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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

Alfred

Running with Crayons Ltd · macOS system utilities

macOS launcher and productivity app whose paid Powerpack adds workflows, clipboard history, snippets and custom searches

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalNov 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

AppleScript

Apple Inc. · macOS automation

Apple's English-like scripting language that drives scriptable macOS applications through Apple events, run from Script Editor, osascript or other automation tools

ProprietaryFreeLocalMaintenanceNov 2, 2026

Automator

Apple Inc. · macOS automation

Apple's long-standing drag-and-drop workflow builder for macOS that produces apps, Quick Actions, folder actions and calendar-triggered automations

ProprietaryFreeLocalMaintenanceNov 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

In-depth entry

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

Create ML

Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX

Apple's app and Swift framework for training image, text, sound, tabular and activity models on a Mac without writing training code, exporting directly to Core ML

ProprietaryFreeLocalNov 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

Keyboard Maestro

Stairways Software Pty Ltd · macOS automation

Commercial macOS macro application that runs sequences of actions from hotkeys, typed strings, application, time, device and system triggers

ProprietaryPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

LM Studio

Element Labs, Inc. · Local LLM inference & serving

In-depth entry

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

In-depth entry

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

ProprietaryFreePaidLocalBroken

OrbStack

OrbStack (Orbital Labs) · Containers & virtualization

macOS application that runs Docker containers, Linux machines and a local Kubernetes cluster as a lighter replacement for Docker Desktop

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalNov 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

Shortcuts

Apple Inc. · macOS automation

Apple's built-in visual automation app for macOS, iOS and iPadOS that chains app actions, scripts and system functions into runnable shortcuts

ProprietaryFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Stata

StataCorp LLC · Mathematical & statistical computing

Commercial statistical software from StataCorp widely used in economics and social science, with editions BE/SE/MP, a command language, Mata and comprehensive PDF manuals

ProprietaryPaidAcademicLocalNov 2, 2026

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

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

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

Xcode

Apple Inc. · Swift & SwiftUI development

In-depth entry

Apple's integrated development environment and toolchain for building, debugging, testing and submitting apps for iOS, macOS and other Apple platforms

ProprietaryFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

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