The best free Mac Apps

It’d be nice to see the amazing Camino in the top 10…..

Yea, I used to use Camino, but I am addicted to Firefox. Its still a great browser though.

Don’t care much about Gmail Notifier and Azureus… it should be Disctop and Transmission instead.

Quicksilver is pretty indispensable for those that use it - you know, the “in” crowd!

This is a very personal list. Disappointed to have found this list from a link on Digg.com, cause it just mentions a few small apps that someone likes. Not really a complete or even interesting indication of what a Mac offers.

Might be better to surf through Versiontracker.com for a few weeks instead.

As for the list….

Admium X and Fire .. Used to use them, but heh, you are on a Mac that can do iChat, the best Videoconferencing app out their by a mile. So why run anything else. Just setup ichat with an AIM address, then setup iChat to run a Jabber windows to connect to everything else. (All the above mentioned services, even GoogleTalk is possible.) And you also have Bonjour for local transfers.

Firefox… Ya, a great browser because it is powerful. I use it in many instances, usually in my web work. But Safari is still the quickest, fastest starter and the least buggy for regular browsing. If you are switching to a Mac world, the integration is appreciated.

OpenOfficeX… Ah, you still need Office 2004 in the real world. Buy it or borrow it, you will need it. But its always nice to have alternatives. I use NeoOffice instead of OpenOffice (in the very rare cases that I need to use it instead of MS Office) cause it is easier to install.

The other apps… A few good ones here, but not the only good free apps for sure. Best ones are still Apple’s own apps I figure. iLife is an amazing package. And the best thing after that is probably the cheap free and shareware plugins that add wonderful functionality to all that you get when you get a Mac.

Instead of using OpenOffice through the X11 emulator try NeoOffice. It runs on Java and interacts much more like a native OSX app and it’s developer is very active in releasing new updates. You won’t be disappointed: neooffice.org

Otherwise it’s a good list. Maybe you should try Inkscape as a good open source vector drawing application, though you will need to run it via X11 emulation. Aside from missing a ‘keyline’ view it’s very good.

I have to disagree with Azureus and CyberDuck. Azureus is painfully slow and a memory hogger on a Mac. I prefer Transmission. As for CyberDuck, I think Transmit is a lot better FTP/SFTP client.

I only agree with you on Adium and Handbrake. My top applications are:

1. SubEthaEdit, I use it for everything.
2. Adium
3. X-Chat Aqua
4. Quicksilver
5. Inquisitor
6. Transmission
7. Handbrake
8. Chicken of the VNC
9. Transmit
10. Synergy (the iTunes controller, not the screen switcher)

If anyone here does website publishing or just likes to write out things freehand then they need smultron for textual computation.

http://smultron.sourceforge.net/

An excellent open source application.

Transmit is far far better than Cyberduck. Cyberduck is unbearably slow and requires a Finder window open, while Transmit is quick, beautiful and uses a side-by-side approach.

Ahem….Azureus runs super fast on an Intel Mac. Also, someone suggested Transmit…as much as I love it, it is NOT free which is the main point of this article
My favorite free apps:

Namely - Launch apps by typing their names (NO, it is not the same as spotlight!)
ImageWell - amazing utility for screenshots
iSquint - for my video iPod movies
Vienna - the best RSS reader IMHO

But Chopper will always be the best free game for Mac OS X! http://www.majicjungle.co.nz/chopper.html

Cyberduck is a free app though, I’ve used transmit, but this is a free list

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In most parts I agree with you. But one of my top10-applictations is still missing: Textwrangler by Barebones Software is a free full-featured editor, which should by on every mac.

A good list…but the comment submissions provide some great insight as to what works well and what doesn’t. Too bad the server failure cut short the comments.

Paul’s comment about needing a few weeks to surf through VersionTracker is right on the money.

Bear in mind that I am totally biased on this (being the following program’s author), but I couldn’t live without iRooster on my Mac laptop. It’s been my alarm clock for the past three years now, and there’s no way I’d be able to make it into work on time without it. It wakes your Mac up from sleep, plays back iTunes playlists, and does a variety of other cool things.

I’m actually offering 20% off iRooster during the month of May. All of the details for that are available off my website.

iRooster

Cheers,
Aaron

OK, I seem to have missed the “free” part of this list. Sorry about the noise…

Aaron

@ Aaron: No problem, it is always good to hear the voices of others through blogs. I have been able to find a lot of good software through the comments posted here and on digg.

@Lomovogt: TextWrangler would’ve made the top 15 apps, I use it and its noteable for sure.

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One note about Cyberduck vs. Transmit: It is much easier & more intuitive to set up public key authentication in Cyberduck.

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I’ll echo Chopper (a great game) and SubEthaEdit (I use it all the time). As others have said, Transmit is excellent, but not free, and I’m cheap. I’ve been using firefox’s FireFTP tool, but I’ll try out Cyberduck–thanks for the tip on that. Flickr Uploadr is excellent.

Is there a free version of NetNewsWire?

For FTP I prefer OneButton http://FTP.

@Bruce: I use NetNewsWire Lite, which is the free version. It was a little tricky to find on the site as they don’t jump out and say they offer it, but it is there.

I have also been using Neo Office now and think it has more functionality on the Mac the Open Office, great comments everyone. Thank you for your input.

Don’t forget Desktop Manager and Fink Commander!

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Great list. Cyberduck IS the best!

Yep. Cyber Duck is a pretty crafty app.

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