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View 459 business solutionsBrowse free open source Productivity software and projects for Mac below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Productivity software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Skim
A PDF Reader and Note-taker for OS X
Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file. Skim requires OS X 10.10 or higher. -
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Digital Clock 4
beautiful customizable clock with plugins
Very customizable beautiful clock. There are 2 versions exist (they may co-exist): - Digital Clock 4 - discontinued, not recommended - Digital Clock 5 - current version, replacement for Digital Clock 4 Digital Clock 4 final version is 4.7.9 Digital Clock 5 current version is 5.2.0 Nothing special is required to start using this clock. Just launch it and enjoy! When it starts, apart from the clock itself, a small tray icon appears. This tray icon can be used to call the clock configuration dialog. Also this dialog can be called using clock context menu. Sources (v5) are hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/Kolcha/DigitalClock5 You can create your own skin! See this link for details: https://sourceforge.net/p/digitalclock4/wiki/How%20to%20create%20skin/ NOTE: do NOT download any .rar or .exe files marked as my software, these files are NOT made by me and I'm not responsible for their content -
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Notepad Next
A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++
A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++. Though the application overall is stable and usable, it should not be considered safe for critically important work. There are numerous bugs and half-working implementations. Pull requests are greatly appreciated. Windows packages are available as an installer or a stand-alone zip file on the release page. The installer provides additional components such as an auto-updater and Windows context menu integration. -
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Deskflow
Share a single keyboard and mouse between multiple computers
Deskflow is a lightweight productivity tool designed to streamline window and workspace management. It features hotkey-driven app launching, workspace switching, window snapping, searchεΏ«ζ·ε―ε¨, and minimal UI. Built with modern frameworks (likely Electron or Qt) and geared toward power users wanting efficient workflow control. -
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Obsidian
Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian
The Obsidian Releases repository provides the official distribution builds and installers for Obsidian, the popular markdown-based knowledge management and personal wiki application. Obsidian itself is a powerful, offline-first note-taking tool that helps users build interconnected knowledge graphs using markdown files stored locally on their devices, with plugins and community themes for extensibility. This repository houses versioned compiled binaries and packages for multiple platforms such as Windows, macOS, and Linux, enabling users to download stable or nightly builds directly without needing to build the app from source. By maintaining clear version history and downloadable artifacts, it makes it easy for individuals and organizations to audit, rollback, or pin specific Obsidian releases for workflows that depend on stability or particular plugin compatibility. -
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Xournal++
A handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support
Xournal++ (/ΛzΙnlΜΛplΚsΛplΚs/) is an open-source and cross-platform note-taking software that is fast, flexible, and functional. A modern rewrite and a more feature-rich version of the wonderful Xournal program. Support for pressure-sensitive stylus and drawing tablets (Wacom, Huion, XP-Pen, etc.) Robust and customizable pen, highlighter and eraser tools, allowing you to write how you want to write. Use layers to make complex notes that are still pleasant to work with. Keep track of the notes by using page previews. Add images and create various shapes, from circles to splines to axis. Snap objects to rectangular grid or degrees of rotation. Create anything from differential equations to electrical circuits or the structural formula of molecules using our built-in LaTeX editor. Customize your toolbar to create a new layout, tailor-made for you. -
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Gnaural
Entrain your brain!
A programmable audio generator intended as an aural aid to meditation, implementing the binaural beat principle as described in Gerald Oster's Oct. 1973 Scientific American article "Auditory Beats in the Brain." -
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Joplin
Open source note taking and to-do app with synchronization
Joplin is a free and open source note-taking and to-do application that can handle a large number of notes in Markdown format, organize them into notebooks and synchronize them with various cloud services. All notes can also be copied, tagged, searched and modified directly from the app or through your own text editor. Notes that are exported from Evernote can be imported into Joplin, be it formatted content, resources, complete metadata or plain Markdown files. When notes are synchronized with cloud services, notebooks, tags and other metadata can easily be moved, inspected or backed up as plain text files. Supported cloud services include Nextcloud, OneDrive, Dropbox and WebDAV. Joplin is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android, with three types: desktop, mobile and terminal. All of them have similar user interfaces and can be synchronized with each other. -
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TagSpaces
TagSpaces is an offline, open source, document manager with tagging
TagSpaces is a free, no vendor lock-in, open source application for organizing, annotating and managing local files with the help of tags. It features advanced note taking functionalities and some capabilities of to-do apps. The application is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Android. We provide a web clipper extension for Firefox, Edge and Chrome for easy collecting of online content in the form of local files. File and folder management - TagSpaces provides a convenient user interface for browsing, viewing and man files and folders. The application supports two ways for tagging files. The default one embeds the tags directly in the name of the file, the other one uses a so called sidecar files for persisting the tags. The search functionality supports fuzzy functionality and can filter your locations for files and folders containing one or more tags. -
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Stretchly
The break time reminder app
Stretchly is a cross-platform open-source app that reminds you to take breaks when working on your computer. When you run Stretchly for the first time, you are presented with a Welcome window that allows you to change the language, review the preferences, view the online tutorial or simply continue with the default preferences. Stretchly itself lives in your tray, only displaying a reminder window from time to time, which contains an idea for a break. By default, there is a 20 second Mini Break every 10 minutes and a 5 minute Long Break every 30 minutes (after 2 Mini Breaks). You'll be notified 10 seconds before a Mini Break (and 30 seconds before a Long Break) so that you can prepare to pause your work. When a break starts, you can postpone it once for 2 minutes (Mini Breaks) or 5 minutes (Long Breaks). Then, after a specific time interval passes, you can skip the break. Both actions are available by clicking on the link at the bottom of window. -
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Open Notebook
An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility
Open Notebook is an open-source, privacy-focused alternative to Googleβs Notebook LM that gives users full control over their research and AI workflows. Designed to be self-hosted, it ensures complete data sovereignty by keeping your content local or within your own infrastructure. The platform supports 16+ AI providersβincluding OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, Google, and LM Studioβallowing flexible model choice and cost optimization. Open Notebook enables users to organize and analyze multi-modal content such as PDFs, videos, audio files, web pages, and Office documents. It combines full-text and vector search with context-aware AI chat to deliver insights grounded in your own research materials. With advanced features like multi-speaker podcast generation, customizable content transformations, and a comprehensive REST API, Open Notebook provides a powerful and extensible research environment. -
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Cerebro
Open-source productivity booster with a brain
Cerebro is an open source electron-based productivity software that lets you search and see everything you need on your PC in one place. With just a few clicks you can search on your machine or on the internet everything you need; see everything you need without having to open another application; and easily find and use what you want. -
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Atuin
Magical shell history
Atuin is a modern shell history replacement tool and CLI utility that records all your shell commands in a SQLite database alongside contextual metadata. It offers encrypted sync across devices, full-text search, usage statistics, and a desktop application to run executable runbooks as native documents. -
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memos
An open-source, self-hosted memo hub with knowledge management
A lightweight, self-hosted memo hub. Open Source and Free forever. memos provides the privacy security and reliability that innovators need in their moments of inspiration. Keep your own data by yourself. All data generated at runtime is saved in the SQLite database file. All content will be saved as plain text, not HTML. And lots of useful markdown syntaxes are supported. Using Go + React.js + SQLite architecture, the overall package is very lightweight. You can customize the server name, icon, description, custom system style and execution script, etc. memos believes that open source is the future, and all code is already open source in GitHub. All features are free forever and will never be charged in any form or content. -
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Lorien
Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app
Lorien is a fast, lightweight infinite-canvas drawing and note-taking application designed for brainstorming, sketching, and freeform diagramming without the bloat of traditional bitmap editors. Instead of storing raster image data, Lorien saves each brush stroke as vector-like points and reconstructs drawings at runtime, resulting in extremely small save files and smooth performance even on large canvases. The app runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and itβs built using the Godot game engine, which gives it a responsive and modern user interface across platforms. Users get features like infinite zoom, undo/redo, and a grid that stretches endlessly, making it well suited to both quick scribbles and detailed conceptual layouts. Lorien supports pressure-sensitive tablets for natural drawing, and it includes a range of basic tools β from freehand brush and eraser to shapes and selection tools β so you can mix freeform sketches with structured diagrams. -
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Dnote
A simple command line notebook
Dnote is a personal knowledge management tool focused on easily capturing, organizing, and retrieving technical notes such as code snippets, terminal commands, and short documentation, all while keeping content accessible and searchable. It is designed around fast, distraction-free workflows that let users jot down notes quickly from the terminal or a web interface, ensuring that insights and solutions are captured at the moment they occur. With structured tagging and hierarchical organization, Dnote encourages users to categorize entries in ways that align with their own thinking rather than forcing a rigid notebook structure. Its search is optimized to handle large collections of notes, allowing users to find relevant information instantly, which makes it especially helpful for developers, engineers, and power users who accumulate practical knowledge over time. -
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FitTrackee
Self-hosted outdoor activity tracker
FitTrackee is a self-hostable fitness tracking and workout management platform designed to help individuals and small groups monitor physical activity, set goals, and review performance over time with clarity and flexibility. It provides an organized environment for logging workouts, recording metrics like sets, reps, durations, and weights, and visualizing progress through charts and summaries that detail trends in strength, endurance, and consistency. Instead of locking users into proprietary ecosystems or paid plans, FitTrackee lets you keep your own data on your server, giving full control over privacy and longevity of your fitness history. The interface is designed to be flexible enough for everyday gym routines, home workouts, and personalized training plans, supporting a variety of exercise types and custom attributes for different training styles. -
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Notes
Note taking application, write down your thoughts.
Notes is an open source, cross-platform note-taking application. Write down your thoughts with ease, and always have them with you with this simple, streamlined app. -
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Notable
The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
Notes are written in Markdown, plus you can write KaTeX expressions, Mermaid diagrams and more, check out our Markdown cheatsheet. Notable provides a very powerful Markdown editor, it's the same one VS Code uses in fact, so features like multi-cursors, a minimap and best-in-class syntax highlighting are built-in. Notes and attachments are simply stored on your disk, this is extremely portable and powerful: you could edit your notes via a third-party editor on mobile, have them synchronized via Dropbox, use Git, run a regex-based search and replace etc. A dark theme is also available. In the future support for custom themes will be added as well. Zen mode provides a minimalistic editing and reading experience, hiding everything that's not necessary. Notable is also keyboard friendly, has a quick open window, and we'll soon add a command palette too, so you won't have to click any buttons if you don't want to. -
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Install Elevate
A sport app to "Elevate" your training experience and goals
A sport app to "Elevate" your training experience and goals! Track your fitness and progressions over time. Analyze deeper your activities. And more. Download for Chrome, Chromium, Edge (from 2020), Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Yandex. Contains the Elevate App shared and loaded by both desktop and web extension projects. Appcore contains core features like fitness trends, year progressions, athlete settings. Holds the container behaviour to provide a cross-platform desktop app under Windows, Linux & MacOS. It contains desktop-specific features like connectors synchronization (to fetch athlete activities from external). Contains the web extension behavior that acts directly on strava website. This includes extended stats on activities & segment efforts, best splits, etc. The new mono-repo including the desktop app and the web extension is on develop-new branch at the moment. -
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Simplenote for macOS
Simplenote for Mac
Simplenote for macOS is the official native macOS application for the Simplenote service, giving Apple computer users a dedicated environment to write, organize, and sync notes with the same simplicity found on other platforms. Built using macOS frameworks and powered by the Simperium synchronization protocol, it ensures that any text or Markdown notes you create are automatically backed up and kept in sync with Android, iOS, web, and other clients. The app supports fast searching and tagging so users can keep large collections of notes orderly, and has features like history or revision views to recover previous edits. macOS integration means users benefit from keyboard shortcuts, native window management, and system services like Spotlight search to find notes instantly. As a GPL-licensed open-source project, it invites contributions and learning, letting developers tweak UI or add platform-specific enhancements without being locked into a proprietary ecosystem. -
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Notesnook
A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative
Notesnook makes it impossible for anyone to spy on your notes. Unlike Evernote and other note taking apps, your data is private, not open for everyone to see. Ditch other note taking apps that don't care about your data privacy. With app lock and private notes vault, your personal diary & journal are always safe. Worried that your friend will read your private notes? Notesnook fixes that by having an app lock built-in. Use a pin or biometrics to protect your notes. Protect your online journal or personal diary with an extra layer of security. Your notes vault is a super secure way to store your passwords, credentials & other secrets. Free or Pro, you get the same level of privacy. Making privacy a paid feature means only the privileged few deserve it but privacy is your right. And rights don't have a price tag, or do they? To verify that your notes are actually encrypted (and we aren't just lying), you can use our open source tool, Vericrypt. -
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sigma-file-manager
"Sigma File Manager" is a free, open-source, quickly evolving app
"Sigma File Manager" is a free, open-source, quickly evolving, modern file manager (explorer/finder) app for Windows and Linux. Designed, developed, and maintained by Aleksey Hoffman | Twitter | Reddit. Create the best existing intelligent file manager & productivity app that will significantly speed up your workflow, provide you with advanced tools, and keep your data safe. Find any file/directory on your computer in just a few seconds. It also implements a typo correction system, allowing you to find files even when the search query includes typos, wrong case, wrong word order, missing words, missing symbols, and missing file extension. Create separate workspaces with their own tabs and pre-defined actions, allowing you to quickly switch between them. Actions can perform different operations, e.g. open a website, run a script, open a file in a specific program, etc. -
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soundscape-qt
Desktop soundscape application
soundscape-qt is an open-source desktop application to play a mix of sounds, e.g. natural sounds produced by animals or wind and water. soundscape-qt comes with two example soundscapes. Use mouse to right-click in the main window or on the tray icon to access the application menu where you can add or remove soundtracks and change their settings. Use the Quit item from the application menu to finish the application. Pressing the close window button will just minimize it to the tray. -
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word_cloud
A little word cloud generator in Python
A little word cloud generator in Python. The code is tested against Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7. If you are using conda, you can install from the conda-forge channel. wordcloud depends on numpy and pillow. To save the wordcloud into a file, matplotlib can also be installed. If there are no wheels available for your version of python, installing the package requires having a C compiler set up. Before installing a compiler, report an issue describing the version of python and operating system being used. The wordcloud_cli tool can be used to generate word clouds directly from the command-line. If you're dealing with PDF files, then pdftotext, included by default with many Linux distribution, comes in handy. Use wordcloud_cli --help so see all available options. The wordcloud library is MIT licenced, but contains DroidSansMono.ttf, a true type font by Google, that is apache licensed.
