20+ Free Applications for Mac

March 5th, 2008

Finally I bought an iMac 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo!!

I was using a PowerBook G4… That was really slow to use current applications..

Anyway.. Last weekend I setup my iMac.

Here is my list of free Mac apps that I installed.

NeoOffice

NeoOffice® is Mac OS X office software funded entirely by the time and money donated by our users

OpenOffice

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.

ClamXav

ClamXav is a free virus checker for Mac OS X. It uses the tried, tested and very popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end.

AppCleaner

A small application which allows you to completely and properly uninstall unwanted apps.

Perian – The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components

Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.

Miro – free, open source internet tv and video player

Watch free internet video channels and play any video file.

Senuti

Unlock your iPod with Senuti, a simple application that allows you to transfer songs from your iPod to your computer.

KeePassX is an application for people with extremly high demands on secure personal data management. It has a light interface, is cross platform and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Cyberduck | FTP for Mac OS X.

FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer)

Taco Software – Taco HTML Edit for Mac OS X

Full-featured HTML editor and PHP editor

Skitch.com

Webservice that works hand in hand with our application Skitch to give you 1-click
uploading of images for fast and fun image sharing.

Gimp

GNU Image Manipulation Program. (Photoshop Alternative)

Seashore

Image manipulator influenced by the GIMP.

Inkscape

Drawing app, capabilities similar to Illustrator / Freehand / CorelDraw.

Scribus :: Open Source Desktop Publishing

Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout.

Aptana Studio

open source Ajax development environment. Just create a new HTML document and you can build fully realized client/server applications rich with database access, network access, and much more. (Dreamweaver Alternative)

blender

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

iStat menus

iStat menus monitors your entire system right from your menubar, with 8 separate and highly configurable menu extras. You’ll always know exactly what’s going on inside your Mac!