# Best macOS GUI Apps
Unless otherwise stated, all apps are FREE.
# Categories
# Terminals
- Alacritty (opens new window) - Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
# Interface
- Bartender3 (opens new window) ($15) - Organize your menu bar apps.
- Contexts (opens new window) ($10) - Radically simpler & faster window switcher.
- KeyCastr (opens new window) - Open-source keystroke visualizer.
# Development
- Beyond Compare (opens new window) ($60) - Intelligent comparison for files and folders.
- Dash (opens new window) ($25) - Instant offline access to 200+ API documentation sets.
- Docker (opens new window) - Develop Dockerized apps on a Mac.
# Productivity
- Clipy (opens new window) (supersedes ClipMenu (opens new window)) - Clipboard extension app.
- CheatSheet (opens new window) - Hold the ⌘-Key to see shortcuts of the current application.
- Flux (opens new window) - Makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day.
- Karabiner Elements (opens new window) - Powerful and stable keyboard customizer.
- Marked 2 (opens new window) ($14) - Previewer for Markdown files.
- Skim (opens new window) - PDF reader and note-taker.
# Text Editors
- Atom (opens new window) - Hackable text editor for the 21st century.
- GitBook Editor (opens new window) - Write, publish, and collaborate seamlessly.
- iA Writer (opens new window) ($20) - Removes distractions. Giving you a calm, focused, writing space.
- Typora (opens new window) - A truly minimal markdown editor.
- VimR (opens new window) - Refined Neovim experience for macOS.
- Visual Studio Code (opens new window) - Free & cross-platform code editing redefined.
# Image Editors
- Draw.io (opens new window) - Diagrams for everyone, everywhere.
- GIMP (opens new window) - Free & open source image editor.
- Pixelmator (opens new window) ($30) - Powerful, full-featured image editor for Mac.
# Media Recorders
- Audacity (opens new window) - Cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.
- LICEcap (opens new window) - Simple animated screen captures.
# Media Miscellaneous
- ColorDial (opens new window) - Rich and powerful, open-source color wheel/picker.
- Handbrake (opens new window) - Convert video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
- ImageOptim (opens new window) - Saves disk space & bandwidth by compressing images without losing quality.
- Monosnap (opens new window) - Make screenshots, draw on it, shoot video and share your files.