Writing Mac Apps
Browse 101 published Mac apps in Writing.
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MiaoYan
轻灵的 Markdown 笔记本伴你写出妙言~
iA Presenter
Write it. Show it. Rock it. A fresh, fast and fun way to create and hold presentations.
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.
RoboFont
RoboFont, The UFO Editor You Have Been Waiting For
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.
Grammarly Desktop
Download Grammarly for your desktop to improve your writing in your apps, your browser, and your word processor.
VoodooPad
VoodooPad is a place to write down your notes and thoughts. Ideas, images, lists, passwords, your mom's apple pie recipe. Include anything you need to keep track of and organize, and VoodooPad will grow with you without getting in the way.
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.
010 Editor
010 Editor | Pro Text/Hex Editor | Edit 200+ Formats | Reverse Engineering | Data Analysis
Marked
Marked 3 is a native macOS app for live Markdown preview, proofreading, and export to PDF, HTML, DOCX, EPUB, and more.
Pacifist
Extract files and folders from package files, disk images, and archives
BirdFont
Font editor
Bike
Use Bike to think, write, organize. Make lists, take notes, create documents. Bike's an unusually fast writing app designed for your Mac.
Tablecruncher
This free and powerful CSV editor helps you crunch all your tabular data. On Windows, macOS and Linux.
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.
TaskPaper
App to make lists and help with organisation
TRex
Copy any text on your screen, stop retyping. Contribute to amebalabs/TRex development by creating an account on GitHub.
Essayist
Create properly formatted academic papers with built-in APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard styles, citation management, automatic bibliographies, and Apple device sync.
XMLMind XML Editor
A strictly validating, near WYSIWYG, DocBook editor, DITA editor, MathML editor, XHTML editor, XML editor, aimed at technical writers. Because XMLmind XML Editor is highly extensible, it may be also be used to create documents conforming to your own custom schema.
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
Copilot for Xcode
The first GitHub Copilot, Codeium and ChatGPT Xcode Source Editor Extension - intitni/CopilotForXcode
Handy
Handy is a cross platform, open-source, speech-to-text application for your computer
Bunch
Your new favorite way to automate macOS. Bunch uses plain text files to launch applications, perform system tasks, run scripts, and automate everything.
Plover
Plover, free open source stenography software, allows anyone to write at over 200 words per minute.
Inky
As used to author Heaven's Vault, 80 Days and Sorcery!: produce interactive scripts by writing in pure-text with ink markup.
EnzymeX
The award winning EnzymeX app helps molecular biologists to visualize and edit their DNA sequence files.
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.
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.
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.
DMG Canvas
DMG Canvas is a visual layout editor and automated building tool for disk images (.dmg files).
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.
PopClip
Instant text actions for macOS
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.
eXeLearning
Tu editor de recursos educativos interactivos gratuito y de código abierto eXeLearning es una herramienta libre y gratuita que permite crear recursos
CodeEdit
A lightweight, natively built editor. Open source. Free forever.
Kdenlive
Kdenlive is the acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor. It works on Linux, Windows, macOS, and BSD.
MarkEdit
Just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown. - MarkEdit-app/MarkEdit
Prizmo
Prizmo is a pro scanning app for Mac including text recognition (OCR) in many languages with powerful editing capability, text-to-speech, and PDF / DOCX export.
ludwig
The English Writing enhancement platform that helps you find the best words from the best sources
TextMate
General-purpose text editor