Writing Mac Apps
Browse 102 published Mac apps in Writing.
Writing
102 apps
CodeRunner
A lightweight, multi-language programming text editor and IDE for macOS.
ScreenKite
The screen recorder for people who ship. Fast & native macOS, no subscription. Auto-zoom, built-in editor, Metal-accelerated export. Free.
CodeEdit
A lightweight, natively built editor. Open source. Free forever.
BirdFont
Font editor
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.
ApE (A Plasmid Editor)
Software for DNA sequence analysis and annotation
Astro Editor
Astro Editor is a native, distraction-free markdown editor that reads your Astro content collection schemas and turns frontmatter into clean, schema-aware forms. For writer mode, not coder mode.
Kdenlive
Kdenlive is the acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor. It works on Linux, Windows, macOS, and BSD.
Tiled
Flexible level editor
Aquamacs
An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, R, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more... Aquamacs is a modern editor based on GNU Emacs. Read more. Download Aquamacs Emacs 3.6 for Mac OS 10.11 (El Capitan) or later The alpha 2 release of Aquamacs 4, based on Emacs 29.4, is now available. It is a universal binary, with support for both Apple Silicon (M-series) and Intel CPUs. See the release notes for details and a download link.
RoboFont
RoboFont, The UFO Editor You Have Been Waiting For
ocenaudio
The ocenaudio is a cross-platform audio editor, easy to use, fast and functional.
Glyphs
Glyphs 3 is a Mac font editor that puts you in control: quickly draw high-precision vectors, efficiently reuse shapes, and easily manage any number of letters, figures and symbols.
Bunch
Your new favorite way to automate macOS. Bunch uses plain text files to launch applications, perform system tasks, run scripts, and automate everything.
ProWritingAid
Your personal writing coach. A grammar checker, style editor, and writing mentor in one package. The best writing depends on much more than good grammar.
ludwig
The English Writing enhancement platform that helps you find the best words from the best sources
Jaikoz
Jaikoz is a powerful, yet easy-to-use audio tag editor. It has been built from the ground up to support large music collections
Marked
Marked 3 is a native macOS app for live Markdown preview, proofreading, and export to PDF, HTML, DOCX, EPUB, and more.
Curio
The all-in-one notebook for Mac: Markdown notes with wikilinks, mind maps, tasks, Kanban boards, and visual brainstorming. Try free for 2 weeks.
Table Tool
A simple CSV editor for the Mac. Contribute to jakob/TableTool development by creating an account on GitHub.
PDFExtractor
PDFExtractor, the OSX and Windows utility to extract images, text & fonts from PDFs. Extract images, text & fonts from your PDFs in a blink.
Bike
Use Bike to think, write, organize. Make lists, take notes, create documents. Bike's an unusually fast writing app designed for your Mac.
Supernotes
The fastest way to take notes and collaborate with friends. Create notecards with Markdown, LaTeX, images, emojis and more. Get started for free!
Pulse SMS
Pulse SMS is the ultimate text messenger. For Android, Web, Chrome, and many more!
Prefs Editor
Graphical user interface for the 'defaults' command
Spokenly
Free dictation app for Mac, iPhone, Windows, and Linux. Speak in any app and get accurate text from local Whisper or modern cloud models. 100+ languages, offline.
SSH Config Editor
Editor for SSH config and known_hosts files with many helpers.
Posture Pal
Posture Pal is a fun, playful but most of all effective way to improve your posture by simply wearing your AirPods.No graphs, no alerts, no notifications or complicated screens to remind you to sit up straight. Just start the app, and then forget about it, because Rafi the giraffe will pop up its head when you need a little reminder.You can choose from three friendly characters, Rafi the Giraffe, Haru the Monkey and Paca the Alpaca!- Change the sensitivity based on how early you want to be warned- Set an alert delay to allow for some breathing room before warnings- Choose the location of your posture palI think it's a great way to show people what more their AirPods can do. A simple but effective app that hopefully brings a smile to the your face while you work on better posture!Posture Pal supports AirPods (3rd Generation), AirPods Pro, AirPods Max and Beats Fit Pro. Other headphones that can send motion data to your iPhone can also work. If they support Spatial Audio they will probably work!👨💻 Check out my other macOS utilities:Voices - High Quality Text to Speech with OpenAIMacWhisper - Industry Leading transcription with OpenAI's Whisper locally on your MacMacGPT - Use ChatGPT on your Mac and from your menubarText Assistant - Generate useful text and manage your prompts with GPT and your own OpenAPI keyVivid - Double the brightness of your MacBook Pro by always using HDR modeForehead - Hide the Notch and round your MacBook cornersCooldown - Quickly toggle Low Power Mod
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.
Muesli
Muesli is an open-source Mac app for local speech-to-text, dictation, and meeting transcription on Apple Silicon with Parakeet and Whisper.
Easydict
一个简洁优雅的词典翻译 macOS App。开箱即用,支持离线 OCR 识别,支持有道词典,🍎 苹果系统词典,🍎 苹果系统翻译,OpenAI,Gemini,DeepL,Google,Bing,腾讯,百度,阿里,小牛,彩云和火山翻译。A concise and elegant Dictionary and Translator macOS App for looking up words and translating text. - GitHub - tisfeng/Easydict: 一个简洁优雅的词典翻译 macOS App。开箱即用,支持离线 OCR 识别,支持有道词典,🍎 苹果系统词典,🍎 苹果系统翻译,OpenAI,Gemini,DeepL,Google,Bing,腾讯,百度,阿里,小牛,彩云和火山翻译。A concise and elegant Dictionary and Translator macOS App for looking up words and translating text.
Tablecruncher
This free and powerful CSV editor helps you crunch all your tabular data. On Windows, macOS and Linux.
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.
TextExpander
TextExpander is the most popular text replacement and shortcut app. Generate custom word, sentence, and paragraph text with keyboard shortcuts.
Deckset
Write down your thoughts in your favourite text editor, and Deckset will turn them into beautiful presentations.
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...).
Zettlr
Your One-Stop Publication Workbench. Author Markdown documents with ease. For researchers, journalists, and writers.
Copilot for Xcode
The first GitHub Copilot, Codeium and ChatGPT Xcode Source Editor Extension - intitni/CopilotForXcode
TRex
Copy any text on your screen, stop retyping. Contribute to amebalabs/TRex development by creating an account on GitHub.
Mounty for NTFS
Mounty for NTFS - a tiny tool for macOS to re-mount NTFS volumes in read-write mode. Supports macOS 10.9 up to latest versions.