Apple Silicon native macOS apps, tools and enhancements.
| Legend | Icon | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Paid | 💰 | App is paid, or requires in app purchase to be useful |
| I use this | ⭐️ | It works well enough for me to use |
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- Audio Utilities
- Browsers
- Display Customization
- Gaming
- Media Utilities
- Menu Bar Enhancements
- Peripheral Utilities
- Productivity Apps
- Safari Extensions
- Security Tools
- System Tools
- Text Editors
- Touch Bar Enhancements
- Windows Management
- BackgroundMusic | Individual app volume control
- Beardie | Intelligently reroute your macs pause key to a music player + media control commands
- BlackHole | Very simple audio driver for routing audio between apps
- Ocenaudio | Easy, fast and powerful audio editor
- 💰 AudioHijack | Highly configurable audio recording from apps
- 💰 AudioWrangler | Auto priority based input / output switching on device connection
- 💰 Loopback | Audio driver and user interface for highly flexible audio routing
- 💰 Piezo | Super simple way to record audio from apps
- 💰 SoundSource | Individual app volume control
- ⭐️ Arc | A beautifully designed, mac conscious, chromium browser
- Orion | Webkit based and safari inspired browser with chrome and firefox extensions
- MonitorControl | Control display's brightness & volume as if it was a native Apple Display
- ScreenSavers | Curated list of macOS screensavers
- Übersicht | Desktop modifications, like rainmeter but on macOS
- 💰 Hologram | Hologram transforms your desktop with amazing wallpapers and widgets for Mac!
- 💰 iWallpaper | Wallpaper engine for mac
- 💰 Live Wallpaper | Similar to Wallpaper Engine, dynamic wallpapers
- 💰⭐️ Lunar | Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors
- Dolphin Ctrl Server | Server to use phone as controller in dolphin emulator
- Dolphin Emulator | Wii and gamecube emulator
- Lunar Client | Minecraft client that runs natively on apple silicon
- PrismLauncher | Minecraft launcher for modded minecraft that runs natively on apple silicon
- PlayCover | Sideload and run iOS apps like genshin + Keyboard mapping
- SwiftCord | A macos native implementation of discord
- IINA+ | IINA media player with additional features and bug fixes
- HandBrake | Converting and compressing video files
- Infuse | Video player supporting HDR and spatial audio
- Utai | Mp3 file tagger
- 💰 ff·Works 3 | A Comprehensive Media Tool for macOS
- Hidden Bar | Basic click and hide menu bar icons
- ⭐️ Ice | Powerful menu bar manager for macOS
- MenubarX | A browser in your menu bar
- PlayStatus | macOS app that allows the control of music playback from the menu bar
- Vanilla | Basic click and hide menu bar icons
- Mos | Reverses the mouse scroll direction without reversing the trackpad, plus smooth scrolling
- CameraController | Control exposure and color settings on external USB webcams
- Ears | Audio input/output switcher based on commands
- LinearMouse | Disables mouse acceleration and some other mouse settings
- ⭐️ MacMouseFix | A simple way to make your mouse better
- 💰⭐️ AirBuddy | iOS-like airpods device animation, connect with commands
- 💰 Better Mouse | Aims to replace 3rd party mouse drivers
- 💰 SteerMouse | Control mouse settings on a hardware level
- 💰 Magic Switch | Allows you to switch your Magic Mouse, Magic Keyboard & Magic Trackpad between multiple Macs with different Apple IDs
- ⭐️ Alfred | Replaces spotlight, instant app/files/folder/web search, see Alfred Powerpack
- Amphetamine | Utility to prevent your Mac from sleeping based on timers, conditions, etc.
- Flow | Pomodoro studying timer
- ⭐️ OwlOCR | OCR (Screenshot to output) for text, can convert unsearchable pdfs to searchable
- ⭐️ Motrix | Download manager and speed booster
- ⭐️ Tinkertool | Terminal commands in a gui, advanced macOS settings
- App Fair | GUI interface for all of homebrew casks (apps)
- AutoFocus | Automatically raise windows to prominence through your mouse
- Figr | Unit conversion tool
- Maccy | Clipboard manager
- Raycast | Replaces spotlight with a great extension store
- 💰 Forklift | File Manager and FTP/SFTP/WebDAV/Amazon S3 client
- 💰 Hazeover | Dim the entire windows except for the app in focus
- 💰 Transmit | File Manager and FTP/SFTP/WebDAV/Amazon S3 client
- ⭐️ Adguard for Safari | Free and open source, highly customizable and lightning fast ad blocking extension.
- ⭐️ Auto HD + FPS for Youtube | Automatically sets quality, fps and video mode for Youtube
- Pippo | Add media controls to picture in picture
- Scribens | Great free alternative to grammarly
- 💰⭐️ DarkReader | Automatically makes websites dark, purchase syncs across the Apple ecosystem
- 💰⭐️ SponsorBlock | Skips sponsor spots in YouTube, paid means the app is ready to run from the get go
- 💰 Vinegar | Enable 1080p youtube on mobile, turns youtube video player into default apple player
- 💰 Wipr | Wipr blocks all ads, trackers, cryptocurrency miners, EU cookie and GDPR notices, and other annoyances
- BLEUnlock | Lock/unlock your Mac with your iPhone, Apple Watch, or any other Bluetooth LE devices
- Cryptomator | A client-side encryption app
- KnockKnock | Find persistently installed programs and malware on your computer
- Lulu | Open source firewall to block incoming and outgoing connections
- OverSight | OverSight monitors a mac's mic and webcam, alerting the user when the internal mic or camera is activated
- Pareto Security | Automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene
- ⭐️ AppCleaner | Finds and removes random miscellaneous files when you delete an app
- ⭐️ MediaMate | Fresh visuals for Volume, Brightness and Now Playing.
- ⭐️ Silicon | Simple app to check if an app is native on Apple Silicon / m1
- ⭐️ The Unarchiver | Unarchiver / uncompressor for compressed files of all types
- CoconutBattery | Macos and iOS battery health information
- ⭐️ Dockey | Advanced macOS dock options
- ⭐️ Onyx | General system cleanup
- Shifty | Advanced night shift controls
- Swift Quit | Quits apps when clicking the red button
- 💰 Ejectify | Automatically eject and mount drives on sleep and wake, useful for external drives
- CotEditor | Lightweight plain-text editor for macOS
- bbedit | OG text editor
- Textmate | Editor that brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors
- 💰 SublimeText | Sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose
- MuseBar | Spotify / Apple Music album art and swipe controls in the control strip
- HapticKey | Haptic physical feedback from the Touch Bar
- Pock | Dock and widgets inside of the Touch Bar
- 💰 BetterTouchTools | Advanced Touch Bar widgets, gesture, scripts and more
- Rectangle | Drag windows to the side or use commands to tile them, supports extensions
- AltTab | Windows 11 like CMD-Tab enhancement
- Amethyst | Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad
- Tiles | Drag windows to the side or use commands to tile them
- Yabai | A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
- 💰⭐️ Magnet | Essentially a paid version of Tiles
- 💰 Swish | Trackpad based windows tiling along with commands
- 💰 Wins | A Brand New Window Manager for macOS. Bring System-level Arrange Window features to Mac. Dock Window Previewer.Shake to hide other windows. Floating Split Window and more