Free Apps

Here is a list of free OS X applications that I’ve made. This list is by no means complete and will be regularly updated with new freeware. Each application is categorized based on what it is to make it easier to find. Hope this is helpful.

Web Browsing

Mozilla Firefox – Secure Web browser

Opera – Quick and reliable web browser

Google Chrome – A simplistic and thorough internet browser

Camino – Open source web browser

Flock – Social Web Browser

Tools

Dock Dodger – Hide applications from the dock

iStat Pro – System monitoring widget

Paparazzi! – Makes screenshots of webpages

Weathersnitch – Weather forecast in the menubar

Burn – Burning application

Linotype FontExplorer X – Font Manager

iStumbler – Wireless discovery tool

Remote Desktop Connection – quickly, simply and securely connect to Windows-based PCs

Visual NetTools – Set of network scanning, security, and administrator tools

System

MacLoc – Logout without closing applications

Disk Inventory X – View Sizes of files and folders

Caffeine – Prevent your Mac’s screen from dimming

OmniDiskSweeper – Utility for quickly finding and deleting big, useless files

Loginox – Customize your login screen

Superdocker – Modify Your Dock, Dashboard or Safari Loading Bar

Deeper – Reveal Hidden OS X Settings

Onyx – Multifunction Utility (Maintenence, optimization, personalization)

Eversave – Save all documents to avoid data loss

SMART Reporter – System failure prediction

Pref Setter – Edit System Preferences

Mactracker – Provides detailed information on every Apple Macintosh computer ever made

Organization & Management

Monolingual – Remove unwanted language resources

Set Icon – Custom icons for your drives

Spotlook – Graphical interface for spotlight

Punkea – Organize files by tagging and bookmarking

Carbon Copy Cloner – Clone, sync, and backup files

AppFresh – Keep applications up to date

AppCleaner – completely uninstall applications

SpotInside – Search through documents

Quick Launching

Tigerlaunch – Application Launcher

Quicksilver – A unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data.

HimmelBar – Quickly access your installed applications

Namely – Easy Quick Launch Application

Productivity

SyncMate – sync your contacts and calendar event

TaskMate – To-do application

Anxiety – To-do application that synchs with iCal and Mail

EtreTask – small, fast, easy-to-use to-do list manager.

MindNode – Easy mind mapping

SketchBox – Sticky Notes Manager for your Mac Desktop

Backboard – Application for taking notes and writing down to-dos

Appointments – Keep record of customers, contact persons and important events

Todos – Todos shows you all your applications in a complete dock

Camoflage – Hides all the icons and leaves nothing but the pure wallpaper

Think – Helps you concentrate on what you’re doing

Slife – Helps you understand how you spend time in the computer

Text Editing

Bean – Small, easy to use word processor

NeoOffice – Full-featured set of office applications

TextWrangler – Powerful general purpose text editor

Aquamacs Emacs – An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++ and more

Smultron – Easy to use text editor

Email

Thunderbird – View, organize and secure your email

RSS

Google Reader Notifier – Alerts you of new, unread items in Google Reader

Vienna – Open source RSS/Atom newsreader

NetNewsWire – RSS and Atom Newsreader

Chat Clients

Skype – Calling over the internet

Adium – Instant messaging application that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more

Colloquy – an advanced IRC, SILC & ICB client

Olark – Chat with website visitors

Microsoft Messenger – MSN Messenger client

Social Networking Clients

Desktop Notifications – Adds Facebook notifications to your desktop

EventSynch – Synch your Facebook events with iCal

Gabtastik – WebKit based Site Specific Browser (SSB) for web chat services

Twitterific – Lets you both read and publish posts or “tweets” to the Twitter community

Twhirl – Twitter desktop Client, based on the Adobe Air platform

Syrinx – fully customizable twitter client

MiniTwit – Post updates to Twitter

Twitterpod – a Twitter client with message store capability

GarageBuy – Helps you find and purchase items on eBay

Delibar – Delicious in menubar

DiggUpdate – Digg in menubar

Photo Grabbr – Download photos from Flickr

Photobook – Facebook photo browser

BitTorrent Clients

µTorrent – Micro-sized yet feature filled torrent client

Transmission – a fast, easy bittorrent client

Vuze – fast bittorrent client

Tomato Torrent – Small, easy to use torrent client

Video

VLC – Cross platform video player

ooVoo – Video chat client

Real Player – Real player for Mac

Adobe Flash Player – cross-platform browser plug-in

Hulu Desktop – View Hulu videos from your Desktop

Audio

Audacity – Free, open source software for recording and editing sounds

UltraMixer – Pro digital DJ solution

Simple Synth – small and fast synth, perfect for when you want to try out a musical idea quickly makes it simple to create rich multimedia designs for live performances and installations

QLab – makes it simple to create rich multimedia designs for live performances and installations

Flip4Mac WMV – Quicktime plugin for playing WMA files

Perian – Open source Quicktime component that adds native support for many popular video formats

Image Editors

GIMP – GNU image editing

Xee – Lightweight, fast and convenient image viewer and browser

Blender – Open source 3D content creation suite

DrawBerry – Vectoral drawing

Poladroid – Create high resolution polaroid-like pictures

Colorate – Utility for creation of harmonized color palettes and color schemes

Format Converters

Senuti – Useful iPod ripper

Handbreak – DVD to MPEG-4 converter

File Compressors

UnRarX – Mac OS X Cocoa application that allows you to expand rar archives and restore corrupted or missing archives using par2

The Unarchiver – Simple file decompressor

Stomp – Video re-compressor

7zx – File archiver with high compression ratio

PDF Readers

Skim – PDF reader and note-taker for OS X

Adobe Reader – Software to view, print, and collaborate on PDF files

FTP Clients

Classic FTP – Program to upload, download, delete and manage files on a remote server or website using the file transfer protocol

Cyberduck – open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud FIles, and Amazon S3 browser

– Alexander Garovi