Top Free Mac Applications
Tuesday, 29 November 2011 13:08This is comprehensive list of our top favourite free Mac OSX software, including a mix of open source and closed source application available for anyone to download. This isn't a list of most common programs, but a list of what we have found to be best in their free categories. We use these programs day in and day out; they've been tried and tested by our tech savy "panel of judges", tested to breaking point and so in our opinion if it's not here, you don't need it!
Listed below are all FREE must-have applications, and we highly recommend them.
3D Animation/Design
Blender 3D (we also highly recommend using Blender with BetterTouchTool)
Google SketchUp
MeshLab
Accounting Applications
GnuCash (great for managing your personal finance, we don't recommended it for business use)
Astronomical Applications
Celestia
Stellarium
Audio Conversion
Max
Audio Editing
Audacity
Automation
JBidwatcher (automatically place bids on eBay)
Boot Loaders
UNetbootin (creates USB boot devices)
Browsers
Firefox
Google Chrome
Calendar/Time Management
Time Tracker
Remind Me Later
Chat Applications
Adium (supports AOL, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, Facebook, GTalk, ICQ, IRC, LiveJournal, Lotus, MySpaceIM, Novell, SIP, StatusNet, Twitter and includes scripting!)
Skype
Database Editor
SQLite Database Browser
Development IDE's
Eclipse
Download Management
ProgressiveDownloader
Transmission (torrents)
Emulators
Dolphin
ScrummVM
File Archives
The Unarchiver
File Editors
Kod
File Encryption
TrueCrypt
File Information Applications
MediaInfo (reads almost any video/audio file and supports hundreds of formats, codecs and parameters)
File Transfer Applications
Cyberduck (amazing app that supports FTP, SFTP, SSH, SCP)
File Tools/Applications
HashTab (supports CRC32, MD5 & SHA1)
JDiskReport (generates directory space usage reports)
OSXFuse
Firewall
WaterRoof (for advanced iptables modification of OSX)
Games
Hedgewars (fun free Worms alternative)
SuperTuxKart
Suqoku
Hex Editors
0xED
WxHexEditor
Image Editors
GIMP (free photoshop equivalent image editor)
Inkscape (vector based editor that supports SVG, SVGZ, PS, EPS, FX, ODG, TEX, DXF formats and more)
Image/Photo Management
Picasamac
Mail Applications
Thunderbird
Music Management
iTunes
Network Management
GNS3 (graphical network simulation software)
BitCricket IP Calculator (excellent network subnet calculator supporting CIDR, IPv4, IPv6)
Network Monitoring
Wireshark
Network Pentesting
KisMAC (wireless pentesting)
Metasploit (exploit pentesting)
Office Applications
OpenOffice
Optimisation
Desktoday
Package Management
FreeDMG (for creating software DMG package files)
Homebrew
Remote Access
Chicken of VNC (remote access viewer to VNC servers)
SSH Tunnel Manager
OpenVPN
Video Conversion
Handbrake (support includes VOB, MKV, MP4, MV4, BR and in 64-bit!)
Video Player
VLC (the best free video player under Mac OSX with very few contenders)
XBMC (media centre style manager - best setup on a dedicated linux box)
Video Subtitles
Jubler (video subtitle editor)
VoIP Applications
Telephone