Awesome Mac
This project is now very large, and is very different from the original idea.
Here, we collect awesome macOS software and arrange them into various categories.
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Explanation
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means open source. click the icon to see the item's repository;
means free to use, or free personal license;
means App store hyperlink;
means hyperlink to a corresponding Awesome list for the item;
✦ My macOS application:
Contents
- Awesome Mac
- Contents
- Reading and Writing Tools
- Text Editors
- Office
- Markdown Tools
- Note-taking
- Journaling
- Writing
- Ebooks
- RSS
- Others
- Developer Tools
- IDEs
- Developer Utilities
- Regular Expression Editors
- API Development and Analysis
- Network Analysis
- Command Line Tools
- Frameworks For Hybrid Applications
- Version Control
- Virtualization
- Databases
- Design and Product
- Design Tools
- Prototyping and Mind-Mapping Tools
- Screencapturing Software
- Other Tools
- Communication
- Collaboration and Team Tools
- Email Clients
- File Sharing
- Data Recovery Tools
- Audio and Video Tools
- Download Management Tools
- Cloud Storage
- Input Methods
- Browsers
- Translation Tools
- Education
- Finance
- Encryption
- Security Tools
- Proxy and VPN Tools
- Utilities
- Clipboard Tools
- Menu Bar Tools
- File Organization Tools
- General Tools
- To-Do Lists
- Productivity
- Window Management
- Password Management
- Finder Tools
- Quality of Life Improvements
- System Related Tools
- Gaming Software
- Remote Login Software
- QuickLook Plugins
- Third Party App Markets
- Mac App Download Sites
- Genuine Sites
- Pirated software download site blocklist
- Podcasts
- Contributors
- Backers
- Sponsors
- License
Reading and Writing Tools
Applications to edit text, I suggest the open-source editors
Text Editors
- Aurora Editor - Lightweight Code Editor (IDE) for macOS.
- Bootstrap Studio - A powerful desktop app for creating responsive websites using the Bootstrap framework.
- Brackets - A modern, open source text editor that understands web design.
- CodeEdit - A lightweight, natively-built editor. Open source. Free forever.
- CotEditor - Lightweight plain-text editor for macOS.
- Emacs - A popular text editor used mainly on Unix-based systems by programmers, scientists, engineers, students, and system administrators.
- Helix - A post-modern modal text editor.
- Lapce - Lightning-fast and powerful code editor.
- LightTable - The next generation code editor.
- micro - Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor.
- Neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability.
- Nova - The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.
- Plain Text Editor - Simple distraction-free notepad.
- Sublime Text - Sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance, Sublime Text Plugins.
- SubEthaEdit - Powerful Text Editing. Write articles, code, notes or meeting minutes with friends – wherever they are. Ideal for extreme programming sessions, tutoring and creative writing
- TextMate - Editor that brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors.
- Tot - Tot is an elegant, simple way to collect & edit text. It’s your tiny text companion!
- Vim - Highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient, Vim Plugins.
- Vimr - Refined Vim Experience for OS X.
- Zed - A high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
Office
- LibreOffice - LibreOffice is free and open-source software office software. Software is tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community.
- WPS - Is a cross-platform office software suite.
- Pages - Documents that stand apart.
- Keynote - Build stunning presentations.
- Numbers - Create impressive spreadsheets.
- Microsoft Office - Unmistakably Office, designed for Mac.
- OnlyOffice - An office suite that combines text, spreadsheet and presentation editors allowing to create, view and edit local documents.
- SoftMaker Office - A complete office suite that aims for full compatibility with Microsoft Office documents
Markdown Tools
- Archimedes - Native macOS Markdown editor geared toward mathematical writing with inline LaTeX support.
- EME - Open-source Markdown editor with an interface like Chrome.
- iA Writer - Writing app with an emphasis on simplicity and design.
- LightPaper - Simple, beautiful, yet powerful text editor for your Mac.
- MacDown - Open-source Markdown editor for OS X.
- Marked 2 - This is the Markdown preview with an elegant and powerful set of tools for all writers.
- MarkText - Next generation markdown editor, running on platforms of MacOS Windows and Linux.
- Marp - Markdown presentation writer with cross-platform support.
- Marxico - Delicate Markdown editor for Evernote. Reliable storage and sync.
- MWeb - Pro Markdown writing, and static blog generator App.
- Obsidian - A second brain, for you, forever.
- Typora - Truly minimal Markdown editor featuring seamless live preview.
- Ulysses - The Ultimate Writing App for Mac, iPad and iPhone.
- Zettlr - A markdown editor for the 21st century.
Note-taking
- Affine - Affine is the next-generation collaborative knowledge base for professionals.
- Agenda - Date-focused note taking app for both planning and documenting your projects.
- AppFlowy - Open-source alternative to Notion.
- Bear Writer - Beautiful, flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose.
- Boostnote - Note-taking app made for programmers.
- Craft - Notetaking and writing made beautiful.
- Dnote - A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and a web interface.
- Email Me - Email yourself and much more with just one tap, native on macOS, iOS and WatchOS.
- Evernote - Infamous note-taking app, available on many platforms.
- FSNotes - File System Notes is a modern notes manager, native on macOS and iOS.
- Gooba - Writing app and task manager with a simple and interactive design.
- Inkdrop - Notebook app for Markdown lovers built on top of Electron.
- Joplin - Cross platform open-source notepad with markdown support and todo list manager with synchronisation capabilities.
- Logseq - Privacy-first, open-source knowledge base that works on top of local plain-text Markdown and Org-mode files.
- MarginNote 4 - In-depth PDF and EPUB reading, learning, managing and note taking app.
- massCode - Cross platform open-source code snippets manager for developers with markdown and mermaid support.
- MiaoYan - Lightweight Markdown app to help you write great sentences.
- Notable - The markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck.
- Notebook - Note-taking app.
- Notes - Clean, simple note-taking app.
- NotePlan 3 - Your tasks, notes, and calendar, plain-text markdown files.
- Noteship - Turn notes into knowledge (spreadsheet view, heading summaries, etc.). Works offline, everything is saved locally.
- Notion - Notion is the all-in-one workspace. From notes, tasks, wikis, to database, Notion is all you need. Works great for teams and individuals.
- OneNote - Note-taking app by Microsoft.
- OutlineEdit 3 - Fully-featured outline editor, for everyone who loves great structured notes.
- Saber - Cross platform stylus and text notetaking app. Supports image and pdf imports, can sync.
- SideNotes - Quick notes on the screen side. Take notes while working with other apps. Use Markdown for text formatting.
- Standard Notes - An end-to-end encrypted notes app for digitalists and professionals.
- QOwnNotes - Open-source notepad with markdown support and todo list manager.
- Quick Note - Colorful sticky notes in the Menu bar.
- Quiver - The Programmer's Notebook, lets you easily mix text, code, Markdown and LaTeX within one note, edit code with an awesome code editor and live preview Markdown and LaTeX.
- AliYuQue - Cloud note-taking knowledge management, collaboration platform, Markdown based writing, support embedded flow chart, brain diagram, timing sequence, code rendering, Sketch board creation, personal knowledge sharing, etc. Compared to youdao cloud note and evernote similar products, which include all of its functions, support knowledge sharing and more powerful creation, collaboration and editor, it comes from alibaba ant financial.
- VNote - A Qt-based application designed to provide a pleasant note-taking platform with excellent editing experience.
Journaling
- Day One - Excellent journaling app using text, photos, video, audio, location data, and more.
- Journey - Journaling app with many features and with apps for every platform available.
- Life Note - Journal with the greatest minds in human history.
- linked - Link your thoughts to days, distraction free.
Writing
- novelWriter - an open source plain text editor designed for writing novels. It supports a minimal markdown-like syntax for formatting text.
- Scrivener - The quintessential word processor for writers.
- THORN - All you need to power personal writing and website building.
Ebooks
- Calibre - Free and open-source e-book computer software application suite which runs on multiple platforms, allows users to manage e-book collections as well as create, edit, and read e-books.
- Clearview - Tabbed style e-book reader for PDF, EPUB (DRM free), CHM, and MOBI.
- iChm - Ebook reader for CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML help) files.
- Kindle App - Amazon official reading app of kindle.
- Klib - New way to manage highlights for Kindle and iBooks.
- Koodo Reader - Koodo Reader is an all-in-one eBook reader for Windows, macOS, Linux, and the web, supporting over 15 formats.
- Scribus - Professional layout and publishing software supporting EPS and SVG import/export, and PDF support.
- Sigil - Multi-platform EPUB ebook Editor.
- Simple Comic - EBook reader for graphic novels in PDF, CBZ, CBR format. Find command powered by Live Text on recent Macs
RSS
- Elytra - A Simple & Private RSS Feed Reader with native rendering for macOS & iOS
- Feedy - An elegant and lightweight RSS client and news reader for your Mac.
- Follow ? Next generation information browser.
- ReadKit
- Leaf - Amazing news reader dedicated to help you enjoy your daily news and easily manage your subscriptions.
- NetNewsWire - It’s a free and open source feed reader for macOS.
- Doughnut - Beautiful, open-source podcast catcher for Mac.
- ReadKit - Mac read-later client supporting all major providers: Instapaper, Pocket and Readability. Even more, ReadKit is a full-featured RSS reader as well.
- Reeder 5 - News reader for Feedbin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler and so on.
- Vienna - RSS/Atom reader for Mac OS X.
Others
- SwifDoo PDF - The best PDF Editor/converter that’ll help you transform your PDF file, edit it, compress, or password-protect it in just a couple of simple steps
- bindPDF - Combine multiple PDF files into a single PDF file using a friendly UI.
- CHM Reader - Read Compiled HTML (.chm) documents on your Mac.
- Chmox - Read CHM documents on your Mac.
- Highlights - The PDF Reader for Research on Mac, iPad & iPhone.
- PDF Expert - Read, annotate and edit PDFs, change text and images.
- PDFgear - AI-integrated PDF editor providing view, edit, annotate, protect, convert, Copilot assistant, and more possibilities.
- PDF Reader Pro - You Can view, create, sign, convert and compress any PDF documents.
- Skim - PDF reader and note-taker for OS X.
- SkyFonts - The simplest way to try, install, and manage fonts.
- Spillo - Powerful, beautiful and amazingly fast Pinboard client for OS X.
- Tad - Application for viewing and analyzing tabular data such as CSV files.
- texifier - Great LaTeX editor for Mac with auto-update PDF and autocomplete LaTeX commands.
- UPDF - Free PDF editor that makes it possible to read, annotate and edit PDFs, change text and images on Mac.
- Zotero - Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research.
Developer Tools
IDEs
- Android Studio - The official IDE for Android, based on Intellij IDEA.
- CodeRunner - A lightweight, multi-language programming text editor and IDE for quickly building, running and debugging code.
- Deco IDE - The best IDE for building React Native apps.
- Eclipse - Popular open-source IDE, mainly for Java but with plugin support for a wide array of languages and platforms.
- Espresso - The web editor for Mac is back. For people who make delightful, innovative and fast websites.
- JetBrains Toolbox App - Manage installed JetBrains tools, download new ones and open recent projects.
- AppCode - Smart IDE for iOS/macOS development
- RustRover - A brand new JetBrains IDE for Rust Developers.
- CLion - Powerful C and C++ IDE. (Free for Students)
- DataGrip - Cross-Plaform IDE for Databases and SQL. FREE for Students, check here for more info.
- DataSpell - The IDE for Professional Data Scientists
- GoLand - Provides ergonomic environment for Go development.
- IntelliJ IDEA - Powerful IDE for JVM languages. (Free for Students)
- PHPStorm - The Lightning-Smart PHP IDE.
- PyCharm - Powerful Python IDE, which has professional version and community version.
- Rider - Cross-Platform C# IDE. It is an alternative to Visual Studio by Microsoft with the additional benefit of getting Resharper features that are not available on Visual Studio for Mac.
- WebStorm - The smartest JavaScript IDE by JetBrains. FREE for Students, check here for more info.
- Haskell for Mac - A Modern Development Environment for Haskell.
- NetBeans IDE - Free and open-source IDE, mainly used for Java development, but supports many other languages and frameworks.
- Nova - From the creators of Coda and Transmit, bring you a beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.
- Visual Studio Code - Microsoft's free & open-source editor, TypeScript friendly, VSCode Plugins.
- Xamarin Studio - Free cross platform C# IDE. Xamarin Studio supports iOS, Android and .Net development
- Xcode - Essential IDE for iOS/macOS development.
- Zed - A high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
- Spyder - Powerful scientific environment written in Python, for Python.
Developer Utilities
- BetterRename - The most powerful and complete Mac file renaming application on the market.
- Beyond Compare - Compare files and folders using simple, powerful commands that focus on the differences you are interested in and ignore those you are not.
- Bidbar - Manage bash commands from the menu bar and run them with keyboard shortcuts.
- Cacher - Cloud-based, team-enabled code snippet manager with Gist sync, VSCode/Atom/Sublime packages and Mac/Windows/Linux/Web clients.
- CodeKit - Web development tool which can automatically compile Less, Sass, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Jade and JavaScript, auto-refresh browsers and much more.
- CodeMenu - An advanced snippets manager with features like side window, access in IDEs using Suggestions app, natural language search, placeholders, code running, HTML preview and more.
- Conduktor - Kafka desktop client.
- CubicBezier - CubicBezier Generator for macOS.
- Cutter - Powerful multi-platform reverse engineering tool.
- DevHub - A feature-rich offline application, meticulously crafted to support developers in their daily tasks.
- Dash - Awesome API documentation browser and code snippet manager.
- Deeplink Buddy - Deeplink managers, made by developer for developers.
- DiffMerge - Application to visually compare and merge files.
- EnvPane - OS X preference pane for environment variables.
- FinderGo - Open terminal quickly from Finder.
- Finicky - Application that allows you to set up rules that decide which browser is opened for every link that would open the default browser.
- Gas Mask - Simple hosts file manager for Mac OS X.
- Gemini - Intelligent duplicate file finder.
- Hex Fiend - Fast and clever open source hex editor.
- Hosts.prefpane - System preference pane to manage your hosts file.
- Icon Preview - Preview your app icon and menu bar icon.
- iHosts - The only
/etc/hosts
editor on Mac App Store.
- ILLA Cloud - Low-code internal tool builder.
- ImHex - A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.
- Integrity - Free website link checker for Mac.
- Kaleidoscope - Powerful compare tool for text, images and folders. Works perfectly with git, svn or other version control tools.
- Koala - GUI application for Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript compilation.
- Loca Studio - Analyze, review, and edit app translations. Supports Xcode Localization Catalog (xcloc) and XLIFF 1.2 file formats.
- MacSystemColors - Mac app that shows all system colors in light and dark mode for Cocoa developers.
- MJML - Framework that utilizes a semantic syntax and a rich standard components library, which allow users to easily create responsive emails.
- PaintCode - PaintCode is a unique vector drawing app that generates Objective-C or Swift code in real time, acting as a bridge between developers and graphic designers.
- Pasteboard Viewer - Inspect the system pasteboards.
- PPRows - Application to calculate how many lines of code you write.
- PushMate - PushMate is a MacOS app that solves common push notification problems by ensuring your push payloads are correct.
- Responsively - A must-have devtool for web developers for quicker responsive web development.
- SCM Breeze - Set of shell scripts (for bash and zsh) that enhance your interaction with git.
- SecureCRT - Terminal emulation which supports SSH, Telnet or other protocols.
- Site Sucker - SiteSucker is a Macintosh application that automatically downloads websites from the Internet.
- SnippetsLab - Easy-to-use code snippets manager.
- Solarized - Clean and beautiful color theme. Works well with iTerm, JetBrains products, Vim etc.
- StarUML - Powerful UML app.
- Swiftify - Objective-C to Swift code converter and Xcode & Finder extensions.
- SwiftPlantUML - Generate and view class diagrams from Xcode for Swift code.
- SwitchHosts - Free and open-source app for hosts management & switching.
- SYM - GUI Application to symbolicate iOS crash log.
- TeXstudio - Integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents.
- Timelane - Visually profile your asynchronous code.
- Touch Bar Simulator - Use the Touch Bar on any Mac.
- Visual Paradigm - All-in-one UML, SysML, BPMN Modeling Platform for Agile, EA TOGAF ADM Process Management.
- Woodpecker - View iOS app's Sandbox files, UserDefaults, Keychain items on a Mac.
- WWDC - The Mac OS unofficial WWDC app.
- Xcodes - Install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode.
- XCSnippetsApp - Explore code snippets from the Swift and iOS community, view and edit the snippets before adding them conveniently to Xcode.
- zeplin - Collaboration tool for work between designers and developers.
- ZOC Terminal - Terminal emulator which supports SSH, telnet, connections and other protocols.
- Nib Unlocker - .nib to .xib converter
- He3 - Free and Modern Developer Utilities Toolbox.
Regular Expression Editors
- Patterns - Regular expression editor.
- Regex - Regular expression testing tool with an emphasis on simplicity.
- RegExRX - Development tool for regular expressions.
API Development and Analysis
- Cocoa Rest Client - Free, open-source, native Apple OS X app for testing HTTP/REST endpoints.
- Insomnia - The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client.
- Paw - Advanced HTTP client.
- Postman - Powerful GUI platform to make your API development faster & easier, from building API requests through testing, documentation and sharing.
- Katalon Studio - Simplify API, Web, Mobile Automation Tests Free. Robust. Cross-platform. Automation testers from 160 countries with channels, GitHub repositories.
- HTTPie - HTTPie is making APIs simple and intuitive for those building the tools of our time.
- bruno - Bruno is a offline-only, fast and git-friendly opensource API client.
Network Analysis
- Charles - HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet.
- James - Open-source proxy tool for checking and mapping requests with http as well as https.
- Little Snitch - Network monitor with a world map for visualizing network connections.
- mitmproxy - Interactive intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.
- Proxie - HTTP debugging proxy.
- Proxyman - Modern and intuitive HTTP debugging proxy for macOS.
- Sniffnet - Application to comfortably monitor your network traffic.
- Wireshark - The world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer.
- Apidog - All-in-One workspace for API Design, Documentation, Debug, Mock, Test.
Command Line Tools
- ack - A tool like grep, optimized for programmers.
- Airlift - Upload & Merge Data with Attachments to Airtable.
- alacritty - A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
- archey-osx - An archey script for OS X.
- asciinema - Easily record terminal sessions and replay them in a terminal as well as in a web browser.
- autojump - Replace
cd
with an intelligent autojump to easily navigate directories from the command line.
- bash-it - Shameless ripoff of oh-my-zsh for bash.
- bat - A
cat(1)
clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
- bclm - macOS command-line utility to limit max battery charge.
- ccat - The colorizing cat which works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting.
- ClamAV - A cross-platform, open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats.
- cmatrix - CMatrix is based on the screensaver from The Matrix website. It shows text flying in and out in a terminal like as seen in "The Matrix" movie. It can scroll lines all at the same rate or asynchronously and at a user-defined speed.
- cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
- cool-retro-term - Good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display.
- CSV2Notion Neo - Upload & Merge CSV or JSON Data with Images to Notion Database.
- dark-mode - Control dark mode from the command-line.
- eureka - CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal.
- Fish - Smart and user-friendly shell, which is similar with zsh.
- fselect - Find files with SQL-like queries.
- GitHub CLI - gh is GitHub on the command line. It brings pull requests, issues, and other GitHub concepts to the terminal next to where you are already working with git and your code.
- Glances - Glances is a cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool.
- Go2Shell - Go2Shell opens a terminal window to the current directory in Finder.
- htop - htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'.
- httpie - Modern command line HTTP client – user-friendly curl alternative with intuitive UI, JSON support, syntax highlighting, wget-like downloads, extensions, etc.
- hyper - A terminal built on web technologies.
- iTerm2 - iTerm2 is an amazing terminal emulator for OS X.
- job - JOB, make your short-term command as a long-term job.
- kitty - A cross-platform, fast, feature full, GPU based terminal emulator.
- lnav - A log file navigator.
- m-cli - Swiss Army Knife for macOS.
- Mac-CLI - The ultimate tool to manage your Mac. Automatize the usage of your OS X system.
- Magic Wormhole - Get Things From One Computer To Another, Safely.
- MarkersExtractor - Marker metadata extraction and conversion tool and library for Final Cut Pro.
- mas - Simple command line interface for the Mac App Store.
- Miller - Like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON.
- mycli - CLI for MySQL that can do auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
- ndm - Manage npm straight from the couch.
- nushell - nushell is a modern, GitHub-era shell written in Rust.
- nvm - Node Version Manager is a POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions.
- pgcli - Pgcli is a command line interface for Postgres with auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
- Rebound - Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error.
- ripgrep (rg) - Very fast text searching tool similar to (but faster than) ack, ag or grep
- Serial - Full-featured serial terminal for the Mac.
- shallow-backup - Easily create text documentation of installed applications, dotfiles, and more.
- ShellHistory - Backup, sync and organize your shell history
- silver searcher (ag) - A code searching tool similar to ack, with a focus on speed.
- spaceship - A Zsh prompt for Astronauts.
- Tabby (formerly Terminus) - Free terminal tool, built with TypeScript, heavily inspired by Hyper.
- Taskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.
- Termius - A beautiful SSH and SFTP client for Mac. It is also available for mobile.
- TextQL - Execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV.
- thefuck - A interesting software that corrects errors in previous console commands.
- tldr - Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands.
- tmux - "Terminal multiplexer", it enables a number of terminals (or windows) to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal. tmux is intended to be a simple, modern, BSD-licensed alternative to programs such as GNU screen.
- tmuxinator - Manage complex tmux sessions easily.
- trash - Move files and directories to the trash.
- VisiData - Terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data.
- Warp - Warp is a blazingly fast, rust-based terminal reimagined from the ground up to work like a modern app.
- WezTerm - A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer implemented in Rust.
- xonsh - Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt.
- Zsh - Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language.
- ohmyzsh - A delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.
- xcodes - A command-line tool to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode.
- xxh - Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH.
- x-cmd - x-cmd is a vast and interesting collection of tools guided by the Unix philosophy.
- zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included (modern replacement for tmux and more).
Frameworks For Hybrid Applications
- AppJS - Lightweight JavaScript UI library for creating mobile webapps that behave like native apps.
- create-dmg - Create a good-looking DMG for your macOS app in seconds.
- Electrino - Desktop runtime for apps built on web technologies, using the system's own web browser engine.
- Electron - Build cross platform desktop application with JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
- ionic - Build amazing native and progressive web apps with Angular and open web technologies. One app running on everything.
- MacGap - Provides a lightweight JavaScript API for OS X integration, such as displaying native notifications or writing data to a file.
- nw.js - Build desktop application with HTML and JavaScript. It lets you call all
Node.js
modules directly from DOM and enables a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies.
- Qt - Cross-platform application framework.
- React Native for Ubuntu - Build Ubuntu desktop apps using React Native.
- React Native macOS - Build OS X desktop apps using React Native and Cocoa.
- react-desktop - React UI Components for macOS Sierra.
- ReactXP - Microsoft official production, support platform Web, iOS, Android and Windows UWP is still an ongoing work.
Version Control
- Cornerstone - Powerful version control with a gorgeous interface.
- Fork - Fast and friendly Git client for Mac.
- Git Cola - Powerful, Fast, Lightweight and Friendly Git GUI. For those caffeine adicting users.
- Gitbar - Open-source,display GitHub contribution statistics on your menu bar.
- GitFinder - Fast and lightweight Git client for Mac with Finder integration.
- Gitfox - Commit faster, improve your code quality with superior diffs - and look good doing it.
- GitHub Desktop - The official GitHub GUI.
- GitKraken - The most popular Git GUI for Windows, Mac and Linux.
- GitUp - A simple & powerful Git client。
- GitX-dev - Fork of Pieter's nice git GUI for OS X. Includes branch/tag sidebar and various fixes.
- Hub - Command-line wrapper for Git that makes you better at GitHub.
- RelaGit - The elegant solution to graphical version control. Built by developers, for developers.
- SmartGit - Git client with support.
- SourceTree - Free Git & Mercurial client for Windows or Mac.
- Sublime Merge - Git client, from the makers of Sublime Text.
- Tower2 - The most powerful Git client for Mac and Windows.
- Vershd - The free for personal use effortless Git GUI, for Windows, Mac, & Linux.
- Versions - Mac Subversion (SVN) Client.
Virtualization
- Docker - Powerful, performs operating-system-level virtualization.
- MacVirtue - Run free and unlimited Virtual Machines on your Mac.
- Multipass - Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workstation.
- OrbStack - OrbStack is a fast, light, and simple way to run Docker containers and Linux machines on macOS.
- Parallels - Powerful, easy-to-use VM. No free upgrade for each new Mac OS.
- Rancher Desktop - Rancher Desktop is an app that provides container management and Kubernetes on the desktop.
- Lima - Lima launches Linux virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding.
- QEMU - A free and open-source emulator and virtualizer that can perform hardware virtualization.
- UTM - UTM is an easy-to-use GUI for QEMU and can run ARM64, x64 and other VMs on M1 Macs.
- Vagrant - Tool for building and distributing development environments.
- Veertu - The lightest VM on Mac. Responsive, sandboxed & native way to run VM on your Mac.
- Virtual Box - Powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product.
- VMware Fusion - Powerful, commercial VM developed by VMware.
Databases
- Apache Directory Studio - LDAP browser and Active Directory client.
- Azure Data Studio - Cross-platform database tool for using on Microsoft family on-premises and cloud data platforms such as MSSQL Server
- Another Redis Desktop Manager - A faster, better and more stable redis desktop manager.
- Base 2 - Application for creating, designing, editing and browsing SQLite 3 database files.
- Beekeeper Studio - Smooth SQL editor and database manager
- Bdash - Modern SQL client application, supports MySQL, PostgreSQL (Redshift) and BigQuery.
- Chrome MySQL Admin - Powerful Chrome app to manage your MySQL.
- Core Data Editor - Core Data Editor lets you easily view, edit and analyze applications‘ data.
- Dataflare - Simple and easy-to-use database client that supports Postgres, MySQL, DuckDB, libSQL, Cloudflare D1, and more.
- DB Browser for SQLite - Official home of the DB Browser for SQLite.
- DBeaver - Universal SQL Client.
- ElectroCRUD - Modern MySQL CRUD application.
- FastoNoSQL - Cross-platform GUI client for Redis, Memcached, SSDB, LevelDB, RocksDB, UnQLite, LMDB, ForestDB, Pika and Dynomite key-value databases.
- FastoRedis - Cross-platform professional GUI management tool for Redis.
- JackDB - Secure, collaborative environment for your queries and data-driven insights.
- Keylord - Desktop GUI client for Redis, Bolt, LevelDB and Memcached key-value databases.
- MDB Explorer - MDB tool to open, read, export your MDB files to other formats and databases.
- Medis - GUI Manager for Redis.
- Mingo - Easy to use MongoDB GUI with mind-blowing features.
- mongoDB.app - The easiest way to get started with mongoDB on the Mac.
- MongoDB - MongoDB is a document database with the scalability and flexibility that you want with the querying and indexing that you need.
- MySQL Workbench - The official MySQL GUI.
- Navicat Data Modeler - Powerful and cost-effective database design tool which helps you build high-quality conceptual, logical and physical data models.
- neo4j - The leading graph database!
- pgMagic? - Chat to Postgres in natural language or SQL.
- pgModeler - pgModeler is an open source data modeling tool designed for PostgreSQL.
- Postgres.app - The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac.
- Postico - Modern PostgreSQL client for Mac.
- PSequel - PostgreSQL GUI tool for Mac OS X.
- RedisClient - Redis client application on mac, windows and linux.
- RedisDesktopManager - Cross-platform GUI management tool for Redis.
- Sequel Pro - MySQL database management for Mac OS X.
- Sequel Ace - The maintained "sequel" to the longtime macOS tool Sequel Pro.
- SQLight - SQLite database manager tool.
- SQLPro Studio - Simple, powerful database manager for macOS.
- Studio 3T - the Ultimate GUI for MongoDB.
- SurrealDB - A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web.
- Tableau Public - Free data-visualization software.
- TablePlus - Supports: PostgreSQL, MySQL, RedShift, MariaDB... High-end security ensured.
- redis-pro - Small, easy to use Redis management, written with SwiftUI, support Dark mode.
Design and Product
Design Tools
- Acorn - Great Mac OS X picture and photo editor, built for humans.
- Affinity Designer - Professional graphic design software for Mac.
- Affinity Photo - Professional image editing software for Mac.
- Alchemy - Experimental, open-source drawing application with an emphasis on creating conceptual art.
- Amadine - A vector drawing app that has everything a graphic designer needs wrapped in an uncluttered and intuitive interface.
- Art Text 3 - This is graphic design software specifically tuned for lettering, typography, text mockups and various artistic text effects.
- Blender - Free and open 3D creation software.
- Colorpicker - Colorpicker is a complete open-source colors manipulation tool with picking!
- Draw.io Drawio is a diagramming and whiteboarding desktop app
- Figma - The collaborative interface design tool, for vector graphics and UI prototyping.
- FontForge - Free, open-source font editor.
- GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program.
- inklet - Turn your Mac trackpad into drawing board.
- Inkscape - Professional vector graphics editor.
- Krita - Open-source digital painting software for concept artists, digital painters, and illustrators.
- macSVG - Designing HTML5 SVG art and animation.
- MagicaVoxel - Free, lightweight 8-bit voxel editor and interactive path tracing renderer.
- MakeHuman - Powerful and free 3D human modeler.
- Monodraw - Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac.
- Nik Collection - Nik Collection by DxO.
- Paintbrush - Bitmap image editor.
- Pencil2D - A easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations.
- Pixelmator - Full-featured image editor for Mac.
- Pixen - Native pixel art and animation editor for Mac.
- Principle - Application for designing animated and interactive user interfaces.
- RawTherapee - A powerful cross-platform raw photo processing program!
- ScreenToLayers - Easily export your screen into a layered PSD file.
- Sketch - Professional digital design for mac.
- Sketch Cache Cleaner - Deletes hidden Sketch history files that can take a lot of space on your hard drive and that you would probably never use.
- Measure Plugin - Make it a fun to create spec for developers and teammates.
- Sketch Toolbox Plugin Manager - Simple plugin manager for Sketch.
- User Flows Plugin - Generating flow diagrams from Artboards.
- SketchBook - Drawing software for concept design, comic art, and digital sketching.
- Sparkle - Pro visual web design.
- System Color Picker - The macOS color picker as an app with more features.
- Tayasui Sketches - Professional drawing software.
- Vectornator: Design Software - The Most Intuitive and Precise Illustration Software in the Galaxy.
- Vectr - Free graphics editor used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively.
Prototyping and Mind-Mapping Tools
- Adobe XD (Experience Design) - First all-in-one cross-platform tool for designing and prototyping websites and mobile apps.
- Axure RP 8 - Prototypes, specifications and diagrams in one tool.
- Balsamiq Mockups - Wire-framing tool that helps you work faster and smarter.
- Flinto - Quickly create interactive prototypes of mobile, desktop, or web apps.
- Framer - Tool for interactive prototyping.
- Justinmind - Prototyping platform for web and mobile apps.
- Kite - Powerful animation and prototyping application for Mac & iOS.
- Lighten - The best way to clarify thinking, boost productivity, brainstorm, and visualize concepts.
- Marvel - Simple design, prototyping and collaboration.
- MindNode - Mind-mapping software with an emphasis on simplicity and ease-of-use.
- MockFlow - Online prototyping suite for web-design and usability testing.
- Mockplus - Prototype faster, smarter and easier.
- OmniGraffle - Diagramming and graphic design for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
- Origami Studio - Tool for designing modern interfaces, built and used by designers at Facebook.
- pencil - Free, open-source tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping.
- ProtoPie - Create the most advanced prototypes as easy as Pie.
- QuikFlow - Create flowcharts with a mind-mapping workflow.
- Scapple - Practical mind-mapping software with free whiteboard-like layout.
- SimpleMind - The world leader in cross platform Mind Mapping tools.
- WriteMapper - Get from idea to final draft in no time.
- XMind - The most popular mind-mapping tool on the planet.
- Simple Diagrams - A desktop app for creating hand-drawn-like, fast, clear sketches of problems, processes, workflows, ideas and more!
- yGraph Editor - High quality diagrams made easy.
Screencapturing Software
- CleanShot - Discover a superior way to capture your Mac's screen.
- CloudApp - Work at the speed of sight.
- Flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software.
- Gifox - Gif Recording and Sharing.
- Kap - Open-source screen-recorder built with web technology.
- KeyCastr - KeyCastr, an open-source keystroke visualizer.
- Kyapchar - Simple screen and microphone audio recorder for Mac.
- Licecap - Record your screen and export to GIF. You can change the recording area anytime during recording.
- Lightshot - The fastest way to take a customizable screenshot.
- Monosnap - Make screenshots. Draw on it. Shoot video and share your files. It's fast, easy and free.
- OBS Studio - A free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording.
- Shottr - Screen capture application with features like Scrolling capture, OCR and markup.
- Skitch - Screen capture application with a powerful annotation capabilities.
- Snip - Application for sharing captured images on QQ Mail.
- Snipaste - Simple but powerful snipping tool.
- Teampaper Snap - Let your screenshots speak up.
- Tuji - Take a screenshot, annotate it, and beautify it.
- Xnip - Handy Screenshot App.
- Dropbox - Dropbox app offers easy screenshot capturing and sharing
- Snagit - Screen Capture and Recording Software. Simple and Powerful.
- Screen Studio - Record beautiful screens in minutes, with built-in exquisite frame animations, no need for editing.
- Zappy - Zappy is a screenshot and screen recording app all in one. Has some simple editing tools built in.
Other Tools
- Amazing AI - Generate images from text using Stable Diffusion.
- APNGb - PNG image assembler/disassembler app.
- Aspect - Photo organization application with support for peer-to-peer based synchronization across devices.
- Assetizr - Resizing images and optimising them for web and mobile applications.
- Couleurs - Simple app for grabbing and tweaking the colors you see on your screen.
- Diffusion Bee - The easiest way to generate AI art on your computer with Stable Diffusion.
- Eagle App - Simple and intuitive file manager with tag and annotaion for all your design files. Supports all major source, image, RAW, video, 3D, audio, font, and office files.
- ExifCleaner - Remove exif metadata from images and videos with drag and drop.
- FlowVision - RWaterfall-style Image Viewer for macOS.
- HEIC Converter - Convert HEIC images to JPEG or PNG.
- Iconset - Free, cross-platform and fast SVG icon organizer and manager for Mac and Windows.
- Iconjar - Icon management tool to organize or search your icons.
- IconKit - App icon generator.
- Image2icon - Create and personalize icons from your pictures.
- ImageAlpha - Compress images with PNG format and remove transparency.
- ImageOptim - Compress images and remove EXIF information.
- iPic - Easily upload images with Markdown supported.
- JPEGmini - Reduce image size by up to 80%, without compromising quality.
- Mark Man - Measure & Spec Fast.
- Nucleo - Icon manager. Import, export, customize and convert icon libraries.
- Preset Brewery - Tool to convert Lightroom presets to Adobe Camera Raw.
- qView - qView is an image viewer designed with minimalism and usability in mind.
- Resize Master - Batch resize and watermark your images fast and easy.
- RightFont - Preview, sync, install and manage fonts on Mac, Dropbox or Google Drive.
- Sip - The best way to collect, organize & share your colors.
- Snagit - Simple, Powerful Screen Capture Software and Screen Recorder.
- svgus - Organize, clean and transform your SVGs.
- TinyPNG4Mac - Open-source tool to compress images.
- Tropy - Research Photo Management.
- PicGo - Support for common cdn image hosting tool.
- AppIconBuilder - Export icons for multi-platform
- uPic - macOS native app, powerful terse image hosting client.
Communication
Collaboration and Team Tools
- Adium - Free instant messaging application for Mac OS X. Connect to AIM, MSN, SMPP, Yahoo and more.
- Caprine - Third-party privacy-focused Facebook Messenger app.
- DingTalk - Free, powerful and professional office tool used by over 5 million enterprises and organizations globally.
- Discord - All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that's free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone.
- Ferdium - Desktop app that helps you organize how you use your favourite apps by combining them into one application. It is based on Franz with the difference that Ferdium gives you many additional features and doesn't restrict its usage.
- Franz - Electron based, multi-protocol wrapper for web-based chat. One application, 23 messenger services.
- Gitter - Instant messaging and chat room system for developers as well as GitHub users. Developer friendly with Markdown syntax support.
- Keybase - Secure groups, files, and chat for everyone!
- Krisp - An AI-powered noise cancelling app that mutes background noise during calls.
- Lark - The Next-Gen Collaboration Suite. All your chats, meetings, calendars, docs, and emails in one place.
- LimeChat - Open-source IRC client for Mac OS X.
- Muzzle - A simple mac app to silence embarrassing notifications while screensharing.
- BlurScreen App - Blur sensitive data instantly anywhere on screen, while recording or screen sharing. No post editing required.
- Rambox - Messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.
- Element - Create, share communicate. Chat and call securely.
- Presentify - A mac app to draw on your screen while on calls, highlight your cursor, and more.
- Mattermost - Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.
- Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
- Matrix - An open network for secure, decentralised communication!
- Misskey - ? A completely free and open interplanetary microblogging platform
- Signal Desktop - Fast, simple, secure. Privacy that fits in your pocket.
- Skype - Cross-platform application that provides video chat and voice call services. Users can exchange images, text, video and any other digital documents.
- Shift - De-clutter your desktop workspace and streamline your accounts, apps, and workflows.
- Slack - Awesome tool for team collaboration and communication.
- Stack - Open, organize and use multiple web apps on a single screen. Stack your apps by categories or projects.
- Teambition - Team collaboration tool, including many features like task plan, schedule, file sharing, instant discussion and everything you need when collaborating with other team members.
- Telegram - Messaging app with a focus on speed and security.
- Textual - Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.
- Unite - The only native GroupMe app for Mac.
- Wavebox - A revolutionary and feature-rich Chromium browser that's built for productive working across Google Workspaces, Microsoft Teams, ClickUp, Monday, Atlassian, Asana, AirTable, Slack, and every other web app you use to get work done.
- WeChat - Official WeChat app for Mac.
- WeeChat - The extensible command-line chat client.
- WhatsApp Desktop - Available in the Mac App Store, Whatsapp for Desktop.
Email Clients
- Airmail - Fast email client. For both Mac OS and iOS.
- CanaryMail - Secure email app for Mac and iPhone with built-in PGP Support and AI assistance.
- ElectronMail - An Electron-based unofficial desktop client for ProtonMail.
- Foxmail - Fast email client.
- MailTags - Use tags to organize email and schedule.
- Mailspring - A beautiful, fast, and fully open source mail client.
- N1 - Extensible, open-source mail app, free for developers and $7/month for Pro.
- Nylas Mail - Extensible desktop mail app built on the modern web.
- Polymail - Simple, beautiful and powerful email client.
- Postbox - Powerful, simple and beautiful email client, need to pay for a license.
- Spark - Fast email client. For both Mac OS and iOS.
- ThunderBird - Software that makes email easier.
- Tutanota - Encrypted email focused on security and privacy.
- Edison Mail - A customisable, simple, and beautiful email client.
- Skiff Mail - Encrypted & Decentralized Email -- available on web, iOS/Android, and macOS.
File Sharing
- Cyberduck - Free FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure and OpenStack Swift browser.
- Dropshare - Powerful menu bar application for sharing screen shots, screen recordings and all other files with over 27 storage providers.
- Flow - Award-winning, beautiful, fast, and reliable FTP + SFTP client.
- LocalSend - An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop.
- NearDrop - An unofficial Google Nearby Share/Quick Share app for macOS.
- Transmit - Highly flexible and intuitive FTP client, supports SFTP, S3 and iDisk/WebDAV.
Data Recovery Tools
- Data Rescue - Comprehensive and professional data recovery tool for most cases.
- DiskWarrior - The world’s most advanced repair and recovery tool for Mac.
- R-Studio for Mac - Powerful tool for recovering data on disks, even if their partitions are formatted, damaged or deleted.
- SuperDuper! - Painless fully bootable disk backups.
- Disk Drill - Free data recovery tool. Also has a PRO version.
Audio and Video Tools
- Adapter - Free audio, video and image conversion software.
- Aegisub - Free, cross-platform open source tool for creating and modifying subtitles. Aegisub makes it quick and easy to time subtitles to audio, and features many powerful tools for styling them, including a built-in real-time video preview.
- Audio Profile Manager - Allows you to pin input/output devices for each particular combination of connected devices. May suppress HDMI displays from being chosen.
- Aiko - High-quality on-device transcription.
- Ardour - Cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.
- Audacity - Free, open-source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.
- Audio Hijack - Record any application's audio, including VoIP calls from Skype, web streams from Safari, and much more.
- BeMyEars - Free for hearing impaired, System wide on-device live caption, multi language support, just like you have YouTube subtitles everywhere.
- BlackHole - Freemium, open-source virtual output/input audio driver for recording/routing internal audio.
- buzz - Transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper.
- Camera Preview - Preview your webcam, take photos, and use it as a mirror.
- Carol - A minimal and beautiful lyrics app for macOS.
- Cog - Free, open-source audio player.
- DaVinci Resolve - Free, cross-platform video editing, color grading, video effects and audio editing software.
- Elmedia Player - This media player is a super versatile app for any file format you probably may think of: FLV, MP4, AVI, MOV, DAT, MKV, MP3, FLAC, M4V are all supported as well as many others.
- FreeTube - Open source desktop YouTube client built with privacy in mind.
- Gifski - Convert videos to high-quality GIFs.
- HandBrake - Tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
- Hydrogen - Professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming for GNU/Linux.
- ffWorks - Comprehensive Media Tool for macOS. Making High Quality Video Encoding Accessible for Everyone.
- IINA - The modern video player for macOS. Based on mpv, the powerful media player project.
- Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System.
- Kodi - Award-winning free and open-source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more.
- LMMS - Formerly "Linux MultiMedia Studio", LMMS is a powerful Digital Audio Workstation designed like FL Studio (formerly Fruity Loops).
- LosslessCut - Cross platform tool for quick and lossless video and audio trimming using ffmpeg.
- LyricsX - Lyrics for iTunes, Spotify and Vox.
- MacYTDL - A macOS GUI front-end for the youtube-dl video downloader.
- Marker Data - The avant-garde Marker extraction application crafted for Final Cut Pro.
- Metadatics - Advanced Audio Metadata Editor.
- Mp3tag - A powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files.
- Mixxx - The most advanced free DJ software.
- Movie Catcher - Movie movie and online viewing offline download software, with Baidu cloud to make offline download and online playback.
- mpv - Free, open-source, and cross-platform media player.
- MuseScore - Free, open-source music notation software.
- Museeks - A simple, clean and cross-platform music player.
- Natron - Open-source compositing software. Node-graph based. Similar in functionality to Adobe After Effects and Nuke by The Foundry.
- Nuclear - Streaming music player that finds free music for you.
- Perian - (No longer under active development)
Let QuickTime play all the common formats of free plug-ins.
- MusicBrainz Picard - Cross-platform music tagger written in Python.
- Playback - Experimental video player.
- Plug - Discover and listen to music from Hype Machine.
- Popcorn Time - Watch torrent movies instantly, This Popcorn Time service will never be taken down. Download and enjoy.
- Potplayer X- a Video Audio Player.
- Pulp - Audio sample manager.
- ScreenFlow - Screencasting and video editing software.
- Shotcut - Free open-source video editor.
- Sonora - Minimal, beautifully designed music player.
- SpotMenu - Spotify and iTunes in your menu bar.
- Stremio - Movies, TV shows, series, live television or web channels like YouTube and Twitch.tv - you can find all this on Stremio.
- Stringed 2 - Music practice software designed to help users learn how to play their favorite songs.
- Synfig Studio - Synfig Studio is free, open-source 2D animation software.
- trax - Free, open-source music library management tool with audio conversion and tag management functionalities.
- VLC - Free, open-source, cross-platform multimedia player as well as framework that plays most multimedia files, DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs and various streaming protocols.
- VOX Player - High-definition audio player for Mac and iPhone. Music just sounds better!
- XLD - Tool to decode, convert and play various 'lossless' audio files.
- Recordia - Record audio directly from the menu bar or with a global keyboard shortcut.
- Omniplayer - Best media player on Mac, support almost all format.
- YouTube Music - YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader).
- YouTube Music Desktop - Free cross platform Desktop Player for YouTube Music.
- YPlayer - A multifunctional app capable of live caption on-device, converting audio and video files into text and subtitle, transforming recordings into text, and translating subtitles.
Audio Record and Process
- GarageBand - A free Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) from Apple,providing a simple interface and professional level audio production functions.
- Logic Pro X - A professional Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) from Apple,providing complete audio production functions along with high quality native plugins and soundtracks. With native Apple Silicon support.
- Stargate DAW - An all-in-one digital audio workstation (DAW) and plugin suite.
- Quick Recorder - A lightweight and high-performance screen recorder for macOS
Download Management Tools
- aria2 - Lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility.
- Downie - Video downloader for macOS with support for YouTube and other 1200 sites.
- Deluge - Deluge is a lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client.
- FOLX - Free download manager for Mac OS X with a true Mac-style interface.
- JDownloader - Free, open-source download management tool with a huge community of developers that makes downloading as easy and fast as it should be.
- Motrix - Motrix is a full-featured download manager that supports downloading HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, Baidu Net Disk, etc.
- Neat Download Manager - Neat Download Manager is a simpl