Discover the best macos apps for designers and creators on desktop and mobile.
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45 Top macOS Apps
Notchkin — Keep quick notes close at hand on your Mac, with rich text, tags, clipboard capture, and Markdown or RTF export.
Screen Movie — Native macOS screen recorder and video editor — record, screenshot, animate text and captions, add music, and export product videos in 4K.
Hermes Agent — Open-source AI agent from Nous Research that lives in your terminal and desktop — persistent memory, scheduling, subagents, and sandboxed execution.
Phi — A remarkably well-behaved browser engineered specifically for macOS — quietly intelligent, beautifully native, and built on Chromium.
Image Converter — A lightweight macOS app to convert and compress images instantly, built on Glaze.
CleanShot — The Mac screenshot and screen recording app — annotate, scroll-capture, record GIFs and video, pin to screen, and share via cloud link. Version 5.0 adds Studio Mode for polished recordings.
Supaste — Local-first clipboard and screenshot history app for Mac — searchable timeline of copied text, links, images, files, code, and colors.
Screen Charm — Mac screen recorder with smart zoom, webcam overlay, motion blur, background music, and 4K export — one-time purchase, no subscription.
Glaze — Build desktop apps with AI — just describe what you want and Glaze creates it.
ChatGPT for Desktop — ChatGPT on your desktop with Work and Codex modes, plus context from your email, screenshots, files, and anything on your screen.
Taken — Screen recorder for your 9th take. A lightweight macOS menu bar app to capture, record, trim, copy, or export any screen region in a few clicks.
SpeakMac — Best offline speech-to-text app for Mac — convert voice to text instantly with AI accuracy, full privacy, and no subscription.
10x — AI-powered iOS app builder for macOS — describe the app you want and get SwiftUI code, an Xcode project, and simulator preview.
Nancy — Light, private, instant clipboard manager for Mac — search 200+ recent copies, paste from the keyboard, pin what you reuse, and nothing ever leaves your machine. Free and open source.
OpenDesign — Free, open-source design workspace for Mac and Windows that turns your coding agent into a design engine — prototypes, sites, slides, dashboards, images and HTML video, all on one brand system, stored locally.
ChippyTea — Free, open-source Mac app that finds the build folders, project dependencies and old installers eating your disk, shows you the size of each, and clears only what you approve.
terrific.tools Desktop — Privacy-first file converter for macOS, Windows and Linux from terrific.tools — 3,000+ conversions, done entirely on your machine.
CoAnimator — The agentic animation studio for Mac, Windows and Linux — bring your own Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity or OpenClaw and the agent builds product demos, launch videos, tutorials, motion graphics and 3D scene by scene, rendered on your machine with no credits, ever.
CUA Spaces — A free early-access desktop environment where AI agents can use full computers, while you watch and work alongside them.
Claude App — Download the Claude AI assistant as a native app — available on macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android for fast access to chat, code generation, and file analysis.
Spotify — Stream 100M+ songs and millions of podcasts on every device — desktop, mobile, web, TV, car, and console. Personalised playlists, offline playback on premium.
ChatGPT App — Download ChatGPT as a native app — macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android. Voice mode, screenshot context, system shortcuts, and a dedicated window outside your browser.
Figma App — Download the Figma design tool as a native app — available on macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android for offline access and better performance.
Clicky — An AI buddy that lives on your Mac — sits next to your cursor, sees your screen, and listens when you talk.
Replit Desktop — The full Replit experience as a native desktop app for Windows and Mac — a focused, multitasking home for the editor, Agent, and your running apps.
Granola — AI notepad for back-to-back meetings — transcribes, summarizes, and turns your meetings into shareable notes.
Wispr Flow for Mac — AI-powered voice dictation for Mac — speak naturally and Flow writes clean, formatted text anywhere on your computer.
SuperWhisper for Mac — AI voice-to-text app for macOS — dictate anywhere with local AI processing, zero latency, and full privacy.