Today, we thought we’d provide our list of free Mac OS X apps that we’ve found to be both useful and well designed. In the list below each of the apps has a link to the developers website so that you can do some further investigation of those apps which catch your eye.
- OpenOffice
A great Office suite compatible with and an alternative to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in particular, also offers graphics editing and a database application. Uses Open standards and is completely free to use for both home and commercial purposes! - Adium
A free instant messaging application supporting MSN, AIM, Yahoo, Jabber and more… - Virtual Box
A virtualisation application allowing you to run a large number of guest operating systems with Mac OS X acting as the host. Amongst others, you can run Windows (NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, and Server 2003), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux, Solaris, OpenSolaris and OpenBSD. - VLC
A media player which is cross-platform and open-source. Reads most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs and VCDs and supports various streaming products. - Burn
Burn is a simple but powerful disc burner. - Audacity
Free to use, multilingual Audio editor and recorder! - Cyberduck
Great all round FTP application. - Xee
Xee is a lightweight, fast and convenient image viewer and browser. It is designed to be a serious tool for image viewing and management, with a sleek and powerful interface. - Handbrake
A multithreaded video transcoder – DVD ripper with MPEG-4 and H.264 encoding. - CarbonCopyCloner
Clone, synchronise, and backup you hard disk. - ClamXav
A free virus checker for Mac OS X. Uses the tried and tested ClamAV opensource antivirus engine. Help protect your Windows using friends! - Onyx
Allows you to perform a host of functions on your Mac such as verifying the startup disk and its file structure, run maintenance tasks, modify hidden capabilities of Finder, Dock and other applications, and more! - QuickSilver
Use QuickSilver to easily perform tasks such as manipulating files, launching applications, sending email, running scripts and more! - Stuffit Expander
A free program (click the link for Free Expander) which easily expands and decodes all the files you download from the Web or receive via Email. - TweetDeck
Update your Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn accounts from one application. Also available on the iPhone, iPad, Windows, Linux.
