If your Mac lacks this chip, you can still do everything like before but you won’t be as secure. For instance, FileVault will use software-based disk encryption which not only taxes the CPU but is far less secure. OS X Lion and later has a Migration Assistant application designed to easily move files, programs, and settings from your old Windows-based PC to your new Mac. For more information, see About Windows Migration Assistant.
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The following is a list of Macintoshsoftware—notable computer applications for current macOS systems. For software designed for the classic Mac OS, see List of old Macintosh software.
- 6Email
- 9Graphics, layout, and desktop publishing
- 23Utilities
Audio[edit]
- Ableton Live – music production
- Adobe Soundbooth – music and soundtrack editing
- Ardour – hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation program
- Audacity – digital audio editor
- Audion – media player (development ceased)
- Audio Hijack – audio recorder
- baudline – signal analyzer
- BIAS Peak – mastering
- Cog – open source audio player, supports multiple formats
- Cubase – music production program
- djay – digital music mixing software
- Digital Performer – MIDI sequencer with audio tracking
- Final Cut Express/Pro – movie editor
- Finale – scorewriter program
- fre:ac - open source audio converter and CD ripper
- GarageBand – music/podcast production
- HyperNext – freeware software development
- Impro-Visor – educational notation and playback for music improvisation
- iTunes – audio/video Jukebox
- iVolume – volume normalization
- ixi software – free improvisation and sketching tools
- Jaikoz – mass tagger
- LilyPond – scorewriter program
- Logic Express – prosumer music production
- Logic Studio – music writing studio package by Apple Inc.
- Apple Loops Utility – production and organisation of Apple Loops
- Apple Qmaster and Qadministrator
- Logic Pro – digital audio workstation
- Mainstage – program to play software synthesizers live
- QuickTime Pro – pro version of QuickTime
- Soundtrack Pro – post production audio editor
- WaveBurner – CD mastering and production software
- Mixxx – DJ mix software available for the mac in the App Store
- Max – Cycling 74's visual programming language for MIDI, audio, video; with MSP, Jitter
- Nuendo – audio and post production editor
- Overture – scorewriter program
- ReBirth – virtual synth program simulates Roland TR-808, TB-303
- REAPER – digital audio workstation
- Reason – digital audio workstation
- Recycle – sample editor
- Renoise – contemporary digital audio workstation, based upon the heritage and development of tracker software.
- RiffWorks – guitar recording and online song collaboration software
- Senuti – transfers music from iPod to computer
- Sibelius – scorewriter program
- Sound Studio – digital audio analyzer and editor
- N-Track Studio – multitrack audio recording, editing and mixing software
CD and DVD authoring[edit]
- DVD Studio Pro – DVD authoring application
- iDVD – a basic DVD-authoring application
- Roxio Toast – DVD authoring application
Chat (text, voice, video)[edit]
Adium on Mac OS X
- Adium – multi-protocol IM client
- AOL Instant Messenger - discontinued as of December 15, 2017[1]
- Colloquy – freeware advanced IRC and SILC client
- Fire – open source, multiprotocol IM client
- FaceTime - videoconferencing between Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
- iChat – instant messaging and videoconferencing (discontinued since OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion)
- iMessage - instant messaging between Mac, and iDevices
- Irssi – IrssiX and MacIrssi
- Ventrilo – audio chatroom application
Children's software[edit]
- Kid Pix Deluxe 3X – bitmap drawing program
- Stagecast Creator – programming and internet authoring for kids
Developer tools and IDEs[edit]
- AppCode - an Objective-C IDE by JetBrains for OS X and iOS development
- Aptana – an open sourceintegrated development environment (IDE) for building Ajax web applications
- Clozure CL - an open sourceintegrated development environment (IDE) for building Common Lisp applications
- Code::Blocks – open source IDE for C++
- CodeWarrior – development environment, framework
- Eclipse – open source Java-based IDE for developing rich-client applications, includes SWT library, replaces Swing by using underlying OS native windowing abilities
- Fink – Debian package manager for portedUnix software
- Free Pascal – Object Pascal compiler, XCode plugin available
- Helix – relational database IDE
- HotSpot – Sun's Java Virtual Machine
- IntelliJ IDEA - a JAVA IDE by JetBrains (free limited community edition)
- Komodo – commercial multi-language IDE from ActiveState
- Lazarus – cross-platform IDE to develop software with Free Pascal, specialized in graphical software
- LiveCode – high-level cross-platform IDE
- MacApp – application development framework Pascal and C++
- Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (MPW)
- Macports – a package management system that simplifies the installation of free/open source software on the Mac OS X.
- Macromedia Authorware – application (CBT, eLearning) development, no Mac development environment since version 4, though can still package applications with the 'Mac Packager' for OS 8 through 10 playback
- Mono – open source implementation of Microsoft .NET Framework with a C# compiler
- NetBeans – modular, open source, multi-language platform and IDE for Java written in pure Java
- Omnis Studio – cross-platform development environment for creating enterprise and web applications for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Solaris
- Peppermint - multi-purpose editor supporting a wide range of languages and comes with a CoffeeScript/JavaScript API
- Qt Creator – an IDE for C++ GUI applications, by Trolltech
- Real Studio – cross-platform compiled REALbasicBASIC programming language IDE
- ResEdit – resource editor
- Script Debugger – an AppleScript and Open Scripting Architecture IDE
- SuperCard – high-level IDE
- Tcl/tk – scripting shell & GUI utility that allows cross platform development. Included With Mac OS X.
- TextMate – multipurpose text editor that supports Ruby, PHP, and Python
- Torque (game engine) – game creation software
- WebKit – open source application framework for Safari (web browser)
- wxPython – API merging Python and wxWidgets
- Xcode – IDE made by Apple, which comes as a part of OS X and is available as a download, was called Project Builder
Email[edit]
Email clients[edit]
- Apple Mail – the bundled email client
- Claris Emailer – classic Mac OS only, no longer available
- Entourage – email client by Microsoft; analogous to Microsoft Outlook
- Mailplane – a WebKit-based client for Gmail
- Mulberry – open-source software for e-mail, calendars and contacts
- Sparrow – as well as Sparrow Lite
Other email software[edit]
- SPAMfighter - anti-spam software
FTP clients[edit]
Games[edit]
- Steam – digital distribution software for video games and related media
Graphics, layout, and desktop publishing[edit]
CAD, 3D graphics[edit]
- Ashlar-Vellum – 2D/3D drafting, 3D modeling
- SketchUp – 3D modeling software
Distributed document authoring[edit]
Icon editors, viewers[edit]
- Icon Composer – part of Apple Developer Tools
File conversion and management[edit]
- Adobe Bridge — digital asset management app
- BibDesk — free bibliographic database app that organizes linked files
- Font Book – font management tool
- GraphicConverter – graphics editor, open/converts a wide range of file formats
- iPhoto – photo management application
Layout and desktop publishing[edit]
- Adobe InDesign – page layout
- iBooks Author – create content for iBooks
- iCalamus – page layout
- iStudio Publisher – page layout
- Pages – part of iWork
- QuarkXPress – page layout
- Ready,_Set,_Go!_(software) – page layout
- Scribus – page layout
- TeX – publishing
- MacTeX – TeX redistribution of TeX Live for Mac
- The Print Shop – page layout
Raster and vector graphics[edit]
- Adobe Fireworks – supports GIF animation.
- Adobe Illustrator – vector graphics editor
- Adobe Photoshop – also offers some vector graphics features
- Affinity Designer - vector graphics editor for Apple macOS and Microsoft Windows
- Anime Studio – 2D based vector animation
- Aperture – Apple's pro photo management, editing, publishing application
- GIMP – free bitmap graphics editor
- GIMPShop – free open source cross-platform bitmap graphics editor
- GraphicConverter – displays and edits raster graphics files
- Inkscape – free vector graphics editor
- MacPaint – painting software by Apple (discontinued)
- Macromedia FreeHand – vector graphics editor
- Paintbrush – free simple bitmap graphics program
- Photos – official photo management and editing application developed by Apple
- Photo Booth – photo camera, video recorder
- Pixelmator – hardware-accelerated integrated photo editor
- Polarr - photo editing app
- Seashore – open source, based around the GIMP's technology, but with native OS X (Cocoa) UI
- TouchRetouch - photo editor that allows to remove unwanted content or objects from any photo
Integrated software technologies[edit]
Language and reference tools[edit]
- Rosetta Stone (software) – proprietary language learning software
- Ultralingua – proprietary electronic dictionaries and language tools
- World Book Encyclopedia – multimedia
Mathematics software[edit]
- Octave (software) – open source
- SciLab – open source
Media center[edit]
- Boxee – Mac and Apple TV
Multimedia authoring[edit]
- Adobe Director – animation/application development
- Adobe Flash – vector animation
- Adobe LiveMotion – a discontinued competitor to Macromedia Flash, until Adobe bought Macromedia
- Dragonframe - stop motion animation and time-lapse
- iBooks Author – creates content for iBooks
- iLife – media suite by Apple
- Unity – 3D authoring
Networking and telecommunications[edit]
- iStumbler – find wireless networks and devices
- Karelia Watson (defunct)
- NetSpot - software tool for wireless network assessment, scanning, and surveys, analyzing Wi-Fi coverage and performance
- Timbuktu – remote control
- WiFi Explorer - a wireless network scanner tool
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News aggregators[edit]
- Feedly – news aggregator, and news aggregator reading application
- NetNewsWire – news aggregator reading application
- NewsFire – news aggregator reading application
- RSSOwl – news aggregator reading application
- Safari (web browser) - news aggregation via built-in RSS support
- Apple Mail – news aggregation via (discontinued) built-in RSS support
Office and productivity[edit]
- Address Book – bundled with OS X
- AppleWorks – word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation applications (discontinued)
- Bean (word processor) – free TXT/RTF/DOC word processor
- CricketGraph - graphmaker
- iBank – personal finance application
- iCal – calendar management, bundled with OS X
- iWork – suite:
- Pages – word processor application
- Numbers – spreadsheet application
- Keynote – presentation application
- Journler – diary and personal information manager with personal wiki features
- MacLinkPlus Deluxe - file format translation tool for PowerPC-era Mac OS X, converting and opening files created in other operating systems
- MarinerPak – suite:
- Microsoft Office – office suite:
- Microsoft Word – word processor application
- Microsoft Excel – spreadsheet application
- Microsoft PowerPoint – presentation application
- Microsoft Entourage – email application (replaced by Microsoft Outlook)
- Microsoft Outlook – email application
- MoneyWiz – personal finance application
- Montage – screenwriting software
- Taste – word processor (discontinued)
Operating systems[edit]
- Darwin – the BSD-licensed core of macOS
- macOS – originally named 'Mac OS X' until 2012 and then 'OS X' until 2016
- macOS Server – the server computing variant of macOS
Outliners and mind-mapping[edit]
- 2-plan Desktop – free project management software with integrated mind maps
Peer-to-peer file sharing[edit]
- Vuze – Bittorrent client, was Azureus
Science[edit]
- Celestia – 3D astronomy program
- Stellarium – 3D astronomy program
Text editors[edit]
Utilities[edit]
- Activity Monitor – default system monitor for hardware and software
- AppZapper – uninstaller (shareware)
- Automator – built-in, utility to automate repetitive tasks
- Backup – built-in
- BitDefender Antivirus 2009 for Mac OS – antivirus software
- Butler – free, launcher and utility to automate repetitive tasks
- CleanGenius – free system optimization tool for Mac OS X, disk cleaner, uninstaller, device ejector, disk monitor. (freeware)
- CandyBar – system customization software (commercial)
- CDFinder – disk cataloging software (commercial)
- Compact Pro – data compression
- DaisyDisk – disk visualization tool
- Dashboard – built-in Mac OS X widgets
- Disk Drill Basic – data recovery software for Mac OS X
- Grab (software) – built-in Mac OS X screenshot utility
- Growl – global notifications system, free
- iArchiver – handles archives, commercial
- Intego VirusBarrier – antivirus software
- iSync – syncing software, bundled with OS X
- LaunchBar – provides instant access to local data, search engines and more by entering abbreviations of search item names, commercial
- Little Snitch – network monitor and outgoing connection firewall
- MacScan – malware removal program
- Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing – proprietary, typing tutor
- Norton Antivirus for Mac – an antivirus program specially made for Mac
- OnyX – a freeware system maintenance and optimization tool for Mac OS X
- Quicksilver – a framework for accessing and manipulating many forms of data
- SheepShaver – PowerPC emulator, allows, among other things, running Mac OS 9 on Intel Macs
- Sherlock – file searching (version 2), web services (version 3)
- Sophos - antivirus software
- Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery - Data Recovery Software for Mac Computers
- Stuffit – data compression
- Stickies – put Post-It Note-like notes on the desktop
- System Preferences – default Mac system option application
- The Tilery - application switcher
- Time Machine (Apple software) – built-in backup software
- UUTool – uuencoded/uudecode and other transcoding
- Stellar Phoenix Video Repair – Repair corrupt of damaged videos
- VirusScan – antivirus software
- BetterZip - file archiver and compressor utility
- WinZip – file archiver and compressor utility
- Xsan – storage network utility
- Yahoo! Widget Engine – JavaScript-based widget system
Support for non-Macintosh software[edit]
- Boot Camp – a multi-boot utility built into OS X from 10.5
- CrossOver – commercial implementation of Wine
- DOSBox – DOS emulator
- pcAnywhere – VNC-style remote control
- Parallels Workstation – commercial full virtualization software for desktop and server
- Q – emulates an IBM-compatible PC on a Mac, allows running PC operating systems
- VMware – virtualization software
- Wine – Windows API reimplementation
- Virtual PC – full virtualization software allows running other operating systems, such as Windows and GNU/Linux, on PowerPC Macs (discontinued in 2007)
- vMac – emulates a Macintosh Plus and can run Apple Macintosh System versions 1.1 to 7.5.5.
Video[edit]
- DVD Player (Apple) – DVD player software built into Mac OS X
- FFmpeg – audio/video converter
- Final Cut Studio – audio-video editing suite:
- HandBrake – DVD to MPEG-4 and other formats converter
- iMovie – basic video editing application
- mimoLive – live video mixing and streaming software
- QuickTime – including its Player and QuickTime Pro
- 4K Video Downloader - free video downloader
Web browsers[edit]
- Amaya – free
- Camino – open source
- Flock – free, Mozilla Firefox based
- Google Chrome – free, proprietary
- iCab – free
- Konqueror – open source
- Lynx – free
- Mozilla – open source, combines browser, email client, WYSIWYG editor
- Mozilla Firefox – open source
- Netscape Navigator – free, proprietary
- OmniWeb – free, proprietary
- Opera – free
- Safari (web browser) – built-in from Mac OS X 10.3, available as a separate download for Mac OS X 10.2
- SeaMonkey – open source Internet application suite
- Shiira – open source
- Sleipnir – free, by Fenrir Inc
- Tor (anonymity network) - free, open source
- Torch (web browser) - free, by Torch Media Inc.
- Internet Explorer for Mac – free, by Microsoft
- WebKit – Safari application framework, also in the form of an application
Web design and content management[edit]
- RapidWeaver - a template-based website editor
Weblog clients[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'AIM has been discontinued as of December 15, 2017'. help.aol.com/. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
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There are many ways to transfer data (files) from a PC to a Mac, including:
- using the Migration Assistant built into OS X Lion and later
- using the 'PC Data Transfer Service' at Apple Retail Stores and Apple Specialists
- using a portable hard drive or storage device
- using a CD or DVD burner
- using other portable media
- using a shared file server
- using email
- using a direct Ethernet connection
- installing the PC's hard drive in the Mac, if compatible
Migration Assistant
OS X Lion and later has a Migration Assistant application designed to easily move files, programs, and settings from your old Windows-based PC to your new Mac. For more information, see About Windows Migration Assistant.
PC data transfer from Apple Retail Stores and Apple Specialists (United States only)
Apple Retail Stores offer several levels of data transfer services. For further information on PC Data Transfer services, contact your local Apple Retail Store. In addition to the Apple Retail Stores, many Apple Specialists, Apple Resellers, and Apple Authorized Service Providers also provide various levels of PC to Mac data transfers. To locate an Apple Specialist in your area, use the Find Service website.
Portable hard drive or storage device
Portable hard drives that can be used to transfer data from a PC to a Mac include FireWire (IEEE 1394, iLink) drives and USB-based drives or storage devices. Portable FireWire drives provide the fastest transfer rate, and are widely available. However, unless the PC has a FireWire port, which is not common on PC computers, you will not be able to use a portable FireWire hard drive. A portable USB hard drive can be used if no FireWire port is available on your old PC.
CD or DVD burner
Creating a backup disc of the files on your PC is one of the easiest methods you can use to transfer any amount of data. This method provides the added benefit of creating a backup of your data.
Other portable media
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Using portable ZIP, Jaz, magnetic optical (MO), or other forms of portable media is similar to burning a CD, and, as long as the media device can be used on both the PC and Mac. Using these forms of portable media is an excellent way to transfer any amount of data.
Shared file server
A server on a network that can be accessed by both your old PC and your new Mac is an excellent alternative to burning CDs, or moving portable drives from one computer to another. Be aware that both computers must be able to access the server.
Email
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For small amounts of data such as word processing documents, pictures, or small application data files, using email to send them to yourself as an attachment is another option. However, if the data files are large, or if you do not have a high-speed Internet connection, you should consider other methods before using this one. See How to transfer downloaded emails.
Some Internet service providers (ISPs) place restrictions on how large email attachments can be, so you may not be able to use this method with large data files, even if you have a fast Internet connection.
Direct Ethernet connection
If you have both computers in the same location, you may be able to use an Ethernet cable to connect both computers together and copy files between them. You may need an Ethernet crossover cable depending on which model Mac you own. This method has the advantage of being fast and being able to transfer any amount of data.
Moving the PC's hard drive
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While it is possible to move some PC hard drives into some model Macs, this is not the recommended method of transferring data and it should only be used by experienced computer users who understand how to install and format PC hard drives. Mac OS X v10.3 or later can read the contents of an NTFS-formatted drive, but will be unable to save any new files or make changes to existing files without first reformatting the drive (and deleting any existing data on the drive in the process).