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Browse 101 published Mac apps in Writing.

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101 apps

Synalyze It! Pro

Synalyze It! Pro

Synalyze It! is not only a hex editor for macOS that opens any binary file of any size but gives you powerful tools for file analysis and reverse engineering.

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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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Prefs Editor

Prefs Editor

Graphical user interface for the 'defaults' command

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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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SSH Config Editor

SSH Config Editor

Editor for SSH config and known_hosts files with many helpers.

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Supernotes

Supernotes

The fastest way to take notes and collaborate with friends. Create notecards with Markdown, LaTeX, images, emojis and more. Get started for free!

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TextExpander

TextExpander

TextExpander is the most popular text replacement and shortcut app. Generate custom word, sentence, and paragraph text with keyboard shortcuts.

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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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Tiled

Tiled

Flexible level editor

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Radial

Radial

A powerful radial (pie) menu for macOS. Build macros and automations from shortcuts, scripts, text snippets, and more, then trigger them instantly with a single gesture. A modern Pieoneer alternative.

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Muesli

Muesli

Muesli is an open-source Mac app for local speech-to-text, dictation, and meeting transcription on Apple Silicon with Parakeet and Whisper.

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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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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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SmoothCSV

SmoothCSV

SmoothCSV is the ultimate CSV editor for macOS, Windows, and Linux — open huge files in seconds and edit with a familiar spreadsheet UI.

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TypeIt4Me

TypeIt4Me

Check out TypeIt4Me, the original text expander for Mac. Buy version 7 from the Mac App Store for an affordable one-time fee. No subscription.

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Table Tool

Table Tool

A simple CSV editor for the Mac. Contribute to jakob/TableTool development by creating an account on GitHub.

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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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Goxel

Goxel

Open Source Voxel Editor

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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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Jaikoz

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

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Mp3tag

Mp3tag

Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor for Mac. It supports editing of metadata and cover art for many different audio and video formats (MP3, MP4, FLAC, WAV, ...), file renaming, metadata import and repeatable actions.

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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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Easydict

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.

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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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Pulse SMS

Pulse SMS

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

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Stringz

Stringz

A lightweight and powerful editor for localizing iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS applications. - heysem-useinsider/Stringz

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Spokenly

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.

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Glyphs

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.

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Aurora HDR

Aurora HDR

Compare Skylum's Aurora HDR and Luminar Neo with our guide. Explore their interfaces, features, and decide which photo editor suits your needs best.

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Poedit

Poedit

Professional translation editor for PO, XLIFF, JSON, Qt and Flutter with machine translation, pre-translation and smart editing tools.

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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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Open Data Editor

Open Data Editor

Find errors in your datasets quickly, and learn useful data skills on the go.

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Focused

Focused

The distraction-free markdown editor designed for Mac.

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Clearance

Clearance

Clearance product workspace: a monorepo for the Markdown viewer, currently shipping a native Swift/macOS app with structure for future shared Tauri implementations on Windows, Linux, and Android. - clearance/apps/macos/README.md at main · prime-radiant-inc/clearance

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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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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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MiaoYan

MiaoYan

轻灵的 Markdown 笔记本伴你写出妙言~

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ApE (A Plasmid Editor)

ApE (A Plasmid Editor)

Software for DNA sequence analysis and annotation

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ocenaudio

ocenaudio

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

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Texifier

Texifier

LaTeX editor for macOS, iOS and Windows with syntax highlighting, multi-file support and integrated PDF (formerly called Texpad)

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