Free Mac OS X Applications !

Web Browsers

* Firefox - Quick and Secure Web Browser

* Camino – A good looking Mac-styled browser, built on the Firefox engine.

* Safari – The default browser included with OS X, with a bunch of new features in the latest release.

* Opera – A powerful browser with a few new interesting features; speed dial, search shortcuts, and a tab trash can.

* Omniweb – Taking a different approach, and assisting you with online research


Audio

* QLab – Live Media Timelines for Mac OS X

* UltraMixer – Professional Digital DJ Solution to Mix Digital Music in Various Formats.

* ToolPlayer – Simple Music Player for OS X that Supports FLAC, MP3, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, etc

* SimpleSynth – Plug MIDI Keyboard and Play with SimpleSynth

* Spotify – Spotify allows you to stream almost any song you can imagine via the internet. Access is free, though you’ll need to listen to a short advertisement every few songs.

* Songbird – A non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool with a great interface

* iTunes – The de-facto music player for OS X, Windows and iPod users

* Audion 3 – Now discontinued, but worth checking out

* Juice – A quality app for browsing and downloading podcasts

* Audacity – For editing and converting audio files.


Email, Chat and RSS

* Thunderbird – Email Application to Help You Organize, Secure and Customize Your Mail

* Adium – Free Universal Instant Messaging Application for Mac

* Microsoft Messenger – MSN Messenger Client for Mac

* Skype – Application for Phone Call over Internet

* Colloquy – Advanced IRC, SILC and ICB Client

* Hab.la – Live Chat Application with Website’s Visitors

* NewsFire – A stylish RSS reader

* Vienna – Providing features comparable to commercial newsreaders for free.

* Shrook - A next-generation news reader

* RSSOwl – Filtering, labels and completely cross platform

* Dashboard RSS Reader – Keep RSS information easily accessible via Dashboard


Twitter

* TweetDeck - Multi paned browsing, and very popular

* Twitteriffic – The classic Twitter client, with a great UI

* Twhirl – Friendly, colorful, and great multiple account support.

* EventBox – For Twitter, and a bunch of other social media networks

* Tweetr – Easy file sharing and webcam support


Video

* VLC Media Player – Cross-Platform Multimedia Player

* RealPlayer – Mac OS X Version of RealPlayer

* Flash Player – Flash Player for Your Mac

* ooVoo – Free Video Chat and Video Conferencing

* Jing – Instantly Captures Images and Records Video

* FrameByFrame – Stop Motion Movie Creator for Mac

* AutoRate – iTunes Rating Made Easy

* Miro - Aiming to provide easily accessible, fully intergrated internet video

* Flip4Mac WMV – For enabling WMV videos in QuickTime

* Handbrake – The ultimate tool for converting video between formats

* Perian - An open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.

* DivX Player – A simple, free player for DivX files.



Photo

* iPhoto – The in-built photo app on OS X, with face recognition and geo-tagging support.

* Gimp – A free, cross platform photo editor.

* Seashore – Built on GIMP, with a slightly different user interface

* Flickr Uploader – A simple and free solution for uploading Flickr photos

* JetPhoto – Feature-rich and easy-to-use digital photo software

* Picasa – Picasa is designed and owned by Google. It offers a bunch of great features, and is also capable of sharing photos online.


FTP & File Sharing

* Cyberduck - A free alternative to commercial FTP applications

* Filezilla – Great for accessing FTP servers, and completely cross-platform

* Acquisition – In-built torrent searching and integration with iTunes.

* Tomato Torrent - A slightly dated but perfectly functional torrent manager

* Classic FTP -Easy to Use FTP Client


Office & Text Editor

* TextWrangler – A great, free, code editor for OS X

* Bean – A small, easy-to-use rich text processor

* AbiWord – A full featured, open source alternative to Open Office

* Smultron – Good looking, and great for web programming, script editing, making a to do list etc.

* jEdit – Aimed at technical users, an editor specifically for programming

* OpenOffice – OpenOffice is a worthy alternative to Microsoft Office, and comes at a far more attractive price


Utilities

* Growl – A great system-wide notification system

* Disk Inventory X – For viewing a graphical representation of what’s eating up your hard drive

* AppCleaner – Allows you to remove any trace of an application

* Smart Reporter – Be notified if your hard drive seems likely to fail

* FuzzyClock – A fun and slightly less formal way to display the time in your menu bar.

* Quicksilver – Quicksilver is a powerful shortcut tool, which allows you to manipulate files and work with applications – all without needing to open them.

* Paparazzi – Utility for Mac OS X to Make Screenshots of Webpages

* Linotype FontExplorer X -Font Management Application

* iStat Pro – Highly Configurable Mac OS X Widget that Helps You Monitor Your System


System

* Deeper – Personalization Utility for Mac OS X which Reveals Hidden Settings

* MacLoc – Log Out from System without Closing Applications

* OnyX – Multifunction Utility for Maintenance, Optimization and Personalization of Your System

* Loginox – Application for Easier Customization of Login Screen

* Mactracker – Mactracker Provides Detailed Information on Every Apple, Motorola, PowerComputing, and UMAX Mac OS Computers

* SuperDocker – Little Application to Help You Modify Your Dock, Dashboard or Safari Loading Bar’s Appearance with Simple Drag & Drop


File Management

* AppCleaner – Small Application to Allow You Thoroughly Uninstall Unwanted Apps

* AppFresh - Application to Keep All Applications Up-To-Date

* Carbon Copy Cloner - Clone, Synchronize and Backup Your Files

* SpotInside – Search and Look Inside Documents


Torrents

* Transmission – Multi-Platform BitTorrent Client

* Vuze – The Reigning Heavy-Weight BitTorrent Client

Folx

Folx
Folx (currently in beta stage) is a free downloader for Mac OS X. It helps you download files of any size via HTTP, HTTPS, FTP. Folx supports auto-resuming and guarantees maximum speed possible thanks to our multi-thread download tasks. With Folx you will be able to download not only separate files, but the whole folders with all the contents via FTP.

AppCleaner

AppCleaner
AppCleaner is a small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps. Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily. AppCleaner finds all these small files and safely deletes them.

The Unarchiver

The Unarchiver
The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for BOMArchiveHelper.app, the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder.

Vienna

Vienna
Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are freely available for download.

EverSave

EverSave
EverSave is a clever tool which allows you to save all of your documents – if possible – in a specific time interval or by changing the frontmost application. This means no more data loss if applications crash.

Carbon Copy Cloner

Carbon Copy Cloner
Carbon Copy Cloner features an interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure very intuitive. In addition to general backup, CCC can also clone one hard drive to another, copying every single block or file to create an exact replica of your source hard drive. CCC’s block-level copy offers the absolute best fidelity in the industry.

MacLoc

MacLoc
MacLoc is the perfect solution for a busy work environment as well as at home where wandering hands can create a bothersome reduction in productivity. This simple application activates the Fast User Switching feature built-in to Mac OS X. After clicking on MacLoc, it will appear that you’ve logged out, however upon entering your username and password, all open documents and applications will be right where you left them.

Caffeine

Caffeine
Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu.

SyncMate

SyncMate
SyncMate is FREE and easy-to-use synchronizer for Mac and Pocket PC, that will help you keep all your documents, text messages, contacts, calendar entries and events and other stuff well organized.

Bean

Bean
Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable.

SnapNDrag

SnapNDrag
SnapNDrag lets you take a screenshot by just clicking a button and dragging the resulting screenshot off.  If you want to email a screenshot, you would drag the screenshot from SnapNDrag to the Mail application.

Appointments

AppointmentsAppointments is an application designed to keep record of customers, contact persons and important events related to them. Information is collected in a structured way, there are separate dictionaries with customers data, contact persons, appointment managers etc. which are used to create appointments record.

SketchBox

SketchBox
SketchBox is a new and multifunctional yet uncluttered, Sticky Notes Manager for your Mac Desktop. You can enter text or make drawings and set individual reminders for each sticky to use them as a visual alarm clock.

Essential Mac OS X Applications !

• Acquisition - Gnutella file sharing client
• Adium - Multi-protocol instant messenger client
• Address-o-sync - Sync multiple Macs without .Mac
• Amadeus - Great tool for audio enthusiast
• Audio Hijack Pro - Custom audio output filtering
• Backlight - Menu extra toggles screensaver as your desktop
• BurnX Free - Burn multiple sessions on CD
• Butler - Get more out of Finder
• CandyBar - Change your application and system icons
• Carbon Copy Cloner - Easy-to-use backup/cloning utility
• Chmox - An OS X native CHM file (Compiled HTML/eBook) reader
• Cocktail - Simplifies use of UNIX functions in OS X, and more
• Colloquy - IRC client
• CSSEdit - Visual CSS style editor
• DeepVacuum - Download entire websites
• Default Folder - Expanded functionality in "Save As.." dialogue boxes
• Deja Vu - Schedule regular file backups
• Delicious Library - Catalogue your books, cd's, games, dvd's
• Dimensionizer - Contextual Menu to display an image’s dimensions
• DeskShade - Hide desktop icons, terminal lock, and more
• Desktastic - Doodle on your desktop
• Dock-It - Add multiple multi-fucntion docks
• DragThing - An alternative to the dock
• DV Backup - Use your DV camera as a backup medium
• Evocam - Webcam application with built in web server, FTP, etc.
• FileJuicer - Extract images from Powerpoint, PDF, HTML, and CAB files
• Fink - Unix Ports for X
• Firefox - Open source web browser
• Fugu - An SFTP, SCP and SSH frontend
• Huevos - Customisable search engine helper
• HyperEdit - live previews of HTML and PHP pages
• iBank - Intuitive personal finance manager
• iBiz - Self-employed time billing manager
• iConquer - 1-to-6 player world conquest game
• iPodDisk - Utilize your iPod as an iDisk
• iRooster - Great free alarm clock
• iWipe - Secure disk and file deletion
• iZoom - Crop and resize your photos
• LiteSwitch X - Keyboard application switcher
• Little Snitch - Alerts you of outgoing network connections
• MacJanitor - Great tool for running & rescheduling OS X maintenance tasks
• MacMame - Multi arcade machine emulator
• MacSniffer - View all traffic on a network connection
• MacTheRipper - Go Ahead, Back that DVD up
• MacTracker - Database of all Mac models
• Mac Vim - The aqua version of Vim
• Mail.appetizer - Enhance Mail with this small but handy notification plugin
• Mplayer for OS X - Another great video player
• Net Monitor - Network throughput monitor
• Net Tool Box - Handy tool for the toolkit - for network issues
• NetNewsWire - RSS aggregator (If you're gonna use one, use NetNewsWire)
• Onyx - System tweaks and configuration
• OSXvnc - VNC remote control protocol
• PDF Browser Plugin - Allows web browsers to display PDF files
• Pixen - Pixel graphics editor
• Quicksilver - Application launcher and much more
• RCDefaultApp - Preference pane to set default applications
• Renamer4Mac - Rename files en masse. Useful for digital cameras
• SideTrack trackpad driver - Enhanced trackpad driver for Apple Laptops
• Simon Extreme - Classic Milton Bradley Simon game
• Skype - Uses P2P for phone-over-internet talking
• SubEthaEdit - Use Rendezvous for collaborative editing
• Synergy - Adds iTunes controls to your menu bar
• Transmit - FTP client
• Unison - Usenet newsreader handles messages, files, & media
• Virtue - Virtual desktop manager
• VLC - Play DivX encoded movies (and more).
• VoodooPad - Notepad with many advanced features
• Word Browser Plugin - Allows web browsers to display Word files
• xPad - Notebook/scrapbook supports drag & drop
• XRay - Expanded version of the Finder's "Get Info" window
• xScope - Suite of screen tools for UI designers