201 Most Essential Mac Apps
Tue, 01/18/2011 - 00:00 — mebaze
We are pretty sure It is too tough to find 201 Mac Applications in one place! meBaze proudly presents 201 Most Essential Mac App Collections for Mac lovers.
Text Wrangler  Textwrangler is powerful text editor. You can use Textwrangler for editing HTML/XHTML, XML, PHP, JavaScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Java, ANSI C, C++, Objective-C, and etc. Find Differences to compare two versions of a text file and merge the differences. |
Todos Do not worry about to find applications from your hard drive. Just press hot key (Command + Option + Control + T) it will simplify your job. |
Disk Inventory X It just like Disk Utility. But it sizes of files and folders in special graphical way called "TeamApps". |
Grand Perspective Grand Perspective is another application like Disk Utility. It can help you to manage your disk, which files and folders take up most space. |
Quick Silver Quick Silver is a intelligent spotlight application. Just press Command + Space, you will get beautiful list of applications in center of the screen. It is free application provides by Blacktree Software. |
Growl Beautiful Notification System. |
UnRarX It is a Cocoa Application. It is allowing compress and decompressing files. |
Adium Adium is a free instant messaging client for Mac OS X. It is supports multiple IM networks, Windows Live Messanger, Yahoo Messanger, GTalk, AIM, ICQ and XMPP. |
Vuze Vuze is a Bit Torrent client used to transfer files via bit torrent protocol. |
Cyberduck Opensource FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Google Docs, Cloud Files, Amazon S3 application for Mac OS X licensed under the GPL. It is interacts with Cocoa Application GUI. |
Net News Wire It is a adware desktop news aggregate. This application was origianlly shareware. Now It is become a free application developed by Brent and Shelia Simmons. It was the first desktop RSS reader application. The latest version 3.0 has added spotlight indexing of news items, iCal, iPhoto, Address Book and VoodooPad. |
Transmission Transmission is a bit torrent client. It is free application licensed under GNU. |
VLC VLC is a portable Multi Media Player. It is a free open source media player provided by VideoLAN. |
Audacity Audacity is free cross-platform digital audio editor and recorder. |
Blender It is a free 3D graphics application. It can be use for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water and smoke simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particles, non-linear editing, compositing and interactive 3D application. |
Delicious Library Cataloging for your music, videos, books, software and etc., |
DeskLickr DeskLickr is a desktop application from Flickr. It is grabs all images from your flickr profile. |
Gimp Gimp is a open-source graphic editing application like fireworks/photoshop. |
Google Earth Google Earth is giving us bunch of imagery and geography information. |
Hand Break Handbrake is open-source program for converting video format like MPEG/DVD into MPEG4, MOV and etc. |
Joost Joost is a free internet television broadcasting service. This application provides prerecorded television shows at whenever and wherever. |
Wallsaver It is a screen saver application. It is allows to run any screen save at your desktop. |
Rulers Its a beautiful adware for mac. It is enabled guidelines to measure objects and positioning objects and It is pretty much useful in many fields. |
smcFanControl It is controls fan speed of Intel Macs to make it run cooler. Lets you allows to control fan speed manually. But, it does not allow to make below default fan speed. So that your machine will not get damage. |
Timeout The objective of this application is reminding to leave break for human body. The human body is not built for sit in one position for endless hours. Timeout is helping reminds to take a break on regular basis. |
Autorate Autorate is automatically sets rates for iTunes library according to how you listen to them. |
Fish Fish is aquarium simulator. It is allows you to add fish to an underwater environment. |
FreeDMG FreeDMG is one of the most powerful disk imaging application. Just drag and drop, it can convert you files into UDZO, UDCO etc. user can attach license agreement in their image files. |
Carbon Copy Cloner Clone, Synchronize, Backup, Schedule and forgot it. |
iStat Menus A set of 8 separate and highly configurable menu extras that let you know exactly what is going on inside your Mac. View realtime stats for CPU, Network, Date & Time, Disk Usage, Disk Activity, Sensors (fans & temperatures), Memory and Battery. Each menu extra comes with many different display modes, customizable colours, font sizes and widths. |
Mac Janitor Mac Janitor is for cron maintenance scripts. You can customize it daily, weekly and monthly basis. |
Anxiety Anxiety is designed for managing and synchronizing your schedule. It is a excellent lightweight to-do management application at free of cost. |
Appointments Appointment is designed for keeps record your customer, contacts, events and information in structured way. This application provides convenient user interface tools for sorting and filtering your stored data. |
BackBoard Backboard is a application which gives task reminder for event, schedule etc., |
Camouflage Camouflage is desktop cleaning utility. That is help you to maintain your wallpaper clean. |
Evernote Evernote allows you to capture information in any environment and using any device/platform and this information accessible and searchable at anytime from anywhere. |
EventSync Eventsynch is a application for synchronize your facebook events with iCal. |
iClockr iClockr is a tool for track time for different task and different project. The stop watch feature is helps to track your time very fast. |
Mindnode Mind mapp is to be a good way to take notes and prepare for writing and speaking assignments. A mind map is an organic representation of your thought process. Whether you are trying to think up new ways to promote your product, pros and cons of an upcoming business decision, or whether or not you have enough information to make an important decision, mind maps are used by millions of people, individuals and businesses, worldwide. |
Namechanger Namechanger is a utility for renaming set of files or folders are very fast and easy. |
Punakea Punakea is a file management application for mac at free of cost. It is allows you to tags your files and bookmarks. |
SketchBox Sketchbox is a multifunctional sticky notes manager for mac. It is allows you to set reminder and enables visual alarm. It is arrange all your notes in thumbnail view. |
Slife Slife is a automatic time and activity management solution for mac. |
SyncMate SyncMate is multifunctional tool provides by Eltima. It is allows syncing multi platform mobiles like iOS, Android, Window Mobile etc., |
TaskMate TaskMate is lightweight task management application. |
AppFresh AppFresh will check all the applications, plugins, widgets, etc on your machine and check is they are up to date latest version available and update into latest updates. |
Garagebuy Garage Buy provides an easy way to search on ebay. It help you to find a product and allows you to purchase on ebay. |
Set Icon Set Icons is a small application that allows you to customize you application icon from ICNS or any other format supports mac. |
Neo Office It is fully featured set of office application. It is allows word processing, presenting, drawing and database programs. |
Emacs It is a cute application for text editor provides by GNU. |
Free Mind Free Mind is a free mind-mapping software. This is very intuitive productive tool. It is very faster than Mind Manager. |
NewsFire Newsfire is an RSS news reader developed by David Watanabe. It is supports Podcasting, Atom and RSS. |
AppCleaner Appcleaner allows you to clean your application very fast and easy. Just drag and drop whichever application you want to remove from your machine, it will done the job very easily. |
Caffeine Caffeine is a tiny program. When enabled, it allows you to make your machine active state when idle. |
Deeper Deeper is a personalization utility for mac which allows you to enable and disable hidden function of finder, dock, quicktime, safari, itunes etc., |
EverSave Eversave is a clever tool which allows you to save all your document in specific time interval. |
Loginox It is a smart tool which you allows you to customize your login screen. |
MacLock MacLock is a simple and small application thats lock you mac while keep running programs in background. For resume, enter your password to unlock your screen. |
Mactracker Mactracker is freeware application which provides complete information about Apple Macintosh Hardware. Including such as items processor speed, memory, optical drives, graphic cards etc., |
Onyx Onyx is very handy multifunction utility to have around. It will ensure your mac always clean and tidy at free of cost. |
Monolingual It is a program for removing unnecessary language from you mac. |
PresentYourApps PresentYourApps is a Cocoa application which lets you allow to hide your doc and menubar in just one click. |
SmartReporter SmartReporter is very cool freeware application. It lets you notify before your hard drive get failure. |
SuperDocker SuperDocker is right tool for customizing dock style in your Mac OS X. |
Gabtastik Gabtastik is Webkit based site specific browser for web chat service. Gabtastik allows user to keep web chat sessions running on the desktop outside of the regular web browser. |
Messenger Messenger is an chat application between yahoo accounts which lets allow to share your files and videos and chats. |
EtreTask EtreTask is small application. It is easy to manage your to-do list. |
OutOfMind Out of mind is just like another to-do list manager. |
WeatherSnitch Weathersnitch is an utility that displays weather information in menu bar. |
SpotInside Spotinside is a windowed spotlight application. It has more feature than default spotlight utility in Mac OS X. |
SpotLook SpotLook is an another desktop search engine application. |
TigerLaunch TigerLaunch is an easy to use application launcher. It will appear on menubar, so that easily you can access the applications easily. |
HimmelBar HimmelBar is a little faceless application that provides an icon in the menu bar to quickly access your installed applications by scanning standard locations such as local, user, developer and network applications, and also utilities. |
Thunder Bird Thunderbird is free application for cross platform E-Mail and News client developed by Mozila. |
FMenu Using FMenu you can stay connected with Facebook. It is appear in menu bar on Mac OS X. It lets you keep your updates, statuses, notes, groups, wall posts, friend requests or photos. |
Photo Book Photobook is a Facebook photo browser. It is allows you to share, manage and view your friends photos. |
Syrinx Syrinx is a customizable twitter client with a strong work flow. |
Curb Curb is an emptying the trash from removable media. |
Hab.la Hab.la is a powerful tool that allows you to chat with your website visitor directly through Gtalk or Adium. |
Bean Bean is lean and fast and uncluttered word processor better than MS Word, Open Office. |
Skim Skim is a open-source PDF reader. |
Visual Net Tools Visual Net Tools is a set of network security tools. |
Air Grab Password Air Grab Password is an application which allows you to create random password that are highly secured and extremely difficult to crack. |
Remote Desktop It is enables you to connect from your macintosh to windows computer. It allows you to access the files and program on there. |
QLab QLab is a live show control application for your mac. It is very fast and flexible application which allows you to create media design for theater, composition, installation, corporate events and advertisement displays. |
Real Player Real player is a very good application for playing music for mac. |
ooVoo ooVoo most advanced feature rich video communication program. It is allows you to connect Mac and PC users at whenever from wherever. |
Jing Jing is screen capture application which you allows to take whole screen or particular part of the screen capturing that you can save into video format. |
Frame By Frame Now stop motion movie production made easy with FrameByFrame app. Just connect your camera with your mac, this application will convert your movie document as a Quicktime format. |
Quinn Quinn is an arcade style tetromino puzzle game. |
Sweet Home 3D It is a free interior design application. |
Draw Berry Drawberry is a free vector drawing application for mac. |
Xee Xee is a lightwight fastest application for image viewer and browser. |
Colorate Colorate is a color palette utility mainly focused for professional designer. |
Poladroid Poladroid is a polaroid creator in high resolution from your camera. |
7zx 7zx is a file archiver with high compression ratio. |
Google Notifier Google Notifier is an small application that shows notification from your gmail and google calendar events. |
Flickr Uploadr Just drag and drop your images from iPhoto or from Finder and upload your images to flicker at one click. |
Flip4Mac Flip4Mac is a WMV player. |
Perian It is a plug-in for Quicktime app. It is allows dozens of formats to play. |
Senuti Senuti is a small utility that allows transferring from iPod to your computer very easily. |
iColors It is a simple application which allows you to convert color codes in hexadecimal format. |
Stash Stash is a open-source personal finance application. |
SunX SunX is calculator for sunrise and sunset. |
Bento Bento is a personal database organizer. |
Google App Engine Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on google infrastructure. |
Colorspace Colorspace is a color picker application for web developer and designer. |
BitNami Redmine It is a Redmine project management software. It includes pre-cofigured, ready to run apache, Ruby, Subversion and MySQL. Currently, Linux, OSX and Windows are supported. |
Acquia Drupal Acquia Drupal is a pre-build for drupal build installer. It is installs all the software which need to build a drupal website in your mac. |
Pomodoro Pomodoro is a simple application but It is very effective way to manage your time. |
CopyPath CopyPath is a utility it helps lot for mac user. It just stay on finder toolbar. It is helps to copy the folder or files path in just click the button. |
TweetDeck Tweetdeck is a realtime browser that keeps you to be in touch with your social networks like twitter, facebook, myspace etc., |
CamFrog Tweetdeck is a realtime browser that keeps you to be in touch with your social networks like twitter, facebook, myspace etc., |
Mail Unread Menu It is a simple application live in your menu bar. It shows how many unread mails in your apple mail list. |
StatusScreenSaver It is allows you to notified when your mac running in screen saver mode from Mail, Skype, Adium, iChat, iCal, Battery level and etc., |
AIM AIM is a IM client compatible. Not just for that, It is real AIM. AIM is allows user can share files, folder and pictures are very fast and efficiently. |
Picasa It is a desktop application that allows you to upload, organize and edit your photos in picasa web album. |
Raw Photo Processor RPP is a converter your images to RAW format. |
DotMatrix DotMatrix is an builtin webcam realtime PopArt/OpArt effects instant camera. |
GrabberRaster It is a free screen grabber with dynamic screencasting. |
CiniMinima CiniMinima is a media converter application for mac. |
Quickly Quickly records a live movie from any virtual camera input. |
PDF Watermarks It is allows you to put your company logo as a watermark in your PDF documents. |
PDFBatchBuild Do you want combine multiple PDF document into one PDF file? PDFBatchBuild will make your job easy. |
Batch Cr. Thumbnails BCT is a very helpful application for profession designer/developer. BCT is allows you to create one or more image thumbnails based on suffix or your choice. |
Stitch Buddy Do you love machine embroidery? than this application is yours. |
ResizeMe ResizeMe is a powerful batch file editor for mac. |
Rename4Mac It is a powerful tool for rename many files at one shot. |
Sponge When you are running high end application, might be your machine will run out of disk space. Sponge will help to reclaim your disk space. |
SlidePad You often find yourself needing to jot down your thoughts and ideas without disturbing your workflow? SlidePad is a convenient note-taking application that allows you to unobtrusively take notes without ever leaving your keyboard. And best of all, its free! |
iCombiner iCombiner is a productivity tool for Mac OS X that allows you to combine PDF files, TIFF files, images, photos and scanned documents into a single PDF file. |
Delvic Delvic is image converter from you cam or HD. |
prevUI prevUI is an icon viewer for designer that allows where they need to be viewed in the dock. |
HDRtist HDRtist is a small application that allows you to create HDR photos in single step. |
ResizeIt ResizeIt is a freeware application that allows you to change multiple image sizes in one click. |
MiniUsage MiniUsage shows all information about your machine which lives in menu bar. |
Gamaguchi Gamaguchi is a household accounts application for mac. |
BrushView BrushView is photoshop plug-in for loading photoshop brush file into this. so that you do not need to waiting long time for loading brush file in photoshop. |
SimpleCap SimpleCap is a another screen capture tool with good usability. |
HexColorPicker HCP is a addon for standard apple color panel. here you can get/edti Hexadecimal color codes. |
Google+Growl It is a simple tool which shows notification from Gmail and Google Calendar. |
Monocle Monocle is simplifying your web search from your menu bar to whichever search engine you preferred.. |
Sequential Sequential is an image viewer with good usability. |
iWeb SEO Tool iWeb SEO Tool is SEO optimizer Internet utility. It will optimize your website for SEO compatible and upload into your FTP directly without leaving the application. |
Shade Shade is a utility that controls you screen brightness/contrast. |
SEKeyword SEKeyword is searching most profitable keywords for your website. |
Kuler Kuler is Adobe is updated web-based color theme search and share app. |
Dateline Dateline is a simple application that allows you to keep transparent calendar in your desktop screen. |
Dropbox Dropbox is a online backup, file sync and sharing easily to your networks. |
Paparazzi Paparazzi is webpage screenshot app that allows you to take screenshot in specific width and height. |
AllBookmarks Might be you cannot remember your bookmarks where were you saved it. AllBookmarks simplifying you job very easily. It live in the menu bar. |
DockSpaces Dockspaces is a tiny application that allows you to customize your dock style. It has up to 10 different styles. |
GreekRadio GreekRadio is a online FM radio. |
Get Get is an application that allow you tom manage your downloads. |
iDMG iDMG is a simple application that allows you to create DMG files. |
SymbolCaddy SymbolCaddy is desktop widget that keeps set of common special characters and HTML tags. |
MAMP MAMP abbreviation stands for: Macintosh, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Just one click MAMP can install your database ready. |
InkScape InkScape is a open-source W3C standard scalable vector graphics editor just like illustrator, freehand, CorelDraw and etc., |
Tweetie Tweetie is a very good twitter client application for mac. |
Virtual Box VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package. It is supports user can use multiple operating systems like Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Solaris and Open Solaris. |
USBCat It is a funny utility when USD drive connects/disconnects you will get notifies with meow sound. |
Sizzling Keys It is a iTunes plug-in enables user can control all aspects of iTunes with hotkey without leaving from current application. |
Seashore Seashore is an image editor for Cocoa Application. |
Scratch Scratch is designed for children. It is very user friendly app. Anybody can create their interactive stories, games and animations. |
Skitch Skitch is a another screen capture tool with many feature like edit, share, email and upload it to your blogs. |
Bit Torrent BitTorrent is a web stuff downloader. |
HyperDock HyperDock has more features for your dock. |
Show Password This is little feature for safari browser which lets you show password when you move cursor to password field. |
Hobiconer Hobiconer is an icon composer that allows you to import/export many icon format files. |
FinderPath FinderPath is a addon that displays address bar on top of the Finder. |
AutoSave4iWork It is an auto save program for iWork 09. |
Rename Rename allows you to rename files. |
MultiBrowser When you click the links in other document, this utility will poping up to choose which browser do you want to open the link. |
Th-MarkerX It is an thumbnail creator application that allows you to drop your folder which contain image files, the Th-MarkerX will resize the images in specified sizes. |
SmartSVN SmartSVN is a open-source SVN control system. |
JetPhoto JetPhoto is a fully featured digital photo organizer and web publisher. |
NTFS-3G This application brings NTFS read/write support to Mac OS X along with addition feature. |
JetIt JetIt is a download manager. |
QuickTranslate It is a translator using google translate. |
SoundBox SoundBox is an freeware application that allows you to convert audio from movies. |
ABMenu This is small application that getting contact information from Address Book. User can access quickly from menu bar. |
Planit Planit is an excellent project management tool. |
Purity Purity is a worthy tool at free of cost. Instantly it will clear your system cache, logs and unwanted files. |
50StatesandCapitals Is it possible to memorize state name and location? Now this tool make that easy for you. |
QuietReadPro Just drag and drop your favourite URL, this application will save your URL. |
PrintWindow It is allows you to take listing files/folders printout directly from finder. |
SyncTwoFolders It synchronize two specific folders. |
Alfred Alfred is an application launcher like QuickSilver. |
Auntie It is a BBC News ticker. |
SecureFiles SecureFiles is a simplication which you allows you to create encrypted disk image to store your sensitive document. |
LiteIcon LiteIcon is a small application that allows you to change your application icon in your mac. |
Remember It is a to-do list application at free of cost for mac. |
iMakeFolder iMakeFolder is an folder creator with specified rights, group and owners. |
HierarchicalDock HierarchicalDock enables unique feature even Apple would not think of implementing. |
InterziaDevHelper It is fully feature project manager that allows you to organize and taking backups of your project. |
iOSIcons It is small application that allows you to create iOS application icon instantly. |
TrailRunner TrailRunner is an GPS recording application. |
Shazam Shazam is a utility for hiding your application. |
Comments
amazing list of programs,thank you.
So... an app that meows when you disconnect a USB device is something you consider "essential"?
Do you not know what the word means?
Re:
Yes, that app is essential for device notification.
- meBaze -
very good nice to see
Wonderful collections. It's very hard to collect these many apps in one place. Hats off meBaze.
Its very useful , icon's are looking gud
Amazing
wonderful collection.
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