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Browse 101 published Mac apps in Writing.

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Pulse SMS

Pulse SMS

Pulse SMS is the ultimate text messenger. For Android, Web, Chrome, and many more!

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Deckset

Deckset

Write down your thoughts in your favourite text editor, and Deckset will turn them into beautiful presentations.

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RevPDF Editor

RevPDF Editor

RevPDF is a free, native, offline PDF editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It requires no account, no internet connection, and no subscription. Edit text and images, auto-redact sensitive content, OCR scanned documents, fill and create forms, compress, split, merge, and convert PDFs entirely on your device. $9.99 one-time on Android and iOS.

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SSH Config Editor

SSH Config Editor

Editor for SSH config and known_hosts files with many helpers.

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Kdenlive

Kdenlive

Kdenlive is the acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor. It works on Linux, Windows, macOS, and BSD.

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Xmplify

Xmplify

MOSO Xmplify is a powerful XML editor built specifically for macOS, with DTD and XML Schema-based auto-completion, automatic document validation, XSLT and XPath support, live HTML preview and much more.

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ocenaudio

ocenaudio

The ocenaudio is a cross-platform audio editor, easy to use, fast and functional.

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Tag Editor

Tag Editor

Batch Tag Editor for Mac allows editing MP3, MP4, WAV, FLAC metadata and artworks, renaming files, downloading tags from online databases, and much more in a simple, fast and flexible way.

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Prefs Editor

Prefs Editor

Graphical user interface for the 'defaults' command

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CodeEdit

CodeEdit

A lightweight, natively built editor. Open source. Free forever.

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Focused

Focused

The distraction-free markdown editor designed for Mac.

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eXeLearning

eXeLearning

Tu editor de recursos educativos interactivos gratuito y de código abierto eXeLearning es una herramienta libre y gratuita que permite crear recursos

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Modern CSV

Modern CSV

Multi-platform CSV file editor and viewer application with powerful editing tools and large file viewing. Edit CSV files for free today.

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Kate

Kate

Kate is a modern text editor built on the KDE Frameworks and Qt.

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SeekFast

SeekFast

Search text in documents and files

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Shotcut

Shotcut

Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux

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TaskPaper

TaskPaper

App to make lists and help with organisation

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RoboFont

RoboFont

RoboFont, The UFO Editor You Have Been Waiting For

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Hex

Hex

Voice-to-text transcription and paste tool

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Zettlr

Zettlr

Your One-Stop Publication Workbench. Author Markdown documents with ease. For researchers, journalists, and writers.

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ZeroBrane Studio

ZeroBrane Studio

ZeroBrane Studio is a lightweight Lua IDE/editor/debugger for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux

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Highland Pro

Highland Pro

Write screenplays, novels, and long-form projects in a focused editor with Fountain formatting, automatic pagination, writing sprints, and iCloud sync.

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Meta

Meta

Meta is a smart music tag editor made to ease the editing of audio metadata. Meta makes your ever-growing music collection easy to manage, and helps you organize files consistently. Built for DJs, audio-enthusiasts, musicians, podcasters, and all music fans.

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Essayist

Essayist

Create properly formatted academic papers with built-in APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard styles, citation management, automatic bibliographies, and Apple device sync.

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EnzymeX

EnzymeX

The award winning EnzymeX app helps molecular biologists to visualize and edit their DNA sequence files.

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TRex

TRex

Copy any text on your screen, stop retyping. Contribute to amebalabs/TRex development by creating an account on GitHub.

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MACE

MACE

M.A.C.E. (Mac Advanced Compliance Editor) is a modern macOS app to simplify compliance baseline creation, auditing, and management using NIST's mSCP 2.0 - MACE-App/MACE

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Winx HD Video Converter

Winx HD Video Converter

WinX HD Video Converter for Mac is an all-in-one video converter that can convert videos to MOV, MP4, AVI, WMV, AVCHD, M2TS, MKV, MTS, FLV as well as transfer videos to iPhone iPad, Apple TV, Android, Chromecast. Also a video compressor, editor, and recorder.

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Pacifist

Pacifist

Extract files and folders from package files, disk images, and archives

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Recut

Recut

Remove silence from your videos automatically. The fastest way to edit video on Mac and Windows.

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MacDown 3000

MacDown 3000

MacDown 3000 - A free, open source Markdown editor for macOS with live preview, syntax highlighting, GitHub Flavored Markdown, and Apple Silicon optimization. Download the best lightweight Markdown editor for Mac.

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Handy

Handy

Handy is a cross platform, open-source, speech-to-text application for your computer

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File Juicer

File Juicer

File Juicer extracts images, audio, video and text from PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and other files on macOS. Also recovers photos from memory cards, browser caches and damaged disk images.

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Dockside

Dockside

Dockside for Mac: native file shelf and Dock companion beside your Dock—staging for files, folders, links, apps, and text; recent screenshots & downloads; folder watch and drop zones. Apple Notarized, offline, macOS 13+. 14-day trial; $5.99 lifetime.

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Twobird

Twobird

Discover your new all-purpose inbox. Write emails, create notes, set reminders and assign to-dos—your everyday tools, in Twobird.

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CodeRunner

CodeRunner

A lightweight, multi-language programming text editor and IDE for macOS.

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Scrivener

Scrivener

Writing software for long-form projects: organise research, outline, draft in any order and compile to Word, PDF, Final Draft or ebook formats. Used by novelists, screenwriters, academics and non-fiction writers.

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GhostPepper

GhostPepper

100% private on-device voice models for speech-to-text and meeting transcription on macOS - matthartman/ghost-pepper

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AW EDID Editor

AW EDID Editor

AW EDID Editor can help systems integrators and AV professionals to set the preferred format of any input or to solve compatibility issues they may encounter with the sources connected to any Aquilon series, Alta 4K series and Midra 4K series (resolution problems, audio support...).

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Numi

Numi

Beautiful calculator for Mac, Windows and Linux that blends math with text. Currency, units, time zones, numeral systems, variables, export, notification widget.

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