Productivity Mac Apps

Jami

Jami - the distributed and open source communication platform

Jitsi Meet

Jitsi Meet desktop application powered by :electron: - jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron

Twine

Tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories

Harper is a blazing-fast, open-source grammar & spell checker that runs entirely on your device, covering US, UK, Canadian, Australian & Indian English—no data ever leaves your machine. Harper is the only grammar checker that doesn

Mozilla Thunderbird

Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!

Telegram for macOS

Experience Telegram on your mac in a swift and seamless way.

Quiet

Private, p2p alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor & IPFS

Buzz

Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper. - chidiwilliams/buzz

Pile

Desktop app for reflective journaling, open-source and free.

Tasks & ProjectsOpen Source

Huly

Huly, an open-source platform, serves as an all-in-one replacement of Linear, Jira, Slack, and Notion.

MiKTeX

TeX distribution

BibDesk

BibDesk project web page

Stirling-PDF

GitHub's #1 PDF application with 30M+ downloads. Private, open-source, and built to scale.

Time, Focus & HabitsOpen Source

TimeScribe

Track working hours, breaks, projects, and overtime locally on your device with TimeScribe. Free, open source, offline, and available for macOS and Windows.

TypeWhisper

Speech-to-text and AI text processing

Calendar & SchedulingOpen Source

Hovrly

Best partner for disctributed teams

JabRef

A free reference manager that helps you to discover, collect, organize and cite your scholarly literature and research in an efficient way.

Tasks & ProjectsOpen Source

sleek

todo.txt manager for Linux, Windows and MacOS, free and open-source (FOSS) - ransome1/sleek

SelfControl

SelfControl is a free Mac app that helps you avoid distracting websites. Block your own access to websites or mail servers for a pre-set length of time.

Time, Focus & HabitsOpen Source

Heynote

A dedicated scratchpad for developers.

Outline

A modern team knowledge base for your internal documentation, product specs, support answers, meeting notes, onboarding, & more...

Adium

Instant messaging application

Notesnook

Express yourself with freedom, no spying, no tracking — only private notes. Unlike Evernote and other note apps, your data is private — not open for everyone to see.

ONLYOFFICE

ONLYOFFICE offers a secure online office suite highly compatible with MS Office formats. Connect it to your web platform for document editing and collaboration or use as a part of ONLYOFFICE Workspace.

Whispering

Audio transcription that works with local and cloud models

Proton Mail

Proton Mail is the world’s largest secure email service with over 100 million users. Available on Web, iOS, Android, and desktop. Protected by Swiss privacy law.

Tropy

Tropy is free open-source software that allows you to organize and describe photographs of research material.

October

Getting highlights off of your Kobo is very fiddly on a technical level. October is a community-driven desktop application that makes it really simple to send them to Readwise. 100% open source with support for Windows, macOS and Linux!

Linphone

Software for communication systems developers

Meru

Tired of losing your inbox in browser tabs? Meru brings Gmail to your fingertips as a desktop app. Open-source and cross-platform.

Threema

The secure instant messenger from Switzerland. GDPR-compliant messaging for individuals and organizations that value privacy, security and data protection.