editor
CalibRaw
DueckiNon-destructive RAW photo editing. Adjustments are stored as parameters so the original file is never changed and edits can be reverted or saved alongside, covering colour, exposure, curves and lens correction. It suits post-processing that involves many rounds of adjustment without duplicating files.
VNote
vnotexA pleasant note-taking platform with native speed, majoring in Markdown, MindMap, Typst, and plain text.
MiaoYan
tw93A quiet, local-first Markdown writing app for the Mac. Notes stay as plain text on disk with syntax highlighting, preview, tags and full-text search, and the restrained interface keeps attention on the sentences. It suits long writing sessions away from cloud sync and feature clutter.
novelWriter
saga-softAn open-source plain-text editor designed for writing novels. Manuscript and notes stay as plain text, tags track characters, places and plot threads, and long works are organised by chapter with manuscript export. It suits novelists who need consistency across many documents.
lossless-cut
mifiA lossless video and audio cutter. Working through ffmpeg it cuts at keyframes without re-encoding, so a large file can be trimmed in seconds with no change in quality, and multiple segments can be marked on the timeline and exported in one pass. It suits pulling clips out of recordings and dropping the rest.
NotepadNext
dail8859A cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++ built with Qt, bringing a familiar editing experience to macOS and Linux. It supports multiple tabs, syntax highlighting, find and replace, macros and plugins, which suits people coming from Windows who are used to how Notepad++ works.
AuroraEditor
AuroraEditorAurora Editor is a IDE built by the community, for the community, and written in Swift for the best native performance and feel for macOS.