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1Password

AgileBits Inc. (1Password) · Secrets management

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Password and secrets manager for individuals, families and businesses with end-to-end encrypted vaults, passkeys, an SSH agent and a developer CLI

ProprietaryPaidEnterpriseLocalNov 2, 2026

Apple Notes

Apple Inc. · Personal knowledge management

Apple's built-in notes app for Mac, iPhone, iPad and iCloud.com with folders, tags, attachments, handwriting, shared notes and on-device search

ProprietaryFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Bear

Shiny Frog Ltd. · Personal knowledge management

Markdown note-taking app for Mac, iPhone and iPad from Shiny Frog with nested tags, note links and iCloud sync, free with a Pro subscription

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

Claude Code

Anthropic · Coding agents & AI IDEs

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Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads a codebase, edits files and runs commands from the terminal, IDEs, a desktop app, the web and CI, with MCP, hooks, skills and subagents

ProprietaryPaidUsage-basedLocalNov 2, 2026

Craft

Craft Docs Ltd. · Personal knowledge management

Block-based document and notes app with native Apple, Windows and web clients, structured pages, collections and shareable published documents

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

Cursor

Anysphere · Coding agents & AI IDEs

AI-native code editor from Anysphere, forked from VS Code, with inline edits, codebase-aware chat and agent mode that can run multi-step changes

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

Foundation Models (Apple)

Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX

Apple's Swift framework giving apps access to the on-device Apple Intelligence language model with guided generation, tool calling and sessions, on OS 26 and later

ProprietaryFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

LM Studio

Element Labs, Inc. · Local LLM inference & serving

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Proprietary desktop app for discovering, downloading and running local LLMs with llama.cpp and MLX engines, a chat UI, an OpenAI-compatible server, CLI, SDKs and a headless daemon

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalBroken

MATLAB

MathWorks · Mathematical & statistical computing

MathWorks' commercial numeric computing environment and language for engineers and scientists, with toolboxes, Simulink integration, apps and MATLAB Online

ProprietaryPaidAcademicLocalNov 2, 2026

Obsidian

Dynalist Inc. (Obsidian) · Personal knowledge management

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Local-first Markdown note-taking app with bidirectional links, graph view and a large community plugin ecosystem; optional paid Sync and Publish

ProprietaryFreePaidLocalBroken

Ollama

Ollama · Local LLM inference & serving

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Open-source runtime and model manager for running open-weight LLMs locally on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a REST API, OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints and optional cloud models

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Postman

Postman, Inc. · API development & tooling

Commercial API platform for designing, testing, documenting and monitoring HTTP and other APIs through a desktop and web client with cloud-synced workspaces

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

Raycast

Raycast Technologies Ltd · macOS system utilities

Extensible launcher for macOS (with Windows and iOS versions) combining app search, clipboard history, snippets, window management and a store of community extensions

MixedFreemiumPaidLocalBroken

Tableau

Salesforce · BI & dashboards

Salesforce's visual analytics platform: Tableau Desktop authoring (now with a free edition), Tableau Cloud and Server for sharing, and Tableau Next for CRM analytics

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Tailscale

Tailscale Inc. · Tunneling & remote access

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WireGuard-based mesh overlay network with a hosted coordination service, identity-provider login, access policies, MagicDNS and features such as Tailscale SSH, Serve and Funnel

BSD-3-ClauseFreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

TestFlight

Apple Inc. · Swift & SwiftUI development

Apple's beta distribution service for sharing pre-release iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS and visionOS builds with internal and external testers through App Store Connect

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

Things

Cultured Code GmbH & Co. KG · Productivity suites & task management

Personal task manager for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro from Cultured Code, sold as one-time purchases with free Things Cloud sync

ProprietaryPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

Visual Studio Code

Microsoft · IDEs & editors

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Free, extensible code editor from Microsoft with a large extension marketplace, integrated terminal, debugging, remote development and built-in AI assistance

MITFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Warp

Warp (Denver Technologies) · Terminals & shells

Commercial terminal built in Rust that groups output into blocks, adds an IDE-style input editor and integrates AI agents for command generation and debugging

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

Wolfram Mathematica

Wolfram Research · Mathematical & statistical computing

Wolfram Research's proprietary technical computing system built on the Wolfram Language, with notebooks, symbolic and numeric computation, visualization, machine learning and curated data

ProprietaryPaidAcademicLocalNov 2, 2026

Zed

Zed Industries · IDEs & editors

Native, GPU-rendered code editor written in Rust by Zed Industries, with built-in collaboration, language servers and optional AI assistance

GPL-3.0-or-laterOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Zotero

Corporation for Digital Scholarship · Citation management

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Free, open-source reference manager with browser connectors, word-processor plugins, a PDF reader, group libraries and optional paid file storage

AGPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

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