 | Bowtie Customisable (themeable) iTunes controller and Last.fm scrobbler. Useful.Download |  | ScrobblePod Last.fm scrobbler that handles songs played in iTunes and on your iOS devices.Download |  | Max Max is an easy to use audio converter that supports over 20 audio formats. Download |
 | Spotify Instantly listen to over 15 million tracks online and sync them to your iPod. Download |  | Breakaway Pull out your headphones, and iTunes pauses. Plug it back in, and it starts again. Download |  | X Lossless Decoder Decode/convert various lossless audio file formats including FLAC, Apple Lossless, Monkey’s Audio, etc.Download |
 | Audacity Open sources, cross-platform audio editor. Must have for amateur musicians. Download |  | Songbird Alternative music player and library manager. Download |  | Vox A lightweight alternative music player for OS X.Download |
 | Google Chrome A lightweight, fast browser. Great alternative to Safari.Download |  | Firefox For Firefox fans who can’t live without it.Download |  | Opera Tthe only popular browser for Mac that’s available on the Mac App Store. Download |
 | Hotspot Shield Utility to secure your browsing sessions and prevent identity theft or bypass restrictions.Download |  | Purity Clear browsing cache, logs and temporary files. Also removes unwanted temporary system files.Download |  | CCleaner Finally the Mac version of the essential CCleaner for Windows. Still in beta. Download |
 | Delivery Status Delivery tracker that alerts you when your package clears custom or is on the delivery truck! Download |  | TimeScroller Find out the time in other cities compared to yours. Very useful when checking time difference. Download |  | CurrencyConverter One of the best currency converter widgets for Mac OS X. Updated frequently.Download |
 | iStat Pro Highly configurable system monitor widget. Reports CPU, memory, disk, network usages; temperature; uptime, etc. Download |  | The Weather Channel Widget All the weather information you need right on your Dashboard. Check it out. Download |  | Countdown Dashboard widget Set the date and time for any event and it will show you how much time you have left.Download |
 | Symbol Caddy Can’t seem to find the Euro currency symbol? Symbol Caddy provides access to all special characters.Download |
 | Mozilla Thunderbird If Mail isn’t good enough, try Thunderbird.Download |  | Postbox 2 Another alternative desktop email client. $29.95 Download |  | Postbox Express Free, lighter version of Postbox. No longer in active development.Download |
 | Gmail Notifier Menubar app that alerts you when you have new Gmail message or upcoming GCal events.Download |  | Notify Even though it’s no longer in development, Notify is an elegant menubar mail notification app.Download |
 | SketchBook Express Free, professional-grade drawing application for Mac.Download |  | Pixelmator Great Photoshop alternative. Extremely capable and easy to use. $29.99 Download |  | Skitch Skitch helps you to create screenshots and add annotations, then share it with friends. Download |
 | Paparazzi! A useful tool to take screenshots of webpages. Download |  | Hugin Free panorama photo stitcher, assembles a mosaic of photos into a series of overlapping pictures. Download |  | Poladroid Create awesome Polaroid-esque pictures from your digital photos.Download |
 | HDRtist Create HDR images easily and simply from multiple images with different exposures.Download |  | Inkscape Open source vector graphics editor similar to Illustrator. Uses the SVG file format.Download |
 | Fresh Feed Fresh and light menubar feed reader. Download |  | Mixtab A vibrant, graphical RSS reader. Like Pulse but on your desktop.Download |  | NetNewsWire Lite Light RSS and Atom feed reader. Comaptible with Instapaper, Twitter, MarsEdit, etc.Download |
 | Transmission The ultimate torrent downloader for Mac.Download |  | Prey Open source anti-theft solution. Tracks your stolen laptop’s position, photographs the thief, and much more.Download |  | Cyberduck Open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Google Storage and Amazon S3 browser for Mac. Download |
 | iAlertU Uses the MacBook’s Sudden Motion Sensor to trigger an alarm when your MacBook is touched or moved.Download |  | teleport Seamlessly control multiple Macs with a single keyboard and mouse. Download |  | f.lux Cross-platform app that automatically tweaks the colour of your screen to suit the time of day. Download |
 | DiskWave Free utility to determine which files and folders consume the most disk space. Download |  | Mactracker Get detailed specifications of every Mac ever made.Download |  | Transmit Superb FTP client that also supports SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3 file transfers.Download |
 | ClamXav A free virus scanner based on the ClamAV open source antivirus engine. Download |
 | TextExpander The best solution for text substitution. Syncs with Dropbox if you have multiple copies.Download |  | Evernote Jot your ideas, memories and thoughts and bring them with you.Download |  | Wunderlist The desktop client for the one and only Wunderlist. Download |
 | Anxiety Another great, super lightweight to-do list manager. Syncs with iCal and Mail.Download |  | Bean Free, easy to use word processor. Reads MS Word and OpenOffice documents. Download |  | WriteRoom Distraction-free, full screen writing environment.Download |
 | TextWrangler Much better text editor than TextEdit. Supports syntax colouring and advance search functions. Download |  | Stuf The ultimate clipboard manager. Supports clipboard sharing over network. $24.99Download |  | LibreOffice Alternative, free office suite. Download |
 | Quicksilver Resurrected, Quicksiler is the best Mac launcher and time saver you’ll ever need.Download |  | Dropbox Sync and share files with other Dropbox users or mobile devices. Download |  | SugarSync Dropbox alternative that allows you to sync any folder. Provides a free 5 GB account upon subscription.Download |
 | Do Something When System preference pane that allows the user to watch for certain events and invoke an automated response. Download |  | Notational Velocity Store notes, thoughts and data securely. Syncs with Dropbox and Simplenote. Open source. Download |  | Think Block out distractions with you’re trying to concentrate.Download |
 | Desktop Curtain Classic Temporarily hide the clutter on your desktop.Download |  | Alfred Saves you time searching your desktop and the web. Launch your apps with shortcuts. Download |  | CloudApp Drop images, links, music, videos and files from your desktop to share them. Download |
 | Keynote Create incredible presentations and slideshows with dazzling effects.Download |
 | Parallels Desktop Easy to use virtualisation app. Allows you to run Windows and Mac OS X simultaneously. $79.99 Download |  | VMware Fusion Another great virtualisation application. $79.99Download |  | Virtualbox Open source, cross platform virtualisation software. Not as easy to use as Parallels or VMware but is free.Download |
 | WineBottler Run Windows apps on OS X without installing Windows. Download |  | Microsoft Office for Mac Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel included in the Home & Student suite. $149.99Download |  | Wineskin Make wrappers to run Windows software on Mac OS X. Download |
 | Adium Customisable, themeable, multiprotocol instant messenger. Download |  | Facebox Pro Check Facebook updates and chate with friends directly from the menubar. Download |  | Twitter Follow your friends’ tweets and send out your blurts from the desktop. Download |
 | Skype Essential application, especially useful for long-distance teleconferencing.Download |
 | The Unarchiver Unarchiver works with just about any type of compressed file.Download |  | MenuMeters A complete set of CPU, memory, disk and network monitoring tools. Download |  | MacFUSE Enable third party file systems like NTFS.Download |
 | Growl Better notifications for just about any system event. Download |  | Little Snitch Control and administer connectivity privileges for each of your applications. $29.95Download |  | Caffeine Temporarily prevents your Mac from automatically going to sleep or initiating the screensaver.Download |
 | AppCleaner Completely removes all preference and system files when uninstalling apps. Download |  | OnyX Enables you to configure and tweak hidden parameters of OS X. Download |  | 1Password Great password manager that automatically stores and retrieves online passwords. $39.99Download |
 | Burn A free and better solution to Mac OS X’s innate DVD recording feature. Download |  | Carbon Copy Cloner Easily create and backup bootable images of your hard drive in case it crashes. Download |  | Afloat Window management application that allows you to pin windows to the top. Download |
 | Keyboard Cleaner Handy application that temporarily disables your keyboard and mouse, allowing you to wipe it clean.Download |  | BetterTouchTool Adds configurable gestures to your Magic Mouse and Magic TrackPad. Download |  | Secrets A database of hidden settings for Mac OS X. More user friendly than OnyX. Download |
 | Lab Tick Control the brightness of your MacBook Pro’s backlit keyboard.Download |  | Hazel Create folder rules to automatically organise files and run tasks. $21.95 Download |  | Monolingual Removes unnecessary languages from your applications, saving disk space. Download |
 | Drop Copy The easiest way to send files across your internet network.Download |
 | Perian System preference pane application that enables QuickTime to play other video formats. Download |  | VLC Media Player The best cross-platform multimedia player. Ever.Download |  | MPlayerX Strong contender for VLC Player. Plays almost any media format, sleek user interface. Download |
 | Handbrake The best open source, multiplatform, multitreaded video transcoder. Download |  | MetaX Meta-data tagger for MP4 files that automatically searches IMDB and tagChimp for movie credits.Download |  | Boxee Boxee is an alternative media center and allows you to watch TV shows and Netflix movies. Download |
 | Subler Easy to use demuxer to quickly convert video files to MPEG4 format for playback on AppleTV. Download |  | Flip4Mac WMV Play Windows Media files (WMA and WMV) in QuickTime.Download |  | Fairmount Decrypt DVD content on-the-fly for archival.Download |
 | Evom For those looking for a simple, one-click video converting solution.Download |
