |
| SvnX | Subversion client. | GPL | Programming |
| Appointments | Appointments is an application designed to keep record of customers, contact persons and important events related to them. Information is collected in a structured way: there are separate dictionaries with customers data, contact persons, appointment managers etc. which are used to create appointments record. | MIT | Utility |
| FreeDMG | FreeDMG can make internet enabled disk images for distribution to Macs as well as ISO/Joliet hybrid images for cross-platform delivery. | GPL | Utility |
| Paintbrush | Windows Paintbrush clone for OS X. | GPL | 2D Graphics |
| KeepassX | KeePassX saves many different information e.g. user names, passwords, urls, attachments and comments in one single database. | GPL | Security |
