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Multi-functional app includes many options for display and management of windows, some of which are quite innovative.
A curated selection of 452 free Mac apps — no trials, no ads, no betas, no limitations
Browse dozens of categories
- AI
- Animation
- Audio
- Automation
- Awake
- Backup
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Clipboard
- Clock
- Code Snippets
- Compression
- Converter
- Database
- Deletion
- Dictation
- Display
- Dock
- Drawing
- Education
- File Sharing
- Finance
- Finder
- FTP
- Functionality
- Graphics Tool
- Health
- Image Manager
- Journal
- Launcher
- Maintenance
- Markdown
- Media Hub
- Media Player
- Menu Bar
- Menu Bar Manager
- Messaging
- Miscellaneous
- Music
- News
- Notes
- Outliner
- Painting
- Photo Editing
- Playful
- Pomodoro
- Presentation
- Screen Capture
- Search
- Security
- Social Media
- Sync
- System Monitor
- Terminal
- Text Editor
- Text Tool
- Three Dimensional
- Timer
- To-Do
- Utilities Misc
- Video
- Wallpaper
- Weather
- Web Browsing
- Window Management
- Word Processor
- Workflow
- Writing
Scrimpy’s Picks
Totally biased and subjective picks for the best of thriftmac.
Amphetamine
This menu bar app overrides energy saver settings to keep your Mac awake with an on-off switch or automatically with configurable triggers. Has a boat load of features and is being actively developed.
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AppCleaner
Delete not only the app, but also all those pesky files that are associated with it.
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Bitwarden
Open source password manager has a nice interface, easy search, and plenty of ways to organize your items.
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espanso
Type a keyword with a colon in front (or whatever you like!), and it expands. Includes special triggers for dates, emojis and shell commands, plus several expansion packages. Can also create templates.
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Firefox
The non-profit open source effort from Mozilla, often updated, with a huge collection of add-ons. Fast, private and secure.
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Free Ruler
Handy little utility for those times when you want to measure something on your screen. Over 20 years old!
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ImageOptim
Drag and drop .jpeg, .png and .gif images and see them instantly slim down. This open source app works by finding the best compression parameters and removing unnecessary comments and colour profiles. Which is just what you want to make websites load faster.
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Itsycal
Easy access from the menu bar to a calendar for the current month and a listing of appointments and events imported from the Calendar app that comes with your Mac. Unpinning allows you to move it around the screen.
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NetNewsWire
The revered RSS feed reader is back with an open source version by Brent Simmons as his contribution to the open web. Features include a Safari extension for feed-adding, direct feed-downloading, and syncing via Feedbin.
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Poolsuite
Listen to upbeat, uninterrupted music on five different channels: default, Indie Summer, Hangover Club, Tokyo Disco and Friday Nite Heat. Also available are the latest 20 tracks, and a spot for your favourites.
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SnippetsLab
Keep your re-usable code close at hand, organized with folders and tags. In addition to your notes, you can add images, videos and documents. Access code easily from the menu bar. Choose your favourite theme. Also makes a good markdown editor.
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System Color Picker
A nice app version of the color picker that comes with your Mac. It can be invoked from the menu bar or record your own shortcut. It gives values in hex, hsl and rgb.
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Visual Studio Code
Open source, cross-platform text editor from Microsoft has thousands of extensions, IntelliSense completions and built-in support for Git.
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XnConvert
Batch image-converter and resizer supports common formats such as JPG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, Camera RAW, JPEG2000, WebP and OpenEXR in addition to over 500 other image formats. Operations include rotating, adding watermarks, adding text, and adjustments for brightness, shadows and more.
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