Productivity Mac Apps
Browse 65 published Mac apps in Productivity.
Productivity
65 apps
Tropy
Tropy is free open-source software that allows you to organize and describe photographs of research material.
TriliumNext Notes
Documentation for TriliumNext
Mubu
幕布是一款大纲笔记和思维导图结合的笔记工具,通过树形结构来更清晰更高效的记录笔记,还可绘制思维导图、逻辑图、组织结构图、时间轴、树形图等多种图形。在记录学习笔记、备考资料、管理任务、制定计划清单时,还可实现团队间的实时协作和共享,提升团队工作效率。
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!
Readwise iBooks
Grow wiser and retain books better: Readwise sends you a daily email resurfacing your best highlights from Kindle, Instapaper, iBooks, and more.
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.
WLJS Notebook
Javascript frontend for Wolfram Engine
Nuclino
A modern, simple, and blazingly fast way to collaborate – bring knowledge, docs, and projects together in one place.
ReadCube Papers
Need literature management for your research driven company? ReadCube helps your company discover, organize, read, annotate, share and cite.
Standard Notes
Standard Notes helps you gain control in a world that often feels out of control. Protect your life's work with end-to-end encryption, advanced security measures, and unmatched privacy controls.
MindManager
Powerful and flexible mind mapping software by MindManager. Try the full version of MindManager FREE for 30 days. No credit card required.
Synology Note Station Client
Note Station helps you fully enjoy writing, viewing, managing, and sharing content-rich notes. It is very easy to create content with rich text editing, media embedding, attachments, and much more. Manage your notes by using tags and grouping notes into Notebooks. When you are ready, Note Station makes sharing your content via social networking platforms simple and quick. Create, share, and enjoy!
Beaver Notes
Privacy-focused note-taking app
DEVONthink
DEVONthink is an application for professional document and information management on Mac and iOS.
Antinote
Capture temporary notes and calculations in a lightweight scratchpad with checklists, timers, OCR, Markdown, export tools, and optional encrypted iCloud sync.
Tinderbox
Tool to take, visualise and analyze notes
Joplin
Joplin, the open source note-taking application
Elephas
Elephas is a Mac knowledge assistant that helps you capture, organize, and access information right from your computer. It has Super Brain, which builds your personal knowledge base using documents, notes, and web content. The tool works with multiple AI providers like OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini, and runs completely offline to keep your data private. You get AI Workflows for handling multistep tasks, web search built in, and smart writing features that work across all your Mac apps. Elephas offers different rewrite modes, grammar fixes, smart replies, and personalized tones that match how you write. It handles file formats like CSV, JSON, and PDF. The tool also works on iOS devices and lets you automate tasks with snippets for faster work.
Alternote
Alternote is a note-taking app for Mac OS X. Alternote is an alternative Evernote client for Mac with Markdown support. Alternote has wonderful interface and is extremely fast.
Evernote
Our note taking app helps you capture and prioritize ideas, projects and to-do lists, so nothing falls through the cracks. Start your free trial today!
Freeplane
Mind mapping and knowledge management software
Octarine
Private, markdown-based note-taking app with a focus on speed, simplicity and data ownership. Write faster, think clearer.
Slab
Discover why our easy creation, organization, and numerous integrations, make us so popular with non-technical and tech-savvy teams alike.
MWeb Pro
Markdown writing, note taking, and static blog generator app
BibDesk
BibDesk project web page
MarginNote
MarginNote: highlight PDFs → auto-generate cards → organize in a mind map → FSRS-style review. 13 years of iteration (since MN1 in 2013), 188K+ App Store ratings. For medical school, graduate exams, research, law, and other long-term reading work.
Platinum Notes
Ultimate Audio Enhancer for your music collection. Improve your music with one-click and play your best DJ set. Version 10 available now.
nimblenote
Keyboard-driven note taking
Hepta
Heptabase is an intelligent, visual knowledge base built for students, researchers, and lifelong learners.
SiYuan
A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang. - siyuan-note/siyuan
Bookends
Reference management and bibliography software
SourceNote
A notes app for peace of mind while you work.
Heynote
A dedicated scratchpad for developers.
FSNotes
Notes manager
Pile
Desktop app for reflective journaling, open-source and free.
Obsidian
The free and flexible app for your private thoughts.
Keep It
Keep It for Mac. Powerful notebook and document organizer.
Hook
Search less and focus more. Copy and use clean, robust links to web pages, files, emails, tasks, and more. Use these contextual bookmarks to retrieve information without needing to search or navigate. Just click to get what you need. Download now! Free for basic features. No credit car
Raindrop.io
For your inspiration, read later, media and stuff
Paperpile
Citation plugin for Microsoft Word