# System
# Battery / Power management
| ⇵ Name | Description | Download | ⇵ | ⇵ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlDente (opens new window) | Charging Manager For MacBooks. Limit maximum charging percentage. | Website (opens new window) |  |  | |
| App Tamer (opens new window) | Detect apps that is resource hogs and auto slow down or pause apps when idle. | Website (opens new window) |  |  | |
| Apple Juice (opens new window) | Advanced battery gauge that displays the remaining battery time and more. | Github (opens new window) |  | | |
| Batteries (opens new window) | Track all your devices' batteries from your Mac. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Battery Indicator (opens new window) | Remaining battery time in your menu bar | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
 | Battery Monitor (opens new window) | Display and monitor internal battery information | AppStore (opens new window) | | |
| Better Battery (opens new window) | Monitoring battery health | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Endurence (opens new window) | Add a power-saving mode for our Mac and boost your battery. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| FruitJuice (opens new window) | Let you know how long to stay unplugged to keep your battery healthy. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Juice! (opens new window) | Keeps an eye on your laptop’s battery charge level. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Magic Battery Mini (opens new window) | Shows the battery level of input devices and Bluetooth headphones. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Magic Battery Mini (opens new window) | Battery level today widget. Supports all Apple input and audio devices | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Magic Battery (opens new window) | Shows battery level of supported input devices and headphones in the menu bar. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Magic Battery (opens new window) | Battery Information App. Supports all Apple input and audio devices | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Power Manager (opens new window) | Automate sophisticated tasks and improve your Mac's power management. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Wattagio (opens new window) | Gives you info about battery health, life, consumption, and cycle count. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| coconutBattery (opens new window) | Inspect your battery life and get live health information. | Website (opens new window) | | |
# Bluetooth
| ⇵ Name | Description | Download | ⇵ | ⇵ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AirBuddy (opens new window) | AirBuddy brings the same AirPods experience you have on iOS to the Mac. | Website (opens new window) | | |
# Desktop
| ⇵ Name | Description | Download | ⇵ | ⇵ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free My Desktop (opens new window) | Automatically hides all the icons from your desktop, the dock and the menubar. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| HiddenMe (opens new window) | Hide your desktop icons with a single click | AppStore (opens new window) | | |
# Device management (MDM)
| ⇵ Name | Description | Download | ⇵ | ⇵ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iMazing Profile Editor (opens new window) | Create, edit, and sign Apple configuration profiles. | AppStore (opens new window) | | |
# Disk Management
| ⇵ Name | Description | Download | ⇵ | ⇵ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AppCleaner (opens new window) | A small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps. | Website (opens new window) | | |
| DaisyDisk (opens new window) | Analyze disk usage and clear up space | AppStore (opens new window) | | |
| Darksight (opens new window) | Visualize your disk, find and remove large folders and files. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Disk Inventory X (opens new window) | Shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called "treemaps". | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Disk Space Analyzer (opens new window) | A powerful disk usage scanning and reporting utility for Mac. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| DiskSight (opens new window) | Visualize your drive or folder | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| GrandPerspective (opens new window) | Graphically show the disk usage within a file system | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Launch Services (opens new window) | Uses macOS Launch Services to perform lookups of bundle IDs and file extensions. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| LaunchControl (opens new window) | launchd GUI allowing you to manage and debug system and user services. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Lingon (opens new window) | An easy to use yet powerful app to run things automatically | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| OmniDiskSweeper (opens new window) | Shows the files on your drive, largest to smallest | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| TrashMe (opens new window) | Clean and uninstall, the perfect way | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| WhatSize (opens new window) | View and manage disk usage | Website (opens new window) | | |
# Display
| ⇵ Name | Description | Download | ⇵ | ⇵ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BetterDummy (opens new window) | Apple Silicon/Intel Macs to Have Custom HiDPI Resolutions. | Github (opens new window) | | | |
| Blackout (opens new window) | Black out external displays with a single click! | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| DisplayBuddy (opens new window) | Control external displays from your Mac menu bar | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Displays (opens new window) | Manage your monitors and more | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| EasyRes (opens new window) | A fast screen resolution switcher for Mac OS X with live previews. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| GammaControl (opens new window) | Per-screen color adjustments. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Lunar (opens new window) | Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external display | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Lunar (opens new window) | Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external display | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| MonitorControl (opens new window) | Control your external monitor brightness & volume on your Mac | Github (opens new window) | | |
| NightTone (opens new window) | Shifting the colors of your display to a warmer hue. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| QuickRes (opens new window) | Quick and simple resolution changer for MacOS as a menubar dropdown. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| RDM (opens new window) | Enable and use highest and unsupported resolutions from the menu bar. | Github (opens new window) | | | |
| RapidRes (opens new window) | This allows to change the display resolution from the title bar. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| SwitchResX (opens new window) | Get full control of your displays | Website (opens new window) | | |
| f.lux (opens new window) | Makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day. | Website (opens new window) | | |
# File managers
| ⇵ Name | Description | Download | ⇵ | ⇵ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commander One (opens new window) | Free dual pane file manager for Mac | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| FE File Manager (opens new window) | Access FTP WebDAV and Cloud | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| ForkLift (opens new window) | Most advanced dual panel file manager and transfer client for MacOS. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| PathFinder (opens new window) | Finder manager for MacOS since 2001 | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| QSpace (opens new window) | A better finder alternative with multi-view | AppStore (opens new window) |  | | |
| XtraFinder (opens new window) | Tabs, Dual Panel, and numerous features for Mac | Website (opens new window) | | |
# File system / Drive info
| ⇵ Name | Description | Download | ⇵ | ⇵ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutoMounter (opens new window) | Ensures your share are always mounted when you need them. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Blue Harvest (opens new window) | Keeps your devices free of OS metadata such as .DS_Store and Thumbs.db etc. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| CloudMounter (opens new window) | Map all popular cloud services as regular drives | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| DiskMeter (opens new window) | Monitor, Clean And Eject Disks | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Drive Scope (opens new window) | S.M.A.R.T. Tool for Macintosh | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| DriveDx (opens new window) | Drive health diagnostic & monitoring tool | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Microsoft NTFS by Tuxera (opens new window) | Get reliable read-write compatibility for all NTFS-formatted USB drives | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Mounty for NTFS (opens new window) | A tool to re-mount write-protected NTFS volumes in read-write mode. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Paragon NTFS for Mac (opens new window) | Seamless NTFS support. Write, edit, copy, move and delete files. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Paragon extFS for Mac (opens new window) | Read or write files formatted under Linux ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems. | Website (opens new window) | | |
# Keyboard
| ⇵ Name | Description | Download | ⇵ | ⇵ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CapsLocker (opens new window) | Get a hint that you just enabled (or disabled) caps lock. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Flour (opens new window) | Switch Fn keys' mode based on active application. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Karabiner-Elements (opens new window) | A powerful and stable keyboard customizer for macOS. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Key Codes (opens new window) | Displays the key code, unicode value, and modifier keys state for any key combo. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| KeyBell (opens new window) | Plays relaxing and nostalgic mechanical sound every time you type something. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| KeyCastr (opens new window) | An open-source keystroke visualizer | Github (opens new window) | | | |
| Keyb (opens new window) | Type with one hand, no special hardware required | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Visualize (opens new window) | Highlight your key presses and mouse clicks right on your desktop! | AppStore (opens new window) | | |
# Mouse / Trackpad
| ⇵ Name | Description | Download | ⇵ | ⇵ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BetterTouchTool (opens new window) | Feature packed app that allows you to customize various input devices. | Website (opens new window) | | |
| Cursor Pro (opens new window) | Mouse Highlighter & Magnifier | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| CursorSense (opens new window) | Adjusts cursor acceleration and sensitivity. | Website (opens new window) | | |
| Inifnite Loop (opens new window) | Move your cursor from the right border of your screen to the left and vice-versa. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Keymou (opens new window) | Keyboard control of your mouse | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Middle (opens new window) | Add middle click to your Mac | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Mos (opens new window) | A lightweight tool used to smooth scrolling and set scroll direction. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Mouseposé (opens new window) | Add spotlight to your mouse cursor. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| MultiTouch (opens new window) | Easily add more gestures to macOS. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Noo mouse (opens new window) | Map mouse buttons and multi-touch gestures to any combination of keys. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Scroll Reverser (opens new window) | Reverse the direction of scrolling, with independent settings for trackpad/mice. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Scroll (opens new window) | Limit Magic Mouse Scroll. Scroll with one trackpad touch. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Scrollow (opens new window) | Control various parameters and issue control events without touching fn-keys. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| SmoothScroll (opens new window) | Give your mouse wheel buttery smooth scrolling. | Website (opens new window) |  | |
| SteerMouse (opens new window) | Freely customize buttons, wheels and cursor speed. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Swish (opens new window) | Control windows and apps right from your trackpad with two-finger gestures. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| magicScrollWheel (opens new window) | Scroll your macOS with mouse smoothly like using a Magic mouse or Trackpad. | Github (opens new window) | | |
# Notification Center
| ⇵ Name | Description | Download | ⇵ | ⇵ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| muzzle (opens new window) | A simple app to silence embarrasing notifications while screensharing. | Website (opens new window) | | |
# Package management
| ⇵ Name | Description | Download | ⇵ | ⇵ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cakebrew (opens new window) | The Mac App (GUI) for Homebrew. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Homebrew (opens new window) | Most popular and easy to use package manager for MacOS. | Website (opens new window) | | |
| Latest (opens new window) | App for macOS that checks if all your apps are up to date. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| MAS (opens new window) | Mac App Store command line interface | Github (opens new window) | | | |
| MacPorts (opens new window) | Ports for compiling, installing, and upgrading open-source software. | Website (opens new window) | | |
# Sleep
| ⇵ Name | Description | Download | ⇵ | ⇵ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amphetamine (opens new window) | Keep your Mac awake through a simple on/off switch or through triggers. | AppStore (opens new window) | | |
| Coffee Buzz (opens new window) | Easiest display-sleep preventer available with safety auto-shutoff. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| KeepingYouAwake (opens new window) | Prevents your Mac from going to sleep. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Lungo (opens new window) | Prevent your Mac from going to sleep | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Theine (opens new window) | Keeps your Mac awake | AppStore (opens new window) | | |
# System information
| ⇵ Name | Description | Download | ⇵ | ⇵ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AmorphousDiskMark (opens new window) | "CrystalDiskMark" for Mac. Measures read/write performance in MB/s and IOPS. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| AmorphousMemoryMark (opens new window) | Measures memory module read/write performance in GB/s. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| CPU Stress Test (opens new window) | One click testing for Intel & Apple Silicon CPUs | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| EtreCheck (opens new window) | Produce a comprehensive diagnostic report on the current state of your Mac. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Eul (opens new window) | macOS status monitoring app written in SwiftUI. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Fanny (opens new window) | Notification Center Widget and Menu Bar application to monitor your Macs fans. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| FreeSpace (opens new window) | Show free space of your drives in a menubar app, including TimeMachine. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| GPU Monitor Pro (opens new window) | Display details about your GPU. Nvidia, AMD and Apple are supported. | AppStore (opens new window) | | |
| Go64 (opens new window) | Check to see which apps are "Universal Apps" and which ones need to be updated. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Hot (opens new window) | Menu bar app that displays the CPU speed limit due to thermal issues. | Github (opens new window) | | | |
| Intel MacCPUID (opens new window) | Used for displaying information from CPU via the CPUID instruction. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Intel Power Gadget (opens new window) | Software-based power usage monitoring tool for Intel CPUs | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Macs Fan Control (opens new window) | Real-time monitoring of fan speeds and temperatures | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| MiniUsage (opens new window) | Displays various data inside the menubar | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Performance Panel (opens new window) | Customisable window that shows cpu, network, memory and disk loads. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Pluto Stats (opens new window) | Refined system monitor | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| RunCat (opens new window) | See current CPU usage is by looking at the running of the cat. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Sensei (opens new window) | Monitor, tweak and optimize your Mac with a easy to see dashboard. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Silicon (opens new window) | Scan macOS apps and display their supported CPU architecture. | Github (opens new window) | | | |
| Sloth (opens new window) | Show all open files, directories, sockets, pipes and devices in use. GUI for lsof. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Stats (opens new window) | System monitor in your menu bar to show cpu, ram, network, battery and sensors. | Github (opens new window) | | |
| System Dashboard (opens new window) | Shows all the important characteristics of your system on a single page. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| System Monitor (opens new window) | Menu bar app designed to inform you about the activity of your computer. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| System Toolkit (opens new window) | System Toolkit allows you to monitor and clean your system | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| System Watcher (opens new window) | The System Watcher allows you to monitor the status of your system. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| TG Pro (opens new window) | Temperature monitoring, fan control & diagnostics | Website (opens new window) | | |
| Usage (opens new window) | System Activity Monitor. Simple, customizable and modern. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| iStat Menus (opens new window) | An advanced system monitor for your menubar. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| iStatistica (opens new window) | Advanced system monitor for macOS | AppStore (opens new window) | | |
# Tiling window managers
| ⇵ Name | Description | Download | ⇵ | ⇵ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amethyst (opens new window) | Tiling window manager for macOS along the lines of xmonad. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Yabai (opens new window) | A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning. | Github (opens new window) | | |
# System Tweaks
| ⇵ Name | Description | Download | ⇵ | ⇵ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clickfully (opens new window) | Quick Actions in Context Menu | AppStore (opens new window) | | |
| CommandQ (opens new window) | Never accidentally quit an app or mistakenly close a window again. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Context Menu (opens new window) | Context Menu is a configurable contextual menu extension for Finder. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Easy New File (opens new window) | A finder extension which adds some functions in right click menu in the Finder | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Informant (opens new window) | Inspect files with a single click. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Monolingual (opens new window) | A tool for removing unneeded language localization files for macOS | Github (opens new window) | | | |
| New File Menu (opens new window) | New File Menu allows you to create new files quickly via the Finder context menu. | AppStore (opens new window) | | |
| Permissions Reset (opens new window) | Permissions Problems be Gone | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| PrefEdit (opens new window) | App to manage nearly all aspects of the preference system in MacOS. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Prefs Editor (opens new window) | A GUI for the 'defaults' command. a.k.a. the Registry Editor for macOS. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| SlowQuitApps (opens new window) | Add a global delay to Command-Q to stop accidental app quits. | Github (opens new window) | | | |
| SystemLoad (opens new window) | Put a user-definable load onto one or more processors X86/M1. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| TinkerTool (opens new window) | Gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into macOS. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| iPreview (opens new window) | Add support for all kinds of file types in Finder, QuickLook and Spotlight. | AppStore (opens new window) | | |
# Window layout / Snapping
| ⇵ Name | Description | Download | ⇵ | ⇵ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hookshot (opens new window) | Supercharged Rectangle window snapping for MacOS | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Magnet (opens new window) | Magnet declutters your screen by snapping windows into organized tiles. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| MaxSnap (opens new window) | Powerful Window Manager for Mac, Alternative to SizeUp, Divvy and Moom. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Moom (opens new window) | Window management as easy as clicking a mouse button—or a keyboard shortcut. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Mosaic (by lightpillar) (opens new window) | Effortlessly resize and re-position windows on your Mac. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Mosaic (by rcopstein) (opens new window) | Workspace organization for your Mac like never before | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Rectangle (opens new window) | Rectangle is FOSS window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift. | Website (opens new window) | | |
| Tiles (opens new window) | The window manager for macOS | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Window Tindy (opens new window) | Resize windows in macOS with Drag & Drop | AppStore (opens new window) | | |
# Window management
| ⇵ Name | Description | Download | ⇵ | ⇵ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Windows Appear (opens new window) | Classic Mac OS window behavior | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| All Windows Appear (opens new window) | Clicking on a window brings all related windows to the front. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Alt-Tab (opens new window) | Windows alt-tab on macOS. | Website (opens new window) | | |
| Contexts (opens new window) | Switch between application windows effortlessly. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Front and Center (opens new window) | Control the window layering policy on your Mac. Classic and Modern modes. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Grid (opens new window) | Snap windows by using gestures, shortcuts, corners, or menu bar. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| HazeOver (opens new window) | Distraction Dimmer for Mac. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Hides (opens new window) | Distraction free workspace | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Hocus Focus (opens new window) | A Mac menu bar utility that hides your inactive windows. | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Manico (opens new window) | Using Option + Number key to launch or switch to the target app | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Mission Control Plus (opens new window) | Adding keyboard navigation, shortcuts and more to Mission Control | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| ScreenFocus (opens new window) | Dimms any number of screens, so you can focus only on what you are working on. | AppStore (opens new window) | | | |
| Switch for MacOS (opens new window) | Keyboard-driven commands to better navigate your mac apps | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| UnDistracted (opens new window) | Menu-bar app which blocks Distractions and helps you find your Focus | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| Window Focus (opens new window) | Highlight your active window and dim the rest | Website (opens new window) | | | |
| WindowSwitcher (opens new window) | Powerful Mac Desktop Window Switcher and Window Manager for macOS | Website (opens new window) | | |