List of Macintosh software
The following is a list of Macintosh Software – notable computer applications for current macOS operating systems.

For software designed for the classic Mac OS, see List of old Macintosh software.

Anti-malware software
The software listed in this section is antivirus software and malware removal software.
BitDefender Antivirus for Mac – antivirus software
Intego VirusBarrier – antivirus software
MacScan – malware removal program
Norton Antivirus for Mac – an antivirus program specially made for Mac
Sophos – antivirus software
VirusScan – antivirus software

Archiving, backup, restore, recovery
This section lists software for file archiving, backup and restore, data compression and data recovery.
Archive Utility – built-in archive file handler
Backup – built-in
Compact Pro – data compression
Disk Drill Basic  – data recovery software for macOS
iArchiver – handles archives, commercial
Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery – Data Recovery Software for Mac Computers
Stellar Phoenix Video Repair – Repair corrupt of damaged videos 
Stuffit – data compression
The Unarchiver
Time Machine (macOS) – built-in backup software
BetterZip – file archiver and compressor utility
WinZip – file archiver and compressor utility

Audio-specific software
Ableton Live – digital audio workstation
Adobe Soundbooth – music and soundtrack editing
Ardour – hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation program
Audacity – digital audio editor
Audion – media player (development ceased)
Audio Hijack – audio recorder
baudline – signal analyzer
BIAS Peak – mastering
Cog – open source audio player, supports multiple formats
Cubase – music production program
djay – digital music mixing software
Digital Performer – MIDI sequencer with audio tracking
Final Cut Express/Pro – movie editor
Finale – scorewriter program 
fre:ac – open source audio converter and CD ripper
GarageBand – music/podcast production
Impro-Visor – educational notation and playback for music improvisation
iTunes – audio/video Jukebox
ixi software – free improvisation and sketching tools
Jaikoz – mass tagger
LilyPond – scorewriter program
Logic Express – prosumer music production
Logic Studio – music writing studio package by Apple Inc.
Apple Loops Utility – production and organisation of Apple Loops
Apple Qmaster and Qadministrator
Logic Pro – digital audio workstation
Mainstage – program to play software synthesizers live
QuickTime Pro – pro version of QuickTime
Soundtrack Pro – post production audio editor
WaveBurner – CD mastering and production software
Mixxx – DJ mix software
Max – Cycling 74's visual programming language for MIDI, audio, video; with MSP, Jitter
Nuendo – audio and post production editor
Overture – scorewriter program
ReBirth – virtual synth program simulates Roland TR-808, TB-303
REAPER – digital audio workstation
Reason Studios – digital audio workstation
Recycle – sample editor
Renoise – contemporary digital audio workstation, based upon the heritage and development of tracker software.
RiffWorks – guitar recording and online song collaboration software

CD and DVD authoring
Disco
DVD Studio Pro – DVD authoring application
Adobe Encore
iDVD – a basic DVD-authoring application
Roxio Toast – DVD authoring application

Chat (text, voice, image, video)

Active

Adium – multi-protocol IM client
aMSN
ChitChat
Colloquy – freeware advanced IRC and SILC client
Discord
Fire – open source, multiprotocol IM client
FaceTime – videoconferencing between Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
iMessage – instant messaging between Mac, and iDevices 
Ircle
Irssi – IrssiX and MacIrssi
Kopete
LiveChat
Microsoft Messenger for Mac
Microsoft Teams
Palringo
Psi (instant messenger)
Skype
Snak
Ventrilo – audio chatroom application
X-Chat Aqua
Yahoo! Messenger
Telegram

Discontinued
AOL Instant Messenger – discontinued as of December 15, 2017
iChat – instant messaging and videoconferencing (discontinued since OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion in favour of FaceTime and iMessage)

Children's software
Kid Pix Deluxe 3X – bitmap drawing program 
Stagecast Creator – programming and internet authoring for kids

Developer tools and IDEs
 
Apache Web Server
AppCode – an Objective-C IDE by JetBrains for macOS and iOS development
Aptana – an open source integrated development environment (IDE) for building Ajax web applications
Clozure CL – an open source integrated development environment (IDE) for building Common Lisp applications
Code::Blocks – open source IDE for C++
CodeWarrior – development environment, framework
Coldstone game engine
Dylan
Eclipse – open source Java-based IDE for developing rich-client applications, includes SWT library, replaces Swing by using underlying OS native windowing abilities
Fink – Debian package manager for ported Unix software
Free Pascal – Object Pascal compiler, XCode plugin available
GNU Compiler Collection
Glasgow Haskell Compiler
Helix – relational database IDE
Homebrew - Package manager for installing many open source, mostly terminal based, utilities. Includes Apache, PHP, Python and many more.
HotSpot – Sun's Java Virtual Machine
HyperNext – freeware software development
IntelliJ IDEA – a JAVA IDE by JetBrains (free limited community edition)
Komodo – commercial multi-language IDE from ActiveState
Lazarus – cross-platform IDE to develop software with Free Pascal, specialized in graphical software
LiveCode – high-level cross-platform IDE
MacApp – application development framework Pascal and C++
Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (MPW)
Macports – a package management system that simplifies the installation of free/open source software on the macOS. 
Macromedia Authorware – application (CBT, eLearning) development, no Mac development environment since version 4, though can still package applications with the 'Mac Packager' for OS 8 through 10 playback
Mono – open source implementation of Microsoft .NET Framework with a C# compiler
NetBeans – modular, open source, multi-language platform and IDE for Java written in pure Java
Omnis Studio – cross-platform development environment for creating enterprise and web applications for macOS, Windows, Linux, Solaris
Panorama
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt Creator – an IDE for C++ GUI applications, by Trolltech
Real Studio – cross-platform compiled REALbasic BASIC programming language IDE
ResEdit – resource editor
Script Debugger – an AppleScript and Open Scripting Architecture IDE
SuperCard – high-level IDE
Tcl/tk – scripting shell & GUI utility that allows cross platform development. Included with macOS.
TextMate – multipurpose text editor that supports Ruby, PHP, and Python
Torque (game engine) – game creation software
WebKit – open source application framework for Safari (web browser)
WebObjects
wxPython – API merging Python and wxWidgets
Xcode – IDE made by Apple, which comes as a part of macOS and is available as a downloadon, was called Project Builders of Florida tech

Email

Email clients
Apple Mail – the bundled email client
Claris Emailer – classic Mac OS only, no longer available
Entourage – email client by Microsoft; analogous to Microsoft Outlook
Eudora
Foxmail
Lotus Notes
Mailbird
Mailplane – a WebKit-based client for Gmail
Microsoft Outlook 
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mulberry – open-source software for e-mail, calendars and contacts
Opera Mail
Outlook Express
Postbox
Sparrow – as well as Sparrow Lite

Other email software
Gmail Notifier

FTP clients
Classic FTP
Cyberduck
Fetch
Fugu
FileZilla
ForkLift
Interarchy
Transmit
WebDrive – FTP and cloud client
Yummy FTP

Games

Steam – digital distribution software for video games and related media

Graphics, layout, desktop publishing

CAD, 3D graphics
3D-Coat
Autodesk Alias
Ashlar-Vellum – 2D/3D drafting, 3D modeling
ArchiCAD
AutoCAD
Blender
BricsCAD
Cheetah3D
Cinema 4D
SketchUp – 3D modeling software
Houdini
Lightwave
Maya
Modo
PowerCADD
ZBrush

Distributed document authoring
Adobe Acrobat
Preview

Icon editors, viewers
Icon Composer – part of Apple Developer Tools
IconBuilder
Microsoft Office

File conversion and management

Active
Adobe Bridge – digital asset management app
BibDesk – free bibliographic database app that organizes linked files
Font Book – font management tool
GraphicConverter – graphics editor, open/converts a wide range of file formats
Photos – photo management application

Discontinued
iPhoto – discontinued photo management application

Layout and desktop publishing

Active
Adobe InDesign – page layout
iCalamus – page layout
iStudio Publisher – page layout
Pages – part of iWork
QuarkXPress – page layout
Ready, Set, Go! – page layout
Scribus – page layout
TeX – publishing
MacTeX – TeX redistribution of TeX Live for Mac
Comparison of TeX Editors
The Print Shop – page layout

Discontinued
iBooks Author – created interactive books for Apple Books

Raster and vector graphics
This section lists bitmap graphics editors and vector graphics editors.

Active
Adobe Fireworks – supports GIF animation
Adobe Illustrator – vector graphics editor
Adobe Photoshop – also offers some vector graphics features
Affinity Designer – vector graphics editor for Apple macOS and Microsoft Windows
Anime Studio – 2D based vector animation
Collabora Online - enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice
Corel Painter
EazyDraw – vector graphics editor; versions available that can convert old formats such as MacDraw files
Fontographer
GIMP – free bitmap graphics editor
GIMPShop – free open source cross-platform bitmap graphics editor
GraphicConverter – displays and edits raster graphics files
Inkscape – free vector graphics editor
Luminar
Macromedia FreeHand – vector graphics editor
Paintbrush – free simple bitmap graphics program
Photos – official photo management and editing application developed by Apple
Photo Booth – photo camera, video recorder
Pixelmator – hardware-accelerated integrated photo editor
Polarr – photo editing app
Seashore – open source, based around the GIMP's technology, but with native macOS (Cocoa) UI

Discontinued
Aperture – Apple's pro photo management, editing, publishing application
MacPaint – painting software by Apple (discontinued)

Integrated software technologies 

Finder
Path Finder
QuickTime
Terminal
X11.app

Language and reference tools
Cram (software)
Dictionary (software)
Encyclopædia Britannica
Rosetta Stone (software) – proprietary language learning software
Ultralingua – proprietary electronic dictionaries and language tools
World Book Encyclopedia – multimedia

Mathematics software
Fityk
Grapher
Maple (software)
Mathematica
MATLAB
MathMagic
Octave (software) – open source
R (programming language)
Sysquake
SciLab – open source

Media center
Boxee – Mac and Apple TV
Front Row
Mira
MythTV
SageTV
Plex
Kodi

Multimedia authoring
Adobe Director – animation/application development
Adobe Flash – vector animation
Adobe LiveMotion – a discontinued competitor to Flash, until Adobe bought Macromedia
Apple Media Tool – a discontinued multimedia authoring tool published by Apple
Dragonframe - stop motion animation and time-lapse
iBooks Author – created interactive books for Apple Books (discontinued)
iLife – media suite by Apple
Unity – 3D authoring

Networking and telecommunications
Apple Remote Desktop
Google Earth
iStumbler – find wireless networks and devices 
Karelia Watson (defunct)
KisMAC
Little Snitch – network monitor and outgoing connection firewall
NetSpot – software tool for wireless network assessment, scanning, and surveys, analyzing Wi-Fi coverage and performance
Timbuktu – remote control
WiFi Explorer – a wireless network scanner tool

News aggregators

Feedly – news aggregator, and news aggregator reading application
NetNewsWire – news aggregator reading application
NewsFire – news aggregator reading application
RSSOwl – news aggregator reading application
Safari (web browser) - news aggregation via built-in RSS support
Apple Mail – news aggregation via (discontinued) built-in RSS support

Office and productivity
AbiWord
Adobe Acrobat
Address Book – bundled with macOS
AppleWorks – word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation applications (discontinued)
Banktivity – personal finance, budgeting, investments
Bean (word processor) – free TXT/RTF/DOC word processor
Celtx
Collabora Online enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice
CricketGraph – graphmaker
Delicious Library
FileMaker
FlowVella
Fortora Fresh Finance
Helix (database)
iBank – personal finance application
iCal – calendar management, bundled with macOS
iWork – suite:
Pages – word processor application
Numbers – spreadsheet application
Keynote – presentation application
Journler – diary and personal information manager with personal wiki features
KOffice
LibreOffice
MacLinkPlus Deluxe – file format translation tool for PowerPC-era Mac OS X, converting and opening files created in other operating systems 
Mellel
Microsoft Office – office suite:
Microsoft Word – word processor application
Microsoft Excel – spreadsheet application
Microsoft PowerPoint – presentation application
Microsoft Entourage – email application (replaced by Microsoft Outlook)
Microsoft Outlook – email application
Microsoft OneNote – note-taking application
MoneyWiz – personal finance application
Montage – screenwriting software
NeoOffice
Nisus Writer
OmniFocus
OpenOffice.org
WriteNow
Taste – word processor (discontinued)

Operating systems

Darwin – the BSD-licensed core of macOS
macOS – originally named "Mac OS X" until 2012 and then "OS X" until 2016
macOS Server – the server computing variant of macOS

Outliners and mind-mapping
FreeMind
Mindjet
OmniOutliner
OmniGraffle
XMind

Peer-to-peer file sharing
aMule
BitTorrent client
FrostWire
LimeWire
Poisoned
rTorrent
Transmission (BitTorrent)
μTorrent
Vuze – Bittorrent client, was Azureus

Science
Celestia – 3D astronomy program
SimThyr – Simulation system for thyroid homeostasis
Stellarium – 3D astronomy program

Text editors

ACE
Aquamacs
BBEdit
BBEdit Lite
Coda
Emacs
jEdit
iA Writer
Komodo Edit
Nano
SimpleText
Smultron
SubEthaEdit
TeachText
TextEdit
TextMate
TextWrangler
vim
XEmacs
Ulysses

Utilities
Activity Monitor – default system monitor for hardware and software
AppZapper – uninstaller (shareware)
Automator – built-in, utility to automate repetitive tasks
Butler – free, launcher and utility to automate repetitive tasks
CleanGenius – free system optimization tool for macOS, disk cleaner, uninstaller, device ejector, disk monitor. (freeware)
CandyBar – system customization software (commercial)
CDFinder – disk cataloging software (commercial)
DaisyDisk – disk visualization tool
Dashboard – built-in macOS widgets
Grab (software) – built-in macOS screenshot utility
Growl – global notifications system, free
iSync – syncing software, bundled with Mac OS X up to 10.6
LaunchBar – provides instant access to local data, search engines and more by entering abbreviations of search item names, commercial
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing – proprietary, typing tutor
OnyX – a freeware system maintenance and optimization tool for macOS
Quicksilver – a framework for accessing and manipulating many forms of data
Screen Sharing
SheepShaver – PowerPC emulator, allows, among other things, running Mac OS 9 on Intel Macs
Sherlock – file searching (version 2), web services (version 3)
Stickies – put Post-It Note-like notes on the desktop
System Preferences – default Mac system option application
UUTool – uuencoded/uudecode and other transcoding
Xsan – storage network utility
Yahoo! Widget Engine – JavaScript-based widget system

Support for non-Macintosh software
Bochs
Boot Camp – a multi-boot utility built into macOS from 10.5
CrossOver – commercial implementation of Wine
DOSBox – DOS emulator
Hercules emulator
pcAnywhere – VNC-style remote control
Parallels Workstation – commercial full virtualization software for desktop and server
Q – emulates an IBM-compatible PC on a Mac, allows running PC operating systems
VMware – virtualization software
Wine – Windows API reimplementation
Virtual PC – full virtualization software allows running other operating systems, such as Windows and Linux, on PowerPC Macs (discontinued in 2007)
VirtualBox
vMac – emulates a Macintosh Plus and can run Apple Macintosh System versions 1.1 to 7.5.5.

Video
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Presenter Video Express
ArKaos – VJ software
Avid
DaVinci Resolve – Video Editing Suite
DivX
DivX Player
DVD Player (Apple) – DVD player software built into macOS
FFmpeg – audio/video converter
Final Cut Express
Final Cut Studio – audio-video editing suite:
Apple Qmaster
Cinema Tools
Compressor
DVD Studio Pro
Final Cut Pro
LiveType
Motion 2
Soundtrack Pro
HandBrake – DVD to MPEG-4 and other formats converter
iMovie – basic video editing application
Miro Media Player
MPlayer
Perian
QuickTime – including its Player and QuickTime Pro
RealPlayer
Shotcut - An open source rich video editor
Shake
Windows Media Player
VLC media player
4K Video Downloader – free video downloader

Web browsers

Amaya – free
Camino – open source
Flock – free, Mozilla Firefox based
Google Chrome – free,  proprietary
iCab – free
Konqueror – open source
Lynx – free
Mozilla – open source, combines browser, email client, WYSIWYG editor
Mozilla Firefox – open source
Microsoft Edge  – free
Netscape Navigator – free,  proprietary
OmniWeb – free,  proprietary
Opera – free
Safari (web browser) – built-in from Mac OS X 10.3, available as a separate download for Mac OS X 10.2
SeaMonkey – open source Internet application suite
Shiira – open source
Sleipnir – free, by Fenrir Inc
Tor (anonymity network) – free, open source
Torch (web browser) – free, by Torch Media Inc.
Internet Explorer for Mac – free, by Microsoft
WebKit – Safari application framework, also in the form of an application

Web design and content management
Adobe Contribute
Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe GoLive
Claris Homepage
Coda
Freeway
iWeb
NVu
RapidWeaver – a template-based website editor

Weblog clients
ecto
MarsEdit

See also
List of Macintosh software published by Microsoft
List of Unix commands

References

List of Macintosh software
Macintosh