Mac

Media

- Handbrake
- The HandBrake Team
- Open Source
Powerful video converter with built-in device presets and other great customisation features
- iTunes
- Apple
- Free
Organise your music and content for iOS devices and play media files
- Spotify
- Spotify
- Paid
- iOS Companion App
Spotify gives you millions of songs at your fingertips. The artists you love, the latest hits, and new discoveries just for you. Hit play to stream anything you like.
- VLC
- VideoLAN
- Open Source
VLC is the solution to playing multimedia files with almost any format and codec

Readers

- Calibre
- Kovid Goyal
- Open Source
eBook management, conversions and syncing application
- Digg Reader
- Digg
- Free
- iOS Companion App
Web based RSS reader with a fantastic iOS client
- Kindle
- Amazon
- Free
- iOS Companion App
Read Kindle books and sync books between your devices

Productivity

- iWork
- Apple
- Free
- iOS Companion Apps
Document, spreadsheet and presentation software for Mac compatible with iOS versions and Microsoft Office.
- LibreOffice
- The Document Foundation
- Open Source
Document, spreadsheet, presentation, diagram and database software for Mac supporting ODF and Microsoft Office compatibility.
- Office
- Microsoft
- Paid
- Student Pricing Available
- iOS Companion Apps
Document, spreadsheet, presentation and note taking software for Mac.
- Clear
- Realmac
- Paid
- iOS Companion App
Simplistic to do list application with beautiful iOS companion
- Dropbox
- Dropbox
- Free
- iOS Companion App
Elegant cloud storage solution that syncs across all major OS’s and browsers
- iBooks Author
- Apple
- Free
Create textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books, and more for Apple’s iBooks platform
- BBEdit
- Bare Bones Software
- Paid
- Free Version Available
Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh and it doesn’t suck

Browsers

- Firefox
- Mozilla
- Open Source
Includes great developer tools such as on the fly CSS and HTML editing
- Safari
- Apple
- Free
Default web browser with support for cross device syncing and handoff

Plugins

- Flash
- Adobe
- Free
A necessary evil

Creative

- Amadeus Pro
- HairerSoft
- Paid
Audio editor with live recording, ringtone creation, format conversion, internet stream recording and more
- AutoCAD
- Autodesk
- Paid
- Free for students
Create stunning designs with the industry leading Computer-Aided Design application
- Pixelmator
- Pixelmator Team
- Paid
- iOS Companion App
Pixelmator comes with a ton of powerful features to make one of the best photo and image editing options on the Mac
- Rhino 3D
- McNeel
- Beta
3D model maker and renderer
- Xcode
- Apple
- Free
Integrated development environment for OS X and iOS that supports many programming languages

Utilities

- 1Password
- AgileBits
- Paid
- iOS Companion App
Password management application with plugin support for all of the major browsers
- Alfred
- Running with Crayons Ltd
- Free
- Alfred Workflows: Caffeine Toggle Continuity Support Spotifious Subscribe To Feed URLs
Simple app launcher and productivity tool
- AppCleaner
- FreeMacSoft
- Free
Thoroughly uninstall and remove files associated with unwanted apps.
- AVAST
- AVAST Software
- Free
Protection from viruses and malware for Mac
- Bartender
- Surtees Studios
- Paid
Organises menu bar apps, by hiding them, rearranging them, or moving them to Bartender’s Bar
- BetterSnapTool
- Andreas Hegenberg
- Paid
Replicates Windows AeroSnap functionality on OS X
- CCleaner
- Piriform
- Paid
Optimisation and cleaning tool
- DaisyDisk
- Software Ambience
- Paid
Disk scanning, analysis and space recovery tool
- Deliveries
- junecloud
- Paid
- iOS Companion App
Deliveries helps you keep track of all your packages, so you always know when they’re going to arrive.
- Growl
- Growl Team
- Paid
Widely supported notification system that integrates with Notification Centre
- iStat Menus
- Bjango
- Paid
- Today View Widget
Monitor your Mac processes from the menu bar
- The Unarchiver
- Dag Agren
- Free
Unarchive Zip, RAR, 7-zip and other compressed file types
- VMware Fusion
- VMware
- Paid
Run Windows, Linux or other virtual machines on OS X
- μ
  
  Torrent
- BitTorrent
- Free
The best torrent client for OS X

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