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
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
Geektool is a definite bonus free App
as well as Growl, Bowtie, and iStat menus
these are awesome apps tho. Thanks!