Writing Mac Apps
Browse 102 published Mac apps in Writing.
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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.
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.
Kate
Kate is a modern text editor built on the KDE Frameworks and Qt.
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.
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.
Essayist
Create properly formatted academic papers with built-in APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard styles, citation management, automatic bibliographies, and Apple device sync.
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.
Bunch
Your new favorite way to automate macOS. Bunch uses plain text files to launch applications, perform system tasks, run scripts, and automate everything.
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.

Twobird
Discover your new all-purpose inbox. Write emails, create notes, set reminders and assign to-dos—your everyday tools, in Twobird.
Prefs Editor
Graphical user interface for the 'defaults' command
Grammarly Desktop
Download Grammarly for your desktop to improve your writing in your apps, your browser, and your word processor.
GhostPepper
100% private on-device voice models for speech-to-text and meeting transcription on macOS - matthartman/ghost-pepper
BirdFont
Font editor
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.
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.
TRex
Copy any text on your screen, stop retyping. Contribute to amebalabs/TRex development by creating an account on GitHub.
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.
Pacifist
Extract files and folders from package files, disk images, and archives
TextMate
General-purpose text editor
gifox
Gifox for Mac is a simple GIF maker app to create high-quality animated GIFs from screen and videos – record, convert, capture, edit, compress, optimize.

Pulse SMS
Pulse SMS is the ultimate text messenger. For Android, Web, Chrome, and many more!
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
TextExpander
TextExpander is the most popular text replacement and shortcut app. Generate custom word, sentence, and paragraph text with keyboard shortcuts.
Wondershare PDFelement for Mac
Wondershare PDFelement is a powerful yet easy-to-use PDF editor solution to create, edit, protect, and sign PDFs on desktop, mobile, and web.
Frescobaldi
Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music editor
Tablecruncher
This free and powerful CSV editor helps you crunch all your tabular data. On Windows, macOS and Linux.

MiaoYan
轻灵的 Markdown 笔记本伴你写出妙言~
Handy
Handy is a cross platform, open-source, speech-to-text application for your computer

Espresso
Espresso is the web editor for Mac, more productive than caffeine.
Poedit
Professional translation editor for PO, XLIFF, JSON, Qt and Flutter with machine translation, pre-translation and smart editing tools.
Kdenlive
Kdenlive is the acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor. It works on Linux, Windows, macOS, and BSD.
EnzymeX
The award winning EnzymeX app helps molecular biologists to visualize and edit their DNA sequence files.
jclasslib bytecode viewer
jclasslib bytecode editor is a tool that visualizes all aspects of compiled Java class files and the contained bytecode. - ingokegel/jclasslib
Deckset
Write down your thoughts in your favourite text editor, and Deckset will turn them into beautiful presentations.
Hex
Voice-to-text transcription and paste tool
Recut
Remove silence from your videos automatically. The fastest way to edit video on Mac and Windows.
Nitro PDF Pro
Nitro PDF is a full-featured PDF editor for Windows, macOS, and iOS that enables individuals, teams, and enterprises to create, edit, convert, sign, secure, and automate PDF documents. It includes built-in AI tools, OCR, Smart Redact, fillable form creation, Nitro Analytics, and integrations with Microsoft Office, OneDrive, Dropbox, and other business platforms.
Copilot for Xcode
The first GitHub Copilot, Codeium and ChatGPT Xcode Source Editor Extension - intitni/CopilotForXcode